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Sunday, 9 February 2014
Minimum Wage, Unemployment, and Robots: Why Increasing One Could Affect the Others - DailyFinance
Implies that taxes should not be based on income, but on profit. Only profits should be taxed?
Why solar energy at the home level may be 'the' winning strategy!
Interesting arguments for the democratisation of energy supply through innovation in new devices to add electricity democratically from homes.
What if home owners were to simply plug in a device at home to supply energy to the grid after a major restructuring?
Energy upload or sharing systems could become ubiquitous as the World Wide Web if given sufficient attention. Best to work at the community level first and supply / share electricity locally in order to prove viability of concept. Time to push back the curve on energy supply / exchange.
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Saturday, 8 February 2014
Finished that ebook yet? Hang on, sorry, it keeps updating | Technology | The Observer
Observer article and Moore's Law type phenomena explain why income distribution is worsening and what we need to do about, by showing the practical example of the economists showing by their own book the very real innovations that will lead to increasingly rapid change the political economy of our world and force it to accept its very new challenges about how we need to change economic structures. The solution requires a substantial rethink of our politics because the real world no longer matches traditional lines of thought. We really do face a new economics. Read the book and see what is new and different in the last five years. It is a bit like the thruster for rockets that I once described. Technology is building a significantly different economy than our political structures can presently support without a significant rethink.
Friday, 7 February 2014
Biggest waves yet to come as another storm forecast for Cornwall | This is Cornwall
Naw! Global weather change does not happen now? Then what are we looking at?
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Ottawa moves to close cellphone tower loophole - National | Globalnews.ca
It's about time the year round residents were properly consulted, those with primary homes within 500 yards of cell towers. Those at risk need to have their say and be assigned powers and money to defend their rights over their local environment so they can protect it from socially disobedient and opportunistic organised corporate forces that do not care for weaker vulnerable individuals, only their own profit margin.
It's time for the real protests to begin. Our strength and numbers are growing.
The approval at Southcott was not fair, was not with appropriate conditions of proper scientific evidence and due diligence in advance of appropriation of civil rights. It was corporate takeover and civil disobedience and a major misdemeanour on the part of those organised commercial interests wanting to steal control over an otherwise safe naturally protected environment.
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Re: [Southcott Pines Park News] New comment on We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer - NYTimes.com.
Thank you for your valuable comment Mohan...
I am sure your blog post presents a very considered view that we should read and share. You will appreciate how important it is to take people's concerns very seriously irregardless of how confident one may feel about one's views.
Good to hear from you. Keep up the good work. I, for one, sincerely hope your arguments prevail.
Arthur
On 4 Feb 2014, at 05:54 pm, Mohan Doss wrote:
This article does not represent current state of knowledge in this field, and makes many misleading statements. I have presented a line-by-line criticism of the article in my blog which is available at:
http://are-we-really-giving-ourselves-cancer.blogspot.com/
CT scans are safe, and the present concerns regarding radiation dose from CT scans are not justified by any evidence.
Posted by Mohan Doss to Southcott Pines Park News at 4 February 2014 16:54
Cancer cases growing ‘at an alarming pace,’ report highlights - The Globe and Mail
One has to think some of this is due as epidemiologists claim to unrecognized effects of EMF radiation, cell towers, WIFI and the like. Will we recognize the threat too too late.
Monday, 3 February 2014
BBC News - Housing bubble forming in London, warns Ernst and Young
Who cares? Certainly not the new Bank of England Governor nor Cameron. He was brought to England to make money for the bankers, but the public will pay for all these missteps....
These four charts suggest that Bitcoin will stabilize in the future
Will greed take over? There is little to say otherwise, but as long as the mining happens, the process is like that of beany babies. Try selling a beany baby now. Demand ultimately governs the price, not supply, and bitcoins value seems related to its anonymity and its ability to circumvent regulatory constraints on movement of funds. Hype driven and scurrulously useful?
Saturday, 1 February 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.
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