Nick Clegg today is proudly announcing a coalition housing policy which is perhaps the maddest thing the government has come up with yet (though that is a tough competition). Apparently the answer to housing problems is to find ways to enable people to take on yet more debt, being helped by government to find deposits which they will however ultimately have to repay in addition to the ordinary mortgage.
In effect the government thinks that the only problem with the housing market, is that it is not as it was in early 2008. The government supports ludicrous inflated house prices, giving the economy an entirely fictional huge monetary value asset base, sustained by mortgages of 100% or more on the inflated value, amounting to many multiples of the debtor’s income.
The answer to housing availability is not for the government to find ways to enable young people to take on unrealistic amounts of debt so they can afford fake prices. The answer in the owned sector is for house prices to crash down to realistic levels which people can actually afford.
These government proposals are the precise opposite of what is needed.
The primary answer in the rented sector is for local councils to build public housing and rent it to people at genuinely affordable prices. There are a huge number of brownfield sites which can be utilised and a huge number of empty buildings ripe for conversion – including many of those empty shops. 50% of the “printed” money created by the Bank of England in the last round of Quantitative Easing exercise, and given to the banks, would have built 400,000 family homes if given to local authorities for that purpose. Think of the employment that would have created.
The UK is every bit as indebted as Greece, both as a per capita absolute and as a percentage of GDP. The difference is that Britain has more private and Greece more individual debt. But it is equally impossible to pay it back in the long term. That incredible mountain of personal debt is what has sustained Britain’s ludicrous house prices. Just as the bamks have had to take a 50% haircut on Greek debt, so also they are going, in the end, to have to take a massive haircut on their UK mortgage portfolios.
The extraordinary thing is, that those mortgages – based on totally unreasonable house valuations – constitute not liabilities but “assets” on a bank’s balance sheet, and the banksters have been able to “leverage” those assets to make speculative financial transactions – or bets – to the valuse of 12 times the “asset”.
These are some my policy prescriptions:
Give local authorities money to build 400,000 new council houses for truly social rent levels, using cash from quantitative easing
nationalise all housing association property and give to local councils as council housing
wipe off 50% of all outstanding mortgages
watch house prices crash, and cheer!
That may sound extreme to some of you. But I promise you it is infinitely more sensible than the incredible folly the government has just produced.
I have now read the first 3 or 4 chapters of the Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout. It is actually really easy bedtime reading. I already knew most of its contents, but some of it is really surprising and makes me feel good.
On the plus side, when faced by war, most soldiers will shoot to miss (the human race really does not want to kill). On the negative, the people in charge of running wars have known this for years, and all the experiments and actual results demonstrate clearly that the respect of humans for “authority” is overwhelming and that humans will shoot to kill if told to by a higher authority very close to them on the battlefield. The authority and their inbuilt brain programming learnt to obey overwhelms their individual conscience.
The inbuilt brain programming goes back thousands of years and is about survival of the tribe (You ain’t got time to think – just do what you are told – or the other tribe will kill you)
The last thing I read before going to sleep cuddling my lovely wife in our bed last night, is that the vast majority of soldiers who survive and kill another human being as commanded, despite their wishes, never get over it. It haunts them through the rest of their lives, and causes massively increased incidence of depression and physical diseases.
It is as if their conscience overwhelms them for taking another’s life, and they can no longer live the normal life that they otherwise would. Whilst they have destroyed the other persons life and their family, they have also destoyed their own life and their own family.
This is Really Good News (and Incredibly Well Researched) in our hope to Stop War.
But no one reads the books, and the stuff I write.
I am just a drunken fool, who can’t change anything.
But I Can STAND UP AND CRY
If You Don’t Get It
Then Fuck Off and Die
If You Want To Shake Hands With Me and Dance With Me…
Then Do
Open Your Eyes
Open Your Heart
Am I Alone?
Tony
PM’s private land deal with lobbyist raises questions (video at link)
Wednesday 23 November 2011
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The prime minister is facing questions over the details of a purchase of land in his constituency home following an investigation by Channel 4 News. Channel 4 News discovered that this summer David Cameron and his wife paid £137,500 for a strip of land linked to this country property and an additional field from a political friend and neighbour.
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Intriguing details have emerged about this transaction that raise questions over how much the public should know about the financial dealings of the prime minister.
