Reply to: Can anyone else see the black smoke around Oxford Circus?

[Evil Hangover]

better late than never

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8144708.stm

[PM-Junkie]

Well burning London to the ground worked last time we had a major plague outbreak.

By jove....I think you may have stumbled onto something!

[darmstadt]

Well burning London to the ground worked last time we had a major plague outbreak.

The trouble is, its in the wrong place. The plague is in the City not the West End

[Alf W]

Well burning London to the ground worked last time we had a major plague outbreak.

[darmstadt]

Nothing against him actually except that gormless smile and the fact he was American (nutter in other words

At 18, Jimmy Carter started teaching Sunday school. By the mid-1990s, he had taught Sunday school thousands of times. He considered himself a born-again Christian. He vowed prior to being elected never to "do anything as President that would be a contravention of the moral and ethical standards that I would exemplify in my own life as an individual."

President Jimmy Carter has often been referred-to as the "UFO President" due to the fact that he publicly claimed to have had a UFO sighting prior to becoming president. Moreover, he was the only president on record to actually file a UFO sighting report related to his sighting. Thirdly, on at least one occasion while campaigning for president, Carter declared that, if elected, he would "make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and scientists."

[Bagpuss]

How does a fire in London affect me?

[RichardCranium]

Forgive me for going completely off topic...but your sig intrigued me.

Not that I disagree with you, but is it entirely accurate - because it makes the assumption that Jimmy Carter must have actually done something beside grow a few peanuts?

Jimmy Carter is a good egg, it's just not very newsworthy. From Wikipedia:

He established an national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology.

In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II).

Carter sought to put a stronger emphasis on human rights; he negotiated a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1979.

His return of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama was seen as a major concession of US influence in Latin America.

Carter and his wife Rosalynn founded The Carter Center, a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization that works to advance human rights.

He has traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, observe elections, and advance disease prevention and eradication in developing nations.

Carter is a key figure in the Habitat for Humanity project, and also remains particularly vocal on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

[darmstadt]

Forgive me for going completely off topic...but your sig intrigued me.

Not that I disagree with you, but is it entirely accurate - because it makes the assumption that Jimmy Carter must have actually done something beside grow a few peanuts?

Jimmy Carter - 1977-1981 (D)
A Georgia farmer, he defeated Chevy Chase to win the presidency in 1976. Got us involved with Iran, failed to rescue the American hostages.
Dealt with an energy crisis by talking honestly about it with American people and making solid plans to deal with it. That ended so poorly that it would be 20 years before another president attempted the “honesty and planning” approach. Could have saved us trillions of dollars if he had been less honest about saving energy.
Famously built homes for the people that Reagan made homeless.

[PM-Junkie]

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied today, then every Post-War American president would have to be hanged."

Forgive me for going completely off topic...but your sig intrigued me.

Not that I disagree with you, but is it entirely accurate - because it makes the assumption that Jimmy Carter must have actually done something beside grow a few peanuts?

[darmstadt]

Firecrews called to the scene used cranes to reach the building, which houses the hedge fund Future Capital, as flames ripped through it.

Burning some evidence???

[Zippy]

60 firefighters, 12 engines

Roads closed around Dean Street

[cojak]

76 Dean Street apparently...

[Zippy]

Nothing on BBC News24 yet - I'll try SKy

[Menelaus]

BBC

"About 10% of the building, believed to be office space, is thought to be alight.

A company called Future Capital is based in the building."

Perhaps they were burning their accounts?

http://www.futurecapitalpartners.com/

[cailin maith]

RT @cliveatkinson "There was a fire at the main Inland Revenue office in London today, but it was put out before any serious good was done."