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by Clodhopper
Sun Jan 20, 2019 4:59 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Lobbyists 4 Good
Replies: 1
Views: 13432

Lobbyists 4 Good

I can certainly understand that lobbyist is a dirty word. This lot APPEAR to be saying good things about their intentions but I have no real frame of reference. If this is not usual it will seem odd.
by Clodhopper
Sun Jan 20, 2019 3:27 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Helsinki Summit
Replies: 27
Views: 23501

Helsinki Summit

<t>...and you are right about Mueller. <br/> <br/> His intervention is fascinating but I don't know what it means. He said things about the report were not accurate but not what. I can't tell if he's redefining the probe to something less serious such as Putin felt Trump would be much better for him...
by Clodhopper
Sun Jan 20, 2019 3:14 pm
Forum: United Kingdom
Topic: Positive outcome from brexit
Replies: 195
Views: 100834

Positive outcome from brexit

Car bomb. No deaths, by luck it seems.
by Clodhopper
Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:46 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Helsinki Summit
Replies: 27
Views: 23501

Helsinki Summit

<t>It is now seriously alleged that Trump has suborned a witness to Congress. And we're still only fiddling round the edges here...<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> I wonder if his supporters have heard this yet? They'll call it fake news of course. I suppose in their minds, where he is saint Trump, agent of ...
by Clodhopper
Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:31 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Example of a suspicious BBC Have Your Say posting
Replies: 4
Views: 16559

Example of a suspicious BBC Have Your Say posting

<t>As far as I can make out ( ie not certain at this sort of range) there has been a failure of leadership in the BBC. People at the top too scared of offending the ERG.<br/> <br/> To be fair to the BBC I think they have sorted out the Climate Change issue you mention. They were treating it like a p...
by Clodhopper
Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:24 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Example of a suspicious BBC Have Your Say posting
Replies: 4
Views: 16559

Example of a suspicious BBC Have Your Say posting

<t>9878. <br/> <br/> Posted by <br/> <br/> KAR <br/> <br/> on <br/> <br/> 8 minutes ago<br/> <br/> Remainer r going mad when they see UK going out from EU..They r doing everything what they can..even Media also helping them..from that point you can understand what is best for the UK..NO DEAL..NO DEA...
by Clodhopper
Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:57 pm
Forum: United Kingdom
Topic: Positive outcome from brexit
Replies: 195
Views: 100834

Positive outcome from brexit

<t>I think she's trying to get her deal still. I think she'll keep running the clock down trying to force a choice until it is too late for anything but her deal or no deal. Whether that is possible or not I don't know.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> An unintentional hard no deal Brexit looks increasingly l...
by Clodhopper
Wed Jan 16, 2019 12:29 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Example of a suspicious BBC Have Your Say posting
Replies: 4
Views: 16559

Example of a suspicious BBC Have Your Say posting

<t>1393. <br/> <br/> Posted by <br/> <br/> PeaceIn2017 <br/> <br/> on <br/> <br/> 22 minutes ago<br/> <br/> As Brexit was won, this needs to be implemented with a plan and strategy that would greatly benefit the UK.<br/> <br/> We need leadership that can achieve this. Is PM May able to do this? The ...
by Clodhopper
Wed Jan 16, 2019 6:43 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Helsinki Summit
Replies: 27
Views: 23501

Helsinki Summit

<t>Well, IF he is proved to be a Russian asset and he's been handing codes, information and details to Putin you'll need to completely reorganise your intelligence services. He's had 2 years and 6 face to face meetings plus a big red phone on his desk to pass sensitive material. Putin could get any ...
by Clodhopper
Wed Jan 16, 2019 4:43 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Helsinki Summit
Replies: 27
Views: 23501

Helsinki Summit

<t>Ok, so the President is successfully impeached and removed, let's say. We have the joys of President Pence...<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> What does the US do about Putin and his agents, interference in your elections and subversion of your institutions? Ignore the fact that the Russian President had a...
by Clodhopper
Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:43 pm
Forum: Recovery Forum
Topic: A thread of whining and self pity
Replies: 19
Views: 43854

A thread of whining and self pity

<t>Magentaflame: It's taken me this long to get through your last post.<br/> <br/> There is actually a positive here: The real major horrors we hear of are from generations back. We cannot cure perhaps but we can mitigate. And it wouldn't surprise me to find both our parents said something similar.<...
by Clodhopper
Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:41 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Helsinki Summit
Replies: 27
Views: 23501

Helsinki Summit

<r>Anne: Thank heavens for that. Honestly I was beginning to think that the US had made their Head of State above the rule of Law! <E>:(</E><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> I asked what the US would do if it turns out the president was an asset of Putin. The silence is more telling than words likely would be...
by Clodhopper
Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:24 pm
Forum: United Kingdom
Topic: Positive outcome from brexit
Replies: 195
Views: 100834

