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Depressing media pile-on taking place on both Nick Ferrari's and BBC's as we listen.

Why is the conspiracy theory that Netanyahu 'turned a blind eye' to intelligence of Hamas October 7th attack an "anti-Semitic” conspiracy theory"?

If evidence were found confirming the theory, who would be the greater anti-semite - an Israeli leader who failed to defend Jewish people for strategic advantage or someone who questioned his motivation?

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PhilipCJames,
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his government borders on fascist; it would be irresponsible not to question the reasons for his demonstrated failure to prevent or react expeditiously to the October 7 atrocity committed by Hamas.

History suggests the response that it is "unthinkable" is untrue, and might be advanced to shield the guilty parties.


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PhilipCJames,
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@Wen

Yes, it was a tragic irony that many of the Israeli victims of Hamas' atrocities committed on October 7th 2023 did not share Netanyahu's and the Israeli Far Right's vision of Israel, notably those who attended the music festival in support of peace.

While I do not necessarily 'believe' this particular conspiracy theory, when the bloodshed has paused and the dust of demolished dwellings has settled, it would be in Israelis' own interests to delve deep into their own govt's machinations.

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Well-played Wales, ! A young team, you played your best and showed a lot of promise for the future.

ENG 16 : 14 WAL

Must say I think the Scots were robbed of their match-winning try by the TMO.

Surely the rule should be: if you take the ball to or across the try-line the referee/TMO should have to be confident that a try was not scored rather than t'other way around.

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Nick Ferrari has it in for Joe Biden for apparent memory failures.

That's rich coming from a talk show host who doesn't always remember his own call line number ("Oh Seven Whatever...").

Senior moments do not necessarily signify a loss in cognitive ability.

If I must choose twixt a man who recalls the name Mitterrand instead of Macron or a man who cannot remember a woman he raped or that last week his own hands showed red blotches symptomatic of syphilis, give me 'Sleepy Joe.'

PhilipCJames, to random
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Good Morning, all

Disappointed by the Labour Party's handling of its £28 billion pledge on green energy investment (although doesn't help describing it as a "spending spree", that just panders to the Nastiz).

Anyone else see parallels to the poor management of the Post Office and of Royal Mail writ large to apply to an entire country? No focus on transformational investment; instead we see various symptoms of poor management of decline.

Offer us some hope, Starmer.

PhilipCJames, to random
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Good Morning, all

Nick Ferrari on frothing as he demands that asylum seekers who have converted to Christianity be required to spout the story of Jonah and the Whale.

Sounds a bit fishy to me...

The essence of Christianity is surely contained within the New not the Old Testament (full disclosure: I am no longer a Christian)?

Is collective punishment of all refugees for the sins of one of their number the act of a Christian, Mr Ferrari?

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In 2020 it was estimated that 5.1 million Americans, that's 1 in every 44 US citizens, was barred from voting because they were convicted felons.

Anyone else mildly surprised that Americans can even contemplate allowing Donald Trump, facing 91 felony indictments, to stand as a Presidential candidate in November 2024 if he becomes a convicted felon this year?

One rule for the Little People; another rule for the Rich and Powerful...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_the_United_States#:~:text=As%20of%202018%2C%20most%20U.S.,crimes%20of%20%22moral%20turpitude%22.

PhilipCJames, to climate
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I vaguely recall Victoria Wood suggested the only thing that would provoke Britons to violent revolution would be the government tightening the laws on caravaning.

Similarly, I feel the only thing that would make shire Tories treat the seriously is the news that the Desert Island featured on Radio Four's Desert Island Discs had been inundated by rising sea levels...

PhilipCJames, to random
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Good Morning, all

Nick Ferrari embraces the idea that British youngsters should spend a month at army boot camp during their gap year.

Presumably he strongly regrets missing out on compulsory national service in the Swiss Army (he missed out on the SA Knife...?) as he was forced into foreign education instead.

'Lance Corporal' Boris Johnson loves the idea too.

"GET YOUR HAIR CUT, YOU 'ORRIBLE LITTLE MAN!"

Strange how Sasha's happy to inflict summat he himself was spared.

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Boris Johnson is a willbino, Mr James O'Brien.

As in "There will be no tariffs on trade between Northern Ireland and Great Britain..."

Boris Johnson makes other lying stoats look like rank amateurs.



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Spare a thought for Melania Trump, if things pan out as many expect by the end of 2024...

She'll need a whole new walk-in wardrobe of outfits to wear for her weekly visits to console her husband at whichever federal penitentiary becomes home to Trump after he's convicted of some of the 91 indictments he faces.

Donald Trump will be modeling a little number in orange emblazoned with a large D.O.C.

Weird, as it doesn't even stand for Don The Con.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3E3X7_kOzM

PhilipCJames, to Aviation
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A good pilot is a humble pilot.

Incidentally, the point about low hours pilots is one of the reasons I gave up flying - a CFI had said to me:

"Would you get in a car with someone who drove for only 12 hours a year?"

"No" I replied.