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In 2001, Mr Cameron paid £650,000 for his constituency home – a purchase aided by around £150,000 in parliamentary expenses. When Mr Cameron bought this home, he also acquired a patch of land up the lane. This was separated from the main house by a driveway and garages belonging to a cottage opposite.
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“There can be no doubt about it that Mr Cameron’s political antennae I’m sure would tell him that there are sensitive issues here.” Sir Alistair Graham
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From inspection of Land Registry documents, Channel 4 News found that in November last year, Conservative peer and Tory donor Lord Chadlington, who owns a large manor house nearby, bought the cottage for £715,000, thereby taking ownership of the driveway and garages which ran across the prime minister’s land.
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More desirable property
Eight months later, in July this year, Lord Chadlington sold the prime minister the driveway and garages together with a large field which he owned at the back of Mr Cameron’s constituency home for £137,500.
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The result was the Camerons now own a much more desirable property with its own driveway and garages all set on a larger coherent plot of land.
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According to one expert we consulted, the price the Camerons paid Lord Chadlington for this extra land is a fair price. So is this simply a property deal between friends that should remain private?
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“There is no suggestion whatsoever of any conflict of interest or financial gain.” Number 10
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Lord Chadlington is the chief executive of one of Britain’s largest public relations groups, called Huntsworth. This group also owns a number of lobbying firms such as Quiller Consultants that act for major financial, retail and telecoms companies.
Lord Chadlington personally acts for several specific clients including the Stock Exchange, Associated British Foods and the Carlyle Group.
No conflict of interest
Channel 4 News wanted to know what the rules would be governing such a transaction. Sir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the Committee of Standards in Public Life, reviewed the details; he believes the six-figure property deal raises questions over the parliamentary rules governing conflicts of interest.
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“It’s perfectly understandable why the PM and his family may have wanted to purchase this particular strip of land … but given that it does involve a transaction with, in a sense, a political colleague, somebody who is very close to the PM, who heads up major lobbying firms, who has blue chip companies as clients, then there can be no doubt about it that his political antennae I’m sure would tell him that there are sensitive issues here.”
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Sir Alistair points out that the prime minister is bound by the ministerial code which requires that “no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise between the ministerial position and their private interests, financial or otherwise”. A Downing Street source has said that the transaction “was all checked by officials”.
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Lobbyist
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Sir Alistair also believes the prime minister should have declared the deal in the House of Commons register of members interests as it involves a financial transaction with a political lobbyist – there is no reference to the deal in the register at present.
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“I would’ve thought he would’ve wanted to have done that as quickly as possible, particularly given his public comments about lobbying…If you’re doing a private deal affecting your personal interests with one of the head of the largest lobbying firms in this country then of course you should register that in your MP’s list of interests as quickly as possible.”
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A Downing Street spokesman said on Wednesday: “There is no requirement to disclose or register this transaction. The Prime Minister has handled this issue properly and in accordance with the Ministerial Code.
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“He sought assurances from the Government’s Head of Propriety and Ethics and the Principal Private Secretary at Number 10 who advised that, because this was a public transaction and the full market rate had been paid for the land, there was no need to declare it in the list of Ministers’ Interests. It was also their conclusion that there was no actual, or appearance, of a conflict of interest.”
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Lord Chadlington said in a statement: “To avoid any perception of a conflict, we instructed an independent surveyor to value the garages and land. We did not negotiate on price – the Prime Minister paid the market rate as recommended by the surveyor.”
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http://www.channel4.com/news/pm-s-private-land-deal-with-lobbyist-raises-questions
One law for them and one for us Mary, makes you wonder what they do right in Egypt.
Tony, we like you too much to see you go awry and cancerous. You are just about the right age to get some sort of affliction, so half you booze intake and have another shag instead. 🙂
Mary,
I can’t possibly post the location of these natural beauties, and because it was late in November, I didn’t take my camera, only my mobile phone…
But even from the photos, which I took on my mobile which cost me £9.99 (PAYG – no contract) I showed my wife and I could connect my mobile to my computer and upload them and show them to you and everyone…
But the camera files – on my mobile would almost certainly have imprinted on them the location of this secret garden – and all the innocent natural beauty would be trampled on underfoot.
