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2014-09-27 18:13:27     CEOs Get Paid Too Much, According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World - Gretchen Gavett - Harvard Business Review

http://blogs.hbr.org/...o-pretty-much-everyone-in-the-world/

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2010-06-15 08:54:07     Economics Essays: Unemployment in the UK

http://econ.economicshelp.org/200.../unemployment-in-uk.html

Brief History of Unemployment in UK
Source: Dept for Work and Transport
After the ravages of the Great Depression era where unem ...
It was in the manufacturing recession of 1981 when unemp ...
... ent was fairly close to full employment at just over 3%.

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2013-08-31 16:56:39     What justifies intervening if Syria uses chemical weapons? - CNN.com

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/27/us/syria-int.../index.html

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2011-09-12 12:34:54     About Full Fact | Full Fact

http://fullfact.org/about

Full Fact is an independent fact-checking organisation. ... to see the facts and context behind the claims made by t... British political debate and press those who make mislea...
We have already successfully pressed for inaccurate clai ...
Since its c

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2013-03-10 12:29:27     Public libraries: 150 years of advance is being destroyed | That's How The Light Gets In

http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/...dvance-is-being-destroyed/

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2010-07-02 13:15:48     BBC News - UK borrowing hits record £163.4bn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8636701.stm

budget deficit
Total government debt now stands at £890bn - equivalent ...
The £163.4bn borrowed is equivalent to 11.6% of GDP.

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2013-10-22 15:22:46     The Nobel Prize in Economics 2013: of the madness and the wisdom of crowds | OECD Insights Blog

http://oecdinsights.org/...madness-and-the-wisdom-of-crowds/

Investors’ behaviour on stock markets has been likened... irrationality described in Charles Mackay’s 1841 class... Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. But there i... positive view of what crowds can achieve. In his 2005 bo...
Fama’s wo

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2016-12-09 17:45:23     Giving poor people cash gets them to spend more on good stuff and less on tobacco and alcohol — Quartz

http://qz.com/...people-buy-when-theyre-just-given-cash/?...

A recently published research paper (paywall) by David E... Bank and Anna Popova of Stanford University shows that g... poor has a negative effect on the consumption of tobacco... and Popova’s research is based on an examination of ni... assess the

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2015-09-03 11:57:17     Ukraine crisis: what went wrong? | Reuniting Europe

http://reuniting-europe.blogactiv.eu/...sis-what-went-wrong/

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2010-12-27 10:35:24     Stephen Gill - Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money - Random things that I found interesting

http://sgill.me/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who

Americans have a really distorted view of how wealth is ...
This chart is from a paper called "Building a Better Ame ...
The top row shows the actual distribution of wealth in A ...
Below that, the "Estimated" rows show how different grou ...
... g of ho

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2011-05-09 20:11:24     UK Retail Price Index since 1960

http://swanlowpark.co.uk/rpiannual.jsp

Retail Price Index Since 1960
Consumer and Retail Price Indices 1996 onwards.
Retail Price Index by month: 1976 - 1995.
January 1987=100. The index is for December. The annual ...

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2011-05-02 11:16:32     Tweet Library - damon / osamaraidlivetweets

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Osama Raid Live Tweets
Published by Damon Clinkscales (@damon) — RSS Feed | Embed
ReallyVirtual
Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare e ...
... May 02, 2011, 4:42 AM

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2012-12-26 08:26:44     The Real Rationale for the 2nd Amendment, That Right-Wingers Are Totally Ignorant About | Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/...ingers-are-totally-ignorant-about

Right-wing resistance to meaningful gun control is drive... false notion that America’s Founders adopted the Secon... they wanted an armed population that could battle the U.... opposite is the truth, but many Americans seem to have e...
The reality

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2015-09-07 15:38:41     BBC News - The untold story of the Maidan massacre

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31359021

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2011-05-21 21:30:59     BBC News - Hard to explain how bad economic crisis is, says Cable

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13480971

Business Secretary Vince Cable says it has been a challe... government to explain to the public how bad a state the ...
He told the Guardian the country was poorer because of t ...
Britain is no longer one of the "price-setters" in world ...
"We have ha

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2017-04-20 08:01:08     Reality Check: Are lower earners bearing the tax burden? - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39641222

The claim: Low and middle earners are bearing the burden...
Reality Check verdict: The government is very reliant on ...

