BBC / Al Jazeera's Bin Laden Tape Interview
This interview on BBC News 24 about Al Jazeera's handling of the latest Bin Laden taped threat amused Guido. See it on GuyNews.TV.
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24 comments:
Very funny.Jihad B-lew?
Give that guy a shave and a sharp suit and he could pass as a US Presidential candidate. Osama, Obama - sounds a bit like Mr Hilter and Mr Bimmler in the Barnstaple By-Election.
When did Nick Robinson move over to Al-Jazeera, then?
DLDD
Problem is when you talk to the man in the pub about these things, you are usually met with a consistent response apart from "you are mad," and it go's something like this.
"You must be talking rubbish because Guido/The BBC/The Daily Mirror/The Daily Mail/Mrs Dale/Sky TV ect ect ect, would have said something, if it were true."
You tell them "no they would not because these are subject to D notices" and they look at you like you have just escaped from an institution.
Still the good thing is, they get curious then start looking for themselves. Then come back to you a few weeks later looking pale in the face, and buy you a beer.
Atlas,
Ding dong has lost it with his D-notice obssession.
The D-Notice website is here. If he wants to obssess over it that is entirely up to him. This is not the place for it. If he thinks Guido pays any attention to that anachronism he is barking.
If he thinks Guido is part of the System/ a Martian/ Illuminati/ NWO Globalist* etc he should write about it on a blog, his own blog.
This is not the place for nutty essays. It is private property. Simple.
Stick to the rules.
*Fully paid up member and supporter of globalisation.
following on from skys 85% think your doing a bad job blow .
best of it was they were interviewing labour voters ha ha
i can confirm that gordon browns media offensive has had no impact on the public , few labour supporters think he has to do it . lib dem friends think he just doesnt look like the man that was billed on the poster in june.
who ever posted stamp gag on first blogg of breakfast , needs a medal.
as for trolls intellegence centre (yet another lie on both counts)
please communicate to your leader that i strongly recommend that he contacts george osbourne and informs him of the detailed and contingency plans he has for the severe ecnomic problems that lie ahead for this quarter and the next one.
whilst we understand it is the oppositions job to ask questions , when the public find out you have refused to inform us in relevent detail how you intend to deal with this problem and how do you intend to protect the public??
as for andrew mars radio show this morning i appreciate some post are rubbish , but some are not. sundays tv interview is an attempt to off set the commons thrashings in the publics mind , and fair enough why shouldnt gordon have the occasional comfy interview .
but on the gold sell off was it really acceptable to just accept his answer that he brought euros and that the rate exchange was higher now. he sold 825 tonnes at $275 an oz it is now at $840 an oz , do you not think you should have explained to the viewers the figures so that they could decide if there was any finacial loss due to his bad chancellorship ??
you are paid by the licence fee dont you think you should give us better value or are you now becoming too expensive for the nation to bear.
Desperately spotty person,
Would you please write in structured English. Did Harry Enfield invent you?
Red Despot Spotter
You are Gordon Brown, posting in cognito. Mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Please see your psychiatrist a.s.a.p. And try and see a little less of the old bottle, eh?
DLDD is a cretin. DLDD also thinks that M3/M4 measures inflation when it measures money velocity (i.e. it can double++ count).
Here's the real level of monetary inflation.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/WCURCIR
The falling pound and chines wagedemands also means we will stop importing deflation.
The number 1 cause of general cost rises in theeconomy is not the BoE it's the Government anti-productivity policies.
You have to admit he is persistant.
persistantly a nutter.
W.W.
DLDD what does your home page tout?
W.W.
Guido
Point taken my friend.
However, the world of conspiracy may be full of strange people but it does not mean it is not true, in essence at least. As I am sure you know.
Have you done any follow up on the Lionheart situation. Because this is either a storm in a tea cup or a bloody great big New Orleans type hurricane on the horizon.
@ Joseph Starling 6:24pm
I thought it was the North Minehead by-election
Just because you are paranoid, it does not mean they are not out to get you!
