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refitman wrote: ↑Fri 19 Apr, 2024 8:25 am Looking forward to all the grown ups telling Israel they're wrong here

VERY VERY naughty as it might push up the gas prices for the US election !

Thanks Sky as always for the QT Report .

Damn -- just saw a clip of TC droning on unpleasantly, monotonously, then lost it !

Dreadful .

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21° and I was thinking of getting out my shorts, then realised I should do some strimming first ! !

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Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Thu 18 Apr, 2024 1:53 pm Tice vs David TC Davies could prove to be amusing. I guess I better go and get some cheap plonk.

Looking forward to the Report

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Good morning. Yeah, funny that... Jeremy White @jeremyiwhite 55m Absolutely, not yet clear what the facts are here but sounds suspiciously close to theft and yet the Police aren’t involved Years ago our great Corruption Inquiry judge Eva Joly wrote - " in my years as a magistrate common or gar...

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Example above ! Readers added context they thought people might want to know This is not one of the 32 recommendations. The Cass review recommends establishing separate services for 17-25 year olds in order to increase the capacity of care available for the trans community and ensure a smooth transi...

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Sigh Several years ago I decided I just didn't have the time left to spend it on properly researching and then making up my mind on MMT, tho I DO have some sympathy for the arguments I've seen around . The Trans Debate is about the same for me, time is limited :-) Below I notice that there is often...

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We have no (IMMEDIATE) plans ....

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Morning refit A free view for Gilsey ** and anyone else interested in the economy https://twitter.com/FT/status/1780244685182620063 ** First holiday for four years , something to do with covid ? I know it would for me if it involved public transport . ------------------------------------------------...

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Morning AK "Actually, the effect that Stein had on that election is still debated. It may have made some difference, but not as obviously as Nader did in 2000." Agreed . Not all Stein people would have voted Clinton rather than stay at home or very unlikely vote Trump ! Stein's 2016 campai...

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Jill Stein's votes lost three states for Hillary

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Just a little more on RT and the weirdos affiliated to it and all going back to Vlad --

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Anyway, the new Liz Truss book. Anybody buying it? :) I wonder if her US billionaire backers will buy enough to delay the inevitable remaindering ? I saw a parody of it on Xitt yesterday, and it might just as well have been the real thing . Much fun from Gaby Hinsliff Zoe Williams and Hugo Rifkind .

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OUCH !

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This fits with the popular " Forty Beheaded Babies" **-- https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1780233559971594249 One would think that in a decent society with any respect for truth and public safety she should see consequences for Hate Speech which very well COULD have fatal conseque...

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Parliament back yesterday, also John Crace after a heart attack -- " Matt Hancock got up to say he had nothing to say but wanted to say it anyway as he couldn’t bear to be left out. Cue an exit for the tearooms." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/15/rishi-sunak-tries-for-gravit...

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If you want a scary listen, the new episode of This Machine Kills podcast talks about how Israel has used AI to 'identify targets' in Palestine. There should be war crime prosecutions based on this information https://twitter.com/machinekillspod/status/1779630717099442527 The guardian article was q...

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Found it .

Tearful Biden and Sunak falling for the rubbish of FIFTY DECAPITATED BABIES etc etc

Excellent work from Aljazeera --

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Yes, that last paragraph certainly rings true. One thing bugging me is the blanket description of everyone who went through the Wall, and committed crimes, as Hamas, when the crowd ranged from Hamas to groups of excited teenagers to individuals to criminal gangs (apparently not a shortage of those ...

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Israeli media also has a habit of publishing "polls" purportedly showing that the overwhelming majority of Gazans still back Hamas. Still a free read -- Shaher generalizes, saying, "It's very hard to conduct surveys among Arabs. Everybody has two opinions concerning nationalist and m...

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Haaretz gives six free reads pm, but the one in this Xitter post is Subscription Only - A Free Amira Hass tho -- 'People Are Constantly Cursing Sinwar': Gazans Opposing Hamas Are Sure They're the Majority Four Gazans who spoke with Haaretz rail against the Hamas leader in the Strip and the decision ...

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Neat !

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Mornng refit

Glad to hear that Sky was only undergoing Family Meet-up exhaustion !

First lol of the day --

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Good question !

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Several deleted Xitts this morning !

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This was my first LOL of the day --

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He sounds just the chap for New-New labour's internal policing -- Extortion, blackmail “Any information that might enable extortion of an individual is considered relevant,” one Unit 8200 reservist explained in the letter. “Whether said individual is of a certain sexual orientation, cheating on his ...

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Lawyers acting for a Palestinian activist and Labour member have complained to the party over its decision to hire an alleged former Israeli intelligence officer to help run its social media strategy. Assaf Kaplan was hired by Labour as a social listening and organising manager, a new post describe...

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Stronger words from Starmer, than when Israel murdered 3 UK citizens Morning refit And no words at all on this ? Their accounts were shared exclusively with the Guardian in advance of publication. All six said that Lavender had played a central role in the war, processing masses of data to rapidly ...

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Yep, "small but vital numbers " decide SO much ! Not concentrating solely on gaining votes but also on persuading that small number of the opponent's potential voters into staying home . Now a truism when we've seen Cambridge Analyica at work . https://time.com/5197255/facebook-cambridge-a...

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For something more down to earth , a demonstration of how bad the roots on shop-bought plants/trees can be . Spending some time even on $2 herb plants is well spent

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Its a complete non-story about Rayner, let's all remember that. Agreed , it's pitiful rubbish . So what do you do if she lived 50/50 in both houses, make her half an MP ? Another one on so-called 'crime' is the proportion of the US electorate supposedly not voting for DJT IF he's convicted on any o...

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Ben Bernanke’s report into the Bank of England’s forecasting is measured but still quietly devastating, our economics editor Larry Elliott writes: The Bank of England has got markedly worse at forecasting the economy in recent years. Its economic model is faulty. Its systems are out of date. It has...

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20° also for the weekend, then down to ................ 10 ! The unconditional anti-nuke LP members of the past remind me just a bit of those Tories who voted in the CheeseLady . But now with Putin brandishing his nukes, have they changed, just a little ? The obvious answer to the RU govt TV bombast...

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FREE READ AT THE FT VERY HIGH LEVEL CRIME AND SPYING IN VIENNA

Back to the (not so) COLD WAR !

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Bonjour !

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Great one on ... among other things, religious freedom Ukraine compared to Russia , the extraordinary reach of Tucker Carlson & Friends ETC

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Sister in Puerto Rico did the posters for this at her university .

Civilised idea !

" Yesterday and today we have the Election Commission here, for students to register to vote.
An event part of Library Week "

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Doubles all round !

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I need the odd laugh these days --

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refitman wrote: ↑Thu 11 Apr, 2024 1:57 pm Not everyone in Labour is terrible, thank god

She sounds very sensible !

I blame you for introducing me to Ana (on LonerBox) , I hope she is now out of hiding --

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"Rats ate my dam" cont

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Biden risking doing something humane, election year ?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/ ... ge-charges

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I haven't watched PMQ's for quite some time, relying on Mr Sparrow et al, but I do miss THE Report !

We'll be back on 18th April with a studio audience from Buxton

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