2014: A Tory dystopia | Red Pepper

David Cameron's apple-pie promises and feel-good rhetoric might sweep him to power in 2010, but there's a yawning gap between the vagueness of his words and the likely consequences of his policies. Alex Nunns takes us on a trip into the future to see how Britain might look after four years of Tory rule

The year is 2014. The Tories, led by David Cameron, are preparing to go to the polls, seeking a second term in government. Back in 2010 they crushed Labour in the general election, and promised to bring about a social transformation to match the economic reforms of the late Margaret Thatcher. And it's true that four years of Cameron government have certainly brought many changes - they're just not the ones the voters expected.

/kills self

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

We can look at the foreclosure crisis as the pre-emininent law enforcement crisis of our time: Elite impunity for crimes committed and still being committed by lenders and servicers ("banksters") on a massive scale. We can also look at the foreclosure crsis as an issue of jurisprudence, where a revolutionary oligarchy seeks to change the nature of law itself.

Lambert Strether organizes the ruling into two columns, one representing the law based content of the case, the other representing the computer code based facts of Well's fraudulent mortgage servicing system. The judge concluded, based on a survey of 1,000 cases in Louisiana, that the problems were systemic and that Wells had ignored/defied court ordered mandates on how the processing of payments in these cases should be conducted.

Of course her ruling is vulnerable to being overturned on review by judges more 'sympathetic' to the US banking system. That will show that illegal code trumps law when that code is backed by financial power that owns the agencies charged with enforcing the law.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wind-power-seen-surging-custom-075118734.html

Are these numbers roughly right ?

"Offshore wind costs about $232 a megawatt-hour of power generated, according to data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. That compares with about $80 for onshore wind, $62 for gas-fired plants and $77 for coal."

"Europe will install about 10.4 gigawatts of offshore wind turbines from this year through 2015, more than 70 percent of the global total..."

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Rick Santorum announced the suspension of his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination on Tuesday, adding that he will not stop fighting for the defeat of incumbent U.S. President Barack Obama.

Speaking at his home state of Pennsylvania, Santorum said: "While this presidential race for us is over for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting,"