Hansard: Did somebody just try to buy the British government?

[Backatcha Bandit]

And just to add my own bit of groundless speculation as to where such funds as described by the noble Lord might originate...

Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment capital" available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims

Also: http://www.crawfordstake.com/2010/01/afghan-war-opium-and-djia-2009-chart.html

 

[kyser_soze]

the entire media works on that shit stoaty, I;ve not seen the video you refer to, as I'm at work and have no sound, but there are many ways to enhance what you say, with body movements. It's a type of hypnosis if you like, but not, IYSWIM. More NLP than hypnosis, but it's effective. As any speaker will tell you.

You're thinking of non-directional Ericsonian hypnosis incorporating NLP - aka rhetoric, vocal pitch, tone & cadence & body movement.

 

[ExtraRefined]

The men in white coats are in David James's near future, one suspects

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/02/22/892601/urgent-sovereign-action-required/

 

[elbows]

Well spotted. Well there is a pattern there, not that it usually leads to men in white coats when you are that age. At least he hasn't got kids to freak out about the prospects of daddy giving the family fortune to conmen.

The Indy picked up on it:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...or-root-n-branch-change-on-trees-7439892.html

David James was a City businessman commissioned by the Tories, in opposition, to report on ways of eliminating government waste. Last week, the 74-year-old peer was exercised about a story he has picked up that $15trn – that is $15,000,000,000,000 – belonging to "the richest man in the world", Yohannes Riyadi, was deposited in 2009 in the Royal Bank of Scotland. Lord James said he remains baffled after a two-year pursuit of the story, but has all the information on a memory stick, which he is offering to hand over to the Government.
His documents include a letter from the Bank of Indonesia telling him the whole story is a "complete fabrication". He took his concerns to the Treasury minister, Lord Sassoon, who said: "This is rubbish. It is far too much money. It'd stick out like a sore thumb and you can't see it in the RBS accounts."
And an alert Financial Times blogger said that had Lord James googled "Yohannes Riyadi", the first item to come up would be a warning from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that the name is part of an internet scam designed to get money from the gullible. Two agents are trying to trace who is behind it. Perhaps Lord James should offer his memory stick.