comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted about 2 hours ago
"A medical survey, "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sexxx Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009" published in July 2010, states that the "...increases in cancer and birth defects...are alarmingly high" and that infant mortality 2009/2010 has reached 13.6%. The group compares the dramatic increase, five years after wartime exposure in 2004, with the lymphoma that Italian peacekeepers developed after the Balkan wars and the increased cancer risk in certain parts of Sweden because of the Chernobyl fallout. The origin and time of introduction of the carcinogenic agent causing the genetic stress the group will address in a separate report.
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The report mentions depleted uranium as one "potentially relevant exposure". So not definitive?

What's worse for human health, depleted uranium shells or a nuclear weapon which the invaders of Ukraine have threatened to use a couple of times.
Preferable to everyone that there wasn't a situation where either of these weapons might be used, the ball is in Russia's court, but you don't question that do you Peks?
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only one nation has ever used nuclear weapons in a war against a civilian population
the same one that used thousands of depleted uranium in iraq

Only one nation is threatening to use them today. The same nation that encouraged and stood idly by as their ally gassed their own people.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 31 seconds ago
Only one nation is threatening to use them today. The same nation that encouraged and stood idly by as their ally gassed their own people.
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Could you name this nation and it's ally you're referring to?

Syria.

I don't believe their is a moral high ground on either side.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 9 hours, 7 minutes ago
Syria.

I don't believe their is a moral high ground on either side.
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USA bombed Syria again last night

comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted about an hour ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 9 hours, 7 minutes ago
Syria.

I don't believe their is a moral high ground on either side.
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USA bombed Syria again last night
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In retaliation for a bombing in one of their bases. What's your point?

why are you so eager to defend America ?
explain that to me Hector

comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted less than a minute ago
why are you so eager to defend America ?
explain that to me Hector
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Answering a question with a question.

point is what other nation uses military action against other countries since WWII more than America?
None

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted less than a minute ago
why are you so eager to defend America ?
explain that to me Hector
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Answering a question with a question.
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answer my question about the UK supplying DU to Ukraine

comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted about a minute ago
point is what other nation uses military action against other countries since WWII more than America?
None
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I'm not defending America, you're propogandizing for an aggressor you hypocrite.

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted about a minute ago
point is what other nation uses military action against other countries since WWII more than America?
None
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I'm not defending America, you're propogandizing for an aggressor you hypocrite.
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name me a nation since WWII that has been more militarily aggressive than the USA and allies ?

even now they are actively dismissing and trying to sabotage China's peace initiative

they have no regard for human life and civilian populations

comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted less than a minute ago
even now they are actively dismissing and trying to sabotage China's peace initiative

they have no regard for human life and civilian populations
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Tell that to the people of Grozny...or the people of Salisbury.

Not once have you been critical of Russia. The fear of the gulag strong within you?

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 18 seconds ago
comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted less than a minute ago
even now they are actively dismissing and trying to sabotage China's peace initiative

they have no regard for human life and civilian populations
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Tell that to the people of Grozny...or the people of Salisbury.
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what has that got to do with China's peace initiate ?

stay on point Hecs lad

don't go off road and rogue with your points when you're losing an argument
that's what women tend to do

comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted less than a minute ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 18 seconds ago
comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted less than a minute ago
even now they are actively dismissing and trying to sabotage China's peace initiative

they have no regard for human life and civilian populations
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Tell that to the people of Grozny...or the people of Salisbury.
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what has that got to do with China's peace initiate ?

stay on point Hecs lad

don't go off road and rogue with your points when you're losing an argument
that's what women tend to do
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Putin said he would CONSIDER Chinas proposal. No more no less.

French government: Threatens to raise age of retirement from 62 to 64. (Most of Europe has 65 to 67.)

French people: Ten days of organised protests, more than a million people on the streets, set town halls on fire, no refuse collected for three weeks, country brought to a standstill.

