Nergal and Mammon

Saturday, 10 January 2009

As Gaza is torn apart by war, where is Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair? He's been on HOLIDAY

By Matthew Kalman, Daily Mail
Last updated at 12:32 PM on 05th January 2009

For the last nine days, the eyes of the world have been on war-torn Gaza as it descended into all-out conflict and hundreds lost their lives.

Yet Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair was far from the action - spending Christmas and New Year with his family.

For at least part of the time he was in London, where he was spotted at a special private opening of the Armani store in Knightsbridge.

Staying out of the euro has spared us a Spanish-style catastrophe

By Jeff Randall
Last Updated: 5:43AM GMT 09 Jan 2009

Half-built flats and soaring unemployment show that the boom has turned to gloom on the Costa del Sol. And it's a fate that could easily have befallen Britain.

Ten years after it was launched, the euro is propelling Spain towards disaster. In giving up control of domestic interest rates to the European Central Bank, Madrid handed over a vital instrument of macroeconomic management. It is learning to regret that.
For the early part of this millennium, that loss of power seemed not to matter: Spain's outrageous (and in some cases illegal) construction frenzy hid a multitude of sins. At the peak, about 800,000 homes were being built annually on the basis that demand from foreign buyers was limitless.
That dream has vanished, along with the over-supply of cheap money that funded it. Drive down the E-15, the main motorway link between Malaga and Gibraltar, and you will see block after block of half-built apartments, connected neither to essential utilities nor to financial reality. They stand as temples to a religion that ceased to exist when the bubble popped.

Thursday, 13 November 2008

I'm Mandy, buy me - and Jack'll be ?3,000

'Capacity for self-delusion': Jack Straw (left) is the latest politician to be embroiled in a back-hander scandal - Lord Mandelson (left) still insists he did nothing improper accepting Oleg Deripaska's hospitality

Mail Online
Last updated at 10:26 PM on 10th November 2008

Jack Straw is the latest leading Labour light to become embroiled in a backhander scandal. He is facing an official investigation into a ?3,000 donation from an international energy firm.
The bung, courtesy of a Texan outfit called Canatxx (which sounds like some kind of ointment for embarrassing skin disorders), was not declared in either the Commons' register of MPs' interests or the Electoral Commission's list of donations to parties.
It went towards paying for a dinner to celebrate Straw's 25 years as an MP. My invitation must have got lost in the post.

Is Osborne no longer Cameron's right-hand man?

By Jane Merrick

Ask Miss Whiplash which hand Osborne uses.

Saturday, 1 November 2008

GLG chief Emmanuel Roman warns thousands of hedge funds on brink of failure

Emmanuel Roman, the co-chief executive of Europe’s biggest hedge fund GLG, has warned that thousands of hedge funds are on the brink of failure as the global economy contracts with unexpected severity.

By Rowena Mason
Last Updated: 5:50PM BST 24 Oct 2008

Emmanuel Roman, of GLG Partners, said 25pc-30pc of the world’s 8,000 hedge funds would disappear "in a Darwinian process", either going bust or deciding meagre profits are not worth their efforts.
"This will go down in the history books as one of the greatest fiascos of banking in 100 years," said Mr Roman

Sunday, 26 October 2008

American financier kills his family and himself after losing fortune in credit crunch

By David Gardner and Robert Mendick
Last updated at 1:15 AM on 08th October 2008

Karthik Rajaram, 45, who had made almost £900,000 on the London stock market, shot his wife, three children and mother-in-law in the head before turning the gun on himself at the family home near Los Angeles.

He was found with the gun still in his hand.

In a suicide note to police, he blamed the killings on financial hardship brought on by a collapse in shares.

'Despicable': White House slams AIG bosses who went on lavish £250,000 trip days after £48bn government bail-out

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:06 AM on 09th October 2008

The White House has slammed the bosses of a failed insurance giant who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a posh California retreat just days after getting a £48bn bail-out using taxpayers' money.

A White House spokesman said the junket was a 'despicable' move from the bosses of American International Group, AIG.

