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• Loongate: Farage makes his move

  
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  To slightly misquote PG Wodehouse: “Loon is calling to loon like mastodons bellowing across primaeval swamps”… The ad above appears in today’s Daily Telegraph: a good choice as, together with the Mail and Express , it’s become more or less the unofficial mouthpiece of Ukip. Today’s edition also ...
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• Sinclair Lewis "It Cant Happen Here": Book Review

  
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  I recommend this deft audiobook rendering by Christopher Hurt of Sinclair Lewis last true success, "It Cant Happen Here" (1935)  predicting an alternate history. Its strange as it happens almost as its published, more or less. A 1936 FDRs re-election gets shunted aside for a corn-pone fascist recalling that played by ...
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• Facts and figures on American tax evasion

  
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  Shame on those many American tax evaders, those who we euphemistically say are “investing offshore.” Here are some stunning facts and figures, from the Tax Justice Network: The very existence of the global offshore industry, and the tax free status of the ...
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• Venezuela’s ‘Cubanochavista’ electoral machine: democracy prevention in action?

  
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    Are democracy assistance practitioners being outflanked and outmaneuvered by their democracy prevention counterparts? Venezuela’s recent presidential poll provides disturbing evidence of adaptive authoritarianism applied to the electoral process. “As the facts behind Nicolás Maduro’s fabricated ...
  2 weeks ago

• USAID develops ‘bad reputation’ among autocrats

  
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  Bolivia expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development last week because the agency doesn’t just offer paternalistic aid to the poor, it also advances democracy by promoting their empowerment. “It was a familiar charge for the State Department’s principal foreign …
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• UKIP: how far from fascism?

  
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  The success of UKIP in this week’s local elections, hailed by Nigel Farage and his cheer-leaders in the right-wing press as a “game changer” means the left can no longer afford to shrug the party off as “ just a distraction .” UKIP won 147 seats (of which 139 were gains) and averaged 25% of the vote ...
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• Warning signs as Ukips neo-nasties cash in

  
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  The massive vote for Ukip in the English local elections alongside its second place in the South Shieldsby-election is confirmation, if any was needed, that the political system is dying on its feet. We have now entered a period of the known unknowns. As defeated Conservative councillor Alexis McEvoy ...
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• Sinclair Lewis "Main Street": Audiobook Review

  
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  I enjoyed Brian Emersons reading of this classic. Although a Goodreads commenter panned this for its lack of nuance or emotion, I wonder if this commenter listened to this all the way through. I did, and after over a month of my commute with this as my companion, I recommend it. The Widow Bogart gains a wonderfully ...
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• Quote of the day: Beautiful

  
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  In the intellectual synthesis of of contemporary ultra-conservatism, the impulses of Protestant asceticism can thus be drawn upon to support business self-interest and the beautiful mathematical models of neo-classical economists. (p. 82.) - Richard Hofstadter, in 1965 – yes, in 1965 -- explaining why austerity ...
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• Sinclair Lewis "Main Street + Babbitt": Book Review

  
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  Relevance: a word often associated nowadays with a writer whom many (Mark Schorers 1961 biography seems to blame) regarded as "the worst {American?} ever to win a Nobel." When some of us wonder if the political and cultural divisions that persist and morph in our nation have deeper roots than the newest pundit on ...
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• UKIP clowns are no laughing matter

  
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  “It is very tempting to vote for a collection of clowns or indignant, angry people who promise that somehow they will allow us to take your revenge… “[UKIP is] against the political class, it is against foreigners, it is against immigrants. But it does not have any very positive policies. They do not know ...
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• Friday Talking Points [255] -- Helium Brains

  
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  That was all a prelude to the breaking news today: "Congress moves at lightspeed, to fix a problem that would have hit them personally, as they take yet another weeklong vacation instead of doing the nations business." Couldve knocked me over with a feather. Ahem.
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• A Response To Gil Kerlikowske: Obama Drug Policy "Incomplete"

  
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  In a word, your assignment is woefully incomplete on a single subject: marijuana. This word appears not once in either document, which is kind of astounding since this is truly the only part of the White House drug policy which currently (and desperately) needs addressing, given the changing political situation. To ...
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• We have lost our republic.

  
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  I just finished watching an inspiring TED talk by Lawrence Lessig, who implored:”We have lost our republic. We all need to act to get it back.” What else can you say when only about .26% (don’t miss the decimal) of American give any significant amount to federal candidates running for office. Also consider ...
  4 weeks ago

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