Bijou Drains
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Sadly, in my family, you wouldn’t have to travel 500 miles to find a cousin who’s a chimpanzee, I’ve got several just like that, who live in Byker.
My sister did the family DNA thing, and to nobody’s great surprise, I come from a long line of work shy scum, who amounted to nothing. Glad to say, I’m keeping up the family tradition.
Payment in dollars does in effect impact on trade, trading in dollars makes purchase of US goods easier for oil rich countries trying to spend their cash. Also many Sovereign Wealth Funds are happy to invest their funds in US government bonds, which keeps interest rates on US bonds at lower rates. US debt is now at about $33 trillion, if that was to cost them even 0.1% more in interest, that’s a lot of money.
Iran fully rejoining the world oil market would weaken the economic position of Saudi Arabia and would possibly re ignite the debate about oil trading in dollars. The current moves between the EU and Russia to trade using the INSTEX system are outlined here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_in_Support_of_Trade_Exchanges
https://www.ft.com/content/3aa3e7ee-a8b7-11e9-984c-fac8325aaa04
The dollar has served as the world’s reserve currency since the end of WW2 the impact of this on the US economy is that effectively it has acted as a kind of subsidy to the U.S. government and to American business. Foreign governments and central banks are more likely to buy U.S. government debt, which allows the U.S. government to borrow infrastructure money with a lower interest rate.
Saddam Hussein was trying to move to a system of using the Euro to trade oil, which clearly didn’t buy him any favours in Washington
Seems strange that Trumps should imply that those who complain about should return to “the totally broken and crime-infested places from which the came from”, considering how much he complained about what was going on in the USA before he was President and the fact that the Wikipedia entry on his mother states:
” Mary Anne MacLeod was born in a Pebble dash Croft house owned by her father since 1895 in Tong on the Isle of Lewis. Local Historians and genealogists have described properties in this community at the time as “indescribably filthy” and characterised by “human wretchedness”.
Presumably because of its electronic format it would make a fairly obvious target for anyone trying to destabilise currencies and or effectively forge large amounts of money. Although I’m sure the good people at Facebook will assure us that the encryption system is beyond hacking, there is always a smarter geek just around the corner, or tucked away in North Korea.
Interesting to see what governmental responses are to this in terms of money laundering. There have been raids on Bureaux de Changes across the UK this week and currency exchange is reported as being a key weakness in combating money laundering.
It would seem that this service would be one which might be targeted by money launderers. Of course Facebook wouldn’t wish to profit from any of this, Facebook has such a strong ethical base to its operation, with Nick Clegg as head of global affairs, who could doubt their honesty and reliability?
” the first money in the world that is not backed by a sovereign or a sovereign state”
The author clearly has not read up on the history of money, merchant backed promissory notes in 11th Century China, being just on example of money that wasn’t backed by the sovereign or the state,
Just struck me Birdy boy, this whole hatred of Engles, it isn’t [art of that Manchester Liverpool thing, is it?
The difficulty with weed is that the active element is difficult to judge. More potent strains have been marketed over the last few years.
To make an analogy there is a big difference between the impact of drinking a couple of pints of 1970’s mild ale and drinking half a bottle of turps. Both are alcohol, but the impact is very different.
I would advise that your friend seeks medical help, or at least some form of support from professional/mental health/self help bodies. Psychotic episodes (which you appear to be describing) seldom end well and can lead to very serious long term mental health issues. I would have thought it is unlikely to be a brain tumour. I would also investigate if has a history of illicit drug use, this may also be a factor.
The fact that the author thinks Margate is in Holland leads me to question the level of research he has actually carried out!
It’s a bit like the poem about Scotland that Boris has got himself in trouble with, which talks about refortifying Hadrian’s Wall (which is entirely in England, by the way). It is a bit worrying that a former foreign secretary hasn’t got the basic geographical facts right about the country he lives in.
I find taking the piss out of them works quite well.
Ridicule the fact that they take an anti science stance whilst happily using their science based iPhones and web sites.
Call them hypocrites who denounce science but reach for the medicine cabinet as soon as they get a cough or a cold.
Ask them why they don’t trust conventional science but are happy to rely on it when they are being thrust through the air at hundreds of miles an hour in aircraft that rely on the findings of that science.
The problem with these types of fuck wits is that they cherry pick the science they disregard. They will denounce vaccination but if they get cancer or another serious health condition they are quick to return to conventional medicine.
A good technique borrowed from work carried out with people who have paranoid personality issues is reality testing. Test out acknowledged facts that you and they both share and then develop the themes.
In line with this I ask them about the mechanics of their so called conspiracy theories. If the conspiracy theory involves all palaeontologists, all of the people working in medical research, all of the people in all of the areas of science they think are being manipulated it is a conspiracy involving a considerable proportion of the world’s population, how do all of those people get involved in such a wide spread conspiracy, who pays them and coordinates them, and also if there are that many people involved it’s not really a conspiracy, is it.
Also if these all powerful sources are involved in such a wide spread conspiracy, how come they don’t have the power to shut down the kind of pissy little websites run by a spotty loner in some god forsaken mid west town, which is usually the source of these conspiracy theories.
If you really want to screw with their minds tell them that all of these conspiracy theories are being created as a smoke screen for the real conspiracy and then tap your nose in a knowing fashion.
