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by Bjinse on Mon Jun 25th, 2018 at 08:21:37 PM EST
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UK government under pressure to increase defense budget to 3% of GDP: "The UK maintains the biggest defense budget in Europe we have been clear we will continue to exceed NATO's 2% spending target."



Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Wed Jun 27th, 2018 at 09:23:47 PM EST
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Not. Gonna. Happen.

Aparently Williamson was talking about remaining a "Tier  1 military power". When May asked what that meant, Williamson didn't know.  

May doesn't appear impressed by the usual BS from the military chiefs, so I think their requests are going to be filed in the round cabinet on the floor

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jul 3rd, 2018 at 03:24:50 PM EST
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uh oh (none / 0)
Arlene Foster joins the hotties in Tracey Ullman sketch
"Arriving by the pool in her usual skirt and blazer, Arlene gets to know her fellow bikini-clad islanders."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Thu Jun 28th, 2018 at 04:05:34 PM EST
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"The District Grand Lodge of Gibraltar thought that in the case of the Gibraltar Market the placing of a plaque depicting the 300th Anniversary of the United Grand Lodge of England would be most appropriate, as the Foundation Stone of the original Public Market building was laid in 1876 by the then Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, His Royal Highness Prince Albert Edward, The Prince of Wales, eldest son of Queen Victoria and future King Edward VII," the local Lodge said in a statement. "He did so wearing his full Masonic Regalia as the Most Worshipful the Grand Master."
Incidentally, Sánchez signals Brexit opportunity for `positive dynamic' with Gibraltar: drug busting?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Thu Jun 28th, 2018 at 04:20:49 PM EST
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'Wolf Pack' sexual abuser caught seeking passport in Spain
"Explaining their decision for the conditional release, judges in the northern region of Navarra said the risk of the five men trying to flee could be contained by less harsh measures, including reporting to police three times a week and relinquishing their passports."

archived mana forte
Protests have erupted in Spain

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Jun 28th, 2018 at 05:07:09 PM EST
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'Future of EU does not depend on migration summit,' says Dutch prime minister
"'It would be good if this evening we can bring about a sense of calm. But I don't expect a total solution which means we will never have to talk about migration again,' Rutte said."
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by Cat on Thu Jun 28th, 2018 at 05:23:02 PM EST
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Wired reported Wednesday that Exactis, a Palm Coast, Fla.-based marketing and data-aggregation company, had exposed a database containing almost 2 terabytes of data, containing nearly 340 million individual records, on a public server. That included records of 230 million consumers and 110 million businesses.


Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Thu Jun 28th, 2018 at 06:03:44 PM EST
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Borderless innerboobs? (none / 1)
We shall see.
Strongest Data Protection in US [!] Now Law in California
[AB 375] is not without controversy - nor is it necessarily complete, something acknowledged by co-author Assemblyman Ed Chau, D-Monterey Park.

"I think one of the things we will be looking at is the private rights of action, which has been raised by a number of people," Chau said. "The attorney general may have some issues that we need to fine-tune. There might be some immediate technical cleanup that we need to work on."
[...]
The act provides broad consumer protections including the right to know all data collected by a business, the right to say no to the sale of information, the right to delete data and the right to know the purpose of collecting data for business or commercial reasons. An important element of the act is the robust protection of children's [!] data
[...]
Opponents of the measure include Amazon, Google, AT&T and Comcast, which were expected to wage a multimillion dollar campaign had the act gone before voters. With the bill now safely signed, the bill's supporters will now turn their attention to implementation.

Or perhaps not. Top EU Court Embraces Anonymity for Litigants
Citing the recent enforcement of the new General Data Protection Regulation, the Luxembourg-based court said it has decided effective July 1 to mirror the activity of its member states.

