Tuesday, 12 February, 2008
- 12 Feb 08, 06:06 PM
COST OF LIVING
Inflation is up - should we be worried and is there anything we can do? The Office of National Statistics say rising fuel and food costs are to blame. Do we in Britain have the answers to rising inflation or is it an international problem which we can't solve alone?
US ELECTION
About 80 miles south-west of Washington DC, where the Shenandoah mountains crawl along the horizon and where the rich soil of Virginia is soaked with the blood and tears of America's turbulent history, is a town called Culpeper. Matt Frei returns to the town as the residents decide how to cast their votes in today's primary.
RUSSIA
Edward Lucas' new book The New Cold War says that the West must wake up to the threat posed by President Putin and the Kremlin. He will debate with a Putin supporter live.
DANIEL BARENBOIM
As he performs the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in London, musical maestro Daniel Barenboim talks to Jeremy about his passion for music, life and politics.
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Inflation in Israel and Palestine is also up as well but the Governor of
the Central Bank of Israel Stanley
Fischer came up with this answer to
the problem when he was a professor at MIT ...... he hung a sign on the back of his office door saying 'Lick
inflation - kiss an economist!' His interest in the impact on Palestine
is also something on which to build.
Looking forward too to your Daniel Barenboim interview ....... a real
sign of the times that forty years
after that famous concert marking
the '6 Day War' that Barenboim has
applied for a Palestinian passport!
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So we don't get to hear about why Milliband thinks democracy can be nurtured at the end of a barrel, but we do get to see Matt Frei wandering around the US equivalent of Ashby de la Zouch for the umpteenth time?
I know the USA is important, but our obsession with their minutiae is embarrassing.
Any chance of hearing about the KR trials soon?
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Its about time the general public woke up to the fact that they are being screwed by the stock market parasites. I don't think that anyone believes the inflation figures, but even on the government's bent measure it likely to go up even further in February.
The only way to prevent inflation is to suspend the commodities futures market, this would stop the stock market parasites forcing the price of commodities up. In a true market prices would go up and down month to month, not increase simply because someone had borrowed false money to do it. Until the world rids itself of its false global economy prices will continue to spiral as the traders desperately seek to hide the black hole in their positions.
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Russia is blindly supporting Serbia in its diplomatic row over the impending independence declaration in Kosovo this weekend. Tonight the Serb Government has met to adopt a package of punishments, officially labelled a state secret, which will be implemented once Hasim Thaci declares Kosovo to be an independent country. The focus of the world will be in Pristina, Mitrovica and Belgrade this weekend, so it is pertinent to ask the question: Will Britain recognize Kosovo? What can the EU do to aviod splitting on the issue? How can Europe help Kosovo Albanians who will be subject to severe economic sanctions from Belgrade after Sunday. I will be here in Pristina, in the city centre, and will feed information to you as events unfold. Kosovo was Tony Blair's first foreign policy success. Britain has invested in terms of troops and aid since the Kosovo war ended in 99. Kosovo desperately needs the support of the EU countries to counter the expected savage backlash by Serbia. Newsnight, please address this on Friday or Monday
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I have been watching NN for years now but I have to say that I am wondering why I continue to do so. With so many news progs now between 9pm and 1030 I am getting a bit news'd out. Wonder if others are feeling the same. Are you in danger of becoming the late version of the 'Today' prog; i.e. only watched by people in government and people who think they may appear?
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I have been watching NN for years now but I have to say that I am wondering why I continue to do so. With so many news progs now between 9pm and 1030 I am getting a bit news'd out. Wonder if others are feeling the same. Are you in danger of becoming the late version of the 'Today' prog; i.e. only watched by people in government and people who think they may appear?
