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Sunday, 31 July 2011
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Deal!
The rest of the world now will look elsewhere for the setting of a good example of responsibility and financial leadership!
@TeeRexie, 31/07/2011 02:18 AM
 TeeRexie (@TeeRexie)31/07/2011 02:18 AM Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic: http://t.co/y0n90gC via @AddThis |
Saturday, 30 July 2011
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Don't you believe it!
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Obama’s and Bush’s effects on the deficit in one graph - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Whose the hypocrit? Ronald Reagan like Bush was a dishonest politician who presided a bubble in Texas. Bush's bubble was so large it burst the world over!
Retweeting Tips
 Lori McNee (@lorimcneeartist)29/07/2011 06:30 PM How to Double Your Retweets In Two Days http://j.mp/n7ut8n | #TwitterTips RT @sandmaxprime @arkarthick |
Friday, 29 July 2011
Arthritis is Caused by Bacteria?
I don't know! But, what do you think?
http://w3.newsmax.com/newsletters/brownstein/arthritis_report.cfm?s=al&promo_code=CB83-1
Obama Calls for Debt Deal as the House Nears a Vote - NYTimes.com
Seems that some in the House would like to see a one party state. But, this is still America?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/us/politics/30fiscal.html?_r=2
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Promote your local Arts Council
Help the Lambton Shores Community in their efforts to form an Arts Council!
See example below:
US debt default fears grow as UK becomes safest haven for bondholders | Business | The Guardian
What will drive interest rates up? It looks as though the world economy correction begins slowly in Britain!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jul/27/us-debt-default-uk-bondholders?CMP=EMCGT_280711
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Boehner: ‘A Lot’ Of Republicans Want To Force Default, Create ‘Enough Chaos’ To Pass Balanced Budget Amendment | ThinkProgress
It seems to be a strategy of the GOP, but it is an immoral one! The ethics of political tactics have hit a new low! One watches the Republican party, referred to as the GOP and one thinks of with sadness of how far the political process has arrived at the gutter!
This is not America, it's a zoo manufactured by a mistaken attitudes of crazy people like Palin of Alaska and who knows what depressed minds are out there plotting horrible futures for America. It is a war of a group of activist right winged politicians towards the plight of less fortunate people.
It makes Rupert Murdoch seem angelic in comparison, except that the names of the right wing Americans involved are so very forgettable. They are to be denied power because they abuse it.
What happens in America affects us all, and when we see the emptiness of the political debate going on there, we can only hope it does not destroy the rest of the world because it really is destructive of America.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/07/27/280754/boehner-gop-want-chaos-debt-ceiling/
HTML 5 is the new world of business!
That's an interesting take on technology!
 Guardian Tech (@guardiantech)27/07/2011 12:48 PM Here's the future: The beginning of the end of Google, and why Apple is the creator's friend http://bit.ly/q98Iih |
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Pissed-off Whole Foods employee writes tremendous resignation letter - Food on Shine
This letter of resignation is very helpful to Whole Foods. The guy should be rehired, given a promotion and placed in a position where he can influence operational policies for the good of the company.
Give your critical and thinking person a promotion and responsibility!
How The Government Screws Over Savers
The government is subsidising the housing industry excessively because it is seen as a job creator.
Unfortunately, it is the one sector that should pay it's way and if it can't the rest of the economy suffers. If the market has any role at all it is in seeing that the core housing sector can be self sustaining without government support in the form of interest tax rebates, low interest rates and spending above a sustainable rate linked to migration and demographics.
What Bush did was make the 1980s Texas mistake for the whole country encouraging land speculation and excessive growth in the housing sector. That pushed up housing prices and has as we are seeing reduced overall housing and industrial growth. It was a fool hardy policy and unsustainable.
The danger is that some idiots may take the situation to a stage beyond repair. If taxes don't rise then interest rates will.... My prediction!
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-government-screws-over-savers-2011-7
Dan Loeb Blasts Obama's Leadership In Second Quarter Investor Letter
US taxes need adjustment and more targeting of subsidised interests who don't need subsidies. Suppose America were to withdraw the interest subsidy on mortgages?
Obama! Well, perhaps one has to redefine leadership to include making choices that don't continue business as usual. President Obama leads in a very different way from Bush in that he asks people to consider Americans first, and not the profit margin.
Investors have a habit of migrating their money to places like China.
Had Bush been less keen to push forward a political agenda that really divided the rich from the poor, we / the world would not be in such a mess! If it's the blame game then look to past leadership!
Monday, 25 July 2011
Debt question!
 ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress)25/07/2011 10:42 PM Ratings Agency Source: Boehner plan would lead to downgrade of U.S. debt, Reid plan would preserve AAA rating http://thkpr.gs/r8Vwps |
Competition Issues for Electric Carmakers
Why the Market does not work as theory requires!
