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(5924) Teacher Who Died From Flu Delayed Medication Over Co-Pay - YouTube
even two-tier systems have profiteering in it see germany, where both patient groups have come to harm, still come to harm and still fleeced.
NHS  Crisis  big  pharma  pharmaceutical  oligopol  oligopoly  lobby  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  Privatisation  dividend 
february 2018 by asterisk2a
(5780) Supermarkets face £billions in compensation for "pay discrimination" - YouTube
pay segregation gender bias // much ethics and moral values. Gesellschaft. nothing which capital knows about. // main question: equal pay for equal work - shopfloor vs warehouse - comparable? // gendered roles eg care health care nursing
gender  pay  gap  equality  gender-based  discrimination  value  Feminism  feminist  sexism  Sexismus  part-time  ethics  morality  Philosophy  Sociology  fairness  Capitalism  Kapital  profit  maximisation  HR  human  resources  policy  transparency  BBC  Gesellschaft  Zivilgesellschaft  UK  Economics  history 
february 2018 by asterisk2a
(5672) Richard Wolff On The Root Of Consumerism - YouTube
ersatzreligion
Consumerism  materialism  Status  Anxiety  Identity  Corporatism  neoliberalism  Religion  neoliberal  capitalism  Sociology  Psychology  self-medication  addiction  dopamine  Socialism  fiat  Currency  money  value  exchange  Philosophy 
february 2018 by asterisk2a
I’m not surprised by Carillion’s failure – companies like this shouldn’t exist | Simon Jenkins | Opinion | The Guardian
The company was too big and too reliant on state contracts to be a true private entity. Government and Whitehall share the blame for its collapse
Carillion  Privatisation  pension  bailout  banks  Scheme  outsourcing  NHS  Prison  Police  MoD  UK  failure  Tories  Austerity  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  dividend  CEO  pay  governance  accountability  Council  sub-contractor  TBTF  systemic  tax  evasion  avoidance  neoliberalism  neoliberal 
january 2018 by asterisk2a
(4966) Decentralizing Everything with Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin | Disrupt SF 2017 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RplnSVTzvnU - How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
Ethereum  Bitcoin  Blockchain  trust  value  trustagent  fiat  money  Institution 
december 2017 by asterisk2a
(3910) Noam Chomsky (2017) "The History of Neo-Liberalism" [NEW] - YouTube
naomi klein shock doctrine // 'free markets engine of growth' see mays defense of capitalism.
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october 2017 by asterisk2a
Monarch: MP urges change in law to protect pension schemes | Business | The Guardian
yet another case of not paying into the pension pot! its systemic! reports every now and then come up that billions underfunded pension schemes
pension  retirement  bailout  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  fiduciary  responsibility  accountability  Capitalism  tax  evasion  avoidance  neoliberalism  Regulation  self-regulation  regulators  oversight  lobby  revolving  door  babyboomers 
october 2017 by asterisk2a
(100) Das System Netto - Überstunden und Geld vom Staat - YouTube
"Sozialdumping." 'militaristisches Wirtschaftsunternehmen.' // &! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE-Gr-3vnOY - Minijob - akkord arbeit - Lohndumping - Profit Maximisation = Personalkosten - //&! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my2Cy1H7uhs - Mindestlohn trickserei //&! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jAg9qL-m8A - Merkels Arbeitssklaven - Harte Arbeit, mieser Lohn
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september 2017 by asterisk2a
Give teachers in poorer schools subsidised housing – MPs | Education | The Guardian
“Despite all the changes in education policy over the years – under governments of all persuasions – inequality in our school system has sadly remained a constant,” Clegg said before the report’s launch. “It is simply unacceptable that poorer children are generally taught by less experienced teachers and that their life chances are shaped by the postcode in which they live. - https://twitter.com/minoritybeef/status/885660654534787072
esteem  education  policy  NHS  teaching  value  public  UK  Brexit  society  Ofsted  PISA  Enlightenment  Humboldt  postcode  lottery  social  income  mobility  Deprivation  poverty  trap  Precariat  class  war  Austerity  neoliberal  neoliberalism  Privatisation  Free  Schools  Academy  University  tutoring 
july 2017 by asterisk2a
Theresa May suggests UK health services could be part of US trade deal | The Independent
increasing and lengthening waiting times and rationing provisions. pushing, subliminally, those who can afford it, onto private providers and insurance. .//&! https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/08/us-firms-look-to-capitalise-as-nhs-becomes-increasingly-privatised
NHS  Privatisation  rationing  waiting  times  trade  deal  Austerity  STP  GP  A&E  CCG  Trust  CQC  bedblocking  Council  adult  elderly  social  care  mental  health  bed  blocking  insurance  Brexit  outsourcing  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  PFI 
july 2017 by asterisk2a
Homebuyers desperate to know who really owns their freehold | Money | The Guardian
[ wild wild west ] A pass-the-parcel nightmare sees freeholds sold by major housebuilders to obscure companies which demand huge sums [... eg ] a fee charged without any material services provided [...] All the leaseholders who contacted Guardian Money are united in their frustration at finding out who is really behind the money extracted from them once their freehold is sold on.
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july 2017 by asterisk2a
Private surgery 'needs better patient safety regulation' - BBC News
In an open letter, surgical leaders said they had concerns about the availability of patient safety information in private hospitals. And they called for a stronger focus on patient safety initiatives, to match those in the NHS.
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) urged the next government to consider ensuring private hospitals had to report unexpected deaths and serious injuries in the same way as hospitals in the NHS. And it repeated its call for better regulation of cosmetic surgery which is mostly carried out in private clinics.
NHS  Privatisation  Cosmetic  Surgery  Austerity  rationing  CQC  Superbug  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  Capitalism  STP 
may 2017 by asterisk2a
1,160 Bridgend Ford job cuts projected in leaked report - BBC News
Overtime
The American car giant currently manufactures 655,000 engines in Bridgend but the contracts for these are coming to an end and there is only guaranteed work for 125,000 in future.
The leaked document said the plant is underperforming in comparison to similar sites, including at Dagenham in Essex.
Overtime levels at Bridgend are more than double Dagenham's rates, which adds 6% to the cost of the engines produced.
It attributes this to absence, non-performance and work practices including paying staff allowances they are not entitled to and regular job rotation.
The document adds that finding future work for Bridgend will be subject to improvements in performance.
Brexit  Productivity  Culture  UK  globalisation  globalization  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  Ford  automotive  industry  Manufacturing  Competition  competitiveness  competitive 
march 2017 by asterisk2a
Harald Lesch Die Ursache allen Übels Das Geldsystem unbedingt anschauen - YouTube
kein downward trend! Wissenschaftlich wissen wir was passiert und was sache ist, aber Gier und Elite macht nichts. Renewables ist mindestmass, Landwirtschaft die grosse aufgabe!
