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A silent $1 trillion "Run on Britain" by foreign investors was revealed yesterday in the latest statistical releases from the Bank of England. The external liabilities of banks operating in the UK – that is monies held in the UK on behalf of foreign investors – fell by $1 trillion (£700bn) between the spring and the end of 2008, representing a huge loss of funds and of confidence in the City of London. Some $597.5bn was lost to the banks in the last quarter of last year alone, after a modest positive inflow in the summer, but a massive $682.5bn haemorrhaged in the second quarter of 2008 – a record. About 15 per cent of the monies held by foreigners in the UK were withd…

Spotify chiefs have warned users that the service has been hacked - with a group potentially gaining access to users' details including their email address, birth date, gender, postal code and billing receipt details. In a Spotify blog they assured users that credit card details would not have been exposed, as they were stored by a third party, but urged anyone who had signed up to the service before December 19 last year, and had not changed their password since, to change their password to thwart the hackers. The Spotify chiefs signed off by issuing an apology to their users. "We are really sorry about this and hope you accept our apologies," they wrote. They a…

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5014F120090102 U.S. governors seek $1 trillion federal assistance Corzine said the money called for represents about 3 percent to 3.5 percent of the economy, equivalent to the amount that the economy is expected to contract by over the next two quarters. In light of the $700 billion provided to bail out the financial industry, "It's not shockingly large," he said.

Canada is coming to terms with one of the worst murders in its history as police seek to explain why a young man was decapitated by his neighbour on a Greyhound bus. The man suspected of the gruesome attack on Tim McLean, a 22-year-old fairground worker, was charged with murder today. Mr McLean was travelling home to Winnepeg when he was stabbed up to 50 times by the man sitting next to him. Vince Weiguang Li, 40, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Thursday morning after a stand-off lasting several hours. He remained in police custody today. Witnesses say they heard no conversation between Mr McLean and his attacker before a “blood curdling” scream was…

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street has turned the clock back to 1997. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since May 7, 1997, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1997. It's as if the decade's dot-com surge, collapse and subsequent recovery never occurred. The Dow is just over 100 points from 7,000. Both indexes have lost about half their value since hitting record highs in October 2007. "People left and right are throwing in the towel," said Keith Springer, president of Capi…

The G20 Push to "Supersize" the IMF William F. Jasper | The New American 06 March 2009 The big push to “supersize” and transform the International Monetary Fund (IMF) into a global Federal Reserve System has been developing in elite political and economic circles for months. The campaign is now intensifying in the final weeks leading up to the London Group of Twenty (G20) Summit in April. Op-eds in major newspapers, speeches by leading politicians, and papers and roundtables by globalist think tanks are all pushing the same ideas, to wit: 1) The IMF should be given huge new infusions of capital through member country “subscriptions.” 2) The IMF should be en…

Married couples are in a minority for the first time since records began as fewer people choose to tie the knot, new figures indicate. They showed that couples are less likely to get married now than ever before, with the number of weddings at a 100-year low. The marriage rate, a more accurate guide to the long-term trend, also fell sharply to a record low in 2007. Experts say that since the number of marriages is closely tied to the fortunes of the economy the proportion of married couples is likely to shrink even further in 2009. Only one in 50 single women now marries each year, and only one in 43 single men. Those are the lowest marriage rates since they w…

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He created the rom-zom-com with 'Shaun of the Dead' and breathed new life into British comedy movies. Can he repeat that success with 'Hot Fuzz'? Jonathan Ross once remarked that Simon Pegg had a "head like a tennis ball". The description of his close-cropped yellow fuzz, complemented by fashionably unshaven cheeks on a perfectly spherical bonce was so accurate that it made me laugh out loud. Strange to relate, Pegg, whose stock-in-trade is making people laugh at him, was not amused. Not that it matters. Pegg's career has been on an upward trajectory since the 1999 cult television sitcom Spaced. It was the moment when all the elements that had been floating around…

this is making me angry actually...the Cologne city archive collapsed suddenly yesterday...so far there are "only" 2 people missing...many many important historical documents are being destroyed...some blame it on the subway company who is building a new subway in that area...I can't really explain it in english...so here are some articles if anyone's interested. I just can't believe it, because it was one of the biggest archives north of the alps...and I live in Bonn which is near Cologne... http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4070603,00.html http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4071595,00.html http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4072655,00.html?maca=en-koeln-…

They stand knee-deep in Danielle Steels, Len Deightons and even the odd Jeffery Archer, rummaging around in the reading matter. Strewn across the floor of the drafty warehouse are thousands and thousands of books, ranging from well-thumbed paperback novels to musty hardback technical manuals, faux-leather bound poetry collections, 1970s cook books and long-outdated sports almanacs. Many are a little dog-eared or have yellowing pages. But this does not deter the army of foragers who have descended on the 56,000 sq ft premises. For the books are being given away after the warehouse was abandoned by its owners, and the lure of acquiring a free, instant library is …