"Against a background marked by the proliferation of means of searching for and of disseminating information," the court said Friday, local governments have been increasing personal-data protections for their citizens.
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Going forward, in all requests for preliminary rulings brought after July 1, 2018, the court said it will "replace, in all its public documents, the name of natural [!] persons involved in the case by initials." ...

archived hot messes
Norwegian Court Orders
GDPR
Cloud Act

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Jun 29th, 2018 at 06:16:45 PM EST
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one story, two versions
AFP | French firm Lafarge charged with complicity in Syria crimes against humanity
[The Sherpa rights group] had launched the legal case against Lafarge alongside the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and 11 former employees.
REUTERS | French put Lafarge under investigation over Syria militant payoffs
"The affair ... the scandal"

archived
qualified reporting on the ECCHR by Pro Publica


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by Cat on Thu Jun 28th, 2018 at 05:41:19 PM EST
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Transgender woman wins UK pension case
"The British Supreme Court asked the European Court of Justice for help in interpreting EU law."

archived
19 March Draft Highlights

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sat Jun 30th, 2018 at 10:39:05 PM EST
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sadly doesn't help me at all but it's good to see.

Trans rights have been under consistent attack in the UK for 18 months since the Tory govt (rightly) announced it was looking to improve the Gender Recognition Act in line with international agreements. It's becoming quite intense as most of the media seem very much on the anti side. So it's nice to get a win

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jul 3rd, 2018 at 03:29:50 PM EST
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My inner-Polly-Anna sez: This ruling is a good example of de facto political power. Whether or not Tory gov with parliament conforms with 19 March, the High Court imagines itself equal to the ECJ. "Consultation" may well continue over the cliff to good effect for the peoples' civil rights.

< reckless eyeballin' >

That's not to say, such independence will not be punished by future govs. REMEMBER POLAND!!

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Tue Jul 3rd, 2018 at 04:31:52 PM EST
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EU to open case against Poland over Supreme Court law
Poland' new Supreme Court law enters into force on 3 July and will result in early retirement of some 40% of the judges on the body, which validates election results in Poland. New staff will be named by the president, a PiS ally.
Poland's Supreme Court justice vows to defy retirement order
Demonstrations in support of Gersdorf and other defiant judges are due to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday around the court's offices in Warsaw.


Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Tue Jul 3rd, 2018 at 05:06:22 PM EST
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It's becoming standard practice for US tech giants to follow the letter of European rulings and regulations without really changing their behaviour.

Most recently, Facebook and Google have exhibited just a superficial compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, which requires companies to allow users to keep control of their data. The government-funded Norwegian Consumer Council issued a report showing that the tech companies' rely on "dark patterns" to discourage users from exercising their privacy rights.

The designation refers to interfaces intended to trick users into doing something, usually subscribing to a service they don't want or giving up data. Facebook and Google have used this strategy for some time, even as they superficially adhered to the European rules known as GDPR.



Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Sun Jul 1st, 2018 at 02:44:53 AM EST
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< wipes tears > (none / 0)
For emphasis.
Without enforcement, the GDPR is a fail
There are so many fines to be collected from invalid contracts out there, it's funny.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 02:56:43 AM EST
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Re: &lt; wipes tears &gt; (none / 1)
It's almost like they pass these laws to reassure the rubes, but leave a big wink to Corporates that it will be business as usual

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 07:19:19 AM EST
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Thousands attend Simone Veil's burial in Paris Panthéon
Thousands gathered in Paris on Sunday to pay tribute to Simone Veil, the Holocaust survivor and women's rights defender, as she was given the rare honour of a burial at the Panthéon, the resting place of France's greats.

Crowds applauded and some wore "merci Simone" images to mark the opening up of the male-dominated secular mausoleum of heroes of French nationhood to a modern woman who was also a symbol of the deportation of Jews during the second world war.

Veil, who became one of France's most revered politicians and a president of the European parliament, was known for her battle as health minister to legalise contraception and abortion in France in the face of bitter opposition. She also secured improved rights for prisoners and children in the care system. On the European stage, she continually pushed for an inclusive European Union as a way of never reliving the horrors of the past.

