d-d-d-dAz Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 (edited) France, Spain, Italy and Belgium ban short-selling on bank shares and shares of other financial institutions... Â Â Another thing you may not have known when you woke up; at the end of last year Tony Blair did a 'tour' of Kosovo where he was greeted with thousands of fans wherever he went, a standing ovation in the national assembly and on his last day was given his own stadium 'gig' where hundreds of thousands of people turned up to hear him talk. He was even joined on stage by a group of young boys and girls born during or after the conflict, who's names were 'Tony', 'Toni' or 'Tonibler'. I shit you not. Edited August 12, 2011 by d-d-d-dAz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiffy Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 France, Spain, Italy and Belgium ban short-selling on bank shares and shares of other financial institutions... Â I spoke to a chap in banking about this when england banned it, his view was that there's a couple of hundred different ways of short selling, of which about 15 had been banned. The problem with this stuff is alot of the times bankers know far more about it than governments, which is why leglislation is so ineffective. Either way though, it highlights just how close to total collapse the whole thing is, that this sort of fire fighting panicked legislation is. To give you some idea of the figures involed, the sub prime crisis which caused the last crash was due to a few hundred bilion dollars of toxic stock in the market place. There are currently 3 trillion dollars of italian bonds alone in the market place, that's before you add france spain belgium portugal and greece into the equation. And don't think we wouldn't be afffected, all of our banks have massive exposure to them all through their bond trading arms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 12, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 (edited) France, Spain, Italy and Belgium ban short-selling on bank shares and shares of other financial institutions...  Another thing you may not have known when you woke up; at the end of last year Tony Blair did a 'tour' of Kosovo where he was greeted with thousands of fans wherever he went, a standing ovation in the national assembly and on his last day was given his own stadium 'gig' where hundreds of thousands of people turned up to hear him talk. He was even joined on stage by a group of young boys and girls born during or after the conflict, who's names were 'Tony', 'Toni' or 'Tonibler'. I shit you not.  I remember reading about that at the time of the conflict. It's not uncommon: a lot of Greeks are called "Vyron" or "Byron" in tribute to Lord Byron, who lead a doomed, privately-funded military expedition to Greece to help them fight for freedom from the Ottoman Empire.  Also, there was that Egyptian guy recently who named his new-born baby "Facebook", because of the site's effectiveness in helping the Egyptian public lead their revolution. Edited August 12, 2011 by Carbomb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Anyone catch the Republican presidential candidate debate on Fox? ...these clowns are winning Rick Perry's race for him, and he's not even officially declared yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Atos Benefit docs in being shit shocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Psygnosis Posted August 14, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted August 14, 2011 (edited) Atos Benefit docs in being shit shocker  Nah really? - , doesn't matter though we're still scroungers~! Edited August 14, 2011 by Psygnosis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Dammer Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 More Rail Union hating stuff from me im afraid. I know, broken record. Â http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14538167 Â Bob Crow, General Sec of the RMT, attempting to blame the rail companies though is the most ridiculous and hypocrtical thing ive ever read though. They are single handedly destroying the entire rail network. Â http://www.metro.co.uk/news/872460-rail-pa...flation-figures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiffy Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 High court enforcement officers (debt collectors) turn up at Mr Griffin's house as the party goes bankrupt. http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article...nd-so-it-begins Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Is it safe to say that the BNP is pretty much finished? Â Either way I know a lot of people who will be gutted by this news lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiffy Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 One doesn't like to get complacent, but with senior figures now being chased for the money owed, a split party, funds going down, votes going through the floor, there really doesn't seem to be any way out for them. Which, agreed, is a reasonably popular state of affairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big mickey Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Lol, shame!!! Â Haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Atkins Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Probably good for the EDL and UKIP if the BNP go under, neither group has the same stigma attached to the BNP either, although I'm sure the media will soon start the smear campaigns against them.  John Cleese has said that London is no longer an English city and that the only reason it got the Olympics is because it rejected English culture in favour of third world cultures. Thoughts? A rich old man who can say what he thinks because he hasn't got anything to lose? Or a disgusting bigot?  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-20...2-Olympics.html  He's certainly right about foreign tourists coming to London and not getting what they expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 America can keep him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiffy Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Probably good for the EDL and UKIP if the BNP go under, neither group has the same stigma attached to the BNP either, although I'm sure the media will soon start the smear campaigns against them. Â While someone on here might say it's not justified, and I'd say it is, I think the EDL already has the same stigma attached to it as the BNP. Certainly they're referred to in the media as a fair right group, the prime minister called them sick, and the authorities are treating them as another terrorist group in the uk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiffy Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Interesting tidbit, police were escoting 300 edl members to kings cross tube station to get em where they were going. RMT then shut kings cross down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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