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I never thought I'd see the day when the following observation would be well-deserved with regards to the UK... Get a cardboard box then. What's with all the 'keeping up appearances'. Dignity is in how you lived your life.   And considering how most of the Brits just supported the jab and turned a blind eye and apathetic cheek to how it was killing people, and how all the prior measures killed people, those with learning disabilities, and old folks, and how 'popup' jab centres are allowed to lure kids into jabbing outside schools, and Britons, their police, their courts, did and do nothing effective about this, i think even a cardboard box is overkill for such a people.   They lost enough respect for the Sanctity of Life, each other, and as a result lost their self-defence instinct that even their beloved pets have, that they can actually confuse premeditated grievous bodily harm and murder for an 'infringement on bodily autonomy...

By focusing on Boris flouting lockdown rules, they are accomplishing 3 things. 1, perpetuating the myth of the existence, or and, malignancy of the virus; 2, legitimising the insurrectionist, treasonus, and murderous lockdown; and 3, distracting people from the historically unprecedented heinous crime of mass premeditated grievous bodily harm and murder of Britons through injections via coercion. Have Britons NO sense of proportion, or justice, or the instinct of Self-defence, or respect for the Sanctity of Life, and therefore sanity or even an ounce of empathy and reason - the 2 pillars of democracy - to realise the above without a second thought? ed X

Britain has decided to revoke British, Shamima Begum's citizenship because she joined ISIS. 1. The UK Home Office is arguing that Shamima has another (Bangladeshi) citizenship (which the family has denied), so they are still observing International Law by depriving her of her British citizenship as that would still enable her to return to her other alleged nationality.  Whether this is true or not is irrelevant.  The first point - that a citizen is subject to the laws of the state is paramount.  To refuse to subject a person to their laws and yet revoke her citizenship citizenship is a contradiction where one is being told simultaneously that one is not eligible to be punished under the law, but is to be punished by having their citizenship revoked.  2. When a person is granted citizenship, they are given equality with ALL citizens, be they descendents of many generations of 'locals' or not.  To treat Shamima differently is to cast ALL naturalised citizens as 2n...

"Look girl, either you can focus on guys in college or on studies" - just one of the unusual conversations heard in a women-only carriage” - bbc following extracted from BBC Facebook Diane Knight : Can’t you have both!!!!??? Leon Gabriel Kharkongor : Different parts of India have different mentalities. Delhi does not represent the whole of India. Gerard Takiwa : Well done BBC ... For telling India...to step out of the dark and embrace the light ! Sharmaine Mohan : Indians embrace light almost 10000 yrs ago buddy...Educate yourself before making stupid comments.... Ed : You can't blame Gerard too much Sharmaine. Gerard, after all, is product of his western media, unlike us, who pay attention to everything that goes on everywhere. Hence, we are endowed with more perspectives, whereas they don't know anything other than Hollywood and their own culture of drinking, eating, walking dogs, worshipping celebs and footballers.

Prashanti R: Well said edwin Lakha Singh : More t...

French President Francois Hollande has led the D-Day 70th anniversary tributes by remembering those who died on a day that "changed the world". He attended a service near Bayeux with US President Barack Obama, who said the US commitment to liberty was "written in blood" on French beaches. The Queen laid a wreath at a ceremony nearby. They will gather at Sword Beach, one of five landing points for Allied troops. The landings were the first stage of the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. - bbc Discussion on BBC Facebook Ed : Ww2 was just infighting amongst western racists and fascists with megalomaniacal ambitions. George C. Brunner : Edwin: you should be thanking those who died so you can spout your nonsense. Ed : No thank you mate. The indians already had freedom of speech long before Christ was born. Don't you know about your own neo-Nazi history?  I could already spout 'my nonsense' long before the pillaging white men reached the shores of India. Ma...

Exams regulator Ofqual has confirmed the changes it is making to GCSEs, in what it calls the biggest shake-up of exams in England for a generation. A new grading system will use numbers instead of letters and coursework is being scrapped for most subjects. - bbc (following comments from BBC facebook discussion ) ed: Memory over analysis, research and working together on intellectual and creative tasks? Right, that's what it takes to vote in wrong governments all the time.....and play Angry Birds. * Habibah Amin : This is actually very annoying. Every bloody term we have news Michael Gove's doing something different. Please Mr. Gove, go and get some experience teaching or go try and focus into the mindset of someone my age! At the end of the day it is NOT fair on the people of my age and younger. I would do a better job than Michael Gove for sure. He claims he wants "...the best for the youth of today...", yet - he's making it worse! If you look back on the strike...

The forthcoming launch of a spacecraft to Mars by India is likely to stoke the fires of a burgeoning Asian space race. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is making its final preparations to send an orbiter to the Red Planet. The principal aim is to test out India's space technology to see if this emerging space-faring nation is capable of interplanetary missions. The spacecraft will also collect scientific information about the planet's atmosphere and surface. - bbc Bob Weir : And we give millions in aid to India every year. Emma Louise : Nice to see our aid money being spent wisely!

