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Textbook Shock Doctrine technique. Marx and Engels will be turning in a da grave.

Well the thing about Soros and partly what endears me to him is that he isn't one of those that started on the 'inside'. He started selling postcards on a beach in Wales, when they first came over to as immigrants (before he went to the states).

Watch the Soros thing Nicos. He lays it out clear and simple for us.

"The super bubble....Over 25 years....Constant credit expansion using greater and greater leverage (gearing)..." Soros.

I had no idea it was that high. This sets some interesting precedents. **Get back to this a bit later.

If he came it would mean money was available. So even just for that I'd have to say yes.

Is this available on the PS3?

It collapsed in 1979 mate.

AIG picked up 112billion!!!

I'm fascinated by it all. Can't read enough. She highlights the difference between the US and UK packages in more detail than I had... America would rather go bust than allow a hint of socialism into the system. Where we've nationalised the banks, the US has privatised the treasury. That 2 trillion quote above, isn't the whole story either. CNBC have totalled the bailout bill at $4,284,500,000,000, that's $4.28 trillion. http://www.cnbc.com/id/27719011/ "More than what was spent on WW II, if adjusted for inflation" And still, the anti-bailout marches go unreported by the mainstream media. Lot of the aggro started when the Fed didn't have to declare (as they used to have to) how much currency they were printing/circulating.

I'm fascinated by it all. Can't read enough. She highlights the difference between the US and UK packages in more detail than I had... America would rather go bust than allow a hint of socialism into the system. Where we've nationalised the banks, the US has privatised the treasury. That 2 trillion quote above, isn't the whole story either. CNBC have totalled the bailout bill at $4,284,500,000,000, that's $4.28 trillion. http://www.cnbc.com/id/27719011/ "More than what was spent on WW II, if adjusted for inflation" And still, the anti-bailout marches go unreported by the mainstream media. Makes one wonder donnit? Quite tempted to start my Parky's top 50 people who run things and no one has ever heard of much thread.

I'll have a good read of that later. Thanks. On first impressions it looks like the criminality of the super rich continues unabated.

That them there were the passengers tho. Passengers are also more likely to be Terrorists™, but less likely to be hammered into accepting the ID card through threat to their jobs. But seriously ignoring the obvious Governmental PR carrot and stick issues with this, how fucked would we be if we don't know the identity of our commercial pilots. Although the "are you a terrorist?" question you have to fill out on the ID Card application form is clearly going to make the UK a much safer place (people that answer "yes" means that will flash up whenever they have to use it, utterly foolproof ). When is the deadline for id cards anyway (for people)? I think that absolute deadlines that people can have a revolution over have been kicked completely into the long grass. Not exactly surprisingly with Labour they are trying to do almost the whole thing by stealth now , foreign nationals (where it does actually make some vague sense - at least so they have to lie about being the same person ) comes in soon (and is a deadline), but the rest is "voluntary" with varying amounts of carrot and stick (they are trying to lure "younger people" (16-25) into it from 2010 and they've been deemed less likely to be worried about them or their cost). Of course the difference between "voluntary" and "deadline" may well be meaningless if the stick is big enough (as in this case). Parky blinks at the monitor as he busies himself with a full dna masking kit.

No money man. Are you kidding me? http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?showtopic=21802 I can't remember but are there options to buy into these firms with public money or am I talking shit? That's what Brown has done. The taxpayer will get their money back, as long as the companies don't fold. Paulson has handed the banks the cash and sent out the message to private investors that there are certain companies that the government will not allow the stock to fall on. A risk free investment for the wealthy at the expense of the poor. Thanks. Brown is so old skool.

Apparently the propa database is x10 bigger than the one used in the game iirc. Not sure if its 10x bigger but there are loads of players and staff that are in the db but are marked as not for extraction. Yeah summink like that.

That them there were the passengers tho. Passengers are also more likely to be Terrorists™, but less likely to be hammered into accepting the ID card through threat to their jobs. But seriously ignoring the obvious Governmental PR carrot and stick issues with this, how fucked would we be if we don't know the identity of our commercial pilots. Although the "are you a terrorist?" question you have to fill out on the ID Card application form is clearly going to make the UK a much safer place (people that answer "yes" means that will flash up whenever they have to use it, utterly foolproof ). When is the deadline for id cards anyway (for people)?

No money man. Are you kidding me? http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?showtopic=21802 I can't remember but are there options to buy into these firms with public money or am I talking shit?

Remember my little comment about capital flows the other day? I remember your declining my invitation to explain it Simply what is making the system unstable is that investment capital moves quickly towards opportunities for short term gain at high risk. This process is further destabalised by the bonus structure of said firms. So for instance with the housing speculation in the U.S. the money simply didn't have other good places to go for quick returns and portfolio ballast (silly term I know). "All the executive heads of the commissions, in nuanced ways, underscored the non-functioning of the international finance system and the inability of individual countries to cope with systemic problems caused by the nature of the current financial flows, and the herd behaviour of foreign investors, and underlined the need for international actions, particularly to curb short-term capital flows, in both the host and home countries. But two representatives of Wall Street firms, Ms Joyce Cornell of Scudder Kemper Investments, a portfolio fund investor which claimed to be active in Africa, and Goldman Sachs International, a global investment bank which was formerly headed by the present US Treasury Secretary Rubin, spoke with differing nuances but with the basic message that countries should not interfere with flows of capital into and out of a country, but rather take measures to provide confidence to the investors and markets."

No money man.

That them there were the passengers tho.

Remember my little comment about capital flows the other day?

The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa), which represents most of the country's commercial pilots, said the Government's "early warning system should be flashing" over its opposition to plans to force aviation workers be the first Britons to carry ID cards. Jim McAuslan, Balpa's general secretary, said his members resented being treated as guinea pigs and added: "It may come to an industrial dispute. "We would want to avoid that. We would want the Government to think again about the whole scheme," he told The Independent. The Government insists that the cards must be fast-tracked to airport staff due to the importance of high security in their workplaces. The Home Office is preparing to unveil a plan to make staff at Manchester and London City airports sign up for an ID card before they can apply for security accreditation necessary for workers at the sites. Under the plans, ID cards will be issued to staff from next autumn. Mr McAuslan said: "The Government has said previously that ID cards will be voluntary, but the indications are that if you choose not to have a card, you will not get an airside pass."

The Swiss bank UBS set out a tough new pay system yesterday for its top executives that could see senior bankers "fined" or forced to repay part of their bonuses if they under-perform in years of hefty losses. Proclaiming the end of the era of excessive bonuses in the global financial sector, Peter Kurer, the bank's chairman, who is paid a fixed annual salary of 2m Swiss francs (£1.1m), said the new system would eradicate the culture of paying out multimillion bonuses and stock options on short-term results and rewarding excessive risk-taking. The proposed cultural shift would see rewards for "those who deliver good results over several years without assuming unnecessarily high risk," he added. His comments came as Goldman Sachs, the US bank renowned for its huge Christmas payouts, said its seven top executives would get no bonus for 2008. Top executives at Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest, have already waived their bonuses."

There could be money in that! © Parky Industries.

Apparently the propa database is x10 bigger than the one used in the game iirc.