LONDON -- At 8:30 local time on a mild, wet Sunday morning, Britons are busy claiming prime viewing spots along the Thames River in anticipation of the Diamond Jubilee Pageant, the highlight of which is a 1,000-boat flotilla that is not due to set off along the famous London watercourse for another six hours.
All along the 15-kilometre stretch of the Thames in central London that will be the setting for the event, onlookers are busy setting up chairs, tents, flags — and umbrellas, lots and lots of umbrellas — as a steady drizzle pours down.
Scottish Oils, a subsidiary the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (BP), started the Grangemouth Refineryin 1924. In addition to the large accessible areas of reclaimed flat land, the adjacent docks made the location ideal as it supported crude oils imported by ship from the Middle East.
And, no, the refinery is not on fire, just lit by the occasional sunset.
The Blue Marlin, a heavy lift transport vessel owned by Dockwise Shipping, is here carrying a cargo of 18 riverboats and a few massive pontoons made in China.
$15 TRILLION is equivalent to the the federal debt of the U.S. Treasury Department. Lord James of Blackheath has spoken in the House of Lords holding evidence of three transactions of 5 Trillion each and a transaction of 750,000 metric tonnes of gold and has called for an investigation.
I think there are three possible conclusions that may come from it. I think there may have been a massive piece of money laundering committed by a major government which ought to know better and that it has effectively undermined the integrity of the British bank the Royal Bank of Scotland, in doing so. The second alternative is that a major American department has an agency that has gone rogue on it because it has been wound up and has created a structure out of which they are seeking to get at least 50 billion Euros as a payoff. And the third possibility is that this is an extraordinarily elaborate fraud which has not been carried out but which has been prepared in order to provide a threat to one government or more if they don’t pay them off. So there are three possibilities and this all needs a very urgent review.
My Lords, it starts in April and May of 2009, with the alleged transfer to the United Kingdom, to HSBC of a sum of 5 trillion dollars and seven days later, in comes another 5 trillion dollars to HSBC, and then 3 weeks later another 5 trillion. 5 trillion in each case. Sorry. A total of 15 trillion dollars is alleged to have been passed into the hands of HSBC for onward transit to the Royal Bank of Scotland and we need to look at where this came from and what the history of this money is. And I have been trying to sort out the sequence by which this money has been created and from where it has come from for a long time.
Like the U.S President Ronald Reagan, her conservative counterpart, Margaret Thatcher came to power at a time when real leadership and new ideas were desperately needed.
A satirical look at the most significant events of 2011: fall of Gaddafi, the death of Bin Laden and the final issue of News of the World e.g. – by BBC’s Charlie Brooker.
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Apple's tax strategies came under harsh scrutiny Tuesday in the Senate, where lawmakers are finding it far easier to call for a simpler tax code than to produce one.
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South Africa's currency stumbled to a four-year low and the country's bonds sold off, signs that escalating labor unrest is starting to outweigh the lure of high yields for many investors.
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