In the "News" today.

Locusts.

BBC poll uncovers 750,000 terrorist sympathisers...WTF !

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WTF !!! 51% of British muslims believe that clerics who preach violence against the West are justified

Madonna going spronco backwards down the steps at the beginning of her set at the Brits!

I bet her ex hubby pissed himself if he was watching!

Give her her dues, she carried on till the end!

Here's the vid!

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FY 310 wrote:

BBC poll uncovers 750,000 terrorist sympathisers...WTF !

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To axacerbate the situation, the people giving answers in these polls will know how they are likely to be portrayed if they give a certain answer. Yet over a quarter still did. You can bet that a fair percentage of the other 75% will have answered 'diplomatically', that's foreshore.

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FY 310 wrote:

BBC poll uncovers 750,000 terrorist sympathisers...WTF !

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To axacerbate the situation, the people giving answers in these polls will know how they are likely to be portrayed if they give a certain answer. Yet over a quarter still did.  You can bet that a fair percentage of the other 75% will have answered 'diplomatically', that's foreshore.

Especially see the survey had been done just after the Charlie Hebdo attack.

Comment from the Beeb on the ongoing banking scandal, tax avoidance, rate rigging, mortgage fraud, manipulation and rigging of metal markets, absolute feckin scum aided and abetted by the government (any gov we have had in power ever that is). Whilst the NHS crumbles and buckles under the strain of austerity the incompetent and criminal minded Oligarchy fill their boots.

The appearance of two of banking giant HSBC's top executives before MP leads many papers to comment on banking, tax avoidance - and precisely what constitutes a "fat cat".

Chief executive Stuart Gulliver, and chairman Douglas Flint faced questions from the Treasury select committee about the activities of the group's Swiss bank, which has been accused of encouraging wealthy customers to dodge tax.


The Guardian leads on the story, highlighting Mr Flint's admission that he felt "very ashamed" of what went on at the Swiss bank, but denied any personal culpability.

The paper says anger at the banking group stretched to more than just the Swiss subsidiary's activities, but included "interest rate derivative selling, Libor manipulation, Eurobor manipulation, mis-selling mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Forex rigging, weakness in money laundering, credit default swaps and rigging precious metals", according to the committee's chairman.

Mr Gulliver was quizzed about his personal tax arrangements, which saw his salary paid in Hong Kong before being transferred to a Panamanian bank.

He told the MPs he made no tax benefit from this arrangement, the Guardian reports, but admitted: "I can understand how people find these kind of arrangements unusual and rather strange."

The paper's sketch writer John Crace characterises the Parliamentary appearance as "Gulliver's travails".

He says the bank head kept "an expression as opaque as his tax affairs" while facing a grilling from irate MPs.

Crace says Mr Flint was less reserved, telling his inquisitors , "You know what's the scandal here? It's that all our data was stolen."

The paper notes that this assertion made Labour MP John Mann counter: "You mean that the whistleblower who handed over the tax files was in the wrong?"

The Times highlights that Mr Gulliver enjoys "non-dom" status in Britain, avoiding most personal taxation here, despite having lived in the country for more than a decade and having had his children educated here.


Douglas Flint arriving at Parliament
The paper adds that a separate committee questioned the role of the recently appointed head of the BBC Trust in the scandal.

The Trust was told to "look at" Rona Fairhead's role in HSBC, by Margaret Hodge, chairwoman of the public accounts committee.

The Times notes she sat on the HSBC board for more than a decade.

The Daily Mirror's editorial brands Mr Flint and Mr Gulliver "fat cats" and says, "the more we see bankers grilled by MPs... the less confidence we have in banks to make the right decisions for customers, businesses and taxpayers."

The Financial Times editorial says Mr Gulliver had "failed to explain convincingly" his Panama banking arrangements, and Mr Flint had dodged questions about how personally accountable individual executives should be for failures at a bank.

In a feature, columnist John Grapper suggests many of HSBC's problems dated to the period between 1998 and 2006, when it expanded rapidly and almost trebled its workforce.

Note that Mr. gulliver enjoys non Dom status after living in Blighty for ten years, why don't we all get paid via Hong Kong and Panama? The beauty of that plan is that all the extra wealth we generated by not paying tax would the trickle down to the economy.

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Russia to have ships in Cyprus and maybe an airstrip for humanitarian missions. Russia has poured money and Russians into Cyprus for several years now, can't see this going down well with us and NATO.

Net migration up to 298,000. FFS, it's out of control, we're sinking, and no-one gives a feck.

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Couldn't help but notice.....Yahoo homepage....top ten trending news items.

One article about Jihadi John being identified.....and also an article about the possible first head transplant in two years or so from now.

You couldn't make it up could you.

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Couldn't help but notice.....Yahoo homepage....top ten trending news items.

