A “Lib Dem” minister just told Sky News he was approving new nuclear power stations to promote green jobs. If anybody ever votes for these lying bastards again I shall be disconsolate.
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Hurray, the mastermind of the triple dip, no custard flakes or ice cream, recession, Gideon I like millionaires best, Osborne is on the way out,axed by his back stabbing party political friends.
max Keiser has been banging on about this for some time, here is his tweet.
Max Keiser @maxkeiser
.@KeiserReport first major political scalp. George Osborne is on the way out as Tories whisper about his incompetence maxkeiser.com/2013/03/31/geo…
31 Mar
George Osborne faces a whispering campaign at the highest levels of the Conservative Party over his competence and judgment
“Keiser Report” takes its first major scalp. We’ ve been hammering on about Osborne’s competence and now – thanks to Mark Carney – who we hear is behind the coup, Osborne’s days are numbered. The Chancellor has been…
Habbabkuk (La vita è bella)
1 Apr, 2013 – 4:52 pm
“6 pages…lots of substantive posts and some interesting discussion…”
But not one from you Habbabkuk.
“…none of the numerous distractions and scattergun posts on this, that and everything which we usually get.”
“Could this, inter alia, be due to the absence, on a short Easter break, of one of our most prolific posters not of the masculine gender…??”
Speaking behind people’s backs is of course cowardly but Habbabkuk is Habbubkuk.
I knew it was too good to last. Since Mary is away – leaving the thread mercifully uncluttered – good old Scourge steps in. Since you’re one of Mary’s most faithful lieutenants, I wasn’t really speaking behind her back, was I; I could trust you, Mary’s faithful Cerberus, to leap in and start barking.
In loco parentis, perhaps?
PS – when did you last post a useful contribution by the way (as opposed to insults)? Haven’t seen a lot of you here in your mistress’s absence…:)
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La vita è bella, life is good! (Easter – The Scourge is resurrected)
“I dont know where the interest to connect these esotericals to urgent Earth Science Fact comes from – seems like a readiness to complicate or distract, rather than to learn about what most definitely is known to count now.”
Not seeking to distract. There is a lot of Jai-Lai going on in the Heavens of late. Those little balls have enough mass and velocity to knock yer brains out. If you’d rather be in the dark about such possibilities, I will cease. But if anyone else wishes to provide more inconclusive data which can’t be analyzed from a petri dish, I would be happy to read. I seek as much info as I can digest.
“In 2010, while stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer in Baghdad, Pfc. Bradley Manning decided to approach a superior officer in his chain of command to voice his concern about something he had stumbled upon in his capacity as an intelligence analyst. His unit had been helping Iraqi federal police identify suspects for detention and discovered that fifteen men had been arrested for producing “anti-Iraqi literature.” After having a high-resolution photo of the “literature” translated into English, Manning discovered that the writing was hardly criminal; it was a “scholarly critique” of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. But his superior officer did not want to hear about it. Manning knew if he continued to assist the police in identifying political opponents, innocent people would be jailed, likely tortured, and “not seen again for a very long time, if ever,” as he told a military courtroom in Fort Meade, MD on February 28. Hoping to expose what was happening ahead of the Iraq parliamentary election, on March 7, 2010, Manning shared the information with WikiLeaks.”
http://www.thenation.com/article/173447/bradley-manning-tried-warn-us-about-crisis-iraq-will-we-listen-him-now#
I don’t remember seeing this anywhere. Does anyone else? It sure seems like he was trying to work within a system, which does not tolerate outlying opinions. If this evidence has not been submitted as evidence he is truly a whistleblower, I can’t imagine why, but I am not a lawyer.
Rest in Peace, Petrodollar. One Hawaiian’s perspective.
“The British will play a very unusual role, selling out the United States in order to be squires to the Eastern Duo. The process has begun; it cannot be stopped. The events are already being grossly misinterpreted and minimized in the US press, where devoted lapdogs, artistic swindlers, and creative writers prevail. The Paradigm Shift eastward is showing its next face, with a truly massive trade zone for cooperation and reduced cost overhead as the giant foundation. The Untied States for all of its past hegemony and devious manipulations and vicious attacks, will be excluded.
The British will assist in the exclusion in order to avoid the Third World themselves. The following blueprint is the result of years of planning, with steady information and hints and confirmations by at least two Hat Trick Letter sources. The sunset of the USDollar has a blueprint. As a personal embroidery, let me state that this article is the most important the Jackass has ever written. Let it be taken seriously for its grave somber message.”
http://islandbreath.blogspot.ru/
direct link to article…http://islandbreath.blogspot.ru/2013/04/usdollar-ring-fenced-checkmate.html
Amazing finds Ben
@ Ben Franklin,
Several posts ago – I went with full force at the point that you now return to.
