Strangely Perfect

RBS and Lloyds’ Banks Carve-Up Call me stupid if you like, but there’s something particularly disturbing about the ethics of the planned carve-up of the big two banks rescued last year by our taxes.  (see RBS and Lloyds in major shake-up for details) Normal Practice During Business Mergers If two companies merge or one buys [...]

Introduction I’ve decided to make this comment into a new posting as the whole thing disturbs me somewhat.  The trick is in getting the title to fit.  I may change it after thinking about it, but the comment is too important to be buried.  Within my musings are a bunch of truths, improperly formed, but [...]

Introduction I knew there was something really, really dodgy about that MyBookFace.net crap highlighted in this post the other day. Not only are they connected to some serious malware (as detailed in the posting), but they’ve an interesting line in popups!!! Google Treasure Chest Rises Yet Again! Here’s what to do… Go to http://mybookface.net making [...]

The pope says sorry for getting it wrong over the holocaust and the nutty bishop The bankers say sorry for getting it wrong with their greedy decisions that lead to the current economic crisis Cricket captains say sorry for losing some games US car maker bosses say sorry for being crap UK Politicians say sorry [...]

G20 Protest (riot?) My Riot Point. The picture above I first saw in a montage at the BBC website on a ‘as -it-happens’ sort of new item earlier today at work.  It’s very instructive, but to me it doesn’t look like a riot -  but more like 30 people taking pictures of someone breaking a [...]

It Goes From Bad to Worse! RBS In a completely passive demonstration of non-government and how toothless our government’s words are, it’s now been shown that not only does former RBS gaffer, Fred Goodwin get a massive pension of ~£33k monthly take-home, but the pot from which it’s being taken is already £2 billion under-funded!! [...]

Some wonderful news this week for people worried about the real future of our world. The EU are hammering down on car emissions! EU rejects efforts to delay CO2 limits on cars RPT-UPDATE 2-EU lawmakers snub big carmakers over carbon curbs Blow to carmakers Climate package: Carbon-free cars? (pre-vote EU Parliament post) Reducing CO2 emissions [...]

– from the Burton Watson translation. Then in the presence of the Buddha they spoke in verse form, saying: If there are those who fail to heed our spells and trouble and disrupt the preachers of the Law, their heads will split into seven pieces like the branches of the arjaka tree. Their crime will [...]

US Nationalises Banks Well nearly – but they’ll never admit it.  The headline news in financial markets today (a Saturday! – no co-incidence there then?), is: Key US lenders to face new curbs BBC News U.S. Nears Rescue Plan For Fannie And Freddie Washington Post, source story The two psuedo-companies called Freddie Mac and Fannie [...]