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Got some of his predictions right apparently. I'm still looking into it.

Jesus. Wept.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A6345407

There is some talk of Nov this year. There was talk of November last year. TV time paid for apparently Yeah, Obama is keen on it and the advisors aren't, never mind the 'controllers'. Another JFk in the making if he ain't careful. Do they mean bacteria, or proper UFO flying aliens? Those are quite low odds for something like that. I never knew David Icke had so much cash to drive the odds down. You fekin jokin innit??! We've been visited by about 71 different ET's and EBE's and that's just in the last 50 years or so.... This galaxy is teeming with life. Life will find a way, deep ocean vents the big giveaway imo. Yep. Volcanoes are regulary discussed as part of the precursor inc building an atmosphere.

Couple of good and scary fight scenes.

The Badger is canny enough but its part of a chain iirc. There seems to be a massive shortage of independent pubs doing decent food in this region, especially in and around Newcastle and North Tyneside. Anybody got any foody recommendations? Shiremoor Farm has decent bait for a pub, beer's not too shabby either. That's my local food pub of choice but it can get really packed. It's not great for veggies either tbh (for the wife, not me). Went to the Pavillion the other day and it was poor, although it had the bonus that the waitresses apparently weren't wearing skirts. Also went to the Maggy bank before Christmas and the food was poor and massively overpriced to boot. Most the other pubs are just 2 for £8 merchants. Poor show really. True, there's not much to choose from. Next time you go up Northumberland, it's worth making a trip to The Cook and Barker at Newton-on-the-Moor. The food is superb, it has rooms if you fancy a stopover too. I can't comment on the veggie options, but if it's on par with the cooked flesh, it'll be grand Cook and Barker tinterwebs That looks lush.

So fuck Or ring-fence the money so it can only be used for renewable energy projects or something. How about stop taxing people and start taxing banks and ringfencing their ringpieces.

It's all over the interweb.

Funny that, I was talking yesterday to a mate about the rise and rise of the art market.

I think most responsible cyclists do cover their bikes on house insurance and may have some kind of third party cover which is registration of a kind. (And of course car road tax comes nowhere near covering the actual costs of roads anyway) You're way off base. The government has averaged £38 billion per annum over the last ten years in road user taxation (vehicle tax, fuel duty etc.) whilst spending an average £15 billion per year over the same period on all of transport (roads, rail, aviation, tube, tram, the lot). Thinking about it, a cycling road tax would be difficult to enforce. And if it was for a relatively modest amount (say £25 or under) most of it would go on its own administration. My new great idea is a £25 tax on all new pushbikes sold in this country. Simple to administer and impossible to avoid. You can have that one on me Mr Osbourne. Not very green is it? Here's an idea, tax second cars to fuck.

There is some talk of Nov this year. There was talk of November last year. TV time paid for apparently Yeah, Obama is keen on it and the advisors aren't, never mind the 'controllers'. Another JFk in the making if he ain't careful. Do they mean bacteria, or proper UFO flying aliens? Those are quite low odds for something like that. I never knew David Icke had so much cash to drive the odds down. You fekin jokin innit??! We've been visited by about 71 different ET's and EBE's and that's just in the last 50 years or so.... This galaxy is teeming with life.

There is some talk of Nov this year. There was talk of November last year. TV time paid for apparently Yeah, Obama is keen on it and the advisors aren't, never mind the 'controllers'. Another JFk in the making if he ain't careful.

Went through that lark recently. Good luck Craig. Take your time and keep it simple.

Is there any need to take TT downmarket? You manage that all on your own dahling Pud - picnic sounds luverly. The Fraggle has got a horrible vomiting/diarrhoea bug at the mo so I don't dare venture too far from the house Trust a woman to start this kind of thread. OOooo I'm a bit down today etc...

I'd rather a change in the way the world works. Call me an eternal optimist.

Is there any need to take TT downmarket?

Liking this. I think you might be right comrade. when did we last make money from "inventions"? You are all harking back to the late 19th C FFS the world moves on and the good folk of China and Indonesia are in the sweat shops turning out "goods" A few clever people in Briatin help relieve them of their spare cash by offering "China's Got Talent", Insurance policies and Double dip self floating indexated currency swaps The rest of us exist to make sure the rich have servants, people to cut their grass and serve in Waitrose and M &S for them and, of course, to on the Red Coat and die to keep the envious poor at arms length China is exporting real goods we in return are offering pretty bits of paper and promises....It can't go on. Amrica for instance is the biggest consumer and customer of Chinese products as long as they keep borrowing to pay for everything...The borrowing is about to run out... A 1/3 of the worlds common debt is American. 17 trillion and rising at around 1.5 - 1.7 trillion a year. 35% of taxes in the U.S. is being used to manage debt repayments.

What of it?

Well done Gary.

No correction on earth or legistaltion is going to alter the fact that most banks balance sheets are pretend nonsense. In so far as Govt had to bail them out there will be no option next crash...Which will be this year. Some of the smaller lending banks with creible postions will be ok...

Hmmm - conspiracy theories abound. Long term - look at UK banking stocks. Short term - good deals on the AIM also Jupiter looking to float shortly, worth a punt when the IPO runs. Not a commods man but do you not have to have a license to trade gold now? Well it is only a conspiracy till the conspiracy becomes a reality vis a vie Govt debt and failing Govt fianances in Euro and of course the U.S. Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain are pretty much gone. All they can do now is over monetarise (print more money).... International reserves of say 8 trillion are mainly held in emerging economies like China and India, the West has basically been running debt cycles now for err at least two decades and more if you're American. I wouldn't invest one penny in stocks of any kind. All banks are vulernable and in turn all stocks (paper gurantees of any kind actually inc bonds). It can only be that we are close to one or two maj economies defaulting and then all hell will break loose. Big Govt and big Govt employee pools to counter receeding private sectors has been a catastrophe. In the UK we need to get back to creating wealth the old fashioned way (inventions, business, production) and forget about exotic ideas of fiancial sectors etc, cause the biggest failing of the fianancial sector has been its inabiltiy to spread wealth meaningfully. Marx was right.

sounds great until private ownwership of gold is banned and you have to hand it over. Been done before. You're right actually, it was in the States iirc. Ok, buy gold, get some guns and get into farming (see CT). They don't like people buying precious metals cause it takes money out of the game (land you know how they like to make money from YOUR money and lose it all of course - AS LONG AS IT IS YOUR MONEY).

That's silly.

It's not just about using tax to bail out Big finance, it's also about 0% rates destroying savings and increasing commodity prices (as money is worth less the value of major commodities always rises/get costlier - oil, gold, other prescious metals, footstuffs). When America and others have to buy oil and other commodities and has to pay higher leverages due to falling value of currencies due to over liquidisation of the markets (panic measures) and 0% or near 0% interest rates, the markets and high powered borrowers/investors/financiers win and the man in the street loses. Destroying the value of money continually keeps a broken system afloat, but the ordinary man in the street ends up paying from both sides (higher taxes + losing value of savings). International companies making stuff cheap in China and so on and selling it back to the west has decimated the means of production in the west and there lies the core of the problem. Ever wonder why our Govt's don't rebuild our means of production?? American debt is growing by 1.7 trillion dollars a year...So over the medium term China's markets which is mainly us will less able to consume due to internal currency and value crisis, which will rebound on China at which point China will start selling U.S. bonds as a short term counterstrike. After that scenario....It's probably over for the Capitalist engine AMERICA and if they stop spending it's also over for us. Buy gold and sit tight.