David Lidington on Britain in the EU
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Daniel Hannan MEP smells an in/out EU referendum and British exit (Brixit) drawing closer, but is this return trip to tribal bliss the only vision on offer even in the United Kingdom? We start with a snippet about what the Great Britain wants to a...
Butterfly Garden
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Where I live the climate is far too cold for these beautiful creatures. But Germany’s oldest butterfly garden in Friedrichsruh is not far, where I took these photos.
Greece’s coalition government under risk
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It is barely two months since the coalition government was formed in Greece and its future is at stake. It is without doubt that the critical problem that the government is faced with is not linked with the diverging ideologies of the three parties f...
Bonds Plummet And Stocks Rise This Week On The Failure Of Neoliberal Finance … Competitive Currency Devaluation Is Once Again Underway This Time On The Failure Of The World Central Banks’ Monetary Authority
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Financial market report for the week ending Friday August 17, 2012; this is nineteenth week of entry into the Second Great Depression. 1) … Bonds, BND, plummeted Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, manifesting a three black crows chart pattern on the...
Έκθεση Φωτογραφίας
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The Photography Exhibition will present the 14 Years and Offer Life Youth Centre in the local community Agros, Cyprus and Europe Anticipating Europe's Single market celebration for the 1992 generation.
Deciphering UK Window Tax The History Of An Ancient Taxation System
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This essay that could go by the heading UK window tax the history of an ancient taxation system studies a system of taxation used in ancient times whose calculation criterion was the count of windows on a premise. Its introduction was precipitated by...
Deutschland und sein Bundeswehr 2012 im Inland
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Bundeswehr 2012: im äußersten Fall auch im Innern. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat eine Tür geöffnet, ohne allerdings zu sagen, was sich genau dahinter befindet. Eines jedenfalls nicht: der Einsatz der Bundeswehr im Inneren größeren Maßstabs.
Why Assange Lost My Support
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The British government, in common with most of its other European and North American counterparts, disapproved of Wikileaks, as they saw the phenomenon as undermining the way the world goes about its diplomatic business. As a journalist, I took a con...
Even ‘unconventional’ ECB policies won’t save the euro or Europe
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IN THE RADICAL PRESS / MEMOIRE DES LUTTES By Jacques Sapir On July 26, President Mario Draghi stated that the European Bank would ‘do everything necessary to preserve the Euro’. The proposed scheme, which would be pursued in conjunction w...
The key to a well working capitalism
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The key to a well working capitalism lies in the balanced mobility of financial vs human capital. Since in the last few decades at world (GATT then TO) and regional (EEC/EU, Mercosur/UNASUR, NAFTA, etc) freedom/mobility of not only capital but...
Australia´s Shadow Climate Change Minister backs Kyoto 2!
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The drearily cold winter appears to have taken its toll on Greg Hunt, Australia´s Shadow Minister for Climate Change:Australia's opposition Liberal party climate spokesman Greg Hunt on Thursday gave his "in principle" backing to signing up for a sec...
Back from a far away land
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As you may have noticed, this bog was dormant for the past 6 months or so… This was due to me being overwhelmed with work: I am just finishing a PhD. on stability of Transfermium elements and was also tied up by personal projects like gettin...
EU Patents: Prior Art Finder for European Patent Office EPO is a New Patentability Assessment Tool from Google Continuing Patent Search Tradition Started for USPTO Patents
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The newest patentability assessment tool from Google is referenced at Out-Law.com, which refers to Google's new EPO Prior Art Finder for the European Union, as described by Jon Orwant, Google engineering manager. The new tool continues a patent find...
White Wednesday changed politics utterly: I'll be celebrating the anniversary with a reunion in Oxford
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The key date in modern British politics is 16 September 1992: the day the pound dropped out of the ERM. Much of what has happened since needs to be understood in the context of the damage done to the Conservatives and the way in which Labour benefite...
The unsolved puzzle of the UK labour market: Why is employment rising as GDP is falling?
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The recent employment figures released show that 200,000 new jobs were generated in the UK in the three months to June. Ian Brinkley ponders these figures in light of the continuing contraction of the UK’s economy, explaining some of the factors...