What's wrong with white men? In search of an explanation by Kevin MacDonald In my previous column, I attempted to analyze two important sex differences in political behavior: Women’s tendency to be attracted to wealthy, powerful men, and women’s relatively greater attraction to close relationships, empathy, and nurturance. These differences make women less likely to be attracted to white racialist movements given the current political context. But these differences are not the main cause of our malaise. A correspondent writing to me about my last column said that I should ask why white men are such wimps that they are basically lying down and allowing themselves to…

People, who just cant act. Full stop... I dont mean just a couple of weak performances, people who are so bad at it, you really do feel sorry for them because theyre born with this horrible defect. Keanu Reeves is a joke. He fits as the lead role in the Matrix, and he can make a confused look, but he still sucks. Whenever he opens his mouth and says something, you dont believe him. But at least hes better than ASHTON KUTCHER. Whos really awful. He's a good comedy actor, he was funny in the 70's show thang, but his first attempt at something dramatic- The Butterfly Effect- was terrible terrible acting. He was also really cheesy in that movie he did with that BIG T…

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Human beings are a predictable bunch and we tend to wait until things get to a painful crisis mode before taking drastic action. My question is why does it always have to get to that point? Take the most recent run-up of oil prices, when crude hit $147 a barrel and gasoline was trading around $5. As prices reached nosebleed levels, the general public was in a great deal of pain and they acted accordingly. There was an outcry for more alternatives, more refineries, conservation, infrastructure investment etc. Everything from clean-coal technology to nuclear was on the table. Fast forward to today, with crude prices at around $38 and gas bac…

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Ok so I can't download anything new onto my computer! :( It says there's no room :confused: And my computer keeps telling me my start up disk is full and to delete stuff, but I don't know what it wants me to delete. I'm confused. Can anyone help me?

SOME of ITV’s best-known programmes, including The South Bank Show and Sharpe, the Napoleonic war drama, are facing significant cutbacks or cancellation because of a slump in the broadcaster’s revenue. Prestigious costume dramas are likely to be the biggest victim of the funding crisis, which could mean ITV announcing up to 500 job losses. Presenting the broadcaster’s annual results on Wednesday, Michael Grade, the executive chairman, is expected to reveal a marked fall in profits, a huge debt and the prospect of dwindling advertising income in the coming year. Insiders believe that ITV’s £1 billion programming budget will be cut by about 3%, or £30m, during 2009 …

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The pilots of a Turkish Airlines jet that crashed at Amsterdam airport today were among nine people killed in the disaster, it has emerged. At least 84 passengers were injured, six of them critically and 25 severely, when the Boeing 737-800 smashed into a ploughed field three miles short of Schiphol airport. "There are still three crew members in the cabin. I'm sorry to say that they are dead," said one of the investigators, at a press conference at Schiphol. "We are leaving them there because we have to investigate the cockpit before we take the cockpit apart." The pilots may have been killed by the nose wheel being forced up into the cockpit during the v…

Increase in military spending and more of the same policy...How is he different then Bush? BTW he's planning on leaving 40,000 to 50,000 troops in Iraq long term...more change.... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FptGQrqxZVw]YouTube - The Obama Fraud: An Open Video to Barack Obama Supporters[/ame]

Lindi St Clair, pictured in 1989, was a well-known figure in the 1980s Well-known former brothel keeper Lindi St Clair has been rescued after being trapped upside down in her car in a river for almost 24 hours. Ms St Clair, known as Miss Whiplash, left the road near the village of Risbury in Herefordshire and apparently went 15ft (4.5m) down an embankment. The alarm was raised at about 1500 GMT on Friday and the operation to rescue the 57-year-old took nearly two hours. She was conscious when found and has been flown to hospital. Her condition is not known but it is believed she was suffering from hypothermia and serious multiple injuries. Duck farm…

I love animation and was just curious what everyone's favorite animated movie is(if any)? My favorites are: Spirited Away(HIGHLY recommended) Ice Age The Little Mermaid Beauty & The Beast The Emperor's New Groove(very funny) that's all I can think of at the moment. :)

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Apparently she's considering having her death filmed if it will help give her a children a secure future, financially speaking. Please, no, like seriously, no.

during these days I've been three times to contemplate Brian Eno's paintings&sounds artwork called Presentism, it's hypnotic and alive!:flutterby: if you've never see it come to Rome-Palazzo Ruspoli ! or try to find out on the web! as soon as I can I will post some pictures! hugs V