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Ronald Bergan: We can't whitewash Hollywood's racist past | Film | guardian.co.uk

  • I could go on and on, but the bonfire is now burning brightly. On the other hand, should we not be mature enough to acknowledge that Hollywood was (is?) part of an ideological superstructure determined by the capitalist economic system and, since its inception, it has projected a largely conservative white middle-class view of the world? Perhaps we should be grateful that we have now reached a time in film history where we have constructed a less passive acceptance of the mores of the dominant film culture, and have a wider critical perspective in relation to the "real" and its misrepresentation in the cinema.

Climate change creationists | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  • As I argued previously, the denial phrase allows them to claim that the debate around global warming is a purely political argument. It isn't and it is dangerous for that notion to gain any traction. Plus I've seen the phrase "eco-Nazi" repeated too many times on blogs to want to sink to that level of debate.

The Publican - Home - Pub sales down 7.3 per cent since smoking ban

  • Overall sales in English and Welsh pubs are down 7.3 per cent since the introduction of the smoking ban, a survey has revealed.

Eurotunnel to pay first dividend | Business | guardian.co.uk

  • Eurotunnel's long-suffering shareholders will soon receive their first dividend in 22 years. This morning the Channel tunnel operator announced that it made a net profit of €40m (£35.6m) last year – only the second in its history – meaning investors will receive €0.04 per share.

Man fined for smoking bong containing cat | Society | guardian.co.uk

  • Sheriff's deputies fined 20-year-old Schomaker for animal cruelty after responding to a domestic disturbance. Officers caught him smoking from a box-like contraption with Shadow inside the 30cm x 15cm base.

Self-styled lord and sex shop owner guilty of £229m bank theft attempt | UK news | guardian.co.uk

  • The gang were defeated, however, by relatively elementary errors in filling out electronic forms on the SWIFT international transfer payment system. They had acquired account details and matching passwords by installing key-logging software on the bank's computers.

Timeline: the supermarkets inquiry | Business | guardian.co.uk

  • The wide-ranging package of measures to curb supermarket dominance comes after a decade of investigation into the industry. As this timeline shows, regulators have often struggled to find concrete proof that small suppliers are suffering.

Tesco wins appeal on competition test | Business | guardian.co.uk

  • The Competition Appeals Tribunal backed the UK's biggest grocer and opposed a plan put forward by the Competition Commission to make new supermarket developments subject to a "competition test". The test would have forced local planners to take into account the variety of grocery outlets available in an area before giving the go-ahead for a new store. The test was designed to prevent any grocer becoming too dominant in any town, but its impact would have fallen mainly on Tesco.

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen: is it game over for Swiss banks | Business | The Observer

  • Switzerland is now an international whipping boy. This year it suffered the indignity of being refused an invitation to the international G20 conference to be held in London in April to discuss reforms to the global financial system - despite a plea by president Merz, who doubles as his country's finance minister, to Gordon Brown at the World Economic (WEF) meeting in the Swiss ski resort of Davos at the end of January. For the world's seventh largest financial centre, the snub is more than an embarrassment. It means the country has become neutered, unable to influence events that could shape globalisation for decades to come.

UK plc must do its bit for broken Britain | Business | The Guardian

No, the real reason that business avoids paying tax is because it can. Many of the best brains in Britain are employed picking holes in the UK's tax code, so much so that a 2006 study cited tax planning as one of the hidden manifestations of British innov

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Obama bid to stamp out tax havens | Business | guardian.co.uk

  • Senator Carl Levin, who along with Obama tried to introduce similar legislation in recent years, only for it to be thwarted by George Bush, said: "President Obama's support for the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, as announced by treasury secretary Geithner, is very welcome news and greatly improves the chances of an offshore tax bill becoming law this year. It also sends a strong signal to tax havens that this administration is not going to tolerate the kind of offshore tax abuses that have been draining $100bn a year from the US treasury and that, as a result, offload the tax burden onto the backs of honest taxpayers."

Lucy Powell: Beer drinkers need a bail-out | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

  • Pressure is building for action to protect pubs from what is becoming a catastrophic decline. More than 155 MPs, 73 of those Labour, have signed a parliamentary motion (early day motion 10) to save the Great British pub, and a campaign run by the beer and pub industry and CAMRA, the campaign for real ale, already has tens of thousands of supporters.

Policing and crime bill: putting people first | Home Office

  • introducing a mandatory code of practice for alcohol retailers and a series of amendments to police powers to allow them to tackle young people drinking in public more effectively

British Beer & Pub Association - News

  • Oxford Economics 5 year impact study forecasts: a further 75,000 jobs at risk in the drinks industry; a drop in alcohol sales by over 11%; consumer prices up 17% and tax revenue from alcohol £1.6 billion lower than original Treasury estimates.

British Beer & Pub Association - News

  • "We are also asking them to abandon the Mandatory Code in the Police and Crime Bill, which Government say will cost the industry an extra £300 million this year alone and lead to further job losses and pub closures."

Beer tax increases cost 20,000 jobs so far | Politics | guardian.co.uk

  • The figures came alongside a separate forecast by Oxford Economics that 75,000 more jobs in the drinks industry are at risk. The finding is based on the impact of last year's 18% increase in excise duty and the implications of the four-year drinks tax escalator. The two beer tax increases placed an additional £520m cost burden on the sector, the data show.

What Cooked the World's Economy? It wasn't your overdue mortgage.

  • Interestingly, the company that put the basic hardware and software together for pricing and clearing derivatives was Bloomberg. It was quite expensive for a financial institution—say, a bank—to get a Bloomberg machine and receive the specialized training required to certify analysts who would figure out the terms of the insurance. These Bloomberg terminals, originally called Market Masters, were first installed at Merrill Lynch in the late 1980s. Subsequently, thousands of units have been placed in trading and financial institutions; they became the cornerstone of Michael Bloomberg's wealth, marrying his skills as a securities trader and an electrical engineer. It's an open question when or if he or his company knew how they would be misused over time to devastate the world's economy.

Nation's Blacks Creeped Out By All The People Smiling At Them | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

  • According to the poll, more than 92 percent of African-Americans have noticed a dramatic increase in the number of beaming Caucasians in their vicinity, as well as a marked rise in the instances of white people making direct eye contact with them on the bus, engaging them in pleasant conversation, and warmly gazing in their general direction with a mix of wonder, pride, and profound contentment. All respondents reported being "petrified" by the change.

Harold Meyerson - It's Renovation, Not Socialism - washingtonpost.com

  • "We are all socialists now," proclaims Newsweek. We are creating "socialist republics" in the United States, says Mike Huckabee, adding, on reflection, that "Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff." We are witnessing the Obama-era phenomenon of "European socialism transplanted to Washington," says Newt Gingrich.

Michael Gerson - A Week of Revelation - washingtonpost.com

  • This is not merely the rejection of "trickle-down economics," it is a weakening of the theoretical basis for capitalism -- that free individuals are generally more rational and efficient in making investment decisions than are government planners.
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