Signs of the Times

[eighthobstruction]

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[Serial_Apologist]

No discussions on the Politics and Current Affairs board this week - a sign of the times.

[aeolium]

No discussions on the Politics and Current Affairs board this week - a sign of the times.

OK, here's an article on an experiment seeking to understand attitudes towards entitlement:

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/03/21/how-do-the-powerful-get-the-idea-that-they-deserve-more-lessons-from-a-laboratory/#more-5258

"The explanation of how real power evolves, and what makes it sustainable, is to be found in the mind, and the beliefs, of the majority of the disadvantaged who succumb to the ideological belief that they are entitled to less than the advantaged."

[Flosshilde]

No discussions on the Politics and Current Affairs board this week - a sign of the times.

Perhaps people are more taken up with the departure of RW

[amateur51]

Perhaps people are more taken up with the departure of RW

And the Sage of EUSSR of course

[eighthobstruction]

What do you expect if you live in DULL wich....<snigger wink>

Panorma last night spoke of fraud in the NHS estimated £229million/year by govt....independant assessor reckoned £6-7 billion actual amount 7% of NHS budget....avsome

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Organised crime has infiltrated “the most important companies working in financial transactions,” added Mr Brauzzi. “Corruption is the easiest way of doing business in their framework,” he said.

now i wonder where & who he meant by that remark

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

more bent plod stuff

Operation Zloty, a wide-ranging inquiry spanning at least nine years, found dozens of rogue detectives in the employ of organised crime and operating with “virtual immunity”.

[Serial_Apologist]

The head of the Met was on telly6 just now saying they might have to introduce positive discrimination into recruiting to get staffing in line with the capital's ethnic make-up.

Incidentally, has anyone, er,, noticed how... BBC reporters... successfully manage to... erm... neutralise the... import of sensitive, er, issues reporting by, er, hesitation? Never seems to happen for other subjects, because, "Well we could spend a lot more time on that, but I'm afraid we're out of time".

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

the gangsters do not run out of time they trade at the millisecond and no interviews please we are .... omerta

"We are selling trust, we are selling transparency, and to think that trust is actually a differentiator in a service business, is actually a crazy thought, right?"

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

advanced inequality studies 1
advanced inequality studies 2

one wonders what all that money buys them apart from the government?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... the strange absence of any political consequence of the financial crisis for banking. Bankers will complain about excess regulation but the only result has been to cause them to employ more compliance officers, and more lawyers to game the regulations. There has been little action on leverage and capital ratios, next to none on scandalous rent-seeking bonuses and none at all enforcing competition and new entry. The financial sector isn’t the only locus of the modern plutocracy, but it is one of the most significant....

dysfunctional banking

from Diane Coyle's blog

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

dysfunctional nah gangsters; name them!

[Serial_Apologist]

dysfunctional nah gangsters; name them!

Selling the family silver cheap happened with nearly all the denationalisations An equivalent happened in the E Bloc, where state firms were sold off for a quid apiece, first having made sure the buyers up thereof weren't just the ordinary bods, mind.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Cameron Lies 1

Cameron Lies 2