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The Bamboo Waikiki is a serene and intimate boutique hotel in Waikiki offering an oasis of calm in the heart of Waikiki, Hawaii. Just minutes away from popular Waikiki attractions, our Waikiki Condo-Tel is home to an exceptional array of contemporary accommodations, pampering services and fine amenities that appeal to leisure and executive travelers alike.
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Welcome back everyone after months of negotiation attorney generals from 49 states have reached a historic settlement with five of the largest loan providers in the country.
The landmark deal providing relief to struggling homeowners to the tune of 25 billion dollars so.
How do you know if you actually qualify for -- back cash Fox News legal analyst Matthew thanks now live from Las Vegas to explain -- -- Morning so can you briefly discussed for us this mortgage yeah settlement -- -- -- And as you introduce it five of the big ones the Wells Fargo the chase is the Bank of America's GM AC's this city.
They basically in this negotiations and the order was signed by a federal judge said listen we are going to give certain money.
Choose the states and what's going to happen as a result if you're eligible which will talk about it a minute you -- get some principal reduction.
You can't get your loan refinance if you're in deep fault and for those people Gretchen who for what were wrongfully foreclosed on.
I will tell you get sort of -- -- of some type of -- But it is something that at least positive it's happening the reason I wanted to talk about it the day.
Is because this thing is now in action.
And I want our viewers to understand basically how this is going can affect some Americans are right so how do homeowners know if they can actually receive any kind of relief for any of these benefits.
You and I would we make our mortgage payments have servicers as they -- alone.
And have the Big Five what happens is those servicers are supposed to contact.
The homeowner and there's a period of time they eligibility they say nine months it's going to take.
And should end by the years up the end of this year.
At that high and they won't let you know your eligibility.
Are -- eligible for this in order to give the website at the end of this piece so people will go to it.
Can you what are you eligible for principal reduction are you eligible for purposes of refinance of the loan.
Are you eligible for any monies and resolve resolve -- wrong foreclosure.
Those servicers are to be doing some type of analysis scratch and that ultimately they will contact you and I hope potentially as a homeowner to see -- fall within the grid.
And can be eligible for one of these reductions or refinance so we should just depend on that Bob because I'm wondering whether or not our viewers.
If they have question should contact their servicers.
Are what you're absolutely.
Absolutely you can contact your servicer.
So if -- -- Wells Fargo servers -- Bank of America G Mac city.
You can't contact them directly and see if a factor eligible they they have no problem doing that and if you do find out because here's the thing.
This program.
Is actually a three year program.
That it's going to take to become eligible or see if you're eligible for but I can represent our viewers and I can speak specifically to our state.
I can tell you that I know people are regular pet principal reductions the other interesting thing.
Gretchen that's happening -- -- try to cover next few weeks.
This settlement has loosened up some things.
There are more lenders interest that are doing some modifications now so there's a few things that's happening.
You know -- terrific job by the attorney general's in this country all right so what was that would setting we're talking about a -- -- we get that actually.
It's it should be up on the screen I apologize that don't have it memorized but that provided it should be hopefully on the graphic.
And obviously we could put it up on the -- Oprah's website out you can contact me.
We'll put it on our website and if you have a housing question you'd like to ask Bob -- please email us.
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Harlequins' Karl Dickson admitted losing their status as Aviva Premiership champions only highlighted the wrongs that needed righting - and after an intense pre-season the scrum-half insists the entire squad are in a position to do just that.
The 31-year-old is held in high regard by director of rugby Conor O'Shea as one of the best in England, however competition at number nine is fierce with Danny Care ahead of him in the pecking order.
Despite Care's loftier status with both club and country, Dickson is all set to push his team-mate all the way and give O'Shea the sort of selection headache a club with title-winning aspirations demands.
Sitting on 85 appearances for the Twickenham Stoop outfit Dickson is also targeting a place in the 100 club this year and he is confident such contributions can lead to individual and collective success.
"Obviously we were disappointed not to be back in the final and winning the Aviva Premiership but there are still many positives from last season," said Dickson.
"We still won the LV= Cup and the A league so it just shows how strong our squad is and those guys will be pushing again for starting spots.
"There's competition across the board through one to 15 so it's just a case of giving Conor [O'Shea] the headaches and letting him decide really.
"I just want another solid year to play as much rugby as I can, pressurise Danny Care as much as I can, and hopefully I'll hit 100 appearances this year.
"I think we are in a better place from last year, we've learnt quite a lot in pre-season, we haven't been running around like headless chickens and I think we have gained some good experience out there and worked on quite a lot of things which we can take into the season.
"We have realised what we could've done last year and what we need to improve on this year to get back to the Aviva Premiership Final and the pre-season has shown we know where we need to be."
Harlequins begin their assault on the title they lost last season to Leicester Tigers at the London Double Header at Twickenham on September 7 when they take on London Wasps.
Healthy competition: Karl Dickson is behind Danny Care in the pecking order for the number nine shirt
And having snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in the very same fixture at the start of last season, coming from 40-13 down to win with a late penalty, Dickson is planning for a less stressful start.
"We are really looking forward to the London Double Header, it will be a massive game against Wasps and hopefully we won't have a re-run of last year and it won't take us till the last twenty minutes for us to gain victory," he said.
"Hopefully we won't wait until 60 minutes to start playing the game and start from minute one and finish at minute 80.