AIG executives racked up a huge tab during the week-long getaway.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The European union is little more than a ingenious way of those in power allowing the free flow of cheap labour throughout Europe, accompanied by plenty of flag waving, plenty of shouting democracy and freedom. Certainly these laboring creatures are free ... free to work at the lowest subsistence level, undercutting the established work force in which ever country they flee too.. creating unrest and endless opportunities for the establishment to mouth platitudes, make promises while putting the proceeds or this plot into their deep pockets, the money to be flaunted in whichever way of displaying this wealth appeals to them … £1 million houses, a long line of horses, mistresses and Bentleys, anything that shows their personal superiority, all with a permanent, smug, contemptuous look on their public faces; knowing also, with almost undisguised satisfaction, that at any moment of every day there are a large number of alien people creeping into the woodwork legally or illegally. At Calais, there is and always will be a mass of the World’s unwanted, simply waiting for the guards to look the other way, they having been given the nod there is a demand for higher wages in England, which is rectified by simply opening the backs of lorries ….The French smile at the English naivety , doing all that is possible to help these people cross the Channel to claim “asylum” “benefits” and their “Human Rights” The French do not make France alluring for England bound beggars

There is nothing new in this situation. Throughout history, conquering nations have used the indigenous population as slaves. The “abolishment of slavery” was nothing more than a piece of paper. People are no longer flogged, branded to make them work, or used for personal gratification... The 21st century has more circumspect ways of intimidation. Watching people has become the first priority. Cameras concealed in every crevice, the police, a vast quasi military force, armed to the very teeth with the power to arrest anyone simply for looking the wrong way. The Establishment is terrified of the slightest uprising of those toiling for them; the slightest impediment which may hinder the accumulation of their wealth. The top 2% of the population now own 98% of the Worlds assets, which is not enough. They want the lot and will not sleep until they get it.

Orwell never saw this side of humanity, the stark greed... rather he saw people wanting “Control”, as with Blair. He never visualizing the dramatic results of his iron fisted grip on England, the deterioration of everything and everyone to the lowest common denominator, anyone, anyone at all, regardless, was not allowed to speak out, punished heavily in the “Courts of Law” with the threat of the word “racist” or refusing to be “politically correct” or for interfering with a person’s “Human Rights” all of these concepts being the manifestations of his wife, a barrister, who doubtlessly seeing the distinct financial gain to be made from these edicts, she, possibly the most dominant, grasping, vitriolic, vociferous woman in recent political history, without any doubt also being heavily backed by the Bush tentacles for whatever deep, political, financial motives that regime had decided on, which would account for her sheer confidence and her acrimonious contempt of everything and anyone who did not see the “situation” her way.

When she realized the deep depths of despair England had sunk into over the crushing of the individual and clearly seeing the impending financial pandemonium, the bureaucratic bludgeon being used indiscriminately at every level of society, the threats, the deliberately created overpopulation with the resulting reaction of the individual as rats in a trap, only then, struck by the stark realization, did she order the person she was married to, to pack his things and make the most impeccably timed discreet exit of any politician, taking with them their accumulated millions. A faint wave, farewell to a few friends, very few, simply leaving the country, no fluttering flags, no speeches, no anything, leaving England in the hands of a Roman Catholic Scotchman, unelected, unwanted .

The greed aspect has never openly manifested itself as in the 21st century ... Hitler had “cheap labour”... he paid nothing… but he, his party, or any other power throughout history, other than the Romans, did not have the open excesses of society now and the “disgusting excesses” as the lady said, of the West Indian sugar plant owners…which may have been the very seeds of 21st cent acceptance of greed as a God, or simply forget God and go for the money, which is about the way The United State and it’s ancillary, England, has gone.

There is the point that no one could do anything about it ... the working class chained in every conceivable way and always will be. In the “office” of the Adelaide Seaman’s Union there is a large beer stained poster showing a “Capitalist” dressed in black, waving a stick; the caption being an old one but the absolute truth.
“Workers of the World unite: you have nothing to lose but your chains”

Perhaps there is now some creeping unease in the Citadels of Brussels, London, Paris, (President Sarkozy, his current penchant for expensive, dominant females) Rome, all the rich European capitals… that as America has now gone Black ... Europe through it’s greed in letting in countless millions of black and coloured workers into Europe and given them the right to vote, there is now enough of them to vote decisively… vote all the other way... This aspect was never considered; never apparently occurred to the upper echelons; they, too busy dinning their secretaries, or their “personal trainers” buying the very latest extravaganza, the largest properties…..the biggest yachts, at the same time, breathlessly on their mobile telephones doing billions of pounds worth of “deals” which have no substance, no foundation, simply numbers on millions of computers. Enron being the first small tip of this grasp of greed. The repercussions of attempting to get a percentage of nothing has devastated the World.

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