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2011-06-18 14:55:13     BBC News - African jitters over blogs and social media

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13786143

African governments are turning to more sophisticated te... internet sites and bloggers who they perceive to be a th...
That is the conclusion of The Committee for the Protecti ...

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2016-12-27 09:25:00     BBC - Future - The man who studies the spread of ignorance

http://www.bbc.com/...an-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance

Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not wa... know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obs... the health effects of smoking. This search led him to cr...
Agnotology is the study of wilful acts to spread confusi ...
It comes fr

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2011-05-09 20:14:33     The UK's Budget Deficit Explained

http://www.debtbombshell.com/britains-budget-deficit.htm

This graph shows how the UK's budget deficit has fluctua... of the country's economic output (GDP):
UK budget deficit by GDP

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2011-07-25 11:24:17     Anders Behring Breivik: Tunnel vision in an online world | Thomas Hylland Eriksen | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...hring-breivik-norway-extremists

The role of the internet in fragmenting the public spher... subject of some scholarly and journalistic interest, mos... Pariser's excellent The Filter Bubble, which shows how G... and other major actors filter our web searches, updates ... our user pr

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2013-02-09 13:58:56     Welfare fraud is a drop in the ocean compared to tax avoidance | James Ball | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/com.../welfare-fraud-tax-avoidance

The British public believe benefit fraud is a big proble...
The reality is very different. Last year, 0.7% of total ...
Indeed, welfare fraud is smaller than accidental overpay ...
In other words, if we wiped out benefit fraud tomorrow ⠮..
... people

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2011-05-09 20:10:53     Deficit, national debt and government borrowing - how has it changed since 1946? | News | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...debt-government-borrowing-data

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics ... borrowing up to October 2010. The figures go all the way... 1940s. It seems that all the political parties have face... of debt through the years - as if the economic climate h... independent

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2011-05-09 19:34:54     Guernica / Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death

http://www.guernicamag.com/...oam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/

It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a plann... multiply violating elementary norms of international law... have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as... have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no oppos... they claim,

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2014-03-27 08:12:37     Extra Food Banks Aren't Needed Because Restaurants Are Busy, Says Tory Councillor

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/...ll-ascough_n_5034541.html

A local Conservative councillor has said the fact he str... table in restaurants at the weekends proves there is no ...
Crawley councillor Liam Marshall-Ascough made the commen ...

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2013-12-23 23:54:43     Ramesh Patel: Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/...-austerity_b_2007552.html

As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w...
Below are t

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2014-04-14 09:03:21     Ramesh Patel: Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/...-austerity_b_2007552.html

As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w...
Below are t

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2013-02-10 14:39:17     Ramesh Patel: Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/...terity_b_2007552.html?...

As a Conservative I have no pleasure in exposing David C... claims. However, as long as the party continues to talk ... via the blame game, confidence will not be given an oppo... For it is an undeniable and inescapable economic fact: w...
Below are t

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2014-12-31 10:54:14     This City Eliminated Poverty, And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-mincome_n_6392126.html?...

Between 1974 and 1979, residents of a small Manitoba cit... be subjects in a project that ensured basic annual incom...
And for five years, poverty was completely eliminated.
The program was dubbed “Mincome” -- a neologism of ⠮..
The project’s o

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2015-08-18 21:58:20     Police Shootings Are About Class as Well as Race | Rev. Jesse Jackson

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...-as-race_b_7972218.html?...

The system has a class bias as well as a race bias. An i... Alternet's Zaid Jilani revealed that in the first five m... 95 percent of police killings occurred in neighborhoods ... incomes under $100,000. There were no killings in neighb...
Not surpris

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2013-02-09 13:53:44     MPs call for Government to consider ending use of Cloud amid concerns that US authorities can access information - News - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...ess-information-8473693.html

The Government should consider stopping sharing intellig... the US and end the use of Cloud computing due to concern... personal information about British citizens can be spied...
The warning comes during a Whitehall drive for governmen ...
US law allo

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