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february 2017 by asterisk2a
AstraZeneca to move some UK jobs to Poland, Costa Rica and Malaysia | Business | The Guardian
where staff costs will be lower.
profit  maximisation  capitalism  shareholder  value  Wall  Street  globalisation  globalization  outsourcing 
december 2016 by asterisk2a
BREAKING First Interview: Bernie Sanders On Donald Trump Winning the Election - Nov 10th 2016 - YouTube
minimum wage, gender wage gap, infrastructure, trade deals, ... tax evasion & avoidance! - will he tackle it? // don't take anger out on minorities and poor (help by language of government, ie deserving poor and undeserving poor) - what the tories did successfully.
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november 2016 by asterisk2a
Families to be given £20k payouts for fracking - The Scotsman
[ limiting the payout to those affected! LOL! Capitalism at its purest. Is a mock-compromise. national resource. not a corporate resource. see also people in USA who sold off their land for just a one-off price. ] A £1 billion shale wealth fund is already setting aside up to 10 per cent of the tax proceeds from fracking and Mrs May said this can go straight to residents in communities affected across the UK. [...] The new fund is expected to deliver as much as £10 million to each community where wells are situated. Downing Street declined to estimate how much payouts could be worth, but it is thought individual households could receive between £5,000 and £20,000.
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august 2016 by asterisk2a
Marissa Mayer's payday: 4 years, $219M | Hacker News
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/25/technology/marissa-mayer-pay/index.html - see comments, yahoo board had to up the compensation to lure marissa, because of her Google share options. //&! fromt he interview ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEEug_1XEcc ) "trying to stem a decline"
CEO  pay  shareholder  value  shareholder  capitalism  Marissa  Mayer  Yahoo  Yahoo!  Y! 
july 2016 by asterisk2a
ARM chip designer to be bought by Japan's Softbank
ARM-Who? bbc.in/29OUgUM //&! 43% premium // on.recode.net/29On8LK - One key question is whether other firms will let SoftBank purchase ARM or if there will be a bidding war. Apple, arguably ARM’s most important client, and Intel, which lost the mobile chip war to ARM, are both potential buyers. The offer is already a generous multiple. As the FT notes, it’s some 70 times ARM’s net income last year. That’s around the same price-to-earnings ratio as Facebook stock. //&! politicians grasping for a positive headline - bit.ly/29OyjUD - bit.ly/2an8nk6 &! bit.ly/29PpN7N &! bit.ly/29ODbdM << calling a takeover/M&A an investment is criminal. Softbank will extract value out of it for its shareholders. What else?! &! Labeling Softbank as a japanese company; bbc.in/29OhqdK &! Vince Cable worried - bbc.in/2a3c95T &! youtu.be/T4IZdNW-e5U :: M&A is not investment, stupid! misleading people.
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july 2016 by asterisk2a
Businesses must alter 'toxic' attitude to executive pay, PwC says | Business | The Guardian
Companies have failed to address a “toxic” attitude towards executive pay and face a government crackdown if they do not act to curb boardroom excess, according to a report by consultancy group PricewaterhouseCoopers.

In polling carried out by PwC last month, two-thirds of Britons said they believed executive pay was too high, and nearly three-quarters said it made them angry if a chief executive was paid a lot while their company was doing badly.
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july 2016 by asterisk2a
The Incredible Shrinking Middle Class - YouTube
Canada: Generation Jobless - https://youtu.be/4UUuMWqA8eE - "The Plight of Younger Workers" (Report).& underemployed graduates w fancy sounding degrees. [...] EDUCATION INFLATION! [...] an education does no more guarantee a comfortable middle class jobs, and parents are disappointed. [...] globalisation of workforce plus automation, robotics, AI, augmented intelligence. the new GM's and Toyota's and DuPonts need less and less workers to catch ever greater pies of the current and future economy. [...] rise of the project focused self-employed and the Gig Economy. //&! (USA) Invisible Reality; The Working Poor - youtu.be/806PSngTKgg //&! FULL STORY: Generation Poor - youtu.be/lB4w8MQPdEE //&! FULL STORY: The Labour Trap - youtu.be/cHBo3LgXUPA - precarious work is now more and more the norm. as well as exploitation of those conditions.
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june 2016 by asterisk2a
Stocks are up. But it appears to us that the U.S. economy is going down. Go figure.
velocity is at 57yr low - WOW! the money that is in circulation is in less hands! the econ expanded according to GDP, but less and less $ reach on avg each hand. - "This is serious. The velocity of money tracks how often each dollar is used to buy something in the economy. Falling velocity shows that consumers and business are pulling back… becoming more reluctant to spend and invest… downsizing… and holding onto dollars rather than spending them. This has a similar effect as reducing the supply of money bidding for goods and services. Prices drop. Deflation, in other words. The bubble has developed a leak. The hot air is gushing out." //&! bit.ly/1MOxc9A //&! research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2V &! pieria.co.uk/articles/getting_things_wrong_federal_reserve_style - it is associated with stagnant NGDP [...] demand problem.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
The Growth Trap
[ growing for growth sake! vs growing in a world/area that is not conducive to grow ] When Twitter went public in 2013, its stock soared and its value jumped to $25 billion. Its founders and early investors got rich. But since then, the company has been considered a failure, despite the fact that it boasts 320 million active users, because it's not growing fast enough. Douglas Rushkoff, author of "Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity," talks to Steve Paikin about why he sees the push for more growth as dangerous. // true capitalists (shareholder, crony, greedy) w/o self-regulation or governance extract all the value there is to extract and then leave, dispersing it to the few who already have [...] WE MUST REWRITE THE RULES OF THE GROWTH GAME ITSELF! [...] you want to optimise the economy based on velocity of money (circulation of money), not share price and value extraction [...]
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Martin Lewis conforonts Osborne over his living wage con
companies cut back on perks, lunch breaks, and paid overtime arrangements. or change work arrangement; change to being self-employed contractor. //&! As predicted Osborne's national living wage is a con - youtu.be/MQfEWTN5hR4 - cut of overtime and weekend pay bonus. - ALSO THERE COMES AGE DISCRIMINATION. BECAUSE starts not for students!/<25years old! //&! bbc.co.uk/news/business-36082247 - Osborne warns firms not to cut perks on back of National Living Wage
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Revolutionary politics in the UK
// yanis is liberal marxist // &! Will John McDonnell's fiscal rules work for Labour? Paul Mason Vs John Rentoul - youtu.be/0EISho5eSUc - OBR econometrics dictated by Treasury, George Osborne w wonky multipliers that don't fit w IMF models. IMF calls for fiscal stimulus! since late 2015 because China's credit bubble popped and global economy started to head south.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
UK licences £2.8bn of arms sales to Saudis since kingdom entered Yemen war
theguardian.com/world/arms-trade //&! Civil servants in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills are giving British companies the all-clear to press ahead with contracts even though they are likely to lead to human rights abuses, the foreign affairs select committee will be told on Tuesday. - bit.ly/1RiI3Xk
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Fixation on box office hits is killing British theatre, says David Hare
Playwright says the craft is being damaged by focus on selling seats [ // Theatre now following into the steps of Hollywood and Television. ] [...] The playwright said: “Because subsidy is so stretched … every director of a theatre has an emollient eye on the box office. It is now assumed that what is good is that which succeeds.