Michael J Miller: You would think India would have better things to be spending their money on considering how poverty stricken their people are! Mark Wilson : Is this the same India we give £millions of aid every year?
 Anna Jones: Goodness knows why we give aid to a country that has its own flippin space program!! Brenda Poole : one of the poorest countries and they spend ther money a...

Spain is considering a 50 euro (£43) fee to cross its border with Gibraltar, amid a row over an artificial reef. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo told a Spanish newspaper the proceeds would "help fishermen affected by the destruction of fishing grounds". The latest tensions come after the British territory began work on the concrete reef, which Spain claims infringes the rights of its fishermen. The UK Foreign Office said it was "concerned" at the minister's comments. Britain has governed Gibraltar for 300 years but Spain disputes UK sovereignty over the rocky outcrop on its southern tip. bbc Q&A 

In terms of length of rule, you could say that it belongs to the Moorish Muslims as they controlled it from 711ad to 1462, and did much to enhance its intellectual and cultural evolution - without them, the European renaissance, scientific revolution, etc, would probably not have happened.

 You could say that it belongs to the Spanish. But what is...

Labour has accused the government of "weak leadership" after it emerged plans for minimum pricing of alcohol in England and Wales may be dropped. Conservative ministers are understood to be split over a proposed 45p per unit price to tackle problem drinking. Tory MP and ex-GP Sarah Wollaston said: "We have to set a minimum below which it's unsafe to sell alcohol." Labour said it was a "humiliating climbdown". - bbc (Conversations below extracted from Facebook BBC ) Andy: On principle, why should I have to pay more for alcohol just because other people don't know when to stop? Pete: why should the responsible have to pay for the mindless minority? Ed: I don't think we should be dividing ourselves between those who 'drink sensibly' and the 'irresponsible drunks', and arguing that the former should not be paying for the latter. That's exactly what the 'divide and conquer' strategists want. Instead, lets talk about ho...

The danger posed by growing resistance to antibiotics should be ranked along with terrorism on a list of threats to the nation, the government's chief medical officer for England has said. Professor Dame Sally Davies described it as a "ticking time bomb". She warned that routine operations could become deadly in just 20 years if we lose the ability to fight infection. Dame Sally urged the government to raise the issue during next month's G8 Summit in London. Dame Sally said: "If we don't take action, then we may all be back in an almost 19th Century environment where infections kill us as a result of routine operations. We won't be able to do a lot of our cancer treatments or organ transplants." She said pharmaceutical companies needed to be encouraged to develop new drugs, because the manufacture of antibiotics was not viewed as profitable. - bbc I try to stay off antibiotics, flu jabs, and the like by substituting them with a chopped clove of garli...

original image modified by ed Fizzy drinks should be heavily taxed and junk food adverts banished until after the watershed, doctors have said, in a call for action over obesity. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which represents nearly every doctor in the UK, said ballooning waistlines already constituted a "huge crisis". Its report said current measures were failing and called for unhealthy foods to be treated more like cigarettes. - bbc This is similar to drug sellers giving discounts to new users, and then charging them high prices upon addiction. In this context, we have the pretense of concern for our well-being being used to justify said rises. Regulate these industries so that we can have a choice between good stuff as opposed to having a choice between having or not having what we have been made to be accustomed to. Secondly, There are quite a few whom believe that the government should just stay out of it and not ‘nanny’ the people in this, amongst other respe...

Yes. Quite. For the simple reason of pitting ‘white’ vs ‘others’ without distinguishing between white British vs white European at crucial points of the ‘analysis’ on the BBC - which has a tendency to give ‘Editor’s Pick’ ratings for xenophobic comments . (click on image below) In the first para, 86% were said to be ‘white’ in 2011 with 45.1 describing themselves s ‘white British’. However, when it comes to the graph indicating ethnic change from 2001-2011, there is no distinction between ‘white British’ and ‘white European’ or ‘white Other’. All we have are distinctions on the basis of colour. ...Britain is a ‘white country’ despite the ethnicity of its white inhabitants. In other words, ethnicity only matters if you’re not white. With this colour distinction made between ‘white’ vs non-whites, the analysis immediately moves on to stating that ‘fewer than half of London’s residents were white British’. This will tend to reinforce the notion that the rest were non-white - which ...

"Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are taking part in a 24-hour UK-wide strike in a dispute with the government over pension changes.  The government says current pension schemes are unfair - and unaffordable because people are living longer.But the unions say members are being "robbed" and will have to pay more and work longer for lower pensions." - bbc The elite can afford to let the people go on 24-hour strikes because the people can't afford, for whatever the reason, to do it for longer.  This is a clear message sent by strikers to the elite every time they decide to take a day off and don the regulation placard and constipated expressions.  Don't they realise that when their so-called 'strike' is short enough, the government will say, "well, it's your democratic right".  But when it is long enough to hurt them, they'll say, "well, you've made your point, now why don't you just...

