Lame Cherry
SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2008
Only the good die Donald Young.
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008/07/only-good-die-donald-young.html
For those who do not know, Donald Young, he was a black Chicagoan who happened to be choir direction at Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church, and, according to what was expressed in the days before his murder to Lawrence Sinclair, Mr. Young was intimate with Barack Obama in the ways of sodomy which Mr. Sinclair has stated.
For some reason though in the ways of cover ups no one is expressing the obvious facts that the Chicago syndicate in it's typical Al Capone way carried out this silencing of Mr. Young who by deduction was giving feedback to the Obama camp or his phone was tapped and was known to be actually developing a camaraderie with Lawrence Sinclair, and, as two birds in a cage singing the same sodomobama love song is one bird too many, the result is what the Young family have been dealing with since December.
One only has to look at Chicago's past in St. Valentine's Day, the 1968 Democratic Convention and Dan Rather getting bounced around there to see the signature of the heavy, heavy fuel of the Chicago boys at play.
All one has to do is take a stroll around the collective comrade block to see what points to Chicago and what points to the way other syndicates handle matters. They all leave the tales of their personal comfort zone of death.
Iran's Nuclear, Missile Programs Doomed.
China Confidential
Foreign Reporting and Analysis Since April 2005
Monday, July 28, 2008
Iran's Nuclear, Missile Programs Doomed
Foreign Confidential....
Don't believe the rumors. The United States is not about to appease nuclear-arming, Islamist Iran. It will be bombed if it does not cease its nuclear enrichment program.
Iran's missiles will be the initial targets, followed by the suspect nuclear enrichment sites. The elite Revolutionary Guard will be wiped out in the first 48 hours of conflict.
British Energy - Another Giveaway? The Great Unelected Helmsman. Feed The World. Life Under Fag-End Government.
Burning Our Money
MONDAY, JULY 28, 2008
British Energy - Another Giveaway?
Taxpayers heading for a second nuking?
The imminent sale of British Energy is something taxpayers need to watch very closely, because we own 35% of the company. And our interests are in the hands of a panicky discredited government that is desperate for money.
Regular readers will recall that taxpayers have already suffered one serious nuking over BE (see this blog). Back in 2002, the company virtually went bust, and was only saved by the government chucking in a large wad of our cash.
As the National Audit Office subsequently reported, the DTI not only bailed out the company- which nobody else would have done- but it then led a financial restructuring that left taxpayers holding a £5.3bn nuclear decommissioning liability, while the majority de-risked ownership stake was left with the original shareholders and creditors. It was a dismally naive Simple Shopper deal, only partially rescued by the subsequent sharp rise in energy prices which gave taxpayers a windfall additional share allocation (cf the abysmal sale of Qinetic - see previous blogs eg here).
So here we are again. EDF is currently bidding to buy British Energy so it can acquire the sites and rights to build our new generation of nukes. And there are some BIG question marks.
Daily News.
daily news
Monday July 28, 2008
In Brief
Obama\'s success in Iraq
Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki's stated his support for Obama's withdrawal timetable. That July Christmas gift will enable Obama to say, in the debates and on the stump, that he and the Iraqi leader - George Bush's man in Baghdad, no less - are on the same page about the future. That's a pretty strong card to play with regard to a war that's costing $10bn a month and that most Americans want to see end sooner rather than later. Michael Tomasky The Guardian
Obama's trip has dealt him new cards to play at home
US Election 2008
Filed under: Michael Tomasky, Barack Obama, Iraq, US election
Impossible to hide
Since moving to Britain, I have been called licence cheat, fare-dodger, and benefit thief – and all when I was just sitting on the Tube, minding my own business. "Get one or get done!" barked a TV Licensing poster. Then the tone changed from thuggish to sinister: "Your town. Your street. Your home. It's all in our database. New technology means it's easier to pay your TV licence – and impossible to hide if you don't."
