Politika u UK

[Hella]

ovom korbinu nije dovoljan blam što levičari i veganiše nego je i 11/9 truther

 

a svi mislili nema gore od nekrozoofila ccc

 

u zabavnom odeljku nakon dizalice i stampeda u meki sledi i treći deo dokumentarca o osveti drevnih bogova iz palmire pogledajte

 

Edited September 26, 2015 by Hella

[Eraserhead]

U pitanju je poveci komad budale

[Eraserhead]

Malo je reci da se ne slazem, ali mislim da je vredno citanja.

 

 

Jeremy Corbyn’s Necessary Agenda

 

Mariana Mazzucato 

Professor of the Economics of Innovation at the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex, is the author of The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths.

 

 

 

BRIGHTON – Seven economists (including Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, and me) have agreed to become economic advisers to Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the British Labour Party. I hope we will have a shared goal to help Labour shape an economic policy that is investment-led, inclusive, and sustainable. We will bring different ideas to the table, but these are my thoughts on the kind of progressive agenda the United Kingdom – and the rest of the world – now needs.

 

When the Labour Party lost the election last May, it received considerable criticism – even from its own frontbenchers – for failing to embrace the business community as “wealth creators.” But while businesses clearly create wealth, so do workers, public institutions, and civil-society organizations, which, through dynamic partnerships, drive long-term growth and productivity. Indeed, a progressive economic agenda must begin with the recognition that wealth creation is a collective process and that market outcomes are the product of how these various “wealth creators” interact.

 

We must drop the false dichotomy of governments versus markets and begin to think more clearly about the market outcomes we want. There is plenty to learn from public investments that were mission-oriented, instead of focused on “facilitating” or “incentivizing” business. Policy should actively shape and create markets, not just fix them when they go wrong.

Indeed, policies traditionally considered “business friendly,” such as tax credits and lower tax rates, can be bad for business in the long run if they limit governments’ future ability to invest in areas that increase innovation-led growth. Likewise, it is time to move on from the debate over austerity to a new conversation about how to build smart, mutually beneficial public-private partnerships to fuel decades of growth.

For starters, we must invest in education, human capital, technology, and research. Massive technological and organizational advances have raised productivity in many sectors. Many (if not most) of these breakthroughs have their origins in publicly funded research. Ensuring future advances will require direct policy interventions and investments in innovation across the entire innovation chain: basic research, applied research, and early-stage company financing.

Moreover, we need more patient, long-term finance. Most existing finance is too speculative and too focused on short-term outcomes. Exit-driven venture capital might be appropriate for gadgets; but technological revolutions have historically required patient, committed public financing. In some countries, like Germany and China, public banks take on this role. In others, the job is done by strategic public agencies.

This also means de-financializing the real economy, which has been overly focused on short-term concerns, so that profits are reinvested into production and research and development, rather than hoarded or spent on share buybacks. Over the last decade, Fortune 500 companies in areas like information technology, pharmaceuticals, and energy have spent more than $3 trillion buying back shares in order to boost stock prices, stock options, and executive pay. Meanwhile, in the United States and Europe alone, companies have hoarded nearly $4 trillion. Companies should be rewarded for reinvesting their profits in production, innovation, and human-capital formation.

Next, we must increase wages and standards of living. Until the 1980s, productivity increases were accompanied by wage increases and rising living standards. This link was broken by a drop in labor’s negotiating power and companies’ increased financial orientation. Unions are key to effective corporate governance and hence should be more involved in innovation policy, pressing for investments in education and training – the long-run drivers of wages.

Public institutions must also be strengthened. Bold policy choices require public agencies and institutions that are able to take risks and learn from doing so. Outsourcing government services that lie within the government’s own competency hinders this process as it reduces the public sector’s “absorptive capacity.” Creating a network of well-funded, decentralized agencies and institutions that work in partnership with business would make government both more effective and more strategically focused.

The tax system must be made more progressive as well, with tax credits for businesses designed to encourage inclusive outcomes. We must end the current practice of blindly lowering taxes, creating loopholes that allow legal tax avoidance, and offering tax credits that have little effect on investment and job creation.

When the public sector takes key risks along the innovation chain – such as providing guaranteed loans to companies like Tesla – we should think more creatively about the kinds of contracts that enable the public to share not only the risks, but also some of the rewards.

We must also shape a new narrative on debt. Rather than focus on budget deficits, we should concentrate on the denominator of debt-to-GDP ratios. As long as public investment increases long-term productivity, the ratio will remain in check. In the OECD, many of the countries with the highest debt-to-GDP ratios – including Italy, Portugal, and Spain – ran relatively modest deficits, but failed to invest effectively in education, research, training, or well-designed welfare programs that facilitate economic adjustment.

Fiscal and monetary policy will be important, but only if coupled with the creation of opportunities in the real economy. Money creation, through quantitative easing, will not fuel the real economy if the new money ends up in banks that do not lend. And when businesses do not see opportunities, interest rates stop affecting investment.

Finally, we must not shy away from guiding the direction of development toward a green economy. Beyond “shovel-ready” infrastructure projects, fiscal stimulus should support transformational projects, such as those that led to advances in information and communication technology, biotech, and nanotech that were “chosen” by public policy working alongside businesses. Green development can be about much more than renewable energy; it can become a new direction for the entire economy.

The British Labour Party, along with other progressive parties around the world, has a responsibility to change the discussion on economic policy. By doing so, it has the opportunity to shape the future.