 BNET (@BNET)25/07/2011 05:15 PM Electric Cars Are Doing Fine, Electric Carmakers Struggle: http://bnet.io/nSOniu |
The Norwegian Killer was Member of Secret Right Wing Organisation(s) with Ties to the UK and Europe
A new Hitler aspirant with racialist goals. Very sad development which hastens perceptions of a decline of democratic values across the globe. Creates so much misunderstanding and hatred worldwide and achieves very negative goals. Big concern is secret groups with a right wing or extremist leaning determined to force negative change now the world is inching toward greater and greater financial and economic chaos!
 The Telegraph (@Telegraph)25/07/2011 05:09 PM Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik had extensive links to English Defence League http://tgr.ph/q3PccJ |
How to commission an artist
It's a matter of choosing!
http://www.gwennseemel.com/index.php/blog/comments/commission_an_artist/
A Breath of Fresh Air: New Hope for Cystic Fibrosis Treatment: Scientific American
Good news for Gordon Brown too and for my family and friends!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-breath-of-fresh-air-aug-11
The Designers of the American Constitution Were Mistaken. America is not so great!
See how the Americans destroy what little they have in the way of cooperation and good will. If it's not guns in the streets is chaos in governance. Better to choose a different model from America. It's not really so good there because those well off are so greedy?
Learning How to Use Social Media?
 Jeff Bullas (@jeffbullas)25/07/2011 07:30 AM 5 Do's and 5 Don'ts of Social Media http://bit.ly/d56WFF |
The Border's Story! My favourite book stores on a financial sand bar!
No, I won't be going digital, and it's because Borders was a positive social setting with coffee and a chance to meet readers!
It's sad to see a housing crisis spawn a financial crisis and a book business crisis because Washington sleeps merrily away in another world! If are books are the basis of our democracy we are in deep lulu .... because I don't see any gun shops going out of business!
 Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly)25/07/2011 07:03 AM Bookselling After Borders: Where will book sales from the nation's #3 go? http://bit.ly/o5mfwx |
Sunday, 24 July 2011
Cut budget by billions by not subsidising the Taliban, the Enemy!
 Breaking News (@BreakingNews)24/07/2011 10:01 PM U.S. trucking funds reach Taliban, military-led investigation concludes - @washingtonpost http://wapo.st/ntWl93 |
As UK sells old aircraft carriers, China buyers circle | Reuters
Used guns get used! An aircraft carrier could be used for peaceful purposes, but it is designed for fighting!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/us-britain-china-carriers-idUSTRE76L54J20110722
Phone hacking: prevent others having News Corp's influence, Cable says | Media | guardian.co.uk
The mystery to me is why Cable was treated in such a bad way! He seems to be the only one seeing the forest from the trees. Would that Cameron was so well informed or placed!
Do you read a Murdoch paper? Why? Well, the odds are that your views are a bit Murdoch like! And, maybe increasingly so over time, which would explain so much within a group behavioural psychology or sociology framework.
Do you have a personal core or are you just a fob 'fact of business', a statistical data point in a world of addictive allegiances!
Vince speaks out when America makes an ass of itself!
 Reuters Top News (@Reuters_TopNews)24/07/2011 08:15 AM Congress "nutters" risk global finance: UK minister http://reut.rs/nvcEz4 |
How do you claw back the huge interest rate and grant subsidies to home property speculators?
Raising taxes over the longer term makes sense, but it is unfair on those who didn't benefit from the subsidies given to speculators.
How and who do you tax? Seems a lot of people got cheap or free money they did not deserve and a lot of poor or honest working folk are still paying for other people's gambling habits.
Is the Republican party saying the subsidies to bankers, gamblers and speculators subsidies should now be forgotten? Who is accountable?
Scandalous News of the World phone hacking Stories Emerging
This is the news people making the news as well as following it!
There are a million stories in the big city and too many phone hacking crimes by news and related people for the London police to prosecute! Might as well close down the news industry....
Not enough judges or jury members!
New way to end unemployment! Have everyone serve on a jury. London where everyone is spying on you.
If it's not cameras it's listening devices.
Brave new world where police celebrate their inactivity with champagne!
When there are so many crimes committed the London Met police commissioner who says to himself 'oh forget this'?
This is more than a can of worms! It is a full police car boot full?
 Telegraph Politics (@TelePolitics)24/07/2011 02:49 AM Phone #hacking: Police chief Andy Hayman paid for champagne dinners with #notw journalists http://tgr.ph/o14mfl |
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Tut Tut! There are enormous risks to using housing construction as an employment generator!
Think of housing as capital and think of the housing capital / labour employment ratio it partially represents over the longer term. Migration will alter the ratio, but the relationship over time could be rather stable in the sense that it self corrects.
What we witness now is an automatic correction mechanism linking real demand and real supply for housing dependent on inward and outward migration and rising real disposable incomes. Real savings ratios will mitigate results, but be subject to self correcting mechanisms over the longer term. Thus if real savings do not improve employment will definitely fall and unemployment will eat up real resources pushing the economy onto a lower long term growth path.
If you thrown in monetary imbalance as a temporary phenomenon, it could exaggerate explosion in demand or implosion.
