The Age of Austerity
Notes: Keynote talk, CCPA Post-Austerity session, Toronto, January 9, 2013 We are living in the “Age of Austerity” or at least so says David Cameron, the UK’s Prime Minister. He…
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Europe takes another big step towards the United States of Europe
United States of Europe? Financial integration is one major step along the road towards eventual political integration into one massive new federal state, the USE (United States of Europe), and…
Anglo-Franco-German ménage à trois: A Federal Europe or a confederation of Nation States?
The European Union A struggle for the future of Europe is being waged right now by the politicians of the EU. Most of the fighting is being done by the…
Stephen Harper: What are his motives for joint U.K. –Canadian Embassies?
Sounds like an idiotic idea. Maybe he was missing George W. Bush as his master and now he wants to be a poodle to David Cameron.
Juxtaposition
Ah, the memories of Stephen Harper and his bestest international buddy deciding what to do about the economic pain they’ve inflicted on the world: Mr. Cameron, hailing Canada as a…
Out of the Mouth of Murdoch
Deep Throat is on the job, bringing you the latest news from around the globe, just for you political junkies out there .. today he reports from London, where the…
The Guardian Reveals Key Funder of Global Warming Policy Foundation Is Michael Hintze
GWPF.jpeg Cross-posted with permission from The Guardian by Graham Readfearn, Leo Hickman and Rupert Neate Michael Hintze, a leading Conservative party donor who runs the £5bn hedge fund CQS, has…
Special Relationships
Unbeknownst to most Americans, Canada is the United States’ largest trading partner (more than five times that of the U.K., for example), foremost supplier of energy, closest ally and supposedly…
The Eurocrisis – A Gallic snub, No Haircuts & More Stability Funds
What a dramatic few days we have just lived through! The grandest experiment in modern history – the European Union – has weathered a major threat to its existence, with…
Fun Saturday reading
This has to be one of the most epic smack downs of a politician in recent memory: It may be months before the implications of David Cameron’s Europe raspberry become…
UK’s Cameron needs to take a lesson from The Gambler
Lissen up, David: Click here! And listen especially hard when Kenny Rogers has this to say: And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.Said, “If you’re…
David ‘Two-Speed’ Cameron and the EuroCop
Chancellor Merkel’s glacial crawl towards the creation of an all-powerful EuroCop with powers to veto the budgets of Eurozone nations is beginning to make Prime Minister Cameron a bit nervous.…
Angela Merkel tosses Cameron a bone and presses on with Little EU amendments
David Cameron rubbed his hands in glee a few weeks ago when Angela Merkel insisted that the European Union treaty be amended as part of her agreement to save weaker…
Oxymoron of the Day: Modernizing the Monarchy
The UK's Prime Minister, David Cameron, wants to modernize the monarchy. In our modern day and age, you see, the practice of preferentially selecting male over female heirs is the…
Amidst the torrent of words, a creeping towards more EU integration
Gavin HewittWith the Eurozone being walloped yet again with rating agencies downrating EU bank debt, with politicians all over the map, and the UK's David Cameron trying desperately not to…
IMF’s Christine Lagarde’s Maggie Thatcher moment
Once more, the world is poised on the brink of a vicious recession, and once more, it seems that the political leaders cannot pluck up the courage to take the…
Serious times: Harper talking recession
It appears that David Cameron's speech yesterday to Parliament made a big splash. Beyond the parts where he played up to Canada and made a case for increased trade and…
Harper-nomics Is Recipe For Global Depression & Trade Wars
I feel like I'm repeating myself, having just written that the global crisis is not a crisis of debt but, rather, that the debt is a symptom of the long…