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This artist transforms Bratz dolls into empowering role models
Bratz dolls are hardly realistic role models for young girls — but artist Wendy Tsao is determined to transform those same dolls into real-life female heroes to inspire young girls Tsao expertly removes the heavy makeup from the dolls, and adds some homemade touches to create dolls modeled after real women such as Frida Kahlo, J.K. Rowling, and Malala Yousafzai See also: Realistic doll shows girls
Amy Schumer's SNL monologue was filled with jokes about the Kardashians and Bradley Cooper
Amy Schumer made her Saturday Night Live debut yesterday, and she got things started off with an opening monologue in which addressed her Hollywood experience as a woman, while simultaneously skewering the Kardashians “We have to be a good role model for these little girls because who do they have? All they have, literally, is the Kardashians. She doesn’t have a Malala poster in her room — tru
October is 'zombie preparedness month'
Kansas governor Sam Brownback signed the peculiar proclamation as a fun way to tackle natural disasters. What better way to prepare for the possibilit...
Girl 'possessed' after using Ouija board app
The 18-year-old was allegedly possessed by an evil spirit after participating in a Ouija board session. Patricia Quispe from Chosica in Peru's Lima pr...
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Interview 1096 – Jonathan Latham on GMO Concerns
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-10-07%20Jonathan%20Latham.mp3"][/audio]Today we're joined by Dr. Jonathan Latham of independentsciencenews.org to discuss his recent article, "Growing Doubt: A Scientist's Experience of GMOs." We talk about the fundamentally flawed "risk assessment" process for GMO crops, the dangers of increasing herbicide use in the
Interview 1097 – Ground Zero: Strong Cities and Global Goals
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-10-07%20Ground%20Zero.mp3"][/audio]Today James joins Clyde Lewis on Ground Zero to talk about Clyde's new article, "You End: UNinvolved in Peace." Topics discussed include the Strong Cities initiative and the UN Global Goals, the future of policing and autonomous weapons.
Interview 1098 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2015-10-08%20James%20Evan%20Pilato.mp3"][/audio]This week on the New World Next Week: the "recovery" starts to trickle down on workers' heads as some workers fight back; the TPP is a done deal; and activists drone an NSA outpost.
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Scarlet Macaws Fly Free Again in Mexico’s Wilds
Scientists and an amusement park work together to reintroduce an iconic bird in the rainforests of Chiapas and Veracruz
Pope’s Climate Change Appeal Boosts Hope for Bipartisan Action in Congress
Climate campaigners applaud pope’s bridging of environmental issues with moral obligation as way to force Republican party leaders to reconsider position
Follow the Money
The fossil fuels divestment movement is making big strides But individual investors have little way of knowing what they own.
World Biodiversity Hotspot Worth Much More than a Nickel
Trio of mining proposals threatens Klamath-Siskiyou region
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It's complicated
Catching up...Panorama has often seemed past its sell-by date in recent years. Not so this week. The VIP Paedophile Ring: What's the Truth?, broadcast last Tuesday, send major shock waves out in several directions - from the police to the Labour Party's deputy leader Tom Watson, and from Exaro News to their occasional partners at BBC Two's Newsnight.The issues raised by the programme, as well as s
Gossip column
From the Telegraph to the Guardian, and a bit of Guardianista BBC gossip (played out, probably unsurprisingly, on Twitter):It takes a lot to make an Old Etonian blow his top in public, but ITV’s passion for Peston led BBC deputy political editor James Landale to take to Twitter and tell a group of fellow TV lobby journalists (Chris Ship, Andy Bell, Allegra Stratton and Joey Jones, some of whom are
Christopher Booker cheerfully drives his tractor into a hedge
I think Christopher Booker may have published his least popular article at the Sunday Telegraph today. I suspected as much when I saw the surprisingly small number of comments below his article. And then when I saw the top-rated comment, beginning "Sorry Christopher...", I knew something was seriously amiss.What had he got so 'wrong'? What had so put off his readership?Well, here's a cl
