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If you say Trafigura three times whilst looking in a mirror do they bury toxic waste in your flower beds?
Trifigura, Trifigura
It's a helluva word
Don't what it means
That would be just absurd
Get on board with the rest of the herd
Trifigura, Tirfigura, Trifigura, Trifigura
It's a helluva word!
It appears that Trafigura doesn't quite understand teh intertubes. Now that the story has been mentioned once (here), it's out and can never be suppressed and no lawyer in a Savile Row suit can stop it now. And their demanding it be stopped just makes it bigger news.
You Trifigura I say Trafigura - lets call the whole thing off.......
http://order-order.com/2009/10/13/guardian-gag-lifted/
I'm naming my firstborn, boy or girl- it doesn't matter, Trafigura. And if I ever start a country, that going to be the name of my nation.
What judge granted this injunction in the first place?
llamas is old enough to remember the Colonel B affair, when Lord Denning made it transparently plain that open proceedings in Parliament could be repeated freely by anybody, ruat caelum, and that even the forces of HMG in all their glory could not be used to silence a reporter from repeating in print what was said in an open session of the House.
Now comes some jumped-up corporation or another, by and through their absurdly-named solicitors (should never have given them the right to be heard by any court, says llamas) and they actually manage to persuade a judge to grant an injunction against doing - just that?
Should have sent them packing with a flea in their ears.
But they never learn, do they? If they'd just left well-enough alone, the mention of their name in a potentially-unflattering light would have gone un-noticed and un-remarked in the turgid sea of Parliamentary procedure. Now their names are trumpeted from the rooftops as presumtive bad guys for not one, but two distinctly-different bad acts. Way to ruin your own reputation, guys.
It's not the crime that'll get you, boys - it's the cover-up. It's always the cover-up.
llater,
llamas
One day these highly-remunerated libel lawyers are going to wake up and realise that they aren't being paid in guineas any more and that, thanks to this thing called the Interwebs, they can't shut down freedom of speech the way they used to in the old days.It is a mistake to think that libel lawyers objective is to shut down freedom of speech. Their objective is rather to be as highly remunerated as possible for as long as possible. Actually shutting down free speech sounds like end of business, something I am sure at least some of them realize.
So, is llamas old enough to discuss llamas in the third person?
(J/K, dude.)
Can anybody confirm or deny the rumors that Trafigura's lawyers have had congress with the Beast? Or with chickens?
Seriously, though. Twenty minutes ago I had never heard of Trafigura. Now I know them only as thin-skinned whiny little punks, and this only by their own actions.
Trafigura is apparently as slick as two snakes having carnal relations in a barrel of used motor oil.
llamas is so old . . . .
How old is he . . . . .?
llamas was present in Temple Hall on the occasion when Lord Denning gave a farewell address to the lawyers assembled , in which he described his fond memories of serving as a Special Constable in the 1920s, and proudly brandishing the truncheon which he was issued - ' and I have it still!' he proclaimed, to thunderous applause.
Today, of course, he would have been run in on offensive-weapons charges.
Before his life took a different course, llamas followed the ABC cases, the Agee/Hosenball matters and the farce of "Colonel B" with a more-than-passing interest, hence the imm ediate recollection of the great jurist's ringing and unequivocal judgement in that matter.
The judge that granted the Trafigure injunction was probably pooping diapers that day.
llater,
llamas
Thanks for spreading the word here! Thankful that there are media distribution platforms like twitter, search engines like TipTop for Trafigura News and people like
Stephen Fry.
It isn't over yet. The Norwegians are suing Trafigura over a consignment of the same waste that exploded in Norway.
Trafigura is an exemplar of the way in which TransNational Corporations view themselves to be above the law. We need to reel them in with regulations, bring them under the rule of law. Do we not? Or would that be anti-libertarian? I'm only asking.