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Friday, 31 January 2014
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Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Obama to raise minimum wage for government contract workers - The Washington Post
Obviously, works the opposite way to a speed limit?
Monday, 27 January 2014
Paul Krugman slams the 1% for “paranoia” and “megalomania” - Salon.com
In another era, the idea of criticising the rich might have provoked even harsher accusations, but Americans don't need Americans any more to get wealthy. So long as there is an alternative to local labour the workers won't be exploited. Their pensions will be raided and then they will be fired and ignored. Restrict capital flows and tax the rich may not sound orthodox, but it sure beats grinding poverty in a world where business morality is at its extreme lowest.
Sunday, 26 January 2014
The UK, France And The Value Of Austerity Politics | Investing.com
How to lie with statistics? What do the aggregates mean? Votes for Cameron because numbers look temporarily better as he screws up the economy.
Saturday, 25 January 2014
Israeli defense minister slams John Kerry for 'messianic' pursuit of peace deal (+video) - CSMonitor.com
Both sides are over optimistic. Israeli political candidates know how to trick population into feeling of total insecurity.
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Lingonberries could prevent obesity and diabetes - Channel NewsAsia
Another good reason to visit IKEA?
India's illegal telecom towers raise cancer concerns - Channel NewsAsia
Not the sort of stuff you want to read for breakfast, but very real....
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Monday, 20 January 2014
Energy Storage in Miniaturized Capacitors May Boost Green Energy Technology .... Towards an Internet of energy?
My hunch seems right.
Capacitors are the key to the next generation of energy smoothing devices. Perhaps, they can be scaled up as well to reduce energy waste and allow all firms and households of energy production to enter the grid. Democratic access to the grid to sell excess production could allow for cheap energy beyond present thinking and greatly reduce demands on fossil fuel sources .....
Crowd sourcing of energy by allowing household access to supply energy along the lines of an Internet is the key to ending a drift towards domination by a few greedy companies and investors.
It's important to free people from the dominance of the large energy monopolies and to create a new style of energy Internet that people can use to share information as well as supply others with energy. By combining energy with data flow we can solve many many problems.
The philosophy of scaling up can be defeated by democratic technologies based on the same principles that created the Internet of data.
Sunday, 19 January 2014
Demonising wi-fi is dangerous to your child’s health | The National Business Review
I wonder how the party poopers that said smoking can kill you felt. Spreading EMF radiation can kill you or anyone or life in general. Sorry to be a party pooper ....
Cellphones, wi-fi and electromagnetic radiation | The National Business Review
Reading this link you would think that there was no danger whatsoever with radiation. Life traps uses radiation to perform its many functions. Microwave ovens without metal inside do one thing and with metal inside do another. Metals are key to life processes and mitigate the physics environment that seemingly harmless radiation travels into. The scientific medical and biophysical discussion really needs to be opened up otherwise we could all die from cancer threshold from ultraviolet light or as the case may well be from the effects on unfortunate people from man made and distributed willy nilly electronic stuff we don't even begin to understand.
To say a technology is safe when you disregard the complete evidence is criminal! Do we let people live shorter uncomfortable lives because the majority feel its safe and ok. Mankind has made this mistake many times before as commercial demands outweigh prudence.
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Banks embracing a housing-bubble favorite: interest-only loans - latimes.com
More of this gambling mentality remains! Should the public shoulder such banks going bust? No no non no ....
Friday, 17 January 2014
Labour's reforms 'will ensure new banks flourish to challenge big five' | Business | The Guardian
Oh dear. They should ask me first?
Silly reforms that are way off what is needed to deal with lack of competition.
Labour / Soc Dem do not understand either the economic problem nor the dynamic nature of banking competition.