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[brahmsnliszt] 18/9/2024 10:21

but if you download kiddie porn youll be fine

huw is very lucky. had he shouted at a police dog he'd be seeing 2 years inside.

[geckotheglorious] 18/9/2024 09:59

Concur with your thoughts.
All very depressing.
But there is light at the end of the tunnel...

[geckotheglorious] 18/9/2024 09:16

Scruff,
It's going to be a long 5 years I suspect resulting in a 2029 trip to the IMF

[diku] 18/9/2024 09:08

Post 397208...balancing act...anybody watched Newsnight last night...nearly entire programme with DA...non-person...no other news out there...

[stonedyou] 18/9/2024 08:49

Military Situation In Russian Kursk Region And On Ukrainian Frontlines On September 17, 2024 (Maps Update)


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Russian forces advanced along the border and reached Nikolaevo-Dar’ino and Dar’ino;

Clashes continued in Liubimovka and Tolstyi Lug;

Clashes continued in Olgovka and Matveyevka;

Clashes continued on the southern outskirts of Veseloye;

Clashes continued near Medvezhne;

Clashes continued near Krasnooktyabrsky;

Clashes continued in Nechaev and Nizhnyaya Parovaya;

Clashes continued in Cherkasskoe Porechnoe;

Clashes continued in Russkaya Konopelka.

Russian forces reportedly took control of Ukrainsk;

Russian forces advanced near Zhelannoe Pervoe;

Clashes continued in Maksymilyanivka;

Clashes continued in Selidovo;

Russian forces advanced north of Georgievka;

Up to 475 servicemen, two armoured vehicles, two pickups, one M777, one Gvozdika were destroyed in the area.

Russian forces made new advances towards Nevskoe;

Russian forces control 90% of Makeevka;

Clashes continued on the eastern outskirts of Terny;

Clashes continued near Nadiya;

Up to 600 servicemen, one tank, three armoured vehicles, six motor vehicles, one Bogdana, two FH-70, M777 and M198 howitzers were destroyed in the area.

Russian drone strikes were reported in the Kiev region;

Russian drone strikes were reported in Krivy Rih;

Russian drone strikes were reported in the Vinnitsa region;

Russian drone strikes were reported in the Mykolaiv region;

Russian drone strikes were reported in the Cherkasy region;

Russian drone strikes were reported in the Poltava region;

Russian forces advanced in the Kursk region;

Clashes continued in Volchansk;

Russian forces advanced near Peshchanoe;

Russian forces advanced near Nevs’ke;

Russian forces advanced near Chasov Yar;

Russian forces advanced in Toretsk;

Russian forces captured Ukrainsk;

Russian forces developing advances in Pokrovsk direction;

Russian forces advanced near Vodyanoe;

Russian forces eliminated 85 servicemen, one 152-mm D-20 gun, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer in the Kharkiv area;

Russian forces eliminated 600 servicemen, one tank, three armoured vehicles, six motor vehicles, one Bogdana, two FH-70, M777 and M198 in the Stelmakhovka area;

Russian forces eliminated 685 servicemen, one tank, seven motor vehicles, one M119 gun in the Chasov Yar area;

Russian forces eliminated 475 servicemen, two armoured vehicles, two pickups, one M777, one Gvozdika in Donetsk region;

Russian forces eliminated 95 servicemen, one FH-70, one D-20 gun, one Gvozdika system in the Southern Donetsk area;

Russian forces 20 servicemen, six motor vehicles, and one 152-mm D-20 gun in Kherson region;

Russian air defense forces intercepted 36 Ukrainian drones over the past day;

Russian air defense forces shot down ne U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile over the past day.


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[kkclimber56] 18/9/2024 05:34

Politicians are motivated by the belief that they know better than the rest of us how we should live our lives and when we disagree with them they see that as proving them right.There is no hope.

[hardup1] 18/9/2024 04:47

That is what Billy Connolly said in a TV show with celebrities as the audience in the 1985 ITV show "An Audience with Billy Connolly"

"The desire to be a politician should bar someone for life from ever being one"

and

"don't vote, it only encourages them"

[hardup1] 18/9/2024 04:39

kk.....and Donald Trump has said if he wins the US election that he will impose 100% tariffs on goods from any countries that ditch the US$ as the worlds reserve currency.

[scruff1] 17/9/2024 21:00

Trouble is gecko they are all the same. Its beyond repair. Kk is right. If somebody wants to be a politician that alone should disqualify em. The bbc is riddled with em. They just haven't stood for election but they are dictating the political slant of the news and tv productions. It's now not much different from Russia or China. Starmer will increase control.

[daddy warbucks] 17/9/2024 20:53

Brilliant.

[geckotheglorious] 17/9/2024 20:23

Michael Deacon
Keir Starmer’s hypocrisy on sleaze has been exposed for all to see
After all his outrage over Boris Johnson’s wallpaper, how unfortunate to see the Labour PM mired in an eerily similar row



The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive at Number 10 Downing Street upon his appointment
Rory Arnold / No 10 Downing Street
Michael Deacon
Columnist
17 September 2024 7:00am
Michael Deacon
When Boris Johnson was reported to have bought expensive wallpaper using donations that hadn’t been properly declared, Sir Keir Starmer was utterly appalled. Addressing the Commons in April 2021, he referred to the then prime minister as “Major Sleaze”, and accused him of being “mired in sleaze, cronyism and scandal”.

