Thursday, 22 May 2014

BBC News - The US is losing a cyberwar with China

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Jeremy Paxman stuns Silvio Berlusconi with Angela Merkel insult allegation | Media | theguardian.com

He's a friend of V V Putin, you know?
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Russia slams Prince Charles' Putin-Hitler jibe | Mail Online

Oh yes! Charles comment is propaganda.

It's like saying Churchill's warning about Hitler was propaganda. Too bad appeasement failed.
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Credit Suisse Agrees to Pay 2.6 Billion to The U.S. Government, What Effect Will This Have On U.S. Taxpayers With Undisclosed Overseas Accounts? | Intercooler

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Ukraine oligarch calls for anti rebel rallies - 339699 - 2014-

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Oligarchs, Russia and Ukraine: What Magnitsky, Akhmetov And Kiev's Elections Bode - Forbes

Russia wants to pay for updating outdated industry in Eastern Ukraine?
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Oligarch Enclaves in London Opening to Bond Buyers - Bloomberg

In another life!
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Nets' Oligarch Owner Leaves His Political Party, Rejoins Board of a Russian State Corp | Innokenty (Kes) Grekov

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Scientists at Stanford and MIT find new way to harness waste heat

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​The Military Is Shutting Down Its Weather-Controlling Death Beam

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Retail sales up 6.9% in April, making early rate rise likely | Business | The Guardian

UK bank governor gets the whole thing wrong. What a disaster for the otherwise kindly Brits.
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AstraZeneca directors unmoved by shareholder calls to reopen Pfizer talks | Business | The Guardian

Pfizer is a predator firm funded by American bank solution dollars that should not have been created let alone used for takeover bids of foreign entities. Shame on America? Shame on Bush? 
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The Piketty phenomenon: big picture economics | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian

Heavy doses of economics based on the bigger picture? 
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Now, Gujarat to cover Narmada canals with solar panels! | Business Line

Those Indians are pretty smart. Why don't we cover our barns with solar panels? 
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Rory McIlroy close to tears over break-up with Caroline Wozniacki | Sport | The Guardian

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Why Is the NRA Scared of Smart Guns? | Vocativ

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French railway operator SNCF orders hundreds of new trains that are too big | World news | theguardian.com

This has got to be a way to get old stations modernized?
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