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Post 12381

toybox

And:

Obama congratulates Sarkozy on the birth of Giulia

hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVgtJ50h6GI

smiley - rofl


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Post 12382

anhaga

In case anyone missed it:

'Police in London swept into the local Occupy protesters' encampment early Wednesday and removed all tents'

http://www.littleurl.net/932f84




smiley - winkeye


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Post 12383

swl

Did they do them for loitering within tents?


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Post 12384

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

Curiously, 'loitering with intent' is not on the books
in Canada as far as I am aware. From here it sounds like
a very prejudicial and presumptive law designed to harass
and limit freedom of movement and assembly.

It strikes me as an affront to the presumption of innocence.

Mind you, because we cannot act until a crime has actually
been committed, we often hear complaints that police should
have known or done something beforehand.

Happily, we often rely on basic traffic control laws to tell
folks to 'Just move along' and arrest people for 'failing
to follow the directions of a traffic officer'. Works wonders
on gathering mobs.

I can see on telly this morning that there's a large crowd
obstructing traffic and blocking the streets in London.

smiley - bluelight
smiley - cheers
~jwf~


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Post 12385

swl

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Sounds like the Royal Family.


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Post 12386

Mzunga

Those Mainers hang tight together...
in good times and in winter.
Good man Stephen King, Good man.
smiley - biggrin

http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2011/11/09/stephen_king_offers_heating_oil_help_for_mainers/?p1=Upbox_links


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Post 12387

IctoanAWEWawi

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2011/nov/10/eurozone-crisis-italy-greece

Lucas Papademos is Greece's new Prime Minister.
Interesting name for a PM, nominative determinism anyone?


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Post 12388

Mzunga

...and sadly this report caught my attention:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15663982


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Post 12389

Pink Paisley

I have just seen this on national news. I can't type what I said because it will be yikesed and never come back.

This man is a low life.

Animal cruelty - don't follow the link if you are likely to be upset.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-15682047

PP


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Post 12390

Pink Paisley

I just can't imagine what got into his head. What an arse.

PP


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Post 12391

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

Thanks for the warning.
I won't look.
smiley - cheers
~jwf~


"What news story has caught your attention today?" thread

Post 12392

anhaga

Another generation not forgetting:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/11/10/edmonton-no-stone-left-alone-poppies.html


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Post 12393

Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break

My 14 year old daughter went on a school trip to the war graves in Belgium. She was very moved by it all - if schools keep this up, they won't be forgotten!

Now, as an antedote to the earlier depressing stories, an "awww!" story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-15685053


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Post 12394

shagbark

Meanwhile in the US Professional Basketball(NBA) was supposed to start two weeks ago and they are still lockout because they can't come to terms on a contract.
http://www.blogabull.com/2011/10/10/2482441/nba-lockout-regular-season-games-canceled-CBA-David-Stern


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Post 12395

Fizzymouse- no place like home



Sometimes things just happen

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/nov/03/overzealous-cleaner-ruins-artwork?fb_action_ids=10150357410122467%


smiley - mouse


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Post 12396

swl

"Suspended Labour peer Baroness Uddin is set to be allowed back into the House of Lords without repaying the £125,000 she owes in wrongly claimed expenses.

It is understood she claims she cannot afford to make the repayments demanded.

A House of Lords committee banned her from the Lords in October last year until April 2012.

When the ban ends she can return to the House of Lords and claim expenses again without having repaid the money she was told to by the committee."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15718233

Oops - I may have just broke the filther.


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Post 12397

Pink Paisley

I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

Freddie Starr taken to hospital after eating mouse tails, turkey testicles and pigs bums.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8889108/Im-a-Celeb-Freddie-Starr-taken-to-hospital.html

What can I say!

PP


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Post 12398

Eveneye--Eegogee--Julzes

Good one, toybox.smiley - laugh


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Post 12399

Eveneye--Eegogee--Julzes

I am further to the left than the demands of Vancouver's 99%ers. I don't agree with much there. Most things for reform could simply be replaced by a near-starvation diet in prison scheme distributed over the wealthier societal brackets and calibrated by 'stupidest investments and spending' research, plus an agency for assisted home sharing for the poor. Just let capitalists be capitalists until locking some fraction up in their seventies.


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Post 12400

swl

Scotsman called 'sweaty sock' claims racial discrimination

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/8889276/Scotsman-called-sweaty-sock-claims-racial-discrimination.html

smiley - huh




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