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The history of the various uprisings, and direct Arab/Israeli conflicts here is that when the Israelis have gained the 'upper hand' , or have flattened huge chunks of Gaza......., a phone call comes through to Israel from America, which says ... "That's enough...". The US are the armourers, the financiers, the supplers of sateliite data ..... to Israel.

Why not. It's succinctly truthful.

As I recall, Hamas were originally democratically elected, as the majority of Palestinians viewed the then ruling PLA as corrupt, and acting only for themselves. Israel and the 'international community' denounced the election result, and refused to engage with the democratic choice in any way. As for the 'international community', I recall that around then their chosen Peace Envoy for the Middle East was one Tony Blair. The sickest of sick jokes in terms of any kind of even handed approach to peace making. For me, Israel is a country that is rotting from within, due to its behaviour.

Shapps has been in so many ministerial jobs in the last year that it's a surprise that he still knows how to put his socks on by himself.

Any more than 2 is a bit weird, imo.

The short answer is, I think, that the government has given the nod for the sky-high standing charges as a means to keep the energy companies happy. The underlying reality is that privatisation has failed. And this is a symptom of it.

Utter disgrace.

If it's US Dollars you're referencing, I seem to recall from reading about the Texas debacle a while back..... that the energy arrangements in the US were even more broken than the UK. Oh, and then there was Enron.

I also received that email. Rates are reduced, but standing daily charge remains the same. You can cut consumption all you like, but the gouging from all these companies on the standing charges has become ridiculous. In addition the quote for the fix was exactly the same as my current rate. The fix also has a £75 penalty if you leave before time. That's quite the heaviest penalty I've ever seen on a fix. Overall, very little about the fix is attractive to me, so I'll just stay on the standard variable for now.

From reading that article, it rather looks like the sources were at the US end, and the UK/MOD would have continued to cover it up. In particular what the minister, Wallace, said to parliament.

With respect, going by your long missives when Covid was on the loose, you wouldn't know cold truth if it jumped up and bit you on the bum. The real truth about rail travel is that every effort must be made to attract people back to the public transport, and to make it attractive. All that the operators of train companies talk about is cutting costs, and cramming more people into existing spaces. At root, your views are little different..., utilitarian, lowest common denominator stuff.

Hhm. I'd rather got the impression over the years that In North Korea, the only people who did well were those 'in' with whichever Kim Jong was running the place. And anyone else trying to circumvent the system was liable to end up being shot. In Russia, it seems to me, being corrupt is so endemic that the punishments are not remotely so terminal.

All brain circuitries supplied by good ole US boys Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Wikipedia ".... Lancet utilizes the Jetson TX2 module by NVIDIA as its onboard control equipment and the Xilinx Zynq SoC module by Xilinx, an American company owned by AMD, for implementing programmable logic....."

To me, it reads more like a statement of of the bleeding obvious. No country's general populace wants their own country to be defeated in battle.

What brand..? How old ? [ Look for the DOT marker, followed by 4 digits..., 2 are the Week, and 2 are the year. Eg DOT 2820 means week 28 of 2020 ].

Rather depends on where the cracks are. Minor cracking between the treads isn't necessarily a fail. Also, decent brand tyres tend not to crack until they are well old. Some of the cheap Chinese ditchfinders of infinitely variable names can develop cracks here, there, and everywhere within a very short time. 18 months in the case of the Rovellos that the previous owner fitted to my car.

I think what this ultimately means is that whoever/those seeing that Putin is leading the country to disaster, which he is, will conclude that the the only way out is a violent end for Putin.

AS I recall, the response to the polnium thing was outright denial, and as for Salisbury, Putin's response was pretty much a sneery laugh. He didn't give a sh*t about other countries' response or opinions.

Actually, I'm fairly liberal in my views. Ages ago, I came up with a possible solution ( on a different forum ) to the dilemma. The idea was to run some sort of pilot scheme whereby hanging would be brought back. But only for Tories. Everyone would be happy. The right wing ghouls would have got their way, and everyone else would be glad it didn't apply to them. Oddly, my suggestion didn't seem to gain much traction. A few slightly nervous titters aside.

Tbf.., Bernie madeoff with lots of money before the house of cards collapsed.

What campaigners .. ? Convicted criminals saying they are innocent are two a penny. And it's rather difficult for defence lawyers to go playing the media. They played by the book, and the system. And the system screwed them, and their client. Maybe just read what I said above. Too much weight was given in the initial conviction to identification, which is notoriously unreliable.

Listening to BBC R4 in the car yesterday a bit after 1pm, not sure what programme that is...... Every man and his dog, including the defence people, knew about the DNA find after a handful of years. Apparently , the Criminal Cases Review Commission was underfunded, and the Appeals Court was notorously dificult to persuade to change their mind over a conviction, plus the fact that the original conviction was done on the basis of identification. For those reasons, the Review Commission did a cost/perceived benefit analysis (to themselves) and declined to act. The person being interviewed , the lawyer Michael Mansfield, basically said the whole system was corrupt, in the way it has acted towards the guy. Police, Crown Prosecutors, the CCRC, the Appeals system...., and he very much pointed towards the weight that is put on 'identification' rather than scientifc evidence. Oh, and no one let on that the identifiers were petty criminals with convictions as long as your arm.

Must have been quite a big banger......

Found these in Aldi today. The cuisine of France at its finest. Nothing that explodes in the mouth, just very, very, very moreish. Potatoes are Miranda.

As far as can see, they've been doing that for ages. And, aren't the peripheral regions of Russia the places where much of the recruiiting is being done. And therefore the dying.