Iceland President tells Davos 2013 – let banks fail instead of making the public pay for their failures. This is what Iceland’s done and its economy is recovering, unlike economies where governments have made the public pay to bail out banks. He also says shrinking the financial sector leads to increased competitiveness in other key 21st century sectors, as the talent that the bloated financial sector sucked in goes to innovative work.
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Useful False economy guide – Make the NHS work for us, not big business
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This False Economy Guide to the new NHS structures looks very useful.
Calderdale SOS open meeting 4th Feb – NHS & Adult Education campaigns
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Calderdale Save Our Services is holding an Open Campaign Meeting on Monday 4 February 7 – 9pm at Horton House, 7 Horton Street, Halifax, HX1 1PU
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Top 5 stories week ending 25th Jan
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Over the last 7 days there were 646 visits to Changing More Than Lightbulbs.
Top 5 stories were:
- Keep the NHS Public
- Hebden Bridge Matters – to Hibu and Yell
- Switching to a Renewable Energy Supplier
- Calderdale Low Carbon Buildings News
- Water cycle
The Fuel Poverty update was in the top 10. I thought with the snow, that would’ve been more popular!
20 places to keep up to date on clinical commissioning & CC groups
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Sat 2nd Feb-Northern Towns Against Cuts March, Halifax
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Top Stories Jan 4-18
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Over the last 2 weeks 1403 visitors read posts on Changing More Than Lightbulbs.
Top stories over last 2 weeks:
- Hebden Bridge Matters…to Hibu/Yell Ltd (263)
- Conservation watchdog’s approval of grouse shooting estate operations on protected moors may fail key legal test (123)
- Ban the Burn Takes blanket bog campaign to Brussels(71)
- Oxford Real farming Conference 2013 (71)
- Incredible Edible Mytholm (67)
- Switching to a renewable energy supplier (56)
- Blanket bog – its global significance, erosion, hydrology & (mis)management (42)
- Environmental Audit Committee let Natural England off the hook about enforcing law on Walshaw Moor Estate (34)
- Government plans for reducing land and farming greenhouse gases (24)
- Media Matters (22)
Hyperlocal is brilliant – that’s official
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Cardiff Community Journalism Conference says hyperlocal media – like Upper Calder Vallyey’s very own Changing More Than Lightbulbs – are brilliant!
How Bertrand Russell set the Beatles right about war and peace
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Lobby NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Executive 17th Jan
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Lobby NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Executive with Calderdale Save our Services
Thursday 17th January 2013, in Halifax at F Mill, Dean Clough, Dean Clough Road / Lee Bridge (next to the Travelodge, entrance via Gate 9). More information here. Download leaflet here. Please circulate widely.
KEEP OUR
PUBLIC
More info about Calderdale Save Our Services here.
Information from Liberty about protestors’s rights is here. Or download the National Union of Students leaflet Protest – Your Rights.