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THE BANKER'S CAR

The Banker's car had come to a stop. He did not know why. As luck would have it, it was at the top of a hill. The banker gave the car a push, jumped in, shoved it into gear and whirred down the hill. It failed to start. Now he had a car that would not go, but at the BOTTOM of a hill. It was then he realised he had no idea how cars work.

1. Who are the real short sellers. Traders or establishment institutions that lend them the shares?

2.Strike on Syria reactor a joint spy victory: says CIA?

3.No public information culture in the uk? If you listen to american radio its chock full of public service announcements [sometimes funny] from drink driving to motivating people to take exercise to serving in the community. Why is there no such public service culture in the uk?

If you report on NATO/Georgia I do hope you remember to mention that it was Georgia who killed a couple of thousand civilians via armaments largely supplied by the West. Also did Russia contact the US before the hostilities saying what was going to happen and asking them to intervene?

I have lost count of the number of times I have seen "Titanic" used in reference to Labour. I am guessing that is not good. This is a nose dive whomever is steering.

On the economy I am interested to know how stable India, China and Russia are. If its going to take us a long while to recover then I assume if they have bubbles bursting we could all start "cross-infecting"? Hopefully not.

Is there a chance of the Colony Room Club story making it?

Lets bid for Clegg he made a lot of sense yesterday in his speech. I just hope he backs it up with well planned policies.

Can we have some good news!

More Frank Lutz ?

Goody goody goody !

Just been watching the last Frank Lutz focus group on Gordon Brown and the other names in the frame for the Labour leadership who were never given the chance to run.

Very, very revealing - I trust you will have time to play more than a few brief flashbacks in tonight's piece.

Couldn't you put some tantalising clips from that 2006 session up on the 'front page' of the website ??

Interesting just when the oil companies have milked the fatted cow so that we are now in the 7 years of lean, and that oil prices per barrel are down, when are we going to see this reflected in the pumps? Very quick to put it up but I see no movement to reduce the price.

So what do they do as the next jolly wheeze to keep the price up? Get someone to leak out that oil production has peaked and now it is a scarce product, just to keep the price at the pump and for energy high.

As now we all limit car journies-well I do- I think the oil companies and the speculators are getting the message that we can do without them. Probably the "good" news someone was asking about/ Cookieducker posting 6.

Next time Newsnight mentions Lehman's, any reporter also care to mention - even just in passing - its closeness to Al Gore and James Hansen and the whole 'climate protection' scam which enables huge profits to be made from carbon trading?
Investigative journalism, anyone?
Thought not.

I would add that it would be good to see a balanced and accurate report on the Georgia crisis, for a change, that acknowledges that Georgia attacked South Ossettia long before the world's media even clicked a mouse on this story. It was silence. But after a day's shelling of civillians and peacekeepers, running tanks over children, drowning entire families in their basements and burning elderly people to death in a church, Russia came to the AID of the South Ossettians, kicked the American backed, trained and armed troops out of South Ossettia and they had to destroy targets in Georgia to be sure of the success of the mission. Much like the USA bombing Belgrade in Serbia during the Kosovo conflict.

Russia has also stuck to it's side of the ceasefire agreements. It has NOT annexed Georgia, although it would have been very easy for them to do so. They did not even annexe the separatist regions of South Ossettia and Abkhazia. They have merely recognised their independence.

Russia has shown NO sign of expansionism at all. In fact they have said openly and clearly on many occasions that they respect the independence of Georgia and the Ukraine.

What Russia HAS done is show that they are NOT prepared to be humiliated by a hypocritical expansionist west any more.

Also I would love to see a report on the collapse of Labour to 24% to the Tories' 52%

What would the House of Commons look like if this were repeated at a general election?

STILL LIVING WITHIN THE LIE

Have you ever woken up from a bad dream, relieved to be awake, only to wake up later and realise you had been still asleep the first time?

The dream (illusion) is that money, itself, is 'OK'. Money, like school or war, is taken to be a normal adjunct of civilised man; almost god-given.

This current re-jig of 'Money' is like the first awakening INSIDE THE DREAM. We are dreaming 'they' are fixing it. But will we ever REALLY wake up, and learn to treat money with the same care as nuclear waste?

It is not difficult to list the various ills that are facilitated by, if not dependent upon, money.

...when are we going to see this reflected in the pumps? ...

when EDF have bought British Energy and announced a nuclear program?

The gas has sunk 40% but we won't see any reductions this side of winter. Nice govt we have. No storage. No two way grid which is a big business two fingers to the public.

PurpleDogzz,
What would it look like- a nightmare. You would have replaced one lot of spivs and tricksters with another lot. But never mind it is lovely to hear from an optimist.

I will remember and remind you in the next 18 years of Tory misrule.

FSA bans short selling till Jan 2009?

makes sense in what has just become international economic warfare to raid the public's purse and try to smash ordinary peoples savings.

So first we had 'A Fist Full of Dollars' [Unregulated credit], then came 'For a Few Dollars More' [commodity Boom] and now 'The Good The Bad and The Ugly' [i leave you to choose who's who'].

popcorn anyone?