Sarah Churchwell The Independent
Full article: The message is clear. We are all under suspicion
Filed under: Sarah Churchwell, Size of the State,
Fringe parties fill a vacuum
EU BRIEF.
eu reform treaty
New poll shows Irish are against a second referendum and would reject Lisbon by even bigger margin than before;
Irish government attacks poll
A new poll by Irish company Red C, commissioned by Open Europe, has found that 71% of Irish voters are against a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and that, of those who expressed an opinion, 62% would vote 'no'. That would mean the "no" lead would increase from 6 points in the recent referendum to a commanding 24 point lead in a second vote.
The poll found that 17% of those who voted "yes" in the recent referendum would vote "no" in a second referendum, while only 6% of those who voted "no" would now vote "yes". Perhaps most significantly of all, those who did not vote last time would vote more than two-to-one against in a second referendum: 57% would vote "no" and 26% would vote "yes".
67% agreed with the statement that "politicians in Europe do not respect Ireland's no vote". Only 28% disagreed. 61% disagreed with the statement that "If all of the other 26 EU countries ratify the Treaty in their parliaments then Ireland has to change its mind and support the Treaty." Only 32% agreed. 53% said they would be less likely to vote for Brian Cowen at the next election if he called a second referendum. In particular, 43% of Fianna Fail voters said they would be less likely to vote for him.
Economics: Eurozone may beat Britain to recession. The news from the single currency bloc is bad and the prospects look worse.
eu brief
THE GUARDIAN 28.7.08
Economics: Eurozone may beat Britain to recession
The news from the single currency bloc is bad and the prospects look even worse
• Ashley Seager
Just as Friday's growth figures suggested Britain is tipping into
recession, across the Channel it suddenly looks as if the eurozone
might beat us to it.
The data flow last week from the 15-member bloc was simply awful and
will undermine the argument that while the UK's housing market,
construction industry, banking sector and just about every other part
of the economy are slowing rapidly, we could export our way out of
trouble. Since we do half our trade with the rest of western Europe,
that idea is looking increasingly shaky.
Holidaymakers heading for France, Italy or Spain may bemoan the
weakness of the pound against the euro - a drop of about 14% over the
past year - although it was good news for British exporters. But the
opposite is true for the eurozone's exporters, who have been
disappointed to see their currency surge to record highs against the
dollar as well as climbing against the pound.
Add in high oil prices, falling house prices in countries such as
Spain and Ireland, plus last month's interest rate rise from the
European Central Bank, and you have a toxic mix that is clobbering an
economic area which until recently was proud of being less exposed
than Britain to the credit crunch.
Deteriorating
Labours Brownout.
wall st journal
Labours Brownout
"Yet any unelected replacement for Gordon Brown at Downing Street would be illegitimate. When Tony Blair led Labour to a historic third straight triumph at the polls in 2005, it was understood that Mr. Brown would take the reins from him before the next vote. After spending a decade as Treasury chief, Mr. Brown's promotion to Number 10 was expected, if not wholly democratic.
Britons did not, however, expect Mr. Brown to be relieved of his duties after just a year in office. They would rightly be furious if Labour formed a third government since the last election; the only time that's happened in Britain in the past 140 years was during World War II, when the besieged country went 10 years between elections. Ignoring the voters now would be particularly embarrassing for British democracy given the rapt attention globally for America's current election campaign".
"A riskier scenario -- but maybe Labour's best long-term bet -- goes something like this: First, Mr. Brown resigns. Then, an old hand like Jack Straw takes over and calls elections in two months' time. The Tories would win, but their prize would be tackling an ailing economy. By the time the next election came around, a revitalized Labour Party would blast the Tories' economic management and return to power".
http://online. wsj.com:80/ article/SB121719 015841988005. html?mod= googlenews_ wsj
EU BRIEF.
Lease scheme to avoid tax ruled invalid
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PublicTechnology.net - UK
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