23rd February, 2009
“Another day, another scandal,” someone wrote in the comments the other day – and ain’t it the truth. A day hardly passes around here with some dirty deed being dredged up from the cesspool that is Iceland’s economic collapse.
The biggest bank robbery in Iceland’s history?
Posted by seumasach on February 23, 2009
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Full text of Gerry Adams’ speech
Posted by smeddum on February 23, 2009
“The day of mé féin politics have failed. Now is the time for the politics of Sinn Féin. Bígí linn.”
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The following is the full text of the speech by Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams to the party’s Ard Fheis today. Read the rest of this entry »
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120,000 Protest in Dublin
Posted by smeddum on February 22, 2009
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Song Parody: Obama raising Keynes
Posted by smeddum on February 22, 2009
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Max Keiser predicts imminent collapse of pound
Posted by smeddum on February 22, 2009
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Putin: Post-US World Blueprint
Posted by smeddum on February 22, 2009
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PROLOGUE & AFTERMATH
The World Economic Forum took place in Davos Switzerland last week. The global picture enabled a nice snapshot of sentiment, fault for the crisis, blame doled out, the vacuum of leadership, the perks for blunderers in a country club setting (instead of prison), and warnings on a potential situation that could spiral out of control. Amidst all the finger pointing, surprisingly little blame was given to themselves, the corporate chieftains in attendance. Let’s be clear! The Davos Forum was a funeral wake, and Putin rode in on a white horse to announce there is a new sheriff in town!! Davos afforded a unique opportunity for Russian self-styled leader Vladimir Putin to storm the forum stage and to steal the show. Putinpresented a basic Blueprint for what should be called ‘The Post-US World’ as the United States and United Kingdomhave lost the mantle of leadership and control. They lost it from failed economic policy, wrecked banking systems, fraud-ridden bond markets, corrupted debt ratings agencies, abuse of IMF & World Bank, and the severe backfire of economies that depended upon housing bubbles. Inflation turned on its haughty financial engineers! Nations with insolvent banks, insolvent households, corporations in liquidation, economies in near collapse, they tend not to be good owners and custodians of the global reserve currency!!!
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Save Our Butterflies!
Posted by smeddum on February 22, 2009
More than 50 MPs have signed an Early Day Motion tabled by the MP Bob Russell, who represents Colchester and is a long-time Butterfly Conservation member.
It states that:
this House registers its deep concern at the decline in the butterfly population, with numbers reported by the charity Butterfly Conservation to be at their lowest for 25 years, with the small tortoiseshell showing the biggest decline of 81 per cent; congratulates the thousands of volunteers who each year provide information for the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme operated by Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; welcomes the comments of Sir David Attenborough, President of Butterfly Conservation, who is promoting an appeal to raise funds for the charity’s Stop Extinction Appeal; and calls on the Government to promote cross-departmental policies to assist in safeguarding Britain’s butterflies
Environmentalists of every shade have an answer: throw money at research. That is not exactly an answer. It dismisses everything
of substance that has been said previously, out of hand.
For example; will any of this money be earmarked to look at the effects of electromagnetic radiation on our environment? Read the rest of this entry »
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An Impending Geopolitical Earthquake?
Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
21st February
The financial and economic turmoil the world is currently experiencing will certainly have many serious consequences beyond those fields. Indeed, its geopolitical fallout could be far more serious than commonly acknowledged and it is an element that cannot be neglected by neither statesmen nor analysts.
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Get Ready for Mass Retail Closings
Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
This video is not to be missed. The collapse of the commercial real estate guarantees the next phase of the financial implosion. The upside is plenty of downtown living space for homeless Americans.
19th February, 2009
About 220,000 stores may close this year in America, says our guest, retail consultant Howard Davidowitz of Davidowitz & Associates. As more Americans save and spend less, it’s clear there’s too much retail space. Just visit Web site deadmalls.com and track retail’s growing body count. And luxury retailers? They’re on “life support,” Davidowitz says.
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Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence
Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
Reports of the death of neo-conservatism are not exagerated!
Washington Post
20th February, 2009
Listening to neoconservative mastermind Richard Perle at the Nixon Center yesterday, there was a sense of falling down the rabbit hole.
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The Versailles Court of Appeal upholds decision against mobile phone company
Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
19th February, 2009
The Versailles Court of Appeal has upheld a decision by the Crown Court of Nanterre to force mobile telephony company Bouygues Telecom to remove a mobile phone base station as it constitutes an “exceptional nuisance”. The initial ruling sentenced Bouygues Telecom to pay the sum of 3000 EUR to each of the three couples submitting their case, 100 EUR per day the installation remained erected and to pay all legal costs. After the appeal, a further 6000 EUR fine was imposed on the telecoms company, the per day cost was increased to 500 EUR (but not retroactively) and all further legal costs were also to be paid.
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