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Friday, 3 June 2016

LAND REGISTRY SOLD TO HEDGE-FUND




UK Land Registry – Cayman Limited
A subsidiary of Zurich & Delaware Hedge Funds Inc.
(incorporated under Malaysian law)
C/O Price Waterhouse Coopers, London







26 June 2016.
Mr & Mrs Smith,
26 Acacia Avenue,
Wigglesworth, Staffs. UK


Registry Number UK356782HJ DED

Dear Sir and Madam,

We regret to inform you that our review of all UK title deeds proves a prior claim to your property by Osborne, Cameron, Javid, Evictions  Jersey  LLP, and we have accordingly re- registered 26 Acacia Avenue to this company.  The owners plan to redevelop the area and will be issuing you a Notice to Quit within 7 days.

Should you wish to query this change to the Register, you may write to PWC, London, by registered post, by 6pm 27th June 2016, who will re-examine the ownership documents for a fee of £10,000.

Alternatively you are entitled to launch a counterclaim against our agents in the Court of Bermuda, for which you will need to pay front end legal fees of £1 million.

Yours faithfully,

Imatotalbastard

UK Land Registry – Cayman Limited.


Tuesday, 12 January 2016

UK SABOTAGES THE BEST HEALTH SERVICE IN THE WORLD

Communist Plot - Bleeding Heart Leftist Liberal Doctors refuse
to work more than 90 hours a week. 
UPDATE 24 MARCH 2016.

UK Hospital doctors announce more strikes - in April 2016. 


Following fast on the heels of Ivy League UK Chancellor George Osborne's budget campaign to "Kick A Cripple", designed to take £1 Billion from the mobility allowances of cripples - and give it to his pals in the richest sector of society - comes the announcement that UK Government insists on imposing an onerous and unsafe contract to force hospital doctors to work even longer hours, at normal day rates, to meet Tory Party demands for a 24 hour, 7 days a week service, without increased staff. Most doctors already work 90 hours a week, for less pay than a plumber or train driver - and far less than an airline pilot or Member of Parliament. Many services are now running on half-staff. Millions are being squandered on emergency medical temporary staff recruitment, costing 3 times normal salary, to plug gaps. Doctors claim that this under-manning and overworking brings real dangers for patients and medical staff alike.

HM Government has suspended negotiations and talks - presuming that the 30,000 young doctors, with mortgages and families to pay for, will have to cave in - and sign the contract. If not, many Tories will be delighted to invite US Health Insurance giants to step in - at any price - and wreck the NHS.

As America at last embraces a civilized health system (below) - in a nation bamboozled into paying twice the costs of all other OECD nations' health services - UK capitalists are upping their war on our National Health Service - trying to destabilize it, get their sticky fat fingers on the taxpayers £120 billion health budget - and sell the profitable parts off to private interests - leaving an impoverished, under-staffed rump to serve the vast majority of low and middle-earners.

Posh boy, Old Etonian, George Osborne, two days after announcing his Kick a Cripple campaign had to beat a hasty and apologetic retreat - as at last some "compassionate Conservatives" kicked up a major rebellion and kicked his mean, bullying budget into touch. Here's hoping that posh boy, minor aristocrat, Ivy League, Old Etonian, health-minister Hunt will have to back down on his "Work Doctors to Death Decree".

See below what the American system means for ordinary folk - when the insurance industry pulls the "pre-existing condition" scam.

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12  January 2016: All the 30,000 hospital doctors in England are on strike today; with the full support of all medical consultants, nurses and medical staff. This unprecedented strike is part of the Conservative Government's plot to disrupt the NHS (national health service), create chaos, break it up and hive off the profitable parts to their City & Wall Street chums in The Free Markets - who will charge double the price and pocket the profits - as happens in the USA.

The partial strike means that about 12% of procedures - emergency and planned - will be delayed until tomorrow.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/live/2016/jan/12/junior-doctors-strike-in-england-live-updates

The supposed crunch point in the breakdown between the Conservatives and the NHS is the insistence of the Secretary of Health, ivy league rich-boy Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt, who has made a mess of all his government jobs, that hospital doctors must be on duty for more than their current 90 hours a week   - for far less pay. The doctors are already over-stressed, get little sleep, neglect their families and are paid less than a train driver, or a plumber, and half as much as a Member of Parliament.