I don't think five years is correct. I would put it much longer and possibly as much as twenty, which would be really punishing. Why so long? Habits of excess don't change because of persistent consumption patterns and long term income spending relationships.
Lowering interest rates is bad for life cycle economics since it begs a future income that won't be there. Savings come from higher disposable incomes not lower interest rates which do nothing but increase the wastefulness of stock market and commodity price speculation. Yes the business cycle does exist and it is stupid to deny it by assuming it away.
NOT!
 The Economist (@TheEconomist)23/07/2011 05:37 AM How to survive a five-year slump: The US housing market is at an historic low. Eventually, it will bounce back http://econ.st/rfXGxM |
Well! Tim is on the ball!
 Tim Harford (@TimHarford)23/07/2011 05:55 AM Competition improves the quality of newspapers. Or does it? http://bit.ly/nw4SP7 |
Al Gore does it again!
So the man who would be President has become the man who would be protector of the earth! It's a role that suits the personality and a bit like being a Justice of the Earth. Question is how everyone gets what they want when this conflicts with doing justice to man's visit to the earth. We are even staying here for a shorter visit because of cause and effect!
| Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) 23/07/2011 07:39 AM The Globe and Mail on book apps: A Reading Revolution, Or the End of Reading? http://bit.ly/rex7pJ |
Norway Outrage!
Our thoughts and love go out to this peaceful nation. Our prayers are with the many victims and their families!
| Reuters Top News (@Reuters_TopNews) 23/07/2011 07:37 AM Man kills at least 91 in Norway shooting, bombing http://reut.rs/o4dR9d |
Lucian Freud's perverse depictions of magnificent muck | Art and design | The Guardian
Much todo about nothing much! Maybe, I like a few of his paintings, but he will be regarded as a great artist!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jul/22/lucian-freud-adrian-searle?intcmp=239
Friday, 22 July 2011
News America phone hacking - Google Search
Seems that someone is and was not telling the truth. Is phone hacking a daily tool of News Corp? The power of phone hacking tempts many to be dishonest. Who are these news and other people. Hacking phones is unethical, immoral, destructive of trust and confidence, and should be prosecuted aggressively with harsh punishments and under international laws set up for the purpose of prosecution.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=news+America+phone+hacking&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
Five truths about the deficit and the national debt - The Washington Post
We all know America is bankrupt when it comes to cooperation. It's like having neighbours that are always fighting about money. The next step will be more serious because no one wants to sort out the real issues. Like kids not wanting to share their toys?
Who trusts who now?
In time, Pakistan may redeem itself, but nations do what they want!
 Americagov (@americagov)22/07/2011 08:00 PM #SecClinton vision of new Silk Road in Central and South Asia would especially boost #Afghanistan's economy. http://goo.gl/EMHCI |
@britishroyals, 22/07/2011 08:11 PM
Quite right too!
 British Royals (@britishroyals)22/07/2011 08:11 PM Video: Finally, a video that captures the Queen's "horrid" remarks while viewing the royal exhibit with Kate today... http://t.co/7iPl4x6 |
rupert and Murdoch: I Guess They Discussed the Weather and other Things of Interest
 Daily Telegraph News (@TelegraphNews)22/07/2011 07:01 PM George Osborne had dinner with Rupert #murdoch two weeks before BSkyB bid decision http://tgr.ph/ndFJuS |
Phone Hacking was Rampant?
How so?
 BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight)22/07/2011 06:06 PM Former Sunday Mirror journalist "saw Liz Hurley's phone being hacked and a reporter listen to her mobile phone messages". #newsnight |
Hacking is a Technology That Many Used
Now we are getting deeper into what and how technology enabled those willing to use it. I guess a lot of people are criminals?
| BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) 22/07/2011 06:06 PM Former Sunday Mirror journalist told Richard Watson hacking took place "pretty much every day". #newsnight |
Accountability for War Crimes in Sri Lanka
We all wonder how this will pan out given the secrecy and lack of transparency coming out of Sri Lanka? World Affairs (@WAJournal)22/07/2011 05:45 PM #US votes to ban #Sri# Lanka aid unless govt shows 'accountability' for #civil #war bloodshed http://bit.ly/qPhH5g |
I am sure that this is the case, but what are we to do to preserve our lakes?
 Al Gore (@algore)22/07/2011 05:15 PM The Great Lakes are in danger: http://t.co/21S9xOS |
ATT doing better than Verison
| Reuters Top News (@Reuters_TopNews) 22/07/2011 03:09 PM Verizon iPhone sales dash hopes; shares fall http://reut.rs/q7UBlD |
PD James and Lifetime Award for Whodunnits
Such a marvelous achievement!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/21/pd-james-lifetime-of-crime
Arts Council Funding and Poetry
 Guardian Books (@GuardianBooks)22/07/2011 03:19 PM Poetry Society annual meeting ends in no confidence vote http://gu.com/p/3vmzt/tf |
Vodka and heat don't mix!
 TIME.com (@TIME)22/07/2011 03:20 PM Bad heat = bad air | http://ti.me/qOLOEs |
The State of Publishing in Canada: Stormy Waters Both Sides
What's going on? Technology pushing forward...
