Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Gold has been hit hard by a strengthening US economy.
On 2 December 2013, Gold stood at $1,218 a troy ounce.
Jim O’Neill, former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, thinks that the world economy will grow at a faster rate in the next decade than it did in the last one.
He says that the economic crisis around 2008 was essentially about the USA consuming too much and saving nothing, while China consumed very little and saved too much.
He says the USA is now far more competitive and multinationals are now moving back to the USA.
However, some economists think that the US stock market is currently overvalued.
Stephanie Flanders, chief European market strategist at J P Morgan, thinks that the UK will be the fastest-growing country in Europe for at least the next five years.
However, some economists see a huge bubble in London house prices, and think that that bubble will eventually burst.
"The breakdown of the latest growth figures showed that business investment - critical for rebuilding a new-style, more productive economy - is down by more than 6% year on year; exports are all but flat, despite the 20% fall in the value of the pound since the crisis; and manufacturing output remains 9% below where it was in 2008..."
Is Britain's economy really on the path to prosperity? - The Guardian
Martin Wolf, chief economic commentator at the Financial Times, thinks that the eurozone will break up, as the result of serious depressions in countries such as Spain and Italy.
Hélène Rey, Professor of economics at the London Business School, reminds us of the Asian crisis of 1997.
Lots of money flooded into countries like Thailand and Indonesia and then flooded out again, causing a crash.
"Historians call Uruguay Latin America's 'first welfare state.'
"It was a pioneer in the early twentieth century on enacting public-health programs, public pensions
, and other forms of social assistance...
"An IMF staff report in January 2011 noted that 'Uruguay’s economy is booming,' that 'unemployment is at record lows,' and that some sectors were even experiencing 'labor shortages.'
, and other forms of social assistance... "An IMF staff report in January 2011 noted that 'Uruguay’s economy is booming,' that 'unemployment is at record lows,' and that some sectors were even experiencing 'labor shortages.'
"Uruguay's high taxes, equal to 29.1% of GDP, enable sturdy governmental support of certain lucrative export sectors..."
Five Economies That Work: Global Success Stories
Singapore
Finnish GirlFive Economies That Work: Global Success Stories
Switzerland.
Currently the top three most successful economies in the world are said to be those of:
1. Switzerland
Singapore
2. Singapore
3. Finland.
Their report, now published in The Lancet, shows:
1. Adults are now having sex less frequently than they were ten years ago.
On average, men and women aged 16 to 44 now have sex just three times a month compared to five in the 1990s.
On average, men and women aged 16 to 44 now have sex just three times a month compared to five in the 1990s.
2. Women are now four times more likely to be involved in lesbian sex compared to twenty years ago.
But, only 16% of women admitted to having a Lesbian relationship.
3. 30% of 16-24 year-olds admitted to having had sex before they reached the age of 16.
One in 10 women have been forced into sex against their will, Lancet study says
One has to wonder - how many of those questioned told the truth?
Boston attack carried out by agents of the government?
Undercover soldiers killed unarmed civilians - BBC News - 21 November 2013 /
British Army's secret 'terror unit' Military Reaction Force shot dead innocent civilians - Belfast Telegraph
Ex-members of the UK's Military Reaction Force (MRF) have told the BBC that they carried out a series of drive-by shootings of civilians.
Sandy Hook attack carried out by agents of the government?
One of the UK soldiers said: "We were not there to act like an Army unit, we were there to act like a terror group."
Three former members of the unit have said that they had posed as road sweepers, dustmen and "meths drinkers" while carrying out their work.
A former MRF soldier has referred to the MRF as a "legalised death squad".
Former members of the MRF have admitted shooting and killing unarmed civilians.
In 1972 an innocent man called Patrick McVeigh (44) was murdered by the UK military.
McVeigh's daughter Patricia said: "I'm astonished, astounded, angry, that the forces that were supposed to be protecting us had actually killed my father."
Three former members of the unit have said that they had posed as road sweepers, dustmen and "meths drinkers" while carrying out their work.
A former MRF soldier has referred to the MRF as a "legalised death squad".
Former members of the MRF have admitted shooting and killing unarmed civilians.
UK government death squad (reconstruction)
In 1972 an innocent man called Patrick McVeigh (44) was murdered by the UK military.
McVeigh's daughter Patricia said: "I'm astonished, astounded, angry, that the forces that were supposed to be protecting us had actually killed my father."
