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Profit and PR are the real enemies of innovation
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Profit and PR are the real enemies of innovation
From drugs to computers, the big rewards are now in tweaking existing products and presenting them as ground-breaking
Bryony Finn of the Science Museum inspects the Pilot ACE, the fastest computer in the world in the 1950s and fundamentally designed by Alan Turing. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/PA
For more than a decade, we have been told that the pharmaceutical industry faces a crisis: it finds it more and more difficult to develop new drugs. The returns on research and development, company executives plead, are dismal. In the US particularly they have therefore lobbied for longer periods of patent protection, more government subsidies and less regulation of new drugs.
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Mexican Victims of Violence Take Aim Against U.S. Firearms
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Mexican Victims of Violence Take Aim Against U.S. Firearms MEXICO CITY, Aug 11 2012 (IPS) - “The United States should stop producing so many weapons, which cause us so much harm. That country also suffers from so much violence, as billions of dollars go into manufacturing guns.” That is the message that anti-crime activist Fernando Ocegueda will take to the public in the United States, during a one-month visit to that country by the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity, made up of 70 family members of victims of violence in Mexico.
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International Day for the Rights of Indigenous peoples
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International Day for the Rights of Indigenous peoples
9 August 2012
United Nations Headquarters
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Photo Credit: Mr. Xaisongkham Indouangchanthy
The 18th commemoration of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples will be held on Thursday, 9 of August 2012 at the UN Headquarters in New York, organized by the Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues DSPD/DESA, the United Nations Department of Public Information, and the NGO Committee on the Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
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Re-making Financial Policy to Meet Society’s Needs
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Re-making Financial Policy to Meet Society’s Needs
Visit the South Centre’s website: www.southcentre.org The financial sector has been hit by major crises and scandals, to the point that its credibility with the public has fallen to historically low levels. A re-thinking and re-making of financial policies and the role of financial institutions is thus urgently needed. This was the theme of a lecture presented by the distinguished former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Yaga Venugopal Reddy, which was made in conjuncture with the 2012 Annual General Meeting of the Bank for International Settlements held in Basel, Switzerland. The 2012 Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture by Mr Reddy, made on 24 June 2012, covered three main themes: (1) Society and Finance, (2) Economic Policies and the Financial Sector, and (3) Regulation of the Financial Sector. Below is the first part of the lecture, on Society and Finance. Future issues of SouthViews will publish the other two parts of the lecture.
By Yaga Venugopal Reddy
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Cuban foreign Minister respnds to US' keeping Cuba on its terror black list
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Cuban foreign Minister respnds to US' keeping Cuba on its terror black listPosted: 01 August 2012
Yet again, the only reason Cuba is kept on this list is exposed as an attempt to justify the U.S. blockade of our country, as well as the adoption of new measures to limit our financial and commercial transactions, to strangle the Cuban economy and impose a regime which responds to U.S. interests.
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The LIBOR Scandal: Why Is It Scandalous?
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The LIBOR Scandal: Why Is It Scandalous?
Immanuel Wallerstein - Since July 4, we have been reading in major world newspapers and in statements by legislators, central banks, and judicial authorities, that there is a "scandal" about something called LIBOR. Before that time, few persons outside the group concerned with banking had even heard of LIBOR. Suddenly, we were being told that major banks in Great Britain, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, France, and probably a number of other countries had engaged in actions that were allegedly "fraudulent."
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Hugo Chavez campaigns for third presidential term
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Hugo Chavez campaigns for third presidential term
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The Venezuelan president had some tough words for his challenger Henrique Capriles Randonski whom Chavez has accused of being a tool of the Venezuelan upper classes and the United States.
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Punish Those Carrying Out FGM, Say Côte d’Ivoire Campaigners
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Punish Those Carrying Out FGM, Say Côte d’Ivoire CampaignersABIDJAN, Jul 27 2012 (IPS) - Nine women in the northern Côte d’Ivoire town of Katiola have been convicted for carrying out female genital mutilation – the first time that a 1998 law banning FGM has been applied.
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Poetry Book Launch: Victoria on the Banks of the Mainstream
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Poetry Book Launch: Victoria on the Banks of the Mainstream
M E D I A A D V I S O R Y For Immediate Release: Poetry Book Launch: Victoria on the Banks of the Mainstream The media is invited to attend the book launch for the brand new poetry collection Victoria on the Banks of the Mainstream, a project funded by a grant from the Greater Victoria Spirit Committee Society to celebrate Victoria’s 150th Anniversary.
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Maude Barlow, chair of the Council of Canadians, says seven Conservative MPs whose 2011 election wins are being challenged in Federal Court by a group backed by her organization want to see a $250,000 deposit on costs in case the challengers lose. (Juan Karita/Associated Press)
