Trump presses the greed button
by talking to Infantimo who fancies himself in the thinking department. However, the law itself seems plain in that the board of FIFA have a duty to look after the game as seen by the fans and not to yield to some fanciful theft plan. Trump decided to assist his son-in-law's brother by pointing out the chance of getting away with this form of theft. He would claim that he was merely dangling a carrot in front of the soft-headed Infantimo. No wonder Americans are increasingly
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GCM (GCM)
Sheikha Hasina stopped GCM opening its Phulbari coal mine so that the coal had to come from India. This allowed Hasina to take a backhander. In the end she had to send in her troops to murder about 1,500 students who wanted a job in Bangladesh. Hasina was then rumbled and sentenced to death - by which time she had disappeared to India. But this suggests to me that coal will eventually come from Phulbari. And the question then arises: what is GCM worth? It is too early to say
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The American century
is the subject of a David Dimbleby series on Radio 4 each Tuesday at 9.00 a.m. (and presumably at other times when repeated). Today's effort kicked off with Bretton Woods, the 1944 conference attended by 700 delegates in New Hampshire. It is well worth listening to. Quite why Dimbleby calls the programme the American century is not explained given that Amercia may have been economically dominant but it has continued in exactly that role in the current century. I suspect that
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Barry Cryer strikes again
There are three parrots on a perch in a petshop. A man comes in and asks how much the first one is. '£100,' says the shopkeeper. 'What does it do?' 'It quotes Shakespeare,' says the shopkeeper. 'How much is the next one?' asks the man. '£200.' 'Why so much?' the man asks. 'It can squawk Bach, Beethoven and the whole classical repertoire,' says the shopkeeper. 'What about the last one?' '£500.' 'Bloody Hell. What can it do?' asks the man. 'No idea,' says the shopkeeper, 'but t
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