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Saturday, 24 January 2009

Candy brothers selling three homes for £100m

Robert Mendick and Mira Bar-Hillel
23.01.09

Property tycoons Nick and Christian Candy are trying to sell three homes in London for £100million, the Evening Standard can reveal.

Market experts are astonished at the asking prices for two flats and an unconverted property amid the biggest housing slump in history.

The brothers are trying to sell one of the apartments for £40million while a second — which has only four bedrooms — is valued at £27.5million.

The third property, which consists of empty offices with planning permission to be converted to a house, is on the market for £32million — even though they paid £22million for it near the peak of the housing boom.

...More front than Selfridges... Stalin would have shot them.

Larry King loses $1m in Madoff swindle

Ed Harris
23.01.09

US talk show host Larry King has emerged as the latest victim of Bernie Madoff, the Wall Street financier alleged to have carried out a multi-billion-dollar fraud.

King is said to have lost more than $1 million after investing with the disgraced banker. Howard Rubenstein, a spokesman for the 75-year-old CNN presenter, declined to comment.

Tory hedge fund donors made £12m short-selling on Barclays as its share price plummeted

By Michael Lea,Daily Mail
Last updated at 11:35 PM on 23rd January 2009

A hedge fund run by two Tory donors made a £12million killing in days by exploiting the collapse of Barclays shares, it was revealed yesterday.

Financiers Paul Ruddock and David Craigen have donated more than £300,000 to the party, most of it since David Cameron became leader.
Within hours of the ban on the controversial practice of short-selling being lifted last Friday, their company Lansdowne Partners sold shares in Barclays worth £28.4million.

MARY ELLEN SYNON: There IS a country worse off than us... how Ireland was destroyed by obscene greed and the euro

By Daily Mail Last updated at 12:06 PM on 23rd January 2009

Iceland PM is first global political casualty of the crunch

Prime Minister resigns after week of violent protest

By Sophie Morris in Reykjavik, The Independent
Saturday, 24 January 2009

Iceland's embattled Prime Minister Geir Haarde may have become the first political casualty of the global credit crisis, announcing his resignation yesterday, and clearing the way for elections in May. Illness was the official reason for Mr Haarde's decision to quit, but few in the capital Reykjavik were in any doubt that his departure was linked to a week of intense and violent public protests at once prosperous Iceland's economic implosion.

Thursday, 22 January 2009

Now it's time to emigrate, says investment guru

By Sean O'Grady, Economics Editor, The Independent
21.01.09

When asked his advice for a young person growing up in Britain, Jim Rogers, former partner of George Soros and one of the world's most successful investors, is forthright. "Move to China; learn Chinese." In an interview with The Independent, Mr Rogers warns that Britain will go bankrupt if the Government continues to follow its present policy of attempting to save the banks through subsidy and nationalisation.

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Rogue trader: I made a fortune on 7/7

Ian Sparks in Paris, Evening Standard
21.01.09

THE rogue trader accused of losing a French bank £3.5 billion has revealed he "made a stock market killing" out of the 7/7 bombings in London.

Charges: Jerome Kerviel claimed his employer had made a fortune on the day of the 9/11 attacks in New York

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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Saturday, 24 January 2009

Candy brothers selling three homes for £100m

Larry King loses $1m in Madoff swindle

Tory hedge fund donors made £12m short-selling on Barclays as its share price plummeted

Iceland PM is first global political casualty of the crunch

Thursday, 22 January 2009

Now it's time to emigrate, says investment guru

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