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  1. Guest Who says:
    November 3, 2024 at 4:58 pm

    It started so well.

    https://x.com/therealnihal/status/1853111670333379055?s=61
    Ok, weirdo. Or Russian bot.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      November 3, 2024 at 5:18 pm

      Nihal Arthanayake
      @TherealNihal
      ‘The meaning of WOKE is aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)’
      In front of a mic. waterstones.com/author/nihal-a…Joined January 2009
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      “For every white kid who would call me a paki there were at least ten white kids who would give him a hiding for doing so. I believe in people.
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      WONDERING!

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      • Lazy Cat says:
        November 3, 2024 at 5:24 pm

        I recall establishment mouthpiece, Owen Jones, recently asking, ‘Whatever that [woke] actually means.’

        I just wish the guy had said, ‘Woke? Oh that’s just another word for c…’

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  2. Eddy Booth says:
    November 3, 2024 at 5:21 pm

    “Angry crowds throw mud at Spain’s king in flood-hit Valencia”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg4p0y3xlpt

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    I can remember which: either I’d forgotten Spain had a king , or I never knew, but anyway, somehow today they’ve suddenly got one, and he’s getting blamed for the lack of warning and poor response to the flood and having mud chucked at him.

    Of course it’s retarded BBC journalism, so no explanations offered as to what it’s all got to do with him.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      November 3, 2024 at 5:28 pm

      Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has been evacuated from the area as the king and queen have suspended a planned trip to Chiva, another area hit by flooding

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    • atlas_shrugged says:
      November 3, 2024 at 5:46 pm

      The missus had an explanation for the Valencia crowds being angry. This is a semi-autonomous region with their own local governor. The emergency levels are 1-3 and he only selected level 2. If level 3 gets triggered then the national federal authority based in Madrid takes over the handling of the emergency.

      Not sure why the Spanish King gets the blame for the local governors level 2 decision though.

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      • Fedup2 says:
        November 3, 2024 at 6:11 pm

        I think they were in a lose lose – go to the scene and get blamed – stay away – and be accused of not caring . The state failed bigly with a foreseeable disaster and a poor slow inept response – at least the ‘street ‘ has been heard …. It’s a long wait from Madrid …
        … I bet there won’t be one of those nonsense public inquiries the British state it so fond of to dilute anger and individual -named – responsibility ….

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      • tomo says:
        November 3, 2024 at 8:49 pm

        Looks like tonight might allow them to notch it up to 3?

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        • tomo says:
          November 3, 2024 at 9:10 pm

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  3. Guest Who says:
    November 3, 2024 at 5:32 pm

    Twitter can be informative (if viewed with a pinch of salt), most certainly entertaining and ever eye opening, but I would never use it to try a get a sensible read on febrile issues like, say, elections, via polls.

    The sheer number of folk pretending to get excited by wild guesses or blatant psyops is truly impressive.

    Most of whom appear to be in the media.

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  4. MarkyMark says:
    November 3, 2024 at 5:32 pm

    The scheme has a pension age of 60, though some scheme members may have a pension age that is less than 60. Pension age is the earliest that you can usually take your pension without it being reduced for early payment.

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  5. Lazy Cat says:
    November 3, 2024 at 5:48 pm

    I read an article on the BBC on how Bitcoin works.

    All I learned was that you need to spend about 40 grand a year on electricity to run the expensive Bitcoin mining computers (about 20 grand each – you need a few of them too).

    Apparently you solve equations to mine the coins and get some Bitcoin yourself.

    Or something.

    Why does solving am equation first win you some Bitcoin?

    Seems utterly mental to me.

    I’m sure the BBC explained it all properly.

    And I thought a ‘Lucky 15’ at Ladbrokes was complicated.

    If you can work out how to mine Bitcoin and do it without your electric being cut off, you deserve to be bloody rich in my book.

    Greta can’t approve of it all though.

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  6. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    November 3, 2024 at 6:02 pm

    There’s so many MPs scamming the expenses system with second homes in London.

    Why not sail the Bibby Stockholm up the Thames and park it outside Westminster so they can have somewhere to stay all these nights working away from their constituencies.
    They wouldn’t need all these second homes and expenses.

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  7. tomo says:
    November 3, 2024 at 6:14 pm

    BBC gaslighting again

    “Harris’s years as a prosecutor” – BBC

    The received wisdom is that she was ( a lot) worse than f’ing useless as a practicing lawyer – few part from MSM lickspittles and the few who likely got pretty rich operating her gob for corrupt bankers, corrupt construction companies etc., etc…..and have anything good to say …

    The BBC are all-in with the copy n pastry DNC issued hagiography about the ghastly old bat.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2d4evq5po

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    • Fedup2 says:
      November 3, 2024 at 6:58 pm

      Dawn Butler always manages to entertain – I’ve montoted her political ‘career’ as she grew up in the neck of the woods in East Londonistan . Like so many far left labour politicians she is as thick as mince .
      If I recall she had had the labour whip withdrawn in the past – but starmer won’t do it after her latest slur on X about Kemi … like starmer – butler was – I think – part of the Corbin gang and still is – along with the ginger scum one .
      Labour mps now know how far they can go ….

      Insulting Kemi doesn’t amount too much – I was hoping she’d lose her seat ….

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  8. Fedup2 says:
    November 3, 2024 at 7:24 pm

    I dipped into the bbc news and caught a story about ‘Russia interfering in the Moldova election ‘ . Presenter delivered it with a straight face . No mention of British Labour Party interfering with the US election …naughty naughty ..

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  11. tomo says:
    November 3, 2024 at 9:26 pm

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  12. tomo says:
    November 3, 2024 at 9:32 pm

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    • Sluff says:
      November 14, 2024 at 10:01 am

      Well, two tier Kier and Rachel Thieves want to grow the economy and clearly the immigration industry is set for substantial growth.
      It is however unlikely to increase the tax take.

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  14. Sluff says:
    November 14, 2024 at 10:05 am

    The Telegraph is going with both barrels today on the Alison Pearson semi-arrest on Rembrance Sunday morning for an unspecified tweet a year ago.

    In many ways this is the most important story of this week. An authoritarian woke establishment telling us what we may and may not think and it’s centre-right citizens being subject to the arbitrary law of the left.

    How I wish Trump were here. The left would be wetting their little panties right now,

    Have I just committed a NCHI? It only takes one person to ‘take offence’.

    Sleep well.

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  15. Sluff says:
    November 14, 2024 at 10:09 am

    Market update, change over less moth.

    FTSE100 (Rachel Thieves budget) down 2.7%
    S and P 500 (Trump election win) up 2.9%

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