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.

Good Queen May sitting on her thorn.

Probably always been that way, just more obvious these days. There should be a rule that an MP should be from the constituency which they represent. Can't be that difficult to find someone from 75,000 people better than the mini royalty that currently exists when choosing candidates, particularly labour candidates.

Never mind middle age or old age, you really know your time is nearly done when you enter a new geological age. One where political dinosaurs roam the concrete jungles.
The rapid industrialisation of the last century has caused the Earth to enter its first new geological epoch in more than 11,500 years, scientists believe.
An international team of researchers say the worldwide spread of plastics, new metals and concrete, combined with manmade climate change, has pushed the planet into the Anthropocene epoch.
While human activity has left visible traces on the Earth since before the current Holocene epoch, which begun around 9,700 BC, the scientists argue that the recent changes to global systems are sufficiently simultaneous and significant to justify the adoption of a new geological time unit characterised by human domination.

Being the Graun, of course it has an agenda, but worth a look if only for the graphic.


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth



I think the argument goes like this:

Get rid of general humanity, and leave a pristine earth for the entitled (plus a few slaves)

R.I.P Gene wilder

When I looked at P73268 I thought it was a cartoon of Cameron's downfall.

The European Commission has ordered Ireland to claw back up to €13 billion (£11.1 billion; $14.5 billion) in back taxes from Apple.
Ireland's finance minister, Michael Noonan, said in a statement: "I disagree profoundly with the commission's decision." He added: "The decision leaves me with no choice but to seek Cabinet approval to appeal the decision before the European courts."
Strange situation when a Government appeals a windfall of 13B euros, even an Irish government :) I suspect appealing to the European court is the same as Gerrie Nel appealing the Pistorius sentence to that dopey Masipa. Judge and jury.

Must be one of those days.. be thankful we only have Smith and Corbyn to shake our heads at.

Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, ordered the public execution of two senior bureaucrats with an anti-aircraft gun, with South Korean media suggesting the killings are the start of a "new reign of terror" in the aftermath of a series of recent high-profile defections.
Sources told South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported that one of the men was identified as Ri Yong-jin, an official in the education ministry, who made the mistake of falling asleep in a meeting with Mr Kim. "He incurred the wrath of Kim after he dozed off during a meeting that Kim presided over," the newspaper quoted the source as saying.
"He was arrested on-site and intensively questioned by the state security ministry," the paper claimed. "He was executed after other charges, such as corruption, were found during the probe."
The second official was named as Hwang Min, a former agriculture ministry, who was executed "because policy proposals he had pushed for were seen as a direct challenge to the leadership of Kim Jong-un," the newspaper reported.

Sounds like a future Neo-con government under Theresa.

Well it would never happen under a future Corbyn government Fred as there will never be one.

On the BBC lunchtime news it had a report on the immigrants in the Med
coming from Africa, and across the mast of the boat that was picking them
up was their organisation, which read....'Proactiveopenborders.com'

The western governments are allowing this to happen, its obviously been
organised on the north African coast by these open borders scum and in
collusion with the western governments for transportation to europe.

Granny,

Are you Tanker in disguise?

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Are you a parrot in disguise Freda? Get a grip man!

Of course Fred would now like to welcome ALL of Africa .

Watch out there is a Dumbo about.

Watch out there is a Dumbo about.

I'm always in awe when Fred post, and await his contributions with great
anticipation.

In your name.

Cos you can bet your life you are on the hook somewhere along the line.


http://wolfstreet.com/2016/08/22/ecb-secretly-hands-cash-to-corporations-buys-bonds-private-placements/