 Greg MacEachern (@gmacofglebe)22/07/2011 09:38 AM Rebecca Eckler with an interesting glimpse into the state of Canadian publishing today http://t.co/q0I8DDV via @npbooks |
Public Libraries and The Mayor of Toronto and His Short Sightedness ... Mr Ford you need a brain transplant?
Sounds as bad as Borders closing down. Maybe the world will destroy books by burning too.
Who in this world would ever vote for someone like Mr. Ford?
I am sure this short brained fellow is not using his short brain!
Torontonians with children. Get on your bike and petition!
 Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood)22/07/2011 10:56 AM Here is direct link to the @torontolibrary petition http://t.co/hPNMV8P to stop closure & privatization. Thanks to all, pass it around.. |
Another Google technology to get you where you want to go!
This is a great way to plan your stay in London!
 Grace Ioppolo (@ProfShakespeare)22/07/2011 12:02 PM Android users: explore London's streets in 3D following an update to the Google Maps application: http://t.co/aSKuaII |
Poetry for midlife! Why poetry?
What is it about poetry that gives meaning. Is it the words or is it the bridge between words and rhythm? Poetry goes beyond prose to imbed mathematical and auditory cues to words giving it a three or multi-dimensional quality. Poetry I like paintings or photos with depth of field. Enjoy Stephen Fry's pointer ====>
 Stephen Fry (@stephenfry)22/07/2011 07:51 AM Winning poems from @activagersUK midlife poetry competition announced http://t.co/EckeBNO |
What is Spam in the Art World? Is Sham / Spam Art Real Art?
Art does not have to translate into value, money, worth. It's defined by space-time and it's uniqueness gives it a role! Art is about roles and meaning, nit necessarily excellence, value, beauty. That's the thing about art it is totally subjective, while at the same time it is not something very objective. Art is not an object, but rather a fleeting expression of something that gives meaning and has a role, be it frequently small!
One can say a museum or art gallery should have standards, and then impose them. That is not to say, however, that any given acquisition is not art in the broad sense of the word. It would be quite sad not to have the ugly to compare beauty against. We need bad art as well as good art. We need to make comparisons. We need galleries full of stuff we don't particularly like, because that adds to our identification of who and what we are. Indeed, we also need tolerance of bad art so that we can point to a more refined direction in which the artist might be attracted!
Fact is, we are attracted to light. Art is like a light that draws us towards enlightenment. That this may not be excellence or beauty is interesting! We need also to understand why some people are drawn towards darkness and ugliness.
People often will say that a piece of art looks like junk. Denny Coates says that art can be divided into the groups of art and sham art.
I don't like to always be a contrarian, but, perhaps, it's not so easy as Denny makes out, and that's the whole point.
I don't appreciate Denny's vantage point because it seems to me to follow a utilitarian view concerning art.
No art that you don't like is just that. It just is! You may think a line drawn in the sand is not art, but that's only your viewpoint given you are inside your brain viewing it with your eyes. The same line to another being whether human or not may have meaning.
And, that's where I am going with this! Art is something that conveys meaning. Art is a medium of communication and interaction with the dimensions to which we belong.
So sorry, Denny, what is crap to you may have little utility, but to another sentient being be full of meaning! A worms meal, perhaps, or a fly's dinner!
 DennyCoates (@DennyCoates)22/07/2011 10:19 AM Ever stood in front of museum "art" and thought a grade-schooler could have done as well? Story... http://t.co/IF4sq9d #culture |
@DennyCoates, 22/07/2011 10:50 AM
| DennyCoates (@DennyCoates) 22/07/2011 10:50 AM "Art and sham Art - It's Important to Know the Difference" - article on my blog http://t.co/IF4sq9d #beauty |
Wooh joins the Twitter World @wuhlax
Expect also moves to Facebook and Google+ .... It's all part of change. Follow commentary on @wuhlax and communicate directly.
@HumanClouds, 22/07/2011 06:01 AM
 HumanClouds (@HumanClouds)22/07/2011 06:01 AM @Apple moves to enterprise? http://t.co/jvnPypb @fastcompany #abouttime |
@wwnorton, 21/07/2011 12:10 PM
Remember the great writers of the past from Canada! Those lost bois souls!
 W. W. Norton (@wwnorton)21/07/2011 12:10 PM Happy Birthday, Ernest Hemingway: http://bit.ly/qWlUh7 |
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Cameron refuses to deny discussing BSkyB bid with News International | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Very dangerous waters to be sailing in! It seems likely that all the big issues between the press and politicians could be done independently of formalities. It's party stuff, slap on the back, whose your best friend these days, etc. It would be naive to think that awareness of anothers money does not buy influence... that autobiography or the speeches that gleen fortunes on retirement from political office. It's not a question of short term contrivances but long term investments in people and strategies for wealth arising from the printed and spoken word over a good stretch of time!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/20/bskyb-david-cameron-news-international?