"So far the pre-season has gone pretty well, we've got what we wanted out of it and we just can't wait for the start of the season.
"Our target is obvious, we want to be in the Aviva Premiership Final again, and winning silverware."
The London Double Header returns to Twickenham on 7 September with two crucial Aviva Premiership Rugby matches: London Irish v Saracens followed by London Wasps v Harlequins. Tickets from ticketmaster.co.uk
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The IBM XL C/C++ Compiler is a compiler that has been optimized for IBM Power systems. There are many benefits to using the XL C/C++ compiler, chief of which is a faster compiler time, especially for large C or C++ programs. The compiler is also capable of creating an optimization report which provides information about the optimizations that the compiler was able to perform as well as a list of optimizations that were missed, reducing the amount of time and effort spent tuning applications. It also includes support for loop optimizations, the Mathematical Acceleration Subsystem libraries, as well as support for the Vector Scalar eXtension that is a part of the POWER7 architecture.
1.1 This Guide to InstallationThis Guide to Installation is written specifically for Yellow Dog Linux 7 and the IBM XL C/C++ Compiler version 12.1.
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To install the XL C/C++ Compiler on Yellow Dog Linux you can use
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gcc-4.4.6 |
ppc64 |
gcc-c++-4.4.6 |
ppc64 |
glibc-2.12 |
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glibc-devel-2.12 |
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libgcc-4.4.6 |
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libstdc++-4.4.6 |
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libstdc++-devel-4.4.6 |
ppc & ppc64 |
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3 |
ppc & ppc64 |
perl >= 5.0 |
ppc64 |
Once all of these packages are installed then you are ready to run the xlc_install utility. This utility will:
Check for all prerequisite packages
Uninstall any previous versions of XL C/C++
Install all packages into the default location, which is /opt/ibmcmp/
Automatically invokes the new_install utility, which installs the license file and generates the default configuration file.
Optionally creates symbolic links in /usr/bin/ to the compiler invocation commands
Generates an installation log in the /tmp/ directory
Once you have downloaded the package you will have to unpack it. You can do this by using the following command:
tar -xzf filename
Now you should be able to run the ./xlc_install utility to begin installing the XL C/C++ Compiler. If you have a previous version of XL C/C++ installed or if you have installed the XL Fortran compiler then you will be asked if you wish to continue the installation during the SMP and MASS version check. You will be asked to review and accept/decline a license agreement. The installer will also ask if you wish to create symbolic links for the compiler invocations in /usr/bin/, making it a bit more convenient to invoke the compiler. If all packages are successfully installed then a message is displaying confirming that the compiler install was completed.
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Explicitly specifies the path to install all the compiler packages. NOTE: If this option is not used the default installation location is /opt/ibmcmp/ |
-rpmloc rpmlocation_path |
Explicitly specifies the path where all compiler packages are located. The default rpmlocation_path is ./images-x86/rpms or ./images/rpms, which is relative to the path of the installation tool. NOTE: For most users the -rpmloc rpmlocation_path option is not required in the installation invocation. If you use the utility directly from the CD or electronic image it will automatically determine the source location of the packages. |
Updates the compiler to the Version.Release.Modifications.Fix-Build (V.R.M.F-B) level that the installation utility version supports. |
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Displays debugging information generated during the installation of the compiler. |
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Austerity isn't working...
...and there's nothing wrong with saying "I told you so". But is anyone in government listening?
By Mehdi Hasan Published 26 April 2012 14:51Yesterday I returned to London from a family holiday in the United States - where a small stimulus has led to a growing economy and 25 consecutive months of job growth - to discover that the British economy has now re-entered recession, after shrinking a further 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2012. Or, as the Tory-supporting Sun put it on its front page today:
Don't say we didn't warn you. In fact, don't say I didn't warn you.
If any further evidence was needed that austerity isn't working, that cuts don't work, that George Osborne is a "kamikaze chancellor", this is it. Critics of the New Statesman's economics editor, David Blanchflower, must feel rather foolish right now. Once again, Blanchflower and the Keynesians are vindicated while Osborne and the Austerians are humiliated.
Surveying the empirical evidence from across the continent, Yahoo finance blogger Henry Blodget put it best:
Blodget explained:
Now, this is not to say that the global debt-and-deficit situation is not a huge problem. It is. It is merely to say that, of the two painful ways to work our way out of the problem – "austerity now" or "stimulus now and cuts later" – the second one seems more effective.
In other words, based on the experience of the last five years, it seems that Keynes was right and the Austerians are wrong.
As I said, none of this should really come as a surprise to anyone as all of this was predictable - and predicted. As Paul Krugman has noted:
It's important to understand that what we're seeing isn't a failure of orthodox economics. Standard economics in this case – that is, economics based on what the profession has learned these past three generations, and for that matter on most textbooks – was the Keynesian position. The austerity thing was just invented out of thin air and a few dubious historical examples to serve the prejudices of the elite.
And now the results are in: Keynesians have been completely right, Austerians utterly wrong – at vast human cost.
But the Austerians won't give up without a fight. They seem to have two tactics. The first is to blame the lack of growth on anything other than the cuts - be it the euro crisis, the weather, health-and-safety regulations, the family dog, etc, etc. Yesterday I tweeted this quote from City AM editor Allister Heath, from June 2010:
The years ahead will be very tough - but there will be no double-dip recession made in Downing Street.
