ESM: if even the Germans are worried..be afraid

Egg

The poultry sort. Fried, boiled, scrambled. I eat them. My daughter keeps chickens and gives me eggs.
Pretty simple stuff....?

Na....

A Fast Food Egg

A Subway Egg Omelet Patty (Regular) contains:

 Whole eggs, egg whites, water, nonfat dry milk, premium egg blend (isolated pea product, salt, citric acid, dextrose, guar gum, xanthan gum, extractive of spice, propylene glycol and not more than 2% calcium silicate and glycerin to prevent caking), soybean oil, butter alternative (liquid and hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavors, beta carotene (color), TBHQ and citric acid added to protect flavor, dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent added), salt, beta-carotene (color).

A few words on the ingredients:

Propylene glycol, a solvent for food colors and flavorings, is also used in anti-freeze, to lubricate air-conditioner compressors, and in deodorant sticks.
Isolated pea product is a protein additive often used as a substitute for animal-derived protein.
Guar gum is a thickening agent.
Glycerin is a solvent that is found in soap, moisturizers and some brands of shaving cream.
TBHQ (tertiary butylhydroquinone) is used to preserve vegetable oils against oxidation, and can also be found in varnishes, lacquers, and perfumes.
dImethylpolysiloxane is a type of silicone used to prevent cooking oil from foaming after repeated uses. It’s also found in Silly Putty and many lubricants.
Calcium silicate is used to prevent caking and is also a popular antacid. In addition, it’s a sealant used on roads, roofs and concrete.

McDonald’s

Pasteurized whole eggs with sodium phosphate (preservative), citric acid and monosodium phosphate (added to preserve color), nisin preparation (preservative). Prepared with liquid margarine: Liquid soybean oil and hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils, water, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, salt, soy lecithin, mono-and diglycerides, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate (preservatives), artificial flavor, citric acid, vitamin A palmitate, beta carotene (color).

A few words on the ingredients:

Mono and diglycerides are used to blend substances together that would otherwise not blend well (oil and water, for instance).

Potassium sorbate is a preservative that inhibits the growth of molds and yeasts. It’s also used in personal care products as a replacement for the controversial chemical, paraben.

Cottonseed oil, when fully hydrogenated, is 94% saturated fat.

ZIMBABWE 2012

The head of Zimbabwe Central Intelligence Happyton Bonyongwe, left, with Constantine Chiwenga, the commander of the Zimbabwean Army, centre, with Mugabe.


President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace are some of the state-owned power firm Zesa Holdings’ biggest debtors. After a month of investigations by the Daily News, we can today reveal that the Mugabes as at December 31, 2011 owed Zesa over $345 000 in unpaid electricity bills at their multiple farms.

As the struggling power firm switches off hundreds of thousands of hard-pressed Zimbabweans owing paltry amounts, an investigation by this newspaper has unearthed shocking electricity bills for Mugabe    and his family, and they are not in this alone.

The stunning revelations come as Mozambique power utility Hydro Cahora Bassa has just switched Zimbabwe off its grid over an unpaid power import bill of about $80 million.

Among those that owe Zesa hefty amounts are Mugabe’s closest aides going back to the 1970s liberation war days such as Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, minister of State in the President’s Office Didymus Mutasa and State Security minister Sydney Sekeramayi.

Information and Publicity minister Webster Shamu, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister Saviour Kasukuwere, Higher Education minister Stan Mudenge and Mugabe’s deputy John Nkomo make the list.

Others that joined Mugabe after the liberation war years but have become part of his close knit, such as presidential spokesperson George Charamba are also up there on the Zesa defaulters’ list.

Charamba’s phone was unavailable when the Daily News called last night. Zesa spokesperson Fullard Gwasira’s mobile phone was also unavailable.

Service chiefs such as Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander Constantine Chiwenga and Airforce commander Air Marshall Perrance Shiri  are part of the crew that has left Zesa in financial doldrums.

Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director-general Happyton Bonyongwe also owes the power utility hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But it is Mugabe’s bill that is stunning, particularly when Zesa has over the years mounted a spirited campaign to force ordinary Zimbabweans to pay by disconnecting power in poor suburbs where unemployment is rife.

Mugabe and Grace, through various properties cumulatively owed Zesa more than $345 000 as at 31 December last year. This was just about the time a large  number of Zimbabweans spent Christmas in the dark as Zesa claimed defaulters were crippling efforts to generate power and pay for enough imports.

