This week seems to have gone by very rapidly, which I suppose isn't a bad thing given that it's now the weekend, and I have Monday off too. It's mostly consisted of being fairly busy at work, and reading a new book on how to make money on the Stock Market.
The book is by Robbie Burns, not the famous Scottish bard but him also known as the Naked Trader. Seems to be full of common sense methods and tips so looking forward to putting some of it into action. Just opened a self select share trading ISA so when I make my millions they'll be tax free, now I just need my shares to go up, which hasn't particularly happened this week - mostly they've gone up, then down, then done nothing, then up, then down - no consistency but then again I think it's been a funny week on the markets. Just have to have some patience whilst also remembering not to hold on to something to the bitter end in the hope it'll go up; there is a time to cut your losses and try something else. A portfolio of say a dozen different shares seems like the best bet, a few will go down, but hopefully with the right research this will be counteracted by others going up. If I can just have the self discipline to stick to some basic rules and not buy and sell too often, then should be able to make some cash. Can't quite give up the day job yet though.
Also this week, our new lawn seems to be settling in well...it hasn't died yet anyway, probably a good thing we've had lots of rain recently; I might even mow it this weekend. All the vegetables are going well too - our first tomato has appeared which means we'll be inundated in a couple of weeks with those and courgettes.
Good to see the expenses debacle is still rambling along. Isn't everyone bored of this yet and can't we just get some new politicians? I see the police might launch some criminal investigations now - probably about time some of them were held accountable by law.
Also in the news today interesting that the supreme leader in Iran called Britain the source of all evil or somesuch thing. I expect everyone will be very upset about this, however maybe it's a taste of our own medicine after the whole Axis of Evil thing, which really was an outrageous way to label countries whilst your trying to bring them round to your way of thinking. It's not very nice being called evil and you can see why normal people like you or I living in other countries such as Iran might resent that slightly, and even get driven further down the path to extremism. What with North Korea still looking explosive and Iran getting feisty it all looks a bit dangerous. It's hard to tell what's really going on in Iran and who really won. The opposition are mounting big protests however we're not hearing much from people that supported Almandinajad. I worry that our media isn't giving a balanced picture sometimes. It would be a pretty big feat for an election to be rigged to give such a decisive victory.
Anyway, roll on the weekend.
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There is some precedent for rigged elections resulting in decisive victories...
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2331951.stm
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As for the 'evil' Britain comment, I think Khamenei is trying to draw on generation-old anger about Britain's involvement (along with America) in the 50s to oust Mosaddeq and install the pro-western (and oil-exporting) Shah Pahlevi. I think he's hoping to unite Iranians along patriotic lines and anger about foreign meddling, and sweep this election stuff away.
I'd forgotten about the Iraq election, reading that article made me chuckle.
ReplyDeleteWe are kind of reaping what we've sown in the last 100 years, and no doubt before that, as far as the middle East goes. However the younger generation in a lot of these countries seem to want to be more like the West - fashion, socially and culture wise, so maybe things will settle with time. Think the Internet will help make people less ignorant and hopefully more tolerant as it's so much easier to communicate and see what else is out there in the world.
Yeah, the Internet does have the potential to be the great homogeniser (in a good way), giving everyone access to see what everyone else is REALLY up to - and not just what their government/media tells them everyone else is up to.
ReplyDeleteThen again, that does depend on the Internet remaining largely independent and uncensored. Predictably the more authoritarian governments really dislike the Internet. :)