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ViolentPanda said:
I won't name him, as he PM-grovelled quite lavishly, but it was certainly a bit of a gem, that! I mean, back in the '70s every fucker from the dustman to the queen knew what a mixed economy was, but within 30 years the principle was entirely missing from economics. Everything is now either a market economy or a command economy, with nowt in-between. :facepalm:
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i thought the basic point is you never saw a command or a market economy, that everything's somewhere between the two extremes. learnt that when i was about 12.
 
Pickman's model said:
i thought the basic point is you never saw a command or a market economy, that everything's somewhere between the two extremes. learnt that when i was about 12.
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This is true, but what is basic and obvious to you and I is evidently not so to all too many economics graduates!




(I can see my economics-graduate and rather right-wing sister-in-law's hackles rising even as I type this :D )
 
It goes to show that the BBC remains a much loved, impartial broadcaster that commands respect across the globe when you have both factions of the right (dismissing the BBC as lefty/communist/pc) and factions of the left (dismissing the BBC as biased/right wing/govt mouthpiece) on its case. :D
 
krtek a houby said:
It goes to show that the BBC remains a much loved, impartial broadcaster that commands respect across the globe when you have both factions of the right (dismissing the BBC as lefty/communist/pc) and factions of the left (dismissing the BBC as biased/right wing/govt mouthpiece) on its case. :D
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Join us after the break for "why krtek a houby is going down the pan".
 
krtek a houby said:
It goes to show that the BBC remains a much loved, impartial broadcaster that commands respect across the globe when you have both factions of the right (dismissing the BBC as lefty/communist/pc) and factions of the left (dismissing the BBC as biased/right wing/govt mouthpiece) on its case. :D
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Not sure why universal recognition that something is shit means that it must therefore be good. No one things you post anything worthwhile - does that mean that you post truth. Oh. Yeah. It's you.
 
My son was just watching Newsround and I overheard the following comment, about the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony:

"There were big cheers for England and Scotland."

While it is true that England did get a cheer - greeted triumphantly by the Beeb commentators - with no audible boos (unlike the Queen when she was introduced), their cheer was not noticeably louder than those for Wales or Northern Ireland, and obviously nothing like the kind of reception that Scotland got.
 
I was watching The World Is Not Enough (what a load of crap) last night, and flicked around during the ad breaks....landed on newsnight for 60 seconds and got

Israel Spokesman: We are not a cruel army, we are the most humane army evah!
Kirsty W: How can that be?
IS: We call up everyone on the sites we are about to attack and let them know we are going to attack, and warn them to move out of the way. What army has ever done that
Kirsty: [and she really said this] "I have no reason to doubt that you do, bbbbut then where are they supposed to go [when they get the call?]?
IS: {in disbelief that Kirsty has bought this and with a huge smile] aha! Yes! What a good question! Well...
Changed channel back...
completely pathetic ... i dread to think what the rest of this interview was like
 
ska invita said:
I was watching The World Is Not Enough (what a load of crap) last night, and flicked around during the ad breaks....landed on newsnight for 60 seconds and got

Israel Spokesman: We are not a cruel army, we are the most humane army evah!
Kirsty W: How can that be?
IS: We call up everyone on the sites we are about to attack and let them know we are going to attack, and warn them to move out of the way. What army has ever done that
Kirsty: [and she really said this] "I have no reason to doubt that you do, bbbbut then where are they supposed to go [when they get the call?]?
IS: {in disbelief that Kirsty has bought this and with a huge smile] aha! Yes! What a good question! Well...
Changed channel back...
completely pathetic ... i dread to think what the rest of this interview was like
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Didn't the Americans do similar in Fallujah?
 
ska invita said:
I was watching The World Is Not Enough (what a load of crap) last night, and flicked around during the ad breaks....landed on newsnight for 60 seconds and got

Israel Spokesman: We are not a cruel army, we are the most humane army evah!
Kirsty W: How can that be?
IS: We call up everyone on the sites we are about to attack and let them know we are going to attack, and warn them to move out of the way. What army has ever done that
Kirsty: [and she really said this] "I have no reason to doubt that you do, bbbbut then where are they supposed to go [when they get the call?]?
IS: {in disbelief that Kirsty has bought this and with a huge smile] aha! Yes! What a good question! Well...
Changed channel back...
completely pathetic ... i dread to think what the rest of this interview was like
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Is it any different to similar tactics used in 1948? Pity no one who moved out of the way got to go back home.
 
With Fallujah everyone was told to leave, mass evacuation of the whole town - if you were still there when the USUK troops moved in you were a combatant. The notion that of the 1000+ dead so far they all received a phone call and ignored it which is why they're now dead is deeply offensive, and the fact it wasn't challenged but met with "i have no reason to doubt you" utterly pathetic
 
SpookyFrank said:
McIlroy's only 25 you know. He doesn't look a day under 40.
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Must be all that fresh air he's getting.

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So how sick was the UK?
BBC News. 3 September 2014
Should we be anything but pleased that the British economy is probably 2.7% bigger than it was in the first quarter of 2008, as opposed to the estimate of just a few weeks ago that it is just a fraction bigger?

Isn't it fantastically good news that it now appears that the British economy has been performing a bit better than Germany's and way better than France's for some time, and only a bit worse than America's or Canada's?
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BBC’s Economic Editor, Robert Peston (St Peter's College, University of Oxford) what did you forget?

UK economy boosted by proceeds from prostitution and drugs
The methodological changes incorporated the inclusion of spending on research and development and weapons as investment, as well as the introduction of spending on illegal activities such as drugs and prostitution in the calculation of the nation's income.

Data previously released in May showed that illegal drugs and prostitution contributed £10 billion to the UK economy between 1997 and 2009.
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Other european countries are doing it too. German GDP swells on sex, drugs and weapons
 
A doctor on "doctors" has just given out a two month script for DIazpam. Well that just doesn't happen does it? Fuck the TV I'm off into town :D
 
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