December 2011
6 posts
“There’s no such thing as a poor urbanized country; there’s no such thing as a...”
– Edward Glaeser, cited by Robert Kunzig in The City Solution via National Geographic Magazine (via stoweboyd)
Funny, I thought most urbanised countries were bankrupt, or going that way pretty quick.
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EU to close Patriot Act data access loophole
In case you missed it, Microsoft opened a can of worms in June when they were the first US company to finally admit that they would release data from any of their global datacentres if requested by the US goverment under the patriot act. This contravenes European data privacy regulations, and when you consider the kinds of data US companies hold (Lockheed Martin and the UK Census data for...
“For first time in 20 years, TV ownership declines. And households watch a record...”
– Emergent Futures Tumblelog
Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office... →
As the Italian government struggled to borrow and Spain considered seeking an international bail-out, British ministers privately warned that the break-up of the euro, once almost unthinkable, is now increasingly plausible.
Diplomats are preparing to help Britons abroad through a banking collapse and even riots arising from the debt crisis.
The Treasury confirmed earlier this month that...