“When I was young, British theatre was like a tree in which many different birds could nest. But now it’s just for the hawks. It’s not for the birds of plumage, who are not so welcome any more, mainly because they don’t fill the commercial imperative of selling every seat. That, I’m afraid, is how artistic directors are judged.” [ you are good if you are a commercial success, ie Michael Bay ]
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Capitalism and Mental Health: How the Market Makes Us Sick
POVERTY TRAP! // we were never as miserable as a nation as ever before.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Superbugs are on track to kill 10 million people by 2050 if things don’t change—fast
[under reported ] Today, 23,000 Americans die each year from infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Across the world, the estimated annual mortality rate is 700,000. If these trends continue, by 2050, 10 million people globally will die each year, as the potent diseases of previous centuries return to their old force, according to the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance. In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported an estimated 450,000 new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. The emergence of multiple drug-resistant pneumonia and E. coli bacteria strains are predicted to contribute significantly to increased mortalities due to their ability to spread rapidly through populations.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
What Happens Next (In Europe)?
the odds of another crisis are higher than a rally to fresh records. [...]
“The 2009-2015 rally originated from two main drivers: a massive stimulus, and credit expansion in China,” said Goette, who’s a partner at his firm in Zug, Switzerland and helps oversee 1 billion Swiss francs ($1 billion).

“European earnings have not followed suit so far. Skepticism regarding central-bank operations has started to emerge.”
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010)
Director: Alex Gibney / Writer: Alex Gibney //&! https://youtu.be/zY5UuWkVq8g //&! all the bad fish got away! only the shark got caught // party and campaign financiers; wall street: fossil fuel followed by the emergence of silicon valley firms. // congress does not serve american people. average citizen does not have a voice. ... congress need of money exploited, fighting each other with more and more money! getting a leg up on your opponent. who they get the money to be elected or re-elected? those who have already money! [...] public finance would end it!
USA  corruption  Greed  bribery  revolving  door  PAC  Super  PAC  presidential  election  2016  shareholder  capitalism  profit  maximisation  profit  maximization  exploitation  Washington  Lobbying  lobby  lobbyist  Career  Politicians  Jack  Abramoff  campaign  donation  campaign  finance  Party  Funding  constituency  trust  Wall  Street  shareholder  value  global  warming  environmental  damage  self-regulation  regulation  regulators  ecological  damage  GFC  Enron  Worldcom  bank  bailout  TBTF  too  big  to  fail  too  big  to  bail  too  big  to  jail  conglomerate  multinational  tax  evasion  tax  amnesty  tax  avoidance  money  laundering  influence  peddling  Special  Interest  Group  groups  vested  Fossil  fuel  industry  Silicon  Valley  subprime  No  Representation  post-racial  America  American  Dream  plutocracy  oligarchy  Super  Rich  1%  democracy  meritocracy  meritocratic  Gini  coefficient 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Slavoj Zizek | How To Rebel | Full Film
demands are said to be totally impossible. but we are told it will be possible to upload our memory into a computer. build new hearts from a single cell in a printer. // UAE/Dubai/Qatar 2020; migrant labours taken their passports etc.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff
yanis is a self-proclaimed liberal marxist. //
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Investors urge fast food and pub chains to act to reduce farm antibiotics
A group of powerful City investors who together control more than $1tn in assets have written to leading fast food, pub and restaurant chains urging them to take immediate action to reduce antibiotic use in their meat and poultry supply chains. [...] UK human campylobacter infections have become more resistant to antibiotic treatment. Percentage of human campylobacter cases tested that showed some degree of resistance to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin - approaches 50%!!! [...] Of the 17,332 human campylobacter cases tested in 2015 for resistance to ciprofloxacin, 48% had some degree of resistance to the drug. In 2005, this figure was 30%.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRET | DailyVee 029
3:40 - youtube.com/watch?v=in28p1aycts - "attention is the asset" // >> see mariemeimberg [ YouTube - Daily Vlogs sind asozial # DAILY VLOG FEEDBACK No2 # Youtube-Formate-Test ] Daily vlogging ist asozial! & even Casey Neistat's feel repetitive if they are not a ONE OFF CREATION via added value, life insight, lessons learned, personal note, very individual only could do ... creating and adding value for the viewer to their life's. No Time Waster's "Can I have my 10 minutes back, please?" //&! min 5:30 - YouTube land Germany is responding to what Germany YouTube wants; see BeHaind's YouTube Deutschland eine BeSCHANDSaufnahme. ... you have to do what your customers want and do ... youtu.be/VoXwDn8VlSQ - or be yourself the creative and do what you want and fewer want and do and not get the 1 million subs. and still make ~100k a year but not the million. + Patience! ... we live in world of instant gratification, tricking you. [...] how u make ur money is more important than how much!
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Daily Vlogs sind asozial # DAILY VLOG FEEDBACK No2 # Youtube-Formate-Test
Vlogging ist asozial. #Selbstdarstellung. Selfish. Always in selfie mode - not seeing the world. always seeing through camera display. Daily creations that are ONE OFF creative and value-adding are hard. Even the great Casey Neistat is struggeling. And views see that. Material gets flimsy. THUS - WEEKLY! creative austoben. //
PLAYLIST! - youtu.be/EaLK8jfIS_s?list=PLDEnF8zo_hX4w553blOzrgFjGA_gWzg1q // 6# - youtu.be/EaLK8jfIS_s - YouTube ist mittlerweile eine Branche mit Mainstream wie TV. Egal was ihr schaut, ihr clickts. [...] youtube pacing/cutting [...] langeweile [ << attention span ] //&! #8 ist META! What is a vlog? Is a DM haul vlog too as is 'get ready w me'!? //&! #11 vlogs feel repetitive without added value/value creation/individualism/personal note/A ONE OFF CREATION! even casey neistats! even she notices it! //&! see #12 #13 #14 follow-up. ONE OFF STORYTELLING (visual,audio,cut,storyline,topic ...) CREATION! no time waster, "give me my 10min back, pls case!"
