Thursday, 28 June 2012

UK banks expect to raise borrowing costs in Q3 - BoE | Reuters

However?

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/28/idINL9E8HD02G20120628
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Osborne Pledges Powers to Pursue Criminal Probe Over Libor - Bloomberg

About time! From one level of incompetence to another!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-28/osborne-pledges-powers-to-pursue-criminal-probe-over-libor.html
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Barclays must face criminal investigation, says Ed Miliband | Business | guardian.co.uk

Liberalization of the banking system has led to criminal activity following morally questionable activity following economically questionable activity.

Who will reverse the clock and raise standards of economics, morals, and fair dealing?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/28/barclays-criminal-investigation-ed-miliband?newsfeed=true
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David Starkey ‘suspicious’ of same-sex marriage | News | The Christian Institute

http://www.christian.org.uk/news/david-starkey-suspicious-of-same-sex-marriage-2/
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Rosol defeats Nadal at Wimbledon

In an amazing feat of strength and ability, a low ranking contestant at Wimbledon, Rosol from the Czech Republic has beaten the number 2 super star, Nadal of Spain.

Extraordinary!
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Hillary Clinton Sets Record As Secretary Of State On 100th Country Visit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/hillary-clinton-sets-record_n_1633520.html
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Russia’s Putin orders reform of Parliament - Boston.com

http://articles.boston.com/2012-06-27/news/32443275_1_russian-president-vladimir-putin-local-legislatures-reform
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Tiger Woods, Beau Hossler and other players to watch at the AT&T National - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/tiger-woods-beau-hossler-and-other-players-to-watch-at-the-atandt-national/2012/06/27/gJQAAlTQ7V_story.html
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World awaits latest in hunt for Higgs particle | Reuters

http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/28/us-science-higgs-cern-idINBRE85R0JS20120628
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Supreme Court upholds entire US health care law

This is great news and means America is regaining its sanity.

Interesting take on legislation that helps people look after themselves like asking people who drive a car to pay for car insurance. If you live and breath, you must take out health insurance.

Supreme Court upholds entire health care law!

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/28/how-will-supreme-court-rule-on-health-care-law/
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Lakeside

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Pricing Sunsets

John Robson writing for the London Free Press, a city not more than fifty miles from the world's most amazing sunsets over Lake Huron is seemingly against the government pricing sunsets. I'm sorry if I don't see his logic!

Canada needs to value and price its sunsets.

Perhaps, John needs to see a sunset over lake Huron and appreciate its value. There is a cost to viewing beautiful sunsets. Its just that John has no clue really on how an indicator can be constructed on how to price them.

Nothing is free John! Everything we do has a consequence and the value of Canadian sunsets are why many Canadians choose to live in Canada where they can see the sunsets.

I am so sorry a sunset's value cannot be priced, at least by John, who I would guess or dare say is probably not a competent statistician, but who am I to say!

I can think of many reasons to have statistics on the cost of viewing sunsets. Let the cost of viewing beatiful sunsets and their contribution to the Canadian economy not go unmeasured, I say!

http://www.lfpress.com/comment/2012/06/27/19924631.html

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=john+robson+london+free+press&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

Woops!
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May's indicators

John!

Your comments suggest you don't have a clue about the role statistical methods can play in supporting community wellness.

Vitamin D from sun and sunsets are much better for your health than the acid rain around Sudbury that falls all over Ontario and kills our streams and fishes but indirectly feeds our flies as they feed on what remains.

Bye,

Arthur
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Taking a pass on May's new measurement | Comment | London Free Press

I think May's idea is pretty important! Shame there are no competent Canadian economists to convey her ideas better. I include myself. Shame! Instead we continue to get nonsense comments from forgetable writers about Keynes by people who probably have never understood the general theory let alone read it!

http://www.lfpress.com/comment/2012/06/27/19924631.html
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Arctic sea-ice levels at record low for June | Environment | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jun/27/arctic-sea-ice-melt-rate?CMP=EMCENVEML1631
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Frans Lanting, LIFE. TASCHEN Books

http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/45714/facts.frans_lanting_life.htm?utm_source=tas&utm_medium=nl&utm_campaign=life
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Fruits that help you fight diseases

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12348598-fruits-that-help-you-fight-diseases
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Wealth redistribution on steroids

Ouch!

