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Merlin
|  07 Sep '10 11:19 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 07 Sep '10 11:20
This will be the one that is currently on strike ?
i am reaching the view that Americans are frightened of shadows. |
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Warren BuffetCar
| 07 Sep '10 11:17 : 0 recs : edited 4 times : last edit 07 Sep '10 11:20
3dc,
Muslim extremists plotting to paralyze rail networks during London Olympics
LOL.
Let me guess - they are going to privatize it again?
"Many prisoners have mobile phones. And in the 14 months I was inside I heard six Muslims getting calls from terrorist masterminds instructing them to do Trackwork courses," the paper quoted the inmate as saying.
LOL I can just picture these terrorist masterminds, sitting by their shark tank, stroking their big white cats
"I hope you don't expect me to talk, Blofeld?"
"no, I expect you to do an NVQ in railway maintenance".
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Merlin
| 07 Sep '10 11:15 : 0 recs
3Dc where on earth do you get this stuff from. The idea of sabotaging a rail network is laughable. They don't work anyway. |
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Slightly Optimistic
| 07 Sep '10 10:38 : 0 recs
The news is full of the EU budget commissioner wanting the UK to pay much more to the EU, by surrendering its budget rebate. But shouldn't we expect an effective EU first?
From the Europe forum, 26 Aug '10 12:41:
The EU has many crucial projects in limbo.
It is to be hoped the gigantic new structure for its external relations will conclude the vital matters. Improving the operation of the common currency is one, another is agreeing a common foreign policy [Maastricht origins] - including the implications for the military. This seems crucial for determining the future military strategies of NATO and the UK; in fact last month Ireland acted as a catalyst by providing a discussion paper to the EU on closer relations between the EU and the UN particularly in peacekeeping and peacebuilding.
Such an initiative would of course move EU members away from a multipolar military course to a multilateral one - encouraging more legitimacy, cost savings and effectiveness.
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The EU’s Relations with the United Nations
"The commitment to effective multilateralism, with the United Nations at its core, is a central element of the EU’s external policy." |
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Goel
| 06 Sep '10 12:32 : 0 recs
Another Journey
G. |
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3dc
| 30 Aug '10 22:14 : 0 recs
Muslim extremists plotting to paralyze rail networks during London Olympics
Terrorist outfits are plotting a rail mayhem to coincide with the London 2012 Olympics, it has been revealed.
Muslim prisoners are getting calls from terrorist masterminds instructing them to do Trackwork courses so that they use a prison-training scheme to sabotage train networks from the inside, reports the Daily Star.
It has been reported that the jailed extremists are joining NVQ courses run by the training firm Trackwork, which is backed by Network Rail.
They are expected to use their qualification to land jobs maintaining Britain's railways after their release.
Within a period of six months in 2007, 500 ex-cons started rail jobs and 400 stuck with them.
A 39-year-old inmate, who has been released from Lindholme Prison, claims they see it as a perfect way to infiltrate the system and mount a terror attack.
"Many prisoners have mobile phones. And in the 14 months I was inside I heard six Muslims getting calls from terrorist masterminds instructing them to do Trackwork courses," the paper quoted the inmate as saying.
"I heard the 2012 Olympics talked about. I didn't hear anything about blowing up trains, but I did hear of plans to halt the network. They thought bringing the network to a standstill would cause more devastation than actually killing people," he added.
The Network Rail said providing jobs to the released inmates was the biggest factor in stopping them re-offending and costing taxpayers billions. (ANI) |
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Jungle
| 25 Aug '10 14:32 : 0 recs
bearing the brunt of coalition's austerity drive
"While Nick Clegg is in charge he would do well to ask himself what he thinks he's doing providing cover for this old-fashioned Tory budget."
True colours shining through?
Before we know it, we'll have the ''unavoidable'' consequences of this not so old-fashioned Tory budget to deal with ... |
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zorro
| 18 Aug '10 18:38 : 0 recs
Merlin
I think so, too. Are you aware of the Andrew Maguire case? (The gold trader that mysteriously got run over in London a day after he spilt the beans on the rigged gold market. Interesting detail + total info. clampdown, even though the police caught the culprit.)
It looks like both Yankie and Russky spooks just lurve to do guest spectaculars on British soil. |
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Merlin
| 18 Aug '10 16:08 : 0 recs
It looks like a US job |
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zorro
| 18 Aug '10 15:31 : 0 recs
I am pleased to say that, finally, it is being said aloud what I have always known: that Dr David Kelly did not commit suicide.