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Russia is blindly supporting Serbia in its diplomatic row over the impending independence declaration in Kosovo this weekend. Tonight the Serb Government has met to adopt a package of punishments, officially labelled a state secret, which will be implemented once Hasim Thaci declares Kosovo to be an independent country. The focus of the world will be in Pristina, Mitrovica and Belgrade this weekend, so it is pertinent to ask the question: Will Britain recognize Kosovo? What can the EU do to aviod splitting on the issue? How can Europe help Kosovo Albanians who will be subject to severe economic sanctions from Belgrade after Sunday. I will be here in Pristina, in the city centre, and will feed information to you as events unfold. Kosovo was Tony Blair's first foreign policy success. Britain has invested in terms of troops and aid since the Kosovo war ended in 99. Kosovo desperately needs the support of the EU countries to counter the expected savage backlash by Serbia. Newsnight, please address this on Friday or Monday
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Russia is blindly supporting Serbia in its diplomatic row over the impending independence declaration in Kosovo this weekend. Tonight the Serb Government has met to adopt a package of punishments, officially labelled a state secret, which will be implemented once Hasim Thaci declares Kosovo to be an independent country. The focus of the world will be in Pristina, Mitrovica and Belgrade this weekend, so it is pertinent to ask the question: Will Britain recognize Kosovo? What can the EU do to aviod splitting on the issue? How can Europe help Kosovo Albanians who will be subject to severe economic sanctions from Belgrade after Sunday. I will be here in Pristina, in the city centre, and will feed information to you as events unfold. Kosovo was Tony Blair's first foreign policy success. Britain has invested in terms of troops and aid since the Kosovo war ended in 99. Kosovo desperately needs the support of the EU countries to counter the expected savage backlash by Serbia. Newsnight, please address this on Friday or Monday
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I worked for a well known chemist based in nottingham. We had a plumber from ukraine who said he would kill any russian he encountered. Where do these ukraine russian supporters come from
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In regards to the report on voters' views in the state of Virginia, I would just like to say that independents can vote in the presidential primaries. Virginia has open primaries for both parties. This means that anyone can vote in either election regardless of party affiliation. In fact, in Virginia you dont even register by party. This means that technically there are no registered independents (or registered Republicans or registered Democrats for that matter) in the state.
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In regards to the report on voters' views in the state of Virginia, I would just like to say that independents can vote in the presidential primaries. Virginia has open primaries for both parties. This means that anyone can vote in either election regardless of party affiliation. In fact, in Virginia you dont even register by party. This means that technically there are no registered independents (or registered Republicans or registered Democrats for that matter) in the state.
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Tonight's item on the Cost of Living was a shambles. Not only did we have Norman Lamont, the worst former chancellor of the 20th century, we inevitably had Vince Cable (yet again) who appears to be 'wheeled out' whenever any news item in which the word 'money' appears.
I have no problem with news items about the economy being discussed with bona fide economists but both of these are POLITICIANS first and economists a poor second. The drivel that comes out of their mouths has everything to do with discrediting the current regime and nothing at all to do with the economy! SO, please let's try in future to get a reasonably impartial view of the options available to the government and the Bank of England policy committee.
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Wow that first item was boring. What's the matter with you guys? This Robert Morgan character in charge needs to get a clue or get a new job. Even Stephanie Flanders couldn't be arsed.
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Newsnight is the best, and there's no other current affairs show like it!Outstanding Jeremy tonight - as soon as I saw Normal Lamont on all I could think of was THAT interview where Jeremy had asked him if he enjoyed being chancellor, with Norman replying yes, then Jeremy asking if eh would miss it! Ha ha ha!!! However the highlight of the night, for me, was the Daniel Barenboim interview. Just brilliant :-)
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re the book I agree with the guest on the tv screen.
with an emerging mega power in the east, China, we need a strong Russia
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Council Tax pays for flats in Moscow...conservatives work in the Kremlin... establishing the Sovereignty System...
The genetically erroneous medical system that turns courage into upset..opportunism into annoyance...maximums into minimums... and breaks people inside..
...They selects those who chose employment dispute fights as a way of economic life ...to keep the establishment defended ...
....and to prevent the poor nationalists from getting power back through taxation ....
...whilst making them too weak to dispute ..too behaved to concentrate on work...to ignored to get political power... unable to speak hear or produce sound...unable to teach others or remember their past...
Some of Britain has been studying the newly legitimised beliefs in life ...
But Revivalist dictatorship here wants the labour liberalism and conservatism of civilisation.. not tribal employment medically assisted by genocidal idealists and their soveriegnity systems personell issues...
BCD TLC .. The Libertarian Conservatives ... we want our nation back .... we see the future for us all...and we know the past that worked...
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I agree with you and this Newsnight show looked like no one could be bothered no energy at all.
Vince Cable is becoming a "turn" and not a good one
Why don't they just make films bolt them all together with a voiceover if no one wants to be bothered and save a lot of licence fee money.
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MORE ON NEOCONS
In my view, Pat Buchanan summed the West's 'Russophobia' rather well:
Daily, the media deluges us with insidious Neoconservative propaganda. If it isn't the 'axis of evil', it's the Shanghai Group. This is classic Neoconservative, psychopathic, INSTRUMENTAL, paranoia. More should wake up to what this really is, and whose interests it all best serves. It's in the statistics and bae-rates.
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