A beautiful essay as endorsement of Obama by the great Alice Walker, who argues that we must build alliances not on ethnicity or gender, but on truth. Alice Walker on Obama, The Root.com [via Daily Kos]
Apologies to those of you who use Internet Explorer and have got an “Aborted” message when visiting this website. Hopefully the issue is resolved now. I would have continued to be unaware of it but for Christine Clear and Rosemarie Rowley. Rosemarie sent me an email wondering if my website had moved. In Christine’s case, [...]
hello! spring is here… and the Shell AGM approaches in May. We have 6 shell shares to give away! You must be prepared to be an active shareholder!! (go along to the meetings either in London or Holland on Tuesday 20th May 2008) http://www.shell.com/home/content/investor-en/shareholder/faq/rds_shareholder_faqs.html You will have to give some personal details. for contact see [...]
Who would have thought it? Ireland owns part of the US debt, according to a scary article in The Daily Telegraph. As of June 2007, foreigners owned $6,007bn of long-term US debt. (Equal to 66pc of the entire US federal debt). The biggest holdings by country are, in billions: Japan (901), China (870), UK (475), [...]