The BBC has identified 10 unarmed civilians shot by the UK military's death squad.
We should remember that the terrorist gangs in Northern Ireland were secretly run by the UK security services.
Lord Stevens, a former UK police chief, is quoted as saying that only three out of 210 terrorist suspects he arrested in a probe in Northern Ireland were not working for either the police, the security service MI5 or the UK Army.
On 21 December 2011, we learn that the IRA was run by the UK security services.
Half of all the top IRA men 'worked for security services'
Lord Stevens, a former UK police chief, is quoted as saying that only three out of 210 terrorist suspects he arrested in a probe in Northern Ireland were not working for either the police, the security service MI5 or the UK Army.
On 21 December 2011, we learn that the IRA was run by the UK security services.
Half of all the top IRA men 'worked for security services'
CIA hit?
It was all about making money
from drugs and guns, and discrediting the movement that wanted Northern Ireland to leave the UK. 
The intelligence services control the terrorists, the drugs trade and the pedophile rings?
(Congress probes 'IoS' revelations on IRA link.)
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7/7 attacks in London - 'the work of the intelligence services.'
According to one source: "the Real IRA has in the past been exposed as being run by MI5 agents, as was the case in the Omagh bombing, and it appears that the British officials are keen to continue keeping people in fear through this same control mechanism."
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7/7 attacks in London - 'the work of the intelligence services.'
According to one source: "the Real IRA has in the past been exposed as being run by MI5 agents, as was the case in the Omagh bombing, and it appears that the British officials are keen to continue
keeping people in fear through this same control mechanism." (statism watch - Real IRA plot.)
Former British spy Kevin Fulton reported that "the real reason why the Real IRA murderers who planted the bomb at Omagh, have never been taken to court or their cases investigated - it is because the actual bomber, Sean Hoey, was also working for the RUC (the police)".
Former British spy Kevin Fulton reported that "the real reason why the Real IRA murderers who planted the bomb at Omagh, have never been taken to court or their cases investigated - it is because the actual bomber, Sean Hoey, was also working for the RUC (the police)".
(General Frank Kitson: Trail Blazing Fake Terrorism)
The pseudo gang works for the military but pretends to be a bunch of terrorists.
The idea of the 'pseudo gang' is to carry out acts of violence which can then be blamed on the people that the military wants to discredit.
The pseudo gang works for the military but pretends to be a bunch of terrorists.
The idea of the 'pseudo gang' is to carry out acts of violence which can then be blamed on the people that the military wants to discredit.
Pseudo gangs have been used in Vietnam, Italy, Turkey, Belgium, the Philippines, Kenya, Malaya, Northern Ireland, Iraq, New York and many other places.
Reportedly, the white Rhodesians used pseudo gangs to bomb churches (and murder missionaries) and blame the violence on black guerrillas.
MI5 is reported to have run Belfast's Kincora Boy's Home as a boy brothel and honey trap.
Northern Ireland terrorists "have long had links with Zionist gangsters and have received Israeli weapons.
"In at least one incident weapons were exchanged for intelligence material on British missile systems, and loyalists rely on Israeli-'Russian' mafiosi for supplies of ecstasy pills."
Michael stone, MI5 and Kincora - Irish Nationalism / HONEY TRAP; DENIS DONALDSON; KINCORA ...
Reportedly, the white Rhodesians used pseudo gangs to bomb churches (and murder missionaries) and blame the violence on black guerrillas.
Kincora Boys home - a boy brothel 'run by the UK military'.
as a boy brothel and honey trap."Its clientele who preyed for years on vulnerable young boys... included loyalist paramilitary leaders , unionist politicians , judges and public figures .
"MI5... used it as a blackmailers lever."
"MI5... used it as a blackmailers lever."
Friend of Israel Jimmy Savile, near the Kincora Children's home in Belfast in the UK.
"In at least one incident weapons were exchanged for intelligence material on British missile systems, and loyalists rely on Israeli-'Russian' mafiosi for supplies of ecstasy pills."
Michael stone, MI5 and Kincora - Irish Nationalism / HONEY TRAP; DENIS DONALDSON; KINCORA ...
FUKUSHIMA: THE CHINA SYNDROME
"The entire country of Britain could have been turned to a radioactive wasteland overnight.