Positive outcome from brexit

<r>We are in completely uncharted territory and with an unwritten constitution we have no map. No-one knows what happens next. Concentrates the mind, anyway.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> The Speaker seems a key figure now. Perhaps the biggest thing that happened that hasn't really registered was the Speak...
by Clodhopper
Tue Jan 15, 2019 3:11 pm
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Genocide
Replies: 21
Views: 19138

Genocide

<t>"In that case should it not have been called e-exit rather than brexit as it is possible both northern ireland and scotland will depart the the united kingdom. Not so much ridicule as sympathetic glances methinks."<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> All options have serious down sides at this point. I'd canc...
by Clodhopper
Tue Jan 15, 2019 1:12 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Helsinki Summit
Replies: 27
Views: 23501

Helsinki Summit

<t>As far as I can make out impeachment is just a slap on the wrist these days. Doesn't remove the President if he doesn't want to go. As far as I know nothing legal does but then I don't know a lot about this. If both Houses say he's a traitor and he just goes nya nya no I'm not what then?<br/> <br...
by Clodhopper
Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:34 pm
Forum: History
Topic: What did Earth look like, , MANY YEARS AGO?
Replies: 9
Views: 11849

What did Earth look like, , MANY YEARS AGO?

Yeah, this is much smaller scale I think the idea is. If you live on a salt marsh you don't need much rise in sea level to be non-viable. It doesn't contradict the westward pressure theory, it's just another factor.
by Clodhopper
Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:36 am
Forum: History
Topic: What did Earth look like, , MANY YEARS AGO?
Replies: 9
Views: 11849

What did Earth look like, , MANY YEARS AGO?

<t>One minor side effect of the discovery of climate change and the extent to which sea levels have fluctuated even in historical times is that historians began a while back to look at the effects of historical climate change beyond the effects of catastrophic events like the original Krakatoa or th...
by Clodhopper
Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:13 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: FionaMoffi
Replies: 4
Views: 12876

FionaMoffi

<t>I suppose the more sinister idea is what happens as bots improve? Now it's easy to spot them but it wouldn't take much I would guess for them to be able to fill a form out and produce some appropriate blurb. <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Policing social media is an issue more generally. The place I rea...
by Clodhopper
Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:40 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Genocide
Replies: 21
Views: 19138

Genocide

If we Brexit I may be having to pretend I'm American as a lesser target for ridicule than being English.
by Clodhopper
Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:36 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Replies: 15
Views: 19904

Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism

They've just brazened it out and it has disappeared in today's vote on May's deal. Just another bit of tory Brexit corruption. Shrug. Who cares if a couple more tories get rich from Brexit. It was the real point of it after all.
by Clodhopper
Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:40 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Helsinki Summit
Replies: 27
Views: 23501

Helsinki Summit

<t>So we now have the Washington Post and the NYTimes claiming that the FBI launched an inquiry into Trump's Russian connections 3 days before the Mueller probe was authorised and the lack of knowledge there now seems to be about ANY of Trump's meeting's with Vlad "The Poisoner" Putin.<br/> <br/> <b...
by Clodhopper
Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:29 pm
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Genocide
Replies: 21
Views: 19138

Genocide

I'm really just calling attention to Trump's casual abandonment of these allies to Erdogan's tender mercies at a moment's notice. A whim.

It has implications for NATO while Trump is there at least.
by Clodhopper
Fri Jan 11, 2019 2:52 pm
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Genocide
Replies: 21
Views: 19138

Genocide

<t>I felt if the Syrian Kurds were to be wiped out they should have some record. I've barely heard of these people but I have heard Erdogan.<br/> <br/> If this happens, Donald Trump wanted a wall named after him. I think what struck me was the casualness with which he consigned a people to death. Am...
by Clodhopper
Fri Jan 11, 2019 2:27 pm
Forum: History
Topic: What did Earth look like, , MANY YEARS AGO?
Replies: 9
Views: 11849

What did Earth look like, , MANY YEARS AGO?

Nice. Thanks.

Added to Favourites. That nice. :)
by Clodhopper
Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:45 am
Forum: United Kingdom
Topic: Positive outcome from brexit
Replies: 195
Views: 100834

Positive outcome from brexit

<t>I see there's just been an amendment intended to make hard Brexit more difficult by saying Parliament now has to approve the expenditure necessary for it specifically. Before I think the government would simply use its disciplined majority to put the legislation through. Currently it has no major...
by Clodhopper
Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:31 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Will President Trump run for a second term?
Replies: 1358
Views: 487539

Will President Trump run for a second term?

(On a minor related point, a silly issue I have is a difficulty responding at all, let alone graciously, to compliments. It's particularly silly because I like getting them of course! So before I go from bad to worse, thank you Anne for your kind words. :)
by Clodhopper
Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:20 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Will President Trump run for a second term?
Replies: 1358
Views: 487539

Will President Trump run for a second term?

