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The Queen's finances are at a "historic low" with just £1 million ($1.9 million) left in reserve, British MPs have been told.
Her courtiers have been advised to take money-saving tips from the Treasury.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/money/saving/royal-no-longer-flush--queen-down-...
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Recovery indeed...
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The queen has a lot more to worry about than her checkbook.
She has apparently been teleported to a back alley in Chicago, and her head has turned into a Sno-Cone.
i've got some writing to do later; but before that, during these the last moments until this bit of WildBill's daily dose of wonderfulness sinks off the contributor's line, and then into an archive and finally unto the ether of the interwebs, i want to get a few laps in here on the Hedge...warm up a bit -- stretch the ole noodle and set my sights on less earthly matters.
i think i'll start with a fatwa.
it's important that i properly stress and emphasize my intent...this ain't no run o' the mill fatwa...this is a fatwa, janus-style. so we'll call it a phatwa -- and i mean bidness!
i haven't seen hide nor hair of that no-account sleazeball what calls itself "yencross" today; and i didn't spend too much time lookin, either. but before i outline the details of my phatwa, i want to take a moment to thank yencross...and, yencross, i'm sure you're a swell fella and all that shit; but, i nevertheless needed an avatar with which i could freely and openly play smear-the-queer...i figure you'll do just fine. (you gen Xers remember 'smear-the-queer'? ahhhh....politically incorrect memories -- yencross, you're it!)
yencross, i do hereby, and by the authority vested in me, declare you an infidel. you're fate is not a happy one. a shit-storm of blizzard-like proportions is about to frustrate your every effort. abandon all hope and repent. alas, nothing can save you, you're past all remittance and propitiation; you've been phatwa'd janus-style. boom.
okay, so, here's how it's gonna work on Fight Club. yencross, i want you to imagine a scenario -- this will be a real-life analog to the cyber-bullying you're about to receive -- all we Hedgers are still but young'ns; all sitting in class, all stupefied at a seemingly insoluble word-problem. janus is at the moment lost in daydreams...imagining himself awarded for valor or chivalrous selflessness in some fancy ceremony, every eye misted with tears as janus strides down some steps and up again some others to accept a gilded statuette of 'the thinker', janus bowing slowly in earnest gratitude and unalloyed humility. and then, to score the setting, the ceremony's producers play a song for janus as complement to this highest possible honor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmzyYquMS2I
roaring applause...janus blows kisses to the little people. and then i'm snapped out of my reverie by my name and a demand that i show the class what's up. teachers! the nerve, interrupting my daydreaming...anyway, i solve the word problem in seconds flat, make the girls blush, slam the chalk down on the tray, strut back to my seat, and then, on the way, i see yen cross lookin as stunned and outta place as an electrified codfish, pickin his nose/eatin his buggars, his hair a mottled clot of nappiness -- i've gotta do something about this. i start to consider his very presence an intolerable insult on decency and pleasantness. i will not have it!
and so, as i pass yencross's desk, i flutter my left hand up and away, popping my fingers as i raise it; yencross does what every electrified codfish is conditioned to do...he follows the arc of my left hand. this motion serves to expose his left cheek in a manner that is perfectly suited for accepting a firm and resonant janus smack-attack. and so i do then smack the taste outta yencross's mouth. it wasn't a friendly gesture.
yencross's glasses go windmilling across the room. the girls are giggling.
janus pops the collar on his sweat-suit...further loosens the laces on his air jordans...pulls the boom-box out from underneath desk...presses play -- the tape starts to spin on dis fly jam once again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcMdUKWidPY
so, yencross, from time to time i'm gonna slide by your desk, leave a reply that says only "smack attack"...just so you'll know you're still under the edict of my phatwa.
now turn the other cheek,
janus
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
"You can't expect to wield 'Supreme Executive Power' just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!... If I went 'round, sayin' I was an Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!.... ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system; come and see the violence inherent in the system! help ! help! I'm being repressed!"