Heath responded with this tweet:
Unfortunately, I underestimated this government's competence and commitment to supply-side reforms. They haven't delivered.
Good of him to say so. But "supply-side reforms"? Er, the UK economy, like the global economy, is suffering from an epic lack of demand. Households aren't spending, banks aren't lending, companies aren't investing. "Red tape" isn't what's behind the record rate of unemployment or the absence of growth and confidence. The main reason why the UK economy contracted in the first quarter of this year is because there was a 3 per cent decline in the construction sector - driven, of course, by the Chancellor's crazy decision to slash capital spending.
Even Heath's fellow Austerian, the Telegraph's Jeremy Warner, grudgingly acknowledges this point today at the end of a desperate if heavily caveated defence of Osbornomics and "consolidation":
When companies won't borrow to invest, there's a strong case for governments to do so in their place. And yet when you look at where the axe is falling hardest, it is on government investment – spending on schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, affordable housing, and so on. This is the easiest thing to chop, so that's where the coalition has acted first.
In fact, this form of state spending should be doubled, tripled or even quadrupled. . .
Hear, hear!
The second tactic is to pretend that those of us who draw attention to the political and economic significance of this double-dip recession are somehow "enjoying" or taking "pleasure" from the catastrophic (lack of) growth figures. I've had lots of tweets from Tory trolls using this line of attack. This isn't just nonsensical and offensive but a brazen and desperate attempt to try and divert attention away from those damning figures, which deserve highlighting, and away from the Austerians in Westminster and Fleet Street, who deserve criticising.
We're also told by the cuts-defending Austerians that it is "irresponsible" to talk down the UK economy. But I, for one, won't take lessons in "responsibility" from those who happily, shamelessly and opportunistically talked down the economy when they were in opposition, going so far as to claim that the UK was on the verge of defaulting on its debts and making ludicrous comparisons between the British and Greek economies.
One of the presenters on ITV1's Daybreak programme tried this "You're far too pleased about the recession" tactic this morning, in an interview with Ed Balls. The shadow chancellor's response, however, was spot on:
Interviewer: Well let's talk about that then, talk about the recession, we are in a double dip recession, I guess you're sitting there saying: 'I told you so'?
Balls: Well I sat here on this sofa, one and two years ago and said if the government tries to cut spending and raise taxes too quickly, faster then other countries it will backfire. And the thing which makes me angry is that George Osborne and David Cameron were so personally just dismissive, they just said it was rubbish and now we are back in recession. Their plan has categorically failed, families and businesses are now really paying the price. That self-defeating austerity has put us through such pain and we need an alternative plan. We've got to get jobs and growth moving, they should've done this much earlier.
Showing anger at the coalition's arrogance, incompetence and failure to listen or respond is the right response to such questions. Now is the time for the Labour leadership to sit on the fence or split the difference or triangulate; now is the moment to channel the public's anger and discontent. It seems to be working for President Obama.
Remember: we are not all in this together. And the argument over the cuts isn't just about politics or economics; it's about real people's lives and livelihoods. Britons are suffering. According to new figures from the Trussell Trust charity, for example, the number of people visiting foodbanks for emergency food in the UK has doubled in the last year, to over 128,000 people.
So let's be clear: Ed Miliband is doing a fine job on phone-hacking, the Murdochs and Huntgate but these aren't the issues that will win him the next general election. The economy was, is and will continue to be the defining issue of this parliament - and, as yesterday's GDP figures conclusively demonstrate, the coalition government has made a mess of it. If the Labour leader is able to stand before voters in May 2015 and pull a Reagan, Cameron and Clegg will be in big trouble. And Osborne's much-hyped reputation as a master strategist will be buried for good.
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Eventually socialists run out of other people's money...US U6 Unemployment rate is about 20%- many, many are out of work or underemployed- this alone will get obama dumped in November. Government infrastructure is a big thing to even slightly turn direction- I would not want to be a Brit or German right now- tied to the Euro & your weaker brothers- do you enjoy supporting French retirees at age 62? May the force be with you...
Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman estimates that cutting budgets by 1 per cent of GDP reduces GDP by around 1.25 per cent.
The government is running down the economy.
As the Telegraph's Jeremy Warner wisely wrote, "When companies won't borrow to invest, there's a strong case for governments to do so in their place. And yet when you look at where the axe is falling hardest, it is on government investment – spending on schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, affordable housing, and so on. This is the easiest thing to chop, so that's where the coalition has acted first.
In fact, this form of state spending should be doubled, tripled or even quadrupled. . ."
How long has the Coalition to be in office before its supporters accept that it has any responsibility for the economy?
The 'blame it all on Labour' tactic is always a diminishing asset!
Hasan needs to do his homework before he posts.
The real unemployment rate in the States is still above 20%. Not the "official govt. number".
The total national debt is over $15 trillion.
Student debt is now over $1 trillion.
To get social service help in many cities, you have to literally be bankrupt and have nothing BEFORE you can apply. Expect a 2-3 week wait for a decision (no gurantees). Then, it's short-term help, if at best.
Food bank usage is at an all-time high. How many homeless people have you seen today on London streets?
Kenysan, Austrian and neo-classical economists are all wrong for two reasons:
The total global debt can never be repaid.
Austerity cuts won't help.
There will be no more bailouts. Where will govts. get the money? Will they go to the IMF or ECB as the Germans are kicking and screaming to try and stop it?