After her death last year, hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions to have Veil's remains transferred to the Panthéon. Veil is only the fourth woman to be honoured in her own right among the 72 men in the imposing building, over the door of which is written "The nation thanks its great men".

by Bernard (bernard) on Sun Jul 1st, 2018 at 08:02:05 PM EST
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Pentagon analyzing cost of keeping troops in Germany: report - The Hill
The Department of Defense is reportedly analyzing the ongoing costs of keeping thousands of U.S. troops stationed in Germany as President Trump considers reducing forces in the region.

The Washington Post reports that Pentagon officials stressed that the audit is limited to internal research so far and does not involve any members of the military's top brass.

The analysis comes after Trump reportedly was taken aback during a White House meeting earlier this year upon learning of the size -- 35,000 troops -- of the U.S. deployment in the country.

The president has frequently complained that NATO countries, including Germany, do not contribute their fair share of defense spending to the alliance.

by Bernard (bernard) on Sun Jul 1st, 2018 at 08:16:56 PM EST
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I would have thought a large mumber of those were based at Rammstein airbase in Germany which is used as a logistical and medical support base for deployments in N Africa and the Middle East.

I doubt the US would downgrade that facility any time soon

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jul 3rd, 2018 at 03:31:58 PM EST
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The US, no. The real question is: does Trump know that?
by Bernard (bernard) on Tue Jul 3rd, 2018 at 06:44:53 PM EST
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Mention "Rammstein" to Der Drumpfenfuehrer, and all he thinks of is a pyrophilic heavy metal band.
by rifek on Wed Jul 4th, 2018 at 06:31:26 PM EST
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On again (none / 1)
Angela Merkel's coalition partner escalates asylum row - DW
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer dramatically re-escalated the row over asylum policy on Sunday evening by saying Chancellor Angela Merkel's European Union asylum deal did not "have the same effect" as the national measures for which he has been pushing.

According to reports from sources within the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), party leader and immigration hardliner Seehofer also said that his crunch meeting with the chancellor on Saturday evening had "not had any effect" on their conflict.

This was a direct contradiction of Merkel's account of the meeting, which she delivered in an interview with public broadcaster ZDF on Sunday. "The sum of everything we have decided has the same effect [as national measures]," she said. "That is my personal conclusion. Of course the CSU will have to decide that for itself."

by Bernard (bernard) on Sun Jul 1st, 2018 at 08:18:47 PM EST
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re: Art. 13

My, my, belated panic in the "sharing economy" gathers apace.
Music Industry's Nonsense 'Myth Busting' About EU's Censorship Machines Is Basically Saying 'Nuh-uh' Repeatedly
What's missing: the deal is done. Google has flipped ContentID (2008) into a milk cow and deliberately spawned an industry of ContentID "registrars" (of which PRS for Music is one) to pawn little platforms like bandcamp.com that can't afford to automate youtube ad "monetizing" and royalty collection.

So sad. OTOH, blockchains are everywhere but youtube.

archived capitalism
DMCA/DRM/WIPO
droit d'auteur / droit de suite

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Jul 2nd, 2018 at 08:44:55 PM EST
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The reason the music industry is saying nuh-hu loudly, is that people are calling their MEPs. And writing emails. Apparently disliking the copyright reform.

JURI recently had a press-conference denouncing the "fake news" of resistance to their copyright proposal, while describing how threatening it is to receive emails form the public. Big money and foreign influence (is that Putin? I bet it is Putin) are supposed to be behind the campaign.

I've called my MEPs (and some more, for good measure). Have everybody called their MEPs? The vote is tomorrow, Thursday. (It is not the final vote, but it is a good opportunity to end this nonsense.)

(I assume my check is in the mail, because so far I haven't got any part of the "big money", not even some rubels.)

by fjallstrom on Wed Jul 4th, 2018 at 11:06:23 AM EST
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Good luck with that.

Americans invented this pyramid scheme.

