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by anaconda
January 11th, 2016, 8:29 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: Good bye and thanks
Replies: 12
Views: 12480

Re: Good bye and thanks

Was surprised how deeply I've been feeling this. He was an idol growing up. Bowie features in some way at every stage of my life. Sad sad day. Think I know what you mean, anaconda. As I said I was never a music fan of any kind but one had to be an anchorite of some kind not to have been influenced ...
by anaconda
January 11th, 2016, 6:00 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: Good bye and thanks
Replies: 12
Views: 12480

Re: Good bye and thanks

Was surprised how deeply I've been feeling this. He was an idol growing up. Bowie features in some way at every stage of my life. Sad sad day.
by anaconda
January 1st, 2016, 3:37 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: The future of Government (if any)
Replies: 3234
Views: 380165

Re: The future of Government (if any)

And a very happy and wealthy New Year to all our bankers: Banking culture inquiry shelved by regulator FCA The FCA had planned to look at whether pay, promotion or other incentives had contributed to scandals involving banks in the UK and abroad. Yes it wouldn't do to look too hard would it. We all...
by anaconda
January 1st, 2016, 3:35 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: The future of Government (if any)
Replies: 3234
Views: 380165

Re: The future of Government (if any)

Hmmm.... being Jewish, I suspect Oliver Letwin knows a thing or two about racial discrimination. I wonder how that oily rag the Grauniad would have said if a black gentleman had been described as "oily"..... :wink: And of course, the Grauniad is spinning again, telling lies, and more concerned with...
by anaconda
December 30th, 2015, 10:03 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: The future of Government (if any)
Replies: 3234
Views: 380165

Re: The future of Government (if any)

Oliver Letwin blocked help for black youth after 1985 riots David Cameron’s chief policy adviser has apologised after he helped to ward off cabinet pleas for assistance for black unemployed youth following the 1985 inner-city riots with the argument that any help would only end up in the “disco and...
by anaconda
October 16th, 2015, 8:25 pm
Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
Topic: Modern economics
Replies: 1408
Views: 125287

Re: Modern economics

....apologies for the link error, it's only here that I seem to have these problems.........honest guv! It's well worth a view, if via cut and paste though. Fixed it: all the youtube tag needs is the video ID (the bit after v= in the url), not the whole url. Thanks Alan. His comments regarding the ...
by anaconda
October 15th, 2015, 4:25 pm
Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
Topic: Modern economics
Replies: 1408
Views: 125287

Re: Modern economics

....apologies for the link error, it's only here that I seem to have these problems.........honest guv!

It's well worth a view, if via cut and paste though.
by anaconda
October 15th, 2015, 4:22 pm
Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
Topic: Modern economics
Replies: 1408
Views: 125287

Re: Modern economics

Noam Chomsky covers a range of related themes - . He's clear and informative on the influence of banks and U.S/ European foreign policy which he sees as creating both a security and economic risk.

by anaconda
July 14th, 2015, 7:24 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: The future of Government (if any)
Replies: 3234
Views: 380165

Re: The future of Government (if any)

Maiden speech of Mhairi Black SNPs youngest MP.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lZAmhB55_-k
by anaconda
July 13th, 2015, 7:28 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: The future of Government (if any)
Replies: 3234
Views: 380165

Re: The future of Government (if any)

What is the point? Where is the passion? Where is the ability to tell right from wrong, good from evil? The Dug has the right of it . Read and be inspired. Labour can only survive by returning to its moral roots. Perhaps, in time, they can save us from the wickedness that is coming from Westminster...
by anaconda
July 10th, 2015, 7:59 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: The future of Government (if any)
Replies: 3234
Views: 380165

Re: The future of Government (if any)

How naive of me to think that George was doing some straight talking. That here was a real incentive. He giveth with one hand but taketh away considerably more with the other. What's worse is the damage is already done. Most people pay little attention to the details of politics. The budget was met ...
by anaconda
July 9th, 2015, 12:33 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Grexit?
Replies: 63
Views: 9243

Re: Grexit?

i do have a soft spot for Gecko's, though not in any nutritional sense! To use you expression...........'oh dear' I thought you'd miss that one, though I didn't express the point being about relative taxation as I should have: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jun/16/british-public-wrong-rich-po...
by anaconda
July 8th, 2015, 11:28 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: The future of Government (if any)
Replies: 3234
Views: 380165

Re: The future of Government (if any)

I fear the Minimum Living Wage will pretty quickly be handed over to the landlords and the Energy companies. The prices demanded by the vendors of life's essentials are limited only by the amount of money in the pockets of the low-paid. So it goes, so it goes. . . LIVING WAGE FOUNDATION RESPONSE TO...
by anaconda
July 8th, 2015, 10:39 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Grexit?
Replies: 63
Views: 9243

Re: Grexit?

Hardly a huge leap of faith, nor a conspiracy given how polarised wealth has become. That didnt happen by accident. Was it the lizards again....? Hehheh...not my scene I'm afraid Though if by lizards you mean faceless Bilderberg dwelling corporate entities then probably yes. Are you denying that th...
by anaconda
July 7th, 2015, 7:16 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Grexit?
Replies: 63
Views: 9243

Re: Grexit?

Greece - What You Are Not Being Told by the Media Is this because the mainstream media don't publish ridiculous conspiracy theories? According to mainstream media, the current economic crisis in Greece is due to the government spending too much money on its people that it went broke. Absolutely rig...
by anaconda
July 7th, 2015, 7:13 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Grexit?
Replies: 63
Views: 9243

Re: Grexit?

Interesting how it appears that the Greeks want to restructure their debt whilst Germany seem to want to tell them how to run their economy.
by anaconda
July 7th, 2015, 6:14 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Grexit?
Replies: 63
Views: 9243

Re: Grexit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OLowusrkNA


On a related theme from the admirable Owen Jones.
by anaconda
July 7th, 2015, 5:47 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Grexit?
Replies: 63
Views: 9243

Re: Grexit?

Yes.....and your Google needs a service by the looks of it. I see your blinkers are still fitted Nick.... there are other similar articles around, but why see bigger social or political themes when there's mainstream economics to provide a solution. Perhaps you could provide us with a 'Nick approved...
by anaconda
July 6th, 2015, 7:06 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Grexit?
Replies: 63
Views: 9243

Re: Grexit?

It's reasonable given recent history not to trust large financial institutions, but here's a view on Greece from Chris Kanthan. Some of it may be familiar but it's difficult, as ever with issues such as these, to formulate a clear view, mainly due to the politics of power rather than anything financ...
by anaconda
February 15th, 2015, 11:03 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: The future of Government (if any)
Replies: 3234
Views: 380165

Re: The future of Government (if any)

I wonder why tax evaders on the whole flock to the tories. If you don't believe in paying tax then why do it? If you don't believe in taxation or in collecting tax then why do it? All tories together.