But as an American – Ol’ Ben let us lighten and listen to the words of one on my true, great – heroes – Ali:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVfAi7PNaeE
Courtenay @ 10:24
Cassius is very wise 🙂
As to your BRIICs discussion, I must confess it was something I missed. But I do believe it was that episode which made me go to the linked article. Unfortunately, on engineering and economic issues, I am thick as a brick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9JEPeeohYs
One thing I do understand is the worldwide dissatisfaction with being forced to trade, and keep dollars.
The US spends $700 billion on military budgets for keeping the oil sequestered into our own currency.
China And Russia, once again fitful allies on this issue, are hoarding gold and buying back their own mines.
Is it really true the UK will have to jettison the US in order to avoid becoming third world. You are right, Courtenay.
The Third World is coming to many more of us soon enough.
BTW; My opinion wrt currency is that silver is a better hedge than gold.
Ben Franklin,
Betray the American Dream – Never
Betray the American false dream – Yes of course.
I find this most interesting from the perspective Ben Franklin thank-you:
The timing of the Cyprus bank account tax and confiscation is curious, exactly when the extremely significant summit meeting took place between Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, where several big pacts were signed. One is left to wonder if the Cyprus fire was lit by the Europeans in order to attempt to disrupt the Moscow Energy Summit with heavy smoke. It bears repeating. The summit received almost zero Western press coverage, even though its details outline a sunset of the USDollar. Maybe because its details outline a sunset of the USDollar. The Jackass is left to wonder if the next important energy pact with the Eurasian Leader Duo (Russia & China) will involve Saudi Arabia, with a whiff of sunset for the Petro-Dollar defacto standard. Cyprus might indeed have been all about trying to save the Petro-Dollar, more than the European banks. Perhaps the Moscow Summit dictated the Cyprus timetable. The Italian elections to depose Monti, Spanish high level corruption and bankruptcies, and the French backtrack on massive spending cuts, these three nations point to urgency in disaster control. The bank account tax was thrust forward, unmasking the fascist bankers.
Sitting on your back-side and sucking your thumb while laughing at the poor, unemployed and disabled struggling to stay alive will not save your health service.
The maligned Health And Social Care Act also comes into effect on Monday, meaning that the institution’s traditional Primary Care Trusts have given way to a new style of management aka NHS commissioning board.
GP-led commissioning groups have now taken control of the day-to-day running of the health service. NHS services will be shifted to private organizations providing treatment, as the bodies will be required to commission health services through competitive markets.
The evidence is in plain sight with local medical centers already reducing prescription costs by changing patient prescriptions to replace expensive drugs such as, for example, sustained release synthetic analgesics, to generic drugs where possible and stopping many repeat ‘scripts on review.
Expect profit motivated health groups led by mostly foreign qualified doctors to be forced to debase quality of health services, as those offering the best deals will have to minimise costs and excellence themselves.
I warned here in 2012 our NHS was doomed to ‘healthcare4you’ privacy.
Still sucking your thumb?
Thank You A Node @1st April 12 ; 18…Bit shocked at some of that as i was Quoting and posting links from Global research… I have no illusions that the oil industry is Anything BUT pure and clean..one of my jui jitsu friends works in the north sea…he assures me that leakages are vast, and every day The Gore stuff is well discredited ..and we dont call it global warming anymore.
Node and Brian, I am sorry for being annoying. The sarcasm was meant to make blatant the position through the ease of parodying it. Too easy not by my wits, by preposterousness of the climate science conspiracy theory which people speak about in whispers and code and fragmentary references as though it is outlawed for heresy. I shout it out for its negligence and its ignorance of the grave situation.
The “open your mind meditations” are timeless, occasionally conducive, most often crutches for opinions resigned to nonsense, and they are never a substitute for arguments at hand.
Crab allz Kool with me.. But i thought research into maunder Minimum And PDO predates all the Gloabal warming stuff
wee choon for ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqhOVY58zIo
Treat the subject as lightly as you wish Brian, I dont know what you and Node are thinking or even intend to share, about grand solar minima or PDO or Gore or the weather. But the subject is not light or trivial or without conscience. Its not about flicking switches off and on, or changing lightbulbs or cheap holidays or personal sacrifices and resignations.
