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Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Bob Diamond cuts up rough as he quits Barclays | Business | The Guardian

These huge bonuses are not justified in a civilized society so why are we trapped in a system that supports them, even encourages them while shareholders lose value?

Unfair?

Unsustainable capitalist banking system not working!

How the evolution of competition between financial centers is killing banking!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/03/bob-diamond-quits-barclays-libor-scandal?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355

Globe and Mail columnist invites Stephen Harper on a three-day camping trip | OpenFile

Surprising stuff this! One usually hears of getting all the guns together and a good old hunt to kill some animal dead as a dodo! One recalls another conservative leader Cheney shooting some animal. Oops, it was a human!

If Harper went it would mean leaving his killing machine at home so such a vacation might not appeal very much to Harper 's mentality?

http://www.openfile.ca/vancouver/blog/2012/globe-and-mail-columnist-invites-stephen-harper-three-day-camping-trip

Quebec should let the asbestos industry die - The Globe and Mail

Hear! Hear!

There seems no reason to spread asbestos around risking health except economic! Surely, there must be a good technical alternative that mining undermines!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/editorials/quebec-should-let-the-asbestos-industry-die/article4390752/

Judge Helped Egypt’s Military to Cement Power - NYTimes.com

So much for separation of powers! Only by a slow slow process of defining separation of powers in a carefully crafted constitution will Egypt even come close to democratic institutions for the long haul.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/world/middleeast/judge-helped-egypts-military-to-cement-power.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120704

Recommended reading - David B Agus

David B Agus

MD

'The End of Illness'

This a great book full of wisdom about medicine and health ... A must read!