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"One of our viewers are in Bermuda"
That's what the news anchor said just now: "One of our viewers are in Bermuda".IS, you illiterate bitch. ONE IS.Errors in English reflect errors in reasoning. Not always, of course. But the difference between ONE and MORE THAN ONE is pretty simple, really.Maybe all of their viewers are in Bermuda, I don't know. Well, I'm not in Bermuda. Maybe most of their viewers are in Bermuda. That's
The Pause Between Words
The TV advertisement shows big bold print:NEXIUMLEVELPROTECTIONI'm thinking it's an ad for Nexium, so they want me to think of "nexium level" as "high level" or "strongest" or "best" or something like that. That's fine, that's what an advertisement is supposed to do.But -- words still on-screen -- the announcer's voice comes over, repeating those words. &quo
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Walking in Managua: Pedestrian tips from the front line
My walk to work is quite a bit longer this time in Managua, about an hour each way. It gives me more time to reflect on all the ways I could be killed in traffic. Managua certainly doesn’t have the craziest traffic I’ve ever had to walk through; I have, after all, lived to tell the tale of crossing the streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. But fresh from a summer wandering along the coddled
Early intervention changes everything for children with disabilities, health challenges
Tytan Beckford's family had to make the horrific decisionto ampute part of Tytan's feet when he was born withoutfibula in his legs. Gotta admit, it was kind of fun being back in reporter mode this summer as my partner Paul and I worked up a four-page newspaper supplement for Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island. The stories of families of children with disabilities can be hard to
Poor, or just unequal?
It’s a typical Saturday afternoon at the flashy Metro Centro mall in Managua, Nicaragua, and the joint is jumping. As I watch a young barista crank out $4 iced cappuccinos at the Casa de Café kiosk, I find myself reflecting yet again on the mysterious phrase “developing country.” To those who don’t know this part of the world, the phrase suggests poverty and deprivation - chicken buses spilling
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The Decline and Fall of Ufology
I think that the high point in Ufology was July 1997 when the fiftieth anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash was celebrated. I think that the low point, probably the lowest since June 1947 and Arnold’s sighting was May 5, 2015 when the fiasco of the Not Roswell Slides was presented to the world. This is underscored with many of the UFO documentaries that now populate the cable channel landscape.The
The Size of the Debris Field
Since I posted the article that suggested that Bessie Brazel’s testimony might be in error and that it was contradicted by that given by so many others, we have been all over the board. Nearly everyone was selecting that data which tended to support their position and ignore everything else. So, I thought I would take some of those points and provide the data available about them. I realize that s
Ramey Memo Update
The best case of provenance that I have ever seen is the Ramey Memo. We have a picture of Ramey holding the document, we have been able to interview the photographer, and we know the date on which it was taken because we have not only a dated document that was transmitted with the picture, but it appeared in newspapers around the country the next day. The only point of dispute is what the memo act
New UFO Documentary including Commentary on the Roswell Slides
This last summer I participated in a UFO documentary via Skype that dealt with some of the latest issues in the field, including what had happened with the Roswell Slides. We discussed the fallout from that and how it will affect UFO research in the future. The film will premiere at London’s West End on September 24 and I mention this in case some of our colleagues in England wish to see it. For
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Britain First and Cynicism
A documentary about Britain's First virtual fascist group, Britain First? Why ever not. With UKIP commanding four million votes at the general election, the press stuffed with xenophobic bullshit as per, and the woman who would lead the Tories pitching herself as Nigel Farage's successor, a little package shedding light on a tiny and utterly marginal fascist group isn't likely to create much harm.