Old Etonian & Oxbridge slave-driver Hunt schemes to freeload on the doctors' goodwill towards patients, to whip them into even longer hours, with fewer resources and less salary. The BMA (British Medical Association) says that piling even more work onto the doctors is dangerous for patient care; and the BMA, one of the most conservative organisations in the world, fully backs the doctors. Scotland and Wales have made new agreed contracts with their NHS doctors. Many English doctors are emigrating to Australasia, Canada and America - which suits Hunt's scheme, as the NHS will have to lure in sub-contract temporary medics at ludicrously high Free Market prices - from the private sector.

Why is Hunt attacking the NHS? He is driven by his, and his pals', monetarist and free market ideology. His previous failed attempt to wreck one of the world's greatest public services was as Minister of Kulture - when he attacked the BBC and attempted to sell it off, in bits, to Rupert Murdoch's empire.

(Also today - a singer-actor called David Bowie or Stiggy Stardust died aged 69, occupying about a third of all UK media space; and President Obama will make his last State of the Union speech. Oh... and by the by - North Korea has got nuclear bombs).

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23 MARCH 2016 

"Pre-Existing Condition" - Catch-22 that pours billions into US corporate profits.

Today marks the sixth anniversary of President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act into law -- making health care more accessible and affordable than ever before for millions of Americans.

But the GOP has opposed Obamacare since day one, and repealing it remains their top priority. We can't let that happen. Let Republicans know Obamacare is here to stay.

Noel --

Six years ago today, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law.

For me, it couldn't have been more personal. As a breast cancer survivor, I thought of all the women who would now have the peace of mind of knowing they would be able to afford treatment and wouldn't be turned away down the road for having a pre-existing condition. As a mother, I thought of my children, and breathed a sigh of relief that they could go out into the world without worrying about whether they will be able to get the care they need.

And today, the Affordable Care Act is no longer a law to be debated -- it is woven into our daily lives and how we care for each other as Americans. And even though the GOP is as committed as ever to repealing this law that has helped so many, the cracks in their opposition are starting to show. Not one of the Republican candidates for president has offered any sort of real alternative for Obamacare -- and the American people aren't going to let that slide.

The direction that most Americans want to go is the way that Democrats have taken them. There is no better example of that than the achievement of health care reform.

So to celebrate this anniversary, add your name and commit to continuing this progress by electing Democrats who understand just how important this is:

http://my.democrats.org/Six-Years-of-Obamacare

Thanks for all your help, Noel. We truly wouldn't be here without you.

Debbie

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Chair
Democratic National Committee


Monday, 14 December 2015

SUNEDISON's ENRON MOMENT

SUNEDISON - Share Price - 2015.
I bought SUNEDISON (Nasdaq SUNE) in June 2015, on the basis that it is the "largest green energy provider in America and leads in solar technology". The shares promptly fell 77%, leaving me with a meagre 23% with which to buy my family's Christmas feast.

I know that "Shares can go down as well as up" and "let the buyer beware" and I am not ordinarily a bad loser - but even with the benefit of 50 years business and accountancy experience, I cannot fathom why, as the world goes Green, SUNEDISON has suddenly, unexpectedly lost so much value as to be tipped by some journalists as heading rapidly for bankruptcy. The alleged reasons cited for the decline and fall were all in place a year or more ago - and yet the price held up and professional investors held on.

STOP PRESS 15 DEC 2015 - And here is another major Green company collapse; this one, ABENGOA, actually liquidated in Spain - foreseen a year ago by a schoolboy doing an economics essay - but not by S & P, the company directors or by auditors Deloitte until November 2015. Or, did they know and are they simply misleading investors. I wonder what "rewards" these corporate officers have gouged out? Or, is this the revenge of the oil and coal industries?

