Are we in what Marx described as the self-destruction of finance-dominated advanced Capitalism? Labor's share of the gross domestic product has shrunk while the profits for capital have risen.
John Siegal, an election lawyer for Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a mayoral candidate and a Democrat who represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens, and Eric N. Gioia, a council member from Queens running for public advocate, said the fresh-start idea would amount to "the second destruction of the campaign finance system by Mayor Bloomberg, after eviscerating spending limits at the mayoral level".
Borrowing the title from a 2002 book by the leftwing philosopher Edgar Morin, the French president argued that "we must fight the blunders and excesses of our own civilisation", which is apparently threatened by "global environmental destruction" and "the mistakes of finance capitalism".
Because standard research entails destruction of embryos, federal financing is currently allowed only for work on those stem cell lines that already existed in August 2001, when President Bush adopted that cutoff as his administration's policy.
To that depressing list, I would add one more item: the destruction of North Carolina's public financing system for judicial elections.
That it was more than just a personal bugbear became clear in June 2013, when we learned that PennCAN, yet another so-called "school-reform" group focused on vouchers, privatization, and the destruction of public schooling, had financed a "secret poll" that encouraged Corbett to attack the PFT in hopes of gaining support ahead of his midterm reelection campaign.
While they discussed at great length questions of science, there was particular nervousness among people close to Mr. Bush that he not be accused of breaking his promise during the campaign not to finance the destruction of live embryos.
Those parameters arguably kept him from breaking a campaign pledge not to finance the destruction of what he called live embryos, and meant that no federal money -- at least not yet -- would be used for that purpose.
I have no idea what "being released into the United States" means, exactly -- maybe KSM will open a bodega and finance the destruction of America through sales of one-hitters or something?
This would give it a value to compete with the profits to be gained from its destruction and finance the cost of proper policing.
The judge ruled that the Obama administration's policy was illegal because the administration's distinction between work that leads to the destruction of embryos — which cannot be financed by the federal government under the current policy — and the financing of work using stem cells created through embryonic destruction was meaningless.
