25-11-2009, 07:26 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Ah, the British penchant for secrecy.
The clinging perfume to dispel the otherwise all pervading smell of illegality and corruption.
So much too for Their oft-repeated claims that free market capitalism is transparent and fair, and guarantees proper "Darwinian" competition.
Free market economics is now revealed as a Big Whopping Lie.
Presumably shareholders who made choices about buying and selling shares without knowing that the Bank of England was making massive illegal loans, and that the books of RBS and HBOS were entirely untrue (in fact, a lie), have prima facie been defrauded.
TPTB will spin this somehow so that small shareholders have no legal recourse. But this a huge pile of steaming manure.
:vollkommenauf:
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war