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Meanwhile, turning our attention away from the party-political, specifically EU issue, look at this:Fast approaching is the event of GAME OVER for London, a condition that has already reached critical level, according to a key reliable source of information with London connections and direct experience with its market events. How long can a major metals exchange sell contracts but have miniscule supply of gold in their vaulted possession? The paper gold market and the physical gold bullion

Britblog 245 not here this weekend

Published on 2009-09-29 11:57:00

Sunday, October 25thUnfortunately, due to a mix-up of some kind, it appears that I am not down to do it this weekend, so sorry to readers who were shaping up to come and read it here. It was a case of two people getting their wires crossed and I was caught in the middle.To see this weekend's Britblog, go to the main site and they should have details there.Sorry about that.

There's a new treaty being signed in December, in Copenhagen

Published on 2009-09-29 11:53:00

It was Wolfie who said that he'd seen these people at cocktail parties, full of grandiose ideas, hopelessly inefficient and I would add, inefficiency always accompanies ideology because instead of knuckling down to sound administration, they try to change the world and even reconstitute men and women. You can't have your mind fully on two jobs at once, not at this level.It was Sonus and people like Karl Denninger who saw, early, exactly what these people were up to and how maverick they were to

[lpuk] where have they gone?

Published on 2009-09-29 11:50:00

I ask at the new site:http://nourishingobscurity.com... wherever has LPUK gone? Has anyone seen them around the blogosphere recently?

[think big] but don't hold your breath

Published on 2009-09-28 16:53:00

A man who doesn't do things by halves: Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America's customer service - really, really unhappy. Chiscolm in August sued the largest US bank and its board, demanding that "1,784 billion, trillion dollars" be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $US200,164,000, court papers show. Attempts to reach Chiscolm were unsuccessful. A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment. "Incomprehensible," US District Judge Denny Chi

[late evening listening] dearieme presents tiny and truck parham

Published on 2009-09-28 14:00:00

Thank you once again, sir.

[devices] with one function only

Published on 2009-09-28 10:32:00

Mark Fu has an amusing post. Do you know what those devices are in the photo above? They are sleeves for the bar to hold the weights in and I'd guess 'd one kilo each. They used to in Russia. Mark asks:Some things have just one function that justifies their existence; an umbrella for instance. Scuba gear is another that comes to mind. Since most of us are weight lifters in one manner or another, we have all run into barbell collars. They have no other apparent use. Sure, you could use the on

[shapes] and their logic

Published on 2009-09-28 08:44:00

Which of the shapes below completes the lower line? triangle: pentagon square square: hexagon hexagon square pentagon: hexagon hexagon hexagon square triangle hexagon: octagon octagon octagon octagon ______ ?The choice of the shape which goes before the question mark depends on the value each shape caries and how it relates to the others in a mathematical relationship.The will be up late this evening.

[airbus] here we go yet again

Published on 2009-09-28 03:56:00

This blog has many articles on Airbus safety - that it is inherently and for quite valid reasons, unsafe. The last post is here and if you enter "Airbus" in the Blogger site search, you can see the other posts too.Anonymous [appropriate, yes, for one throwing in the ad hominem] commented on the last post, on 25 September 2009:Following your childish trend: Maybe, the US corp. Goodrich has yet to learn how to make proper pitot tubes? "The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued a safety warn

[the quality of intellectual debate] emotions v facts

Published on 2009-09-28 03:34:00

The quality of debate, of research and analysis drives one to despair. Sonus [or was it Anon?] made the point that he was frantic that no one seemed to be listening. Simon & Garfunkel said it, years ago:People talking without speaking,People hearing without listeningNow, from Charles Crawford:Are we replacing the intellect with 'emotions'? Thus: ... we are essentially being invited to empathise, not intellectualise, and that is something I find astonishing. Not only does this kind of emoti

[samantha geimer] why is no one listening to her

Published on 2009-09-28 02:02:00

To blog on the Polanski thing is fraught because the vultures are waiting to construe any sort of interest in it in a certain way. Nevertheless, strategically, it is of real interest and it seems to be for others too who've been looking at what the tactics were in his move:But it could also elevate his case into an international ordeal -- involving the governments of Switzerland, France, Poland and the United States -- and potentially complicate his possible extradition."The big issue is whethe

[weight training] government even interferes with that

Published on 2009-09-27 17:08:00

Back to the day on, day offTalk about opportunistic. We bloggers would sell our soul for a post sometimes.I went for a wander this afternoon to a gym down by the canal.Now I'm signed up to start Tuesday and today we went over the equipment and as we spoke about the different exercises, I realized I didn't know the names for them in English. Is that ridiculous or what? I could tell him in Russian.One utterly bloody ridiculous thing was the situation over the weights. I asked why he only had u

[famous structures] answer if you can

Published on 2009-09-27 15:30:00

Name the:Top left: Gorge;Top right: Neighbourhood [not the city name];Lower right: Park at the southern end [this side of English Bay];Lower left: Now diverted river.AnswersAvon Gorge, Foggy Bottom, Stanley Park, River TuriaBristol was the place, the Watergate building, Vancouver and Valencia.

