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A little video presentation I whipped up.

No "bloody nose" for the Tories or Lib Dems?

When the MPs expenses scandal erupted, I fully expected all three "major parties" in British politics (Labour, Conservative and Liberal-Democrat) to get punished at the polling booths. No such luck. The recent Local & Euro elections delivered a "bloody nose" to the governing Labour Party, but left the noses of the equally corrupt opposition intact. I have one question for the British voting public: WTF?

Some thoughts on MPs expenses.

The current corruption scandal to hit parliament is absolutely unprecedented.

While allegations of sleaze, investigations into sleaze and the occasional MP getting fired or even imprisoned are nothing new, the spotlight is usually confined to the party in power.

Now we have a snapshot of parliament as a whole and we find that once journalists start to do a little digging they find that politicians can be as corrupt in opposition as they are in power.

If the expenses system itself is scrapped, if untested political parties - those that have no serving MPs, MEPs or peers - are given serious consideration at election time, then at least some good will emerge from this revolting mess.

British politics will never be the same again.

Anyone else having "HTML issues"?

Wow, has it been a month already since my last post? I've still been active on the net, just not so much on Blogger.

I seem to have recurring "HTML issues" on this site. Links not showing up as links? Is it just me?

I don't seem to have these problems on my favourite internet forum the Daily Paul. Only yahoo mail and Blogger. Weird.

I don't know if the following link to a great Peter Schiff article will show up (maybe not). If it doesn't, you'll just have to cut and paste the URL.

http://peterschiffblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/dont-be-fooled-by-inflation.html

Smedley Butler Video

In this video, an actor portrays the former US Marine Corps General and speaks from his famous pamphlet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0

What is Fascism?

Here is an article from mises.org that deals with Mussolini's brand of Fascism. It has great relevance for Europeans and Americans today:

http://mises.org/story/2903

Here are the concluding words of the author:

We cannot count on all good people in America rejecting fascist ideas. To many the pursuit of the hated Red justified the elements of violence in the episode. To others the imperious need of meeting the challenge of labor justified the cudgels. Mussolini was all right as long as he played along with the democratic powers. "I do not deny," said Mr. Churchill as late as December 1940, in a speech in the House, "that he is a very great man. But he became a criminal when he attacked England." Mussolini's crime lay not in all the oppressions he had committed upon his own people, not in his trampling down of liberty in Italy, in attacking Ethiopia or Spain, but in "attacking England." It is precisely in this tolerance of ordinarily decent people for the performances of such a man that the terrible menace of fascism lies for all peoples.

Annnnnd...its GONE.

In this clip from South Park, Stan discovers that something isn't right about the banking system:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/222624/?tab=related

Of course, in real life its the government and not individual savers who keeps hearing the words "Annnnd...its GONE."