The chairman of Leicester City Football Club is set to face legal proceedings from HM Revenue and Customs in connection with tax evasion. Milan Mandaric is accused of what tax officials have described as "cheating the public revenue". Mandaric strenuously denies the allegations, which date to his time as Portsmouth FC chairman from 1998 to 2006. He will face the charges in January alongside Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp, who was in charge of the first team at Portsmouth at the time. A statement issued by Cartwright King solicitors, which represents Mandaric, read: "Milan Mandaric is astounded and dismayed... [cont'd p 94]
The chairman of Leicester City Football Club is set to face legal proceedings from HM Revenue and Customs in connection with tax evasion.
Milan Mandaric is accused of what tax officials have described as "cheating the public revenue".
Mandaric strenuously denies the allegations, which date to his time as Portsmouth FC chairman from 1998 to 2006.
He will face the charges in January alongside Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp, who was in charge of the first team at Portsmouth at the time.
A statement issued by Cartwright King solicitors, which represents Mandaric, read: "Milan Mandaric is astounded and dismayed... [cont'd p 94]
Several hundred workers at a troubled Spanish travel agency who are worried about their jobs have won the top prize in El Gordo - the world's oldest and richest lottery. Just as the government was closing down the bankrupt Air Comet division of Viajes Marsans, putting 640 people out of work and over 7,000 passengers without flights to South America, the staff lottery number hit the jackpot.The phones never stopped ringing at Marsans' 200 offices in Madrid, around central Spain and in the Canary Islands after number 78294 was called during the morning ceremony and 584 millions euros of Christmas cheer was up for grabs for those who shared winning tickets.
Just as the government was closing down the bankrupt Air Comet division of Viajes Marsans, putting 640 people out of work and over 7,000 passengers without flights to South America, the staff lottery number hit the jackpot.
The phones never stopped ringing at Marsans' 200 offices in Madrid, around central Spain and in the Canary Islands after number 78294 was called during the morning ceremony and 584 millions euros of Christmas cheer was up for grabs for those who shared winning tickets.
The Jamaica Plain Green House today released its second annual list of "Top 10 Worst Christmas Gifts." The list ranges from $2 stocking stuffers to baubles of the super-rich. JP Green House co-founder Ken Ward said, "These ten items achieved high scores on each of three criteria--profligate, unnecessary, and tasteless energy use--in our rigorous testing protocol." Ward described the gift ranking methodology as "half an hour of random Googling around."
Take a look if you're still present-hunting.
A seven-year-old boy was stopped by police in northern Germany while trying to plough snow with a front loader he borrowed from his parents' business, authorities said.Officers on patrol found the boy atop the 3.5-metre-tall (11.5-foot-tall) excavator after he had cleared the street in the town of Reinfeld and was driving back to the parking lot.The child noticed the police car behind him and stopped immediately."He opened the door, got out and admitted immediately that he did not have a driving licence," the police report said.
Officers on patrol found the boy atop the 3.5-metre-tall (11.5-foot-tall) excavator after he had cleared the street in the town of Reinfeld and was driving back to the parking lot.
The child noticed the police car behind him and stopped immediately.
"He opened the door, got out and admitted immediately that he did not have a driving licence," the police report said.
Our neighbours have a boy about that age who's quite capable of doing the same.
A seven-year-old boy was stopped by police in northern Germany while trying to plough snow
try?
Officers on patrol found the boy atop the 3.5-metre-tall (11.5-foot-tall) excavator after he had cleared the street
Now Silvio Giova' the First has written a letter to his fellow pope to to assure him that Christian Values are always guiding his government's actions, such as sinking Saracen ships full of heathens before they invade St. Peter's.
Naturally the heart of his reflections go to all men of goodwill: "Christ's message of peace and fraternity, which should reign among men, unfortunately is forgotten when the force of ideas is countered with verbal violence or even physical [violence]."
I guess he was thinking about the time he sent his thugs to kidnap and rape with a broomstick Gianfranco Mascia, the guy who launched a successful campaign to boycott Silvio's companies.
Or when he sent a skinned rabbit as a gift to Stefania Ariosto for testifying against him and his buddies.
Or the editor who had his country house burned down after publishing a dossier on him.
A video sequence posted on YouTube shows television footage in which Berlusconi immediately covers the lower part of his face with a black plastic bag after the attack and keeps it there while being bundled into a car with no blood visible.
I could not find a single video with the title given in the paper, which is a little suspicious?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJeLjkqq-wc&feature=related
after watching these a few times, i have no faith in the official version at all, zilch nada.
from the comments i learned that the facebook group supposedly lauding the loon is full of people who's accounts were hijacked for the purpose.
i tried to google for more on this but i guess i didn't phrase the keywords well enough, or it's a hoax.
watch the vids carefully and see what you think ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
On the other side entire sites were hijacked and transformed into pro-Berlusconi sites. A site that was created to express solidarity to the victims of the earthquake in Aquila, suddenly turned into solidarity for Berlusconi. This is not the first time Berlusconi has created overnight internet plebiscites.
Envious of the Democratic Party's primaries that topped over three million voters, Berlusconi launched an internet plebiscite for his then brand new improved personal political entity, Er Ppoppolo della Libertad. It of course had spontaneous orgiastic approval as far afield as Aldeberan. A few spoilers did have a field night by signing in as Al Cappone and Toto Riina.
It of course had spontaneous orgiastic approval as far afield as Aldeberan
ROFLMAO
merry kitschmas to you too! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
A former illicit still has been put back into use by an island's whisky distiller.Mark Tayburn, who runs the Abhainn Dearg Distillery in Uig, on Lewis, is able to operate the small still under the distillery's licence. Whisky was illicitly produced across the Highlands and Islands until distilling was legalised by the Excise Act of 1823. Mr Tayburn hopes to make a distinctive whisky using the old still. He was granted a licence for his distillery by HM Revenue and Customs in November 2008.
A former illicit still has been put back into use by an island's whisky distiller.
Mark Tayburn, who runs the Abhainn Dearg Distillery in Uig, on Lewis, is able to operate the small still under the distillery's licence.
Whisky was illicitly produced across the Highlands and Islands until distilling was legalised by the Excise Act of 1823.
Mr Tayburn hopes to make a distinctive whisky using the old still.
He was granted a licence for his distillery by HM Revenue and Customs in November 2008.
In honour of European Tribune, I'll be putting on the Brussels in about an hour. I'm also in charge of the salad, the cheese, crackers, coffee and avecs. I have to relinquish command of the kitchen come Yule. My desire to experiment is not appreciated at this most traditional of times. I will be slipping in some congura pickle and some brinjal pickle in protest ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
