Will five or more of these lose their seats?

What should your choice be on the new Ladbrokes market?

We’re getting closer to the day and the bookmakers are getting more ingenious in finding news ways for us to part with out money. That’s thow they make their living and we all love speculating.

The new Ladbrokes market is on how many full members of the cabinet will lose their seats at the election? A problem is that it’s based on those who are full cabinet ministers at the time of the election - not at theSource: Political Betting RSS Feed

The Real Unemployment Rate...

The real unemployment rate--the share of Americans who say that they are actively looking for work and don't have jobs--has been drifting down since late spring--from 9.7% in June to 9.4% in November. The seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate over that same period has risen from 9.5% to 10.0%, as the actual unemployment rate has drifted down much more slowly than it usually drifts down from June to November as things pile up for the Christmas rush.

Starting now the seasonal adjustment Source: Grasping Reality with Both Hands RSS Feed

Obama Afghanistan Speech – Transcript

From the White House:

(Click to enlarge) REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE NATION ON THE WAY FORWARD IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN

Eisenhower Hall Theatre
United States Military Academy at West Point
West Point, New York

THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our Armed Services, and to my fellow Americans: I want to speak to you tonight about our effort in Afghanistan — the nature of our commitment there,Source: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

New Wash Times Birthers Ad…Now with Actual Monkeys!

What’s fascinating to me about this Washington Times ad is not just the racist insult linking monkeys to Barack Obama’s citizenship. That really clarifies what’s eating at the birther movement. Not that he’s a non-citizen. But that he might not be fully human and that those who support him (or fail to expose the conspiracy permitting his presidency ) are nigger-loving monkeys themselves.

No, it’s the series of half-truths that the radical right is promulgating in propagandaSource: Jack and Jill Politics RSS Feed

How A Political Party Diversifies

City Hall has an in-depth, investigative look at the Working Families Party in New York, a progressive political party that endorses Democratic candidates through New York's quirky election laws that allow politicians to run on multiple party tickets.
It's not uncommon for national political entities to have separate nonprofit and PAC divisions, but the Working Families Party actually has four arms: the party itself; the nonprofit 501(c)4 Working Families Organization; the nonprofit,Source: Marc Ambinder RSS Feed

December 2009 Socialist Standard: Down and out in Mayfair

December 2009 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Copenhagen: another predictable failure

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Regular Columns

Pathfinders Calorie counts and pet scans

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Cooking the Books 1 This year’s Nobel Prize for Economics

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Cooking the Books 2 Free is good

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Material World The advance of capitalism

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Greasy Pole BNP – Question Time Without Answers

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Pieces Together Capitalist Paradox; DrugSource: Inveresk Street Ingrate RSS Feed

the dark side of the internet

Guardian | "The darkweb"; "the deep web"; beneath "the surface web" – the metaphors alone make the internet feel suddenly more unfathomable and mysterious. Other terms circulate among those in the know: "darknet", "invisible web", "dark address space", "murky address space", "dirty address space". Not all these phrases mean the same thing. While a "darknet" is an online network such as Freenet that is concealed from non-users, with all the potential for transgressive behaviour thatSource: subrealism RSS Feed