Said Cameron, “Speaking before a trip to Edinburgh, the prime minister talked in passionate language about his desire to keep the union and insisted he wanted to make a positive case for keeping Scotland in the UK. However, his list of issues raised – including Scotland losing its seat (as part of the UK) on the United Nations security council – could be seen by opponents as an attempt to threaten voters into shunning independence in the planned referendum. He said: "We're stronger, because together we count for more in the world, with a permanent seat on the UN security council, real clout in Nato and Europe, and unique influence with allies all over the world.” - the guardian Scotland only needs the UK because the UK still includes the rest of non-England. Something like a skinny scrawny lad being only as strong as the toughies he is supported by. What i was wondering, when i came across this statement by Cameron is, is it that Scotland is stronger because, with Scotland b...

Damn Microsoft. If they hadn’t blocked my email account, i would have received information on the protests in London yesterday, and would certainly have enlisted. Anyway, some thoughts, ************ note: it was interesting to note that the BBC entitled the related article, 'TUC condemns post-rally violence', but the article mainly quotes police opinions. And the TUC, in the said article, places stress on how the violence ought not to detract one from the main message of the protest. But this is not reflected in the title, or the general content of the article. ************ Said Commander Bob Broadhurst who was in charge of the Met police operation, "All was peaceful for quite a long while but then for some reason one of them made an attack on the Olympic [countdown] clock, we moved in to make an arrest, the next minute they're attacking us and they're trying to attack and damage the Olympic clock in Trafalgar Square." - bbc No, i’m not supporting the attac...

"Plans for Stephen Fry to film part of a documentary series in Japan have been shelved after complaints about nuclear bomb jokes in his quiz show QI. The offending episode of QI was broadcast last month and featured a discussion about Tsutomu Yamaguchi - the only person known to have survived both bombings. Mr Yamaguchi was burnt in the Hiroshima explosion - only to travel by train to Nagasaki to be caught in the second attack three days later. During the programme Stephen Fry and two fellow comedians discussed Mr Yamaguchi's survival. Alan Davies suggested an A-bomb had landed on Mr Yamaguchi and "bounced off". And Stephen Fry expressed amazement that the Japanese trains were still running after the blast. The episode prompted a complaint to the BBC from the Japanese Embassy who accused the broadcaster of making light of the attacks. The BBC responded by apologising, acknowledging the sensitivity of the subject for Japanese viewers.” - bbc I’m just waiting for Fry ...

ed's comment on BBC's ' Have your Say ', I am from Singapore, and there, multiculturalism has failed. Not because multiculturalism is necessarily prone to failure, but because one particular culture - legalism-confucianism - has been imposed upon all through the media, government policies, immigration policies, etc. Over time, the chinese have been bred to appreciate no other way of thought or action other than the imposed, and thereafter internalised, one. Hence, multiculturalism died the death without even a whimper. The point here is not that multiculturalism does not work, but it requires the engendering, not of tolerance, but equal and mutual respect and appreciation. We also have to drop this 'indigenous therefore we are numero uno' nonsense. That isn't very far from, 'we are majority and we don't need to give a toss about you'. And that, in turn, isn't far from, 'racism as just a matter of preference'. Multiculturalism ...

Cameron says, "It is not a cover for anything. I was talking about the Big Society and encouraging volunteering, encouraging social enterprises, voluntary groups to do more to make our society stronger, I was talking about that way before we had a problem with cuts and deficits and all the rest of it." Also announcing plans to use dormant bank accounts to fund projects, Mr Cameron said the concept would be a "big advance for people power".... "There are the things you do because it's your passion," he said. "Things that fire you up in the morning, that drive you, that you truly believe will make a real difference to the country you love, and my great passion is building the big society.... These schemes and others in the future, he said, would represent "the biggest, most dramatic redistribution of power from elites in Whitehall to the man and woman on the street".". source: Independent , BBC Ed says, I’ve often found that capitalis...

I read a most insightful article by the Third Estate a short while back that observed that the reason why there is little distinction between the right and left with regards to the top 3 parties is that they are so accustomed to pandering to the demands of the public that their ideological compass reflects experiences reminiscent of that which might be experienced in the Bermuda Triangle. But what’s left unanswered is why said pandering to the demands of the public tends to see a swing of the entire spectrum of the left and right to the right? Well, that’s for another observation, but in my waking moments this morning, I thought that a good strategy to swing them to the right, and the people along with it, would be to infiltrate the left with right-wingers who would then take the party right enough to make the right more palatable. A conspiracy? Or perhaps a sign of times gone right given the masses being increasingly customised for life within a capitalist milieu where both left a...