Value and money are created out of thin air these days on the balance of some assessment of future risk, not some current and particular asset value. The gold standard has gone the way of the Matebele ghumbo bean.
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"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.
There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
Frank Zappa
"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
Poster in CA on a forum noted that S Korea and Italy are much better at using public transportation. We with our Global Warming Cars would be better off.
Sent from my penis using wankertalk. "The Western world is fucking awesome because of mostly white men" - DaveDodo007. "Socialized medicine is just exactly as morally defensible as gassing and cooking Jews" - Seth. Yes, he really did say that.. "Seth you are a boon to this community" - Cunt. "I am seriously thinking of going on a spree killing" - Svartalf.
The latest fad is a poverty social. Every woman must wear calico,
and every man his old clothes. In addition each is fined 25 cents if
he or she does not have a patch on his or her clothing. If these
parties become a regular thing, says an exchange, won't there be
a good chance for newspaper men to shine?
The latest fad is a poverty social. Every woman must wear calico,
and every man his old clothes. In addition each is fined 25 cents if
he or she does not have a patch on his or her clothing. If these
parties become a regular thing, says an exchange, won't there be
a good chance for newspaper men to shine?
Inauguration speeches in 2017 (left) and 2009 (right)
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
The American government has not got a clue about numbers because there is no government run testing system. Most tests are carried out privately and results are not recorded and because of the pressures to keep on working many people are walking around that should be self-isolating.
Take care of yourself. This virus is after people with problems of the respiratory tract.
Thanks Nine.
Yep I am in a very vulnerable group but according to my specialist there is very little chance of getting this particular virus.
Just why is Trump just banning flights from the Schengen countries and not the UK? Punishing the EU for the UK leaving it. Another swipe at the EU his and his cronies much hated organisation? The guy is a lunatic especially after his "my uncle taught in Harvard so therefore I know this stuff" comment. He should be locked up for all our good.
‘Self isolate’ for some of world’s richest means Covid-19 tests abroad, personal medics and subterranean hideouts
Like hundreds of thousands of people across the world, the super-rich are preparing to self-isolate in the face of an escalation in the coronavirus crisis. But their plans extend far beyond stocking up on hand sanitiser and TV boxsets.
The world’s richest people are chartering private jets to set off for holiday homes or specially prepared disaster bunkers in countries that, so far, appear to have avoided the worst of the Covid-19 outbreak.
Many are understood to be taking personal doctors or nurses on their flights to treat them and their families in the event that they become infected. The wealthy are also besieging doctors in private clinics in Harley Street, London, and across the world, demanding private coronavirus tests.