The next time Dodd Osborne wants to throw away £10 billion pound (some of which is my money) in a futile attempt to Plug the giant hole in the crumbling Eurozone Dyke...could he please seek my permission first.
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Things must be getting better |
UK offers £10bn loan to the IMF The IMF says it has received firm commitments of more than $430bn. The money is to help economies in trouble and includes just under £10bn ($15bn) from the UK in loans to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17790831 |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Things must be getting better |
wannabeeahack wrote: UK offers £10bn loan to the IMF The IMF says it has received firm commitments of more than $430bn. The money is to help economies in trouble and includes just under £10bn ($15bn) from the UK in loans to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17790831 more money so we can tell other countries how their economies must run before we and the imf give them any cash. Of course the way they run their economies must be open, so our money people can go in and effectively take over. We have a track record. CC |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Things must be getting better |
Crisis to Suicide: How Many Have to Die Before We Kill the False Religion of Austerity? The rate of people taking their own lives is soaring in Europe at such a clip that the trend has given birth to a new media term: "Suicide by economic crisis." If suicide is a measure of a society’s health, the Eurozone is getting sicker by the minute. The rate of people taking their own lives is soaring in Europe at such a clip that the trend has given birth to a new media term: "Suicide by economic crisis." How has it come to pass that people would rather die than be subjected to the pain imposed by global elites? A Ghastly Epidemic Before the 2007 global financial meltdown, suicides in European Union countries had fallen sharply among people under age 65. Now, thanks to misguided economic programs and the sheer greed of financiers, that trend has abruptly reversed. The new wave of suicides tracks closely with rising unemployment. In Ireland, churches offer seminars on themes like "Suicide in Recessionary Times." Ever more draconian austerity measures that strip income and social aid act as a toxin, leaving the population so stricken that for some, dying seems the only relief. In Greece, taking one’s own life is so deeply stigmatized by the Greek Orthodox Church that bodies are rejected for burial. Not surprisingly, suicide rates in the country have been historically low. Yet in 2011, when the joblessness rate rose from 13.9 percent to 20.9 percent, calls to a major suicide hotline more than doubled, with 5,500 people talking of ending their lives. Hotline workers report a variety of underlying issues cited by callers, but job losses and deep cuts in salary are prominent. Callers who often reveal no previous history of mental illness testify to life changes too devastating to cope with. A Greek Ministry of Health study found that the suicide rate in the first half of 2011 was 40 percent higher than the year before. Greece now has the most rapidly increasing rate of suicide in Europe. Shocking headlines tell gruesome tales of the bankrupt and the jobless, like Apostolos Polyzonis, a 55-year-old Greek businessman who set his body ablaze outside the bank that refused to see him last September. He was eventually saved by police and shared his desperation: "I don't feel proud about it, no way, but all these situations made me lose my self-respect and feel like I've been deprived of my rights because being able to pay your taxes is not only an obligation but also a right. People should have the possibility to pay their taxes, to pay their obligations to others, to offer the basic goods to their family so they can feel that they live with self-respect and dignity.” More recently, the world shuddered at news of retired Greek pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas, who shot himself in central Athens near the Greek Parliament, leaving behind a note stating that the austerity measures that yanked his pension left him facing a life of rummaging through garbage pails and burdening his children. Squeezed dry by an economic crisis they did not cause, the people of Europe are left without any means to help themselves – and to many, death seems the only alternative. The Religion of Austerity Across Europe, the economic philosophy of austerity has created a familiar cycle: Government spending cuts come on the heels of skyrocketing interest hikes on the debts of member countries. This means that money secured from slashes to pensions, education and medical services is funneled into higher interest payments. Meanwhile, disappearing health care and mental health services leave little room for people to rebound from economic shocks. Government officials are viewed as the cynical instruments of debt collectors and bail-out countries like Germany. The death-spiral takes over. If you pay attention to language, you begin to notice that those who preach austerity – mainly international bankers along with the politicians they have bought and the media who serve them – often use a specifically religious language to justify the pain they are causing. Words like “cleansing,” “virtue” and “sacrifice” are common. http://www.alternet.org/economy/155012/ ... austerity/ |
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Things must be getting better |
wannabeeahack wrote: UK offers £10bn loan to the IMF The IMF says it has received firm commitments of more than $430bn. The money is to help economies in trouble and includes just under £10bn ($15bn) from the UK in loans to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17790831 Well done George, well done. |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Things must be getting better |
The next time Dodd Osborne wants to throw away £10 billion pound (some of which is my money) in a futile attempt to Plug the giant hole in the crumbling Eurozone Dyke...could he please seek my permission first.
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| Author: | mancityfan [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Things must be getting better |
You forgot to mention the 30 billion that they have already promised so it's 40 billion in total |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:11 pm ] |
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bloodnock wrote: The next time Dodd Osborne wants to throw away £10 billion pound (some of which is my money) in a futile attempt to Plug the giant hole in the crumbling Eurozone Dyke...could he please seek my permission first. That would be a first a british government actually seeking permission to sqaunder our taxes !!! |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:27 pm ] |
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edders23 wrote: bloodnock wrote: The next time Dodd Osborne wants to throw away £10 billion pound (some of which is my money) in a futile attempt to Plug the giant hole in the crumbling Eurozone Dyke...could he please seek my permission first. That would be a first a british government actually seeking permission to sqaunder our taxes !!! Maybe they should try it..it might catch on. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:09 pm ] |
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Then theres NON-EU aid+loans including India, russi and China, all of whom would doubtless struggle without our help..... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -280m.html |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:15 pm ] |
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BTW, whats the latest figure for child benefit paid to Bulgarian/Polish migrant workers for kids the may (or may not?) have back home? fecking madness.... www.youcouldntmakeitup.eu Quote: The money is going to support children who have remained behind in their homeland while one or both of their parents lives and works in the UK. The cost is estimated at more than £20 million a year. The number of claims has risen by 20 per cent in the past year, despite a slowing in the overall rate of immigration from eastern Europe. The figures, released to Parliament, reveal the impact of European Union rules which allow migrant workers who pay taxes in their host country to claim benefits there, even if they have left their families behind. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/majorne ... broad.html |
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| Author: | gusmac [ Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:11 pm ] |
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bloodnock wrote: The next time Dodd Osborne wants to throw away £10 billion pound (some of which is my money) in a futile attempt to Plug the giant hole in the crumbling Eurozone Dyke...could he please seek my permission first. Didn't you vote for these idiots? |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:32 am ] |
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I wish as part of any settlement Scotland was moved south.....because these numb b*stards are going to kill us all. CC |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:47 am ] |
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gusmac wrote: bloodnock wrote: The next time Dodd Osborne wants to throw away £10 billion pound (some of which is my money) in a futile attempt to Plug the giant hole in the crumbling Eurozone Dyke...could he please seek my permission first. Didn't you vote for these idiots? No..I'm not responsible for Dodd Osborne...I focus all my electoral attention on those lovely people that constitute the Scottish Parliament. |
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:42 am ] |
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So the investment is going to benefit us in the future is it?? Hold on they are releasing this money into the Euro to stable it so won't that money be used to lend to someone else at a higher rate?? |
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| Author: | captain cab [ Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Things must be getting better |
Nidge2 wrote: So the investment is going to benefit us in the future is it?? Hold on they are releasing this money into the Euro to stable it so won't that money be used to lend to someone else at a higher rate?? They'll use the money, like they have done in the past as nothing more than a carrot. The rules are, you run your country the way we want, otherwise you wont get it. CC |
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