"“We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.” "


Chinese premier Wen Jiabao 12th March 2009


""We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we'd like to do our best to preserve that system."


Timothy Geithner US Secretary of the Treasury, previously President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.1/3/2009

Sunday, April 24, 2005

Scotsman Newspaper exposes "graftculture" in Blackburn

JAMES KIRKUP IN BLACKBURN from the SCOTSMAN

24th April 2005

"This is a classic Labour rotten borough, like Dundee in the Seventies and Eighties," Mr Murray says. "Only here, there are two forces at play: Labour graft culture has meshed onto Asian graft culture." That, he says, gives what began as an anti-war campaign a double edge. "We’ve been able to merge the two issues of Iraq and corruption."

Corruption. The word is everywhere in Blackburn politics: like many small towns where one party dominates, it’s a handy jibe for opponents to make. But here, there may be a little more substance to the slur. More....

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