I could of course sanitise the photographs eliminating all data that gave their location away, because I have the technical skills
But I think it is better if you find someone you really love to take you there to experience the complete beauty of our world
Tony
The Huhne/Trimingham story is an excellent example of the laziness of the media I alleged above. Google “Carina Trimingham” and you will see that every local paper in the UK has the identical story about this on their website. sually between 14 and 8 hours ago, Pages 3 onwards of this search are filled with identical entries, copying the Times’ original story.
The story looks as if considerable effort has been expended to get it to a wide audience, perhaps coincidentally with Huhne’s and others querying of the revolting Nigel Lawson’s pet climate denial lobbyist, GWPF, yesterday:
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/22/chris-huhne-lawson-think-tank
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And perhaps not, as Messrs Sue, Grabbitt and Runne advise me. Interesting, though that if you Google “Lawson GWPF” there is very little indication that the locals have seen that part of the story at all.
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The GWPF’s donors are not known, as it (unlike Sense in Science, for instance) does not publish their identity. It refuses to release anything under Freedom of Information applications. Yet it demands that often-professionally-sensitive research data be released under FOI by climate change scientists.
It’s not at all unlikely that it’s funded by some of the same outfits and cutouts associated with ALEC, which funded Atlantic Bridge’s murky operations. I think it could benefit from closer scrutiny.
Historical:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/mar/09/global-warming-policy-foundation-job-advert
You see or not as the case may be, I used to work with with some of the most talented people in the world, when they were young 20 year old kids for a company based in London.
I gave them massive encouragement to make the fucking thing work which was years before the World of Terror and all this Bollocks.
A lot of them just happenned to live in the catchment area around GCHQ in Cheltenham and surrounding areas….
They could easily trace all my movements, because I don’t hide anything…
What pissed me off, at the end of the contract (and they didn’t fuck it up in any way or charge too much or anything – they were both technically brilliant and honest) was when they asked us to an end of project celebration at their local go cart track.
I thought I would be able to waste them, though I had only been carting once before (In Ibiza with my lad)
They pissed all over me and I used to ride a motorcycle like a mainiac.
I thought I would come first in every race.
Even the girls beat me, and none of them were fat.
Tony
Keep up the good fight Mary – I admire your zeal———-
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Point no 2 – where the fuck is Craig – Craig mate, you need to knuckle down and post 2-3 items EVERY day, just to keep this place alive and thriving – look at Guido Fawkes to see how it should be done…
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Tony mental pisshead is a major derailing distraction, and I would not be surprised that he worships BiBi and Dayan etc etc – recently far more effective than Stephen and/ or Julian – or are “they” all the same?
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Next point Craig – can you tell us all please about Freemasonry?
Are/were you one?
I would have thought it was a prerequisite for any diplomat or spy.
Many thanks,
Anders
OK, I have uploaded it to imageshack.us I still don’t know what is is, but when I look at the link that imageshack.us gave me, I get this American woman coming on to me me. I appreciate everyone needs to make a living, but I really do not want to have sex with her.
What is it?
There were absolutely loads of them
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/3/img00024az.jpg/
Tony
By Invitation only – The Half of the 1% that Decide your fate.