Will those responsible (not necessarily British) be revealed? It is most unlikely. |
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3dc
| 12 Aug '10 20:47 : 0 recs
Old UK crooner with his words of wisdom for the day. |
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Slightly Optimistic
| 05 Aug '10 15:36 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 05 Aug '10 15:37
"the world view of the G20 seems to be taking precedence in rethinking the global game"
The global rules for intervening seem to be changing, for a start. For example, many G20 members doubt whether military intervention in Afghanistan is necessary.
G20 Military Capabilities |
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Slightly Optimistic
| 04 Aug '10 14:40 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 04 Aug '10 14:42
"Independence of financial audit from state control is crying out for attention." [04 Aug '10 11:33]
Last month there was a meeting China - EU Accounting and Auditing Co-operation, between the Ministry of Finance of China and the Internal Market and Services DG, European Community.
The reason? The G20 and the Financial Stability Board are encouraging a move to global standards. The communique says both sides will continue to cooperate and work together towards an equivalence decision with regards to public oversight systems for auditors in order to facilitate the opening up of the respective capital markets.
Zorro, the world view of the G20 seems to be taking precedence in rethinking the global game. |
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zorro
| 04 Aug '10 10:47 : 0 recs
External intervention... by whom? By the US of A, that cannot even pay adequately sufficient numbers of its own Home Guards within its own borders?
The G7, G10 or whatever is in no position to keep policing the world. The global game needs to be rethought. |
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Slightly Optimistic
| 04 Aug '10 10:33 : 0 recs
Whether the changing world views of Washington will continue to be followed by most nations is a big unknown. The latest attempt at preventing state capitalism, for example, is an interesting development - who knows where this will lead [Finance and Investment forum, 4 August 10.19]. Independence of financial audit from state control is crying out for attention.
On the index, it is a good guide. It is especially helpful for further study of standards for governance and security, and where external intervention is needed. |
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Hoog
| 02 Aug '10 22:20 : 0 recs
We are all isolationists now? When did it all go wrong?
It is a mistake...
Rgds,
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Warren BuffetCar
| 02 Aug '10 13:20 : 0 recs
Last time I mentioned Hitler I was accused of confirming Godwin's Law.
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zorro
| 01 Aug '10 15:58 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 01 Aug '10 16:01
SO
I am surprised that you have fallen for this index nonsense. The list of sponsors says it all. The almost-bankrupt USA looking for excuses to attack a third of the planet. Yeah, Hitler tried to fight a war on all fronts - not a happy ticket...
The USA have caused all this mess themselves, by outsourcing their industrial base, clocking up unsustainable debts and trying to survive with a devaluing currency with an increasing shortage of resources.
To get them by force off others is not the way to do it.
It is the USA that is becoming a failed state. |
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Merlin
| 01 Aug '10 10:36 : 0 recs : edited 2 times : last edit 01 Aug '10 10:39
'' A nuclear armed Pakistan, with inadequate security, is very high risk.''
No it isn't. Pakistan will not nuke either the USA or the UK as a matter of their government policy.
If you mean some bad people might get their hands on nuclear weapons that is possible- but its also possible in France, the UK etc . The America nutters already have them.
The problem here is the USA. Its belligerence and violence worldwide is deeply destabilising to the whole world.
Pakistan has Nuclear bombs because India does- its that simple.
Two countries are needed by the west Turkey and Pakistan- the USA and the UK seem determined to drive them into the arms of the muslim alliance- incredibly stupid. |
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Slightly Optimistic
| 31 Jul '10 17:29 : 0 recs
Merlin
The phrase "needing external intervention" was mine. This was on the basis that some authority with public funds had decided intervention was necessary.
Which takes us on to the legitimacy, enforcement powers and funding of the United Nations system.
Many matters here. A number of organisations in the multipolar world can at present decide intervention in a sovereign state is necessary, but without UN permission. Closely followed by the question of what is a sovereign state, what can a sovereign state do [eg, state capitalism in the global economy is growing], and then what are the implications in all this for R2P and the Peacebuilding Commission, and the use of the veto at the UN Security Council.
But first things first. A nuclear armed Pakistan, with inadequate security, is very high risk. |
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