WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE UK ECONOMY - PT 1

What concerns ordinary people, and therefore politicians, about the economy at the moment is inflation and mortgage interest rates. What they want in general is financial stability, economic growth and social peace.While governments dream up tax and spend programs, central banks are supposed to keep the economy ship-shape as concerns stable prices for consumers, employment and productivity for producers, and currency exchange rate and...

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RUSSIA CLEANS UP AFTER THE COMMUNISTS

1 July 2023 https://youtu.be/Ddc1ix_9MIIAt tremendously high speed, this guy Max Blumenthal sums up just about every crit made of Biden's war on Russia.But is anyone listening?The military industrial gov elite are visibly corrupt and self serving, but the electorate seem to be jaded and accepting. There are countless videos and articles on the decline of infrastructure in the USA, of the poverty in USA cities, homelessness, drugs,...

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WEATHER IN BALI

1 July 2023 Bali is year-round warm and humid, as it's a tropical island just south of the equator. Ubud is inland and very green and a bit cooler at night, around 29°C and for me 20° as A/c is on ha ha.Higher up or further North you go, the cooler it gets. Kintamani, Mount Batur, climbing the Campuhan Ridge before sunrise...all ok (I don't walk in the dark, nay nay). This morning, I was halfway up the Ridge, it was around half six, what...

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WHERE ARE THOSE OF GOOD FAITH?

01 July 2023 Over half of Ukrainians have lost on average three members of their family or friends dead in this conflict. Dead.Ukraine will never in the distant forseeable future ever join neither NATO nor the EU.The Ukrainian army is being finished off and the govt in Kiev will likely succumb to a popular vote and be replaced by one more willing to recognise the "rights" of its Russian citizenship and the benefits of neutrality.Ukraine...

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NABEN - A BALINESE HINDU COLLECTIVE FUNERAL

30 June 2023 You have to attend and talk to local people before you can understand what otherwise seem to be bizarre local customs and rituals at a Hindu Bali funeral, called a "naben".Cremation is believed to drive off evil spirits linked to greed or excessive desire, allowing the person a second chance following his or her rebirth. It is a purification of the soul.However, I am told that the cost of an elaborate cremation ceremony in...

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REVIEW OF LEGAL AND GENERAL LGEN

29 June 2023 Can anyone reading this post answer this query - I am not qualified in this area. My holding is twice my target position size. I should have sold part at 280p+, but foolishly skipped my own precepts on diversification (15% of my dividefensive portfolio, should be 7%).Comforted by the yield: 8.5% - payout ratio: 50% - cash payout: 6%.9 on last 10 yrs of divi increases at 5% on ave increase every yr for last 5 yrs....

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WHY DID PRIGO MARCH ON MOSCOW

28 June 2023 https://www.youtube.com/live/0OAKfQri1Vk?feature=shareSo Prigo was a plant, a dble agent, played to distract Ukrainian intelligence at a time when Russia was exposed in the course of making troop movements. The CIA apparently and Biden contacted the Kremlin to reassure America was not involved. Something Putin never accused America of in the first place.The man wearing my grandmother's curtains says Prigo is a dangle.Personally,...

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A CAUTIONARY TALE

27 June 2023It never rains, then it pours!(A cautionary tale.)                     Resi Cave, WONOGIRIJust lost Marc, my French friend who ran a bar with his localborn wife. Lost my friend and colleague James a couple of months back too. And Alex, another great guy on the  Residents' Committee where I live. My friend's mother is another. Just this year.Dear oh dear oh dear!!! ...

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MOSCOW HAS NOT BEEN SACKED

24 June 2023 Putin has always treated Prigozhin like a wayward kid brother and now lets him off the hook and slink away to Belarus, a less well structured state where he Prigozhin could do real damage - Belarus is almost as important to Russian security as Ukraine.In a Western democracy, Prigozhin would be under lock and key by now.Imagine if Prigozhin had reached Moscow and begun looting. Reminds me of those few hundred...

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS

23 June 2023 On a different subject from the focus on war, here is a nicely written article on a subject of personal interest, and demographics means emerging global interest too. https://thebalisun.com/health-and-wellness-becomes-top-tourism-priority-for-bali/ ...

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HUMMUS - BEST RECIPE

23 June 2023 https://www.themediterraneandish.com/how-to-make-humm...

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