There is nothing wrong with lobbying – it is part of our democratic right to make our point of view heard. It is quite another matter the way huge lobbying law firms have thrived on the twisting of the system to benefit big corporations, the super-rich, and a variety of seedy foreign interests. Even …
Prior to Trump the rich and the big corporations got their way by paying the election expenses of the Congressmen or hiring expensive lobbyists. Now a new age has dawned – they don’t have to pretend any longer. Only in America, new stats show, could packing an incoming administration with gazillionaires be so easy. People …
To The Guardian A wise man has said that there are only two kinds of people who believe that the growth of anything can continue forever on a finite planet: idiots and economists. It was presumably one of the latter who wrote the sub-heading, “Birthrate fall is a threat to economic prosperity”. Even if GDP …
My apologies for re- visiting the climate change issue again after three days, but this is important. Any hope of moderation from Mr. Trump seems to be hopeless. He knows what he knows. In a speech yesterday Trump omitted any mention of renewables and signalled a return to fossil fuels. “On energy, I will cancel …
As quoted on National Public Radio, my brief comments in italics (rather long – my apologies) On the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC: * FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term …
