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Scotland was hit by a second bout of freak sandstorms today, causing an estimated £50,000 damage to crops.

Scotland battered again by second round of sandstorms devastating crops

Farmer Cameron MacIver in Moray says the sand is so high ‘the only thing showing is top of fences’
London’s Green Park was full of daffodils to set the scene for the Queen’s birthday salute
Despite a mixed bag of weather, temperatures in the south may top 22C on Wednesday: hotter than Los Angeles

Hayfever sufferers braced for worst pollen levels for more than 50 years [...]

Richard Lambert: Business must help Cameron in Europe

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Business leaders are starting to make their voices heard about Britain’s role in the EU, and about time too.
As the prime minister prepares for this month’s critically important speech on the [...]

Farage – Mrs Merkel, tell Cameron it’s time for Britain to leave EU

Debate: Conference of Presidents meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel

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• Debate: Conference of Presidents meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel

 

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Scottish Independence – Salmond and Cameron

Salmond and Cameron strike referendum deal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan…itics-19942638

I am a Scot and I hate to say this but as much as I hate Cameron and the Tories this will be the worst thing to happen to Scotland if this happens in 2014. For some reason I don’t trust Salmond.

CAMERON: ‘No safe passage for Assange’

 

“We will not grant safe passage for Mr Assange. Under our law, having exhausted all the options of appeal, we are obliged to extradite him to Sweden. It is our intention to carry out that obligation. We will continue talking to the Ecuadorean government and others to try and find a diplomatic solution here.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/20/julian-assange-britain-ecuador-standoff

The UK has insisted it will not grant Julian Assange “safe passage” to Ecuador as it seeks [...]

Pictured: The shocking moment Taco Bell employee urinated on nachos… and got fired

A Taco Bell employee has been fired after urinating on a plate of nachos and posting the shocking image online. 

Cameron Jankowski, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, uploaded the photograph to Twitter alongside the caption, ‘Guess where I work,’ and the hashtags ‘#pissolympics’ and ‘#nachobellgrande’. 

The Tweet, which has since been deleted, was addressed to Hunter Moore, the man behind the now-defunct ‘revenge porn’ website Is Anyone Up?

Moore declared Jankowski the ‘winner of [...]

The U.K.’s AAA rating looks increasingly vulnerable, writes Jim Leaviss, as growth and deficit conditions have both deteriorated since the country was put on negative outlook by Moody’s and Fitch.

While the move would be an embarrassment for the Cameron government, record-low government bond yields (10-year at 1.63%) are likely to ignore it, if recent history is any guide.

via bondvigilantes:

On 14th February this year, Moody’s put the UK’s AAA credit rating on negative outlook.  This means that the agency says there is a 30% chance of the UK being downgraded within the next 18 months (i.e. by mid 2013).  A [...]

Spain debt interst rates soars to 7.28% and Irleland’s intraday low is 7.34% (14:14 BST):

At the G20 Cameron welcomes the Greeks as choosing a bailout, but warns they must impose austerity and that consequences of not doing will be very severe (12:13 BST)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/debt-crisis-live/9336591/Greek-election-debt-crisis-and-G20-Summit-Live.html

UK won’t contribute to a Spanish bailout

Merkel and Cameron address the world but they disagree over bankster taxes as Cameron urges pandering to banksters because of the City of London being the bankster capital but also saying UK won’t contribute to a Spanish bailout (2:27 to 2:33 BST):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jun/07/politics-live-readers-edition-7-june

UK PM Cameron says UK won’t join the euro

MERKEL SHOULDN’T HAVE TO RESOLVE EURO CRISIS ALONE: CAMERON

EU to start sometime from 2018 onwards, considering debating about making banksters pay a greater proportion before general public and taxpayers and placing shareholders of banks in the front line to be wiped out in future banking collapses

(11.14 BST in item):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/debt-crisis-live/9312612/Debt-crisis-Live.html

Spain says it can wait another two weeks before possibly requesting a bailout. Also UK PM Cameron and US President Obama make statement over the phone that something has to be done about European crisis (1.05 and 12.03 BST respectively in item):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/06/eurozone-crisis-ecb-interest-rates

I predict that within a few days, Obama, Cameron and Merkel, with Geithner alongside, will announce some newfangled scheme to further monetize European debt

The scheme will contain all manner of hidden austerity measures specifically designed to keep the Ponzi afloat; it will involve currency debasement, subtle tax increases, etc…

Greece will be allowed to leave, and likely helped with massive cash infusions, compliments of the Anglo/Germany/American alliance. Spain will be bailed out, uncertainty will be sidelined, for the moment, markets will recover and volatility will disappear until the American Presidential election is over, and [...]

Count Cameron Bans Crucifixes Lord Monckton’s In-Studio Report

Infowars.com
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Lord Monckton joins Alex in-studio today, Wednesday, May 23. Monckton is a British politician, public speaker, former newspaper editor, and a spirited critic of the globalist theory of anthropogenic global warming. Mr. Monckton is in the United States to attend the libertarian Heartland Institute’s conference in Chicago.

‘We’re NOT viral villains’: Crying baseball toddler couple say their life has become hell and demand apology from Yankees commentator

A couple caught on camera claiming a foul ball at a baseball game while ignoring a crying child who wanted the trophy today said their lives have been made miserable since the video went viral on the Internet.

Texans Sean Leonard and Shannon Moore, who are engaged to be married this Saturday, said their phone has not stopped ringing since the incident at Wednesday’s Yankees-Rangers game and that the level of [...]

Equity Fund Redemptions in April Are Largest in 17 Years Bloomberg – 4/27/12

Global investors this month pulled the most money from stock funds in any April in at least 17 years amid escalating concerns that Europe’s economy is faltering.

Equity funds had net redemptions of $18.6 billion through April 25, according to data from EPFR Global, a research firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The April withdrawals were the largest since at least 1996, the first year for which comparable data is available.

“April has [...]

After Bloody Primary, GOP Reconsiders Nomination Rules

By Cameron Joseph - 02/24/12 01:35 PM ET

Republicans are weighing a change to the party’s presidential primary rules amid fears this year’s prolonged nomination process is hurting the GOP’s chances of retaking the White House.

The problems with the current system were discussed at length at both the most recent Republican National Committee meeting and at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference last month. Top RNC committeemen plan to reconsider the rules at [...]