"A major nuclear incident was narrowly averted at the heart of Britain’s Royal Navy submarine fleet, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
"The failure of both the primary and secondary power sources of coolant for nuclear reactors at the Devonport dockyard in Plymouth on 29 July last year followed warnings in previous years of just such a situation.
"Experts yesterday compared the crisis at the naval base, operated by the Ministry of Defence and government engineering contractors Babcock Marine, with the Fukushima Daiichi power-station meltdown in Japan in 2011...
Brits Lose Control of Nuke Reactors: “Unbelievable… Seriousness of a Major Radioactive Release”
According to a report, by mathematician Safa Motesharrei (above) and others, industrial civilization 'may be heading toward collapse' within decades.
The causes:
1. the wide gap between the rich and the poor and
2. the strain on the planet's resources.
According to the report, rich 'elites' may be responsible for both problems.
According to the report: 'The mass of the population, while producing the wealth, is only allocated a small portion of it by elites, usually at or just above subsistence levels.'
The report refers to the downfall of various civilizations, including the Roman, Han, Gupta and various Mesopotamian empires
The Guardian / Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? / A Minimal Model for Human and Nature Interaction / http://www.dailymail.
The Duke of Westminster - one of the top five.
The top 5 richest families in the UK have a combined wealth of £28.2 billion.
The poorest fifth of the UK population has a combined wealth of £28.1 billion.
dailymail.co.uk/
In the UK 40% of teachers leave teaching within five years of becoming qualified.
Sir Michael Wilshaw, the Chief Inspector of Schools, says the main reason why teachers quit is the lack of discipline in the classroom.
40 PER CENT OF TEACHERS QUIT WITHIN FIVE YEARS
One teacher gives a reason: "It’s just a lack of respect.
"Teachers in schools do not call the shots. They have very little say."
Those that remain in teaching are not necessarily good teachers.
1,000 teachers accused of having sexual relationships with pupils in last five years
Pew Research Centre
The 'culture' in the USA and UK is sick.
Nick Clegg accused of 'cover up' and 'cowardice' as Lord Rennard is cleared
In 2012, the UK's Telegraph reported:
"Pupils are being allowed to run wild with a 'total disregard of school rules' because of a lack of proper discipline in the home, it was claimed.
"The Association of Teachers and Lecturers warned that a quarter of members had been physically attacked at school in the last 12 months, with staff being pushed, scratched, punched, bitten, kicked and spat at.
A third had been forced to deal
with violence directed at them or other pupils."Half of teachers said behaviour - particularly low-level disruption - had worsened in the last two years.
Bad behaviour in schools 'fuelled by over-indulgent parents
Essentially, schools in the UK and USA are like special sorts of zoos where the lions are not separated from the lambs.
And the government officials who are ultimately responsible for these zoos are corrupt fools.
According to The Economist: "People who don't get on ... have the option of avoiding each other."
Behaviour | The Economist
This is not true for most children when they are at school.
The typical school is like a weird sort of zoo - where all the animals are placed together in the one large cage.
According to The Economist: "It is probably not a good idea to put two animals with high dominance scores in the same enclosure."
Behaviour | The Economist
Prince Charles at Gordonstoun
Similarly, it is not a good idea put someone like Prince Charles into a school like Gordonstoun.
"A prison sentence," was how Charles described Gordonstoun. "Colditz with kilts."
"Like penal servitude," agreed William Boyd, a Gordonstoun contemporary of Charles. "I happen to know, from his own lips, that Prince Charles utterly detested it."
http://www.dailymail.
Ideally, children have a choice of schools and education styles.
My town used to have several small schools.
Now, sadly, there is only one giant school.
Michael Gove played the school chaplain in the 1995 film A Feast at Midnight.[11]
Governments should not dictate how schools are to be run.
In the UK, the government minister in charge of education is Michael Gove.
Gove is making a mess of education.
Gove wants more rote learning of facts.
New curriculum swings back to an out of date teaching style - FT
It is surely silly to have kids memorising huge quantities of dates and facts and figures, when such information is now available online.
Neil Carberry, director of employment and skills at the Confederation of British Industry, says that Gove's emphasis on rote learning might not be the best way to prepare pupils for employment.
According to Stephen Heppell, an education adviser to governments around the world:
"Schools should prepare pupils to interpret data and understand uncertainties.
"We need kids that can make things and do things, and that won't happen by giving them a heap of facts."
