Social Issues

The Aunt of British prime minister David Cameron took part in a demonstration against Tory cuts to children’s centres in his own Oxfordshire county. Auntie Clare was was waving a banner which read: “No ifs, no buts, no cuts. Last week David Cameron’s own mother Mary spoke out against cuts to local children centres and signed a petition against the cuts. The Mirror reports: Clare Currie, who last week spoke out against cuts which will lead to the closure of 44 children’s centres, joined the anti-austerity demonstration on Saturday, and waved a banner reading “No ifs. No buts.

The Western World has passed away. It is no more.

The Russians ask this question: Where were the German men while their women were raped by refugees?

The same question can be asked of Americans. Last year at “spring break” in Panama City Beach a white girl was raped on the beach by several blacks in broad daylight while hundreds of people watched without intervening.

http://russia-insider.com/en/society/what-has-happened-west-and-its-men-hypnotic-dance-death/ri12753

Authored by Ludwig von Mises via The Mises Institute,

[This article is excerpted from Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis]

It is a mistake to think that the lack of success of experiments in Socialism that have been made can help to overcome Socialism. Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

On Friday, some 800 angry Greek farmers marched on the Agriculture Ministry in Athens and beat police with Shepherd’s crooks.

No, really:

The farmers are understandably upset with Alexis Tsipras and the government for a proposal to triple the social security burden and double income taxes in an effort to appease the powers that be in Brussels who claim Greece has not made enough progress towards fiscal consolidation since the country’s third bailout was agreed last August.

Spanish civil servant Joaquin Garcia failed to show for work for more than six years without anyone noticing his absence. The matter came to light when co-workers went to present him for a long-service award. Garcia was supposed to be supervising the construction of a water treatment plant in the ancient port city of Cadiz in southwest Spain. The Daily Mail reports: Joaquin Garcia had been employed by a water company run by the local authorities in Cadiz to supervise the construction of a water treatment plant.