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Citigroup Launches Yuan Bank Accounts In London!

Sorry babe: You're yesterday's gal...
I'm trading you in for ma new hottie, Yuan.

With yet more news on the forward march of the Chinese yuan: Citigroup has just announced that it will offer customers of its London branches yuan-based bank accounts, for the first time ever.

It won’t be long before you see the same thing happening here in the United States: Bank accounts offered in Chinese yuan. You may not need one or want one, but that’s not the point. The point is simply this: The forward march of the yuan is occurring at a very rapid pace. Indeed, in the past several weeks, we have seen:
— Chinese banks get the green light to open branch offices in the U.S.
— Taiwan cut the U.S. dollar out of the middle in its trade with China
— London’s major banks enter into a joint effort with Beijing to make London a major yuan trading center
— Japan and China sign a deal to trade yuan directly, eliminating the U.S. dollar as an intermediary
And now, Citigroup offering yuan-denominated bank accounts in London. We’ve even seen the International Monetary Fund and our own Treasury Secretary Geithner officially back Beijing’s bid to make the yuan a reserve currency. This is all part and parcel of an evolutionary process that will see the U.S. dollar eventually lose its role as the world’s reserve currency. (C) Larry Edelson

THAT Soda V Bam-Pot Bloomy!

The Center for Consumer Freedom is fighting back against York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal, announced Thursday, to ban sugar-sweetened drinks more than 16 ounces in size from restaurants, movie theaters and a variety of other venues in the city.

Who the fuck's Bloomberg?

Politicians will never get it. You can't legislate for all the 6 brain cell, thicko folk out there...and you will never stop them stuffing a Mack Truck Burger with everything down their drain pipe three times a day. Can they ever be educated in the hunter/gatherer department? Nope. But a touch of the genetic modification, creating a rampant desire to deep throat a stock of celery might just do it. (Photo:Copyright Control, Getty) 

Law Enforcement? Obama's Beyond Belief!

If you agree that the police and other law enforcement agencies should understand the doctrine of jihad, how jihad motivates acts of terrorism and that they should be versed in who the Muslim Brotherhood is…its history… its goals…leaders… and affiliated organizations in America. And are you concerned that political correctness is too often keeping this vital information from law enforcement professionals?

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The Obama administration insists that our sole enemy is “al Qaida.” As a result, the administration is purging every reference to radical Islam, such as jihad, from its counterterrorism threat assessments and training materials! 
Act for America  have a solution: by bringing all the relevant information together onto one new web site! It’s called “The Thin Blue Line Project.” and you can read all about it and get involved by clicking the link below 
http://www.actforamerica.org/

Once Upon A Time ...

Three Legendary Americans...

 Thanks to and sent via the Tyre Man.  (Photos: Copyright Control)

Halt! One Way Traffic Ahead...

Indonesian Christians’ Plight Escalates!

Tolerant Islam? I don't think so!

Bags of urine hurled by a mob of 600 Muslims at Christians attempting to attend a church service is the latest in a series of disgusting acts of degradation and violence perpetrated by Indonesia’s growing Islamist movement. The Muslim mob was led by members of Indonesia’s Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), a militant Islamist group that has been directly involved in 34 of the 54 documented acts of violence and destruction against Christians and Church property since 2012. In an increasingly violent campaign launched against Indonesia’s religious minorities, the 30,000-strong FPI spearheads a growing cadre of militant Islamist groups whose ranks include the Islamic Defenders Legion (LPI), an FPI affiliate; the Indonesian Mujahideen Council (MMI); and Kokam, the youth wing of Muhammadiyah.

It should be noted that the “church” at which the HKBP congregants were headed to pray when attacked is in actuality an empty parking lot; a venue of worship necessitated by the local Bekasi government’s refusal since 2009 to allow HKBP members to build and occupy an actual church.(C) Frank Crimi (Photo:Copyright Control)

Can you imagine the outcry from Muslims if we in the west refused them permission to build a mosque? 

Friday's Song Pic #7

Featured track sung by Eddi Reader: Ae Fond Kiss (written by Robert Burns).
Eddi Reader MBE (born Sadenia Reader; 29 August 1959) is a Scottish singer/songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts. In 2003 she showcased the works of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) also known as Rabbie Burns. Scotland's favourite son,  he's simply The Bard. A poet and a lyricist who died when only 37 years old, Burns is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world. Robert Burns is probably best known to the international community for Auld Lang Syne ; reputedly the second best known work in the world, after *Happy Birthday. 

An example of Burns' musical influence on US singer/songwriters is, among others: Lou Reed and Pattie Smith, both of whom have headlined in the annual Burns Festival, each performing only Burns' material.

His literary influence in the U.S. is seen in the choice by novelist John Steinbeck for the title of his 1937 novel, Of Mice and Men, taken from a line in the second-to-last stanza of the Burns poem, To A Mouse.  "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men /Gang aft agley." Burns' influence on American vernacular poets such as James Whitcomb Riley and Frank Lebby Stanton has been acknowledged by their biographers.When asked for the source of his greatest creative inspiration, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan selected Burns's 1794 song A Red, Red Rose, as the lyric that had the biggest effect on his life.The author J. D. Salinger used protagonist Holden Caulfield's misinterpretation of Burns' poem Comin' Through the Rye as his title and a main interpretation of Holden's grasping to his childhood in his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. The poem, actually about a rendezvous, is thought by Holden to be about saving people from falling out of childhood.
The Burns Museum containing over 5000 documents was opened recently and you can go to the link below to see a short video. (Wikipedia) (Video/Logo: Copyright Control) 

http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/213272-new-burns-museum-opens-to-public/
* Written and composed by American siblings Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill in 1893. 

Gay Marriage? WHAT'd YOU SAY!

Invalidating a federal statute is an unwelcome responsibility for federal judges; the elected Congress speaks for the entire nation, its judgment and good faith being entitled to utmost respect. But a lower federal court such as ours must follow its best understanding of governing precedent, knowing that in large matters the Supreme Court will correct mis-readings (and even if it approves the result will formulate its own explanation). In reaching our judgment...(bostonglobe)
Blah, blah and double blah. Why's the US so obsessed with the gay marriage thing? Gay folks in western Europe get married, can leave the other half their pension when they pop their clogs and have the same legal status as us hetros. Jez...just move on! Zillions of words about the subject while it's 30 on how Islam is silently shafting you. Wake up and get friggin' prioritising! You're 5 trillion dollars more in debt since you-know-who won a 4 year gig at the White House; your infrastructure is worse than Mumbi, India and China's  lickin' yer bollocks as a prelude to biting them off. 

Photograph: Darren Mccollester/Getty Images

Button rubbers and two blokes kissin' are really not so fuckin' important!