Stupid World

[Oscar]

Errr .. are you likening him to DonKey ???

Er, I think that covers most politicians, don't it?

[unstuck]

Stupid humans. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8858...-run-lotteries

[mashman]

Stupid humans. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8858...-run-lotteries

Aye, gambling licenses should only go to the trustworthy

Could you cope if interest rates rose?... don't know what they thought would happen with low interest rates and stagnant wages.

Violent clashes across the Egyptian cities of Alexandria and Port Said have left three people dead and more than 70 others injured.... so they're still unhappy. Well fuck me, who would have thought that more of the same from self-interested party's would result in same shit, different leader.

Texas teen charged with making terroristic threat after online joke... oh dear. Voicing what you would normally say in public and putting it in a written form online could land you 8 years in the US. Good to see that another terrorist has been stopped from committing mass murder...

lol

jk.

[blue rider]

oh look another 500 odd DFH's, this time in Cairo. Really I don't know whats up with all these unhappy masses of peeps.....life is good, all one needs for a new job and more income is a haircut - No?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...-do-it-justice

[unstuck]

oh look another 500 odd DFH's, this time in Cairo. Really I don't know whats up with all these unhappy masses of peeps.....life is good, all one needs for a new job and more income is a haircut - No?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/0...-do-it-justice

The worse it gets, the worse it gets. The better it gets, the better it gets. Depends on which end of the stick you are holding.

[mashman]

LEARN TO SHARE AND COOPERATE AND THESE SORTS OF THINGS WON'T BE A CONSIDERATION... fuckin idiots

[mashman]

House Of Lords To Get £100,000 New Toilets

"Taxpayers will fund a refurbishment of two toilets used by peers and VIP guests at the Palace of Westminster - at an "eye-watering" cost of up to £100,000."

"A family could afford to build themselves a home for this much cash,"

[mashman]

Impact of housing benefit changes 'worse than feared'

"The consequences of the housing benefit cut introduced in April are worse than feared, the National Housing Federation has said. "

"What we've seen are really bad effects on individuals, people whose lives have been turned upside down, who are very frightened about the future," says Mr Orr.

"The numbers of empty homes we've got to let are increasing significantly," says Iain Sim, chief executive of Coast and Country."

"The government announced that the parents of children in the military deployed on operations would be exempt from the cut. But Alison has been denied help by Middlesbrough Council because her sons' main residences are deemed to be their barracks in Germany and Cyprus."

"Also looking for a smaller property is Paul Wilson.

The 38-year-old has had his housing benefit cut by £11 per week since April but instead of going into debt, he's cut back on his outgoings, particularly energy and food.

"I now get by on one meal a day," he said. "

There's more in the article and it's a fuckin travesty. All for the sake of money.

[98tls]

Notice that Paul made no mention of his crack habit nor how it affects his ability to save.

[mashman]

Why Is the Obama Administration Suddenly So Interested in African Farms?... when good intentions go bad... or prudent business strategy for the land grabbers?

"But Kenya was self-sufficient in milk well before agribusiness came onto the scene, according to a 2003 report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. Moreover, the low-tech dairy industry provided income for an estimated 625,000 people. But by 2010, as production soared on the heels of new large-scale production, Kenya was overloaded with dairy. The price of milk dropped, and rather than sell their product at a loss, farmers began dumping it."

"But a glut in production was not the only problem for Kenya's small milk producers. In January 2013, Kenya banned the sale of raw milk, citing both safety concerns, and the need to protect the investments of large milk processors, according to media accounts. Far from supporting an existing (and functional) dairy industry, foreign agribusiness had only helped to undermine it."

"Wouldn't it be nice if we knew? Hans Herren, president of the Millennium Institute, argues that the world's farmers should focus less on growing more food, and more on growing higher quality food with fewer inputs, thereby enriching the soil instead of depleting it with chemicals. As Herren told my colleague Tom Philpott recently, in gross terms, the world already grows enough food today to feed the world two times over."

[mashman]

Notice that Paul made no mention of his crack habit nor how it affects his ability to save.

... what does being gay have to do with it? I'm guessing he isn't saving given that he's down to one meal a day. Still, could be worse, he could be getting fed 3 squares a day in jail and costing the tax payer a small fortune.

[blue rider]

... what does being gay have to do with it? I'm guessing he isn't saving given that he's down to one meal a day. Still, could be worse, he could be getting fed 3 squares a day in jail and costing the tax payer a small fortune.

yes, but it would get all those macho law abiding citizens a hard one. the only one they ever get.

[blue rider]

intersting and entertaining read

http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-h...9/SS-2-266404/

The Lehman bankruptcy “has shown how this mechanism of over-the-counter negotiations of derivatives, and in particular credit default swaps, is capable of destabilizing the entire financial system,” EU antitrust chief Joaquín Almunia said Monday.

“[The banks] delayed the emergence of exchange trading of these financial products because they feared it would reduce their revenues,” Mr. Almunia said.

Mr. Almunia said the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm and antitrust enforcer, has sent preliminary charges to the banks related to their activities between 2006 and 2009. The banks will have the chance to dispute the charges if they are made final. EU rules allow antitrust fines of up to 10% of a firm’s annual revenue.

Exchange operators Deutsche Börse AG and the CME Group Inc. attempted to open the market during that time period but were foiled by the banks’ anticompetitive practices, Mr. Almunia said.

The banks charged are Merrill Lynch, now a unit of Bank of America Corp., Barclays PLC, J.P. Morgan Chase as well as the Bear Stearns operation it bought during the crisis, BNP Paribas SA, Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse AG, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs Group, HSBC Holdings PLC, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and UBS AG, the commission said. It also sent charges to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, an industry group controlled by the banks, and Markit, a data provider owned by the banks.

All of the banks declined to comment.

How about prison time for these?

[mashman]

RUSSIA Suggests that WAR May Be Necessary To Stop MONSANTO

"Important to note, this report says, is that Syngenta, along with bio-tech giants Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and DuPont, now control nearly 100% of the global market for genetically modified pesticides, plants and seeds.

Also to note about Syngenta, this report continues, is that in 2012 it was criminally charged in Germany for concealing the fact that its genetically modified corn killed cattle, and settled a class-action lawsuit in the US for $105 million after it was discovered they had contaminated the drinking supply of some 52 million Americans in more than 2,000 water districts with its “gender-bending” herbicide Atrazine."

[mashman]

A taxation alternative... still ultimately flawed because it is going to "work" within the confines of a financial system.