New curriculum swings back to an out of date teaching style - FT
Similarly, it is not a good idea put someone like Prince Charles into a school like Gordonstoun.
"A prison sentence," was how Charles described Gordonstoun. "Colditz with kilts."
"Like penal servitude," agreed William Boyd, a Gordonstoun contemporary of Charles. "I happen to know, from his own lips, that Prince Charles utterly detested it."
http://www.dailymail.
Ideally, children have a choice of schools and education styles.
My town used to have several small schools.
Now, sadly, there is only one giant school.
Michael Gove played the school chaplain in the 1995 film A Feast at Midnight.[11]
Governments should not dictate how schools are to be run.
In the UK, the government minister in charge of education is Michael Gove.
Gove is making a mess of education.
Gove wants more rote learning of facts.
New curriculum swings back to an out of date teaching style - FT
It is surely silly to have kids memorising huge quantities of dates and facts and figures, when such information is now available online.
Neil Carberry, director of employment and skills at the Confederation of British Industry, says that Gove's emphasis on rote learning might not be the best way to prepare pupils for employment.
According to Stephen Heppell, an education adviser to governments around the world:
"We need kids that can make things and do things, and that won't happen by giving them a heap of facts."
New curriculum swings back to an out of date teaching style - FT
UK education minister, Michael Gove, living in the past.
The school system needs to become more flexible.
"There is no systematic use of the internet...
"Teachers still stand up in front of pupils and read out from their own lesson plans; kids still turn up to classrooms, sit behind desks and listen, taking notes.."
Schools are failing our children
The school system needs to become more flexible.
"There is no systematic use of the internet...
"Teachers still stand up in front of pupils and read out from their own lesson plans; kids still turn up to classrooms, sit behind desks and listen, taking notes.."
Schools are failing our children
In the UK, 19.8% of school pupils have special educational needs
(eg learning and behavioural difficulties)
The EU average is 4%
Photo by Bert Hardy
Why does one child succeed in life, and another one 'fail'?
In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough writes that what matters most is character skills.
These are skills such as self confidence, optimism, perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, and self-control.
In other words, emotional intelligence, as taught by good parents, good mentors and good private schools, is what matters.
Both rich children and poor children can lack emotional intelligence.
"Suniya Luthar, a psychologist at Columbia University found significant psychological problems at the high end of the income spectrum... These problems arise most often in those high-income homes where children feel simultaneously a great pressure to achieve and an emotional distance from their parents..."
'How Children Succeed' — Q&A with Paul Tough
Bill Brandt
"When this region is damaged - a common condition for children living amid the pressures of poverty - it is tougher to suppress unproductive instincts."
School reform: Stay focused | The Economist
But not always.
The silver-haired safety net
The EU average is 4%
Photo by Bert Hardy
Why does one child succeed in life, and another one 'fail'?
In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough writes that what matters most is character skills.
These are skills such as self confidence, optimism, perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, and self-control.
In other words, emotional intelligence, as taught by good parents, good mentors and good private schools, is what matters.
Both rich children and poor children can lack emotional intelligence.
"Suniya Luthar, a psychologist at Columbia University found significant psychological problems at the high end of the income spectrum... These problems arise most often in those high-income homes where children feel simultaneously a great pressure to achieve and an emotional distance from their parents..."
'How Children Succeed' — Q&A with Paul Tough
Bill Brandt
"Apparently medical reasons explain why children who grow up in abusive or dysfunctional environments generally find it harder to concentrate, sit still and rebound from disappointments.
"The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical for regulating thoughts and mediating behaviour.
School reform: Stay focused | The Economist
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Children who do not have good parents need good mentors and tutors, according to Paul Tough.
"Studies show that early nurturing from parents or caregivers helps combat the biochemical effects of stress.
"Studies show that early nurturing from parents or caregivers helps combat the biochemical effects of stress.
"And educators can push better habits and self control.
"The 'prefrontal cortex is more responsive to intervention than other parts of the brain,' writes Mr Tough.
"It stays malleable well into early adulthood.
"Character can be taught."
School reform: Stay focused | The Economist
The problem is - how does a child from a problem family find a good mentor?
The best mentors are often grandparents.
School reform: Stay focused | The Economist
The problem is - how does a child from a problem family find a good mentor?
The best mentors are often grandparents.
The silver-haired safety net
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