Says the poster of the youtube: This was from Question Time broadcasted on Thursday 14th June and I think is one of the best and most truthful points an audience member has ever made to a politician. The panelists were all contenders for the Deputy Leadership – Peter Hain, Harriet Harman, Alan Johnson, Hazel Blears, [...]
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……Carly Simon? Briefly, in the seventies, she was everybody’s favourite singer-songwriter and then disappeared as quickly as she arrived. Unless I have not been paying attention; which is more than likely.
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Sackerson is rightly apoplectic but it might be too late: Robert Wenzel comments approvingly on a course of action mooted in a meeting of primary dealers and the US Treasury held at midday on July 29th. The idea: “Dealers suggested that the Treasury might be able to repo their MBS portfolio to raise cash.” Yes, [...]
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“Over the past 48 hours we had heard pervasive rumors that at least one, maybe more, banks in Europe are on the verge of collapse. Our thought was, naturally, Dexia, which is the modern equivalent of AIG, not to mention the bank most rescued by none other than the Federal Reserve. Well, we were wrong. [...]
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Dave and his pretty new friend In this case, DC’s right – the waitress was at fault, saying she was “too busy” and it has zero to do with how important DC is. He was well within his rights not to tip and I can only think the reason he went back is quite obvious [...]
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The 1924 recording, the one with the “flighted” solo. Was his 1927 band was better?
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Long before David Cameron or his spin doctors came up with his idea of the Big Society, the people of this country were well capable of ‘community’ action in the form of mutual self help and self improvement, as David Lindsay points out, in the trade unions, the co-operatives, the credit unions, the mutual guarantee [...]
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You all saw this, right? Johan Hedstrom, an energy analyst in Australia with Southern Cross Equities, told the BBC: “The FLNG concept is an elegant solution because you don’t need so much fixed infrastructure. “You don’t need the pipeline or the onshore refinery and when you run out of gas you can just pull up [...]
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Obviously it means a lot more to have met the guy but Jim Stynes, Chairman of Melbourne Football club, aged 45 now and losing his battle with cancer has just presided over his club’s worst debacle, unfortunately at the hands of the club I support down there. When I was gamesmaster at a school, I [...]
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I know this one’s been much on your mind of late, so sorry to have taken so long to get around to it: The filioque clause was, and still is, a controversy in the church in relation to the Holy Spirit. The question is, “from whom did the Holy Spirit proceed, the Father, or the [...]
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From Maggie’s Farm: The suites: Sports complex:
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This site has had many guestposters over the years and one of my tasks this summer is to collate and make a proper linked list of these, with their posts, on an accessible page. Then I can run the occasional post as a reissued special. Some time back, I put out a call for regular [...]
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Wired: Anthropologists at Oxford University collected 55 skulls, dating from the 1800s, that represented 12 different populations from around the globe. The researchers measured the eye socket and brain volumes and plotted them against the latitude of each individual’s country of origin. The team, lead by the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology’s Eiluned Pearce, [...]
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It might do something, it might not. Better to sign it.
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Here’s Emily [1]. Chuckles has someone on the ground over in Santa Lucia who sent this photo of the devastating hurricane as it swept through. Needless to say, they’re all terrified:
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The obvious question is what would turn it into a recession and then a depression? I was reading of negative interest rates in the U.S. but we have both the prospect of that and of the Euro-collapse. NIR would instantly mean I pull my money out of the bank, such as it is and you [...]
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This is now up at Orphans of Liberty. It’s about how Birmingham Council officials awarded a contract, without tender, which somehow ended up in the hands of Common Purpose. Amazing these coincidences, aren’t they?
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You could make a film out of it and have five characters appearing in a Hooverville, building shacks in the mud. In the evening, they’d sit around a makeshift fire and tell their tales. One was a stock trader from the City, one an out of work actor, one had a family and they’d lost [...]
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Whether you read this or this or this or even this about it, a number of questions, perhaps cynical questions to an extent, spring to mind. We’re caught between compassion for a brutalized people who live the life of savages and disgust for corrupt government officials who pocket western money and live in comfort. This [...]
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Surfaris Wipeout
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I really don’t know where to start on this one or how to inflict it on you without enraging you on a laid-back summer’s day. I can’t find anything but expletives for this sociologist, which is probably better than bullets: We examine whether conservative white males are more likely than are other adults in the [...]
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Take this simple test to determine your “Guyness Quotient”: 1. Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth, and you are the first human they encounter. As a token of intergalactic friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated device that is capable of curing all disease, providing an infinite supply [...]
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