Many businesses just don't trust the govt., or the two main parties. What has Milliband done to restore that trust? If Labour really wants a "bold and visionary plan for the future", start by admitting that the debt can never be repaid. This means we'll have to write it off, nationalize the banks, recapitalize the system and then start over.
Can you name one reputable U.K. economist or politician that's proposed this? No. Can you name one in the States that's proposed this? Again, no. Why? Because doing the right thing is "political suicide"? With all of Galloway's fans going on about how great he is, has HE had the political courage to propose this? No. Instead, it's just endless hype about is he a Muslim or isn't he?
Labour wants the public's vote? Try actually being bold for a change.
There's no sense in comparing the USA with 375 million people ( or thereabouts) and the UK. And besides, I understand there's more Mexicans now exiting the USA than Mexicans trying to get in.. which is telling, I think.
And austerity, which in my view is the equivalent to fasting and prayer - is working as we can see there's no demand. People who are managing not to go under but yet can't find or spare the resources to forge ahead by throwing money about - make no demands. They are treading water so to speak..perhaps watching and waiting..you know, like it says in the Bible.
i suppose in one sense it was a form of austerity that set off the whole sub-prime housing crash back in 2007..I read that people in America discovered they could simply throw the keys of houses they couldn't afford back to the banks, knowing after five years of being austerely bankrupt they could pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and start all over again ( as the song goes).
I totally agree; it's about time we shifted the discourse from Keynsian/Austrian to classic Judeo-Christian economics.
After all;
''Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, for he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.'' - Acts 20:16
In other words, Paul thought ''spending'' was a bad idea; i.e. government spending.
Check, Mate, Mehdi.
"I underestimated this government's competence and commitment to supply-side reforms"
Trickle-down fairy tale economics can never fail, it can only be failed.
The austerity drive is just part of an overall effort by ultra-wealthy global elites to destroy the public programs that provide security to the non-rich (which they see as useless to themselves) and drive down wages (reducing their costs).
It's the end of the mass affluence and security we have had since WW2 and the beginning of a crude subsistence lifestyle for the non-ultra-wealthy population.
The point now is for all of us who believe that this economic mismanagement is not working to fight for change.
Ed M and Ed B are looking more and more credible with each passing day. Look at PMQs - Ham-Face and Gideon get ever more shrill, whilst Ed n Ed quietly re-state the case for growth. It would be stupid of Labour to publish an alternative Budget right now - the election will be in 2015.
Arn't you bothered bythe fact that Balls didn't understand that the dollar is the world currency. Or that printing money to keep the EU alive will devalue all of our pensions.
Austerity is not working and we most definitely are not all in it together.Problem is i do not like or trust labour. Ed Miliband as PM? makes me laugh thiking about it. No matter how well he is doing just now ( and he should be further ahead in the polls), he will never win an outright majority. I hate the tories but i still would not vote for Ed Miliband. And of course there is Europe, immigration and the welfare state. Labour are totally out of touch with the electorate on all of these issues. Put simply, labour have no chance of winning with Miliband and Balls in charge.Anyone thinks otherwise is kidding themselves on. @Robert Taggart, you are an idiot. Many civil servants earn peanuts and do bloody important jobs. Only a moron and a scum bag wants people thrown out of work and to lose their homes, especially when there are no jobs for them to get. let's hope it happens to you first.
Now just apply the semi- compassionate logic regarding civil servants that caused you to call Robert Taggart a moron (on that matter absolutely correct) to people with skin that's a different colour to yours and you might be on the right track.
There are a million reasons for an economic forecast working out to be wrong. The OBR, David Smith and others consistently underate downside risks. The latest excuse is the ONS gets it wrong: it under-estimates growth. Howver, while this explanation might explain total output it cannot explain trend growth. The first thing to recognise is that Osborne's strategy doesn't work. Until you do this there is no Plan B. The question: what would you do should first be directed at Osborne.
Fortunatley for David Cameron & George Osborne, the opposition is a joke, with no clear strategy or idea of what to do, and everyone blames Labour for the mess we are in anyway.
So whilst you can all work yourselves into fits of frenzy. Nobody cares, you had your chance with the economy, you blew it big time and have no credibility with the electorate.
Even if you are right, still nobody cares. It must be so frustrating for you, hilarious for me.
PS. Mehdi...you must learn to write your own articles, this cutting and pasting lark is silly. You can do better, please try.
""austerity now" or "stimulus now and cuts later""
Isn't the opposite also true?... if you borrow massive amounts now, knowing that already Britains debt and deficit is the highest in the EU (thanks to Labour), you'd be building an even bigger deficit. Although this 'may' stimulate growth and jobs in the short term as shown in the US how long would it take to repay the money we owe. Remember that the interest we need to pay back will be gigantic. Wouldn't the cuts after the recovery have to be even greater?
If borrowing now is the way forward, shouldn't the US be in a much stronger position than they are now? I mean they borrowed nearly a $trillion (?) from China
Either way austerity or not we as a country are pretty doomed! and I don't think Labour has an answer either.
Current policies are not working, true, but 2 points:
1) The USA is not a model of how to fix it - the job figures headlines look good, but that's partly due to "seasonal adjustments" in perpituity and partly due to low wage Mcjobs. And the US deficit is growing massively.