Raging Inequality May Cause Unrest and Violence | The Big Picture
A very perceptive commentary on American politics since the country was formed out of revolution. The two facts that should worry any community are it's inequality and it's widespread distribution of firearms. Revolutions occur after tipping points that push people to act. The big gamble is that they remain ignorant to the real forces that cause them grief!
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/07/raging-inequality-may-cause-unrest-and-violence/
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Rebels Move Toward Gadhafi Stronghold - WSJ.com
Freedom for Libya is just a matter of time and effort by those opposed to the nepotistic dictatorship!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904233404576458154035344420.html?mod=djemTEW_h
Friends of the Earth: Coalition set to break promise to be 'greenest government ever', says Jonathon Porritt : Current year : Green Economy news
Is anyone there! Hello! Anyone home? Hello! Can you hear me?
http://www.foe.co.uk/news/greenest_government_ever__30665.html
Friends of the Earth: Bonn climate talks show lack of ambition : Current year : Climate Change news
Who even knew they were occurring? Sad!
Rising wheat prices raise fears over UK commitment to biofuels | Environment | The Observer
Will this help the people starving in the Sudan and Somalia?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/05/wheat-price-fears-over-biofuels
Biofuel demand in US driving higher food prices, says report | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Are we surprised by this? No! Will it help in the Sudan?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/19/biofuel-demand-us-fuel-prices?&CMP=EMCENVEML1631
How Repetitive Foods Can Mean Weight Loss – TIME Healthland
He likes the food but it is the same each day! Beans on toast!
Apple Rolls Out OS X Lion, Faster MacBook Airs, Kills MacBook - Techland - TIME.com
Not surprising that we now have an iPad competitor from Apple! Do they ultimately fulfill different roles? Is the keyboard so different from touch! Do you really want a mouse? Do laptops need to undergo a fundamental transformation?
Astronomers Discover Habitable ExoEarth Orbiting Binary Star - Technology Review
Searching for another earth? What are your chances of finding one? Why are you on this one, anyways? Why were you not on some other earth like planet in another galaxy?
Massive Black Hole Smashed Into Milky Way 10 Million Years Ago - Technology Review
For those interested in the idea that our galaxy is not one but, at least, two galaxies?
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27007/?fb_ref=article
Better Fuel Cells Using Bacteria - Technology Review
How do we emulate our own biological nature to create more horse power?
FBI Arrests 16 "Anonymous" Hacking Suspects Nationwide
In a world shaped by open communication networks, we have Anonymous, but not for long?
Our freedoms depend on fair dealing and honesty, but who is working to reveal the cheaters and dishonest!
In London England, we see an unhealthy relationship developed between the police and reporters. Why?
What should we expect in a world where terrorism exists as much fictional as real?
History and Design of the Bathroom Part 6: Learning from the Japanese : TreeHugger
How badly designed are western culture toilets within the home? What lessons has western culture missed regarding bathing?
Bjarke Ingels talks Hedonism Sustainability : TreeHugger
What is hedonism sustainability? How does it fit in with designing a community lifestyle habitat? What should we be concerned about in planning long term development of our surroundings and community development?
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/bjarke-ingels-talks-hedonism-sustainability.php
Cycling Across Scandinavia: You Don't Have To Be A Starchitect Ambulance Chaser To Be Impressed : TreeHugger
Well! Well! Who would think that the Toronto waterfront projects would connect with cycling in Scandinavia!
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
More Evidence that Exercise Is Key to Brain Health – TIME Healthland
Of course, exercise, especially walking, helps remove toxins of many forms!
The British press and the phone hacking scandal: Why David Cameron is not about to resign as prime minister | The Economist
The 2012 olympics! Ho hum! Where did you say they were?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2011/07/british-press-and-phone-hacking-scandal-6
From the archive: Tory scourge, Labour's inspiration | The Economist
Makes one think seriously about the power of the press!
http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2011/07/archive&fsrc=nwl
Europe's banks: Ignoring the obvious | The Economist
A fuller test is obviously needed as Greece plunges into the abyss!
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/07/europes-banks&fsrc=nwl
UK banks dragged into eurozone crisis as global markets take fright | Business | The Guardian
Seems we are another step closer to a massive world depression! If only there were a way to climb out of the trap made from past mistakes in monetary and fiscal policy.
We are mired in an unfair world economy in which banks and borrowers are subsidized while working people are laid off. The screw has turned and we will see negative consequences.
It's not a question of possible steps toward what a world central bank could accomplish, it's a question of massive maturity mismatch and the mathematics of business cycles!
Having made monstrous policy mistakes, there is no easy exit like waving a magic money wand!
Another Top Police Official Resigns in British Scandal - NYTimes.com
Ed Miliband with his dogged approach towards fighting the Murdoch Empire resonated stupendously with the British Public who have moved politically as a block because he had hit upon a hidden truth!
Cameron would do well to resign!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/world/europe/19hacking.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
Monday, 18 July 2011
Why GOP vows to block Obama nominee for consumer-watchdog agency - CSMonitor.com
Go figure! It's really hard to get into the mindset of a nut case political party that the Republicans have become. Seems they are moving towards the extremes of irrationality!