Vintage Nigel Farage on Fox News
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What UKIP´s Nigel Farage says about the present Euroean Union - including the carbon tax on electricity - is worth listening to:...
The Chinese economy is shrinking
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The party seems to be over for China. Official statistics still indicate growth, but China expert Gordon Chang is convinced that Chinese officials are artificially inflating statistics: The conclusion that China’s economy is probably shr...
Secularism
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(Guest post from Pink Prosecco). It was this recent news item, about a German town recognizing Muslim as well as Christian holidays, which made me think again about the surprisingly slippery concept of secularism. I am at the same time unequivocally...
Beliefs and convictions
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On the last Wednesday, the French Catholic Church prayed on the behalf of the traditional values of family, a subtle way to denounce the Jean-Marc Ayrault Government to allow the same-sex marriage in the country. This initiative, although it was R...
Cengiz Aktar: Anayasal güvencesiz ve bölgesiz adem-i merkeziyet olmaz
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Anayasal güvencesiz ve bölgesiz adem-i merkeziyet olmaz Memleketin geçirmekte olduğu ve normalleşmeden önce daha uzun yıllar sürecek olan değişim ve dönüşümün en çetin konularından birisi adem-i merkeziyet diyordum. Adem-i merkeziye...
Bulgaria: Syrian and Iraqi Refugees on Hunger Strike
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Bulgarian newspaper Dnevnik reports [bg] that 25 asylum seekers (21 Syrians and four Iraqis) went on hunger strike to protest the slowness of the asylum-granting procedures at the detention center for foreigners in the Bulgarian village of Lyubimets.
Interesting political fiction: O, A Presidential Novel.
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“O, a presidential novel”, is a 2011 novel written supposedly by a high level political activist in the vein of Joe Klein’s Roman a clef “Primary Colours” about Bill Clinton and his pursuit of the Democratic nomination i...
Scientists with political agendas use apocalyptic predictions to justify increased government regulation, higher taxes, and redistribution of wealth
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In response to James Hansen's New York Times op-ed, Game Over for the Climate, Erik Axelson writes that James Hansen is at it again, flogging the dead horse of man-made climate change as a reason to keep Canada’s tar sands petroleum locked up fo...
Barclays and Libor, the MPs’ report
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Click to enlarge:It’s the product of all those Select Committee hearings, including appearances by Messrs. Diamond and Tucker. It is only a preliminary report. But it...
Putin less and less liked by Russians
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More and more Russians are critical of their dictator: The approval ratings of Russian president Vladimir Putin have fallen to a new low of just 48 percent since elected in March, independent pollsters at the Levada Center said Friday.A total of...
Euro breakup: Who cares about accounting losses?
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With the "Merkel memorandum", The Economist has joined the rows of other commentators on the cost of a euro breakup. The costs are quantified as accounting losses on bailout loans, ECB's bond holdings and Target2 balances, and possibly bank bailouts.
Will Germany become Spain?
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This great collection of quotes, comprised by an analyst at Fairfax, an investment bank, has made rounds on the Internet:"Spain is not Greece." - Elena Salgado, Spanish Finance minister, February 2010."Portugal is not Greece." - The Economist, April...
EU Single Market and the EU's SMEs
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The EU Single Market was supposed to lead to EU-wide market segments and niches thus a) helping niche micro/SMEs b) consumer niche tastes! Did that happen?NickPthinks on business, EU policy, socio-economics and systemics in Europe. North Amer...
Behind the South African strike killings
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Detailed information about the appalling police killings of 34 striking mineworkers in Marikana, South Africa, is hard to come by, especially as it seems to involve in-fighting within the ANC-affiliated COSATU union federation. Shiraz Socialist ca...
ted
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Teddy-bears are all the rage these days. My own furry friend, Uncle Rufus (who is almost as old as me) was thrilled to be asked to pose for a photo for Liberal Youth’s Bears for Belarus campaign. Actually, he wasn’t my bear when I was a...
The Weekender
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This week on FT Alphaville,- Bundesverfassungsgericht was word of the week.- As the eurozone crisis took another week off… we looked at sovereign bond-buying by sovereign-backed banks....
