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POPSGreece downgraded over high debt Europe is falling. What will the order be: 1) Greece, 2) Ireland, 3) Italy, 4) Portugal, 5) UK, 6) Spain? What could Germany and France do then, but follow. What happens then is the $64 trillion question. Hyperinflation? More deflation? Nobody knows, but they will know soon. The knowledge is liable to be depressing for believers in eternal economic growth.
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POPSFood Critic Murders Baboon: Needed Fodder for His Column?! While admitting there was no good excuse for his action, he nonetheless tries to explain: "I noticed that, when it was alive, I thought about the baboon as a thing. Now he’s dead, I’m posthumously anthropomorphising him, and that was one of the reasons I killed. I wanted to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone, a stranger." Stop. Breathe. I note my first reaction: Excruciating execution for this guy, preferably slowly bleeding to death in front of his buddies, sounds like a good idea. Exhale. Pause. Next reaction: What the heck was he thinking? What sick person would find it perfectly acceptable to write about his urge to explore killing primates in a food column? Is he so disengaged from life and his place in it that he thinks this is witty? Educational? Cool?
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POPSCredit Cards - Prepaid Credit Card A prepaid card seems to be a great way to spend your hard earned money without going into debt.The use of a prepaid card for most consumers has been the answer to their spending problems. It seems that the cost of a secured or non secured credit card has been so high that most consumers shudder at the thought of having to use one for any purpose.The benefit of the prepaid credit card is for parents to give to their children with a certain amount of cash to spend. They work great when they go abroad and you can even reload it with more money form home to be accessed immediately buy your child instantly, wherever they are in the world.If you are looking for an alternative to regular plastic then you should really have a look at the possibilities afforded by prepaid credit cards. for more information about credit card rates, prepaid credit card visit http://www.pagerank10.co.uk/finance/prepaid_credit_cards/
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POPSWelfare: The 'Shameless' Generation of Benefit Addicts Almost five million adults live in jobless homes The Crompton family, nicknamed 'Britain's Biggest Freeloaders' by their neighbours in Hull, live in a seven-bed house and get 33,000 a year. Harry Crompton, 51, has been out of work for 15 years and his wife Tracey, 41, has never had a job. Yet thanks to the generosity of the welfare state they receive 32,656 a year. The Cromptons were provided with two semis knocked together by the council at a cost of 20,000. The couple's only income from paid work is 20 a week from eldest son Michael, who has a factory job. They receive a further 628 a week in income support, disability allowance, carer's allowance, child tax credit, plus 120 a week rent on their seven-bedroom house. A working parent would have to earn 46,500 a year to match their income.
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POPSObama Presents 16 Medal of Freedoms (like UK Honor's List)
Once again the difference between this new Obama Administration and the nightmare of the last 8 Bush years couldn't be more clear. Bush gave Medals of Freedom to lying CIA directors, racist UN appointees, and such others. Obama's presentation today was (once again) truly inspiration, given to real people who did real actions in the real world to make life better for others and us all. The Americans were men, woman, gay, straight, healty, disabled, Black, White, Hispanic and Native American Indian. Also was the former President of Ireland and former UN Human Rights Commissioner, Mary Robinson, noted anti-apartheid activist ArchbishopTutu, and a micro-economist from India (who set up a pretty cool idea to get credit to the poor to start businesses) (I think Crow warrior, WWII vet, Doctor Joe Medicine Crow-High Bird said something like: Thank you Great Black-White Father). The the real war and political war goes on strong. It's people like this vs. the hate-filed minds
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POPSRecord Store Day I loved going into the old record shops going in a booth puting your earphones on,Great Days !
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POPS‘New’ US shopper to emerge from crisis What should we call this new type of buyer, who is no longer defined by his desire and ability to consume? Does everybody become a trader /dealer in their own right buying and selling goods and services on the basis of need, rather than greed? Survivors? Those who don't survive will not be there anyway. Note the sources of the 'new consumer' idea. It is very main-stream, now . We were predicting this trend in 2002 in our report entitled, Consumers: Going for Broke, which also as it happens predicted the credit crunch and the current sharp reversal in economic fortunes.
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POPSThe Internet Why do people open their lives up to the world through facebook and others? Vanity. If innocent people can have their identiies stolen by crooks, jusrt imagine the problems terrorist can cause? No. Then just carry on in delightful ignorance until your passport is found on a suicide bomber.
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POPSEconomy: How much proof do we need... Iconic glass/china maker Wedgwood is basically bankrupt. Note the number of employees that make living wages (those IN England/Ireland) and those that make pennies an hour/day. Our economy is crashing because over the past couple decades the world's best CUSTOMERS have lost living-wage paying jobs. Our middle class existence has been offshored. Our rich have gotten richer, we have given our futures to third world countries. Jokes on the experts. The world's best customers are unemployed, credit denied and becoming homeless. Buy local, the job you save may be your own
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