One article about Jihadi John being identified.....and also an article about the possible first head transplant in two years or so from now.

You couldn't make it up could you.

A most disturbing juxtaposition.

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FFS, It must be nice to be a total bunch of ignoramus kuunts. feckin animals are destroying their own history! Iraq is/was the garden of Babylon.

Who was it that said Man destroys everything A LOT faster than time? There is no hope for this despicable race called humans. Please God, ( I know there's no God because religion is fookin shite - but if there was end this horrible race of mammals as soon as please.


That is all.

D and C blundering again.
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I heard about the below story on the radio last night.

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US national "Brett" (L) patrols a road in the town of Al-Qosh, in northern Iraq, where he is fighting Islamic State (IS) militants alongside Christian militia group Dwekh Nawsha
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Christian militia volunteer "Brett" has a tattoo of a machinegun on his left arm and another of Jesus in a crown of thorns on his right

Decked out in his US army-issued fatigues and a lip stud shining from his mouth, the young American fighter cuts an unusual figure in the northern Iraqi town of Al-Qosh.

He served in the US army in Baghdad in 2006-2007 and has now returned to fight the Islamic State jihadist group with Dwekh Nawsha, a Christian militia whose name is an Assyrian-language phrase conveying self-sacrifice.

The 28-year-old, who goes by the pseudonym Brett, has become the figurehead of an emerging movement of foreigners coming to Iraq to support Christian groups.

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Low and behold, he does have a price on his head and some nasty extremist types are looking for him. He said that if he gets captured and beheaded or set on fire in a cage, he has to die sometime and it worries him not.

Fair play to the guy.

The most spectacular eclipse of the Sun for 15 years will plunge Britain into twilight for two hours this month.

In a rare astronomical alignment the Moon will pass directly between the Sun and the Earth, blocking out most of the light from around 8.40am on March 20.

Northern Scotland will have the best view of the partial eclipse, where more than 98 per cent of the Sun will be covered. For London and the South East it will be around 85 per cent.

Dr Edward Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said the eclipse would be spectacular because the Moon was closer to the Earth than it had been for 18 and a half years.

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84% for us in Plymouth. I hope it is a fine sunny day, not cloudy like it was for the last one.

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I really hope Lee Dent gets a long-long spell in prison for the murder of Alex Peguero Sosa.

And when Dent finally he goes down, i hope he gets his comeuppance while in prison.

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Juncker, Merkel & the EU (AKA The Fourth Reich) determined to keep poking the bear.
Can't wait to hear CMD & the other Fifth columnists try to put a positive spin on this one.

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Juncker, Merkel & the EU (AKA The Fourth Reich) determined to keep poking the bear.
Can't wait to hear CMD & the other Fifth columnists try to put a positive spin on this one.      

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I can't believe that this hasn't made more of an impact? As most know I am anti Europe my worries of a federal state have been criticised as xenophobic yet here we are with proof that The EUSSR sees itself as more than just an economic force. Is this why we are downsizing our armed forces? I heard last night that we will have the smallest army since the time of Cromwell.

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The most spectacular eclipse of the Sun for 15 years will plunge Britain into twilight for two hours this month.

In a rare astronomical alignment the Moon will pass directly between the Sun and the Earth, blocking out most of the light from around 8.40am on March 20.

Northern Scotland will have the best view of the partial eclipse, where more than 98 per cent of the Sun will be covered. For London and the South East it will be around 85 per cent.

Dr Edward Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, said the eclipse would be spectacular because the Moon was closer to the Earth than it had been for 18 and a half years.

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84% for us in Plymouth. I hope it is a fine sunny day, not cloudy like it was for the last one.

I remember trying to keep ahead of the cloud building from the south west, ended up on the Ashburton rd past Badgers Holt on the moors. The actual eclipse was breathtaking and much better than I expected, really eerie. We didn't manage to lose the cloud btw.

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I watched the last total eclipse on the headland at Dartmouth, well spooky.

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FY 310 wrote:

Juncker, Merkel & the EU (AKA The Fourth Reich) determined to keep poking the bear.
Can't wait to hear CMD & the other Fifth columnists try to put a positive spin on this one.      

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I can't believe that this hasn't made more of an impact? As most know I am anti Europe my worries of a federal state have been criticised as xenophobic yet here we are with proof that The EUSSR sees itself as more than just an economic force. Is this why we are downsizing our armed forces? I heard last night that we will have the smallest army since the time of Cromwell.

....and that could be misleading as well......did they take into account that the population in Cromwell's day was probably less than 10 million.....I haven't actually spent time checking.....if it is... then for head of population it was still quite an impressive size.

We'll all be issued soon with a musket and a sword so that we can form are own New Model Army when the Ruskies come poring over the channel.

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