Dave's Speech: It's Just Words
Some journalists are incredibly gullible. On the basis of his rhetoric, Dan Hodges tweeted "Could someone on the Left tell me which part of David Cameron's speech I'm meant to disagree with." How about Dave's outright porkie concerning Jeremy Corbyn's comments on the assassination of Osama Bin Laden? Seeing as Dan's less a journo and more a well remunerated "opinion former", wh
Ideology in The Great British Bake Off
It caters for all tastes. The smells appeal to some and turn others off. It can and is served up overcooked and underdone. What's baking in the oven? Ideology. In a Britain-shaped tin. For the first time last night, the residents of Chateau BC turned the dial to BBC One for the grand final of The Great British Bake Off, a phenomenon that's less a popular TV programme and more a cult for the 13.4m
David & George
Returning to the carcasses of the Prime Minister's and Chancellor's speeches at Conservative Party conference, there's a juicy piece of carrion left no one else picked at. As I've argued previously, the tradition these days is to read the chancellor's and leader's speeches as two parts of a piece. The former sets out the economic fiddlys and route to boom-time Britain, and the latter does the fee
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A WAY TO LIVE // actions
Waiting for rain
All of us are waiting for rain. A friend's well has gone dry and we are being careful of our water from ours. Here is a tiny fall garden consisting of a few marigolds and beet greens.On the night of the full moon, I stepped out and looked for the eclipse. The moon was rising already almost at totality, so it took me time to locate it. I dutifully snapped at it with the little cheap camera, and got
Pumping on the treadle
Time to make some holiday cards. A bit of green ink on the ink disk and some pumping on the treadle to distribute it on the rollers.Lock up the chase.Run the job.Come back when the ink is dry on the paper and bag up the products. I did four designs.Outside, a few sprinkles. Not nearly enough, but appreciated.
In-between times
The Cowboy kindly escorted me on a fourth journey to the place of my parents' ashes, which is near this stone. I placed an offering of leaves from nearby shrubbery on the stone and bowed three times, then cried a little.It was much more difficult to get up there than previous years. The hikes I had done to prepare me for this were insufficient. On the other hand, we had all day, and my kind compan
Another batch of apple butter
Normally I have done these annual videos in November or even January; this year the garden grew old in August and is dying of old age on the first day of fall.Things are not as they should be, and if we are honest with ourselves we know this. 2015 will clearly be the hottest year in the record (meaning since 1880) for Stony Run, for Oregon, for the Northwest, and for the world.More about that here
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At one stage, I had time for hobbies..
Contemporaries - built late 1915, in service January 1916.The Zeppelin-Stacken R.IV serial R.12/15, and the Nieuport...Posted by Zoe Ellen Brain on Monday, 18 May 2015
When Does She Become He?
When Does She Become He? | LGBT PERSPECTIVES MagazinePithy, concise summary of the science of sex and gender. Highly recommended for all medical professionals, and as an educational resource for lay people too.
Certified Christian Counselors and Post Modernism - Toads included
From The Association of Certified Biblical Counselors Membership CovenantGod’s goodness allows that secular psychology may provide accurate research and make observations that are helpful in understanding counseling issues. Because unbelievers suppress the truth of God in unrighteousness the efforts of secular psychology at interpreting these observations lead to misunderstanding. Because their ob
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Campbell's Soup pushes the homosexual agenda...
they show this crapola on TV?I don't watch TV.Disclaimer: Once again, allow me to say (I really should save this disclaimer, so I don't have to redo it all the time), by stating that I don't watch TV, I'm not being all snotty and snooty and claiming to be better than those who do watch TV. We don't have cable, and haven't for about 20 years, drastically cutting down our choices of programming. E
Twin Cities Marathon: Black Lives Matter "Protest"...
turned out to be the bomb I thought it would be.Check out the picture from the "die-in" held near the finish line of the Twin Cities Marathon, a 26.2 mile event that originated in 1982.Let's have a contest. Please find all the black people in the picture (not counting police.) Winner gets a hearty slap on the back, and a high five. As most of you know, I grew up in uber-liberal St. Paul
Bill Whittle: Solution to Gun Control...
