I previously wrote about retrospective legislation when Labour were busy wringing the last drops of blood out of the bond market to fund state largesse : Our current government seems to be getting quite keen on using retrospective legislation; that is, legislation which makes something which was legal at the time now illegal [...]  The details of the EU driven raping of Greece to save the European banks reveal some interesting consequences as in this from ZeroHedge : Salary cutbacks (called “unified payroll”) for contract workers at the public sector set to be finalized today. Cuts to be valid retroactively since november 2011. Expected result: Up to [...] I really do wonder what the hell this country is turning into sometimes … “Inappropriate comments” left on a Facebook tribute site for dead a Norfolk teenager are being investigated by police. Maisie Baxter, 13, was found dead at her home in Trowse, near Norwich, at about 17:50 GMT on Saturday. Norfolk Police are [...] image credit BBC – article here Expect hordes armed with shovels to descend on Finglas landfill dump in Dublin as the masses discover that a piece of Aplollo 11 moonrock worth around $5 million is hidden somewhere under the rotting detritus. Via The BBC (and a hat tip to Mr Raccoon) [...] Via The Torygraph, one that I am sure Leg-iron would have a lot of fun with (emphasis mine) : The vaccine uses dummy virus cells grown in tobacco plants to immunise the body against the winter vomiting bug. Rather than being injected, it is administered up the nose in the form of a powder [...] There is a lot of prodding and poking of Iran from all sides these days and the MSM is not a very good guide, what with all the recycled government propaganda, but at least we are free to read excellent opinion from outside and make our own minds up as is the case with [...] Via ZeroHedge, not much more needs saying I think : Athens by Night – February 2012 In amongst a very interesting article over at ZeroHedge on what may play out soon enough in the Straights of Hormuz, the following video caught my attention due to the novel launch control manoever shown around 00:15 to 00:20 – pretty neat I think. _ _ I just wish I had chosen Aeronautical engineering [...] An interesting ramping up of what governments consider extremism from ZeroHedge : Just when we thought the US could not sink any further in its usurpation of civil rights, here comes the FBI to advise all those who tend to think that the broken economic model of the past century is the cause for [...] A brief extract from a ZeroHedge article entitled “This is Europe’s Scariest Chart” : Some may be surprised to learn that while Portugal, and Greece, are quite bad, at 30.7% and 46.6% respectively, it is Spain where the youth unemployment pain is most acute: at 51.4%, more than half of the [...] Whilst the MSM speak constantly of cuts, the reality is that the UK has never owed more money and is now neck and neck with the Eastern basket case that is Japan. The following chart from a ZeroHedge article shows just what state we are now in, with debt continuing to climb while the [...] Whilst hanging around waiting for the witching hour, the following from Zerohedge tickled my fancy … you may have seen the first version of the story but the second is much more like the reality of the EU today … It is a slow day in a little Greek village. The rain is beating [...] One little chart from an FT Alphavile article clearly showing just what happens when a war ends and all the soldiers come home again. The chart is from the US and shows the number of people reaching the age of 65 over the next decade. The interesing snippet for me is the jump in [...] While I am busy wearing my wings to shreds doing Christmas related work which is ironic as I hate it with a passion, have a couple of the more amusing items I have stumbled across recently … Firstly, women once looked down on the skinny little things as men wanted a fuller figure apparently [...] There are some excellent articles and videos around at the moment which, between them, provide some thought provoking visions of where the world may be headed and, more importantly, why we are in this mess in the first place. The first one is a post by the Robert Denner writing over at ZeroHedge [...]  |
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