29 Apr 2013
THE PAEDOFILE: What connects Welsh care home tragedies to the Secret Family Courts?
Britain treats its frail children as pawns
in a ghastly game of privilege.
We should all be ashamed.
in a ghastly game of privilege.
We should all be ashamed.
The Slog: On April 13th 2010, in a moment of optimistic triumphalism, and following an investigation by Judge Nicholas Wall, I wrote:
‘It’s taken many years, hundreds of articles and thousands of hours of hard legal work and appeals, but if today’s Times is to be believed, the end is in sight for the Secret Social Worker State.’
Well, it didn’t turn out that way. Judge
Nicholas Wall – then newly appointed to investigate the Secret Family
Courts – obviously made rather too many enemies in the higher echelons
of political paedophile protectors. On December 1st 2012,
he ‘retired as president of the Family Division and head of family
justice on the grounds of ill health’, the Ministry of Justice
announced.
His replacement, however, has been no less
outspoken in criticising Family Court secrecy, and how such a thing is a
gift for systemic paedophilia. Soon after taking over, Lord Justice
Munby opined:
“Both principle and pragmatism demand that
we open the family courts, that we drastically relax the present access
restrictions….we need both more people going into the family courts, and
more information coming out. Each of these is essential; neither alone
is sufficient.”
Iceland Just Says "Nei" To Pro-European Party
Submitted by Tyler Durden: During the crisis Iceland was held up as one
of the best examples of what was so wrong with the bubble that was
created and sold to any and all. The party in power during this debacle
was summarily dismissed by the people. However, a mere few years later,
and given the apparent abhorrence with all things European, the Icelandic people have just ousted the incumbent pro-Europe party in favor of the Independence and Progressive parties that governed during the crisis. As the WSJ reports,
the Social Democratic Alliance, which had overseen economic recovery
and pushed for European Union membership, saw support tumble as the
electorate's concern about personal finances overshadowed the ruling
coalition's ability to stabilize the economy. Couple this with the
promises of the two parties to cut taxes and the sweell of nationalist
sentiment and the Social Democrats were summarily crushed. The leader of
the Progressive party perhaps summed up the poeple's views best: "deeper
integration with a Europe in "historic decline" isn't necessarily the
best for Iceland," and that "economic crisis in Iceland and Europe has
taught us the importance of being able to control your own destiny."
Of course, as with any election, lots of promises are made; "they have
really been promising the moon, people might get dissatisfied when they
see that not everything can be realized."A Blatant Screwing: Things are getting steadily better than even worse, even though the good signs are worse than when things were bad.
Why do our economic headlines
suggest headless chickens?
The Slog: For two months now, I have felt that the
best thing is to stay short in long, but also sell short while holding
folding, just in case the long game stops spreading portfolios from
broadening bond yield concentrations in the eurozone – or of course,
narrowing interest-rate swaps take the heat off derivative swaps in
Asia. It’s also pretty clear (to me at least) that falling gold prices
and rising unemployment are a sure sign of something, and could be a
wake-up call for all those silver fans anxiously looking to buy
Portuguese Escudo futures in the absence of any present danger they can
link to the past. It could therefore be a good time to play the
currency markets, or even float the idea of a Yuan market-play hedged
against the Dollar-price of dark liquidity clouds within virtually
platformed American Eagle instruments.I got to this clarified strategy by each day reading the online, TV and press headlines that are there to guide investors like me: that is, those who have only a functioning left brain and a firm grip on reality to guide them. Today’s efforts have so far been in the same vein:
The 'monarchs of money' and the war on savers + They Rig
Power Shift: First in a series on the rise of the central banksters and the global imposition of cheap credit
By Neil Macdonald: Quietly, without much public fuss or discussion, a new ruling class has risen in the richer nations.
These men and women are unelected and tend to shun the publicity hogged by the politicians with whom they co-exist.
They are the world's central bankers. Every six weeks or so, they
gather in Basel, Switzerland, for secret discussions and, to an extent
at least, they act in concert.
The decisions that emerge from those meetings affect the entire
world. And yet the broad public has a dim understanding, if any, of the
job they do.
In fact, these individuals now wield at least as much influence over
the lives of ordinary citizens as prime ministers and presidents.
The truth about shale: it’s a fracking nightmare
The oil business disinformation campaign about hydraulic fracking continues apace
The Slog: There is a hilariously unintended irony in an FT (£) headline
to the Editorial on its website about shale fracking. The article –
pure pro-shale propaganda from tip to toe – begins, ‘Ignorance is the
biggest enemy in the shale war’. It then goes on to show that fracking
doesn’t cause earthquakes. Er, that’s it.
Informed observers have never really taken that charge seriously, so
the ignorance irony is indeed pretty major. But this seems increasingly
to sum up the FT these days: it reads more like a trumpet than a
magnifying glass. When it runs editorials like this one, it’s more
strumpet than trumpet.
There are really only two critiques of Shale fracking which, for my money, remain compelling.
The first is that shale gas well production tends to drop by 50% or
more after the first year, and the reason is simple: the first year gets
out all the easy stuff: after that, it’s more haystack and fewer
needles until it’s not worth carrying on. Early last year, shale gas
production in the U.S. was at 27 billion cubic feet per day….and its
share of energy production was rising steeply. But even with new fields
coming on stream, as US States scramble to solve their fiscal problems
via fracking finds – that production has continued to level off.
In this context, FT boldly asserts that ‘The US shale boom has
brought natural gas prices down by two-thirds in four years’. Has it?
The gas price dropped close to $2 per MBTU last year, but has doubled
since then to just under $4 today. Ignorance is bliss. Or PR.
Gold-silver ratio in phase space
The reconstructed phase space portrait is one tool that can be used to
gain insight into the dynamics of complex systems, whether these systems
be natural or man-made.
Today we will use these tools to look at precious metals.
The near-constant slope over long stretches of this plot tells us that gold is already increasing in price exponentially. So don't say that gold price will increase exponentially during a financial crisis. It is already doing so, and has been since early 2001 (notwithstanding the recent turmoil).
The break in slope in late 2005 tells us that the gold price suddenly began to increase more rapidly.
Today we will use these tools to look at precious metals.
The near-constant slope over long stretches of this plot tells us that gold is already increasing in price exponentially. So don't say that gold price will increase exponentially during a financial crisis. It is already doing so, and has been since early 2001 (notwithstanding the recent turmoil).
The break in slope in late 2005 tells us that the gold price suddenly began to increase more rapidly.
Would you buy a used car from Mario Draghi?
Why Mario the Messiah is really Draghi the Devil
In fact, The Bank of Italy under Mario Draghi in 2010 spotted the very accounting irregularities that allowed Banca Monte to mask losses, and later forced it to restate profit. In December 2008, MPS borrowed €1.5 billion from Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) as part of a derivative deal codenamed Project Santorini, that helped it disguise losses. Draghi has since contended that Monte Peschi hid documents, impeding his analysis of the “true nature” of the company’s dealings. But both corporate and academic opinion-leaders have gone on the record to assert that this defence is weak and incredible: Draghi, they argue, must have known.
My reliable source in Madrid insists that the end of any belief in Draghi’s honesty came when he subordinated the bondholders as part of the second Greek rescue: “What [Draghi] did was fraud, pure and simple. Going that obligatory route was simply a crooked way of avoiding Greek default. There’s nothing he wouldn’t do to save the euro, and every bond buyer and dealer now knows that.”
Drone pig army destruction of UK welfare NHS and legal aid + **naked orange sucking Queen pig special** BBC Sucks O Cock News
The artist taxi driver
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