It is about Industrial policy causing havoc and risking complete catastrophe with the Earths life support systems, with CO2 output being proven beyond reasonable technical doubt (or chance of revision) years ago to be causing enormous unstoppable repercussions which are now already beginning to manifest at this late stage of ignored research alerts and international treaties.
And way too many people are just being cool and openminded and philosophical about it.
Economic collapse is always peeking just over the horizon – this fucking thing is thousands of miles away and still peeking – over the horizon!
This is what happens eventually, when you replace a 1200 bed hospital with a 950 odd beds and cut staff numbers in A&E.
Norwich expansion plans with 35.000 houses planned will make it necessary to build another hospital of the same capacity in the east of Norwich, they planned the roads and housing but not a peeps of services schools and hospitals, typical Tory joint up thinking, without the joint up.
welcome to car park A&E, oh yes, no comments allowed….The editor, Nigel Pickover, who is aghast at having to comply to Levinsons measures, should they ever be implemented, went to court to defeat a local Waveney council Labour cllr., to be allowed to mention in the EDP that she was drunk in charge of a child in a supermarket.
Hypocrite!
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/day_a_tent_was_put_up_to_take_in_999_patients_1_1998526
Ben Franklin opines that ;
“BTW; My opinion wrt currency is that silver is a better hedge than gold.”.
He’s obviously trotting out the line that the pne and only Max Keiser, of RT fame, was taking some while back.
Far from rising, the price of silver stayed constant (whereas that of gold rose considerably).
Not a good indication for how seriously we should take Max’s other prognostications on matters economic…
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La vita è bella, life is good! (beware false prophets)
Habbakuk on Max Keiser’s view that Silver will be a better hedge than Gold
“Far from rising, the price of silver stayed constant (whereas that of gold rose considerably).
Not a good indication for how seriously we should take Max’s other prognostications on matters economic…”
The past ups of silver have been every bit as considerable as gold, but that’s not the point. It’s all very much a work in progress.
As many people understand, Max will have been talking about the endgame – the point at which faith in the US dollar collapses, with its status as reserve currency diminished.
Since we’re not quite there, we don’t yet know for sure which has been the better hedge against that eventuality.
Anyway, as a former trader, Max knows all that’s worth knowing about the money games and every bit as much as the players of those games. I’m not aware of any serious commentator who disagrees with Max in terms of what’s going on. Do you?
Here’s Max in 2007, before the crash of 2008, when the party was still in full swing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjglR2KYz5o
Interesting developments: “Gulnara Karimova’s blog: Uzbek UN Mission’s car got “smashed”
http://enews.fergananews.com/news.php?id=2528&mode=snews
La vita è bella, life is good! (beware false prophets)
Beware false tits!
Can somebody locate a definitive chart of percentage CO2 increases in the atmospheric air composition over the last 50 years. Plus a a quantification of mans contribution to the increase, both in terms of cubic kilometers and as a percentage of the above CO2 increases.
Numbers dont lie, for eg the 0.7% West Bank public land allocation to the Palestinians v the 37% to the mad jewish occupiers given free houses to settle in the West Bank.
Or the perfectly round 12 ft exit hole made by the SOFT aluminium nose cone that “traveled” 310ft through 6ft of concrete walls and pillars of the Pentagon, to finally emerge outside the symmetrical “exit hole” on the inside perimeter wall.
“Leading scientists urge President Obama’s advisers to investigate ethical issues raised by creating highly infectious strain of bird-flu.”
“The scientists, who include a former UK Government chief scientist and a Nobel laureate, said that it is “morally and ethically wrong” to create a new type of influenza virus in the laboratory that is more lethal and transmissible than what actually exists in nature.”
“The accidental release of an artificial, laboratory-generated, human-transmissible H5N1 virus into the community has the potential to cause a global pandemic of epic proportions that would dwarf the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed over 50 million people,” the scientists said.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/leading-scientists-urge-president-obamas-advisers-to-investigate-ethical-issues-raised-by-creating-highly-infectious-strain-of-birdflu-8556082.html?origin=internalSearch
Scary stuff really.
Why are they doing such research? What lies ahead I wonder.
Biological warfare perhaps; just think – a deadly laboratory-made virus that can be genetically programmed to afflict only certain ethnicities?
No. The Yanks would not even contemplate such a thing.
Crab, I believe this is your position, please correct me if I’m wrong: You are 100% convinced that the climate is changing and it is due to the activities of mankind.