Supposedly the royals are figureheads. Some immigrants in Canada recently went to court to see if they could gain citizenship without pledging an Oath of Loyalty to the Queen. Answer in the "Court of Queen's Bench": NO. All public land is "crown land". Figurehead my ass.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/oath-to-queen-for-new-canadians-is-constitu...
All Canadian military initiates are required to pledge allegiance to the old blueblood too.
Like the song says: their figurehead is not what she seems.
I remember on Brit ex para commenting, "Prince Charles is as mad as a fish but he could do a better job than Tony Blair."
Also the Royal Family is a tourist attraction, its endorsments actual and implied of various products and services brings money into the UK. The Fox hunting set of Virginian alone imports horse tack and riding gear in ridiculous amounts. They keep a lot of news hounds employed and help distract the populace from what the government/civil service is messing up. It could well be if the Royals and Nobles beat feet to another country, the Laborites could soon end up dangling from lamp posts, trees, and bleeding out in various ditches while UKIP people urinated on them.
When Czar Alexander went broke, he sold Alaska. What does Queen Liz have to sell ? Heard she was largest single stockholder of BP . She does not trust her custodial accounts with Bank of England and carries stock certificates in here handbag wherever she goes.
It's good to be the Queen
Queen's £38m a year offshore windfarm windfall - because she owns the seabed
Prince to profit from his support for green energy
Lucrative deal is a 'masterstroke' for Palace aide
Revenue already soaring by 44 per cent a year
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323228/Queens-38m-year-offshore...
My favorite gland is the EN gland!
You always wanted a pension, suh!
David Copperfield
Are the Royal family officially listed as "on the dole?"
You notice they mention a "reserve fund". Does anyone think this is where the Royal family's wealth is hidden? Give me a fucking break.
I'm not buying this shit for a nanosecond.
Without the "royals", tourism would disappear from Britain. Other than the parasites in the City, the place has no other real generator of wealth.
Everyone would just fly into the continent (e.g. Paris) itself.
I smell some public funds coming directly.....it's for the commoners, ya know.....
I assume you're being sarcastic about tourism disappearing from Britain, just like no one visits the Forbidden City or Versailles because there are no royals there either.
And we’ll never be royals (royals).
It don’t run in our blood,
That kind of lux just ain’t for us.
We crave a different kind of buzz.
Debt Bro, Debt Ho with the Queen of the Britons. Sounds like a Benny Hill show to me.
Her Majesty
-I am not Chumbawamba
haha, absolutely brilliant lyrics
obligatory : WHY GOD SAVE THE QUEEN WAS BANNED
British Anthem, God Save the Queen (with lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN9EC3Gy6Nk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z2M_hpoPwk
I live in the U.S. not the U.K. so I dont see why it's my business or anyone outside the UK what they do with their money. Complete disclosure, I'm a royalist and think I'd rather have QE2 as our head of state rather than the Kenyan.
That is very royalist of you kind sir.
Mind you, their royalist esablishment has no inhibition about meddling in our affairs via the "globalist cabal" of elite cross Atlantic Anglophiles.
And how many knighted assholes were and are still involved in setting up the global shyster haven called the City Of London?
You know, the bankster Liberia that domiciled AIG's derivatives sub, the London Whale and the LIBOR scamdal to name just a few.
I lived in London when Princess Diana was eliminated and since then, I have had no particular affection for the Royals, a sentiment amplified after viewing the banned film concerning the inquest.
More recently I briefly reviewed the chicanery of King Edward VII and the associated London ring leading into WWI. Once again, I was not amused.
However, what is most important to me is the Banzai7 audience in the United Kingdom, many of whom have previously registered their approval of these two images.
@Wbanzai: Can that particular film be viewed?
Was not aware of it. Found bits on youtube.
TY in advance for response.
It is never on YouTube.
I watched it on Vimeo once but it got taken down.
I highly recommend it. It connects many disparate dots that you will recall in the news, it demonstrates what a farce the investigation was and I learned that Dodi Fayed, the supposed drunken Arab playboy, was the producer of Chariots of Fire. Think about that.
via the "globalist cabal" of elite cross Atlantic Anglophiles
for those who missed it before:
Tragedy and Hope: Professor Carroll Quigley and the "Article that Said Too Little" by Kevin ColeYes indeed. And he is just the starting point.
