Guardian article

What is growth? It is an improvement in terms of real wages vs inflation which in the UK has been on the decline for rather a while. Austerity in the face of recession is a knives edge course of shaving bits of the economy off until its a lean machine like some kind of down sized corporation. But the lives abandoned by the governmental machine are humans not dollars. They do in fact matter. Bleeding your population to support the mistakes of the banking industry and their magic numbers is simply belief in a myth. Mathematics be damned!

Krugman – NY Times

The indecisive democracy practised in Europe makes change occur in a different way than it does in the more rapidly decisive preference voting systems that expand the power to “vote against” a candidate by those who are not completely sure but certain they did not want one of the leading candidates. I can not advocate FPP however, but that is also produces a decisive result swiftly, it is a method of voting that is then able to change government and importantly give Government a continuity and direction. I say importantly – meaning that the lack of an ability to run things without new rules being made – is an important distinction between Government having authority and the state having authority. The rules are only being made by a Government when one is rightfully recognised as representing the will of the people. And look at their choices. People want a government that is not tied to the whim of the fanciful investor. They want a stable entity that will look after their pensions and provide purpose and ability to the young people who may otherwise be overlooked in a market driven economy if forced by it into menial tasks.

The British Conservative Liberal coalition attacked education and health as their way to save the UK from financial collapse and another financial institute is reduced by 13 billion dollars overnight due to action on the derivatives market (2 billion in actual loses) followed by share market reaction (far more lost in capital value, but that’s life).

Meantime Greece is having to democratically consider if being a slave economy in the Euro is preferable to breaking away from it and becoming measured purely on its own merits (maybe that would be a tougher but a more rewarding environment) as Governments in Europe continue to bail out banks that have run foul of the improbable mathematics of the derivatives market.

It allows speculative destruction of common wealth. The hoarding of it by individuals and hedge funds which strip the banks bare at any available opportunity. Why are we democratically deciding to fund these vipers?

Therefore, any state that uses nuclear weapons is committing an international crime and makes itself a target. In the final analysis, the nuclear deterrent is a waste of money, a waste of energy, a waste of human effort.

CNN

What in fact are they responsible for? How many lives have been ruined by irresponsible journalism?

The English First Past the Post democratic method mean that the only way to be elected is to form a massive party to represents a trends of ideas – usually a serving one side of a dichotomy; which has evolved two vastly powerful parties that shun independent views to allow for domination by class – a pendulum swing between capital and labour – gradually alternating directions.

Asserting that the benefit of the populations’ final authority defeating a developing trend or the abuse of power or a developing ineffectualness of the best that one or the other of these schools of thinking can produce. When one is in power, the other is preparing a new batch of leaders.

Another form of government is the selective capitalism of China hardly benefiting a vast population of traditional self-sustaining farming. Ironically, it has evolved an extreme aristocracy – a bubbling caldron of capitalist ideals inside a massive feudal population that feeds itself.

The weakness that the traditional Westminster based Western Governments, (USA and UK) have is this modernist limited duality. If one side of the argument is correct, then every other is (with contempt) to be assumed incorrect. Limiting the potential for adaptation.

Proportional representation is a method that includes new voices into the management of the affairs of a country. The reason we maintain countries per se is that allows us to organise in different ways. War can be made a thing of the past by recognising that it is not race or even territory that makes wealth – all those are is the imposition of rule over people. Wealth is a measure of accumulated activity versus need.

We experiment to experience different forms of governance. Traditions are a part of this but without change and variety our national barriers remain economic barriers. War is the imposition of another system upon a population. It is bound to eventually fail as assimilation is a false objective – as we adapt to environments by necessity – that we adapt to ideology is not as efficacious in producing the spectrum of social norms – as is the necessity of getting on with those who live around you.

War imposes brute force and eradication. Democracy can evolve a stronger form of government.

Working conditions are host to much time over maybe 30 years or so of our lives. Working in inhumane sweat factories or unhealthy conditions is a tax on the flesh of those bringing up the children whose random distribution of intellect and opportunity may or may not intersect. It is the meeting of the intelligent children with increased opportunity that can provide the competence for a better tomorrow. Short changing education by effectively placing an advertising business between quality vs quantity equations – decisions that affect our trend in nature.

The problem with non-interventionist governments is that they tend to be the more interventionist in consequence due to the austerity they believe will balance the books in our favour sucking the confidence producing pheromones that do excite demand. You are not driving a vacuum cleaner more efficiently by putting more fluff on the ground so you feel it is cleaning more effectively.

More succinctly, the increase of demand without the balance of utility, is the enslavement of everyone. We have left and right wings for good reasons, society is more complex than an equation or a formula. The National Health is important as a sign of the very human value – diversity. We are the one species that is aware of the value of it. It is democratic to value each human being equally, but to reward them in a consequential way, and what eats at the heart of consumer confidence is hearing how bankers must be rewarded with amounts and tax avoidance by companies taking advantage of our labour is a sign that we as consumers are simply consuming the wrong things.

Why deal with an organisation that reduces our national savings? Our pride as a country is a pride in qualitative values, British Made used to be a mark that inspired confidence. We achieve this via actions not dangling carrots in front of the already greedy entitled few. That they control the public levers of wealth to their private benefit in a disproportionate way should provide them with an opportunity to aid the treasury knowing it was at least providing for the health of all with equanimity.

It is that covenant of looking after one another that is evaporating as consumers are being bled dry on both fronts – as inflation is descending (artificially raised anyway by an increase in VAT, so you have to examine the trend)

Nuclear proliferation is an expensive shield and humanity hides under a shadow of total annihilation for idealogical enforcement or redundant residual racism? The world does not want a nuclear Iran, nor the tens of thousands of these weapons pointed at each other. Nuclear proliferation is an extremely expensive path.

This is the primary cause of disenfranchisement that led to the London Riots. There has been a lot of talk about the various causes but it was a police shooting of an unarmed black youth in Tottenham that started the protest which erupted into opportunistic rioting and looting in ensuing days, as the police were caught flat footed. They were unable to contain the violence that they were the primary cause of – extraordinary incompetence.

Justice is a balance. It is not achieved by force.