<t>yaaarrgggh: The trouble with Trump and Brexit is that neither is all talk. Both are having negative effects in the real world. I think that we are in worse trouble than you are but you are having a much worse effect on the world and the future - climate change alone does that. Add the increasing ...
by Clodhopper
Sun Jan 06, 2019 7:04 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Will President Trump run for a second term?
Replies: 1358
Views: 487539

Will President Trump run for a second term?

<t>tude: What is a gun totin' types? <br/> <br/> Someone who habitually carries a gun. More facetiously, look at yaaarg's picture (they don't have to be far right eg might just need a gun for work but the stereotype has them that way).<br/> <br/> t: That is quite a slander. <br/> <br/> Well, the Rep...
by Clodhopper
Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:29 am
Forum: United Kingdom
Topic: Positive outcome from brexit
Replies: 195
Views: 100834

Positive outcome from brexit

...the calm before the storm...
by Clodhopper
Thu Jan 03, 2019 5:16 pm
Forum: United Kingdom
Topic: Positive outcome from brexit
Replies: 195
Views: 100834

Positive outcome from brexit

<t>I seem to remember that Corbyn or McConnell said that they didn't need to be out of the EU for the next election, it's the one after that - phase 2 of their plan - that they need to be out for. I'm not sure how seriously to take it.<br/> <br/> It does seem to be the case that both the far right a...
by Clodhopper
Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:50 pm
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Replies: 15
Views: 19904

Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism

<t>Well, that's a fairly well known Parliamentary tactic. In this case it looks to me that Grayling hoped to just slide his scheme through unnoticed as part of the justifiable Brexit preparations. He IS well known as a complete wally. And on the face of it, it does seem reasonable to be hiring compa...
by Clodhopper
Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:34 pm
Forum: Problems, Solutions Feedback
Topic: Request for feedback on adjustments to FG
Replies: 66
Views: 44330

Request for feedback on adjustments to FG

Chuckle. Bill the Cat from Bloom County!

I've had log in problems since the last time I was on - I was just told I could not log in because I didn't have permission if I remember right. This is the first time I've tried since mid Dec and it worked fine.
by Clodhopper
Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:23 pm
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Will President Trump run for a second term?
Replies: 1358
Views: 487539

Will President Trump run for a second term?

<r>I tend to think of the Presidential assassins and mass shooters (who aren't kids) as far right gun totin' types. Trump's supporters, in other words. US left wingers and liberals are generally against that sort of thing so I'm only aware of one mass killer who went after a far right rally. I recko...
by Clodhopper
Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:10 pm
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Replies: 15
Views: 19904

Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism

<t>Well, I think you've just explained the corruption entirely adequately. No need for more sinister or complex ideas. Apart from anything else we are talking Grayling and he really is not the brightest candle in the packet.<br/> <br/> Ever heard of Occam's Razor? It's a very useful guide in certain...
by Clodhopper
Thu Jan 03, 2019 3:38 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Obama, The War Criminal
Replies: 7
Views: 13847

Obama, The War Criminal

Wow. Didn't realise the scale or the casual attitude to human lives. Also, yet more evidence that Milgram was right: Ordinary humans can be led to do appalling things with remarkable ease.
by Clodhopper
Thu Jan 03, 2019 3:30 am
Forum: Problems, Solutions Feedback
Topic: Request for feedback on adjustments to FG
Replies: 66
Views: 44330

Request for feedback on adjustments to FG

Just tried to get to Night Watchman's thread Violence in London. Cause? and it said invalid link specified, contact an admin if it should link (or words to that effect).

Also, italics aren't working.
by Clodhopper
Thu Jan 03, 2019 3:19 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism
Replies: 15
Views: 19904

Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism

<t>It sounds to me that the US is leading the drive to Corporate States, where the government is unable to control companies that operate with their own extensive private security. Do these corporate communities in California that were mentioned have their own security or do they have normal State P...
by Clodhopper
Wed Jan 02, 2019 12:21 pm
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: Wotsit
Replies: 17
Views: 43774

Wotsit

<r>...not been able to get onto the site for a while. Don't know why except I associate it with problems we've all been having (so I gather)…<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> My guess is water. it's not pre-reformation - the bricks are too thick. It's Victorian probably and my guess is water related. Either...
by Clodhopper
Fri Oct 19, 2018 6:23 am
Forum: Societal Issues News
Topic: How the FBI Silences Whistleblowers
Replies: 4
Views: 7521

How the FBI Silences Whistleblowers

<t>Oops. Hadn't realised you were quoting. Heh. Error not misplaced humour.<br/> <br/> It seems every powerful organisation gets this way, both in the free and unfree world. The best solution I'm aware of is to open up the organisation to external scrutiny but that can bring its own problems: Who sc...
by Clodhopper
Fri Oct 19, 2018 5:54 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US Food Safety regulations...
Replies: 10
Views: 15384

US Food Safety regulations...