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Alexandre Adler, Scientific Director for Geopolitics, University of Paris-Dauphine; Paris
Urban Ahlin, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Stockholm
Esko Aho, Executive Vice President, Nokia, Helsinki
Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, CNP Assurances, Paris
Jacques Andréani, Ambassadeur de France, Paris
Jorge Armindo, Chairman, Amorim Turismo, Lisbon
Jerzy Baczynski, Editor-in-Chief, Polityka, Warsaw
Estela Barbot, former Director, AGA; Director, Bank Santander Negocio
Erik Belfrage, Chairman of the Board, Consilio International AB
Marek Belka, President, National Bank of Poland, Warsaw
Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans, Chairman, Lhoist Group, Limelette, Belgium
Nils Bernstein, Chairman of the Board of Governors, National Bank of Denmark,
Georges Berthoin, International Honorary Chairman, European Movement
Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Manfred Bischoff, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Daimler AG, Munich
Antonio Borges, Director of the European Department, International Monetary Fund
Ana Patricia Botin, Chief Executive Officer, Santander UK
Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Member, State Audit Court (Cour des Comptes), Paris
Jorge Braga de Macedo, President, Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon
Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice Chairman, UBS Investment Bank, London
Jean-Louis Bruguière, Representative of the French Presidency of the Republic on the EU
John Bruton, former European Union Ambassador & Head
Robin Buchanan, Senior Adviser, Bain & Company, London
Patrick Buffet, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ERAMET, Paris
François Bujon de l’Estang, Ambassadeur de France
Edelgard Bulmahn, Member of the German Bundestag
Richard Burrows, Chairman, British American Tobacco, London
Erhard Busek, Chairman, Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM)
Hervé de Carmoy, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ETAM, Paris
Jürgen Chrobog, Chairman, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt, Berlin
Luc Coene, Minister of State; Deputy Governor, National Bank of Belgium
Bertrand Collomb, Honorary Chairman, Lafarge
Patrick Combes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Compagnie Financière Tradition
Iain Conn, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Refining & Marketing, BP, London
Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, Dublin
Jean-François Copé, Member of the French National Assembly
Eckhard Cordes, Chief Executive Officer, Metro Group, Düsseldorf
Alfonso Cortina, Vice Chairman of Rothschild Europe
Eduardo Costa, Executive Vice Chairman, Banco Finantia, Lisbon
Enrico Tomaso Cucchiani, Member of the Board of Management, Allianz SE, Munich
Caroline Daniel, Editor, FT Weekend, Financial Times, London
Marta Dassù, General Director, Aspen Institute Italia; Editor, Aspenia, Rome
Michel David-Weill, Former Chairman, Lazard LLC, worldwide
Vladimir Dlouhy, International Advisor, Goldman Sachs
Pedro Miguel Echenique, Professor of Physics, University of the Basque Country
Gabriel Eichler, Founder, Benson Oak, Prague
John Elkann, Chairman, Fiat Group, Turin
Anna Ekström, Director General, The Swedish National Agency for Education
Guy Elliott, Finance Director, Rio Tinto, London
Oscar Fanjul, Vice Chairman, Omega Capital
Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Executive Director of Upstream, Repsol-YPF
Jürgen Fitschen, Member of the Management Board Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main
Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Louise Fresco, Member of the Board of non-executive Directors, RABO Bank, Utrecht
Hugh Friel, Chairman, Tourism Ireland
Michael Fuchs, Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Antonio Garrigues Walker, Chairman, Garrigues Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, Madrid
Clara Gaymard, President and Chief Executive Officer, GE France, Paris
Wolfgang Gerhardt, Member of the German Bundestag
Esther Giménez-Salinas, Rector, Ramon Llull University; Professor of Criminal Law
Dermot Gleeson, Chairman of the Governing Body of University College Cork
Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Finmeccanica, Rome
Federica Guidi, Chief Executive and Vice President, DUCATI Energia, Bologna
Elisabeth Guigou, Deputy Chairperson and Member of the French National Assembly
General The Lord Guthrie, Former Director, N M Rothschild & Sons, London
Nigel Higgins, Chief Executive, The Rothschild Group, London
Wolfgang Ischinger, Global Head of Government Relations, Allianz SE, Munich
Mugur Isarescu, Governor, National Bank of Romania, Bucharest
Lady Barbara Judge, Chairman, UK Pension Protection Fund, London
Admiral Juhani Kaskeala, former Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces, Helsinki
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
Lauri Kivinen, Chief Executive Officer, Yleisradio Oy, Helsinki
Sixten Korkman, Managing Director, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy Arpad Kovacs, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Hungarian Power Companies
Gabor Kovacs, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bankar Holding
Jerzy Kozminski, President and CEO, Polish-American Freedom Foundation
Jiri Kunert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UniCredit Bank Czech Republic
Meglena Kuneva, Chairman of the Board, European Policy Center
Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, Chairman, S&B Industrial Minerals
Kurt Lauk, Former Member of the European Parliament (EPP Group-CDU)
Anne Lauvergeon, Former Chief Executive Officer, AREVA, Paris
Eli Leenaars, Member, ING Management Board Banking
Thomas Leysen, Chairman of the Board, Umicore, Brussels
Bo Lidegaard, Executive Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Copenhagen
Marianne Lie, Partner, Vox Politica
Erkki Liikanen, Chairman of the Board, Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Rachel Lomax, Director, HSBC
Peter Löscher, Chief Executive Officer, Siemens, Munich
Miroslav Majoroš, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO, Slovak Telekom
Abel Matutes, Chairman, Empresas Matutes Group, Ibiza
Lord Mandelson, Member of the House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel
Friedrich Merz, President, Atlantik-Brücke, Berlin
Peter Mitterbauer, Honorary President, The Federation of Austrian Industry, Vienna
Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor to the Director General of (IFRI), Paris
Mario Monti, President, Bocconi University, European Chairman, Trilateral Commission
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman Hermes EOS
Klaus-Peter Müller, Chairman of the Board, Commerzbank, Frankfurt-am-Main
Harald Norvik, Chairman of the Board, Telenor
Ewald Nowotny, Governor of the Austrian National Bank
Denis O’Brien, Chairman, Digicel; Founder, Communicorp Group, Dublin
Arend Oetker, President, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Andrzej Olechowski, Founder, Civic Platform
Richard Olver, Chairman, BAE Systems, London
Lucas Papademos, Senior Fellow, Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University,
Alexis Papahelas, Editor-in-Chief, Kathimerini, Athens
Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford; Chairman, BBC Trust
Volker Perthes, Executive Chairman and Director, German Institute for Int. and Security
Carlo Pesenti, Managing Director, Italcementi, Bergamo
Dieter Pfundt, Senior Advisor, Silvia Quandt & Cie., Frankfurt-am-Main
Ursula Plassnik, Ambassador of Austria to France
Ignacio Polanco, Chairman, Grupo Prisa including El Pais and Timon, Madrid
Benoît Potier, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Air Liquide, Paris
Borja Prado, Chairman, Endesa
Rasvan Radu, Chief Executive Officer, UniCredit Tiriac Bank, Bucharest
Dieter Rampl, Chairman, UniCredit Group, Milan
Luigi Ramponi, Member of the Italian Senate
Denis Ranque, Chairman, Technicolor, Paris
Wanda Rapaczynski, Advisor to the Supervisory Board Agora, Warsaw
Heinz Riesenhuber, Member of the German Bundestag
Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Chairman, Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands
Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman, Techint Group of Companies, Milan
Fernando Rodés Vilà, Chief Executive Officer, Havas Group, Barcelona & Paris
Count Jacques Rogge, President, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne
Marcello Sala, Executive VC of the Management Board, Intesa Sanpaolo Group, Milan
Ferdinando Salleo, Vice Chairman, MCC (Mediocredito Centrale), Rome
Jacques Santer, Honorary State Minister, Luxembourg
Andreas Schmitz, President, Association of German Banks (BDB), Berlin
Henning Schulte-Noelle, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Munich
Karel Schwarzenberg, Member of the Czech Senate
Carlo Secchi, Professor of European Economic Policy
Maurizio Sella, Chairman, Gruppo Banca Sella, Biella
Tomasz Sielicki , Vice Chairman, Sygnity, Warsaw
Slawomir S. Sikora, Chief Executive Officer Poland, Bank Warszawie, Warsaw
Stefano Silvestri, President, Institute for International Affairs (IAI), Rome
Javier Solana, President, ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP Group, London
Ivan Šramko, Advisor for the CEE & SEE Regions, Intesa Sanpaolo Group
Petar Stoyanov, Chairman of Parliamentary Group of United Democratic Forces
Peter Straarup, Chairman of the Executive Board, Danske Bank, Copenhagen
György Surányi, Regional Head of Central Eastern Europe, Intesa Sanpaolo Group
Peter Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Mihai Tanasescu, Member of the Executive Board, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Andreas Treichl, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna
Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pirelli & C., Milan
Elsbeth Tronstad, Executive Vice President, SN Power
Jens Ulltveit-Moe, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, UMOE Group
Raivo Vare, Owner, Live Nature Eesti OÜ
George Vassiliou, Leader of United Democrats, Nicosia
Franco Venturini, Senior Editorial Commentator on Foreign Affairs, Rome
Margrethe Vestager, Member of the Danish Parliament
Marko Voljc, CEO, Central and Eastern Europe KBC Group, Brussels
Alexandr Vondra, Member of the Czech Senate
Joris Voorhoeve, Chair, Oxfam Novib, The Hague
Panagis Vourloumis, Senior Adviser, N.M. Rothschild
Peter Wallenberg Jr., Chairman, Foundation Asset Management Sweden AB
Heinrich Weiss, Chief Executive Officer, SMS, Düsseldorf
Nout Wellink, Former President, Dutch Central Bank, Amsterdam
Hans Wijers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Akzo Nobel, Arnhem
Alexander Wilmot-Sitwell, Co-Chief Executive Officer, UBS Investment Bank, London
Matthias Wissmann, President, The German Association of the Automotive Industry
Craig, can we take it that you suggesting that in realtion to this specific matter, a bit of good old-fashioned socialism is required? (!)
