Tuesday 12 January 2010

Red Bull "confessions".



Red Bull "confessions". It’s normal to anyone that I defend my friends and my family. But when the extended “family” of poker players seems to be growing by leaps, the logical next step for me = meat grinder. And to start acting not like a ‘scientist’, but like an “artist”. Example: At night have a blow in back of my head again. From the North-West, from USA direction. Than was a reasonable rest, after that – morning shower. Some people singing, some people listen radio during this time, - I was hearing the “business proposals”. “El burro dentro de banheira” listening how the Spanish EU Presidency telling me that wasn’t smart to only registed the £4.8 billion Heineken swoop on Femsa. I should, (the Brussels/Strasburg saying) demand like a minimum the 10% of this “Selo Mexicano” (in English – the Mexican Saddle). Now, have a guess who than enter with strong force to disagree with this arrangement? – The XXX old whore. Clearly shouting in my head: “I don’t agree!” That’s it. Exactly where you, the nation of the…in and how you, like today, we want you “all”. Inside of “Ship”. How on Earth can I be mildly mannered when this kind of stupidity crosses the line? Look, to running around the London to speak with my British Energy, but only to find the Major Pro-nine, and the Captain Polu-nine (the Kinnock and the Prochorov) who through the “liand-lian” scrimming around me like a rats. (today’s Markets). Halt!, my dear nation, I was just looking the British Energy PayPoint to sort out my electric bill. That’s all. Previous five - wasn’t working. Although, I find inside though, the ‘monehies’ or eating, or filling up the ES4JP 01/04 form (that one which I do fortnightly and call it “what-you-do-to-find-the-job”) at each don’t working PayPoint! If something seems to be happening – I would just pretend to don’t see. (I.e. the desapearence of all chuckches from my sight. The Kazakhstan Presidency of OSCE). And I will not to try to understand it. Worst, won’t even try to take control (PayPoint situation) or force a particular outcome to a knowing process. Just do the effort to adapt myself to what is happening. There is no such thing as a coincidence. With this situation I’m sincerely willing to scrap off back of my heels the merde they’ve become.

Nuclear scientist killed by motorcycle bomb in Iran. Iran today accused American and Israeli agents of assassinating a leading nuclear scientist who worked as a professor at Tehran University. Massaoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed near his home in northern Tehran this morning by a booby-trapped motorcycle. The state broadcaster IRIB blamed the attack on "Zionist and American agents". "The assassination of Mr Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a nuclear scientist and a committed and revolutionary Tehran University professor, was detonated by a remote control," IRIB said on its website. "As a result of the bomb planted by Zionist and American agents two cars and a motorcycle were severely damaged and the windows in the surrounding residential units were shattered." Iran is embroiled in a bitter dispute with the West over its nuclear ambitions. The Islamic Republic denies Western accusations it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons. A senior Interior Ministry official, Mehdi Mohammadifar, said earlier that the motive for the bombing was under investigation. "Apparently this man was a university professor who was killed close to his home this morning in an explosion," Mr Mohammadifar said. The official IRNA news agency said it was not yet clear how many people were killed in the blast, suggesting there may be more than one victim. Iran has been convulsed by its most serious domestic unrest since the Islamic revolution in 1979, as protests by opposition supporters against the election result have turned violent. Authorities deny opposition allegations that voting was rigged. Eight people were killed in clashes between security forces and opposition supporters on Ashura, the day of ritual Shi'ite Muslim mourning that fell on December 27. The blast occurred at a time of heightened tension in the Islamic Republic, seven months after a disputed presidential election plunged the country into turmoil. Such attacks are rare in Iran.
Iranian universities have been the scene of rival protests by opposition campaigners and government supporters since the June poll, which the reformist opposition says was rigged to secure the re-election of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The Icesave deal is unfair and unreasonable. Skúla-son. Published: January 10 2010 19:03 | Last updated: January 10 2010 19:03. Icelanders are ashamed of the reckless behaviour of privately owned banks and business people from their country. They are full of guilt that people lost money due to the activities of these bankers. Iceland is a small community with just over 317,000 inhabitants, about the size of Newcastle. Most Icelanders had never heard about the Icesave internet bank until it hit the country like a financial tsunami, an unwelcome addition to the meltdown of its economy. The amount demanded by the British and Dutch governments from Icelandic taxpayers to pay for Icesave amounts to 50 per cent of Iceland’s gross domestic product. This is equivalent to a bill of €12,000 ($17,000, £11,000) per person, all because of the bankruptcy of a privately owned bank, Landsbanki. The interest on top of this is an eye-watering annual rate of 5.55 per cent. A year’s interest equals the running cost of the Icelandic healthcare system for six months. Most Icelanders acknowledge that the government of Iceland failed in its duties. Its banking governance failed, as did its regulatory framework; but in those failings Iceland was not alone. Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, has admitted that US financial regulations were too lax. As the Swedish Riksbank has noted, the Icelandic, British and Dutch financial regulators bear joint responsibility for the Icesave debacle. However, the British and Dutch regulators have not acknowledged their failings – indeed, they have washed their hands of guilt. The European Union did the same – after naively assuming a local deposit guarantee scheme would protect savers in what had become a single European market. The solution for the future must lie in a pan-European guarantee scheme. As the Banque de France and others have concluded, the EU deposit guarantees were not able to tackle a systemic banking collapse. Will Iceland honour its obligations? Yes, Iceland has for eleven hundred years honoured its international legal obligations and will continue to do so. The Althing, the Icelandic parliament – in Churchill’s words “the grandmother of all parliaments” – confirmed in December 2008 that it will take on the Icesave obligation in a resolution. The Althing approved legislation for a state guarantee for the Icesave payments in August 2009 – but with some safeguards for Iceland’s economy. These safeguards made the agreement more balanced and in greater accordance with the so-called Brussels conditions, which were agreed in November 2008 with the UK and the Netherlands and stipulated that negotiations “shall be conducted in a co-ordinated and consistent way, and shall take into account the unprecedented difficult situation of Iceland and therefore the necessity of finding arrangements that allow Iceland to restore its financial system and its economy”. The president of Iceland signed the August 2009 bill into law with the safeguards, including a cap on payments as a proportion of GDP growth, but Iceland has not received any formal reaction from the British or Dutch governments on these safeguards. This legislation will remain in force even if the people of Iceland reject, in the forthcoming referendum, the new Icesave legislation that was amended to remove the safeguards in accordance with backroom demands from the UK and Netherlands. It is clear to me that the new Icesave agreement is unreasonable. What would a reasonable agreement, in accordance with the Brussels conditions, look like? First, it would have lower interest rates; the British and Dutch governments profit by 1.5-2 percentage points from the new agreement. Second, the legality of the claims and the demand for a state guarantee of the Icelandic deposit guarantee scheme need to be clarified by the European Court of Justice. Third, the British government should make concessions for using the “gunboat diplomacy” of anti-terrorist legislation to freeze the assets of the Icelandic authorities (along with the Landsbanki bank), which placed them in the company of al-Qaeda. This and other actions sriously damaged the economy of Iceland. If communication between London and Reykjavik is so strained and ineffectual, no wonder there is a communication problem between London and Kabul.

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