Mugabe’s four plots at Foyle Farm plus a cottage as well as Gushungo Dairy Estates put the octogenarian into a $143 667,33 debt with Zesa as at year-end. The President’s Gwebi Woodlot 1st Farm owed $24 901,05. Mugabe’s Sigaro Farm 1st PO, 2nd PO, 3rd PO and 4th PO owed a total of $78 218,71. The First Lady fared less.

Her Iron Mask Cottage, Iron Mask 2nd POIN, Iron Mask 3rd POIN, Mazowe Wholesalers, Annant Cottage, Iron Mask Farm 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th owed a total of $98 306,60 as at December  31, last year. Mnangagwa owed Zesa $240 824,03. He is listed under sensitive customers profile.

Goche owed Zesa $158 245,52 for properties spanning several plots at Ceres Farm and businesses that include grinding mills, a farm store and a service station. Mutasa owed $179 590,31.

Happyton Bonyongwe, the Central Intelligence Organisation director general owes Zesa $350 989,48 but has forked out $77 800 in payments as he makes steady efforts to retire the debt.

Air Marshall Perrance Shiri owes $26 947,70 for his Hopdale Farm. Police chief Augustine Chihuri’s homestead and his Inyika Farm owe Zesa $106 778,25. The politicians’ penchant not to pay is evident in the figures, according to investigations.

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Where's Health and Safety when you need them?

Nottingham Crown Court heard Bartlam was "obsessed" with Coronation Street character John Stape - who battered stalker Charlotte Hoyle with a hammer before leaving her body in the wreckage of a tram crash.

Six weeks before he killed his mother with a claw hammer, mental health assessors concluded that Bartlam "demonstrates no mental illness or emergent mental health process" and was judged to be of little or no risk to himself or others.

The teenager accepted he killed his mother but claimed none of it was planned. Instead he claimed to have lost control due to the fact that her alleged insult was the "final trigger to a culmination of years of lack of emotional warmth and inappropriate parenting".

Bartlam was found guilty by a unanimous verdict in February after a two-week trial. As he was convicted, the teenager shouted out: "That's wrong. I'll appeal. It isn't over."

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The Byters Bit

By the end of this year, there will be more mobile 'phones' in the world than people.

Those terribly cute apps and the vital need to watch UTube clips in the bath mean that internet charging for space is inevitable.
An exabyte is quite a lot of 0s and 1s. Five exabytes would encode every word ever spoken.
'All You Can Eat' is history, in internet access as well as Greece.

Superior Hippy Shit

British Justice

A 79-year-old man from Somerset who was said to have "snapped" and strangled the wife he had cared for has been jailed for 12 months.
Malcolm Beardon, of Churchfields, Wellington, admitted the manslaughter of Margaret, 78, who had dementia.
The manslaughter plea was accepted by the prosecution on the grounds that Beardon had lost control after caring for his wife for more than a decade. Exeter Crown Court heard that Beardon had been caring for his wife of 58 years - and childhood sweetheart - for more than a decade.

Judge Graham Cottle said that to describe the case as tragic would be "a significant understatement". He described Beardon as having been a man of "impeccable character" and added: "I am sure that what you did will haunt you for the rest of your days."

The court heard that as Mrs Beardon's dementia progressed, she no longer recognised her home, her family, or her husband. At a previous hearing, the court was told that after strangling his wife, Beardon had phoned his daughter to tell her. He had rejected offers for help, insisting that he could cope, the court heard.

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Richard O'Dwyer, the 23 year old man who was accused by Big Content of operating streaming website TVShack, faces extradition to the United States.

O'Dwyer's servers were outside of the USA, but that has not stopped Big Content and its political cronies from pursuing him and calling for an extradition. A British court has now caved in to America's demands and he faces being shipped to the States for the grave crime of linking to website that stream TV shows online for free.

America has been openly running a paper tiger policy against people it perceives are a threat to its churlish but effective role as the world's bully.
Judge Quentin Purdy ruled that O'Dwyer's website "could have" been illegal under UK law, and that any grounds for human rights appeals would go nowhere.
O'Dwyer's family will appeal.




Hacker Gary McKinnon was targeted because, admitted a US ambassador, he "mocked" the USA.
As Senator Darrell Issa said of Julian Assange: "If the President says 'I can't deal with this guy as a terrorist,' then he has to be able to deal with him as a criminal, otherwise the world is laughing at - this paper tiger we've become."
If Big Content has the influence to push through an undemocratic blanket-censorship bill like SOPA, then it has the influence to push for O'Dwyer's extradition.
O'Dwyer's mother's statement is a poignant one.
She told the Guardian's Walker: "If they can come for Richard they can come for anyone".