How to Invite all Your Facebook Contacts to Google+
Now you will get confused as to who is where?!
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-invite-all-your-facebook-contacts-to-google.html
Why Fighting Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs Is So Stupid - Ecocentric - TIME.com
That's the word I used about five times! It suggests that some Republicans are sabotaging intelligence or the use of it!
Obama Is Missing - NYTimes.com
America is in deep sh....!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/opinion/11krugman.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB
Head of Scotland Yard Quits Over Tabloid Scandal - NYTimes.com
The British Prime Minister was obviously a close friend of Ms Brookes! What next? We see who plays what part in this scandal which only seems to get juicier as time progresses and more information is revealed. It is like stripping off....
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Saturday, 16 July 2011
Hinton and Brooks Resign From Murdoch Organization - NYTimes.com
The list of resigning executives grows long!
Friday, 15 July 2011
Libyan rebels capture demoralised Gaddafi troops | World news | The Guardian
Use of mercenaries and promises of Libyan citizenship, but what are the facts?
Phone hacking prompts Australian debate over Murdoch's power | Media | The Guardian
Too much power results in corruption of the worst order as we are seeing!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/14/australia-media-inquiry-phone-hacking?intcmp=239
FBI to investigate News Corporation over 9/11 hacking allegations | World news | guardian.co.uk
It could get much worse! What is Murdoch not revealing?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/14/fbi-news-corp-hacking-claims?CMP=EMCGT_150711
Thursday, 14 July 2011
British Columbia Man Faces Six Months in Jail for Growing Food : TreeHugger
When the upholding of an outdated or irrational bylaw makes the community behave like an ass! Or worse!
Republican bill to ban energy-saving lightbulbs fades | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Boo hoo!
I am neither Republican or Democrat just an observer. But, Republican credibility is a great as who they propose Americans to vote for and the ludicrousness of their latest thinking on serious environmental and economic issues! They do need help of the fundamental form.
We can all wonder at the mad hatters that put together Republican environmental policy which is full of stupid ideas, YES! stupid stupid stupid stupid ideas! Stupid people producing stupid ideas!!!
What creepy crawly hole does the minimum brain of these ideas come from. They are so damaging to the Republican cause as to create wonder and amazement that people could be so blind to the obvious needs of the sensitive people and fragile world they live it.
Well, let's just light up a cigarette and vote Republican! Maybe American will become a one party nation if the stupidity of the policy makers at the Republican headquarters continues unabated.
Obama is a shoe in!
Is This the Beginning of the End of the House of Murdoch? - TIME
Murdochs! Do you think they are financially and technically fit, but perhaps ethically and criminally suspect?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2082885,00.html
Debt ceiling: With irresponsibility comes power | The Economist
Cut taxes as Bush did and raise debt when the tax cutting fails to raise taxes? The republican fiscal policy makes no mathematical sense. Have the Republicans lost their spreadsheet or are their algorithms flawed. Seems like grade two math that the Republicans failed to master!
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/07/debt-ceiling
A security breach at Booz Allen Hamilton: Hackers strike at a foe | The Economist
Who is worse Booz Allen or the hackers? Many find that Booz Allen has lost it's moral compass! If it ever had one?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/07/security-breach-booz-allen-hamilton?fsrc=nwl
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Sheer Panic; EU Revives Default, Buyback Ideas; New Strategy Coming "Shortly", No Timeline Set; Here's a clue: They are Clueless
Germany's attitude to debt forgiveness is interesting given what happened in the 1920's! At that time France refused to forgive Germany's debt, and look at the consequences!
Would Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland ever become fascist states outside the EU? Unthinkable or likely?
No our best bet is massive default, a few really big bank failures, and countries paying their way afterwards?!
How long can the IMF now keep the illusion going that people will tolerate unreasonable transfers of wealth to unscrupulous banks. It is not thinkable as a sustainable international monetary policy.
Banks need to shrink, the big implode happen and shareholders in banks take a massive loss for their sins!
Big bangs have to have big implosions or have we forgotten the cyclical physics!
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/07/sheer-panic-eu-revives-default-buyback.html
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: University of California Economist Bradford DeLong is Blind: "I Don’t See Any Argument Against QE3"
US monetary policy has not got a good reputation. We must all ask why there is so much crap in the monetary policy?
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/07/university-of-california-economist.html
Cyclebabble - James Randerson & Peter Walker | Guardian bookshop
A good book for cycling enthusiasts!
http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9780852652305
US politicians demand phone-hacking investigation after 9/11 claims | World news | The Guardian
Wonder if key executives phones were hacked. What about insider insider insider insider trading by hacking phones of key business people or politicians. Who knows or knew what? Are any cell phones safe? Should we not all get more security?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/13/us-senators-phone-hacking-inquiry?intcmp=239
Bill Gross: Google+ Will Get 100 Million Users Faster Than Any Service In History
And, you won't join because that would mean you have no control!
http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-google-will-get-100-million-users-2011-7
Journalists’ tears replaced by anger - FT.com
We will obviously see this play out in the future press as wickedness spawns more wickedness! Murdoch is doomed to pay a very high price for such infamy along with those who knew what low hand and illegal tricks were being played on an unsuspecting public!