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
GDP: a brief but affectionate history
resource  depletion  COP21  GDP  GNP  income  tax  receipts  profit  maximisation  profit  maximization  squeezed  middle  class  working  poor  Precariat  productivity  output  gap  GDP  measurement  well  being  economic  history  finite  resources  pollution  shareholder  capitalism  shareholder  value  stakeholder  shareholder  macroeconomic  policy  book  mass  extinction  digital  economy  shadow  economy  tax  evasion  tax  avoidance  money  laundering  ecological  damage  environmental  damage  Generationengerechtigkeit  sustainability  statistical  analysis  statistics  self-employment  Big  Data 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Tyler Cowen: "The Great Stagnation", Michael Vassar & Cowen Debate at Singularity Summit 2011
gains are harder to come by! low hanging fruit gone. [...] VISION IS NEEDED TO GET THE JOB DONE.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Youtube - Eine BeSCHANDsaufnahme | Behaind
Mehr zur BeSCHANDsaufnahme - Feedback - youtu.be/HHJqf-Gbj68 //&! Youtube Kritik mit Flo und David # MARIES STAMMTISCH - youtu.be/X5zHR76BYog //&! Reach (width) vs Depth (Gary V, clickthrough, word of mouth, adding always value, not wasting your time, ) [...] vlogs and let's play mit keiner eigenen kreativen eigenleistung.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Piketty: EU should welcome one million immigrants a year
"The European Union has the capacity to absorb a large flow of migrants, one million per year in terms of inflow net of outflow," he said.
"This is exactly what we had between 2000 and 2010 and this was working in the sense that unemployment was being reduced.
"The problem is - with the austerity policies and with the recession - now we are in a situation where it's very difficult in particular with southern Europe, with the terrible economic situation that we have created there in particular." [...] The population of the EU has only risen by 0.2% a year since 1995, he argues, compared to 1.2% for the world's population over the same period.
According to Eurostat, the official statistical arm of the European Commission, a total of 3.4 million people came to the EU during 2013. Some 2.8 million left, leaving a net immigration figure of around 600,000. [S]low growth [...] exacerbated not just by a lack of immigration but also by austerity policies aimed at reducing public expenditure. [EU in recession 2011 forward]
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Pfizer's merger collapse prompts speculation it will seek new takeover
$160bn tie-up with Allergan, which would have been world’s biggest pharmaceutical deal, scuppered by US tax crackdown [...] first announced in November and now abandoned after the US Treasury Department stunned financial markets with measures to clamp down on tax efficient mergers and takeovers. [...] The merger plan had been motivated by the ability to save as much as $1bn in tax annually by shifting Pfizer’s domicile from New York to Ireland, after Allergan moved its base there a year ago in a similar move. Allergan moved its head office to Dublin after a reverse merger with the Irish drugmaker Actavis. [...] [ from the inside of Allergan ...] “It really looked like they [the US government] did a very fine job at constructing a temporary rule to stop this deal and obviously it was successful,”
tax  evasion  tax  avoidance  M&A  accounting  scandal  shareholder  capitalism  big  pharma  pharma  pharmaceutical  industry  Wall  Street  shareholder  value  profit  maximisation  profit  maximization 
april 2016 by asterisk2a
Why Everyone Must Get Ready For The 4th Industrial Revolution
For example, as automation increases, computers and machines will replace workers across a vast spectrum of industries, from drivers to accountants and estate agents to insurance agents. By one estimate, as many as 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk from automation. Many experts suggest that the fourth industrial revolution will benefit the rich much more than the poor, especially as low-skill, low-wage jobs disappear in favor of automation.

But this isn’t new. Historically, industrial revolutions have always begun with greater inequality followed by periods of political and institutional change. The industrial revolution that began at the beginning of the 19th century originally led to a huge polarization of wealth and power, before being followed by nearly 100 years of change including the spread of democracy, trade unions, progressive taxation and the development of social safety nets.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Noam Chomsky, BBC Newsnight: poorest 70% have zero impact on policy in West's 'democracy'
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Panama Papers (BBC)
links to 72 current or former heads of state [...] dictators looting their own countries [...] helped clients launder money, dodge sanctions & evade tax. [...] never been accused or charged with criminal wrong-doing [...] company is a corporate screen established principally to protect the identity and confidentiality of the ultimate beneficial owner of the company. [...] + Icelandic Prime Minister //&! bbc.in/232EEVN &! How To Insight - bbc.in/1M8Xi6N &! The Guardian - bit.ly/232F3Hz &! Reddit - redd.it/4d8rta &! panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de & live ticker tuesday - bbc.in/23cAl6M &! bbc.in/1TyCuXT - Panama is British Territory as is Cayman Islands et al. //&! Change the rules and close the loopholes! Duh. No need to ask others to stop doing business or change their rules!
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Waiters And Bartenders Rise To Record, As Manufacturing Workers Drop Most Since 2009
On the surface, the March jobs reported was better than expected... except for manufacturing workers. As shown in the chart below, in the past month, a disturbing 29,000 manufacturing jobs were lost. This was the single biggest monthly drop in the series going back to December 2009. But not all is lost: as has been the case for virtually every month during the "recovery", virtually every laid off manufacturing worker could find a job as a waiter: in March, the workers in the "Food services and drinking places" category, aka waiters, bartenders and minimum wage line cooks, rose again to a new record high of 11,307,000 workers, an increase of 25K in the month, offsetting virtually all lost manufacturing jobs. This is how the two job series have looked since the start of 2015: 24k manufacturing jobs have been lost in the past 14 months compared to an increas of 365K food service workers.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Sustainability or Prosperity? Why Not Both? | PolicyCast
describes the rapidly growing field of sustainability science, which combines a variety of disciplines in both the hard and social sciences to find paths towards a sustainable future. //&! Book Pursuing Sustainability: A Guide to the Science and Practice – (2016) by Pamela Matson, William C. Clark, Krister Andersson. //&! http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/publications/insight/international/william-clark &! https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=LkLCmQwAAAAJ&hl=en &! http://earthsky.org/human-world/william-c-clark-defines-sustainable-development &! Jeffrey Sachs - Global Cooperation and Sustainable Development - youtu.be/cRWtRh3yLI0 &! "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet." - youtu.be/n3kzzVP2c7w &! Jeffrey Sachs: "The Price of Civilization" - youtu.be/_G6SYmQ0swg - profoundly underestimated globalization's long-term effects: jobs, incomes, poverty, and the environment.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Greenpeace reveals Indonesia's forests at risk as multiple companies claim rights to same land​
Collusion between private sector and government exacerbating problems, says corruption official. Indonesia’s palm oil, mining and logging industries are enmeshed in a cat’s cradle of overlapping land claims and corruption that are hampering attempts to stop deforestation and fires, newly released maps reveal. [...] many officials exchange land rights to raise money for election campaigns or to curry influence with powerful business owners, and bribes for concessions are commonplace. &! Indonesia 'may blacklist Leonardo DiCaprio over palm oil comments' - bbc.in/237AOqT
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Public Investment Payoff Not Necessarily About Efficiency
electrification of public rail - reduce emissions and improve public health (health hazard of diesel train engines proven - for passengers and residents). also improve public health - people ditching their cars! // 8:40 each additional public capital investment might be less valuable after the first road to the sea port. but that does not factor in types and public health and safety. road vs train. diesel train vs electric train. slow train vs faster electric magnetic safe low maintenance train w auto pilot (augmented intelligence). less public health risks, less health hazard, more public safety = less economic damage through a less sicker population (health care cost, health care demand, less work hours lost, higher productivity - healthy, happy people) but micro and macro economists do not put this into their GDP - well being, happiness, public health. // beijings hazardous hair will prove to be hughe economic cost (public health) down the road (chronic pulmonary conditions and cancer = lower productivity, lower discretionary spending because of spending goes to medicine and medical care and down the road leads to old age poverty for some if not the family).