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12462929-wealth-redistribution-on-steroids?utm_source=stormpost&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Allvoices%20Newsletter
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Simple Sheet of Paper Keeps Produce Fresh 4 Times Longer : TreeHugger

http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/simple-sheet-paper-keeps-produce-fresh-4-times-longer.html
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Health-care reform law: How Supreme Court ruling could affect families - CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2012/0627/Health-care-reform-law-How-Supreme-Court-ruling-could-affect-families?cmpid=ema:nws:Daily%20Custom%202%20(06272012)&cmpid=ema:nws:NzQ4MDU4NDEwMgS2
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Why Microsoft's Surface Tablet Shames the PC Industry - Businessweek

It's about time! The PC industry has limped along like so many injured fat cats with boring stupifying products. The microsoft tablet event should have happened five years ago, but it was easier for the PC industry to sit on it's hands for years while Apple grew and grew! Oh, where has the dynamism gone?

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-19/why-microsofts-surface-tablet-should-shame-the-pc-industry#r=read
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Natural Gas Climbs to Five-Month High on Outlook for Hot Weather - Businessweek

Greenhouse effect? As it gets hotter, you use more energy to cool down!

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-06-27/natural-gas-climbs-to-five-month-high-on-outlook-for-hot-weather
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New Indications Housing Recovery Is Under Way - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/business/economy/new-indications-housing-recovery-is-under-way.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120628
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The Secular Transhumanist: MIT Develops Brain-Powered Battery

Your brain needs energy?

http://seculartranshumanist.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/mit-develops-brain-powered-battery.html
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New NTRR President Outlines Bold Strategy for Growth | EON: Enhanced Online News

Neutraceuticals are on the way!

http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120626005569/en/nutraceuticals/neutraceutical/bio-energy
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BBC News - 'Systematic dishonesty' at Barclays, says former boss

Barclays is probably just the tip of a very large iceberg. Has organized crime moved into the major banks? Hopefully, criminal investigations will lead to a string of procescutions and loads of dishonest people will go to jail! The deterioration arises with liberalization of the banking sectors around the world. Give people too much power and they WILL be corrupted. It's time a new international procsecution process was created and enforcement stepped up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18622264
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BBC News - MI5 fighting 'astonishing' level of cyber-attacks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18586681
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London 2012 Olympics from the BBC: Latest news, sports and programmes - Home

http://www.bbc.co.uk/2012/
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BBC Nature - Woolly rats videos, news and facts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Mallomys#p004hfqz
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BBC Nature - Lonesome George: Does the death of a subspecies matter?

Nature is indeed threatened!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18604240
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BBC News - Merkel heads to Brussels for crucial euro summit

Create a European Treasury? Oh my gosh...!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18620965
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BBC News - 'Systematic dishonesty' at Barclays, says former boss

Boy, have things deteriorated!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18622264
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BBC News - Tony Blair: I'd like to return as prime minister

Blair has a savoir faire that is needed, but that does not mean his policies would be better!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18616903
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Brown's first day in No 10: the inside story | Politics | The Guardian

Heady times!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jun/27/browns-first-day-in-no-10
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Apple releases dedicated Podcasts app for iPhone and iPad - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apple-releases-dedicated-podcasts-app-for-iphone-and-ipad/2012/06/26/gJQAi45r4V_story.html
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NatWest IT failure 'must be investigated': Bank of England boss | ZDNet UK

Very costly for such a large bank that was just downgraded! Competence issues?

