Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

You should have known all about that being dyslexic yourself

Hidden Doggerland underworld uncovered in North Sea

A huge area of land which was swallowed up into the North Sea thousands of years ago has been recreated and put on display by scientists.

Doggerland was an area between Northern Scotland, Denmark and the Channel Islands.

It was believed to have been home to tens of thousands of people before it disappeared underwater.

That's very worrying Skinny since we've just had the wettest June since 1860 - and it's still raining!

If you think that is worrying, what about this - No evidence of mermaids, says US government



Science has found no evidence that mermaids exist, a US government scientific agency has said.

The National Ocean Service made the unusual declaration in response to public inquiries following a TV show on the mythic creatures.

It is thought some viewers may have mistaken the programme for a documentary.

"No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found," the service wrote in an online post.

A lot of stuff that comes out of the US is worrying - a very high percentage of Americans believe that UFO's exist.

See post 17385.

Watch out there is a stalker about!

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Some say the culture of the city evolved in the USA markets.

I think many in the City didn't need much pressure to join in the corruption similar to the acceptance of gifts from the "Murdoch" and "others".

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I am beginning to wonder what this government may be attempting to hide.

Who is paying who, and who has profited from LIBOR "arrangements" and other "crooked" dealing.

Guess that the USA and the media will push Osborne and Cameron into having a full Judge inquiry.

Bet Cameron wishes he hadn't fallen out with Murdoch, especially after Murdoch's recent remarks in the states.

The net grows wider.

Barclays reveals Bank of England call memo

Barclays has revealed details of a phone call in 2008 between former boss Bob Diamond and the deputy governor of the Bank of England, Paul Tucker.

In new evidence to the Treasury Committee, Barclays says that Mr Tucker told the bank its setting of the Libor inter-bank rate need not be as high.

doodlebug

Don't they ?

Felt this would be more appropriate here.

Interesting to see Ed Millipede calling for a Leveson type probe into the libor fixing scandal, was it not the ex-chancellor Buffoon Brown who ignored a report that libor was being fiddled, was it also not Buffoon Brown our illustrious PM when Labour (including Millipede and Balls-up) discounted claims from Tom Bond the whistleblower at Barclays.
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Peers reject judge-led banking inquiry bid

A Labour attempt to set up a judge-led inquiry into banking has been defeated in the House of Lords.

Peers voted by 251 votes to 197 against an amendment to the Financial Services Bill, which would have established an inquiry independent of parliament.

On Monday Prime Minister David Cameron announced a parliamentary inquiry into the banking sector following the Barclays rate-rigging furore.

But Labour has said a parliamentary inquiry is "not good enough".

The party wants a broad inquiry, led by a judge, into the "culture, governance and professional integrity of the banking and financial services industry".

MPs will get the opportunity to vote on Thursday about the type of inquiry to be held into the Barclays Bank rate-rigging scandal.

MPs will vote on whether to hold a judge-led inquiry, favoured by Labour, or a parliamentary one, favoured by government ministers.

Commons leader Sir George Young said the votes would take place at 17:15 BST.

Re post 17445 (acceptance of gifts)
Absolutely right Fred.

I don't recall the Blairs fighting not to accept their freebie holidays either.
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The haul of gifts Tony Blair took with him when he left Downing St

Tony Blair walked out of Downing Street with a haul of gifts from his ten years as Prime Minister including guitars from rock stars and nine watches from Silvio Berlusconi, it was revealed yesterday.

Jewellery, ornaments, sculptures and even a dagger from Yemen were among the 76 items he and Cherie could not bear to part with when they left office.
The guitars from rock legends Bono and Bryan Adams are likely to be worth a small fortune if sold at auction.


Shameless: Blair's freebie holiday at Bee Gee mansion

Blair accused over his family's free Egyptian holiday

Inside Camerons' £9,500-a-week Italian countryside holiday villa... and unlike the Blairs, they're paying!

Skinny,

I never had any time for Blair. Nor do I have time for him now.

If he has transgressed, and committed any illegal or/and criminal act, you are entitled to take out a private prosecution, if not attempt a civil actions.

I would be happy for you to do so.

But I would like to see Wisteria in the same court and a few others in the same courts.



By obstructing a Judge's enquiry not only is the city beginning to stink abroad, but this government is seeming to be corrupt and hiding things.

The USA will put pressure and Europe will be delighted at "reasons" for pulling out its transactions and using other centres.

Perhaps. Osborne could explain to a judge false claims for a "taxi bill" claim.

But this pair are now in charge and and appear to many to be less the scrupulously clean.

There are good reasons for a completely independent enquiry.

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PS.

Because there were and probably still are bad apples in the Labour,Lib/Dem and UKIP parties doesn't mean that there are not villains in the present "tory" government.

Neither, does the above "excused" any of the villains for any "corrupt" actions.

Like the bankers, they should have "criminal" activities exposed.

Fred1new - 23 Apr 2011 11:04 - 11 of 45

I see Aids, the leading light of intelligentsia has written..........


A few days ago I noticed a thread entitled 'The' which by its title tickled my curiosity. As it turned out the thread was another political platform and full of petty rubbish, not worth reading really. But, the post above caught my attention as I has accused Fred1new of acting in the manner of an Internet troll by referring to another poster as Aids. I was told it was actually Alds, I stood corrected. Mind you the response from F1N did say I haven't referred to him as Aids recently which made me think a bit but I wasn't going back through 1000 of posts to check. As it turned out I didn't need to, evidence of troll like behaviour landed at my feet. It's beyond my understanding how anyone can refer to someone else as Aids, probably F1N finds it amusing. What a shame

Check a few more posts and you will find other references to relevant posts.

Put them in chronological order and they may even make sense to you.

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PS.

You don't have to read this thread or any postings made by me or any other.

The choice is yours.

Have a better day.

Higgs excitement at fever pitch

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are expected to reveal the strongest evidence yet for the Higgs particle in Geneva shortly.

Anticipation is high and rumours have been rife about the announcement.

The Higgs boson would help explain why particles have mass, and fills a glaring hole in the current best theory to describe how the Universe works.

This post is worth repeating

2517GEORGE - 03 Jul 2012 19:06 - 17448 of 17455

Felt this would be more appropriate here.

Interesting to see Ed Millipede calling for a Leveson type probe into the libor fixing scandal, was it not the ex-chancellor Buffoon Brown who ignored a report that libor was being fiddled, was it also not Buffoon Brown our illustrious PM when Labour (including Millipede and Balls-up) discounted claims from Tom Bond the whistleblower at Barclays.
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There are a few buffoons on this thread too.

Vote for Fauxrage.

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It will be interesting to hear Diamond account off said libor "events".

NS&I site a day late due to technical difficulties - quite amazing in this day and age that they can't update it by the 3rd working day of the month.