Questions: 1. Are all who have money in tax havens criminal? 2. Who’s the greater criminal – the tax haven depositor or the State trying to steal that money to fritter away on pointless projects paying 6 figure salaries to administrators? So not exactly in the financial field himself, this expert? Switzerland’s prized banking secrecy, [...]
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Well I couldn’t not watch the TV coverage of the Turner Prize last night on the grounds that one should know thine enemy and it was confirmed that the enemy is feeble but unfortunately the enemy has exclusive access to the rich and powerful, who always seem to need advisors for everything. This need for [...]
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“I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.” [Dr. Timothy Leary quoted in Shout! (1981) by Philip Norman] Leary is well known but his writings as a psychiatrist and philosopher are lost [...]
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Predictable take from an American perspective and not bad reasoning: Germany, warns Corn, is planning to use its financial domination of Europe to remake the EU into an extension of German power — more or less the way that Prussia used the Zollverein to bring northern Germany under its control and then dominated the Bismarckian [...]
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Raedwald: There is one question that no-one has asked of the rioters so far to my knowledge; “did you grow up with your biological father?” You see, I think I know the answer to this already – that an overwhelming majority of them will be growing up or have grown up with an absent father – but [...]
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1. A mate of Chuckles accessed an IT forum and came up with this below, by a Peter S: There used to be a time when the business management would give their IT teams the specs/project/request and say come back when it’s finished. IT to them most of the time was just a black box, [...]
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In 1831 The Marquis of Londonderry said: “Why should Gateshead have a say in Parliament. It is a mere suburb, a long, dirty lane, leading to Newcastle – a most filthy spot, containing the vilest class of Society.” Times have changed but Gateshead hasn’t, it is still as dreary and depressing as ever which makes [...]
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A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money. The old guy fingered his worsted wool vest and said, “Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel. “I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the [...]
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Doesn’t mean a lot in the scheme of things but something happened on Saturday that made me think. I live in a remote backwater, overlooking a scenic scene and getting to work on Saturday involves taking a train from the local station to the main or junction station and then catching another train from there [...]
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Via This is True: The “Black Friday” start to the holiday shopping season got off to a bang as shoppers tried to be first to get limited merchandise at the Walmart store in the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles, Calif. Just after it opened its doors, about 100 people streamed in to vie for [...]
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From NPR: Anita O’Day is a singer’s singer. Highly rhythmic with a distinctive sense of phrasing, she was one of the first big band singers to tackle the intricacies of bebop and prevail. She’s influenced many, including June Christy and Chris Connor, and now stands as a living legend.
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Relativity: [Source picdump, H/T Chuckles]
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This post is for insiders, not for the vehemently opposed. It doesn’t go into the existence of G-d, it assumes that – but it does go into certain dogmas. Original sin is the doctrine, in the Christian church, that with the fall of Adam, so also came the fall of Man and that Man inherits [...]
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Supreme Court rules no Nativity scene in DC The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in the United States’ Capital this Christmas season. This isn’t for any religious reason. They simply have not been able to find Three Wise Men in the Nation’s Capitol. The search for a Virgin continues. [...]
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Поплачь о нем, in English, means basically “cry for him now while he’s alive, not after he’s gone”. Taken more broadly, it means not to treat someone like dirt whilst they’re alive and then weep later. If you must weep, do it now. This group is known for its metal and hard rock but Поплачь [...]
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[Click pics to enlarge] John Wigglesworth’s at it again: After WW11 the world in general went into austerity mode,real austerity,and this was mirrored in the car industry internationaly.
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A conversation was overheard and it went like this: Person A: Complete insanity – otherwise known as ‘The Precautionary Principle at work”. Here’s what he was referring to: Millions of Americans who got on a plane over the Thanksgiving holiday heard the admonition: “Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff.” And absolutely everyone obeyed. [...]
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We have to keep our eyes open these days. While we look at our own situation in Europe, meanwhile, in the States: Essentially, Sections 10:31 and 10:32 authorize the inclusion of the United States Homeland as part of the battlefield and this gives the military jurisdiction they have never had, due to constitutional provision ensuring [...]
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[Click for the big pic] I have been digitizing my film and slide collection all 10000 of them, and amongst them i found this old photo that i scanned, it is of one of the only two m/cycles i owned. I have cloned out the name on the tank and thought it would make a [...]
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Those of you who are of a certain age will remember The Singing Nun but recently I came across The Painting Nun. She is called Isabel Guerra and is cloistered in the Cistercian Monastery of Santa Lucía in Zaragoza. She paints in the style known as photorealism and as you can see below she is [...]
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We know Obama is corrupt yet his strongarm tactics surprise. Despite his Marxist background and connection with the Weathermen, despite his backdropping his inauguration with an occult temple, there wasn’t a lot to suggest what he’d go along with once it came down to it. I read him as a weak man, like Blair, who’ll [...]
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