Just had a browse through the headlines and this is what caught my eye.
Darling to dismantle RBS and Lloyds
Three new high street banks are set to be created as the Government sells 
off the taxpayer's holdings in the sector, Alistair Darling has signalled. 
The new banks would be created over the next few years as Northern Rock, 
Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group are re-privatised.

He hasn't got  a few years, and weren't the small banks on the high street 
taken over by the big banks because they weren't viable

Bank to pump more cash into economy

Only another 50 billion, where did the last lot go? Why not let each family 
print their own off at home, that will get the economy going much quicker.

Climate change 'can kill children'

A quarter of a million children could die next year due to the effects of 
climate change, Save the Children warned.
Ultravox star Midge Ure, a Save the Children ambassador, recently returned 
to Ethiopia 25 years after the 1984 famine which prompted him to create Band 
Aid with Bob Geldof.
"Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an 
immediate threat," he said. We've all heard about the East African food 
crisis but I've been in Ethiopia seeing first hand the impact it's having on 
children's lives.

Did he see where all the food aid went, did he visit the palaces and private 
jets of the corrupt politicions that run the country, of course this has 
nothing to do with the starvation of the population has it, silly me I 
didn't realise that it's all due to climate change


Is there any point in making this news headlines? Is there anyone still 
falling for this crap

Mick wrote:

> He hasn't got  a few years, and weren't the small banks on the high street 
> taken over by the big banks because they weren't viable
> 

The problem with the big banks is that they weren't viable,  and when 
they failed they threatened to bring the whole  edifice down with them.

I'd rather a  small bank failed and some people lost some money than the 
big banks fail and an awful lot more people lost their jobs,  houses and 
savings...

-- 
William Black

"Any number under six"

The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of 
Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat 
single handed with a quarterstaff.

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:02:56 +0000, Mick wrote:

> Just had a browse through the headlines and this is what caught my eye.
> Darling to dismantle RBS and Lloyds
> Three new high street banks are set to be created as the Government
> sells off the taxpayer's holdings in the sector, Alistair Darling has
> signalled. The new banks would be created over the next few years as
> Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group are
> re-privatised.
> 
> He hasn't got  a few years, and weren't the small banks on the high
> street taken over by the big banks because they weren't viable
> 
> Bank to pump more cash into economy
> 
> Only another 50 billion, where did the last lot go? Why not let each
> family print their own off at home, that will get the economy going much
> quicker.
> 
> Climate change 'can kill children'
> 
> A quarter of a million children could die next year due to the effects
> of climate change, Save the Children warned. Ultravox star Midge Ure, a
> Save the Children ambassador, recently returned to Ethiopia 25 years
> after the 1984 famine which prompted him to create Band Aid with Bob
> Geldof.
> "Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an
> immediate threat," he said. We've all heard about the East African food
> crisis but I've been in Ethiopia seeing first hand the impact it's
> having on children's lives.
> 
> Did he see where all the food aid went, did he visit the palaces and
> private jets of the corrupt politicions that run the country, of course
> this has nothing to do with the starvation of the population has it,
> silly me I didn't realise that it's all due to climate change
> 
> 
> Is there any point in making this news headlines? Is there anyone still
> falling for this crap

supermarket society...

probably the fundamental of the current civilisation accord.

very representative of the problem...

all used to having things nicely packaged and marketed to us, so many 
just lap up the angles posited by the press same way they choose their 
goods, what colour is the box, has it got a nice semi-naked boy/girl in 
the advert, is it two-for-one (even though you'll probably throw one 
away...) etc.

what we have is a rich-poor divide that is getting wider, so you think 
those at the rich end who own all things are interested in narrowing the 
gap?

like, I heard some thingamajig guest saying on R5 live the other day, the 
rich and the working class have an affinity, not like those middle class 
bourgeoisie... the upper and working classes are united by their pursuit 
of pleasure, the middle classes have an obsession with their lawns.

seems to me that's the game-plan... persuade the working classes its the 
reasonably intelligent middle classes that's their enemy... and the toffs 
are really the working classes friends ;)