Stanford Squirms, Stays on Hook

My favourite financier, Ex "Sir" Allen Stanford, approaches public denouement as inexorably as entropy. Ducking, foaming at the mouth, diving in psychotic style, he is driven back into the naughty corner by American Justice, pressing every available button marked "DELAY" "PREVARICATE" that he can find.
The Beeb clinically traces his ducks and weaves.


27th Jan: Allen Stanford ruled unfit to stand trial for fraud

A US federal judge has ruled that Texan billionaire Allen Stanford is unfit to stand trial at present over accusations he led a $7bn (£4.5bn) fraud scheme.
Mr Stanford is facing trial over allegations that he ran a pyramid scheme based in Antigua which defrauded investors.

"The court finds Stanford is incompetent to stand trial at this time based on his apparent impaired ability to rationally assist his attorneys in preparing his defence," District Judge Hittner wrote in his ruling in Houston, Texas.

16th Feb: Stanford moved from Houston to a different detention facility

U.S. District Judge David Hittner ruled after a hearing in January that Stanford is incompetent to stand trial and must undergo detoxification from addictions to medications prescribed for anxiety and depression.
A brain injury Stanford suffered in a 2009 altercation with another inmate also may have diminished his capacity to assist in his defense, the judge wrote, citing expert testimony in the hearing.

18th Feb: Allen Stanford files $7.2bn countersuit

Texan billionaire Allen Stanford has filed a countersuit against US prosecutors, accusing them of depriving him of his constitutional rights. The lawsuit claims prosecutors "undertook illegal tactics" in their investigation of Mr Stanford's alleged pyramid scheme that they claim defrauded investors of $7bn (£4.3bn).
Mr Stanford is seeking $7.2bn in damages from the SEC and FBI.

23rd Dec: Allen Stanford ruled fit for trial

A US federal judge has ruled Texan financier Allen Stanford is mentally fit to stand trial for allegedly operating a $7bn (£4.5bn) Ponzi scheme.
"I see no brain injury that stands in the way of his standing trial," said Dr Robert Cochrane, a psychological evaluator at the prison.
US District Judge David Hittner agreed after a three-day hearing in Houston, Texas, that Mr Stanford was able to help his lawyers prepare for the trial.

Mr Stanford has spent more than eight months at a North Carolina prison hospital undergoing psychological tests and being weaned off anti-anxiety medication. Charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2009, Mr Stanford denies running a Ponzi scheme involving the sale of fraudulent certificates of deposit issued by his offshore bank in Antigua.

21st Century Tatts

Disclaimer: I have no tattoos and three sealed up piercings.


They've got these hi tec guns and stuff now, so the ink bottle and one of Mum's needles is restricted to an underclass, but tattooing is still pretty basic.
You want a tatt, absolutely 100% fine by me (as if you give a fuck), but the end result seems to be defined by the limitations of the process. Sticking an inked bit of metal in your skin.
And you get a piece of graphic art, a picture, or writing, script, and that's your lot.
A good artist can get a 3D effect with colour and composition but it's still a static image, a snapshot, paradoxically often expressing more abstract values.

So 20th century, static stuff. In this new century, on the move is the way, whole countries with no copper wire telephones but smart phones, multi dimensional tasking made essential in order to cope with the privations being forced upon us by out banking Lords, to pay their gambling debts. To make us able to buy 24/7, fulfill our capitalist obligations as the Consuming Serf.
Everything is moving, marketing fish waiting for your credit card to snap them up swim all around you in virtual shoals, infinitely breeding with depthless digital fecundity. We will never be able to eat enough, and their greed will never be satiated.

Anyway, what about nanotechnology? I first came across this as a sceptical green, reading with grim horror about nanosilver socks that stop your feet smelling by killing bacteria. Everything above the size of nothing, apparently. Which is cool if you're a lazy cunt who can't be bothered to wash his feet, but not so good for Good Old Mother Earth and her groovy ecosystem.
Because not all somethings above the size of nothing are bad for you, that's why, but nanosilver doesn't give a monkey's about that. You're a toasted microbe.
To cut to the chase, I was wondering if you could graft an 'active' skin onto your body, made with computerised elements at the nanolevel, and have

MOVING TATTOOS!

To be continued...

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Pepper with that?

America's Law Enforcement Officers Enforce Law

Breaking News: U.S. Economy in Safe hands

The world's greatest deliberative bodies are exempt from insider trading laws, even though its members get quicker access to market-moving information than almost anyone else.

