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October 7th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
sam
I’d take my chances pushing him over the edge, exploding or not…
October 7th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Magnetite,
Plucking a headline not quite at random from Bloomberg, I find:
‘U.S. Seeks to Block Court Release of Chinese Muslims’ (Update1)
which I am sure proves something…
October 7th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
yes chenier, there wouln’t be much point otherwise.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Magnetite, I’m sure many Russian journalists put their lives on the line, as did Veronica Guerlian (not sure of the spelling) but you can’t compare them to the spineless hacks masquerading in todays press.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
well some of them are muslims saul.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
sam
prefererably whilst it was exploding?
The market for his after dinner speeches may be shrinking a bit…
October 7th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Appealing to the mercenary is just a matter of waving cash, yes Saul. Turning a devoted admirer of a politician in power, or seeding doubt in the mind of a zealous follower of a party is a different case. Doffeg pursuit goes hand in hand with luck in the best stories. Sometimes dogged pursuit can be sitting in a car in the rain for night after night, or risking physical injury or death like the Russian journalists operating now.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
There is a degree of embarassment attached to being an investment banker at the moment, but most of them still have a lot of dosh and adjustable notions of self worth. The excuse that will be trotted out is that nobody saw it coming, but that is a lie.
A lot of people saw it coming; it’s just that nobody wanted to believe them….
October 7th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
chenier, i was thinking of sending him to etna.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
In this “Big Brother, X Factor, Britains got Sob Stories World” Whistleblowers can name their price, and the Tabloids will fight tooth and nail to pay it.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Though with any luck it doesn’t presage the arrival of the Yen, out to take back its own…
October 7th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
The choppers are all the investment bankers getting out of the country before the lynch-mobs start forming.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Convinci9ng a potential whistleblower to turn on their employers (and unfortunately their colleagues) is something not many of us would have the plums for though, Saul.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Well, judging from the number of choppers flying over the City at the moment something odd is happening…
October 7th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Anyone with a “Deep Throat” can break a story, finding the story is the hard part.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I told ya’ll ’bout Switzerstan! Theys is crazy. The B-52s are on their way….
October 7th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Easy Peasy, Japaneasy.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
sam,
Teflon Tony has a great deal to answer for, and in a just world he would be pretending to be Napoleon as well…
October 7th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
[Wakes up, stretches, clambers off pile of bones]
Hey! I wasn’t having a dig at anyone on Anorak, here folks - or playing down the abilities of the gifted amateur reporting on subjects in which they are knowlegable. Just the worrying mid-to long-term future of YouTube journalism. Remember that all my fears are long term. Such as whether my grandchildren will have to dig items from our landfills to survive in a Mad-Max style post-apocalyptic future. With crumpet, obviously. This IS Britain.
Hey, you’re right Saul…both of them had little experience. Perhaps I sould have chosen a better example. Who broke the Profumo story, perhaps?
[Now I'm awake. I'll look around a bit]
October 7th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Zero Interest Rate Policy should make somebody happy, if only the economists who have checked themselves into secure mental institutions and are pretending to be Napoleon to avoid being lynched, but much as I would like to see my mortgage payments drastically reduced, I don’t think it’s going to happen.
Back in the 70’s Switzerland used to charge foreigners interest on money the foreigners deposited in Swiss Banks, which is one way of dealing with the problem of too much money…
October 7th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
interesting to note blair went to work for a bank not affected i thought.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
ZIRP, maybe it is coming?
October 7th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Voodoo accounting…black magic…smoke and mirrors…moose in VP’s clothing…
What we have are all the right ingredients for a blockbuster thriller film. Hollywood must be licking its fangs at the chaos - provided people have any money to spend on watching films after this is over….
October 7th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Jack
Someday a physicist will explain Anorak time, and get a Nobel Prize for it, but I fear that the only killings to be made in the markets took place rather a long time ago.
Now it’s straightforward slaughter, with the nation’s Darling all set to unfold a daring rescue bail out all of our very own, with the certain knowledge that Hank ‘I’m begging you’ Paulson’s $700 billion has done f*ck all to improve matters in the US.
Neither has the voodoo accounting rules change, nor the voodoo tax breaks, nor the Black Magic tax ploy which the Internal Revenue quietly slid in while the OECD was not looking.
The geopolitics are interesting; Iceland has gone to Russia, not the IMF, and Russia has the cash.
It looks as if the Weapons of Mass Financial Destruction may have worked rather well…
October 7th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
i can do some things on the computer chenier but it’s more application specific than being computer savvy. i simply hate it when husband upgrades stuff as it invariably breaks something which then takes ages to fix. oh well, such is progress. oh, i have just discovered how to spellcheck on this thing. wonderful. my, i look much cleverer now.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
“How many Woodwards and Bernsteins could be drawn from the ranks of Joe Public?”
Err… both of them originally.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
“Hell is being stuck forever with fellow Anroka posters.” — some bloke.
Of course, the real quote was just simply: “Hell is other Anorakians.”
October 7th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
jack, a fate worse than death having to write things purely from the imagination, i’d be stuck forever. well, perhaps not quite but close.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
sam
My computer expertise consists of knowing where the on/off switch is; I was completely freaked to be informed that I had to download a Vista update, with the throwaway line of ‘Oh, and you need at least 4.5 gigs free for it’. So that’s the laptop grinding away.
My old pedal driven pc doesn’t even have 4 gigs…