I've been ordered to take this out of my tabs and post it.As usual, Bill is spot on.
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SUP, Surfing, Spanish Classes and a Visit from Lisa!
OK, I admit, my blog updates have been pathetically few and far between. Going to try and do better with them. It truly makes no sense that when I worked 80 hours a week I kept up better with this blog than I do now not working at all. Pura Vida!Sooooo, my friend, Lisa, came to visit over Labor Day for the second year in a row, this time without her hubby as he did not have the vacation time.
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Israel accused of 'deliberately killing' Palestinians
Rights groups say Israel is using excessive force against unarmed Palestinian civilians in the recent wave of violence.
Q&A: For Israel 'Palestinian blood is very cheap'
Israeli occupation forces provide protection to settlers who attack Palestinians, says Palestinian rights activist.
Pregnant Palestinian woman killed in air strike buried
Noor Hassan, who was five-months pregnant, along with her three-year-old daughter, killed in Israeli air strike in Gaza.
Turkey mourns victims of Ankara blasts
Three-day mourning period begins after two blasts at peace rally in the Turkish capital killed at least 95 people.
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Bernie And Jeremy / A New World Order Based On People Power
“The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.” ~ Bernie SandersThere is a reason that Bernie Sanders has surged ahead in the Presidential Primary Polls and that Britain's Jeremy Corbyn has done the same thing in the UK ~ it's people power and it won't be stopped. The honest
Band Of Brothers ( Hwh ) #18 / Defeating Military Racism Through Love And Forgiveness
Six Pacific Islanders and combat veterans with PTSD as well as victims of military racism and prejudice face their deepest fears (the fears of their hearts) in Healing The Wounded Heart (Band of Brothers) Workshop # 18. Through the power of love, gratefulness and forgiveness they all discover not only their true authentic self but awaken their closed and wounded hearts in the process: Al
Rip / Yogi Berra, 1925-2015
Since I grew up in Boston, in the 1940's and 1950's as a firm Yankee hater and a rabid Red Sox fan ~ Yogi Berra was always the enemy along with Joe DiMaggio, Whitey Ford and countless other Yankee greats that broke my young heart every baseball season ~ but Yogi was in a class by himself. In some strange way, I felt Yogi did not belong in lofty Yankee pin stripes and his gentle soul and h
Quotes For Those Who Dare To Live Their Dreams
Living my dream as a high altitude interceptorHaving the courage to live my dreams started with becoming a Navy supersonic carrier pilot and then eventually surrendering to love, facing my deepest fears and falling through a black hole of despair and unworthiness to a place of timeless love, joy, intention, purpose as well as the growing awareness of a great truth, the Unified Field
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China launches global yuan payment system
The odd thing about all this is HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) owns SWIFT in the first place (as we proved from Bloomberg data in 2013), so who's fooling who? -AKhttps://www.rt.com/business/318103-china-payment-system-yuan/China launches global yuan payment systemPublished time: 9 Oct, 2015 10:37China’s Central Bank has started a global payment system which provides cross-border
Your Smart Home Knows a Lot About You
http://www.propublica.org/article/your-smart-home-knows-a-lot-about-youYour Smart Home Knows a Lot About YouA data scientist’s experiment reveals surprising information about interconnected smart devices.by Lauren KirchnerProPublica, Oct. 9, 2015, 1 p.m.How much does your smart home know about you? That was the question that Charles Givre, a data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, set out to answer
Trans-Atlantic Data Pact Struck Down by EU’s Highest Court
Servers inside Facebook’s Prineville Data Center in Oregon. Photographer: Meg Roussos/Bloomberghttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-06/eu-u-s-data-sharing-pact-is-invalid-eu-s-top-court-rules-iff2hpgyTrans-Atlantic Data Pact Struck Down by EU’s Highest Court Stephanie BodoniOctober 6, 2015 — 9:51 AM CEST Updated on October 6, 2015 — 6:48 PM CESTJudges say U.S. spies may get access to EU
GAIA PORTAL: Illusions are attenuated
Illusions are attenuatedby ÉirePortIllusions are attenuated.Allusions come to the fore.Secular writings fail to please.Essences of new trials are exposed.Eviscerations are primary.ÉirePort | October 9, 2015 at 09:19 | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p2sFUY-vI
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Albert Woodfox's Hearing Today in Louisiana State Court: Amnesty Intl. USA Statement and more
