Friday, Jan 27th 2012
The intensification of the working day is familiar to anyone trying to keep their heads above water in the current cut-throat grind-teeth bump-knee chew-tongue finger-elbow climate brought on by head office’s opportunistic trouser-slashing under the prepuce of the recession. There’s nothing that any of us can do about it but smirk and bear it, but [...]
I was asked to write something up about my book, Manufacturing Discontent. I thought that I would share it with you. Any comments would be be appreciated.
Of all my books, Manufacturing Discontent may seem to have the least links with Marxism. After I published The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History [...]
Michael Burke and Michael Taft have a post on Progressive Economy which estimates the deflationary impact of cuts in government spending up to 2014 and examines how much the cuts will actually reduce our borrowing requirement and ultimately our deficit, which after all is what they are being put in place to achieve.
Using the ERSI’s [...]
Ghost Estate
women inherit
the ghost estate
their unborn children
play invisible games
of hide & seek
in the scaffold frames
if you lived here
you’d be home by now
Taking Sides| John Mearsheimer | London Review Blog
John Mearsheimer on wobbles in the Special Relationship(tm)
"The central message Petraeus sent to Mullen, according to Perry, was that ‘Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardising US standing in the region… and could cost American lives.’ "
Haiti Liberte: Hebdomadaire Haitien / Haitian weekly
Jean Anil Louis-Juste, a much loved Haitian professor and political who was assassinated in Haiti on Jan 12th - just before the earthquake- writing on what social communication actually means. What he says could easily be an explanation of what happens here too. Police have yet to start an [...]
Spread it on your Bread of Heaven!
Did you see the story on the communist liberal BBC about the family in Wales that are find the image of Our Lord on the lid of something call Marmite? No? Neither did I. But thanks to Daphne’s sharp eyes, we can all now see what can only be [...]
Writing in the Irish Independent today Brendan Keenan seemed to have an epiphany regarding Ireland’s deflation problem. He, like most Irish newspaper economic commentators considers the deflationary effects of the strategy to reduce spending, including public sector pay and pension provision as unimportant. In order to achieve this revelation, however, all he had to do [...]
Ireland is in the middle of a catastrophized recession. This will come as no surprise to anyone in Ireland, though perhaps it is not known as well internationally as one might think. One of the crucial features of the time leading up to the boom was the activity of the property developers, the ‘risk-taking’ darlings [...]
As part of the ongoing relationship with Aontas. It was suggested in mid 2008 that DCTV and the Aontas – Community Education Network would be a good fit to explore a production project. This series, supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland sound and vision scheme is the most visible result of that partnership [...]