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
Gefahr durch Fracking: Das Dreckwasser von Wyoming
Das umstrittene Fracking kann das Trinkwasser belasten. Ein beharrlicher US-Forscher hat das jetzt für ein Dorf exemplarisch nachgewiesen - gegen viele Widerstände. [...] Fallstudie zu Pavillion. Sie legt nahe, dass das Grundwasser dort tatsächlich mit Fracking-Schadstoffen belastet ist. Und dass diese im Boden nach oben wandern. In Tiefen, die auch von Trinkwasserbrunnen erreicht werden. [...] Was den Forscher zusätzlich empört, ist einfach erklärt: Die US-Gesetzgebung erlaubt es, dass zur Öl- und Gasförderung Chemikalien notfalls auch in Grundwasserreservoire eingeleitet werden. "Ich kenne keine westliche Demokratie, wo so etwas möglich ist", klagt DiGiulio. Man könne doch nicht ernsthaft annehmen, das so etwas ohne Folgen für das Trinkwasser bleibe.
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april 2016 by asterisk2a
EU - discuss the banning of glyphosate
glyphosat  glyphosate  carcinogen  carcinogenic  WHO  European  Union  Consumer  Protection  public  health  public  health  risk  public  health  policy  economic  damage  shareholder  capitalism  Germany  Wall  Street  shareholder  value  profit  maximisation  Lobbying  lobby  lobbyist  herbicide  pesticide  fungicide  colony  collapse  disorder  Neonicotinoids  neonicotinoid  livestock  farming  livestock  industry  industrial  agriculture  Meat  Production  unknown  unkown  unintended  consequences  sustainability  sustainable 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
The Hierarchy of Engagement
>> habit forming. to know there will be a new video every day!
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
Government planning to repeal animal welfare codes
Poultry industry to oversee chicken-farming standards as ministers move to create industry-led deregulation. Conservative ministers are planning to repeal an array of official guidance on animal welfare standards, starting with a move to put the code on chicken-farming into the hands of the poultry industry.

Liz Truss, the environment secretary, is overseeing moves to scrap the statutory codes on farm animal welfare and move to an “industry-led” guidance as part of her department’s deregulatory agenda. [ so industry funds its own regulatory body, lol! ] [...] Other sectors that could get control of their own guidance include the cattle, sheep and pig farming industries. //&! Poultry deregulation plans risk bringing back dark days of food scares. History shows problems start when food companies police themselves: think salmonella, BSE, foot and mouth, swine flu - bit.ly/1UON3ai - Privatisation move! Austerity. Self-regulation.
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
"Moralisch verwerflich": Öldynastie Rockefeller trennt sich von Exxon
shareholder  capitalism  crony  capitalism  Wall  Street  profit  margin  Fossil  fuel  industry  fuel  Petroleum  Oil  price  profit  maximisation  profit  maximization  shareholder  value 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
Hey Britain – Your Kids Have Just Been Privatised
"Thatcher said the problem with socialism is that you run out of other people money. Henry VIII will tell you the problem with crony capitalism is you eventually run out of other people’s assets to sell." [...] In George Osborne’s mercurial March 2016 budget he showed his own Machiavellian sleight of hand. He is now seen as a politician whose leadership ambitions come before the welfare of the British people. Osborne’s allegiance is to The City not the country. When he and Peter Mandelson holidayed on financier Nat Rothschild’s yacht do you think they talked about free school meals and increasing the economic opportunities of the people in Grimsby? [...] Look at his actions and we see that one of Osborne’s aims is to reinstate the class divisions that began to ebb away with socially progressive policies. This last budget sought to weave a line into the fabric of society between the haves and have-nots. [...] We are at the end of the debt cycle and there’s nowhere else to go. [...] This is not the budget for the next generation of young people. This is the budget for the next generation of rent-seekers, moneymen and crony capitalists.
education  policy  Privatisation  UK  budget2016  Michael  Gove  Nicky  Morgan  George  Osborne  David  Cameron  PISA  Iain  Duncan  Smith  DWP  Gini  coefficient  deprivation  poverty  trap  austerity  Council  income  tax  receipts  secular  stagnation  child  poverty  food  poverty  social  mobility  income  mobility  PR  Positioning  spin  doctor  neoliberal  neoliberalism  trickle-down  economics  dogma  ideology  underinvestment  Richard  Koo  property  bubble  Tony  Blair  constituency  babyboomers  pension  obligation  triple-lock  pension  Generationengerechtigkeit  infrastructure  investment  competitiveness  fairness  rentier  rent-seeking  Ofsted  crony  capitalism  shareholder  capitalism  shareholder  value  profit  maximisation  Wall  Street  profit  maximization 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
The Privatising Industry in Europe
Do you wonder why the 'Troika' persists in its privatisation agenda despite the evidence of its failures and the growing economic and social costs?