Featured below, reprinted in full is a statement released by Amnesty International USA following Albert Woodfox's hearing this morning in Louisiana State Court.September 21, 2015: Amnesty International USA Statement on Latest Albert Woodfox DevelopmentsToday, Judge William G. Carmichael of Louisiana's 20th Judicial District Court held a hearing to lay the groundwork for a possible third trial of
A3 Newsletter: Albert Takes First Steps Towards Retrial in State Court on 9/21 in St. Francisville
A3 Newsletter: A Third Chance for Justice in State Court - The Critical Importance of Setting the Right Evidentiary and Procedural Scene for a Fair RetrialThough it is an incredibly unusual, and often confusing situation, the legal reality is that Albert is fighting for permanent, unconditional release concurrently on two separate legal tracks - one in federal and the other in state court. As we
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Decent Intervals
During his first term, President Obama set about to extricate the United States from the wars he inherited from George W. Bush. Not surprisingly, getting out has proved to be harder than getting in. His second term’s agenda has been spent seizing opportunities while seeking to avoid making new messes for his own successor to clean up. Having negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran, Obama is now pushi
C3: Nuclear Command, Control, Cooperation
Earlier this year Bruce Blair kindly loaned us a copy of an important body of work in the field, C3: Nuclear Command, Control, Cooperation, by Valery E. Yarynich. We digitized it (thanks to two graduate research assistants) and have put the book in its entirety up on Scribd. It’s even OCR’ed! The book is available here. [Updated] For a bit of background on Valery Yarynich, start with this article
The Jinkouhe Gaseous Diffusion Plant is hot!
Much to my dismay, I find that I’m still catching up on reading from the summer. In August, Hui Zhang published a new report on China’s uranium enrichment capacity, and he makes a wonderful identification of a new civilian centrifuge facility associated with Plant 814 in Sichuan province. While on the subject of Plant 814, this report’s publication gives me the perfect opportunity to say a few wo
Stanislav Petrov
Stanislav Petrov’s story is about to be featured in a new movie, The Man Who Saved the World. This title suggests more than the usual artistic license, but if license weren’t granted when dealing with the Apocalypse, then where would the film industry be? My own choice for the hero’s mantle would be Vasili Arkhipov, whose veto prevented the launch of a nuclear weapon on board a Soviet sub being d
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Progressive Movie Theater: Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"
..By MARC McDONALDAfter a haitus, we're back in action. And today, we're unveiling a new regular series on this blog.Welcome to the first edition of Progressive Movie Theater, a series in which we take a look at notable progressive/left-leaning cinema.Our film today is Michael Moore's 2004 documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11. After more than a decade, the film still is an effective indictment of the
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Oregon Shooting: Another FALSE FLAG HOAX
The government either has knowledge of, or is participating in these FALSE FLAG HOAXES. The agenda is not necessarily gun control IMO. I think it's more so to just keep the population occupied with terror and distractions so we won't focus on: half our taxes go to the Pentagon, banksters and corporations and wealthy families foreign (in particular Israel) and domestic run our government and own al
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they have seen the future and it works for them
So the Health Secretary wants us to work like the Chinese. You could write a pretty long historical monologue on the idea of work as embodied in perceptions of the Chinese people, but it would probably come down to the two essential features of docility and endurance. My word, those Chinese can work. They're not quite as far up the value chain as the Germans, but they're basically reliable, it's
what football hooligan twitter may tell us about Putin in Syria
Yes, it's been a while and I've gone all 'Slate Pitch' as they say. Anyway, here goes. I've been following football hooligan twitter for a while now, mainly because of the way that the lads sometimes venture from their comfort zone of beer, fighting and casualwear into politics. It's not that much of a surprise, of course. Football ultras have participated in every uprising since 2011, often contr
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Economic News , Data & Views ( October 11, 2015 ) - Europe In Focus : Spain December Elections items - Ciudadanos on the rise , Podemos sinking ; Draghi on Greece debt relief - " Greece needs an element " ; Ankara bomb blast repercussions ; Refugee crisis items of the day ; Ukraine and Russia in focus ; Central Banks / ECB / EZ items of the morning ; Brexit news & views !