[Budja]

Ne mislim da je ista ovde interesantno.

Clanak pun opstih mesta sa nespotojecom ekonomskom intuicijom i dokazima.

[dragance]

Ha, izašla fotka Camerona sa svinjom Lord Ashcroft :)

[marv]

 

 

 

 

 

 

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:D

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Ovo nije photoshop? :D

[Sludge Factory]

Ja mislio da se neko opet sprda sa Trampom, a onda provalim da sam na UK topicu, pa se onda zapitam sta ce zajebancija sa Trampom ovde, a onda ukapiram da nije Tramp u pitanju :D

Edited October 16, 2015 by Sludge Factory

[Marvin (Paranoid Android)]

Theresa May unveils surveillance measures in wake of Snowden claims

 

Home secretary announces new powers for police and security services tracking UK citizens' internet use without need for judicial check

 

 

 

New surveillance powers will be given to the police and security services, allowing them to access records tracking every UK citizen’s use of the internet without any need for any judicial check, under the provisions of the draft investigatory powers bill unveiled on Wednesday lunchtime.

It includes new powers requiring internet and phone companies to keep “internet connection records” – tracking every website visited but not every page – for a maximum of 12 months but will not require a warrant for the police, security services or other bodies to access the data. Local authorities will be banned from accessing internet records.

 

The proposed legislation will also introduce a “double lock” on the ministerial approval of interception warrants with a new panel of seven judicial commissioners – probably retired judges – given a veto before they can come into force.

 

But the details of the bill make clear that this new safeguard for the most intrusive powers to spy on the content of people’s conversations and messages will not apply in “urgent cases” – defined as up to five days – where judicial approval is not possible.

 

The draft investigatory powers bill published on Wednesday by the home secretary, Theresa May, aims to provide a “comprehensive and comprehensible’ overhaul of Britain’s fragmented surveillance laws. It comes two-and-a-half years after the disclosures by the whistleblower Edward Snowden of the scale of secret mass surveillance of the global traffic in confidential personal data carried out by Britain’s GCHQ and the US’s national security agency (NSA).

 

It will replace the current system of three separate commissioners with a senior judge as a single investigatory powers commissioner.

 

The draft bill explicitly includes in statute for the first time powers for the bulk collection of large volumes of communications and other personal data by MI5, GCHQ, MI6 and for their use of “equipment interference powers” – the ability to hack computers and phones around the world – for purposes of national security, serious crime and economic wellbeing.

 

Home Office estimates put the extra costs of storing internet connection records and the new judicial oversight regime at £245m to £250m over 10 years after the legislation comes into force in December next year. This includes £175m for the cost of storing everyone’s internet records and £60m for the extra judicial oversight.

 

Welcoming the bill as a decisive moment in updating Britain’s surveillance laws, May said: “There should be no area of cyberspace which is a haven for those who seek to harm us to plot, poison minds and peddle hatred under the radar.

 

“But I am also clear that the exercise and scope of investigatory powers should be clearly set out and subject to stringent safeguards and robust oversight, including ‘double-lock’ authorisation for the most intrusive capabilities. This bill will establish world-leading oversight to govern an investigatory powers regime which is more open and transparent than anywhere else in the world.”

May told MPs that the introduction of the most controversial power – the storage of everyone’s internet connection records, tracking the websites they have visited – which is banned as too intrusive in the US and every European country including Britain, was “simply the modern equivalent of an itemised phone bill”.

 

She said it could not be used to determine whether somebody had visited a mental health website or even a news website but only for the purpose of whether they had visited a communications website, such as WhatsApp, an illegal website or to link their device to a specific website as part of a specific investigation.

 

But the detail of the bill makes clear that the authorisation arrangements for internet connection records will remain exactly the same as the current 517,000 requests for communications data made last year. These requests are made without any kind of warrant and signed off by either a police inspector or superintendent depending on the kind of data.

 

 

... tracking every website visited but not every page - for a maximum of 12 months but will not require a warrant for the police, security services or other bodies to access the data...

 

... allowing them to access records tracking every UK citizen’s use of the internet without any need for any judicial check...

 

... the storage of everyone’s internet connection records, tracking the websites they have visited – which is banned as too intrusive in the US and every European country including Britain, was “simply the modern equivalent of an itemised phone bill”.

 

 

[MancMellow]

e pa nek vam je sasrećom :D

[Marvin (Paranoid Android)]

Uh koliko mi je drago što već nekoliko meseci koristim kompletan VPN proksi za celokupno surfovanje i, hm, potpuno legalnu nabavku filmova i TV materijala.

 

 

[MancMellow]

jbg, svi ćemo jednog dana morati da pređemo ekskluzivno na VPN, ako ne želimo da budemo kompletno na izvolte državi i ko zna kome sve

[Budja]

To je ta EU kojoj tezimo.

[Anduril]

Naravno, ovakve stvari se u zemljama van EU nikako ne desavaju. Treba da tezimo turskom ili latinoamerickom modelu, gde je privatnost gradjana zagarantovana.

 

Velika svinjarija, svakako, al naporno ti je ovo trolovanje.

 

Nisi fer, nije to Budjina greska - to je vise opsti sentiment gde se negativne globalne pojave specificno pripisuju EU gotovo svuda.  

Zato i mislim da sa takvim sentimentom nemamo sta da trazimo u EU. Nije dobro ni za nas, a ni za njih.