EU 27 1/2 is getting in, haphazzardly, at the top of the market --bottom of the pyramid.

So. Permit me to allay some hysteria. ("Even if you think that people who pirate music should be executed and all news organizations are the devil, you probably like memes." I don't like memes, and I don't hope to execute "media" pirates, because I know, they are getting paid.)

I have seen things, lo, these 30 years.

The copyright holders and paywall builders will sooner rather than later yield to the Venal Imperative. In order to maximize ad revenue, slack is baked into the grift. Beside renewed interest in "fair use" and derivative indemnity, enforcement will accommodate whomsoever seeks "use rights" for a piece of the "action." The char limits to links will gradually expand to save user search costs or no one sift-thru or click-thru duplicates, updates, retractions, affiliate and abridged copies to find an "original." Much less register for user credentials with every publisher on the planet or buy a 0.99 app to track "free" read monthly quota.

People will call this IPR exploitation innovative and pay for the privilege to view publicly held information such as FRB "research" and heavily redacted court filings, converted to digital format by some entrepreneur employing zero-contract labor.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Jul 4th, 2018 at 06:51:45 PM EST
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Yes, in practise, little will change in the walled gardens of facebook and youtube. Youtube already blocks germans from seeing videos that their censorship machines deems unsuitable, so maybe more europeans will enjoy get "this video may not be shown in your country" screen. But otherwise, there might be little change.

Outside the walled gardens, the copyright organisations will have free hand to squash what they deem bad. And fair use generally has a rather weak position in european copyright laws. For example, the Swedish sculptors copyright collection agency sued Swedish Wikipedia the other year for posting pictures of public art where less than 70 years had gone since the death of the sculptor. The sculptors won, and not having a big ad revenue stream to share, Swedish wikipedia now doesn't show pictures of public art.

From the article you link:

<quote>Article 11 has been variously called the link tax or the snippet tax. Designed to mitigate the power over publishers that Google and Facebook have amassed in the last decade, it codifies a new copyright rule for linking to news organizations and quoting text from their stories. Online platforms will have to pay for a license to link out to news publishers, and this will theoretically help support organizations that are vital for public information and drive users to their homepages.</quote>

Now, Google can afford to pay or fight, but smaller platforms could easily be crushed. Like eurotrib for example, in this very comment I quote and you link an article that this platform has not payed for linking to. Maybe we won't be crushed (maybe we are to small for anyone to pay attention), but there is no upside to having these laws.

by fjallstrom on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 10:58:08 AM EST
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We won!

Winning the procedural vote here is important and winning with a margin larger then abstantations, indicates that winning the actual vote in September is within reach.

by fjallstrom on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 11:27:50 AM EST
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Re: Europe (none / 0)
well done.
the EU is not dead.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 01:47:37 PM EST
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So every member of the Austrian contingent to the EP declared that they would vote against.

Surely some mistake??

by generic on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 02:08:24 PM EST
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You mean the EPP and FPÖ lot declared one thing and voted another? Maybe they counted on nobody counting the votes.

Here is a list per EP-group on how everybody voted. The EPP has most yes-votes, then S&D. I think it looks like both a political divide and a French-German bloc.

by fjallstrom on Fri Jul 6th, 2018 at 03:35:39 PM EST
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Of course someone had already made graphics on both those aspects:

So France, Latvia and Roumania for, Sweden (100% against, guess they don't want the pirates back), Poland, Netherlands and Lithuania against. Germany split down the middle (so much for my impression of a Franco-German bloc). No obvious geographical factors, but clearly different voting patterns in different countries.

by fjallstrom on Fri Jul 6th, 2018 at 03:43:06 PM EST
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spin (none / 0)
AFP | EU Parliament rejects copyright law in win for US tech giants

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 05:31:24 PM EST
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Re: spin (none / 0)
This law has always been spinned as "the [European] creators" vs. "the [US] GAFA".
by Bernard (bernard) on Fri Jul 6th, 2018 at 08:03:22 PM EST
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That's odd.

