The Closer
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ROUND-UPAlcoa rose more than six per cent the day after its earnings and US stock indices edged higher following Tuesday’s sharp sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
One in ten 2010 Tories now backing UKIP.
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The latest YouGov poll from tonight has a very interesting figure - that 10% of those who voted Conservative in 2010 are now backing UKIP. By any measure, for one in ten voters to have switched to a rival Party is a huge number and is very good news...
Slumdog Millionaire
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This evening I became the last person in the whole wide world to watch Slumdog Millionaire. I know it won three hundred and fity million Oscars and was nominated for two million more, but there was something about the way this film was hyped that mad...
Gesture politics is thriving, yet we always return to the big parties | Martin Kettle
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British political history is littered with wreckage of fringe parties, from Mosley and the communists to Natural Law and the SDPThere are very few new ideas in politics, only old ones presented in new ways. Mould-breaking new political parties have r...
Europe has left Syria to a distinctly Ottoman fate | Timothy Garton Ash
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On Syria there's a moral case for intervention – but with the west reluctant, Turkey and other powers will be the ones to decideThe day I arrived in Istanbul, they buried the last Ottoman. Her Imperial Highness Fatma Neslisah Sultan had been born i...
Europe has left Syria to a distinctly Ottoman fate | Timothy Garton Ash
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On Syria there's a moral case for intervention – but with the west reluctant, Turkey and other powers will be the ones to decideThe day I arrived in Istanbul, they buried the last Ottoman. Her Imperial Highness Fatma Neslisah Sultan had been born i...
French Renault introduces a new electric "car"
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Would you like to pay 10,000 USD for this doorless "car" without heating ? And, yes, the battery is not included, either. The Twizy is supposed to be a 2-seater - Where the second seat is located, is a mystery. French Renault t...
The Prof demands complacency
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Prof Tim Bale, pundit, academic and slayer of political myths has taken it upon himself to take a pot shot at suggestions that UKIP are on the rise. Worse than on the rise that they threaten a Tory majority, or even relevance in UK political terms.Th...
The IMF on the bleak near-future of the safe asset shortage
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It’s chapter three of the latest Global Financial Stability Report, and it is especially good on the varying roles of safe assets in global financial stability, mispricing...
German State concern for “A Koran in every home” campaign exposes misguided security concern
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A Muslim preacher in Germany wants to give out 25 million Korans. No big deal, you say? Well - it is a B-I-G deal and the making of a "Koran in every home" campaign of a German Muslim preacher into a "national security threat" was actually quite pred...
German State concern for "A Koran in every home" campaign exposes
misguided security concern
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Religious and political activity by Muslims as a "security problem." The anti-Muslim bias among European and American police and security forces shows itself in what is viewed as a threat and what is as not a threat. When a Muslim commits...
This eurozone deep stall may have to lead to a crash if we're to rein in finance | Karel Williams
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A 1963 plane crash can help us understand the eurozone crisis and why it threatens us allA trillion euros of cheap loans by the ECB and a second Greek bailout only bought a little time. The eurozone crisis is back, with the markets in fright and Span...
Floating Treasuries. Levitating Fed.
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Let’s start with “Federal Reserve Independence Day“ – March 4, 1951.Nowadays… when financial repression is all the rage, people seem more interested...
12 Nisan – Metalkafa – Red Hot Chili Peppers özel- playlist:
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Yarın ki metalkafa’da şöyle bir playlistimiz var. Başka bir isteğiniz varsa yorum kısmına ekleyiniz;) 1. Under The Bridge (Sernur istedi) 2. Give It Away 3. Californication 4. Scar Tissue 5. Soul To Squeeze 6. Otherside (Alper Tolga Akku...
Ship of Ghouls
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I mean, Civil War battle reconstructions you can understand. But this… It might not be everyone’s idea of a relaxing holiday cruise, but today 1,309 passengers will set sail from Southampton on a trip recreating the exact journey the Tita...
Ship of Ghouls
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I mean, Civil War battle reconstructions you can understand. But this… It might not be everyone’s idea of a relaxing holiday cruise, but today 1,309 passengers will set sail from Southampton on a trip recreating the exact journey the Tita...
AOL and Microsoft: Patent Strategy Ain't What It Used To Be
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This Kat is once again in a bit of a panic. Having more or less come to terms with the copyright questions that confronted him in preparing the syllabus for his impending course here, he now has a new problem to deal with in class. Somewhere dow...
T. Boone Pickens: 'I've Lost My A--' in Wind Power - 'The Jobs Are in the Oil and Gas Industry'
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Business magnate and financier T. Boone Pickens knows what what he is speaking about: 'I've Lost My A--' in Wind Power - 'The Jobs Are in the Oil and Gas Industry'This is the kind of realism that is needed, both in the US and the rest of t...
Economic Concepts: No-Arbitrage Condition and Interest Rate Parity
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This post briefly discusses the issues of arbitrage and interest rate parity. The insights summarised below are extremely useful in international economics. They are crucial to understanding the Mundell-Flemming Model of international economics, part...
Falling Apart: The six BNP councillors who should lose their seats in May
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Six incumbent BNP councillors are up for re-election in the local council elections on 3rd May. As if their disgusting policies weren’t enough reason to throw them out next month, their record in office should be the final nail in their elector...
Erkan bugün Radikal’de ve T24′te…
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Radikal: Bir tıkla Uganda kurtulur mu? ………. ‘AKTİVİSTELERİN DRAMA GÜCÜ’ Yalnızca 30 dakikalık bir videoyu izleyip 10 dolarlık bağış yaparak, postayla evinize gönderilen posterleri duvarınıza asmakla, sosyal aktiv...
World ranking in Unemployment Benefit replacement rates
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In times of crisis, the ability of workers who lose their jobs to retain their purchasing power has important social and economic implications. A high replacement rate (ratio of unemployment benefits a worker receives relative to the worker’s last...
Greek elections Rumoured for May 6, 2012: Voter intention Polls and expectations – A Destroyed System
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Update: You can find an update to the Greek surveys described below, as well as other information, here. Market News International, the financial news outlet of Deutsche Boerse reported today (April 11, 2012) that an unnamed government source had le...
‘Don’t lose respect for the trees…’
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From CareerCast.com, via the WSJ, an extract from a ranking of 200 jobs, from best to worst:Apparently CareerCast used five criteria: physical demands, work environment, income,...
Cautionary Tales from the Campaign Trail
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The 2012 U.S. presidential election has not drummed up global attention on par with the 2008 election because it is far less open or groundbreaking.
Global Voices Podcast Wins Top Ranking in European Podcast Award
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The Global Voices Podcast produced by Jamillah Knowles in London was named the United Kingdom winner in the non-profit category of the 2011 European Podcast Awards. Hundreds of podcasts from 11 countries in four categories were nominated. Written by...
