The Closer
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ROUND-UPFriday’s poor payrolls number battered stocks. The S&P 500 closed down 1.14 per cent at 1,382, while the Dow Jones dropped one per cent and the Nasdaq 1.08 per cent (Reuters)....
Quand l’Union parle de sa politique de voisinage
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Quand l’Union européenne prend la parole pour définir sa politique de voisinage par le biais de la voix de sa Haute représentante et de sa Commission, le choix des mots et le ton du discours sont rarement innocents. La dernière communication...
Guest post: Dan McCrum on the history of a Countrywide mortgage
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The FT’s US investment correspondent Dan McCrum submits this guest post for FT Alphaville, adding more detail on the Countrywide mortgage that he and Mike Mackenzie tracked...
Galloway supports Syria and Iran
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Once again this piece of shit supports the most murderous and tyrannical regimes in the world. He makes it clear that he opposed the overthrow of Gaddafi (by taking the most negative possible view of the Libyan revolution), and now supports Assad...
Galloway supports Syria and Iran
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Once again this piece of shit supports the most murderous and tyrannical regimes in the world. He makes it clear that he opposed the overthrow of Gaddafi (by taking the most negative possible view of the Libyan revolution), and now supports Assad...
20 Years After Sarajevo's Siege: Peace Holds, but Conflict Continues
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Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, marked on 6 April 20th anniversary of the beginning of its siege that lasted almost four years and during which 11,541 women, children and men were killed. However, 16 years since the end of the war, the c...
Kosovar trade union leader jailed in Serbia
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. Eric Lee of Unionbook and LabourStart writes: This is outrageous: Serbian authorities have arrested a trade union leader from Kosovo who was on his way to attend a European union conference. His name is Hasan Abazi. That’s his pi...
Kosovar trade union leader jailed in Serbia
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. Eric Lee of Unionbook and LabourStart writes: This is outrageous: Serbian authorities have arrested a trade union leader from Kosovo who was on his way to attend a European union conference. His name is Hasan Abazi. That’s his pi...
To blog or not to blog?
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I smiled wryly this weekend as I saw more tweets by people publicly abandoning some of their social media platforms – i.e., giving up on Facebook in favour of Twitter, or LinkedIn in favour of Google+. I guess it’s part of the evolutionar...
To blog or not to blog?
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I smiled wryly this weekend as I saw more tweets by people publicly abandoning some of their social media platforms – i.e., giving up on Facebook in favour of Twitter, or LinkedIn in favour of Google+. I guess it’s part of the evolutionar...
Monday miscellany
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Pistols for two, breakfast for one, coriander for no-one. The IPKat seems to have struck a new and possibly inexhaustible stream of posts on the topic of fiction writing about or by members of the intellectual property professions. This time it's the...
One Day on Earth: Worldwide Collaborative Music Video Released
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A new music video has been released in preparation for the worldwide screening of the Global Collaborative film One Day on Earth, which will take place in locations all around the planet on Earth Day (22 April, 2012). The video features musicians, p...
What the Günter Grass controversy says about censorship in Europe
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The furore over Günter Grass’s poem on Israel has got me thinking about how much journalists are subject to censorship in Europe. In an opinion piece for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Gideon Levy recalls how journalists working for the German med...
Greece: #Police_Victims
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Following the serious injury of photojournalist Marios Lolos at Thursday evening's demonstrations in Athens, Greece, in memory of 77-year-old #Dimitris_Christoulas who committed suicide in Syntagma Square on April 4, Greek netizens have been p...
Via dei Monti Lariani
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Today, the dog took us for a walk along a stretch of the Via dei Monti Lariani, a system of footpaths and muletracks running halfway up the mountains alongside the Lago di Como. The prizewinner for spectacular views is the Alta Via, where the track i...
Principle write-downs in PSI
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Yes, the headline’s a pun. A very bad one.The following aren’t particularly new criticisms of the legacy set by Greece’s debt restructuring (least not on FT Alphaville)…...
House Organ run by Stasi Early-Retirees Blames Jews for being Insulted by Anti-Israeli Comment
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This cartoon appeared in Neues Deutschland, which was the house organ of the SED, the east German Communist party. Following the collapse of the regime it’s been owned by its successor, the Democratic Socialism Party (PDS), which is part of the un...
Facebook acquiring Instagram [updated]
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Kara Swisher reports that it’ll be for $1bn in cash and shares. From a note posted to Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg:Update (9pm UK time) — some thoughts. Or, acquiring...
Most buzzed universities on the Internet and an academic roundup… Occupy movement, Publishing industry and more..
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25 Most-Buzzed Universities on the Internet from Mashable! by Zoe Fox The complete ranking of the top 25 are listed below. 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2. Harvard University 3. University of Chicago 4. Columbia University 5. University of...
Be careful…
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Hard to know who they really are… Filed under: Opinion Tagged: Banker, Banks, EU, Euro, Eurocrisis, Europe, eurozone, politics...
EU's Fringe?
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Given Germany's stance in EU and Eurozone matters in recent years, how many EUropeans would rather their states were members of the United States of America instead of a Germany dominated EU - Eurozone? Maybe in a parallel universe they are?NickPthi...
James Bond film crew and Zombies come to Istanbul. A news roundup
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more photos here from the Istanbul Zombie Walk attempt (!) James Bond film crew to close part of Istanbul from Hurriyet Daily News Scenes for the latest installment of the 007 James Bond series, ‘Skyfall,’ will be filmed in one of Istanb...
French Presidential Election, 2012
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With so much focus on the US Republican Race we seem to not notice the election over on the mainland that will have more effect on us then the result of that election. I am of course talking about the French Presidential Election. The first round of...
ΨΗΦΙΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΦΙΛΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑ
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Άκουσα με χαρά τις προάλλες ότι ένας τακτικός μου συνομιλητής, ο Γρηγόρης Φαρμάκης, θα είναι υποψήφιος της Δημοκρατικής Συμμαχίας. Διάβα...
Avoiding a first-ever corporate default, in China
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Shandong Helon! We told you to remember the name.Either this indebted fibre company would default on a RMB400m ($63m) bond coming due on April 15 – thus becoming the first...
TARGET2 – An answer
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In answering to a comment by GeroldKeefer to my earlier post on Target2 I would like to make a new attempt to sort things out. Since this topic is still gaining increasing attention among the twitter community and others I put it here in a prominent...
TARGET2 – An answer
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In answering to a comment by GeroldKeefer to my earlier post on Target2 I would like to make a new attempt to sort things out. Since this topic is still gaining increasing attention among the twitter community and others I put it here in a prominent...
