30 November 2020
T
HE ESRI hiī˜Ÿhliī˜Ÿhts a consumption
collapse of ī˜žī˜% in the ļ¬rst half of the
year - the worst in Europe except
Spain and the UK. The economy is on
its knees and SMEs have only drawn
on ā‚¬ī˜›ī˜šī˜ million of state fundinī˜Ÿā€™
All that was missing from the Truman bal
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cony of the White House was the horse. The
mad emperor was back. Only a few days previ
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ously a seemingly healthy President Trump had
hosted a Supreme Court nomination ceremony
for Judge Amy Coney Barrett (not a horse) in
the gardens below. Historians with a fondness
for the Game of Thrones fantasy series may in
years to come refer to this Rose Garden event as
the ā€˜Red Weddingā€™ viral massacre of the Repub
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lican leadership. The Covid-19 super-spreading
ceremony resulted in the hospitalisation of
Trump, the infection of 34 people across the
Trump White House staī˜™ and the quarantine of
most of the top brass in the US military.
Trump instructed the nation to face the Cov
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By Gary McCarthy
In the US, UK
and Ireland
Trump, Johnson
- and throttled
SMEs - threaten
a revolution
id-19 virus without fear and witness the ā€œimmu-
nityā€ of their ā€œfavourite Presidentā€. There was
no mention of the now 225,000 deaths caused
by the virus, the millions of jobs lost and lev
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els of social unrest not seen since the Vietnam
War era. The worldā€™s foremost capitalist empire
is burning literally and politically but the Wash
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ington DC insanity continues.
Trump wants a Supreme Court appointment
secured before a ļ¬scal support package for the
nationā€™s struggling economy. The traditional
Republican and big business voices of ā€˜respon
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sible capitalismā€™ and economic liberty for the
individual are curiously quiet and in eī˜™ect en
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abling an administration swamped by its own
corruption, lies and incompetence. US capital
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ism has reached a crisis where the pandemic is
revealing truths which cannot be spun through
the Fox News fear factory. The deaths of more
than 225,000 people, 25% of the global total,
is already adding to the decades-long erosion
of trust in US institutions. However, the emer
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The Death Spiral Of
Trust In Capitalism
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