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UK Parliamentary proceedings from 25th January 2021.  Graeme Biggar, Director-General at the National Economic Crime Centre, NCA. Not surprisingly,  almost completely unreported in UK media generally,  certainly not on the BBC, which essentially now is simply a mouthpiece for the Tory Party group in position. Curiously reported on the day in City AM, the freebie City newsheet and London Standard, Lebedev owned.   Some probably looking at ways to get him out to be replaced by some greedy little crooked compromised little cash-sucking brainless cloth puppet. The hope is that UK has retained enough people in position of some honesty and integrity (as in the US one hopes) and that the system has managed to be kept at least somewhat intact to get cleaning up started in 2021. Harder in London than in US now, even though smaller scale. Ultimately my hope is for some form of “Govt. of National Unity”, but not very hopeful. It has penetrated a long way.   Double-header (...

Free Market ideology will fall away forever after the next one. It is horrifying (well, slightly puzzling) that those concepts still seem to be taught in some places as an "actual thing"). Reminded by someone replying to my e-mail earlier, that Schlefer was writing about this vast "misconception", or gigantic confidence trick, as long ago as 1998. No doubt the fundamentalist cash-club far right propagandists wound up their machine to denigrate him and others as dirty "Socialists". Every single person who ever witters and squeaks excitedly about Free Markets and "Efficient Flows" of money ever again shall get a copy of this paper pinged back at them, without fail. Adam Smith himself: By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, l...

          The recent series of anti-Swedish articles in the right-wing British media (Ref. 1) on that country’s government actions on COVID-19 has been noteworthy. The timing was clearly planned to match the Scottish National Party conference of the 28 th to 30 th November. A main thread of these arguments has been about “U-turns” in several areas, particularly regarding school attendance and exclusion for example. The UK Government has "U-turned" and come in for some criticism on education matters recently. The Express and Star is good example of a local news outlet in the English Midlands which at least can still probably be trusted, provides an example of this (Ref. 2).         A distinct trend has been observed in recent years within one distinctive political party in England, demonstrating inconsistency, hypocrisy, lying, contradictory advice and increasingly scant provision of evidence. This is an inherent and necessary fac...

Andrew Marr Vs Nicola Sturgeon on the BBC 29th November 2020. T his "campaign" to generate ill-will in England so as to allow a reaction in Scotland to ensure that Scotland is either much weaker and rudderless or just leaves. What do they care which way? The recent BBC/Telegraph Tory-ERG misinformation works best on those primed and ready to play. Today's  wee encounter showing "COVID-19 data" was laughable. Eight carefully picked ONS single numbers in a simpler table. [N.B. COVID-19 on Death Certificate; two different countries and different rule sets] Jeepers Creepers. Disgraceful!!  www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1366015/BBC-Andrew-Marr-Nicola-Sturgeon-Scotland-Covid-death-rate-coronavirus-SNP-latest-news-vn What a joke! but it's not a joke is it.   Still, let's fuel the fires of bigotry shall we. Marr is ridiculously biased in so many areas. Should be shocked but not any more knowing how many personnel changes there have been at BBC in last 10 years...