2) I want to like Ed Balls, but the Labour alternative is simplistic, as no-one mentions that to get back to regular GDP growth, the corporate /govt culture needs to return to the ideas of investment in assets & infrastructure yielding long-term rewards. Too much of GDP is still made of Services and Financial products that have no longevity in terms of economic benefit.
"I want to like Ed Balls, but the Labour alternative is simplistic"so a five point plan for growth is simplistic, whereas Mr Osborne's cut, cut and cut again is not.
The Labour party never followed Keynes, except Mosley, who left the Labour party because he believed Keynes. Maybe you do not know it, but Keynes is dead for 66 years and 6 days now. He can not defend himself against your stupidity.
But really, how much deficit do you accept for 1 % growth? 15%, 20%, 50%?
Remember 1982? Howe had deliberately created a reserve army of the unemployed and Thatcher was miles behind in the polls. Everybody was predicting she was going to be out on her arse - but she wasn't for turning. Then came the Falklands and Victor Crewe (supposedly independent psephologist) et al did their best to hammer home the message that there was a cross over between her stand against the generals and her resolution in the economy - we all know what that led to (in case you don't it was the destruction of many communities, the creation of an underclass and a scar on our society).
Osborne, being one of those sad Tory idealogues sees himself like that - any sign of a plan B will betray his Thatcherite dream of being proved right against the naysayers. He is like one of those ideological fundamentalists were the evidence before them is clear - they conclude that it is the real world that is wrong - his theoretical one is correct.
If anyone wants to know what the squawking of ideological fundamentalists who cannot accept the reality they are facing looks like, see many of the comments below.
The vast majority would say it's the keep on feeding the monkeys big government plan that is ideological.
To use the US example, in the local store you will see 4 or 5 city (council) permits which allow the store to trade - if it can be bothered. The only problem it that without exception all the goods are poisoned with additives. Each individual item will be safe, but together they will make you sick despite the government permits. The smart Americans shop at unregulated farmers markets; everybody else wonders why their belly is ballooning!
Frankly, when you went there you should have got out of the hotel and had a look around. The US has the same problem as the EU; excessive government spending, and it's hard to believe anybody could be so blinkered.
Re austerity, just because there seems to be no way of getting money into peoples pockets, dosn't meen that it is a good idea to feed it into the government machine; look at spain. Also the pound is rising against the dollar.
I don't know why people think it's a good idea to print money, but look at Europe for gods sake, and open your eyes.
I'm sorry, you have absolutely no idea of what you are blathering on about. I am a US resident (citizen) and the issue here is that the federal stimulus was are too small. Put down the Economist and the Pink 'Un and step away from the Kool-Aid fountain.
The other interlocutor is correct: without the stimulus, the US would be a disaster zone now.
Read first, I wasn't talking to you. Can Labour party supporters read, does Balls stick it up his nose, can such an ignorant party ever win an election.
You're joking, right? State governments slashed spending. The federal stimulus was the only reason we didn't go into a double dip recession ourselves.
And 90% of the cuts still to come! I seriously believe this is the most incompetent, clueless government in my lifetime.
Where is our alternative to austerity, what is the positive alternative to which Labour aspires? What is the socialist alternative to responsible government? Labour's task is too civilize capitalism rather than, in however far distant a future, its suppression: the political-left, has at many times in many diverse cultures and continents tried to create their own Utopian alternative to Capitalism, only to end in the killing fields and the gulag: our own Labour's party's obsession with big government ended in massive debt and a barely avoided economic collapse: few trust Labour with the economy, many may-not like it, be most understand the reasons for austerity. The Labour party are lying to themselves, and to the public if they say otherwise, the majority fully understand Labour would be doing much the same if still in government.
Great column Mehdi my old friend, and thanks for the kind words.
It's not as if we didn't warn Slasher that he was going to destroy growth but he knew best. It is now clear he didn't.
Danny Blanchflower
Can anyone point to a single thing this coalition gov. has made a success of?
Seems to me that when they aren't running away or resigning they are cocking something up.
To paraphrase Churchill it is: A calamity wrapped in a disaster inside a catastrophe.
Such epic failure of the crank creed of supply side economics yet still its blinkered acolytes have enough gall to continue to make fools out of themselves on a blog about the Tories' double dip recession.
Keepers of the faith, for that is what supply side economics is, won't be outdone by awkward stuff like facts and data it seems.
Sad sad people.
Oh Mehdi!
"Once again, Blanchflower and the Keynesians are vindicated while Osborne and the Austerians are humiliated".
You've obviously not read Danny's various NS articles. He's stated he does not support the general stimulus you claim he does - you are undermining his reputation as people will pick up on what you have written. He supports targeted stimulus with a measurable economic return but that is not what you have said.
Say sorry.
Since the economic U turn of Miliband and Balls, Labour's economic policy is Plan A (they will make cuts even if they wont define them before the election). I dont know which political party you are supporting by implying Labour wish to borrow and spend but its not Progress. Are you part of Meacher and crackpots party within a party?
What is with you guys? When is somebody going to take a GLOBAL view of the situation? Yes, socialism should defend benefits but if they are financed by an economy based on cheap production overseas by workers who have never even heard of benefits then we are talking national socialism and that is wrong, wrong, wrong .Austerity is relative.
"small stimulus " Hmm. Which do you mean, the US $10 Trillion debt or the US deficit?
