General News Thread

[Sol thewall Bamba]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5l11m02j3o

 

Wow, who could have seen this coming!

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5l11m02j3o

 

Wow, who could have seen this coming!

Well if the raw material price goes up 35% then BP and all the oil companies that aren’t exposed in the gulf production environment are going to see massive profits 

Will be great news for the exchequer if they pay their fair share of CT on their corporate profits 

[kenny]

1 minute ago, st albans fox said:

Well if the raw material price goes up 35% then BP and all the oil companies that aren’t exposed in the gulf production environment are going to see massive profits 

Will be great news for the exchequer if they pay their fair share of CT on their corporate profits 

If you believe that the government is making any additional tax in the form of CT and VAT on the increased fuel prices then you do not understand economics.

 

Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves said so.

[st albans fox]

51 minutes ago, kenny said:

If you believe that the government is making any additional tax in the form of CT and VAT on the increased fuel prices then you do not understand economics.

 

Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves said so.

Explain it to me 

like I’m 5 

unless you’re just digging at ‘bill and Ben’ 

[kenny]

Just now, st albans fox said:

Explain it to me 

like I’m 5 

unless you’re just digging at ‘bill and Ben’ 

I gave you the full and detailed explaination that was provided by the previous government.

 

Its a messageboard, so I missed the withering look of disdain towards Ed Davey by RR combined with a smug chortle from SKS.

 

 

[FoxesWalk]

2 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5l11m02j3o

 

Wow, who could have seen this coming!

They’ll get hit with another windfall tax presumably 

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, kenny said:

I gave you the full and detailed explaination that was provided by the previous government.

 

Its a messageboard, so I missed the withering look of disdain towards Ed Davey by RR combined with a smug chortle from SKS.

 

OIC 

it was indeed satire 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Russia drone targets civilian.

Frightening. 

[Parafox]

15 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Russia drone targets civilian.

Frightening. 

Imagine how terrified that guy must've been. The stuff of nightmares.

 

Sadly I thing the Russians and possibly the Ukrainians will use this kind of terrorism more and more.

[Trav Le Bleu]

15 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Russia drone targets civilian.

Frightening. 

I'm reading a Matt Dinniman book called Operation Bounce House. It's a satirical sci-fi story of a peaceful farming community on a distant planet defending themselves from remotely piloted machines from Earth.

 

Scarily similar 

[Rubbersoul]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2v5kj9zzko 
 

I just can’t get my head around this. Imagine how his family are feeling. 

[leicsmac]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrj1751r02o

 

A US congressman who is battling abuse allegations from his ex-wife and her father, a US senator, has vowed not to quit.

Ohio Republican Max Miller, who is fighting for his political life on the eve of a deadline to file for re-election, told CNN: "I'm never going to back down."

He acknowledged that President Donald Trump had phoned him on Monday to express doubts about his ability to win in November.

Miller, 37, denies abusing his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, and their child, saying on Tuesday that he is open to an ethics investigation. Moreno's father, Republican Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno, has called for him to be removed from Congress.

Emily Moreno has accused her ex-husband of throwing her against a wall, holding a gun to her head, and fracturing their two-year-old daughter's collarbone, according to court documents and police reports obtained by news agencies including CBS, the BBC's US partner. 

 

Another real paragon running for office there, then.

[Bellend Sebastian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4kx8n2vwxo

 

I know the Conservatives have been in a bit of a doom loop in recent years in terms of always taking the most right wing path available when presented with any sort of choice but this was going a bit far

[Bellend Sebastian]

Yesterday's The Rest Is Politics is an interesting listen, where they interview Gerald Knauss, an Austrian social scientist, about immigration and how it should be handled. It drives me potty how it's become one of those issues that is politicised to the extent that far more energy seems to go into either saying it's out of control or how tough you're being on it than actually taking the practical steps to address it.

 

Old Gerald might be being a tad optimistic but presents the issue as being completely solvable, and - and this is important (to the likes of me, anyway) in a humane way and that it's simply an issue of management and proper collaboration between nations that just needs a bit of political will of the right sort

[leicsmac]

18 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Yesterday's The Rest Is Politics is an interesting listen, where they interview Gerald Knauss, an Austrian social scientist, about immigration and how it should be handled. It drives me potty how it's become one of those issues that is politicised to the extent that far more energy seems to go into either saying it's out of control or how tough you're being on it than actually taking the practical steps to address it.

 

Old Gerald might be being a tad optimistic but presents the issue as being completely solvable, and - and this is important (to the likes of me, anyway) in a humane way and that it's simply an issue of management and proper collaboration between nations that just needs a bit of political will of the right sort

As the Illusive Man said regarding whether something could be done or not, "it's always a question of resources".

 

So yes, I'd agree that almost all of the issues facing the world right now outside the physically impossible are completely solvable - they just need the resources, and, yes, the political will to direct them and to bypass the sentiment of short term tribal self interest that so often gets in the way. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

Ah, political will, that old chestnut.

[leicsmac]

"... exactly how much do you want to sound like an early 90s cartoon villain, Mr Trump?"

 

"... this much, Snivelly."

 

"... as you wish, Mr Trump."

 

 

Edited 6 August by leicsmac

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

"... exactly how much do you want to sound like an early 90s cartoon villain, Mr Trump?"

 

"... this much, Snivelly."

 

"... as you wish, Mr Trump."

 

 

80% of US population occupies 3% of the land, but hey, not enough room for them AND nature!

[The Bear]

Lol. Radical Climate Activists....

 

AKA people who listen to scientists with actual PhDs. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

Today terrorists attempted to conserve 50,000 gallons (US) of water and oppressively prevented the clearing of 5000 trees in Wisconsin.

 

Wildlife insurgents in Kentucky infiltrated local wetlands and frustrated the efforts of god-fearing American hunters to keep the population of ducks raising to dangerous levels.

 

All hail the RCA!

Edited 6 August by Trav Le Bleu

[Bellend Sebastian]

37 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Lol. Radical Climate Activists....

 

AKA people who listen to scientists with actual PhDs. 

Radical! Intended as a trigger word but increasingly makes the user just look a bit hysterical. It's like when they just started putting the word "woke" in front of things until it became meaningless and was used to describe things like bond markets

[leicsmac]

Yes, evidently looking to guarantee the future of all humanity and a lot of life, rather than just a very small and specific part of it that belongs to your "tribe", is radical now. Apparently. 

[Jon the Hat]

12 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Yes, evidently looking to guarantee the future of all humanity and a lot of life, rather than just a very small and specific part of it that belongs to your "tribe", is radical now. Apparently. 

The problem is everything any one group doesn't like being subject to legal challenge against these policies - which while well-meaning are usually badly written.  100 Million pounds were spent on the HS2 bat tunnel for goodness sake.  That could have been far better spent on conservation projects elsewhere, I am sure.

[leicsmac]

9 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

The problem is everything any one group doesn't like being subject to legal challenge against these policies - which while well-meaning are usually badly written.  100 Million pounds were spent on the HS2 bat tunnel for goodness sake.  That could have been far better spent on conservation projects elsewhere, I am sure.

It could, but we're not talking about strictly UK-based conservation policies here, and that being a point of argument really shouldn't in any way validate the mindset regarding life on Earth stated by the current US administration above. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

The problem is everything any one group doesn't like being subject to legal challenge against these policies - which while well-meaning are usually badly written.  100 Million pounds were spent on the HS2 bat tunnel for goodness sake.  That could have been far better spent on conservation projects elsewhere, I am sure.

Yes, but how much of that money was actually used for it's construction, as opposed to mates contractor fees and 'planning' costs that just evaporated into the air?