Professor Bill Mitchell, a leading proponent of Modern Monetary Theory, has agreed to be our speaker at a fringe meeting to be held during Labour Conference Week in Brighton in September 2017.

” The meeting is being organised independently by a small group of Labour members whose goal is to start a conversation about reframing our understanding of economics to match a progressive political agenda. Our funds are limited and so we are seeking to raise money to cover the travel and other costs associated with the event. Your donations and support would be really appreciated.

For those interested in joining us the meeting will be held on Monday 25th September between 2 and 5pm and the venue is The Brighthelm Centre, North Road, Brighton, BN1 1YD. All are welcome and you don’t have to be a member of the Labour party to attend “.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/austerity-one-country-case-britain/

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=86556

Meanwhile on progress – the extract from Stuart Hall’s book, ‘ Humanity – an emotional history ‘, I posted here a few years ago.

http://nypost.com/2017/07/28/couple-caught-in-financial-spiral-jump-to-their-deaths/

” In April 1732, in London, a bankrupt bookbinder named Richard Smith decided to end it all. His business had crashed to ruin amid a trail of of unpaid invoices, leaving him with no prospect of relief. With a wife & a child to support, his responsibility was not only to himself. After having apparently discussed the matter with Mrs Smith, they smothered their small daughter & hanged themselves, leaving behind a short letter to their landlord, containing an entreaty to make provision for the dog & cat whose lives they had spared, & money for a porter to make delivery for two further enclosed documents.
One of these was to an associate, formally thanking him for his sustaining friendship, & expressing indignation at the opposite treatment Smith had received from another party. The second had been signed jointly by the husband & wife, & constituted the couple’s suicide note.
The Smith’s provided a painstaking explanation of their actions, in terms wholly free of rancour or accusation. Tobias Smollet, in whose panoramic History of England, written in the 1750’s, this story is retailed, comments that the suicide letter was ‘ altogether surprising for the calm resolution, the good humour, & the proprietry with which it was written’. In so ending their lives, the Smith’s wrote, they were releasing themselves from a worse & otherwise unavoidable fate, that of ‘ poverty & rags ‘. They prayed in witness their immediate neighbours, who would be able to attest to their conscientous efforts they had made to earn a living. As to the ghastly business of taking the life of an infant, they argued that, cruel as the act may seem, it constituted a far less callous recourse than leaving her alone & unprovided for in a life of ‘ ignorance & misery ‘. And while they were aware, God-fearing as they were , that suicide was against the holy canon, they refused to believe that the Almighty God, in whom they still placed their utmost trust, would visit any needless suffering on his creatures. They expressed their confidence that they could entrust their souls to him to for whatever arrangements he might make for them after their deaths. Smollet concludes by noting that, far from being a pair of reckless chancers, living on their criminal wits as so many in Georgian London did, the Smith’s ‘ had always been industrious & frugal, invincibly honest, & remarkable for conjugal affection ”

Interesting Stuff Stevie.

This from Tim Haywood who has been tirelessly attempting to sort out the truth from propaganda in terms of the supposed Sarin attack in Syria. Well worth a read – he eloquently describes how if the truth is lost, so likely are we :

https://timhayward.wordpress.com/2017/07/22/its-time-to-raise-the-level-of-public-debate-about-syria/comment-page-1/#comment-1303

It is increasingly looking like the Saudi’s have been shooting themselves in the foot, especially Bin Salman who apparently gained power by way of a coup.

GoT…..Saudi style :

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/07/saudi-arabia-bin-salmans-coup-is-a-model-for-his-own-ouster.html

Quite long with some pretty shocking stats :

https://newleftreview.org/II/105/tom-hazeldine-revolt-of-the-rustbelt

The stats are

http://davidmalonegreenpartycandidate.weebly.com/forum.html I am trying an embedded forum on Davids Green Party Leadership Web site. Join in and add some topics. I will add some of the Big Topics from here and I am figuring out how to get sections going etc.