The report “The Privatising Industry in Europe”, written by Sol Trumbo Vila and Matthijs Peters for the Transnational Institute, TNI, suggests two possible motives and shows who the ‪#‎BigWinners‬ of those privatisations are. - https://www.tni.org/en/publication/the-privatising-industry-in-europe - The rationale put forward by advocates of privatisation does not stand up to the evidence. Privatisation has failed to provide promised revenue as only profitable firms are being sold and consistently at undervalued prices. Meanwhile the latest research by the IMF and by European universities show that there is no evidence that the privatised firms are more efficient than state-owned firms. [...] Privatisation in Europe has encouraged a growth in corruption,
Privatisation  austerity  Troika  neoliberal  neoliberalism  trickle-down  economics  oligarchy  plutocracy  1%  Super  Rich  shareholder  capitalism  shareholder  value  profit  maximisation  profit  maximization  Wall  Street  Main  Street  budget  deficit  Richard  Koo  exploitation  revolving  door  Career  Politicians  Wolfgang  Schäuble  Angela  Merkel  Yanis  Varoufakis  IMF  World  Bank  economic  history  dogma  ideology  Royal  Mail  white-collar  crime  white-collar  fraud  corruption  bribery  nepotism  Schwarze  Kassen  Schwarzkasse  Chicago  School  free  market  self-regulation 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
BBC Two - Britain's Secret Slavery Business
[forced labour, thus slavery. modern slavery act 2015; kept as a commodity, exploited, invisible handcuffs (documents taken away, or a threat to family)] [food industry & high steet is using it knowingly, does not monitor regularly unannounced it's suppliers for audits. slavery act 2015 can go only so long. industry can not self-regulate it seem.] Slavery and exploitation are alive and well in the UK. From factories and fields to high streets and high seas, investigative reporter Darragh MacIntyre reveals the extent to which exploited workers are embedded within our economy.
In this hard-hitting documentary, MacIntyre uncovers a hidden world of vulnerable victims - not only those trafficked to the UK from abroad, but also a British citizen forced to work unpaid for years. Joining police raids on suspected traffickers, MacIntyre witnesses first hand the authorities' efforts to combat this growing problem. He discovers, alarmingly, that 80% of slavery crimes may be going undetected
Zero  Hour  Contract  human  trafficking  UK  High  Street  minimum  wage  self-regulation  exploitation  shareholder  capitalism  crony  capitalism  shareholder  value  profit  maximisation  slave  labour  shadow  economy  Germany  East  Europe  EEA  Meat  Industry  economic  refugee  supply  chain 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
Robert Reich on recent development - Tax Amnesty
[ shareholder capitalism ] 2.1trn $$$ parked in offshore banking for USA alone. ... USA x times bigger. ... UK estimate of up to 20bn a year of tax evasion and avoidance. // special deal of 10% tax on repatriation of offshore funds. // this is extortion // no Principles. you either pay your taxes or you are not allowed to do business in this country. // and it is not only cash it is also property and other assets ... companies will undervalue/price their value. not to market rate. see india's tax amnesty and that loophole people and companies exploited - bit.ly/1LjzHjk // >> tax is the price you pay for civilised and modern, western society! << //
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
Nationalstaat vs. Nationalismus - Oskar Lafontaine 01.03.2016 - Bananenrepublik - YouTube
wir muessen die wirtschaftsordnung aendern. ... Greed leads to War. //&! (TAKEN FOR GRANTED LIKE RELIGION - PRODUCTIVITY AND GROWTH! - Volker Pispers Kapitalismus Erklärung | Aktuellste HD Aufzeichnung 2016 - youtu.be/u07XONlDwX8 //&! Georg Schramm: Wir leben in einem großen Krieg! | 3sat 14.02.2016 - youtu.be/YcrkJrxwKiQ
Nationalism  democracy  Brussels  Lohndumping  Sozialstaat  Soziale  Marktwirtschaft  neoliberalism  neoliberal  free  market  borderless  social  democracy  Minijob  Zeitarbeit  crony  capitalism  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  No  Representation  European  Union  Super  Rich  1%  plutocracy  oligarchy  Leiharbeit  GFC  trickle-down  economics  Greed  economic  history  history  Gini  coefficient  Productivity 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
Dropbox Picks up Enterprise Sales Vets — The Information
Dropbox has quietly hired two enterprise sales veterans, part of a broader push to gain big corporations as customers.
DropBox  Box  Microsoft  Amazon  Cloud  Drive  Google  Inc  Google  Drive  Google  Docs  Enterprise  added  value  Enterprise  2.0  PAAS  IAAS  SAAS  Software  Is  Eating  The  World 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
Exercise 'not key to obesity fight', say scientists - BBC News
[ Food Politics of "a balanced diet and everything in moderation ] Exercise does little to tackle obesity, according to a group of doctors and sports scientists. Writing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, three international experts say it is time to ''bust the myth'' that people can eat what they want as long as they are active. They accuse the food industry of misleading the public, and sabotaging public health campaigns. //&! Britons in denial about obesity, new research finds - bbc.in/1RPPqpJ - New research suggests that despite high levels of obesity, four out of five of people in the UK consider themselves to be healthy. Figures from the World Health Organisation suggest nearly two thirds of people in the UK are in fact overweight. //&! One in three children in Blackpool are overweight or obese by the age of 11, according to a new report. - bbc.in/1UavoZ9
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
Kommunalwahl in Hessen: Nichtwähler machen AfD stark - SPIEGEL ONLINE
[ symptom ] // Die Rechten sind auf dem Vormarsch. Ihr Erfolg ist auch eine Antwort der Gesellschaft auf eine Krankheit des Kapitalismus, die von den etablierten Parteien ignoriert wird. Und die hat mit den Flüchtlingen nichts zu tun. - bit.ly/1QBo7Ad //&! Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs" - youtu.be/CKCvf8E7V1g - nobody can afford to buy new stuff. circle of life. customers and businesses. consumer needs to have disposable income //&! Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming - youtu.be/q2gO4DKVpa8
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march 2016 by asterisk2a
EDF finance chief quits ahead of Hinkley Point decision - BBC News
[ 18bn, world most expensive, and internal board power & power politics, get him off, and you are able to go ahead // guaranteed strike price ] Thomas Piquemal stepped down because he feared the project could jeopardise EDF's financial position, according to reports. EDF shares opened 8.2% lower on Monday. Last month, Chris Bakken, the director of the project that could produce 7% of UK electricity by 2025, said he was leaving to pursue other opportunities. Jean-Bernard Levy, chairman and chief executive of EDF, said Mr Piquemal told him of the decision to leave last week and that he regretted the "haste" of Mr Piquemal's departure. The company's board is expected to finalise in April how it will fund the project after postponing the decision a number of times. Mr Levy said the board was studying the investment in Hinkley Point to ascertain the best way to finance the power plant. He added that EDF aimed to announce a final investment decision "soon".
Hinkley  Point  C  Wall  Street  shareholder  value  profit  maximisation  George  Osborne  Amber  Rudd  David  Cameron  nuclear  power  nuclear  waste  energy  price  energy  policy  renewable  energy  carbon  tax  UK 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
Brasilien: Nach Giftschlamm-Katastrophe zahlt Samarco Entschädigung - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Das Schlammdesaster im Rio Doce gilt als eine der schlimmsten Umweltkatastrophen Brasiliens. Nun zahlen die Verantwortlichen Schadensersatz - laut Präsidentin Rousseff ein "historisches Abkommen".