[late evening listening] dearieme and the crooners

Published on 2009-09-27 14:00:00

Dearieme's:My two:One more:

Britblog Roundup N241 - Best of Britain

Published on 2009-09-27 09:00:00

It seemed better to include a bit of text with each link in this week's Britblog Roundup but of course, this lengthened the whole thing. Never mind - think of it as an afternoon's read. :)Let's cut straight to the chase:Political issues of the weekAndrew Allison has had a shock - a council which actually did the right thing, which is a sad statement in itself:In my work for the Taxpayers' Alliance, I am regularly quoted criticising councils and councillors. Some would say I never have a good w

[wind farms] what's all the fuss

Published on 2009-09-27 06:46:00

Unlike in posts involving such issues as Common Purpose and Them, which I'll vehemently debate with anyone, your humble blogger comes to this issue as a WindFarm virgin.We're told that they are awful for the environment, that they are an eyesore, that they do not produce anywhere near the power that is claimed for them. I really can't say. They're certainly not beautiful, spread out like Brown's cows over the countryside but if they're contained within a narrow area, in rows, then why not?The

[endless beer] at no extra cost

Published on 2009-09-27 06:08:00

Let's say that at one time, the Canadian and US dollars were discounted by 10 cents on each side of the border (i.e., a Canadian dollar was worth 90 US cents in the US, and a US dollar was worth 90 Canadian cents in Canada).A man walks into a bar on the US side of the border, [long ago when beer cost 10 cents], orders 10 US cents worth of beer, pays with a US dollar and receives a Canadian dollar in change. He then walks across the border to Canada, orders 10 Canadian cents worth of beer, pays w

[dare to design] six to consider

Published on 2009-09-26 19:59:00

[the next day] some photos

Published on 2009-09-26 19:53:00

Sorry, sorry, I know it doesn't interest you but I just had to run these pics from the Herald Sun because they summed it all up and paint a picture. It's the last time, I promise:Just a word about this one above. That's a man regarded as one of, if not the best player ever and the young baldy in the photo above is his son who played a champ's game yesterday.OK - all done. You're safe again.

[round the world] another youngster trying it

Published on 2009-09-26 17:00:00

What's going on here? Is there something in the atmosphere? Remember 13 year old Laura Dekker and how she attempted to sail around the world solo but was stopped by a Dutch court?Well now another one is at it:Adventurer Don McIntyre is standing by teenage sailor Jessica Watson in the wake of an official report that calls into question her ability to survive her journey.Mr McIntyre says he won't strip the 16-year-old of the $150,000 yacht, Ella's Pink Lady, he provided for her solo trip around t

[karma] and the need to remain circumspect

Published on 2009-09-26 15:30:00

Further to that business of all the cars arriving at once when I reach a certain spot on the pavement with my bike, I did a little research and it seems that coincidences or maybe conjunctions of circumstances have been going on for a long time:In 1893, Henry Ziegland ended a relationship with his girlfriend. Tragically, his girlfriend took the news very badly, became distraught and took her own life. Her distressed brother blamed his sister’s death upon Henry, he went round to Henry’s hous

[late evening listening] harmony

Published on 2009-09-26 14:00:00

[missionaries and cannibals] get them to the other side

Published on 2009-09-26 11:52:00

Three missionaries and three cannibals want to get to the other side of a river. There is a small boat, which can fit only two. To prevent a tragedy, there can never be more cannibals than missionaries together.Work out the combinations necessary to get them all safely to the other side. The solution is going to be something like:1 missionary and 1 cannibal there, 1 missionary back; 1 missionary and 1 cannibal there .....And so on. Solution will be given tomorrow morning.Tomorrow morning:

[police tactics] watch and decide for yourself

Published on 2009-09-26 10:47:00

Harry Hook has posted a series of vids but this one in particular got under the guard:The reason it did is because it is so different from anything I've seen before. In my young days I wasn't above attending demonstrations and I observed out and out provocation by professional demonstrators who worried the police horses into bolting - these are the same people who screamed about animal rights.On the other hand, I also saw inexperienced officers goaded by experienced officers into overreacting,

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