British government: Tries to introduce anti-strike legislation requiring union members undertaking industrial action to return to work under threat of dismissal, introduces counter-terror measures to control and ban peaceful protests, proposes a new Official Secrets Act which will increase maximum sentences for ‘unauthorised leaks’ and judge some journalistic disclosures as more serious than espionage, threatens to withdraw from ECHR, plans to tear up large parts of the Human Rights Act and replace it with a bill that requires people to demonstrate ‘significant damage’ before they can bring their case before the courts and forces the judiciary to defer to the government in a wide range of areas, and introduces an Electoral Integrity Bill to disenfranchise underprivileged voters.

British public:

Peks dear boy, you're clearly a stooge, it's not an argument engaging with you, it's merely a process of highlighting your hypocrisy.

comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Fines... (U17054)
posted about an hour ago
French government: Threatens to raise age of retirement from 62 to 64. (Most of Europe has 65 to 67.)

French people: Ten days of organised protests, more than a million people on the streets, set town halls on fire, no refuse collected for three weeks, country brought to a standstill.

British government: Tries to introduce anti-strike legislation requiring union members undertaking industrial action to return to work under threat of dismissal, introduces counter-terror measures to control and ban peaceful protests, proposes a new Official Secrets Act which will increase maximum sentences for ‘unauthorised leaks’ and judge some journalistic disclosures as more serious than espionage, threatens to withdraw from ECHR, plans to tear up large parts of the Human Rights Act and replace it with a bill that requires people to demonstrate ‘significant damage’ before they can bring their case before the courts and forces the judiciary to defer to the government in a wide range of areas, and introduces an Electoral Integrity Bill to disenfranchise underprivileged voters.

British public:
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The average council tax is set to hit £2k pa.
The last, proper, politically inspired riot we had was a rates riot. Never say never.

comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Finest (U17054)
posted about an hour ago
French government: Threatens to raise age of retirement from 62 to 64. (Most of Europe has 65 to 67.)

French people: Ten days of organised protests, more than a million people on the streets, set town halls on fire, no refuse collected for three weeks, country brought to a standstill.

British government: Tries to introduce anti-strike legislation requiring union members undertaking industrial action to return to work under threat of dismissal, introduces counter-terror measures to control and ban peaceful protests, proposes a new Official Secrets Act which will increase maximum sentences for ‘unauthorised leaks’ and judge some journalistic disclosures as more serious than espionage, threatens to withdraw from ECHR, plans to tear up large parts of the Human Rights Act and replace it with a bill that requires people to demonstrate ‘significant damage’ before they can bring their case before the courts and forces the judiciary to defer to the government in a wide range of areas, and introduces an Electoral Integrity Bill to disenfranchise underprivileged voters.

British public:
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We're too moderate in this country but I don't think the French approach to insurrection is particularly helpful either

The London riots were triggered by a police shooting but grew among young people as a response to austerity

It was all too easily dismissed by some as just being a London/hoody thing due to the govts cosy relationship with the media

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Finest (U17054)
posted about an hour ago
French government: Threatens to raise age of retirement from 62 to 64. (Most of Europe has 65 to 67.)

French people: Ten days of organised protests, more than a million people on the streets, set town halls on fire, no refuse collected for three weeks, country brought to a standstill.

British government: Tries to introduce anti-strike legislation requiring union members undertaking industrial action to return to work under threat of dismissal, introduces counter-terror measures to control and ban peaceful protests, proposes a new Official Secrets Act which will increase maximum sentences for ‘unauthorised leaks’ and judge some journalistic disclosures as more serious than espionage, threatens to withdraw from ECHR, plans to tear up large parts of the Human Rights Act and replace it with a bill that requires people to demonstrate ‘significant damage’ before they can bring their case before the courts and forces the judiciary to defer to the government in a wide range of areas, and introduces an Electoral Integrity Bill to disenfranchise underprivileged voters.

British public:
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We're too moderate in this country but I don't think the French approach to insurrection is particularly helpful either
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Their retirement age is 62 and they work shorter hours under better conditions than the British precisely *because of* their approach to protecting their (already hard won) rights.

"hard won rights" can have negative

Their rigid labour rights have meant you can't really replace staff who aren't performing or whose roles are redundant, leading to 20% of the youth being unemployed

I don't get the objections to photo ID's for voting.

It's much harder to get a physical 'Proof of Address' letter these days.