<t>Um. Still problems with the site, I see. I'm pretty sure my post here has either vanished or never happened. Maybe it was me...<br/> <br/> Anyway, the brexiters are now saying everyone always knew it would take 10 years for any benefits to show and being poorer is a price well worth paying. Bit d...
by Clodhopper
Fri Oct 19, 2018 5:04 am
Forum: Societal Issues News
Topic: Brett Kavanaugh
Replies: 123
Views: 62105

Brett Kavanaugh

<t>Ahso!;1521054 wrote: Reason and logic are such weak methods of arguing. It baffles the mind why anyone would resort to them when cartoons and empty sentence fragments are so plentiful.<br/> <br/> <br/> ...it got Trump to the Presidency. So it's hard to disagree with you. It's tempting to use the ...
by Clodhopper
Fri Oct 19, 2018 4:57 am
Forum: Societal Issues News
Topic: Trump Reneging On Charity Promise
Replies: 53
Views: 69020

Trump Reneging On Charity Promise

She's late middle age now, I think? Talking about her grandmother? We're going back 100 years then aren't we? If one of your grandparents at that time was black did you sit in the white seats or the black seats? Ok in this case we're talking Native American but doesn't the same principle apply?
by Clodhopper
Fri Oct 19, 2018 4:32 am
Forum: Societal Issues News
Topic: Saudi Arabia Financed the Killers of American Troops I Commanded
Replies: 7
Views: 5650

Saudi Arabia Financed the Killers of American Troops I Commanded

<t>Stories that Saudi Princes in the past bailed Trump out from bankruptcy twice... I see he's saying maybe it's not the Saudis after all. First overseas visit as President? Saudi Arabia, wasn't it?<br/> <br/> Looks to me as if the US President is making himself an accessory after the fact to murder...
by Clodhopper
Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:29 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US Food Safety regulations...
Replies: 10
Views: 15384

US Food Safety regulations...

<r>gmc;1521043 wrote: I'd be more concerned about hormone-treated meat, pesticides residue in grain and chickens washed in chlorine. <br/> <br/> <URL url="https://www.euractiv.com/section/trade-society/news/us-renews-fight-against-eu-ban-on-hormone-treated-beef/"><LINK_TEXT text="https://www.euracti...
by Clodhopper
Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:04 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US Food Safety regulations...
Replies: 10
Views: 15384

US Food Safety regulations...

<r>I'm quite happy cutting a nibbled bit out of veg where required - I also grow things from time to time and eat them <E>:)</E>. It's the processed stuff I'm really thinking about: Tomato juice, for example. Mince just became less appealing unless I buy the meat and mince it myself. We used to have...
by Clodhopper
Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:32 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US Food Safety regulations...
Replies: 10
Views: 15384

US Food Safety regulations...

<t>"So how does Europe keep rat hair, flies, maggots etc etc. out of there crops? I f someone is harvesting thousands of acres of wheat, how do you not get a fly or two in there?"<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Don't know. I do know that rat hair and maggots are not permitted under current standards and tha...
by Clodhopper
Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:10 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US Food Safety regulations...
Replies: 10
Views: 15384

US Food Safety regulations...

<t>Although I'm avoiding Brexit in particular and the news in general at the moment it's actually quite difficult to do and I saw an article which claimed that under US Food Safety regs there are permitted amounts of maggots, rat hair, faeces and mould that are allowed. As far as I am aware, EU regs...
by Clodhopper
Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:02 am
Forum: Societal Issues News
Topic: How the FBI Silences Whistleblowers
Replies: 4
Views: 7521

How the FBI Silences Whistleblowers

Well done on blowing the whistle - I had no idea!
by Clodhopper
Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:35 pm
Forum: Societal Issues News
Topic: Brett Kavanaugh
Replies: 123
Views: 62105

Brett Kavanaugh

<t>Um. I replied and it said error to server....<br/> <br/> Ah well. As best I can here it is again:<br/> <br/> You seemed to imply Trump is not corrupt up the wahoo. So corrupt he cannot see a difference between truth and lies because everything - everything - is there to serve his purposes. So he ...
by Clodhopper
Tue Oct 16, 2018 2:51 pm
Forum: Societal Issues News
Topic: Does Trump's NAFTA Correct the Damage Clinton Did to Workers?
Replies: 9
Views: 5905

Does Trump's NAFTA Correct the Damage Clinton Did to Workers?

<t>My impression - right or wrong - of the new NAFTA deal is that it is really the old one but with the commitment that the USA will not use defence as an excuse in future. ie a lot of noise and disruption and loss of jobs but no change except one on steel which allows Trump to puff his deal making ...

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