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/natwest-it-failure-must-be-investigated-bank-of-england-boss-10026498/?
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Mervyn King: Britain is Not Even Half-Way Through the Crisis | ValueWalk

The country has gone thevwrong direction in searching for a solution. Five years is probably much more han optimistic!

http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/06/mervyn-king-britain-is-not-even-half-way-through-the-crisis/
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Den Tandt: In hindsight, Brian Mulroney just keeps looking better all the time

Harper is indeed incompetent in my view!

http://www.leaderpost.com/business/Tandt+hindsight+Brian+Mulroney+just+keeps+looking+better+time/6844443/story.html
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Can We Survive the New Golden Age of Oil? - By Steve LeVine | Foreign Policy

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/05/can_we_survive_the_new_golden_age_of_oil
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RealClearWorld - The Coming Oil Crash

Oops!

http://www.realclearworld.com/2012/06/20/the_coming_oil_crash_137229.html
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RealClearWorld - Will Canada's Oil Boom Go Bust?

I has to go bust! Canada needs a reality check .....

http://www.realclearworld.com/2012/06/27/will_canadas_oil_boom_go_bust_137466.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rcw-today-newsletter
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BBC Two - Operation Iceberg

Getting ready to go into the cold!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00tvcnx
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Jersey threatens to break with UK over tax backlash | UK news | The Guardian

Oops!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/26/jersey-threatens-independence-tax-backlash?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
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Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Harper was warned Syria ignoring outrage over massacres: memo

The point is! If Syria is willing to do such damage to its own people, imagine what it would do to Israel if given the opportunity.

The idea that Syria's problems are sourced from outside the country is nonsense! We do, however, observe how awful it presently is to belong to or be near Syria!

http://www.canada.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=6837809
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US Deficit 'Higher than Euro Zone's': Germany Rejects Obama's Criticism in Euro Crisis - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Germany is rightly miffed at US inabilities in understanding it's own weaknesses! Lack of real growth in US is symptom of dollar not working....

What we all have are wasted years because US economics courses are largely flawed. It doesn't take very much to see ways to mitigate the negative effects of US economy which arise because of financial liberalisation, especially towards letting banks lend money they can't fund. The mismatch is there for all to see like a cow's ass!

http://m.spiegel.de/international/europe/a-840749.html#spRedirectedFrom=www
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Monday, 25 June 2012

Microsoft Surface vs Asus Transformer Prime first impressions review - The Inquirer

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/2186196/microsoft-surface-vs-asus-transformer-prime-impressions-review
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CERN will present an update on its Higgs boson search in July - The Inquirer

Yes, but!

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2186883/cern-update-higgs-boson-search-july
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A Pot-Pourri Of Particle Searches

So that you nderstand the statistics of it all!

http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/potpourri_particle_searches-91432
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Health - Brian Fung - Chart: What Killed Us, Then and Now - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/06/chart-what-killed-us-then-and-now/258872/
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International - Joshua Kucera - Iranians Might Watch State-Run Media, but They Don't Trust It - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/iranians-might-watch-state-run-media-but-they-dont-trust-it/258800/
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Historian David Starkey branded a 'racist' and a 'bigot' after saying Rochdale sex gang had values 'entrenched in foothills of the Punjab' | Mail Online

One has to be careful with comparisons as these carry too much baggage for some! Truth may be dulled by comparisons!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163918/Historian-David-Starkey-branded-racist-bigot-saying-Rochdale-sex-gang-values-entrenched-foothills-Punjab.html
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Moody's Enormous Downgrade Of Major Banks In One Chart - Business Insider

Get that triple AAA!

http://www.businessinsider.com/moodys-downgrade-banks-chart-2012-6?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Clusterstock%20Select&utm_campaign=Clusterstock%20Select%20Mondays%202012-06-25
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This Vitamin Helps With Arthritis Vit D

Dah!

http://blueheronhealthnews.com/site/?p=5443
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LEAK: This Is Google's Tablet - Business Insider

Ho hum!

http://www.businessinsider.com/leak-this-is-googles-tablet-2012-6?utm_source=alerts&nr_email_referer=1
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The overwhelming case for plurality | Media | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/24/overwhelming-case-media-plurality?newsfeed=true
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