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What a complete train wreck... Librium Liz, the swivel eyed loons candidate for PM sets a new world record for crashing & burning in 45 days. Never mind, the Tories will choose another one, who'll be along shortly ...

Here's the text (it displayed earlier for me, and I don't subscribe, but seems to be bringing up paywall now): -------------------------------------------------------- Liz Truss to join Tory rightwing clamour for immediate tax cuts Hunt and Sunak insist their focus is on controlling UK public finances and inflation Chris Giles and George Parker in London JANUARY 25 2023 Liz Truss is expected to join Conservative party calls for tax cuts ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s March Budget, despite new forecasts warning of slower growth and lower tax revenues than expected. Hunt, the chancellor, and prime minister Rishi Sunak are warning MPs that tax cuts are not planned in the Budget and that the priority is tackling inflation and bringing the public finances under control. But Truss, the former prime minister, and other Tory rightwingers argue tax cuts now will help to generate growth — in spite of the implosion of the Truss government’s debt-funded £45bn tax-cutting mini-Budget last September. “Liz believes that the policy was right but that she didn’t get the political backing she needed,” a colleague of Truss said. “She is still convinced we need to get out of this box of low growth.” An ally of Truss said he expected the former prime minister to break months of political silence ahead of Hunt’s Budget. The insistence of the Tory right that tax cuts are needed in the Budget exasperates Sunak and Hunt, whose strategy is to stabilise the economy and bring inflation under control. Hunt, who will set out a plan for economic growth in a speech on Friday, has told Tory MPs he hoped to offer pre-election tax cuts in the Budget of spring 2024, ahead of an expected autumn poll. “People seem to have very short memories,” said an ally of Hunt, referring to Kwasi Kwarteng’s statement last September. Sunak said last week that people were “not idiots” and could see why taxes could not be cut immediately. But Iain Duncan Smith, another former Conservative leader, told the Financial Times that Kwarteng’s tax-cutting Budget failed for several reasons and was not an excuse not to cut taxes now from their postwar high. He said markets were already febrile when Kwarteng announced the £45bn of cuts and the then chancellor compounded the problem with an excessively generous energy support package and an undermining of institutions. “We are choking ourselves off,” Duncan Smith said. “If you want to cut the economy, you have to ease off the tax burden on individuals and companies. “Politically, you can’t wait until next year for a tax reduction because that would look cynical.” Duncan Smith added that he believed Hunt would find space for tax cuts and was managing expectations. Conservative-supporting newspapers, including the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, are also clamouring for immediate tax cuts and many Tory MPs agree. “What’s the alternative — drive the economy off a cliff?” asked one. With the government now determined to listen to the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, insiders confirmed that the fiscal watchdog had sent the first round of its economic forecast to the Treasury last week. First reported in The Times, these show a small downgrade in medium-term growth forecasts, which would lead to lower tax revenues and could reduce the room for manoeuvre on taxes in the run-up to a 2024 election. The FT has learnt the first iteration of the forecast included a 0.2 percentage point reduction in the forecast growth rate in 2027-28. The OBR now thinks the size of the UK economy will be 0.5 per cent smaller in that year than stated in the Autumn Statement forecast. If these changes are confirmed by the OBR in the March Budget, they would represent a small revision compared with the 3 per cent downgrade the fiscal watchdog forecast last year. Treasury officials caution lower wholesale gas prices are unlikely to lead to a large war chest for tax cuts. With interest rate projections still high, the annual cost of government debt will not have fallen far. Officials are also expecting lower revenues from oil and gas taxation as well as windfall taxes because profits from the North Sea fields will drop. Internal government projections suggest oil and gas revenues might fall more than £10bn in 2023-24 on current prices, although the hit to the public finances would be much smaller in the medium term. Offsetting these effects, which would increase public borrowing and debt, are official figures for public finances this year that are better than expected, despite the government borrowing a record £27.4bn in December. The OBR on Tuesday said that once timing effects and a one-off adjustment for student loans were accounted for, underlying public borrowing in 2022-23 was running £11.3bn lower than expected. The surprisingly strong public finance figures, it said, “was broad-based across central government receipts and spending, as well as borrowing by both local authorities and public corporations”. The Office for National Statistics on Wednesday reported that UK producer price inflation slowed to the lowest rate in almost a year in December, as cost pressures receded. Producer input prices — the prices paid by businesses for materials and other goods — rose by an annual rate of 16.5 per cent in December, down from 18.0 per cent in November. Additional reporting by Valentina Romei in London

Fil’s on it ….