Did you have to include the wife though? Sort of distracts for me.
Time to take out a HELOC on Buckingham Palace.
Just keep the Queen away from 25 Bank Street.
In the past, the Royals would turn to the Rothschilds and the Rothschilds would always provide a solution. The Royals came out ahead, so did the Rothschilds and the plebs would become ever more enslaved at best or lose their lives by the millions in massive war "efforts" at worst.
Rest assured, it will not be different this time. The worry is that Her Majesty is broke. Not that I care for any of the parasites but it spells doom for the rest of us.
Liz sure looks comfortable in that picture.
Kinda like she can't believe it's happening even while it's happening.
This 'Liz' you speak of -- short for "Lizard" I assume? She has a certain reptilian look to her.
Why does it look like the Wookster is straining to let loose a queef in every picture of her? Why, I ask!
Is that the Queef of England in the middle? I am full of questions this morning.
Nobody does it better, William.
It was -8 degrees at my digs near the New River this morning. I needed a little hep. Thanks.
PS. Dear Queenie,
If it was still a Pound Sterling, I'd be a buyer.
PPS.
me too
PPSS.
Is it just me or is this chick is starting to look old and ragged. And I'm not talking about the Queen Mother either. I don't know why they make such a big deal about her arms, they definitely don't look that sexy to me.
Take the Crown Jewels to Eddie's Pawn Shop - problem solved.....
Wonder what her bug-out plan is.
Hide in plain sight. Hence the smoke she's starting to lay down.
"A MyRA ! A MyRA ! My kingdom for a MyRA !"
Happy Chinese New Year WB.
I imagine HK is pretty much WW3 right now as is Beijing.
About to go blow stuff up with the kid.
This is my zodiac year.
Thank you and back to you!
unless i've received bad intel, we are entering the year of the horse...and what a relief! that year of the snake sure did live up to its billing...vipers a'plenty and venom sprayin in every imaginable direction. time to bruise again that serpent of ole and send him slithering back to his squalid hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjpa_OYAEpo
WB, not disagreeing with any of your points viz. HRM & the crown, but i suspect they likewise suspect they've maybe been had...i furthermore suspect that one speech from one young prince could signal a sea-change in the relationship betwixt sovereign and citizens.
so very many strange things...like, for example, the many 'whys' that fog and frustrate the thinking man -- for example, why are brits told they can no longer 'colonize' (unless its under the auspices of some nefarious 'bank' or 'NGO'), and yet their lands are all but fully colonized by peoples hostile to their person and culture? why, pray tell, is anything hinting at the traditions of christendom reflexively condemned, yet sharia law is welcomed and accommodated? why (again) is it state policy to place the interests of tel-aviv, riyadh etc. over and above everything in the isles (save, of course, for that one square mile block)?
i don't think the problem is with the crown; i think the problem is that the crown is not behaving as a proper sovereign...it MUST assert its authority over the city of london, or continue to squirm beneath its heft.
parliament is/was a sad joke; but nobody's laughing anymore. cameron, osborne, hague...all of them dim-bulbs and hapless boobs. all prancing and preening on stage, acting out a poorly-written play, every scene the parody of a farce, every act laced with tragic, real-life consequences. something not unlike this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ba1OKY7Xc
a house divided against itself cannot stand.
cheers to the year o' the horse,
janus
So why isn't he in a permanent 45 degree "bend at the waste" when he's in her presence, like he prostrates himself to the Royal Family in Saudi Arabia?...
You didn't colonize, exploit, and enslave that.
Probably time for an IPO
if shes pretty enough she can bail with anyone she wants bitchez!
SAVE THE CORGIS FUND.
Donate today.
Bullshit. These Luciferians are not broke.
Well they would get a crazy Check easy at our local ss office
I see crown jewels in the Squid's future.