This is my position. Please do not ascribe any other views to me: Climate is a dynamic system, it is always changing. Whether mean temperature is rising, falling or stable at the moment, I don’t know, but I’d guess it’s probably rising. Whether any change is man-made or part of a short or long natural cycle, I don’t know and don’t believe I have enough information to make a guess. This uncertainty does not make me reckless about the Earth’s resources. I have believed in caring for the environment and sustainable consumption since before it was a global warming issue. Furthermore, my doubt doesn’t preclude me from the precautionary principle; hedging my bets and behaving as though AGW is true, just in case.
The main difference between our positions is in our assessment of the state of the debate. You believe (again, correct me if I’m wrong) that the case for AGW is indisputable. I don’t. These are my reasons:
I think climate mechanics are too complex for certainty. Many of the factors are only vaguely understood, eg sunspot activity, the earth’s magnetic field, upper atmosphere chemistry; most of the factors we believe we do understand are chaotically linked by feedback mechanisms and thus are very difficult to predict; our records of natural climate trends show small cycles within larger ones and it is impossible to be sure exactly where we are right now; scientists regularly discover ‘new’ factors which weren’t in the models, we don’t know what else we’re missing.
The debate is further clouded by non-scientific issues. The controllers of a global carbon trading scheme will be a de facto world government, and that is too huge a motive to lightly discount. You often claim the oil industry uses it’s influence to favourably present its side of the debate. I am pointing out that these would-be carbon-trading rulers are not without influence on the MSM either. You accuse sceptics of conspiracy theory. New World Order influence is no more or less of a conspiracy theory than oil industry influence. The ‘Establishment’ is on your side of this debate. OK, that does not affect the argument one way or the other, but you will surely agree that when the ‘Establishment’ desires a certain mindset in the populace, it is not above manipulating the information. For those who still wish to hear both sides of the debate, it is another important factor.
Isn’t there a good case here for you to obey the precautionary principle? You refuse to accept there is a contrary argument to AGW, but what’s to lose? Carry on behaving as you are, but keep an open mind towards new evidence.
BTW, I’d like to know if the above makes me a ‘climate denier.’
“Can somebody locate a definitive chart of percentage CO2 increases in the atmospheric air composition over the last 50 years. Plus a quantification of mans contribution to the increase, both in terms of cubic kilometers and as a percentage of the above CO2 increases. ”
If you cant do that with access to the internet, then you are never going to believe anything delivered to you. You only need to google eg. “CO2 atmosphere 50 years” to find many sources of the information you asked for, there is a wikipedia page of a very similar name which includes the information collated and referenced, and democratically argued over by skeptics/dupes/stooges and every kind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atmospheric_carbon_dioxide_concentrations_and_global_annual_average_temperatures_over_the_years_1880_to_2009.png
“Beware false tits!”
Could this be from The Scourge? You know, the guy who asked me to prove something I’d said by supplying him with thread/poster/time references…and when I obliged, got all confused and said he “couldn’t be arsed” to check them out?
The quality if your post above reveals that Cerberus must be missing Mother Mary quite a lot. Never mind, she’ll soon be back to give your life meaning again.
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@ Herbie (13h03)
Your eagernesss to validate Max Keiser (who, I suppose, is the Eminences’ hero because he spends so much time on Russia Today slagging off the Wesr and the US) has, I fear, led you into error. For example :
“The past ups of silver have been every bit as considerable as gold,..” (note the “have been”).
That statement of yours is nonsense.
Check out the silver and gold prices over the last decades and you’ll see for yourself.
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Node
“I think climate mechanics are too complex for certainty. Many of the factors are only vaguely understood,”
You are just throwing amature doubts at professional work, something which you have effectively no comprehension of, and will never be inclined to study properly especially as that would mean understanding the arrogance of dismissing the urgent message of thousands of professionals working on this directly for years, and probably millions of technically capable people who have reviewed their work and message and support it as scientific.
“The debate is further clouded by non-scientific issues. The controllers of a global carbon trading scheme will be a de facto world government, and that is too huge a motive to lightly discount. ”
This is where your bullshit really shines. Your debate is clouded Node. The world already has global trading, and global systems. What is neccessary to curb CO2 production, is primarily technical not beurocratic, governments may opt in, may opt out. You assume de factos. It is clear that rather than having an idea of worth to speak against the honesty and capability of the vast majority working on and reading on climate science, you are the kind of person who would wage an amorphous personal political bogey concept and your own bare disbelief and doubt ,against the most difficult and contentious anti-status-industry-quo scientific debate and review which people have ever had to carry out, and have carried out successfuly against industry and pro-industry governmental forces and odds, and all people like you can do is waffle on about your cluelessness.