Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

According to BBC news just 45% will get the £155.

Tories at it again....... sleaze, sleaze, sleaze.

You just cant trust this lot.

Why is France sending 5000 troops to defend 717 Jewish schools in the area? I'm lost I was under the impression that the attack wasn't directed at the Jewish population there...

Me too??????????

Pressure!

More crookery from the bunch of Crooks party/Government G/F?.. Oh surely not.

Just found this; ok makes more sense now...

France is home to around half a million Jews and five million Muslims—the largest in Europe for both religions.

Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians in the Middle East often spill over onto the streets of France. Last year, synagogues were attacked and Jewish-owned shops were set on fire during the conflict in the Gaza Strip.

French President François Hollande called for unity in the face of anti-Semitism in a televised address after police raids put an end to the grocery standoff and another north of Paris, where two gunmen who attacked the offices of a satirical magazine on Wednesday had holed up.

“It was obviously a horrible anti-Semitic act that was committed,” he said in reference to the targeting of the kosher store.

A man identifying himself as the alleged gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, 32, called the French news channel BFM TV after storming the store, Hyper Cacher. When the broadcaster asked him why he had decided to attack that particular supermarket, he replied he wanted to target “some Jews,” the channel reported after Mr. Coulibaly was killed in a police assault.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/frances-jews-shudder-over-being-targeted-for-attackagain-1420850789

On that principle all the news paper bureaus and distributors should have armed guards.

They probably already do have the above.

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But what is does point to is to have a resolution to the the Israel/Palestine/Lebanon problems.

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Balfour has left a legacy!

According to I think SKY yesterday , there was a Jogger shot dead on the Wednesday . The bullets that were used were the same as that Coulibali used and they think he also shot the Jogger . So much for the we don't kill civilians thing.

Somebody has been on about Birmingham being a no-go area apparently ......I've never been there....(apart from the motor show)....reminds me almost of a Wham song...nearly....

Never been to Birmingham? you haven't lived RF -):

Let me guess, you live in or near the South East of the Country?

amazing Stan....

I wonder why we don't feed these terrorist's Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here , Eastenders Coronation St etc down the Internet . Just think if we could get them gripped by it all . we could save the World . It's got to be tried.

Whats amazing RF... Birmingham? It ain't that good -):

No... you guessing where I live.....Victim....I could provide a list of names to add to that of some delightful people......I mean... we could feed the terrorists...

What if the terrorists were Christian?

To understand how to respond to the Charlie Hebdo atrocity, we only have to imagine what would happen if the situation was reversed




They are Charlie - but are we in Britain? Photo: REUTERS/Charles Platiau



By Dan Hodges

12:51PM GMT 12 Jan 2015



We weren’t Charlie for long. In France they marched in numbers not seen since Liberation Day. But here, the whispers have already begun.


Yes, we do have the right to free speech. But should we really be exercising it? In this way? At this time? After all, we do need to find a way of reaching an accommodation with moderate Islam. Maybe those who claimed the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo were excessively offensive have a point.


And anyway, aren’t we getting this all out of proportion? Yes, what happened in Paris was terrible. But we have seen attacks like this before. Isn’t a huge public outcry precisely what the terrorists want? We saw off the Luftwaffe, for goodness sake. We can see off a couple of misfits with second-hand Kalashnikovs.


Plus, isn’t there something a touch hypocritical in our reaction? We didn’t get all this when Anders Breivik carried out his murderous rampage in Norway. There were no demands there for Christians to condemn his crimes because they were committed in Christianity’s name. Breivik was dismissed as a madman. Aren’t the guys who have been rampaging across Paris just madmen too?


These are all legitimate questions and assertions. Over the past couple of days, I have seen each of them put forward by people who I respect and admire. So I’d like to respond with a question of my own.


More:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11340029/What-if-the-terrorists-were-Christian.html



Quote:

" Yesterday France marched for Charlie. Here, in Britain, we are already trying to turn our back on him. But we can’t. Because even if we don’t see ourselves as Charlie, our enemies do.

A Rubicon has been crossed. Like it or not, we are all Charlie now. "

Anybody watch Foyles Law last night.

Quite reflective on the period we are in and the problems of the 45s and 50s and relationships with M.E. problems.

Worth a watch!

Hmmm, interesting...
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/uncovered-the-%E2%80%9Clost%E2%80%9D-paper-churchill-kept-from-publication

gf pensions I paid a lot of money into old age second pension for 25 years tehn went in to private pension when my old age pension details came my pension was 214 then they took 54 off it because I paid into private pension all the second pensionmoney I paid in from 15 till 38 was taken a way its all ways been the same if you save you suffer if you are bone idle you are a winner

Sir Ben Ainslie needs some help on his honeymoon.

Ben and his new wife, Georgie Thompson, have to be rescued while enjoying their honeymoon aboard a superyacht.



The newly-weds were sailing passed Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island in the Caribbean when their bluewater cruising yacht developed a mechanical fault with its main sail.

More HERE:

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