Saturday 4 May 2019

Andrew Bolt's blog,4/5/19; Australia's Shame; Capitalism; Barr's Dance of the 7 Lies; Arrest the man;



One thing is clear Andrew Bolt has been digitally neutered and been given a radio vasectomies by his own previous corporate supporters. Even his podcasts have vanished. Guess he can always become a staff writer with the IPA.

 
 


 



by Richard Wolff | May 2, 2019 - 6:12am | permalink
As capitalism drives itself into ever-greater inequality, instability and injustice, its critics multiply. Worried defenders react in two ways. Many dismiss the criticisms. After all, capitalism has been around a long time and weathered ups and downs before. They presume or hope that criticism will fade as little really changes despite the critics, and frustrations set in. It’s just losers who complain. The winners will surely carry the system forward. Some defenders insist that there simply is no alternative to capitalism, so criticism becomes pointless.
The second sort of defenders takes a different approach. They place adjectives in front of the word capitalism and argue for some and against other such adjectives. Thus we get criticisms of statist or state-interventionist capitalism in favor of “free-market” capitalism and of “regressive” capitalism in favor of “progressive” capitalism. Greedy capitalism, we are told, must give way to “sharing” capitalism. Similarly it is said that “Crony” capitalism or capitalism without a social conscience should be dissolved.
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by Cody Fenwick | May 2, 2019 - 6:51am | permalink — from Alternet

Attorney General Bill Barr delivered much-anticipated testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, in which he was repeatedly grilled by Democrats and praised by Republicans for his handling of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Barr was already facing criticism for previous testimony, in which he indicated that he was not aware of criticism from Mueller’s team about his letter describing the “principal conclusions” from the probe’s final report. However, it has since been revealed that Mueller sent him a letter and spoke to him on the phone, detailing the team’s concerns about the public portrayal of the report.
Throughout his testimony on Wednesday, Barr was evasive, manipulative, and outright dishonest in his answers to lawmakers. Here are seven notable moments:
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by Robert Reich | May 2, 2019 - 6:43am | permalink — from Robert Reich's Blog
On Sunday, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee threatened to subpoena Attorney General William P. Barr if he refuses to testify this week about the Mueller report.
But a subpoena is unlikely to elicit Barr’s cooperation. “We’re fighting all the subpoenas,” says the President of the United States.
In other words, according to Trump, there is to be no congressional oversight of this administration: No questioning the Attorney General about the Mueller Report. No questioning a Trump adviser about immigration policy.
No questioning a former White House security director about issuances of security clearances. No questioning anyone about presidential tax returns.
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