Mark,
Believe it or not, I used to get core dumps like that in 1972, when the computer under development occassionally fucked up…
I tried to decode some of them , but thought well there is some part of this computer that is not working properly…
So I suggested to the engineers just go round the entire fucking thing, whilst I am stressing it with the hardest code I can find…
And hit the fucker
Because most of the time, most of the hardware worked perfectly O.K.
It was only under extreme hard stress we could find the parts that were not up to the job…
And then we would tear the fucker to bits and find out the chip that was not performing to standard…
And I would get my biss on to them….
We Expect Near Perfection Here.
You Deliver – Or We Will Go Elsewhere
We were State of The Art
Tony
It was in Manchester and Bracknell, and it was really important,because, we Really were the Best in The World, though I didn’t know it at the time.
We got The New Range Working and sold and then went on to the Distributed Array Processor
I Didn’t Realise How So Far Ahead We Were until Margaret Thatcher Closed Down The North of England and Norman Tebbit Told Me To get on My Bike
Which I Did
Strange How a Northern Oik From Oldham Could Get a Job in The Heart of London
Tony
Almost everything you have now, with regards to computers, was not invented and developed in the USA.
We did it here in the UK….
We had the enitire fucking thing working simulated on George 1900 code.
We invented the Virtual Machine and Virtual Addressing..
And We Got The Fucker Working
And Then We went on To Parallel Processing
It Was an Intellectual Exercise
We were testing the limits and broke through them
The rest of you guys merely copied and refined the path we were driving forward 10 years later when you had worked out what we were actually doing.
I Realise Our History will Die With Us, because no one has Really written it – because we could never be arsed – we were too busy driving forward
But that doesn’t change anything
We know what we achieved
Put Your American stamp on it if you want.
Its all gone to fuck now anyway.
Now we can use our technology to kill completely innocent people in foreign lands with a joystick
You Fuckers Can Take it All.
Its Yours.
Just Wait For The Comeback
Just Wait For The Karma
Thieving Bastards
Tony
Although I didn’t realise it at the time,I used to work with his Dad as did my older brother…
He kind of gave the entire thing away didn’t he
He didn’t charge.
He didn’t claim any kind of copywrite.
He just fucking did it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_Berners-Lee
Tony
You must have read this, Craig:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/21/propagandastan
Tony, i liked your photo.It reminded me of a Mexican being photgraphed by someone up a tree.
Tony – Yes that ‘dump’ caused a ripple, a disturbance and you got the call. Yet ‘Random House’ had already exposed the method and we have gained. We are much better now Tony, with insight we have moved on and the connections are forming with precision and speed. You have realized things have changed for the better which of course means you can now relax and perhaps look inward.
@ Mark Golding
Being a non-techie would you kindly explain that last post of yours? Cheers
I was merely an observer, and a minor participant, that got promoted exceedingly quickly such that I had my most responsible job when I was 23 years old.
I have been retired for seven years.
My son is 23 years old and has been running his own business for nearly 10 years.
He too hasn’t made much money out of it, and is currently taking a massive risk with regards to expanding and diversifying his business…
He has warned his customers a month ago that unless thay already have parallel servers, that they will have no service for several hours on Sunday.
But he is so reliable.
His business plan is based on promising 99.9% availability.
I am his dad
I did it for over 5 years with only 2 hours loss of service which I predicted in advance. The company I was working for wouldn’t believe me. I said a year before it is going to blow – it has expanded so much – but it had never failed – so they wouldn’t spend £100K which was nothing in the overall scheme of things.
It was then my fault, and I got blamed for not screaming at them.
Of course then I got the money to do the upgrades, I told them needed doing.
And then I left.
I could no longer stand working for such stupid fuckers.