The article leaves this reader with the distinct impression that moral conflict is best titled France vs. "the [US] GAFA". France being manifest in the principles of droite de suite and popularity of the last four presidents of the republic.

Accordingly, a small majority of MEPs voting against French designs ("European creators"), rather than against GOOG, FB (instagram, whatsapp), TWTR, AAPL  exploitation, seems the more plausible explanation for recommitting the vote on the "reform" package.

Not more plausible than reluctance to tax GOOG, FB (instagram, whatsapp), TWTR, AAPL, but more plausible than any will ostensibly to protect the freedom of GOOG, FB (instagram, whatsapp), TWTR, AAPL paid syndicates to copy "art works." Or defend the most vexing question, What does 'Web culture' Express?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sat Jul 7th, 2018 at 03:16:56 PM EST
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"walled garden" of gmail (none / 0)
Google Sued Over Third-Party Access to Emails
Google's parent company Alphabet brought in $117.8 billion in revenue in 2017 and was valued at $766.4 billion as of June 2018, according to Forbes.

Did I write "top of the market ... bottom of the pyramid"? Why, yes, I did.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sat Jul 7th, 2018 at 10:25:42 PM EST
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landssakes. (none / 0)
Ninth Circuit Strikes Down California Royalties Law
The Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that a California state law that required artists be paid royalties from auction sales only applies to art that was sold before the establishment of the federal Copyright Act.
When was that?
The appellate panel affirmed the district court, finding that the Copyright Act, which went into effect in 1978, preempted the Golden State's law. Under the first-sale doctrine of the federal law, the owner of a copyrighted work is allowed to sell it without seeking permission of its creator.
Success has many, failure none
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In case you were wondering what happened to the "growwn up", Jay Bybee

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Sat Jul 7th, 2018 at 09:54:02 PM EST
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Re: Europe 'Porton Down: Putin Strikes Again!' (none / 0)
The British can't seem to put the lid back on the vial ...btw was this the same one used by US Secr of State Colin Powell in 2003 at the UN Security Council before the invasion and occupation of Iraq? The Ayatollahs of Persia be forewarned!

Excellent coverage by The Guardian in this early stage .... waiting for Boris and Theresa ... sorry, we're busy with a COBRA.

Police fear Wiltshire couple have been exposed to nerve agent

Counter-terrorism police have joined the investigation into what happened to two people in Wiltshire who are in a critical condition, amid fears that they may have been exposed to a nerve agent.

Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, who were at a property in Amesbury, were initially believed to have overdosed on drugs, but their symptoms raised alarm among medics and Wiltshire police, which led them to suspect a possible nerve agent.

The couple, both in their 40s, were in a critical condition at Salisbury district hospital, Wiltshire police said on Wednesday.

Tests were being carried out on a substance at the nearby Porton Down government defence laboratory. Whitehall sources said that it was too early to tell whether the incident was related to illegal drugs or "something more sinister".

The couple are understood to be British citizens who are unlikely to have been the victims of a targeted attack.

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Sam Hobson, 29, a friend of the couple, said he believed they had been struck down by a nerve agent.

He described how on Saturday morning Sturgess fell ill and was taken to hospital and how later that morning Rowley also became sick. He said both were in hospital in isolation and he was receiving regular calls from the authorities to check he was well. "They thought it was drugs at first. They now think it's a nerve agent," he claimed.

Must have forgotten to scrub the home front door knop of the Skripals ... or was her luggage from Russia returned via FedEx? Sloppy work by the British ...