If you're one of those 9 percent of Americans who still trust Congress, well, avert your eyes and don't read a new book, Throw Them All Out, written by the conservative scholar/sometime Palin speechwriter Peter Schweizer.

Working through it, one of the ugliest revelations so far -- prodded in the Kroft story -- is the degree to which Rep. Spencer Bachus, then ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, bet against the market as it collapsed in 2008. Schweizer finds "no less than forty options trades" in Bachus's records from July 2008 to November 2008.

The trades made him wealthier; almost nobody else had the information he had, and could have made them. Take this example, from the bottom of the collapse.

On the evening of September 18, at 7 p.m., Bachus received [a] private briefing for congressional leaders by Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke about the current state of the economy. They sat around a long table in the office of Nancy Pelosi, then the Speaker of the House. These briefings were secretive. Often, cell phones and Blackberrys had to be surrendered outside the room to avoid leaks.

What Bachus and his colleagues heard behind closed doors was stunning. As Paulson recounts, “Ben [Bernanke] emphasized how the financial crisis could spill into the real economy. As stocks dropped perhaps a further 20 percent, General Motors would go bankrupt, and unemployment would rise . . . if we did nothing.” The members of Congress around the table were, in Paulson’s words, “ashen-faced.”

Bernanke continued, “It is a matter of days before there is a meltdown in the global financial system.” Bachus was among those who spoke. According to Paulson, he suggested recapitalizing the banks by buying shares.

The meeting broke up. The next day, September 19, Congressman Bachus bought contract options on Proshares Ultra-Short QQQ, an index fund that seeks results that are 200% of the inverse of the Nasdaq 100 index. In other words, he was shorting the market. It was an inexpensive way to bet that the market would fall. He bought options for $7,846 on a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened at 8,604. A few days later, on September 23, after the market had indeed fallen, he sold the options for over $13,000 and nearly doubled his money.

There are dozens of examples like this. On September 8, Hank Paulson gets a tip from GE about the company's sluggish bond sales, on September 10, Bachus shorts GE optionsfour times. It's all legal, and Bachus is now the chairman of House Financial Services.

Being a Giant isn't always a bowl of cherries

Were we really pretty things?

A molecule

Reflections on Coppers

They have gone from this



to this




In my lifetime. Maybe Good Old George was romanticised, but is it really that much more dangerous now? Or it it because of them that it's not?

A Man of Constant Sorrow

Greece LMFAO

Stroke of genius, a referendum!!

Fond Memories of Sir Jimmy Savile OBE RIP

"BY" PAUL MERTON

Apparently, this was actually recorded during the last series of "Have I Got  News For You" when Jimmy Saville was a guest on Paul Merton's team.  Incredibly, it didn't make our screens. (It seems that Mr.  Merton doesn't  like Mr. Saville very much)

Out-take 3:09'36  

During the headline round:  

DEAYTON: You used to be a wrestler didn't you?

SAVILLE: I still am.  

DEAYTON: Are you?  

SAVILLE: I'm feared in every girls' school in the country.  (Audience laugh)  

DEAYTON: Yeah, I've heard about that.  

SAVILLE: What have you heard?  

DEAYTON: I've...  

MERTON: Something about a cunt with a rancid, pus-filled cock.  (Huge audience laugh; Awkward pause)  

SAVILLE: I advise you to wash your mouth out, my friend...  

MERTON: That's what she had to do! (Audience laughs)  

HISLOP: Weren't you leaving money in phone boxes or something?  (Saville glares at him) Or have I got completely the wrong end of the...  

SAVILLE: (To Deayton, heavily) The question you asked was about wrestling.  

DEAYTON: Yes. And then you mentioned girls' schools. I don't know whe...  

SAVILLE: Well I understood this was a comedy programme. I realise now how wrong I was. (Audience laugh)  

DEAYTON: So were you a professional wrestler?  

SAVILLE: Yes I was.  

DEAYTON: (To audience) Glad we got that cleared up.(Pulls face; audience giggles)

HISLOP: Feared by every girls' school in the country...  

SAVILLE: That's right.  

MERTON: Due to having a rancid, pus-filled cock.(Huge audience laugh)  

DEAYTON: Erm...  

HISLOP: You're on top form tonight, Paul...  

SAVILLE: (Strangely) I'm...this is not what I...  

FLOOR MANAGER: (OOV) OK, do you...(inaudible section)...shall we, for pick-ups...  

MERTON: I'm terribly sorry. I don't know what came over me.  