Brazil  fossil  fuel  Petroleum  Industry  commodity  prices  BRIC  self-regulation  ecological  disaster  environmental  disaster  industrial  accident  regulation  regulators  Wall  Street  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  mining 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
Nigerians given go-ahead to sue Shell in UK court over oil spills | Business | The Guardian
Tens of thousands of fishermen and farmers from Niger delta region allege decades of uncleaned spills have polluted area
self-regulation  fossil  fuel  Petroleum  Industry  Wall  Street  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  corporate  governance  accountability  ecological  disaster  environmental  disaster  DeepwaterHorizon 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
The cost of the curing Hepatitis C - BBC Newsnight - YouTube
[ max profits regardless of human cost ] New drugs are now available to cure Hepatitis C, but why are they so expensive? Filmmaker Kate Brown explores the cost of curing Hepatitis C, and Evan Davis speaks to Virginia Acha, Executive Director of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.
Hepatitis  Hepatitis  C  NHS  minority  NICE  NHS  England  pharmaceutical  industry  pharma  big  pharma  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  monopsony  Wall  Street  stigma  medical  profession  medical  research  medical  advances 
march 2016 by asterisk2a
Another Look At The Perilous Price Of American Energy by Reveal
fossil fuel companies lobbied themselves out of workers comp when accidents happen. + care about speed over safety. + contract out work. oil companies often don't have own employees on-site. energy companies duck responsibilities when things go wrong. can distance themselves when things go wrong. [...] [legal sleaze] big companies roll off part liabilities (claims) through contractors insurance. [...] bonuses to drill quickly.
Keystone  Pipeline  USA  fracking  Canada  tarsand  fossil  fuel  shale  gas  shalegas  self-regulation  lobbyist  lobby  Lobbying  Workers  Union  Trade  Union  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  regulation  regulators  ecological  disaster  environmental  disaster  carbon  tax  DeepwaterHorizon 
february 2016 by asterisk2a
British people think their media is the most biased and right-wing in Europe - and they're probably right | Voices | The Independent
Just two individuals - Rupert Murdoch and Lord Rothermere - controlled a staggering 52.2 per cent of online and print national news publications in the UK in 2013 [...] All of these newspapers either backed the Conservatives or Ukip in the most recent election and are all considered traditional right-wing publications. If you add up the readership of these right-wing newspapers, they account for a staggering 69 per cent of national newspaper readership in Britain in 2013. Left Foot Forward concluded their analysis by stating that “over three quarters (77.8 per cent) of the press is owned by a handful of billionaires.”
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february 2016 by asterisk2a
Schweiz: Volksinitiative entscheidet über Anti-Ausländer-Gesetz - SPIEGEL ONLINE
[ symptom ]
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february 2016 by asterisk2a
Zika and Ebola: A taste of things to come? - BBC News
Both diseases have been known about for decades, and yet in both cases no vaccines or drugs were available when we most needed them. So what's going on? Is this just a terrible coincidence, being caught off-guard like this twice in such quick succession, or is it part of a worrying trend and a taste of things to come? At first glance it wouldn't appear that the two diseases have much in common. One is difficult to catch but a ferocious killer, while the other spreads with ease but is relatively harmless to the vast majority of people infected. Yet, in both cases there is something novel, either in the way the virus has spread or in how it affected people which has made the outbreaks more of a threat. In global health security terms that is a real concern, because such sudden changes of modus operandi can not only make public health threats even more difficult to predict or anticipate than normal, but also make all the difference between a localised outbreak and global pandemic.
Zika-Virus  Ebola  National  Security  economic  damage  pandemic  epidemic  Zoonotic  Diseases  zoonosis  public  safety  public  health  WHO  Bill  Gates  pharmaceutical  industry  pharma  big  pharma  Malaria  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  Wall  Street  capitalism  medical  profession 
february 2016 by asterisk2a
George Osborne warns of further spending cuts in Budget - BBC News
[ LOL! ] But recent figures showing the UK economy was smaller than expected meant savings must be found in his Budget statement on 17 March, he said. [...] Mr Osborne said he would rather look for extra cuts now than risk breaking his own manifesto commitment to achieve a surplus in the budget by the end of this Parliament. The chancellor did not completely rule out raising taxes in the event of a further slowdown in growth, but said that now was not the time for "significant" tax hikes. [...] I'm absolutely clear we've got to root our country in the principle that we live within our means and that we have economic security." [...] "whole purpose of our economic plan was to have a budget surplus. [...] we got big challenges at home to make the economy more productive even as more people get work. [ because having part of your budget in the property bubble is so productive ] [...] I will do what is required to keep our country safe and secure." [ NOT CHANGING PLANS ie U-TURN ]
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february 2016 by asterisk2a
Thousands told their pension savings could be at risk - BBC News
[ fees ] It follows fears that dozens of companies providing auto enrolment pensions are too small to survive. The BBC has also uncovered evidence that employers and workers are being deliberately misled by some providers. The government said it was aware of the issue, and was planning to take action. Independent experts claim the problem could affect up to a quarter of a million people a year who are putting their savings into so-called master trust pensions. Such schemes are popular with the 1.8 million small employers with fewer than 30 staff who are currently signing up under the auto enrolment programme. "There is a risk of these schemes falling over; there is a risk that members might lose their money," said Andrew Warwick Thompson, executive director for regulatory policy at the Pensions Regulator. However, he said scheme assets invested through asset managers regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) would be safe. This will be "the vast majority of cases", he said.