Do you think the £600Bn borrowed by Labour in 11 years was a "small stimulus"? Please could you say what we got for the money (apart from £600Bn debt and the biggest deficit of the major economies)?
As a kid did you believe in things which dont really exit? Which out of these do you no longer believe in: father christmas, 3 bears, tooth fairy and magic state fairy?
If you pretend that the entire deficit is a stimulus (or worse yet, the entire debt), then you do come up with a large stimulus. But of course, there was a large deficit before any stimulus program enacted (and debt incurred in the past provides no stimulus).
If you define stimulus as it was defined by people like Professor Krugman who were calling for a larger stimulus, and as it was defined in actually creating a stimulus program, yes it was a small stimulus.
But you're always free to pretend otherwise.
Over 11 years for the entire country, yes it is. It looks like you are overawed by the size of the number. Although you personally may not have seen anything for the money, those who got support for their children through Sure Start, those who got support to get them off the streets and the patients who were treaetd more quickly by a better NHS certainly felt the benefit. People are not numbers and if we have governments that follow economic policies that treat them as just that then we are on a slippery slope to hell.
£60Bn is enough to give the lowest 6 million people £10k each!!!
Where did the other £540Bn go? It certainly wasnt spent on the NHS. It was enough to buy all the people you mention a house and a private school education. And all they got was child benefit, a little extra social security, Sure Start which didnt work, and an 50% pay rises for all doctors with them doing less work. Half of all people leave school without GCSE maths and English - £10Bn was enough to half this.
I dont think you graps what an enormous amount of money it is. Dont forget the £600bn was on top of all the extra taxes they collected and North Sea oil will peaked under the last government.
So you defend what they did then?
The City AM editor "underestimated this government's competence" and hence was optimistic about economic growth prospects?!
Shurely shome mishtake...
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Yes, I have read it, and the link you provided. And your point is?
There hasn't been any austerity in this country since WWII - it's not working because it doesn't exist. Tightening your belt a little? "Waaahh! Waaahhh! Boo Hoo! Whine! It's austerity!" The idea that there is any is total nonsense and you know it.
Nor are we back in recession - we never left it in the first place. The economy will continue to crawl on its belly for years to come. The country needs to take on a proper depression to fix its problems, instead of papering over the cracks. I blame the Tories, Labour, and the Lib Dems. Have I left anyone out? I also blame YOU. Yes, YOU, dear reader, for taking on more debt than you could afford. You're a grade-A idiot.
Only when the huge amount of public and private debt has been reduced in some significant way, and taxes are cut for EVERYONE - substantially - will any growth even begin to return. That could take twenty years, probably more, with the current way of doing things politically. They're all sh*t.
Cue whingeing and whining.
Seems to me the only quick solution would be to stop paying council tax, so that government is forced to deal with the problem.
Stop feeding the monkeys
Ofcourse it be not working - it has not started !
When we see lame-brain non-job former 'civil' servants queueing for their benefits - then one will believe in austerity.


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Toronto Tea Festival
Looking forward to it.
Hopefully the festival will be a great success and become a yearly event!
Bumping this since we're only a week out. Not sure if anyone wants to "plan anything" in terms of a meet up or just wear a sign on our heads that says steepster but looking forward to it next weekend!
Shoot I entirely forgot. Anyone going from WNY? haha. I hate buses! How much are tickets at the event?
Hey Sil,
It isn't a trade show like the Canadian Coffee & Tea show out at the International Center (near Pearson Airport) where everybody had to wear an ID badge around their neck, but I would wear mine from last Sept 9/10 2012 with a made up inserted name ID tag.
Something like "Toronto Tea Festival", 'Steepster member: Craig Andrews'. I did post a link to my pic earlier in this thread, so it'd be pretty hard NOT to spot me lol! {;-D
Really looking forward to this 1st time ever TO Tea event & possibly/hopefully meeting some Steepster members too.
I'm going! Feel free to randomly say hi (i'm going alone).
I look approximately like this:
@ yappychappy Great you're going, & I'll of course say Hi!, & I'm going alone too.. {:'-(
@ Sil That's what I say too.I asked my brother to go & he wouldn't.. Then tried to talk him into it, & no way.. {:-/
I was there @ 9:30am before it even opened & was there from 10:00am to about 3:15pm. Around 2:00pm I was walking past near the back of the lineup & I noticed/recognized Yappychappy (sort of) by his pic here.
I chatted with him to keep him company till we got to just before the front tables where you pay admission, but I had to leave to go in as a speaking session "Tea In the Himalayas" by kevin Gascoyne was about to start. {;-)
Indigobloom, You might of noticed, I was carrying around the orange Toronto Tea Festival bag along with two additional big black Mandarin restaurant delivery bags (to carry addittional stuff). :D


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Sort of celebrity, was a contestant on American Idol Season 6 and co-wrote Rascal Flatts song "Here Comes Goodbye".
Congratulations to Chris Sligh and his wife Sarah. She delivered their son, McCartney Charles Sligh, by C-Section this morning.
The American Idol season 6 Idol alum tweeted, "McCartney got here @ 8:09am, 20.5 inches and 7lb12oz."
McCartney joins big sister, Keira Lennon, born in 2010.
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I think using McCartney as a first name is pretty cool! I like it! But the sister's middle name is Lennon.... That MIGHT be a little much for me. I still think it's cool, though.