SAVILLE: A pus-filled cock, I imagine. (Shocked audience laugh)  

MERTON: Oh, it's nice to see you joining in. We'd been waiting for you, you sad senile old shitter. (Audience appears to do double-take)  

DEAYTON: I think we...d-d-you you want to apologise to our guest, Paul?  

MERTON: Sorry, I do apologise. Sir senile old shitter, is what I meant to say. (Audience laugh; pause) Sir senile old shitter...who fucks minors.  (Audience unrest) 

HISLOP: Sorry, I'm just looking at our lawyer again. (Waves) Hello!  (Audience laughs) 

DEAYTON: Shall we get back on course with this, or sha...  
SAVILLE: I do fuck miners, that's quite correct. I have always done so. They can do the most wonderful things with cigars. The coal...  
MERTON: What, they stick them up your senile, pus-filled arse?  (Audience laughs)  
FLOOR MANAGER: (OOV): Come on...I'm getting an ear-bashing here. It's...  
MERTON: Oh they want to continue. Sorry, I'll contain myself. Carry on...  
DEAYTON: Right (Pause) You used to be a professional wrestler didn't you?  (Huge audience laugh)  
SAVILLE: (Calmly) I did.  
DEAYTON: You didn't have a nickname or anything?  
SAVILLE: Yes - 'Loser'. (Audience laughs)  

Out-take 4: 21'20  
Following a discussion about caravans:  
DEAYTON: Last month, Roger Moore sold his luxury caravan in Malta. Asked by the...  
MERTON: I visited your caravan the other week, Jimmy.  
SAVILLE: Did you really?  
MERTON: Oh yes. Interesting what you can find, if you have a bit of a poke.  (Audience laugh)  
HISLOP: He just told you, it was twelve years ago...  
SAVILLE: No, I lived in it for twelve years.  
MERTON: And fucked twelve year olds. (Audience laugh)  
DEAYTON: Here we go again...I'll be backstage if anyone wants me.  
MERTON: (Indicating Saville) That's what you said to the kids on your show, wasn't it?  (Audience laugh)  
SAVILLE: No, they never did want me.  
HISLOP: Not even Sarah Cornley?  
SAVILLE: She was an exception.  
DEAYTON: Who's Sarah Cornley?  
SAVILLE: Sarah Cornley is...  
HISLOP: About fifteen grand in damages, wasn't she?  (Uncertain audience laugh)  
SAVILLE: That's right.  
HISLOP: So if I was going to mention that you threatened to break her arm if she said anything...  
SAVILLE: You'd be very wrong. (Pause) I said I'd break both her arms.  (Audience unease)  
MERTON: Fucking hell. I mean, you're just sitting there, all shell suit and cigar wearing those fucking...I don't know what they are.  
SAVILLE: Chrome-plated SC-700 sun-visors, these are. Sent to me by...  
MERTON: We don't give a shit. Ladies and gentlemen, Sir James Saville OBE. Jim has fixed it for me to have my arms broken. Meet this depressing old fucked up cunt of a fucker on television who's riddled with cancer and fucking pubic lice.  
HISLOP: (To lawyer again) Hello! (Audience laughs)  
MERTON: Christ, I mean ha ha, big fucking joke - the fucking lawyers are involved, tee hee. It doesn't change anything.  
DEAYTON:  (Visibly out of character) Do you wanna stop, or...?
MERTON: No I don't fucking want to stop. It's all shit! You'll expect a comedy walkout in a minute, won't you? I mean, big bloody joke - I'm going to quote Shakespeare in a minute, how fucking out of character. And Ian knows about football - oh my fucking sides. 
SAVILLE: You've never fucked anyone in your life, boy.  
MERTON: Oh fuck off...  
FLOOR MANAGER: (OOV) ...About five minutes, just to...(Phil Davey enters)  
PHIL DAVEY: OK, well top that as they say. You're looking troubled by that, aren't you mate? I tell you, I came back from Amsterdam recently...  
RECORDING PLACED ON STAND-BY; CUTS BACK TO CLOSE-UP OF DEAYTON  AWAITING HIS CUE
DEAYTON: OK. Second time lucky. (Pause) Last month, Roger Moore sold  his luxury caravan in Malta. Asked by the New York Times about his relaxed acting style...
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An amusing, shocking story that's been around for years. However, if you Goggle "Sarah Cornley", all you get is references back to this "story".
The Internet is a dangerous place.................

Where's my cut? Making people famous...

This guy was just another freak until he appeared on these hallowed pages.

Grateful? HA. Not a fucking word.