{"id":940,"date":"2007-12-06T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/the-banks-have-nothing-to-lose-but-their-chains\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T12:23:11","slug":"the-banks-have-nothing-to-lose-but-their-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/the-banks-have-nothing-to-lose-but-their-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"The Banks have nothing to lose but their chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>d\u00f3nal writes over on workers play time<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dojo.ie\/2007\/pens-in-banks\/trackback\/\">Why do banks still chain down the pens to the table, the banks make billions of euros by taking in our wages and charging us to take the money back out of a hole in the wall. Could they not just give us free pens like in Argos or the Bookies,<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>not for the first time\u00a0d\u00f3nal is a few weeks ahead of me on a blog topic. I saw such chains in the EBS and thought the same. Never got round to posting it. Sometimes I think I read his blog as I sleep surf. But he writes so infrequent this is not possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miss-Quotation-Marx<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"body\">The\u00a0Banks have nothing to lose but their chains&#8221; and our money at the casino stock exchange<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"body\">I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcwilliams.ie\/\">David McWilliams<\/a> steal Joe Higgins clothes and lines on Morning Ireland this morning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wget.net\/dig~deeper\/dd.php?s=2265000&amp;e=2344000&amp;a=David+McWilliams&amp;t=RTE+morning+ireland&amp;mp3=http:\/\/url.ie\/778\">MP3<\/a> [time code\u00a037:45 &#8211; 39-04] &#8220;a financial coup .. (by) a\u00a0cabal of property\u00a0owners in cahoots with the government.\u00a0&#8221; I was there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2006\/david-mcwilliams-v-joe-higgins-debate-20102006\/\">the night Joe Higgins debated McWilliams <\/a>but I didn&#8217;t think we had such an effect on the guy. BTW\u00a0 750+ downloads of the debate on MP3. my god who needs RSS, when an audio blog will do. 750 wow thats more than\u00a0twice the 350 that stuffed into the packed Teachers Club in Oct 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1585\"><a href=\"http:\/\/url.ie\/778\" title=\"Play\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"position: relative;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/black.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 225px;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_video.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"position: absolute; bottom:82px; left:170px; border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_unknown\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/url.ie\/778\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/?powerpress_pinw=940-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/url.ie\/778\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"778\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>d\u00f3nal writes over on workers play time Why do banks still chain down the pens to the table, the banks make billions of euros by taking in our wages and charging us to take the money back out of a hole in the wall. 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