Human brain cells power first commercially available biocomputer to accelerate AGI.…

Win or lose the next election it won't matter as the labour party has sucessfully ousted the socialists with an anti semite witchhunt and 'sir' Keir Starmer is nothing but another Tony Blair, a tory in pink clothing who will also be led by the nose by the USA fascist establishment. This energy crisis all started when a huge field of natural gas was found off the coast of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria and Assad refused to play ball with the US. Result was the attempted CIA led coup so Assad got the russians involved who turned it around and then the CIA turned their attention to russia itself and funded and supported the fascist militias in ukraine to oust the democratically elected president who was friendly with russia. These militias were then incorporated into the official ukrainian military and sent to the donbass region to put down the protests from the russian speaking citizens who didn't support the fascist regime in Kiev, and we all know from our history how fascists deal with those they consider subhuman. That little war has been going on in the donbass since 2014 and when Zelensky gathered 60,000 troops to go in there the russians stepped in to stop it in february this year. The result will be that russia will turn off the gas supply to the EU, the yanks will supply shale gas, the yank oil companies will supply gas from Qatar and Liz Truss will give the go ahead for fracking in the UK. Meanwhile watch for what the israeli's will do about the gas field off the coast of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. Dangerous times, the americans are no ones friends, they want it all.

Perhaps, the first thing her surname brought to mind was 'Can't Truss It' by Public Enemy . . .

hmmm, well I can't wait until Forrest Gumpette reveals her "bold plan" ...😏 I'm sure her SPADs have done extensive research ...

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World’s first mental images from human brain activity using AI https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/worlds-first-mental-images-extracted-from-human-brain-activity-using-ai

Cheers mate...It will be good to have the Damned catalogue in one book. I know them from way back and have really always been a fan, in particular the early days...The Captain's a pretty nifty guitar player (especially so nowadays) and just a general really nice guy...Always enjoyed his gigs with Dead Men Walking. The kind of book to flick through when getting a little nostalgic, recalling former adventures.

These 'dark money' think tanks are funded by the CIA as they have a 50 billion dollar budget every year. They own 51% of CNN, FOX, CBS, Readers Digest, New York Times and other mainstream media outlets in the US and have fingers in many pies outside of their own country. US invasion of Haiti imminent but will the BBC report it ?

Story in today's Times. (Updated with correct link, although now showing paywall). ---------------------------------- "The BBC chairman, the prime minister and the £800,000 loan guarantee "The BBC chairman helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role. "Richard Sharp was involved in talks about financing Johnson’s Downing Street lifestyle in November and December 2020. Sharp, 66, a former banker at Goldman Sachs, had already submitted his application to become chairman of the public service broadcaster and had reached the final stages of the recruitment process. "Late in 2020, Johnson, 58, was in financial trouble as he faced divorce payments, childcare costs and bills for the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat. Sharp, a friend and former adviser to the politician who has given £400,000 to the Conservative Party, became involved that November after a dinner at the home of Sam Blyth, an old friend, in west London...." (Boris Johnson didn't disclose Sharp’s involvement in the MPs’ register of interests, which says members must declare any benefit that could influence, or be perceived to influence, their public work. He also omitted it from his register of ministerial interests.) (Richard Sharp didn't tell panel about financing the Prime Minister who appointed him as chair of the national broadcaster.) How do they get away with this, somebody might wonder (not me though - it's fine!).

That you claim Starmer is a socialist proves my point.

I love her voice. Thank goodness it was recorded! That which is truly's speed.

I must admit to not being that much of a rap/hip-hop fan, although I can agree that this is definitely a classic of the genre, with a great groove and cool bass line 😎. Funny thing is that every time I hear it I can't help but think of the band Tom Tom Club, who had some massive hits the year before (1981), with Genius Of Love and Wordy Rapping Hood - not similar lyrically of course, but there's something about the music 🤔😉

I was just reading about this. Very sad.

In case you are looking for that perfect gift. You could always give your loved one a copy my biography 😀

BBC 2 Tone The Sound of Coventry documentary . . .

So sad to see this news - Wilko was a one-off and my second favourite guitar player.

I don't think you'd regret buying, if you eventually decide to, when you consider how limited this special edition is and the amount of effort put in by the artist's own creative hand - and really liking the music helps too 😉. Yes, I can see how parts remind you of David Sylvian - here and there I get bits of This Mortal Coil, parts of Dead Can Dance, smidgeons of early Roxy Music and little leanings toward Brian Eno. Ultimately though, the album is it's own thing and rather unique I dare to say 🤔.

😳 Help!!! I don't seem to be able to add a working link to the Bandcamp page for the Peter James & Jenny Jo Oakley album above, that will open a new page for people to listen or order, but this is the address anyway: https://peterjames9.bandcamp.com/album/lullabies-for-the-lost

fond memories of seeing the band when they played my local pub in April 1979, met Jerry afterwards and bought the single. I did meet Terry a few years later but he was in a bad mood so we didn't talk long, R.I.P. incidently I saw Simon Fox's Blazer Blazer in this pub around the same time

Getting frustrated here 😩 The link in my main message above does seem to allow the music to be played, but starts at a track that's later on the album. So, although it might seem obvious, it really is best to listen to this album from the first track to really appreciate the atmosphere it creates 😎