Agenda 2019

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/23/is-globalisation-dead-borders-closing-banks-in-retreat#comments Borders are closing and banks are in retreat. Is globalisation dead? Anti-globalization protests "Borders are closing and banks are in retreat." Sounds good to me. "Globalisation" has brought only misery, despair and increasing poverty to millions while allowing corporations and a few individuals to become very rich and powerful. If globilisation is dying (or better still dead already) I shall not shed a tear but I will dance on its grave.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/29/cps-iceland-bins_n_4688853.html?utm_hp_ref=uk 'Iceland Three' Will Not Face Charges For Taking Food From Supermarket Bins Iceland Foods   Yesterday, the Crown Prosecution Service said that the prosecution would continue as there was "significant public interest in prosecuting these three individuals". Clearly the "significant public interest" lasted less than 24 hours, which probably results from "the public" criticism, outrage and ridicule of the stupidity of the CPS bringing these charges in the first place. Someone at the CPS obviously spent a great deal of time rummaging through old legislation to find an obscure section of the 1824 Vagrancy Act under which to propose a prosecution. They would have been better employed reading "How to obtain common sense and how to apply it to your decision making". Today Baljit Ubhey from the Crown Prosecution Service ...

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/men-charged-with-stealing-food-from-iceland-supermarket-bins-9091967.html Men charged with stealing food from Iceland supermarket bins Contents of a bin outside a village shop in Sussex Put on trial, charged under the 1824 Vagrancy Act, for "stealing" £33 of food from waste bins behind a supermarket. The Crown Prosecution Service said that the prosecution would continue as there was "significant public interest in prosecuting these three individuals". Perhaps the CPS should be informed that there is "significant public interest" in prosecuting a number of bankers, who fiddle interest rates, embezzle £millions, grow fat and rich on their ill gotten bonuses and other "perks" and benefit from "Golden Handshakes" when exposed. The public can be excused for believing that in today's sick capitalist system, stealing £33 worth of food from the waste bins of a supermarket, is a...

http://www.independent.co.uk/money/tax/hopes-of-g8-tax-avoidance-breakthrough-fading-fast-8656295.html   Hopes of G8 tax avoidance breakthrough fading fast      G8 protester  The G8 is a forum for the governments of the world's eight wealthiest countries. Do we really expect this group of self serving politicians and their associated entourages to do anything meaningful ? They have a history of much talk and little action other than attending banquets and congratulating themselves on how important they are. The G8 and the associated spin offs, promise mountains but deliver molehills

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/19/stop-demonising-bankers_n_3302040.html?utm_hp_ref=uk  'Stop Demonising Bankers Over The Financial Crash'   Sir Mervyn said bankers should not be made scapegoats   If this article is supposed to generate my sympathy for a load of rich, over paid bonus grabbing parasites, many of whom should actually now be serving time in prison for money laundering, tax evasion, rate fixing and other crimes, I am afraid that it has failed miserably. Being "demonised" is a good word as is the phrase "being held in contempt".