And now, ironically, as the SUNEDISON shares falter and die, we have THE PARIS ACCORD that portends the end of fossil fuel energy and the mercurial rise of green energy - including SUNEDISON'S solar technologies. But there is no bounce. No Wall Street rush to buy at the lowest price ever. So I looked further - specifically at the Directors of this benighted largely offshore group. I looked at the Auditors, who warned of no such collapse. I looked at the Lawyers, who gave no signals of impending doom. I looked at the brokers, bankers and senior managers - who knew and know nothing.

...And I started to think "ENRON". Another "complex" multinational mostly-offshore energy group that dazzled then bamboozled The Free Markets before imploding like an old tired wrinkled party balloon. From decades of hands-on audit experience, I have learned that in accountancy "complex" almost always means "bent" and usually involves two sets of "complex" books being kept to baffle the professionals - the auditors, lawyers, bankers, brokers and non-executive directors. So  ...keeping Enron in mind I have just checked what rewards this near-bankrupt, huge NYSE approved conglomerate gave to its CEO last year, as the balloon was sagging.

Ahmad Chatila - Salary.com

www1.salary.com/Ahmad-Chatila-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Options-for-SUN...

As President and Chief Executive Officer at SUNEDISON INC, Ahmad Chatila made$7,707,079 in total compensation. Of this total $836,538 was received as a salary, $1,521,000 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $5,343,000 was awarded as stock and $6,541 came from other types of compensation.

....And I found that the top man rewarded himself with a cool $7.7 million (onshore or offshore?), like winning The National Lottery seven times over - as his company was sinking into the swamp of unforeseen debt, dishonor and dismemberment - all of course too "complex" for skilled highly-paid auditors, lawyers, bankers, brokers, professional investors etc to be expected to see coming or to comprehend.

While I explain to my Christmas family, wearing finger gloves over a guttering candle, why we have turned off the heat and are celebrating with dried crusts and water; it would be reassuring to see a statement from the directors saying that SUNEDISON will recover, that its assets are actually good, that The Markets have got it wrong, that they, the directors, have got their eyes on the ball, that they are doing the job they are so well paid to do. Or failing the directors stepping up - maybe the auditors will say how valuable the company is. Or as a last resort the NYSE will give "America's largest green energy company" the green light.

Or ...miserably for shareholders - the CEO and the professionals will hand back their past few years premature rewards - to pay the liquidators fees.

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

DEATH TO THE BBC


20 April 2017 - Whittingdale & Murdoch plan to flog the BBC.

12 December 2015. Keep the BBC safe from the Tory government "Free Market" saboteurs.

Photo of David Attenborough



21 Sep 2015 - Murdoch defaming the BBC - Dimbleby

21 Sep 2015 - BBC leads world broadcasting - Nordic TV




"DISMEMBER THE BBC" - UK Ministry of Kulture

Addressing exultant crowds of cheering multimedia moguls and workers and millions of British Hardworking Families, Free Market zealot, John Whittingdale OBE MP, UK Minister for Culture, who heads the extreme far-right 1922 Committee of the Tory Party, announced today that all BBC programmes - radio and television - are to be legally forced to embrace Free Market principles by including a minimum of 20 minutes of commercial advertising in every hour of broadcast.

13 April 2016 - Oh Dear! Mr Whittingdale. A media sting catches minister.

THE EVIL BBC LONDON
LAST BASTION OF COMMUNISM
"It is entirely unfair, undemocratic and anti-competitive that genuine, hardworking commercial broadcasters have to interrupt their shows with advertisements, while the BBC does not. This loophole in British broadcasting law allows the ordinary common people, who are forced to pay a tithe to the BBC under threat of death, to avoid fully engaging with the consumer service society, which is the lifeblood of this great nation."

Whittingdale complained that it is unsurprising that advert free shows such as the globally popular BBC Strictly Come Dancing outshine all competing shows from commercially constrained media; who undoubtedly thought of such formats first - because Free Market organisations are of course infinitely more creative than quasi-civil-servant types at the BBC - but the immensely talented free commercial artists were prevented by mystical and mysterious market forces from developing their ideas.

Whittingdale, tightly clasping the expensive hand of The BBC Trust Chairwoman, Rona Fairhead, HSBC's part-time £500K per year Head of Audit and Swiss-Mexican-tax-evasion-and-drug-money-laundering Watchdog, continued "Your government will henceforth ensure that every UK Subject, every man, woman and child, will find no escape from their duty to hear, watch and absorb the vital messages emanating freely from this nation's and the free world's greatest businesses."