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WHAT IS "BABAFOO"? - Babafoo (pronunciation: Bah-Bah-Foo, origins: The first letters of baseball, basketball, and football) is a social networking and college sports recruiting website where high school athletes come to connect, get discovered and share their sports experiences with friends, family and sports fans around the globe.
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The story in this two-part TV biopic was probably "untold" mainly because it was untrue. According to the revisionist script by Stirling Silliphant, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (overplayed by George C. Scott) may have been a fascist, a tyrant, a mass murderer and an intimate of Adolf Hitler, but he also had his warm and fuzzy side. This was manifested in his genuine love for his gorgeous mistress Clara Petacci (Virginia Madsen), whose devotion to Il Duce was equally strong, so much so that she willingly went to her death along with him when the Axis collapsed and the ex-dictator was summarily shot. Despite his extramarital shenanigans, Mussolini had plenty of affection left over for his long-suffering wife Rachel (Lee Grant) and his children. With a cast comprised largely of non-Italians (notably the aggressively Irish Gabriel Byrne as Mussolini's son Vittorio), this epic had more phony dialects than a Marx Bros. picture. Despite its distant relation to the facts and its flaccid treatment of one of history's darkest periods, Mussolini: The Untold Story (filmed not in Italy but in Yugoslavia) garnered respectable ratings when it was originally telecast by NBC on November 24 and 26, 1985--and also earned a brace of Emmy award nominations. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years 1908 to 1967. We first see the three-year-old Pu Yi being installed in the Forbidden City by ruthless, dying dowager Empress Tzu-Hsui (Lisa Lu). Though he'd prefer to lark about like other boys, the infant emperor is cossetted and cajoled into accepting the responsibilities and privileges of his office. In 1912, the young emperor (Tijer Tsou) forced to abdicate when China is declared a republic, is a prisoner in his own palace, "protected" from the outside world. Fascinated by the worldliness of his Scottish tutor (Peter O'Toole), Pu Yi plots an escape from his cocoon by means of marriage. He selects Manchu descendant Wan Jung (Joan Chen), who likewise is anxious to experience the 20th century rather than be locked into the past by tradition. Played as an adult by John Lone, Pu Yi puts into effect several social reforms, and also clears the palace of the corrupt eunuchs who've been shielding him from life. In 1924, an invading warlord expels the denizens of the Forbidden City, allowing Pu Yi to "westernize" himself by embracing popular music and the latest dances as a guest of the Japanese Concession in Tientsin. Six years later, his power all but gone, Pu Yi escapes to Manchuria, where he unwittingly becomes a political pawn for the now-militant Japanese government. Humiliating his faithful wife, Pu Yi falls into bad romantic company, carrying on affairs with a variety of parasitic females. During World War II, the Japanese force Pu Yi to sign a series of documents which endorse their despotic military activities. At war's end, the emperor is taken prisoner by the Russians; while incarcerated, he is forced to fend for himself without servants at his beck and call for the first time. He is finally released in 1959 and displayed publicly as proof of the efficacy of Communist re-education. We last see him in 1967, the year of his death; now employed by the State as a gardener, Pu Yi makes one last visit to the Forbidden City...as a tourist. Bernardo Bertolucci's first film after a six-year self-imposed exile, The Last Emperor was released in two separate versions: the 160-minute theatrical release, and a 4-hour TV miniseries. Lensed on location, the film won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The four-part British miniseries Pursuit, based upon Robert L. Fish's novel of the same name, was first telecast in the United States as the two-part "movie special" Twist of Fate. Bruce Greenwood essayed the leading role of Helmut Von Schraeder, an ex-S.S. officer on the run after conspiring to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. Undergoing plastic surgery, Von Schraeder assumed the new identity of Jewish concentration camp survivor Daniel Grossman. And as if that wasn't unbelievable enough, "Grossman" went on to a colorful career as an Israeli freedom fighter. The huge multinational cast included British film and TV stalwart Ben Cross and American leading lady Sarah Jessica Parker. Though made for British television, Pursuit did not air in that country until 1990, a full year after its American debut. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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"Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac McDonald) pulls him from his boozy holiday. It seems that the CIA has through a book show intermediary received a package from a Russian book editor named Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer) containing amazingly detailed notebooks written by a cynical Russian physicist named "Dante" (Klaus-Maria Brandauer). The notebooks show that Russia's nuclear threat is a joke: Russian rockets "suck instead of blow...and can't hit Nevada on a clear day," in the acerbic words of CIA Agent Russell Sheridan (Roy Scheider). But why is Dante sending the notebooks to Blair? How shall the Western world respond to what could be the end of the nuclear arms race? Blair gets drafted by a British Secret Service agent (James Fox) to go to the new Russia to meet Katya. He must see whether the new Russia is still immersed in the old Cold War and whether the notebooks are genuine or another deadly chapter in the war of the spies. ~ Nick Sambides, Jr., Rovi
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In this first American film to be shot entirely in Moscow, young vacationing American Archer Sloan (Frank Whaley) gets involved in the theft of a rare religious icon. The "hot-potatoed" icon lands in Sloan's possession and one of the underworld bad guys involved in the theft is murdered. Sloan becomes a suspect and is forced into fleeing the Moscow police while trying to locate the people who can vindicate him. This Glasnost-era film will probably be better remembered for its glimpse into a molting Soviet Union, than for intrigue as an actioner. Included in the cast is Polish producer Roman Polanski. ~ Rovi