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/26c8ca90-a8d5-11e0-b877-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1S4qWThFb
The Murdoch empire at bay: Digger in a hole - FT.com
It is a puzzle!
But, having heard and read reams of stuff about how immoral News of the World had become, I see hypocrisy throughout.
I put it down to the post Solviet period or post cold war period in which people let their standards drop. It was a period similar to that after the First World War.
Be warned that such letting down of the social fabric of society results in ..... Worse!
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cc8759f4-a99a-11e0-a04a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1S4qWThFb
J.K. Rowling is just fabulous
I can't believe my autocorrection would change JK Rowling's name! It was not to Harry! JKR has revolutionized the reading world and set in motion the technologies and laws to the many freedoms we authors need to protect.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4b145788-a98f-11e0-a04a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1S4qWThFb
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Are we causing a mass extinction in our oceans? - CSMonitor.com
It's possible humanity will die alongside it's terrible record with regard to other creatures.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0729/Are-we-causing-a-mass-extinction-in-our-oceans
EU unveils plan to revive dwindling fish stocks - CSMonitor.com
The past fishing policy has gone way past commercial suicide. It's approached human suicide, by misadventure. How to kill off humanity, fast!
Scientists to debate possible discovery of unknown hominin in South Siberia | Science | RIA Novosti
And, so the possibilities are much higher!
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
14 States Suffering Under Drought - NYTimes.com
Too much and then too little? Why?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/us/12drought.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
Monday, 11 July 2011
News of the World ‘was offered royal numbers’ | Daily Guide Newspaper
Selling of telephone book of royal family ... Then possibly hacked????????????????????
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Friday, 8 July 2011
Murdoch gambit ... UK reacts to closure of News of the World - CSMonitor.com
Cannot see approval of BSkyB takeover happening....perhaps ever! Maybe Murdoch son guilty of something awful and not at all fit to own such controversial or critical British asset! Perhaps, Virgin?
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Police corruption and phone hacking penalties - Google Search
Police officers accepting bribes should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!
Who kidnapped Muriel McKay in Wimbledon in 1969?
Who kidnapped Muriel McKay in Wimbledon in 1969?
General!
Rupert Murdoch connection?
http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/mckay-kidnapping/crime.html
Muriel McKay mistaken for Anna Murdoch, Rupert's wife!
http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/mckay-kidnapping/crime.html
http://www.search.co.tt/trinidad/hoseinbrothers/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rawlinson,_Baron_Rawlinson_of_Ewell
My memory is that in 1969, there was a kidnapping/murder in Wimbledon associated with Mr Alick McKay, the Deputy Chairman of the News of the World
My memory is that in 1969, there was a murder in Wimbledon associated with Mr Alick McKay, the Deputy Chairman of the News of the World.
As a young man, I was interviewed by police after the kidnapping/murder in Wimbledon! News of World was shaken by this kidnapping/murder!
Burglary at home of Alick McKay of the News of the World!!!!!
Muriel McKay was missing? Mystery? No one knows what happened to her!
Murder without a body?
http://www.yourdiscovery.com/web/crime-museum-uk/episode-guide/vanishing-victims/
Smoking gun?
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1960-1969/Story/0,,106506,00.html
http://www.magforum.com/notprivateeye.htm
Maxwell claimed 'war of jungle' effort by Murdoch against him! What did he really mean?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell
Why are people terrified of the Murdoch family?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
Murdoch outsmarted Maxwell the same year 1969 to take over News of the World.
Any connection? Would you do the forensic research?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World
Murdoch lived where in 1969 or near that time? Wimbledon?
More than a tale of tabloid skulduggery
It sends a tickle down your spine!
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7519f70c-b9be-11df-968f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1RRg5YbUM
News of the World ... You are Fired! Murdoch and Rebekah you both should be arrested!
Murdoch!
Why? What bothers you now?
We need arrests now! Yours?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=murdoch+hacking+scandal&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
Why? What bothers you now?
We need arrests now! Yours?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=murdoch+hacking+scandal&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
news of world to close down - Google Search
This marks a victory against one form of corruption. We can only wonder what the other forms will take:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=news+of+world+to+close+down&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari
What is legal in hacking?
Having your name on a target hacking list is not a criminal offense!?
Why not!
It should be because there is intent to break the law! It's like the collecting of photos by pedophiles!
Hackers should be listed like pedophiles and restrictions placed on their ownership and use of electronic devices.
Your name and details could be secretly sold or collected and that should be illegal.
That is serious stuff!
Having such private information should be considered criminal! Being singled out for hacking should be seen as criminal!
Baroness RAWLINGS Misses the Point About the Phone Hackings and Murdoch's Negative Influence
Rawlings seems to be mechanical and rather naive!