FAIRHEAD "I'M NOT PAID ENOUGH  BY HSBC
TO LOOK FOR MONEY LAUNDERING."
"Rona and I, and your democratically elected government, are as one on this root and branch reform of the evil BBC socialist empire, which is an ever growing challenge to and stain on the astringent, clean and medically proven Global Free Markets. To police this new law, which takes effect immediately, we, your superior governors, have hired the services, through an offshore tax-free 50 year contract, of our very good mutual friend and long standing media mogul Rebekah Brooks, who has the full inter-galactic support of our Mighty Lord of  Media Marketing, His Free-Market Topless-Page-Three Magnificence, His Divine Holiness, Rupert Murdoch"

(Whittingdale and Fairhead here knelt and bowed their heads in reverent silent obeisance.)

WHITTINGDALE "THE BBC DOES NOT SHARE
OUR TRUE BRITISH VALUES"
The great Free-Market shining knight continued: "...Dear Rebekah, on whom The Sun never sets,  recently absolved and exonerated by the highest courts in this Free Market land, of any knowledge of The News of The World illegal phone hacking scandals, as she was clearly too busy as CEO to know what her plebeian basement underlings were doing to obtain their Free Market, socially vital, publicly necessary stories of celebrity sex lives, will henceforth have power of veto, before broadcast, of all BBC output...  All BBC lies and slanders against my Conservative Party, your laudable government, will be silenced forever! " Whittingdale paused to let the popular applause die down, then continued  "And, she will have the sole irrevocable responsibility to ensure that the 20 minutes advertising per broadcast  hour rule is strictly adhered to".

"Finally..." Whittingdale said   "...This conversion of the BBC to the Holy Free Market Religion, will free all British people from the terrible burden, borne so bravely for nearly 100 years, of the BBC Licence Fee."

Here, the crowds surged inexorably forward up Whitehall in ecstasy and carried John Whittingdale aloft, up and away to heavenly realms, reserved exclusively for noble Free Market Ideologues, where every sort of delightful advertisement will be transmitted wirelessly and unstoppably, twenty-four-seven, directly into his brain - and where every exalted member is endlessly caressed by seventy-two virtual virgins of his or her choice.


Thursday, 4 October 2012

YOUNG DRIVERS - BULLSHIT BAFFLES BRAINS


Letter to BBC Radio 4 -PM News - 4 OCT 2012.


 

BBC News today is broadcasting alarmist statistics about 17 to 25 year olds dying in cars. The insurance industry uses the alarm to justify the very high premiums imposed on young drivers. Health and Safety promoters want to ban this age group after 11pm. If you are remotely interested in reality – read on:



IN THE UK:

99.95% of all 59.5 billion annual road “trips” are safe. Road accidents are probably as minimal as they can be – other than banning all travel and keeping us all indoors.

17 to 24 year olds inclusive, an 8 years range, are 10% of drivers. They have 10% of the accidents; no more or less than other groups.

It is particularly upsetting when youngsters are permanently injured, but other groups of drivers are just as safe or dangerous.

The basic fault is that Driving Lessons do not include fast driving in adverse conditions – such experience on skid-pans, darkness, rain, gales, fog and ice should be mandatory.  Kids need to be frightened into realising the physical hurt that real crashes cause and that they are not in computer games.

There are 3,200 deaths a year on our roads – 61 each week; and 656 serious injuries a week; half are drunken pedestrians, some are from natural causes such as heart attacks – out of 1.1 billion safe trips per week.

Imposing curfews on 10% of drivers – about 3 million people – is wholly disproportionate to the few lunk-heads who crash their cars.

Life is risky. 

(I am a 69 year old driver, 1.1 million miles, with no crashes and I’d like 10% of drivers banned to clear the roads I use. But I cannot sit by and listen to bullshit statistics – for Heaven’s Sake BBC – learn to count and give the news with proper perspective)  

Yours statistically

Noel Hodson, Oxford