How incredibly unfortunate, then, that a mere two months after becoming PM himself, Sir Keir is in the midst of an eerily similar row – having failed to declare that a multimillionaire Labour donor bought expensive outfits for his wife, the impeccably on-trend Lady Starmer. Thanks to his celebrated powers of hindsight, Sir Keir is doubtless now able to see that it might have been wiser not to kick up such a stink about Mr Johnson’s wallpaper. Because it’s made him look ever so slightly like a screaming hypocrite.

Happily, he’s at least got the brilliant David Lammy to defend him. The Foreign Secretary has helpfully explained to the public that, in the US, presidents receive “a huge budget paid for by the taxpayer” to help their wives “look their best”. Sadly, UK taxpayers are rather less generous – which means that, to ensure their wives look nice “for the country”, prime ministers have no choice but to “rely on donations”.

I’m sure the public will have been overcome with sympathy. In 2022-23, after all, Sir Keir made just £404,030, so how could he possibly afford to buy his wife a new dress? The poor man can’t even stretch to a pair of glasses, and has instead had to rely on the same Labour donor to buy some for him.

As a result of the cost of living crisis, all too many of us know just how hard it can be to keep our wives in £725 ankle gowns. But now that even our political superiors are suffering, something must be done.

On behalf of all taxpayers, I urge the Government to create a Winter Frock Allowance, to help the wives of struggling premiers survive the Christmas party season. Black holes be damned. The money must be found.

At last, the BBC finds a type of welfare cut that isn’t so bad
Luckily, the cuts to pensioners’ benefits should help. When the Government first announced this plan, I must admit that I was somewhat critical of it. It would seem, however, that I was making a fuss about nothing. Pensioners, it turns out, don’t need help heating their homes – because they’re absolutely stinking rich.

That, at least, is the impression I received at the weekend from an article on the BBC News website. Under the headline “Our Winter Fuel Payment Goes into the Holiday Kitty”, it featured interviews that the BBC had conducted with some pensioners, each cheerfully declaring that the Government is quite right to remove their financial support, because it was always unnecessary and they only used to fritter the money away on cruise holidays, fine dining, diamond-encrusted bathroom slippers etc.

After what must have been a long and arduous search, the BBC did finally manage to track down a couple of pensioners who are worried about how they’re going to stay warm this winter. It squeezed their concerns in right at the end of the article, a mere 795 words in. Unfortunately, however, it seems the BBC ran out of space to mention the research carried out in 2017 by an organisation known as the Labour party, which predicted that such a policy could cause the deaths of 4,000 pensioners.

None the less, it was a fascinating article. Mainly because, for the BBC, the choice of angle was so unusual – perhaps even unprecedented.

Whenever the Tories attempted to reduce the welfare budget, the BBC responded by focusing on the most vulnerable potential victims of the proposed cuts. It emphasised their fear, their distress, their horror at the government’s callousness. To the best of my recollection, the BBC never produced any articles suggesting that the Tories were right to slash benefits on the grounds that some recipients didn’t need the cash. I certainly don’t recall any BBC stories headlined, “Our Dole Money Goes into the Sky Sports Kitty”, with interviewees cheerfully pointing to their iPhones, PlayStations and 65-inch TV screens.

On this one occasion, however, the BBC appears to have taken a strikingly different approach to covering a welfare cut. Why this should be, we can only speculate. Personally, though, I’m rather surprised. After all, research has shown that the average age of BBC One viewers is over 60. So, if I were running the BBC, I’d be desperate to keep my remaining audience alive for as long as possible.

Still, if you happen to be one of the apparently very few pensioners who are worried about paying their energy bills this winter, don’t despair. Simply write to a multimillionaire Labour donor. They’re extremely generous and kind-hearted people. Always eager to help those in need.

[kkclimber56] 17/9/2024 20:01

I follow that logic but I keep reminding myself that analysts are usually wrong!I think the elephant in the room for the US economy is "who is going to buy US debt in the medium term. The Chinese dont want it and neither do the japanese. I cant see rates falling below 3%. Nobody will want it.There is going to be a blow out at some point.

[kkclimber56] 17/9/2024 19:54

There should be a law which automatically bans anyone who wants to become a politician from becomming a politician.I agree with you that they are all a curse on society

[jl5006] 17/9/2024 18:22

There was a thought - once - that UN would enable reconciliation - wrong it thinks it is it!
Again there was an idea that the north atlantic treaty org was there to manage conflict. wrong.

Power corrupts
Just looks at kneel now just another in the ilk of bliar. Expenses not paid by a rich man. and u voted for the trud!

[jl5006] 17/9/2024 18:15

the deluded who think they are it!
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, revealed in his address to the nation that he has "more than 90 percent" of the so-called Victory Plan for Ukraine ready to be presented.

The Ukrainian president is expected to travel to Washington this month to present his plan to US President, Joe Biden, and his two candidates, Vice President, Kamala Harris, of the Democratic Party and former Republican President, Donald Trump.
Utter lunact - go see our lunatic - kneel -

[hardup1] 17/9/2024 17:33

No shares bought back today so no change to figures for 12th September.

After 143 trading days, buyback complete to date:
Total shares to date........................2,739,822,738
Aggregate cost to date... ..................£1,471,996,364.43
Average price paid to date..................53.7260p
Percentage of £2 billion buyback completed..73.6%

[hardup1] 17/9/2024 17:03

I think most analysts think opposite, if they cut by 25 bpts it will calm the markets and there will be a rise in the markets, but if the FED cuts by 50 bpts this will be interpreted as a panic move by the FED because they have not acted quick enough to lower rates and would result in a downward move in the markets. We will find out tomorrow.