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John Lone, the star of the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor (89), portrays a Chinese revolutionary in Shadow of China. Pursued by the Communists, Lone escapes to Hong Kong, where he builds up a multimillion dollar business enterprise. He hopes to use his international clout to effect changes in Mainland China, but he is defeated by revelations of his earlier underhanded business practices, and by the "dangerous" aspects of his previous political activities. Filmed on location, Shadow of China has its moments of violence, but none so extreme as to detract from the storyline. Also, John Lone proves again how his talents have often been wasted in less ambitious projects. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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England, My England
This British biopic attempts to chronicle the life of 17th-century tunesmith Henry Purcell. The filmmakers have had to do much speculating about Britain's first great composer, as little is known about his life back then. It is known that Purcell had been a chorister as a child and then became the court composer for three kings: Charles, James and William. Before his death at age 37, Purcell penned over 1,000 songs and sired a few children, most of whom died at birth. While little is actually known of Purcell, the film successfully recreates the tumultuous era in which he lived. Also running parallel to Purcell's story is a set in the 1960s when English society and values seemed to be rapidly eroding, just as they were in the composer's time. The story concerns a playwright's attempts to research the life of Purcell for his next play. In the last part of the film, several lavish musical numbers from Purcell's vast repertoire are presented. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond in this action thriller, the 17th in the series (excluding the 1967 Casino Royale and the 1983 Never Say Never Again) featuring the suave British super-agent. As the story begins, Agent 007 and his partner, Agent 006 (Sean Bean), pull a daring raid on a chemical weapons plant in the Soviet Union; however, they are captured by Russian troops, and while Bond is able to escape, 006 is not so lucky. Several years later, the Soviet Union and the Cold War are a thing of the past, but Bond is still at work ferreting out evildoers everywhere. Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), a beautiful but vicious villain working with the Russian Mafia, spearheads the theft of the controls to GoldenEye, a high-tech satellite weapons system, and with her gunmen, she kills most of the soldiers and guards at a top-secret military facility in the process. Bond joins forces with Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco), one of the base's few survivors, to help track down Onatopp's minions and the controls to GoldenEye, which can destroy all electronic circuits in a given area in a matter of seconds; however, in time, Bond discovers the true identity of the criminal mastermind who is behind this bid for unholy power and world domination -- none other than Alec Trevelyan, the man Bond once knew as 006. In addition to Brosnan, GoldenEye also marked another significant cast change for the Bond series -- Judi Dench made her debut as M, Bond's superior. Minnie Driver also has a cameo as a nightclub singer. Sadly, this was the last film in the Bond series for special-effects supervisor Derek Meddings, who died in the midst of production; the film was dedicated to him. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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One of William Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, Titus Andronicus was staged in New York by award-winning theatrical director Julie Taymor in an acclaimed 1995 production, before her widely praised Broadway version of The Lion King. Taymor revisits that production for her first motion picture, with the addition of a star-studded cast. Roman General Titus Andronicus (Anthony Hopkins) has returned from defeating the Goths in a bloody battle, but the victory has left him with mixed feelings, as the war took the lives of several of his sons. Titus is reminded by his first-born son Lucius (Angus Macfadyen) that their faith demands the sacrifice of an enemy prisoner as a gift to the gods for their victory. Titus chooses the eldest son of Tamora (Jessica Lange), the Queen of the Goths, who has since been taken hostage by Titus's troops. Tamora pleads for her son's life, but Titus goes ahead with the sacrifice. She then becomes the lover of the new emperor of Rome, Saturninus (Alan Cumming), a weak-willed and corrupt man. Tamora uses her connection to the throne for her own ends: in retaliation for the death of her son, Tamora and her surviving sons, Chiron (Jonathan Rhys Myers) and Demetrius (Matthew Rhys), brutally rape Titus's beloved daughter, Lavinia (Laura Fraser). This act sets in motion an ever-tightening spiral of revenge and retaliation that leaves few of the participants unscathed. The supporting cast includes Colm Feore as Marcus, Harry Lennix as Aaron, and James Frain as Bassianus. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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This ambitious, four-hour cable miniseries stars Jeremy Sisto (taking time off from his regular series Six Feet Under) as Roman general-turned-emperor Julius Caesar. Expensively filmed in Malta and Bulgaria, the production vividly traces Caesar's rise to prominence as a brilliant military tactician (with remarkably accurate battle scenes); his complex relationships with his mentor General Pompey (Chris Noth) and his second wife Calpurnia (Valeria Golino); his ideological tiltings with Senator Cato (Christopher Walken), who advocates democracy over Caesar's dictatorial ambitions; and his bloody (but inevitable) murder at the hands of former friends and allies. Taking some dramatic license with the facts, the film is basically sympathetic to its subject, although Caesar is depicted as a flawed man, both physically and morally. Giving Caesar points for being fundamentally honorable, in full possession of his faculties, and possessing the "common touch" with the Roman citizenry, the teleplay does not shrink away from the man's violent epileptic seizures, his megalomania, his casually calculated cruelties, and his bigamous relationship with Egyptian queen Cleopatra (Samuela Sardo). Interestingly enough, however, the miniseries downplays his notorious bisexuality ("Every man's woman and every woman's man"). In his final performance, Richard Harris appears as Caesar's wily
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