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Longest Sentences Yet for Rioters Involved in Racist Mob Violence Across England
State pensions exist; they are paid through the largesse of today's taxpayers. The military is paid by the taxpayer; its not a private enterprise, which was the case until the early 20th Century, when significant parts of the british military were the Militias, which literally were private armies. Famously, the East India Company had its own armies and navy. Under present rules, residential homes are state subsidised; they take all your money until that last £25k or so. A residential home will easily burn through £50k a year, so for most people, its more or less all gone after 5-6 years. The last Conservative government wanted to put a cap on personal care, so was proposing to initiate effectively a socialist policy (ie. in the end, the State will help you to the grave). Labour has kiboshed that. The Police are also state funded, far removed from the original Bow Street Runners, that were funded throuh a business subscription. Britain still has State funded education, a socialist idea. There is also unemployment benefit and child maintenance support. Its still possible to get social housing. Having a 2 day weekend is a socialist idea. Some say Henry Ford invented it; nah, it was an idea he stole. The 2 day weekend was established in 1843 by Marsden and Lowes who secured a saturday afternoon off for Mancunian workers. Public holidays; an example of the dull hand of government interfering with the private business of enterprise. There is a reason why football matches used to all have a saturday 3pm kickoff. Then there was then paid summer break, invented by French communists in the 1930s. Maternity leave, also very socialist. Free eyeglasses and prescriptions for kids; socialist. Vouchers for childcare; socialist. Veteran's pensions from a grateful nation; socialist. Lots of policies embraced by Brits who describe themselves as anti-socialist, yet would consider many of these things the natural order of things. I suspect many Americans would be quite jealous of the ability to take a paid vacation, take maternity leave or even something like redundancy rights. Market Socialism and Free Market Capitalism are probably dead in the West; we don't make anything to control, because of Free Market Capitalism, and now the most ardent proponants of capitalism are finding themselves espousing quasi-communist (Godwin Law Mk2) policies of protectionism (what gives them the goddam right to tell the owners of a company where they should make things). We are left with vacuous Populism. No one calls themselves a populist; that's a labeled applied by others. Populism has no ideology besides being all things to all men, ideas that bend with the wind. Populism feeds on fear. Charlie Chaplin's largely adlibbed Great Dictator speech still has an impact 90 years later, thanks a bit to an Inception soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HdOHrc3OQ Perhaps the old isms have had their day; they were largely responses to technological changes in society. Our societies are undergoing profound change due to technology, but the question will be whether we become slaves to the technologies or masters. And become masters for what purpose; we want the technologies to fix the problems in the world (eg environmental damage) and to free our time up (which is the general direction of travel taken ever since man discovered fire leading to the paid time off or early retirement in Thailand). This is when we get into gene Roddenberry visions of a society where money has no meaning. Maybe that ism is technoutopianism. Though that is an ideology, but not a political ideology (yet). -
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Using an overseas Debit Card to minimise paying tax for those of us staying over 180 days
It is not "technically" tax evasion - it is tax evasion. Por. 161/2566 talks about money you "bring in" into Thailand - นำเงิน...เข้ามา. And that's what you are doing. It doesn't prescribe by which means the money has to be brought in. This is so obvious that it's hard to believe you honestly thought otherwise. Wishful thinking.- 1
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Latest developments and discussion of recent events in the Ukraine War
Ukraine warns Russia advancing fast on key city as Parents are hiding their children from local authorities to avoid mandatory evacuation in the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Russia says it had thwarted another Ukrainian attempt to push into the border region of Bryansk-CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/22/europe/pokrovsk-evacuations-eastern-ukraine-intl/index.html Hiding children from Ukrainians in hope that they'll be liberated by Russia. The war is now insane but then all wars are. -
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The US migrant Crisis video report
Immigration has been a dog whistle for decades. Don't fall for it. Make the politicians solve it. Change the laws. Trump had control of both houses of congress and didn't get it done. Why?he's using it as a dog whistle now and many are falling for it. Like riclag. Sheeple https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/1/25/24050278/senate-immigration-border-ukraine-trump-mcconnell-romney Why Trump fears a Biden-GOP immigration deal “He doesn’t want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it.” -
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Trump’s nephew insists former president is showing signs of ‘dementia’ like his grandfather
Let's see, neutrally reporting Trump has dementia. "Trump has dementia, but, Ha, Ha, don't we all!" -
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Keir Starmer’s Pragmatic Approach to Defeating the Far Right: Filling Potholes
No, they are not. Look again. Also, i did say mean price. Of course there are more expensive properties. There are also cheaper. Why couldn't you link to this, https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143104694?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY Or this https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142493459?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY Or this https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/151284125?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY There are hundreds more. I'm not going to link to all of them. The three I've linked to prove they are there. The screenshot proves there are over 500 properties for sale in Devon at £140k. I also did searches for random counties in UK. South Yorkshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, County Durham, Cumbria, Norfolk, Suffolk, Shropshire, Somerset, Leistershire, Derbyshire, to name a few. All showing hundreds, in some cases thousands, of 2 bed properties at £140k or less. -
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/Featured Quiz 15th August - Weekly Featured Quiz - General Knowledge (Hard of course)
I just completed this quiz. My Score 0/100 My Time 4 seconds -
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The US migrant Crisis video report
History lesson!I gotta feeling the nay sayers like the idea of whats been happening to the USA , people from all over the World coming through here, illegally ! Thanks -
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Latest developments and discussion of recent events in the Ukraine War
Probably the saddest thing I've read in this senseless war Kursk is increasingly looking like the death rattle of a dying nation. Without NATO going full in the war is lost. The people who were motivated to go defend the country, have already signed up. The people they are sending now, mostly don't give a damn what country they live in, it's just a place they live. They are not vested in the government, the national identity, or any of that other jingoistic crap that gets people without means, killed for other peoples bank accounts. -
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Walz coaching history called out
They do share a certain resemblance.... hopefully that is all they share.- 1
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