If you don’t believe me, then fuck off.
I am not telling lies.
Tony
Well no,i don’t doubt what youre saying Tony.
I think it’s a common tale in corporations.I sometimes think thats part of the problem.The ones who get to the top i.e. executive level aren’t the most able but they do tend to be good at naked ambition,smarm,networking and office politics.But when the shit goes down they invariably lash out at the guys in the engine room,as it were,who’ve been warning about problems for years.
Plus ca change…
Oho!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/23/adam-werritty-donors-conservative-party
He has worked his balls off doing 18 hours work in the last 24 hours in preperation.
He is feeling physically sick but determined to do it in the timescales agreed…
I tried to say to him, scale it back a bit…
Don’t try and do it all so quickly…
Just do a few at a time, just to see if it all works fine
You are sure to find problems that you didn’t expect. Don’t expect it all to work fine.
It is almost certain to fuck up one way or another.
I used to do this kind of stuff, but I was working for a big company.
Whilsy I had to put the same kind of hours in, even if they didn’t pay me for overtime, they used to give me all the time off x several. to do what the fuck I wanted
He ain’t got that option.
He doesn’t have a boss.
Its his company
More balls than I ever had
Tony
I guess that makes my son a rampant capitalist.
He has never had any help from the government, but he has paid all his taxes for years and complied with all government regulations.
Maybe you thought it impossible for a one man band, and it probably nearly is unless you have got the kind of determination that he inherited from my Mum.
And because he is obviously the technical authority on so many things, he gets a lot of help from his friends.
If a kid comes along says – I want to do this – they look at the spotty kid and his determination and enthusiasm and help him make it work.
Its about being professional.
Tony
It is about being the guy who dug the hindhead tunnel
It is about the farmer, the water,the gas,the road ,the sewage,the electrical, and the communications enginner
It is about communication
All these people work incredibly hard, so that you can eat,drink, shit and talk to each other
They never think about it
They just do it
My son provides communications all over the World.
he hasn’t a clue,what the content is, because the vast majority of it is a foreign language
it is just kids talking to each other from all over the world
millions of them
totally independent of government
they can say what they like
they can make friends with anyone they like anywhere in the world
its just the way the children are
Tony
Whilst I am drunk, I don’t think I have told a single lie tonight. I might have exaggerated a bit, but i just checked one of his pipes.
Most of it was in a foreign language, but the flow seemed completely up to its normal level.
What you need you realise is that nearly 10 years ago, there was this guy standing outside our local pub, who was obviously enjoying the band
I gestured to him to come inside…but he was too shy
So we took him back home to our party and he met all our friends…
We had no idea who he was, but my mate saw him on National TV News the next day…
And whilst there seemed to be no connection between these encounters…and I honestly think it was completely co-incidental…
A few months later my son was providing an Internet TV service to Peru from London
This guy came from Peru.
I forget his name.
But I remember his face, and I know he remembers my wife’s and probably even mine..
Because we invited him home…
Of course he invited us to Peru
But we haven’t been
YET
Tony
Tony: Don’t you mean the George3, not the George-1900? George3 was the OS for the old 1900 series machines. I was very young back then (not even a teenager). Do you know what “np” would have done? Didn’t make me very popular when I tried it out.
My Son has Probably Been Giving It To South America For Free.
When He Was 11 he saved up with the scouts from his local methodist church to go to American in the Year 2000
A Few Years later hes saved up with th kids in hid big grown up kids to spend 6 weeks in South America.
I reckon he thought the income from the North would pay for the South.
He could clearly see the difference and wanted it to be fair
I can’t ask more from my Child than that.
Tony
pretty piss poor show from the regulars to allow this cunt to rule the roost
oh well
Keep up the good fight Mary – I admire your zeal———-
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Point no 2 – where the fuck is Craig – Craig mate, you need to knuckle down and post 2-3 items EVERY day, just to keep this place alive and thriving – look at Guido Fawkes to see how it should be done…
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Tony mental pisshead is a major derailing distraction, and I would not be surprised that he worships BiBi and Dayan etc etc – recently far more effective than Stephen and/ or Julian – or are “they” all the same?
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Next point Craig – can you tell us all please about Freemasonry?
Are/were you one?
I would have thought it was a prerequisite for any diplomat or spy.
Many thanks,
Anders