"The number 1 cause of general cost rises in the economy is not the BoE it's the Government anti-productivity policies."
No. Rising prices can only be caused by more money in the system. If it was a closed system where the amount of money was fixed, then prices could not rise - price of product A could only rise at the expense of product B, but in general prices could not rise. Over the past ten years we have seen prices of houses soar at perhaps three times their starting value. But we have not seen any decrease in the price of food, or fuel or other products. In fact the prices of such things have also risen - by about 4% per annum over the last ten years.
It follows that this can only happen as a result of money NOT being in a closed system, i.e. there is more money in the system now than 10 years ago. A lot more. This is possible primarily because banks are permitted to loan more "money" than they have in deposits. In fact they don't loan "money" in reality - because your bank statement is just a bank IOU - it only gets converted to real money when you go to an ATM and withdraw some cash (notice that you have to provide all sorts of ID to withdraw your own cash but only a credit card number if you want to pay for something over the phone using debt. Debt is something the bank likes to encourage. Withdrawing cash is something it doesn't want to encourage. It is you they want to discourage from withdrawing your own cash - not the crooks).
The bank IOUs are tradeable between banks so we can pretend they are real money. That is what M4 money supply measures - the amount of ALL tradeable money as cash and bank debts taken together. It is a better measure of inflation than the RPI since it measures all impact on prices including housing. The M4 money supply has trebled in the last ten years. A lot has been absorbed in property prices as the banks have compensated for the low profit they can make when interest rates are low by pushing more loans and causing house price inflation - thus the capital value of the mortgage increases. Note that whilst the bank may have given you a tradeable IOU to pay for your house - you need to repay the bank with real money. Oh, and you also need to pay the interest with real money too, of course.
In theory the banks are limited in what they can lend as digital IOUs - they have to remain within a certain ratio with respect to the deposits on their books. However, with interest rates being low the banks have been keen to find new ways around these rules and have turned to credit derivatives. What they do is package all their debt up in bundles and call it a credit derivative which they sell on to other parties. Thus they no longer have the debt on their books and can carry on lending digital IOUs willy nilly. Or they could until the market for credit derivatives suddenly dried up as people realised the risks involved in buying them.
So now the banks can't flog the credit derivatives. In fact they have had to take back some of the derivatives they had hoped to sell. Thus they are in breach of the reserve rules or close to being in breach so now they are refusing to loan out any more money. This can be seen in the M4 money supply figures which are collapsing at present as the banks refuse to offer further loans. The central banks are trying to cure this problem by lowering base rates but it is very unlikely to help - the problem is not that debt is too expensive to take on, the problem is that we are now maxed out on the debt that banks are allowed to sell. This is the source of the real credit-crunch and it is only tangentially related to the "US sub-prime" fiasco - that was merely the trigger of an inevitable maxing out of the credit boom.
Unfortunately very many companies need big bank loans just to operate - perhaps to start big new construction projects or to provide short-term finance to cover losses. With the banks failing to provide loans to these companies cash-flow problems and insolvencies will be the result. Many people will get made redundant, and many of those will get little redundancy pay.
The government has little time to sort this problem out before we hit a real and very severe recession. At the moment the government is doing the wrong things to sort it out. They are the cause of the problem and thus they are wedded to the concept of continued credit growth to drive the economy. They are wedded to an idea that has broken the economy and their shared ego will not allow them to admit this and take the necessary steps to cure it. A change of government will be required, but by then it will be far too late.
You been had! The voice over is by a white comedian I know, who is now taking bookings. Guess the Black and White Minstrels will be back next Christmas.
Bin Laden has been murdered, surely!
Unless that was also a........
Latest Bean-spin, 3 year pay-rise packages at less than 2%, yet double figure power raises, and fuel prices through the roof. He and His fiscal stupidity has got us where we are now. It is going to get very ugly indeed, because he really hasn't got a clue what to do.
Bounce - Blitz - Bollocks!
Sounds like that Carter geezer on Bolly.
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