Tories  Privatisation  self-regulation  regulation  speculation  speculative  retirement  401k  pension  scheme  pension  obligation  pension  fund  public  pension  George  Osborne  David  Cameron  DWP  Iain  Duncan  Smith  Toff  Privileged  Establishment  Whitehall  Westminster  No  Representation  Career  Politicians  dogma  ideology  microeconomic  policy  labour  market  Conservative  Party  nasty  secular  stagnation  Generationengerechtigkeit  Wall  Street  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  Millennials  generationy  generationx  babyboomers  City  of  London  GFC  oversight  Bank  FCA  Greed  regulators  trust  free  market  neoliberalism  neoliberal  policy  error  policy  folly  HMRC 
february 2016 by asterisk2a
Talia Jane may have deceived us, but her point stands
ind.pn/1Qc5SxH bit.ly/1KJQjAE bit.ly/1SV92vy bit.ly/1oBBh5k [ 2nd jobs bc first does only cover bills ] Even if Talia was the most frugal millennial in all the land, she’d still be living beyond her means. In the Bay Area, that is shockingly easy to do, thanks in part to companies like her former employer that have driven rents sky-high with no ceiling in sight. Income inequality is a huge problem in this country, especially in the Bay Area. Yelp’s answer to that, by the way, appears to be to just move the lower wage jobs to Phoenix, rather than pay the employees it has in San Francisco more. Charming. //&! https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/702488056645992449 - women in the workplace ... //&! https://twitter.com/polotek/status/702025499782950912 bootstap yourself
Precariat  working  poor  San  Francisco  Silicon  Valley  Yelp!  customer  service  low  pay  low  income  income  distribution  tax  credit  housing  benefit  commuting  minimum  wage  living  wage  discretionary  spending  Wall  Street  shareholder  value  profit  maximisation  disposable  income  Millennials  career  ladder  Sector  Jobs  job  creation  financial  literacy  career  advice 
february 2016 by asterisk2a
Margot Robbie Explains - Imgur
I worked in the financial sector during this time period, that entire industry is fake paper being moved around in circles for fees.
subprime  Wall  Street  profit  maximisation  shareholder  value  Greed  GFC  bank  bailout  economic  history  self-regulation 
february 2016 by asterisk2a
Five issues that will shape the Northern Powerhouse - BBC News
[ white elephant! lol & the double standard of Google paying 2% tax vs small businesses full 18%+ and not getting investment, R&D loans ] Will Hull thrive or suffer if transport is radically improved to the eastern fringe of the Powerhouse? There's no way of telling. Some people think investment in skills, education and training would be a more certain way of improving productivity - and business leaders are keen to ensure that these key elements are not forgotten in the rush for steel and tarmac. I asked former CBI director-general John Cridland, who is now head of Transport for the North, if there was any certainty that spending billions on infrastructure would improve productivity. He agreed there was no proof, but urged people to take a leap of faith - like the Victorian engineers.
STEM  skills  gap  practical  skills  apprenticeships  underinvestment  productive  investment  Northern  Powerhouse  UK  George  Osborne  David  Cameron  productivity  output  gap  recovery  carbon  tax  renewable  energy  competitiveness  competitive  industrial  policy  Germany  corporate  tax  rate  tax  evasion  tax  avoidance  conglomerate  multinational  HMRC  budget  deficit  dogma  ideology  austerity  squeezed  middle  class  job  creation  Service  Sector  Jobs  added  value  value  creation  economic  history  property  bubble  distortion  HS2  Hinkley  Point  C  HS3  infrastructure  investment  infrastructure  macroeconomic  policy  macroprudential  policy  zombie  banks  BOE  Funding  for  Lending  Scheme  Mark  Carney 
february 2016 by asterisk2a
ZAPP - Das Medienmagazin vom 03.02.2016 | ZAPP | NDR - YouTube
kartell des schweigens, industrie und forschung. // befangenheit!
Abgas-Affäre  automotive  autoindustry  pollution  lobbyist  lobby  Lobbying  R&D  conflict  of  interest  corruption  bribery  revolving  door  conglomerate  PR  Positioning  spin  doctor  Career  Politicians  public  health  public  safety  VW  Volkswagen  public  awareness  Consumer  Protection  Whistleblower  multinational  Wall  Street  shareholder  value  profit  maximisation  corporate  governance  governance  investigative  journalism  Food  Politics  nuclear  waste  nuclear  power 
february 2016 by asterisk2a
Koch Brothers Declare War On Electric Cars - YouTube
introduce a carbon tax, rather than cherry picking! // who is also invested in their "ventures"? Arabs! See also Fahrenheit 9/11 documentary by Michael Moore. //&! Koch Bros Behind Solar Power Fines - youtu.be/E3SDcOZLksk --- ALEC lobby group. //&! Koch Bros Slammed By Billionaire T. Boone Pickens - youtu.be/65Y1RWDdQBI //&! Koch Brothers Caught On Tape - Obama & Osama Compared - youtu.be/hTUjYyae2zw //&! Koch Brothers Destroyed By Bloomberg Report - youtu.be/ENuN2R0je0k //&! Letters Expose Agenda Of Billionaire Koch Brothers - youtu.be/1JdhyI8mmqY //&! Koch Bros Tried To Shut Up Maddow, Bad Idea - youtu.be/J4XQO6bH7_k //&! Zach Galifianakis Slams Koch Brothers - youtu.be/fW96KEbeGTw //&! Koch Brothers EXPOSED: 2014 (ft. Bernie Sanders) - youtu.be/2N8y2SVerW8 //&!
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february 2016 by asterisk2a
nestle criminal - Google Search
via youtu.be/DSb15N6g9Wo
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february 2016 by asterisk2a
Dispatches - Low Pay Britain - All 4
living wage starts from 21? 25? // retail big! high street big! - service sector. no manufacturing ... // IT IS CORPORATE SUBSIDY - PROGRAM FOR LOW PAY! // very far from Germay model! // tax payer pays for people in high street! // Ofsted found inadequate conditions! AND SMALL MINORITY GET ACTUALLY A FULL-TIME JOB! LOL LOL LOL! // Social Market Foundation (research) found lvl2 apprenticeship adds nothing to purse over a lifetime. // its DWP policy to get young people off the paper onto other paper largely, still funded, by the gov - still adding to budget deficit. // Ofsted concerned over apprenticeships "wasting public funds" // WHAT A TORY SPIN! // retail places have shot up, and construction plummeted! the latter is harder or put through training providers ( private companies, PRIVATISATION! ). employers are not in charge. to quote one employee of a training provider "meet targets, get money in" its about the # of apprenticeships, not the quality or economic need/industry. //
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february 2016 by asterisk2a
Die Macht der Finanzkonzerne - Wie Blackrock mittels Geld die Welt regiert - YouTube
extraction of fat. no skin in the game. // Privatisation of housing stock - social and affordable, anglo saxon capitalism style; profit maximisation, dividends. // after Goldman Sachs the new vampiresquid // no skin in game; get money for speculation from pension funds, other investors, mutual funds. << that is the system! // nur wer geld hat, kann es vermehren. // nearly no governance, no guidelines regarding sustainability, ethics, transparency, morals. // no regulation = big profit and exploitation, corruption, bribery.
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february 2016 by asterisk2a
Matt Taibbi: Mitt Romney and the Looting of America (1/2) - YouTube
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuschreckendebatte // companies turned into financial instruments. // fictionalisation of economy // >> money spend (debt) on hostile takeover/LBO/MBO/M&A are tax deductible! << = invest in debt, rather than equity! & carried interest is only taxed at 15% max. still can reduce it w deductions xyz. // !!! NO SKIN IN THE GAME !!! Nassim Taleb //
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