In viewing debate in the House of Lords, we observe The Baroness Rawlings state that she and the government are bound by the rule of law.
She does not see how deep the corruption is presently seated.
It is like a severe pneumonia killing of democratic institutions.
The British tools of law enforcement were found glaringly wanting, and without law there will be a wave of discontent that could pull us close to a fascist state where a rule of law dictated by individuals rather than government prevail. The rapid rise of Herr Himmler and Herr Hitler in Germany during the 1930's comes to mind. They controlled the press! Power corrupts and Rupert Murdoch has had too much power. We see how it has corrupted him, the media, and the British police! We need to end that process by contrivance within the law before it is too late.
We should not mistake that the next decade are defining years for British democracy. We need to get it right and provide for higher ethical standards.
One way is to stop advertising in Murdoch controlled media!
The new subversive army of the modern age is made up of private spies than are paid by unscrupulous individuals, such as Rupert Murdoch and Colonel Quadaffi, who see themselves as international forces for 'good' as defined by their own ethical rules, but which are considered outside national laws!
Since at least 2000, the police were supposed to enforce the law on the phone hackings, but we find they were controlled by agents of media and international moneyed interests.
We are still seeing only the scum on the surface because we don't have an independent media, but one controlled by corrupting international investors bent on taking away our long sought after freedoms and privileges.
We are affected by a monstrous lag between law enforcement and the committing of criminal acts.
There is not enough money in the coffers to enforce the law.
In such a situation, people need to look after their own interests.
Law and order has broken down because there is not enough money and influence to pay for it's enforcement! We are at the mercy of the profits made by unscrupulous media groups who seem determined to defy, change and break the law to their advantage.
People like Murdoch who have money define the law in such a way as to make more money and commit more acts of defiance against the law.
They even avoid taxation the only way law can be legal enforced!
We are thus left in a bind of having a permanent breaking of the law as an institution controlled by Rupert Murdoch and profitable media enterprise!???????
Behind Rupert's throne: The story of Rebekah Brooks - Press, Media - The Independent
If you advertise with News of the World expect your business to drop long term!
We the public will not buy your goods and services and will have long memories that you supported Rupert's influence on Britain!
Phone Hacking Scandal Stirs Outrage in British Parliament and the British Public .. Enough is enough!
We are concerned about corruption and bad anti social profiteering behavior. There are limits to our tolerance and these have been exceeded by Murdoch's corrupting media empire! It is disgusting and underhand what has happened...
Now we see it for what it is... Profiteering by unethical newspapers destroys our trust. We saw this in banking and now in the media!
Some of us are beyond anger!
We have long had our suspicions that Rupert Murdoch's interests did not coincide with those of a democracy. We realized increasingly how much our publishing industry had changed because of our inability to control excesses in the media and through the media to all institutions we rely on for security and moral social behavior.
We feel betrayed by Murdoch and his corrosive agents. We want action to close his influence down.
We are really upset that any one could promote unethical behavior for profit. We want Murdoch's influence minimized!
We saw the role of Murdoch's immoral media empire to erode our best values taking them to the gutter. We are saddened by what has happened and horrified that it could continue. We will not tolerate corruption.
We propose a boycott against agents of such low dealing and unethical behavior.
We also saw moral corruption spread via the unethical media throughout parliament, throughout the banking industry, and throughout political processes.
We now know that the framework of our democracy is based on morality and ethics. We realize that our media need to be ethical and that the Murdoch business model works against this!
We realize that Murdoch's business model is increasing in conflict with our democratic ideals. We see increasingly a deficit in ethics emanating from the press where everything goes.
We realize that this is due to Murdoch's business model which is corrosive to ethics and which spreads the behavioral disease of unethical behavior throughout the publications world into all media and into our police force.
We learn that Murdoch's influence is like a contagious flu that sickens our society and reduces the works we see and hear in our media to the lowest of human experience.
We speculate on how far this process will destroy our willingness to live together as a happy community. One rotten apple, that of Murdoch's media world has rotted our media world!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/world/europe/07britain.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
Maid's lawyer tells New York district attorney to quit DSK Strauss-Kahn case | World news | The Guardian
Well, well, well!
Surprise....not!
We have long had our doubts because the case was always too easy and rape just seemed so very unlikely in the circumstances despite the history of womanizing of DSK!
We learned hat the woman is not a saint as portrayed earlier. We learn that money was to be gained by fraud and misrepresentation.
We learn of criminal involvement, and we wonder more and more about the naughty if the New York prosecutor's Office. We learn of the prosecutor's political ambitions.
More and more, we lose confidence in the legal process and more and more we feel sorry for DSK.
We wonder who was pulling hidden strings and whether therecwas a hidden political agenda originating from France.
We see French political interests too focussed on destroying the career of DSK, and we learn of the dangerous political processes evident in France that we anticipate leaked over into the US legal process.
We see the prosecutor's office as a victim of political intrigue emanating from Guinea and France.
These learnings are not easily removed now the cat is out of the bag! DSK has suffered enough....from this nonsense!