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  1. Guest Who says:
    November 29, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Rick may not be best pleased at the responses thus far…

    “Newsbeat

    Have you been a victim of “sextortion”? It’s when criminals pose as someone else to get victims to perform sex acts and then blackmail them

    Contact us in confidence if you’ve been affected: rick.kelsey@bbc.co.uk”

    Don’t be like Rick. Rick is what makes the BBC what it is.

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  2. Sluff says:
    November 29, 2016 at 10:33 pm

    Project Fear part 245
    Doom doom and Brexit gloom.
    The European Fusion project at Culham is now ‘ uncertain’ because of Brexit.
    As featured on the bBBC 10pm news tonight.
    Funny how CERN with its famous Large Hadron Collider seems to do quite well in…….Switzerland.
    Something our famously investigative bBBC ‘journalists’ seem not to have noticed.

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    • Nibor says:
      November 29, 2016 at 11:46 pm

      What if we don’t give money to the European Space Agency or CERN Project . Either other countries will , or they won’t . And it makes a difference to the price of bread by …..?

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      • taffman says:
        November 29, 2016 at 11:52 pm

        Nibor
        Now what exactly has CERN done for all the wasted time and money?
        Its just another European white elephant.
        We should have used the money to build up our Royal Navy.
        We will be needing it shortly.

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        • Nibor says:
          November 30, 2016 at 12:14 am

          Taffman ,
          Just as stupid is having university departments who study African or Asian diseases , seemingly to be leaders of that particular study . It seems the Powers That Be (elite ) want to be leaders in anything just to be leaders in something , regardless of the cost or benefit to the Ordinary Joe here .
          The University of East Anglia climate department is a case in point .

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  3. StewGreen says:
    November 29, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    The BBC Lie-Force-Force-1 jet just landed in Havana so Emily Maitliss can broadcast Newsnight live from there.

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    • chrisH says:
      November 29, 2016 at 10:40 pm

      Not climate change tonight then Emily is it?
      History in the making as Emily poses outside Castros cigar factory, pock marked munchkins forcing beagles into their masks.
      Yep-well worth the airmiles.
      Which makes Mother Earth choke more-Emilys Silver Star Business Miles…or Burning Fag Ash Lil in Havanas one working crematorium on Saturday?

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    • Guest Who says:
      November 29, 2016 at 10:41 pm

      Is she wearing makeup, or going for the HRC look?

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    • StewGreen says:
      November 29, 2016 at 11:03 pm

      She just said they’ll be there for almost 1 week cos the funeral isn’t until Friday ..and there is some other parade tmw

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  4. Dover Sentry says:
    November 29, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    A government ‘spokesperson’ this morning stated that the government was going to fight for the best Brexit deal possible for Britain.

    I didn’t vote for the best Brexit deal. I voted to leave with no deal.

    Strangely (or not), the BBC haven’t zeroed in on this.

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    • embolden says:
      November 29, 2016 at 11:04 pm

      I share your bewilderment. This evening I watched Faisal Islam in the European court explaining the “complexities” involved in incorporating 50 years worth of EU law into English law, and how this was another indicator of how tricky the whole process will be.

      Faisal, love, can you explain to me how Germany was reunified after 44 years, in the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and reunification day in October 1990, despite the reservations of several EC member states of the time…..surely there were “legal complexities” there too?

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  5. taffman says:
    November 30, 2016 at 12:43 am

    Will Al Beeb run a HYS on this ?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38149264

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  6. StewGreen says:
    November 30, 2016 at 12:45 am

    Monday’s Times News Bites
    The Times is onboard with #ProjectCallThemNazis
    full page page 9 big photo of Nazi salutes in UK, Cox, Mair etc.
    Rest of page has article about 3 Cambridge students who some drunk sports party member called “dirty Jews” ..sad, but hardly national news

    pg 11 BoE Carney want’s 2 year Brexit Delay.

    pg 19 The aged British photographer who lived on Cote d’Azur and was last week was accused of historic sex abuse against pre-16 models has suicided at age 83

    pg 37 Turkey is planning a scheme to send 3,000 immigrants/day in dinghies to Greece

    pg 37 €18.8m allocated to give top EU officials a back dated pay rise

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    • StewGreen says:
      November 30, 2016 at 12:49 am

      Eco- News
      pg 45 Abramovich’s firm Velocys says Heathrow Runways sould be given go-ahead
      but only if his corps Green-aircraft fuel is given a tax break

      page 3 “Snow Problem :ski resort fights climate change with ‘Disney Dome’
      #1 It’s not a dome it’s a long warehouse going down the mountainside
      “its counter to climate change, which figures suggest is rapidly shortening the “real” ski season.”

      It’s not super revolutionary : Its like the indoor surf arena where I used to live in Japan, stuck on a mountain. Ah it’s going to be a shorter only 400m.
      “Grande Motte glacier has already lost 30% of its ski area”..is that due to rule changes ?
      “The Swiss Federal gov says by 2050, all small and medium size glaciers in Europe will have melted entirely (The writer has been disaster quote shopping ?)
      – To be powered by dams , solar panels, biomass boiler
      (i’m guessing in the winter that there is no hydro or solar)
      Greens oppose plan

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  7. Andrew Caplan says:
    November 30, 2016 at 10:30 am

    I seem to have missed any mention of this on the BBC, even to connect it with Trump:

    The violence in Milwaukee over the past few days was sparked off because a black gangster with a long rap sheet was shot dead by a black policeman after refusing to lay down a stolen firearm

    Some of my best friends steal guns and brandish them in front of the police on a regular basis. Usually after spending £3000 on a washing machine.

    If that loses its appeal, you can always do this:

    Stockholm in flames as car fire epidemic rages in ‘no-go’ zone

    Who wouldn’t? It must be pretty cold in Sweden right now.

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  8. gaxvil says:
    November 30, 2016 at 10:41 am

    On the subject of the ISIS follower, on the rampage in the US, with car and butcher knife. Shot dead by a Policeman.
    The man who would have been Clinton’s VP says, it’s another gun violence tragedy.
    The twisted view of the Left has gone beyond a different approach and is now in the realm of unhinged delusion.

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    • Andrew Caplan says:
      December 1, 2016 at 11:28 am

      “another gun violence tragedy”

      Strange world we live in. Inert materials just explode, guns and knives turn violent, cars and trucks go out of control, aircraft plummet spontaneously and, sometimes, people’s heads fall off.

      It’s a mystery.

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  9. gaxvil says:
    November 30, 2016 at 10:48 am

    I can’t help the feeling that May and crew just don’t have their hearts in it.
    Too much like hard work and not what they became MPs for and won’t be too upset if they get pushed out next election?

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  10. gaxvil says:
    November 30, 2016 at 11:35 am

    Ambulances, Social Care, Prisons, Housing but hey, lets send some RAF blokes into a war zone and certain death.
    Better plan – Send Labour MPs in trucks – Double Bonus Points surely?

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