"Then why the hell would you get in an aircraft with someone - yourself - who flew the bare minimum of hours to stay current?"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdvkR0o0VZA

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Am now listening to the audiobook of Nick Wallis's THE GREAT POST OFFICE SCANDAL, read by Nick Wallis himself.

Strangely, the tens of thousands of pounds (up to £50,000-70,000 in some cases) in discrepancies between the cash in the safe and the balance reported by the Post Office's HORIZON system almost always seem to lie in the Post Office's favour, i.e., it is the Sub-Postmasters who owe money not t'other way about...


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In retrospect, the frequent court-room insistence of the Post Office that Sub-Postmasters rinsed in court by agree not to blame the Post Office's IT system HORIZON to avoid gaol sentences should have waved a very large red flag.

Those in Fujitsu and Post Office Ltd who repeatedly perjured themselves and essentially committed fraud insisting Sub-Postmasters pay money they didn't owe should be tried and do time themselves.



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PhilipCJames, to random
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Good Morning, all

I understand the US Congress passed a law requiring POTUS to hold a vote in Congress to approve any military action the President takes.

Perhaps our UK Parliament should pass a similar law requiring the Prime Minister to hold a vote in the Commons within 60 days of taking lethal action or call a GE.

Especially apposite given that Second-Past-The-Post PM Rishi Sunak has never won a General Election and has no mandate for war.

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PhilipCJames, to climate
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£43 BILLION to install an unproven technology?

£43,000,000,000.

Makes Tories' Covid Test & Trace App look like the Coffee Club petty cash box.

Drax Industries is proving itself a true Bond Villain...

But it's got form, extracting wealth from rich government seams in the form of £600 million taxpayer subsidies to burn trees. It's a Burn Now, Capture Carbon (Much, Much) Later scheme.



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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/16/drax-gets-go-ahead-for-carbon-capture-project-at-estimated-40bn-cost-to-bill-payers

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Forgive me, I've lost the plot somewhat - are there actually any cases currently being heard by SCOTUS that do not concern civil and criminal appeals brought by Don the Con (former President Donald Trump)?

PhilipCJames, to Horizon
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ian Hislop vs Jake Berry on

Note also that Huffpost has two politicians in its sights over the scandal: Keir Starmer and Ed Davey.

What about all the who have been in power for the last FOURTEEN YEARS and have done next to feck all (until prodded to by a bit of ITV drama)?



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https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ian-hislop-clashes-with-former-tory-chairman-over-government-response-to-post-office-scandal_uk_659f9126e4b0e696b910c4c5

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uncritically accepts top supermarkets' claims of increased year-on-year sales at Christmas 2023.

Why doesn't it ask how much of the inflation in sales is due to inflation in prices?

Or indeed whether supermarkets are profiteering from hiking prices faster than cost increases?

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PhilipCJames, to random
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While 'Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied' applies to the Post Office Horizon Scandal and any measure that speeds up financial and reputation redress for innocent and wronged Sub Postmasters, the prospect of Parliament legislating to quash convictions en masse it raises constitutional questions.

Courts not Parliament dispense Justice. While it not set a legal precedent might it not set a political precedent?


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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/rishi-sunak-announces-plan-to-pass-law-quashing-horizon-post-office-scandal-convictions

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Yesterday many left leaning pundits and journalists were suspended from TwitterX without notice. Some were subsequently reinstated after very public complaints from a few prominent individuals.

Vice: X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation >>> https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d948x/x-purges-prominent-journalists-leftists-with-no-explanation

We have seen this tactic before. Musk uses the ban hammer to enforce self censorship. The message is clear, step over the line and you will be silenced.

How can enduring this regime be worth it? 🤷

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PhilipCJames,
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Confused. I had thought that Leon Musk was the self-proclaimed Champion of Free Speech...

PhilipCJames, to random
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Good Morning, all

If Robert Jenrick MP is such a fan of Rwanda why doesn't he move there, and give the rest of the Untied Kingdom a break from the xenophobic sense of entitlement displayed by him and his fellow Nastiz.

If Jenrick thinks Rwanda is such a safe country, a paradise for asylum seekers, he should move there and contemplate what George Orwell would make of his , as Honest Bob simultaneously holds that Transportation to Rwanda will deter asylum seekers coming to the UK.

PhilipCJames,
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@Roadwarrior29

As a Conservative, Honest Bob Jenrick should surely welcome the continuation of the great British tradition of ironical naming, evident since, oh, Little John at least.

PhilipCJames, to random
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Why haven't we heard this before?

It turns out that we've known since 2012 that the global imposition of in the world's response to the crisis imposed by the financial crash of 2008 was justified by an economics paper based on a spreadsheet that contained a couple of coding errors.

If the knew this, why have they continued to sanctimoniously impose their flawed ideology on the UK for the last decade?

Cos it suits them...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001r1s4

PhilipCJames,
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@Vonskinnback

I've never trusted Economists since I observed that they insist on putting the dependent variable on the wrong axis of the graph.

It's well known that were one to arrange all the economists in the world in a line they still wouldn't reach a conclusion....

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