Siren
-
Content Count
1064 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Never
Posts posted by Siren
-
-
But why 'fight club' the title?
-
Oh really?! I will put it in my 'to read' list.
-
Sunrise, you understand exactly what I am thinking. I won’t say I am ‘stock-savvy’ but I do think the Game is a good place to find out who you truly are. If you are interested, you can read Adam Smith’s (not real name) The Money Game.
"The world is not the way they tell you it is..."
-
Slow, thanks for the compliment but I don’t have that kind of power. You need a ‘bigger fool’ competition to cause that.
I haven’t seen ‘fight club’ – what’s it all about?
-
Perhaps.
For GF's coming BD, instead of giving her a present, I am thinking of opening a stock account for her, give her some capital and teach her how to play.
What do you think?
-
I am sure Fattwin and Torque can tell you how romantic they are.
-
The only known way of reducing the gap between the rich and the poor is the crash of stock markets. Fair trade won’t do.Quote:I believe that encouraging Fair Trade, local organic food, something like this is very important.
-
Gosh, how old are you? Aren't you a bit too old to talk like that?
-
Quote:So let's get this straight: Americans cannot by definition be refugees, (although they can be looters...?) Come on, Ocean, some of these people had no choice!
Where else are they going to get essential stuff like electronic goods and Nike shoes in a national disaster like this when the government is totally useless? -
Like everyone else in the circus, him(her)self.
-
This, if true, is getting interesting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1556856,00.html
The guy was (down on the floor) shot ten/eleven times over 30 seconds?!
-
How do you define 'win'?
-
Well, a little white lie hurts no one I suppose.
-
-
It isn't a foot fault until the racquet touches the ball.
-
Not everyone is as well-informed as you are Ocean.
And don’t under-estimate how easily politicians can get away with kissing a few babies and by shouting empty rhetoric.
A lot of the younger people (i.e. people who are going nowhere or not satisfied with present conditions) want changes – for better or worse - and are not difficult to persuade you know. Anyone is better than the old guards they can’t do anything about and thus have no interest whatsoever.
-
Not until early September unfortunately.
I just can't think about winter holidays when outside is still more than 30 degrees.
-
I couldn't agree more.
But Kid Horie learned from his mistake and knows how to chat up important allies and and how to do deals and, more importantly, has an instantly recognisable face.
-
Now Horie is joining the fray, what do you think?
The more I think about it, the more I have to admit that it is really a beautiful move.
-
Planning Christmas holidays already?
I still haven't had my summer!? Poor me.
-
Interesting comments! He should go and live in a small island by himself.
This was in yesterday's Guardian
Fight or flight
Panic along government-suggested lines is impossible
AL Kennedy
Thursday August 18, 2005
The Guardian
Always wanted to live in a country people flee for fear of religious persecution? Then congratulations, we finally made it. Great news for me, of course - writers get hit just after the minorities, so I can look forward to massively increased sales, especially if they're posthumous, and a whole bunch of cheery postcards from Amnesty International. Yes, it's here, the beginning of the end. Panic now while there's still time. Obviously, you wouldn't want to run in the street for fear of getting seven in the head but barely-suppressed fight or flight should suffuse your limbs as often as possible.
Having an IQ above six, you'll find panicking along government-suggested lines impossible, but even the media spin is cause for helpless concern. How can we be safe, for example, when our police plainly don't possess a mass spectrometer? Which would be a vaguely plausible excuse for the same explosives being described as home-made and military and professional - and never mind that whole "possible explosive" problem. Who exactly is in charge here - Them or Us?
Them or Us being a problem in itself. As our press quotes special services sources redefining UK terrorism as "insurgency", please consider that all those ingenious boys with no more black ops to run in Northern Ireland may want to play over here. And they're being trained by the Israelis - so it's entirely logical our mainland war on terror's first victim was an innocent Catholic who looked Muslim.
Now Tony Blair has declared his global change of rules, he's taking his tips from US Republicans who specialise in vote-rigging. The same people who bypassed the Senate to inflict John Bolton on the world, have spent more than $722,000 on high-class lawyers for James Tobin, the president's 2004 campaign chairman for New England, and currently charged with jamming Democrat phone banks in November 2002. Meanwhile, irregularities have surfaced in the recent Ohio vote that defeated disgruntled Iraq veteran and Democrat congressional hopeful Paul Hackett.
Or why not panic about Iran. The US national security council says Iran's a decade away from making The Bomb, but Dick Cheney et al are really keen to bomb it, anyway. Dick has STRATCOM putting the plans in place for a response to any act of terror on US soil - the response being to bomb Iran. And given that some of the Iranian targets are hardened and/or underground, nukes are being considered.
So our greatest ally is war-gaming the entirely unprovoked use of nuclear weapons - think Nagasaki/ Hiroshima anniversary, think toasted babies and lots of outrage and revenge. That's got to get you scared - especially when you remember the vice-president's old company, Halliburton, happily did oil business in Iran with Cyrus Nasseri of Oriental Oil Kish - and also of the Iranian nuclear development team.
Scariest of all? The thought that in Crawford, Texas, Cindy Sheehan is waiting to speak to President Bush. She wants to know why her son died in Iraq. Every day, more and more citizens are arriving to wait with her, to exercise their democratic rights. People are starting to talk about a focus of resistance.
Forget the token prosecutions circling Rove, Rumsfeld, Hastert, Abramov and the rest, when ordinary citizens begin resisting en masse with any success we all become the enemy. And we know we show our enemies no mercy.
-
-
The cock-up was tragic but it is nowhere as bad as the cover-up.
Sex up the WMD claim, rescuing their soldier from the Iraqis (with camera crew)...the pack of lies just goes on and on.
Imagine shooting someone innocent seven times in the head. Are we that different from the 'terrorists'?
-
Now what do you make of this?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1550565,00.html
Typhoon - AGAIN.
in General off-topic discussions
Posted
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1577750,00.html
At first I thought it was 600mm!