Home thoughts from A Broad

Quelle suprise! Young (2 yr old) Tanwar, one of the carriers of the London bombs, you remeber, the one with the shiny red Mercedes he left behind toi ride in a hire car to Luton ? Well according to the Daily Torygraph on Saturday he left an estate for Probate of 120,000 Pounds Sterling !

Now here is your starter for 10. What profession does a goatee bearded, bling, bling wearing young Asian with a super red Mercedes, who hangs around a gym do to earn (presumably after paying the relevant Income, Capital Gains taxes etc., ) an estate worth 120,000 Pounds Sterling ?

That should give Commander Clarke of the Met a problem to work on. One minute the bombing costs (relatively) peanuts, then one of them is loaded with moolah, enough to equip a small army at the current price of MIL SPEC explosive and Kalashnikovs in the UK.

It does make you wonder how good the hawk eyed men who watch over the terrorised population are doing at watching the money launderers, when a Colombian Drug cartel has been exposed as shipping 100 Mn Sterling a year for probably ten years to Colombia. Apparently the removal of this gang pushed up the street price of heroin, yeah ! Maybe for half an hour, they never noticed it in Manchester (UK) where it is cheaper (and more readily available)than ever.

GM will be posting for Chapter 10 Bankruptcy soon as they see their share price and bond prices slide more, whilst Toyota, Nissan and Honda win the plaudits at the detroit Car Show 2006. Honda Civic Car of the Year 2006, Silverline SUV Truck of the Year 2006.

Meanwhile queues around the block for Beamers and the mightily succesful Mini, DITTO the Toyota Prius. They say that you put you childs name down for Harvard and a Prius at the same time now.

Ford meanwhile are planning to remove the capacity of 1 Mn vehicles from production. Jaguar are losing money, but Aston Martin have announced a new 4 seater Jimmy Bond 4 seater saloon, for which world sales will easily top 250 in 2006.

Is it therefore any wonder the US $ starts lower today against the Yen, and gold is above US$540 ? Expect the US$ at 1.30 to Euro within a month as German exports soar and the world scrambles for French nuclear power expertise (and COGEMA's Uranium)as the politicians finally wake up to the energy wars and the guys who have their hand on the stop cocks.

Now we here that Dick C is hospital with his dicky ticker again. Will the NDL have their friend in as Veep soon ?

Talking of world leaders in hospital the latest news is Arik is breathing without help. What are the odds that Bibi Netanyahu gets the ticket and we see the Zionist agenda roll out in full throttle. The grip on the prison that the world allows, that is Gaza, will get worse, the restrictions on movement in the West Bank even more restrictive and the building for the "refugees from Gaza" will grow apace.

Another Kennedy gets assassinated. This time in the UK. There are many reasons to get rid of him besides being a drunk. OK thye spoke gainst the invasion of Iraq. Period. Full stop. They have not hounded the Gubment on anything, the lies, the dodgy dosiers, Abu Ghraib, ill equipped UK troops, the Sheer theft of money, the fact that oil sales and electricity supplies are lower than pre invasion, the activities of UK mercenaries like Erinys, Aegis... nothing.

No no card carrying Liberal has appeared on any Anti-War platform anywhere, on any march, nor made any spech that is at all Anti War at any time. They act like an observer of a rape, crying "Rape" and then standing watching it happen, without summoning help.

Who follows in this party of political pygmies is of no consequence. Odds are that the Mingons will triumph and we will continue uninterrupted with the geriatric lawylery response of Ming with his carefully contructed sentences, and orotund caveats and impotent threats.

Let us hope that the arrivist Oaten, and the faux rural prebendary Hughes (Rev. Obadiah Slope if they re run the Barset Chronicles at BBC again) do not make it through. Tony must be rubbing his hands as he tells everyone he has NO plans to retire. You bet.

News of the new arrivals in the EU is mized with tales of Polish plumbers in London and roofers in Hanburg "stealing" jobs. Now we here that the laundry from swanky Berlin hotels and eateries is trucked overnight to Northern Poland to be washed in the latest automatic laundries and carefully (and no doubt lovingly folded) by the Polish underpaid hausfrau to be returned pristine and fresh for the German gourmands and lawmakers. Just like World War 2, the Germans exporting all the dirty work to Poland.

Now the legitimate Cyprus Gubment have discovered they can no longer subsidise the bloated , nepotistic Cyprus Airways and the 5 neotiating unions have reluctanlty agreed to 500 job cuts and they are kept afloat with another "loan". Let us hope Mr Hajiannou (whose yacht appeared in Limassol harbour during negotiations)can get the slots for Easy Jet at Larnaca and Pahos and boost the flagging tourist trade which was falling off in October - November.

Meanwhile the Cyprus potatoe Growers are discivering that a market of 500 Mn (well the housewives anyway) don't want 1 Kg potatoes with a field attached, the supermarkets want washed handy sized easily packed year round supplies of their desired varieties and the Dutch wholesale processed potato market want contracts to make chips, wedgies, child friendly shapes, etc., of very specfic sizes and varieties. Notably the UK Potato Marketing |BOard announced after Christmas that sales had fallen "substantially" in 2006 (no figures given , which is ominous!.

In India the rich Delhi residents have been aborting their female foetuses according to Lancet. By a novel statistical treatment they have shown that the second child M-F ratio drops to 0.759 and even lower on the thrid child when previous children born were female. They calculate 10 Mn killed over ten years.

In places with high Asian populations many hospitals will not provide any sex information after ultra sound examination to discourage such selective sex abortion. Anecdotally any radiologist is aware that it happens on a regular basis, especially in the more properous middle classes.

We will not even mention Gorgeous George Galloway appearing on "ITV Big Brother".

Finally Craig Murray has not been hauled off to the Tower et after releasing documents detailing UK acceptance of information obtained by torture. What was their response to their Ambassadors concerns ? Well they tried unsuccesfully to stitich him up with tales of sex and drinken debauchery, when that fained they paid him off. Now they just ignore him and would be frightened for him to appear in court to spell out in detail,the revolting acquiescence in this wretched trade by all GIubment Ministers.