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"Elvis wrote this in 1978 on a plane coming back from Belfast. It was the first time he went to the city, and he was shocked to see very young soldiers from the British army walking around with machine guns. The song covers Northern Ireland's troubles, the end of the British empire and life in the army. The line, "Call careers information/have you got yourself an occupation" refers to the habit of the British army recruiting squaddies [grunts] straight from school at 16. Many of these kids were from poor families and got bad grades. Despite the strong political lyrics, this was very popular in England because of the pop melody. A lot of people didn't care about the social statement, but liked the way it sounded."

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/elvis-costello/olivers-army

17 minutes ago, scoupeo said:

... said an idiot from a ridiculous EU country that let 30000 people die because of lack of mask and more than that, lack of brain !

 

 

this is not totally true, but now that masks are available, some people are reluctant to wear them - it's all the government's fault indeed, blame nanny state.. so french,

but not only. 

8 minutes ago, Phuket Stan said:

Her father is Jamacian and her mother is Indian

and she somehow is the female version of B.O, something Trump loves to hate

15 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

America cares, it shows her using racist stereotyping to gain acceptance with her black constituents. Surely the black voters can see through her lies. 

"“They see potential in her,” Buttigieg’s pollster wrote about Kamala Harris, after interviewing groups of black voters — “but do worry that America won’t elect a black woman.”

https://fr.scribd.com/document/431372932/South-Carolina-Focus-Groups-Findings#from_embed

“The affinity voters in these groups feel for Joe Biden is deep and strong, rooted in his relationship with Barack Obama, who is the ultimate validator,”

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/04/kamala-harris-black-voters-2020-075651

So now, everything is in order, En Marche! LOL

3 minutes ago, david555 said:

Agood reply ...but makes the outcome on my quote 50/50% ????????

 

Nothing against her ....like expected she will become the first woman president of USA.....

As Biden does not look very fit in physical way...

 

She wrote about her mother: "“She knew that her adopted homeland would see Maya and me as black girls, and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud black women,” Kamala wrote."

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/10/kamala-harris-president-parents-shyamala-gopalan-donald-harris-berkeley/

In a way, she wasn't born "black", she became "black", this is something you often hear from persons with mixed roots

And... A close reading of Harris’s record suggests that she likely has shifted her views on police misconduct for political reasons... By 2016, she supported what the Times described as “a modest expansion of her office’s powers to investigate police misconduct.” But her demands for police oversight were nowhere near as sweeping as they have become this year..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/give-kamala-harris-break/615127/

30 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

But if I have 2 prospects for an employee and I pick the white guy because he'd be better suited for my clientele, that would be a nono. But, yes I understand biden's reason.

"- In 2003, after several years in the Alameda county district attorney’s office, Harris became the first Black woman to be elected as San Francisco’s district attorney.

 - Seven years later, she made history again as the first Black woman to be elected as California attorney general. 

- Biden announced Tuesday that he had selected Harris as his running mate, making the California senator the first woman of color to join a major political party’s presidential ticket."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/11/kamala-harris-trailblazer-joe-biden-running-mate-vp

10 hours ago, Sujo said:

Before or after he said the 1917 pandemic, which was in 1918, caused the end of WW2, which for trump supporters i have to say was 1945.

 

He really will have problems saying things about Bidens mental health when he himself has issues.

“George Washington would have had a hard time beating me before the plague came in, before the China plague,”

"China will own the United States if this election is lost by Donald Trump," Trump, referring to himself in the third person, told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. "If I don't win the election, China will own the United States. You're going to have to learn to speak Chinese, you want to know the truth."

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/11/politics/trump-china-biden-learn-chinese/index.html

The World will miss Trump if he is not re-elected.. 

8 minutes ago, 7by7 said:

Asylum seekers, which is what they are once they have indicated their intention to claim asylum, are not entitled to Housing Association accommodation

Does the birth  of a child, on UK soil,  change the benefits his parents are entitled to, even if they were denied asylum before? 

4 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

masses of locals claim social ,we know that ,but all the illegal immigrants claim ,they are not allowed to work ,so they are sponging off us ,100%

both, My Captain!  

40 minutes ago, simple1 said:

Are you denying the fact asylum seekers are sexually abused, tortured and so on in Libya? Most women are trafficked by organised crime, it's been reported numerous times e.g.

 

https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-nigerian-mafia-exploits-african-women-in-europe/a-51696034

Are you denying that " smugglers bring 90% of the refugees and migrants to the EU, with roughly 20% of the cases involving trafficking in persons. The European Police Office, Europol, estimates that the general increase in migrant volumes will also increase the number of cases involving exploitation and trafficking (Europol: Migrant Smuggling in the EU, 2016). "

https://www.syrjinta.fi/documents/14490/0/nigerialasselvitys+englanti/7d03d19d-bf75-4ff4-952a-e0bd4fbe2dd4

Are you denying that fake asylum seekers de facto sponsor smugglers lucrative traffickings, the victims being the countries of destination

12 minutes ago, vogie said:

We all have a moral responsibility to our fellow man, "if you see your brother standing by the road, with a heavy load from the seeds he sowed, and you see your sister falling by the way, just stop and say you're going the wrong way," try a little kindness, it will overcome your blindness.????

And you probably think these migrants will duly appreciate your kindness (and I'm beeing polite..)  the only people they feel grateful to are the smugglers who take them to destination and that's what they pay the high fare for, at least they help them achieve their dream, most of them made it accross the Mediterranee already, so the Channel..