out reform of the country’s banks.
The article's 471 comments speak volumes of course - best encompassed by the following ...
"I think that Angela Knight has shown herself and her organisation, the British Bankers Association, to be stunningly disinterested in the very customers she claims the banks are so concerned about. She stated that certain past 'mistakes' (rip offs by the major banks) were no longer businesses the banks were in and they were now looking to the future (I paraphrase) - that 'this was the right thing to do'. No Angela Knight, it is not the 'right thing to do', not until all ripped off customers have been recompensed and that is quite simply not happening. Most customers of banks are treated with total and utter contempt - the banks seem to spend their days dreaming up ways to rip us off - getting caught out - refusing to deal with the customers complaints, indifferent to their customers and finding 'moving on' a more profitable solution.I think the BBA should consider the havoc its members have wreaked, the thousands of hard working bank employees sacked while the 'money-go-round' people, responsible for bankrupting banks, take ridiculous bonuses. It is also not just the bank workers, it is all the other hard working people made redundant, through no fault of their own, as the result of the financial meltdown caused by the banks - whose money-go-round management have felt absolutely ZERO pain - at all.How about starting with a small 5 letter word that starts with 'S' and ends in 'Y' - and then putting things right, not by casting responsibility aside and 'moving on' but by putting things right for customers and staff - instead of pocketing the ridiculous bonuses?"
As Charles Moore recently concluded ... "In some ways, our banking problem is even worse than our trade union one 30 years ago, because of the lure of money. Most powerful people in the country – especially in London – have a strong motive to suck up to the big banks. If you work in the arts, if you are a politician, or a retiring permanent secretary, or a senior army officer, if you run a university, a charity or a political party, you will want bankers as your friends, and so you will blanch at Mr King's frankness. Well, a lot of my best friends are bankers (though possibly rather fewer if they have got to the end of this article), but I'm glad someone is speaking up against a world where morality has simply turned upside down."…
an change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
As Elisabet Sahtouris has said in - Ecosophy: Nature’s Guide to a Better World
In this truly cosmic model, the Greeks believed that if we knew how
the greater cosmos was organized, we would know how to organize
our human cosmos. The greater cosmos came out of chaos, which was
not seen as the disorder for which we use the word chaos, but as the
unpatterned no-thing-ness of the universal source, the infinite
potential (chaos, more as in today’s chaos theory) within which all
arises. Thus, the matter of how cosmos-as-order arose and functions
is of supreme importance for human life.
Although ‘The Great Wave’ is often seen as typically Japanese, in fact
it mixes influences from both east and west. Hokusai’s imagination
had been captured in his youth by his discovery of European-style
perspective. Now, aged about seventy, he adapted European
perspective in a very inventive way, playing games in the image
between the relative sizes of the large storm wave in the foreground
and tiny Mount Fuji in the distance. Japanese prints such as 'The Great Wave' influenced Western artists
such as Whistler, van Gogh and Monet. During the 20th century and
beyond, the image has spread even more widely into popular culture
and has been frequently replicated and adapted. It is even painted as
a mural on a house in Camberwell, South London. This British
Museum Exhibit is a unique opportunity to delve into the story
behind this iconic work, learn how Hokusai made ‘The Great Wave’,
and discover how the print has become a truly global inspiration.
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ut reform of the country’s banks.
The article's 471 comments speak volumes of course - best encompassed by the following ...
"I think that Angela Knight has shown herself and her organisation, the British Bankers Association, to be stunningly disinterested in the very customers she claims the banks are so concerned about. She stated that certain past 'mistakes' (rip offs by the major banks) were no longer businesses the banks were in and they were now looking to the future (I paraphrase) - that 'this was the right thing to do'. No Angela Knight, it is not the 'right thing to do', not until all ripped off customers have been recompensed and that is quite simply not happening. Most customers of banks are treated with total and utter contempt - the banks seem to spend their days dreaming up ways to rip us off - getting caught out - refusing to deal with the customers complaints, indifferent to their customers and finding 'moving on' a more profitable solution.I think the BBA should consider the havoc its members have wreaked, the thousands of hard working bank employees sacked while the 'money-go-round' people, responsible for bankrupting banks, take ridiculous bonuses. It is also not just the bank workers, it is all the other hard working people made redundant, through no fault of their own, as the result of the financial meltdown caused by the banks - whose money-go-round management have felt absolutely ZERO pain - at all.How about starting with a small 5 letter word that starts with 'S' and ends in 'Y' - and then putting things right, not by casting responsibility aside and 'moving on' but by putting things right for customers and staff - instead of pocketing the ridiculous bonuses?"
As Charles Moore recently concluded ... "In some ways, our banking problem is even worse than our trade union one 30 years ago, because of the lure of money. Most powerful people in the country – especially in London – have a strong motive to suck up to the big banks. If you work in the arts, if you are a politician, or a retiring permanent secretary, or a senior army officer, if you run a university, a charity or a political party, you will want bankers as your friends, and so you will blanch at Mr King's frankness. Well, a lot of my best friends are bankers (though possibly rather fewer if they have got to the end of this article), but I'm glad someone is speaking up against a world where morality has simply turned upside down."
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possible?".
As is known by many I was born a dyslexic in the world of lexics,
but supported by family and life, enabled to truly understand the
mis-guided code of the lexics in order to fit. Since my early awareness
of Jung, Graves, Carson, Harding and Pirsig at Grammar School,
I have followed my own voyage of discovery and know as da Vinci
would know that your lexic masterpiece will forever sit next to
Pirsig's original. You must now think about your own "Lila".
http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-if
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had a long way to go before it peaked; rising salaries and attrition rates were not a cause for long-term concern; and Indian IT would soon become a $100 billion industry. I was, of course, right.
Now I am ready to declare the end of the line for Indian IT. There are new $100 billion opportunities that could revitalize this industry. BUT from what I’ve seen, Indian executives seem incapable of steering their ships in the right directions.
It is not that Indian outsourcers have become less capable of servicing Western needs. It is that their customer base - the CIO and IT department - is in decline. With the advent of tablets, apps, and cloud computing, users have direct access to better technology than their IT departments can provide them. They can download cheap, elegant, and powerful apps on their IPads that make their corporate systems look primitive. These modern-day apps don’t require internal teams of people doing software development and maintenance - they are user customisable and can be built by anyone with basic programming skills.
It takes decades to update legacy computer systems, and corporate IT departments move at the speed of molasses. So, Indian outsourcers have a few more years before they suffer a significant decline. They certainly won’t see the growth and billion-dollar outsourcing deals that have brought them this far.
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Added by Michael Grove at 12:40 on December 31, 2013