Broader Europe....The Local Spain @TheLocalSpain 9m9 minutes agoCiudadanos strives to occupy the political centre http://www.thelocal.es/20151011/spanish-party-ciudadanos-makes-concerted-effort-to-occupy-the-political-centre … Russian Market @russian_market 22m22 minutes agoGreece Needs Element of Debt Relief, Draghi Says: KathimeriniRussian Market @russian_market 29m29 minutes agoEU Officia
Economic News , Data & Views ( October 10 , 2015 ) - Broader Europe In Focus ( Berlin Prepares for Anti - TTIP Protest Today , Refugee Crisis Items Of Note , Economic Data Nuggets ) ........ Greece In Focus ( Debt Relief prospects primary focus , economic data of note ) ....... Asia / Emerging Market updates ( Turkey - terrible bomb blast today is Ankara kills dozens / more than a hundred wounded , China items of interest , Brazil and Venezuela in focus )
Morning tweets.......BROADER EUROPE / REFUGEE CRISIS.....Pieter Cleppe @pietercleppe 17m17 minutes agoPieter Cleppe Retweeted Markus SöderBavarian Finance Minister: "no extra taxes or debt to deal w asylum crisis. Limiting immigration would be better" Pieter Cleppe added,Markus Söder @Markus_SoederAsyl Soli für EU? Nein. Keine neuen Steuern oder Schulden für Asyl. Besser wäre eine Begr
Economic News , Data & views ( October 9 , 2015 ) .... Europe Updates ( Greece Banks subsidiaries consolidation / disposal being examined by EC , Prior actions for Greece and related items of note , Refugee situation in Europe , Industrial production data - Greece / France / Italy / Finland , UK exports ) ...... Overnight Asia Updates ( China , Japan EM currencies trending stronger on dollar weakness , Standard Charter job cuts , TPP in focus , Odds & ends )
Morning Tweets......Manos Giakoumis @ManosGiakoumis 3m3 minutes ago#EC examines consolidation of #Greece bank subsidiaries in SEE by end-2015 and disposal by end-2016 (via @kathimerini_gr) #economy #bankingVincenzo Scarpetta @LondonerVince 10m10 minutes agoNew @ZDF poll confirms shift in German public sentiment on refugees. 51% now say Germany can't cope with influx. Jonathan Ferro @FerroTV
Economic News , Data & views ( October 8 , 2015 ) - Around The Horn Quickly In Europe ( ECB and BOE Minutes out , ECB Bond Buying Program failing so far to prop up inflation , Rome City Council Quits , Data & News of note from Greece / Sweden / Italy , France / Germany / Finland / Ukraine / Russia ) ..... Asia and Emerging Market News & Data ( China , Brazil , Japan , Brazil , Indonesia )
Morning Tweets !Europe.....RANsquawk @RANsquawk 26m26 minutes agoNothing massively ground breaking in the #ECB minutes - full statement here: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/accounts/2015/html/mg151008.en.html …RANsquawk @RANsquawk 54m54 minutes ago#BoE leaves rates on hold as expected.... full minutes here: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Pages/news/2015/010.aspx …Holger Zschaepit
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