Malcolm Robinson

Merlin, Here is the link............ http://committees.no...d=public&arc=71 If you can't make it but want to comment I will hand it to the chair on the night.............

Are you talking about sniffing the head off a Guinness Pete?

There is an update at the SE Area Meeting next week Merlin. Its at the Isabella in Blyth and actually talks about the possible Puffin crossing on Ridge Terrace but we got the whole issue of parking and the school entrance included so that should be updated as well.

Can't wait Brian, I believe you might have said first round is on you!!!!!!!!!!

We could act under Article 61 of the Magna Carta! Under article 61 of Magna Carta 1215 AD we have a right to enter into lawful rebellion if we feel we are being governed unjustly. I think we have to petition the monarch first but if nothing to correct it occurs within 40 days we can start to act in ways which would probably be deemed unlawful but under constitutional law we certainly have the right if not the duty to do! Before anyone says there isn't an Article 61 it is only a common usage term for the whole document.

Merci Mille fois et bonjour a tous………… After breaking down in the car yesterday, walking back to Bedlington from Hartford, and being underneath it at 6.30am today, taking off a bust high pressure fuel pump so I could get the numbers to order a new one, you guys have put a smile on my chops again! Thanks.

Here is an interesting snippet…………the Fed handed over 1.2 trillion to financial institutions and basically hid the transactions. They only came to light, Aug 22nd, after Bloomberg News lengthy battle for disclosure. This wasn’t part of the 16.1 trillion the Fed handed over to US and foreign financial institutions between 2007-2010 and neither is it part of the 2 trillion QE programme, nor is it part of the 700 billion Tarps programme. So basically it was money ‘diverted’ into top flight world financial institutions to keep them afloat! The lists read like a who’s who in banking. To list a few……. Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America, State Street, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, even Countrywide Financial got in on the act. More interestingly for me is the fact that European banks accounted for about 50% of the book and the biggest borrower….RBS! Others included, UBS, Dexia, French Société Générale, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, and Crédit Suisse. Now it could be argued that they were merely borrowing at best rate because the disclosed annual interest payments of around 13 billion represents a rate of around 1%! Or it could be that without this ‘injection’ they would have gone to the wall and taken the rest of the sector with them. One thing is for sure taxpayers are well and truly on the hook for larger than admitted liabilities!

Can't say I blame them Pete. However at the end of the day it's our blooming heritage! After a long chat with the company there is one hell of a bill to pay to get them finished off and back up here! BTW, thanks for the tip you short circuited loads of waffle from various other bodies!

Pete, Thanks very much..........I have now tracked them down.

Yet another............ http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ex-mp-faces-21-expenses-charges-102827714.html

Pete, Tenacious investigative journalism at its best, well done for sticking doggedly at this subject. Now, care to turn your talents at what is an invidious thorny issue, where are our blooming Hartford Hall gates!!!!!!!!! Actually they might be closer to you than us!

We could expect to see Greece exit the Euro within days if not a week or two looking at German pronouncements post Pomeranian election results. Germany now seems to be insisting on its own bailout terms for Club Med with failure to hit imposed austerity measures cancelling any new loans. I always thought Italy would be the one to break the Euro it now looks likely Germany could for what are paradoxically similar reasons yet seemingly the inverse. I would expect more and more Euro politicians to start and play to their own nation interests in the hope of remaining in power!

Yet another interesting graph, this time showing the influx of cash assets into Uncle SAM from...........probably EU banks diving for cover!

Riddle of the Day: Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one. Michael J. Fox has a small one. Madonna doesn't have one. The Pope has one but doesn't use it. Clinton uses his all the time. Obama is one. Mickey Mouse has an unusual one. Liberace never used his on women.. Jerry Seinfeld is very, very proud of his. Cher claims that she took on 3. We never saw Lucy use Desi's. What is it? The answer is: ' A Last Name.'

Well if everyone is of the same opinion why not take the next step and actually try and do something about it? All anyone has to do is join a community group which is committed to tackling this stuff head on. Good start would be: Friends of Gallagher Park, meeting at East Bedlington Residents Association, 6.30pm Monday 5th September. And/or Bedlington Forum, meeting at the Salvation Army building, 6.30pm, Tuesday 6th September.

Foxy, that might have induced another one of Merlin’s most loved quangos, the Race Relations Board! With travellers now invoking UN anti ethnic cleansing clauses in a bid to stop them being moved on maybe it’s time the sane majority invoked some of their own too and got rid of the worst excesses of Political Correctness with a lot of HSE top of the list!