○ In the beginning was the lie ...
○ UK Issued a DA-Notice On My Diary Result
○ How MI-7 Fake News in 1917 Impacted the Nazi Genocide

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jul 4th, 2018 at 03:43:14 PM EST
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Re: Europe 'Porton Down: Putin Strikes Again!' (4.00 / 2)


Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Wed Jul 4th, 2018 at 05:55:25 PM EST
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Re: Europe 'Porton Down: Putin Strikes Again!' (none / 1)
Gee, Vlad, you should know never to return to the scene.  Sloppy covert op, Vlad.
by rifek on Wed Jul 4th, 2018 at 06:34:19 PM EST
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Re: Europe 'Porton Down: Putin Strikes Again!' (none / 1)
To the contrary: by picking off pairs of Brits each month Russia will be able to vanquish the UK in about 2,500 years.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Wed Jul 4th, 2018 at 07:29:52 PM EST
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Re: Europe 'Porton Down: Putin Strikes Again!' (none / 1)
Nah, we're getting used to it now.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 07:17:00 AM EST
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African leaders set up migration body, reject EU migrant `platforms'
possibly related "integration" measure
UN rights office slams Denmark's plans to take toddlers from 'ghetto' families for values classes
in US history this policy was known as "school bussing." Over 40 years of intermittent implementation it has failed to desegregate ethnic groups, experts agree.

gahbless America.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Jul 4th, 2018 at 07:23:15 PM EST
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Re: Europe (none / 0)
How not to use the word ghetto ®.
French policeman on manslaughter charge as shooting sparks riots

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Sat Jul 7th, 2018 at 03:54:25 PM EST
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Genoa demands royalties from the Queen (none / 0)
Genova Today
"Your Majesty, I regret to inform you that from my books it looks like you didn't pay for the last 247 years".  Sfoggiando il suo inglese il sindaco Marco Bucci ha recitato a margine della conferenza stampa sul primo anno di governo, la frase che potrebbe essere indirizzata alla regina. Tradotta in italiano e in proposta di marketing: la Regina Elisabetta deve a Genova 274 anni di arretrati per l'affitto della bandiera. Usa i toni ironici il primo cittadino ma chissà che l'idea non sia frutto del recente viaggio con l'assessore Serafini proprio a Londra durante il quale ha portato avanti il programma di marketing territoriale."
by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 02:27:10 PM EST
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< wipes tears > (none / 0)


Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Thu Jul 5th, 2018 at 02:33:31 PM EST
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German students solve Brexit (4.00 / 2)
Guardian. Asked for their analysis, as part of their Abitur, to how to solve Brexit, they come up with things like
"If I understand it correctly, the conflict with the border is there because Northern Ireland voted to stay in the EU," said Daniel Boppert, 19, a student at the Lessing gymnasium in Karlsruhe, who scored 14 out of 15 points in the written English test.

"Now they need a special solution. Perhaps they should have another referendum, but only for those in Northern Ireland, to see if they want to stay in the EU or in the UK under the new conditions after Brexit."

Isn't he aware that if it wasn't for the UK in WW2 they'd all be speaking German today? And he wants to destroy that?
by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Fri Jul 6th, 2018 at 06:21:05 PM EST
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Does this make any sense? (none / 0)
Independent
The pound fell in the wake of Boris Johnson's resignation from the Cabinet on Monday.
by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Mon Jul 9th, 2018 at 02:37:56 PM EST
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Re: Does this make any sense? (none / 0)
Yeah, increases odds of full blown chaos in short term.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Jul 9th, 2018 at 02:41:39 PM EST
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Re: Does this make any sense? (none / 0)
Boris Is Gone!

What took her so long? It was untenable when she decided to remain ... with one foot inside the EU.

Not a feasible option, so the hard Brexiteers are gone, the cherry picking of EU assets will be unacceptable, so the UK [or what's left] will face a no deal i.e. a hard Brexit.

Can she keep a cabinet together?
Can she hold on to her position?
Can the Tories prevent a new election?

More fireworks coming this week ... watch for a floating baby Trump in the London skies.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui (Oui) on Mon Jul 9th, 2018 at 02:56:35 PM EST
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Re: Does this make any sense? (none / 0)
in anticipation of a challenge to May leading to a General election

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jul 9th, 2018 at 07:34:56 PM EST
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