comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 5 seconds ago
Smart decision
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In himesight, not rly

So they Israelis appear to have swapped a large quantaity of normal pagers for ones filled with explosives

Got to be an inside job somewhere along the line.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 18 minutes ago
So they Israelis appear to have swapped a large quantaity of normal pagers for ones filled with explosives

Got to be an inside job somewhere along the line.
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Of course it is.

comment by Jake Moon (U11781)
posted 16 hours ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 18 minutes ago
So they Israelis appear to have swapped a large quantaity of normal pagers for ones filled with explosives

Got to be an inside job somewhere along the line.
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Of course it is.
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That or they were working with the suppliers and had them armed so they could trigger remotely in large numbers and simultaneously

Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff received a pay rise after the election which means she is now paid more than the prime minister.

The BBC has been told that Sue Gray asked for and was given a salary of £170,000 - £3,000 more than the PM and more than any cabinet minister – or her Conservative predecessor.

One source told the BBC: “It was suggested that she might want to go for a few thousand pounds less than the prime minister to avoid this very story. She declined.”


This is new, is Sue our PM in disguise then??

That’s another strike action quashed

Train drivers accept pay deal to end strike action https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r8g244zggo

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/0918/1470582-cabinet-gaza

Hopefully some very sick kids helped

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
comment by Jake Moon (U11781)
posted 16 hours ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 18 minutes ago
So they Israelis appear to have swapped a large quantaity of normal pagers for ones filled with explosives

Got to be an inside job somewhere along the line.
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Of course it is.
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That or they were working with the suppliers and had them armed so they could trigger remotely in large numbers and simultaneously
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Grate materiel

comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 9 minutes ago
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/0918/1470582-cabinet-gaza

Hopefully some very sick kids helped
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You guys are one of the few countries that should hold your heads high with your reaction to this genocide.

comment by Jake Moon (U11781)
posted 24 minutes ago
Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff received a pay rise after the election which means she is now paid more than the prime minister.

The BBC has been told that Sue Gray asked for and was given a salary of £170,000 - £3,000 more than the PM and more than any cabinet minister – or her Conservative predecessor.

One source told the BBC: “It was suggested that she might want to go for a few thousand pounds less than the prime minister to avoid this very story. She declined.”


This is new, is Sue our PM in disguise then??
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Big Keir doesn't need paying, he gets all he needs from donors

comment by Jake Moon (U11781)
posted 19 minutes ago
That’s another strike action quashed

Train drivers accept pay deal to end strike action https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r8g244zggo
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“quashed”

That’s one way of putting it I suppose

SQUASHED

comment by Jake Moon (U11781)
posted 33 minutes ago
Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff received a pay rise after the election which means she is now paid more than the prime minister.

The BBC has been told that Sue Gray asked for and was given a salary of £170,000 - £3,000 more than the PM and more than any cabinet minister – or her Conservative predecessor.

One source told the BBC: “It was suggested that she might want to go for a few thousand pounds less than the prime minister to avoid this very story. She declined.”


This is new, is Sue our PM in disguise then??
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Is this Arab with a name change?

BBC:

‘Professor Elias Warrak, an ophthalmologist at Mount Lebanon University Hospital in Beirut, tells me that Tuesday afternoon was like a "nightmare".

He says he had to remove more eyes than he did in his whole 25-year career.

"It was very hard," he says. "Most of the patients were young men in their twenties and in some cases I had to remove both eyes."

He left the operating room at 04:00 local time and returned three hours later. He said a new batch of patients were waiting to be operated on…

Some more detail now from that news conference from the Lebanese health minister.

Abiad says 750 were injured in the south of Lebanon, and around 1,750 in the Beirut area.

About 10% of the total were in critical condition, some of them in intensive care. Many have facial injuries and had to be put on ventilation.

In total, around 100 hospitals took in patients. So far, around 460 surgeries have been performed, with the majority being either on the eyes, face, or "extremities", particularly the hands.

There have been amputations, including of fingers and hands.’

Two children dead so far, and scores more injured. Add that to all of the civilian casualties.

This was a terrorist attack, perpetuated by arms of what is currently a terrorist state. It should be described as such.

There is no way the Israelis could have known where, in whose possession, or in the proximity of whom the pagers were.

That makes the attack an indiscriminate act, and by definition a breach of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.

I expect the leaders of the West will respond in the same way as they did to Russia’s war crimes in Donbas…

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Jake Moon (U11781)
posted 33 minutes ago
Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff received a pay rise after the election which means she is now paid more than the prime minister.

The BBC has been told that Sue Gray asked for and was given a salary of £170,000 - £3,000 more than the PM and more than any cabinet minister – or her Conservative predecessor.

One source told the BBC: “It was suggested that she might want to go for a few thousand pounds less than the prime minister to avoid this very story. She declined.”


This is new, is Sue our PM in disguise then??
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Is this Arab with a name change?
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Yes it is.

I know it is confusing without the gratuitous expletives and insults that his posts normally signs off.

The highest paid civil servant, until he left last year, was the head of the HS2 programme, on 650k.

Fantastic value for money

signs off with*.

comment by Jake Moon (U11781)
posted 8 minutes ago
The highest paid civil servant, until he left last year, was the head of the HS2 programme, on 650k.

Fantastic value for money
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What do you think the pay should be for someone put in charge of the largest infrastructure programme the country has ever seen? Which it was at the time I believe.

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 13 minutes ago
There is no way the Israelis could have known where, in whose possession, or in the proximity of whom the pagers were.

That makes the attack an indiscriminate act, and by definition a breach of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.

I expect the leaders of the West will respond in the same way as they did to Russia’s war crimes in Donbas…
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To be fair to them, they seem to be able to track anyone, anywhere and at any time, so it’s not anywhere near outside the realms of possibility that they had a good idea of where these pagers would end up

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 51 seconds ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 13 minutes ago
There is no way the Israelis could have known where, in whose possession, or in the proximity of whom the pagers were.

That makes the attack an indiscriminate act, and by definition a breach of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.

I expect the leaders of the West will respond in the same way as they did to Russia’s war crimes in Donbas…
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To be fair to them, they seem to be able to track anyone, anywhere and at any time, so it’s not anywhere near outside the realms of possibility that they had a good idea of where these pagers would end up
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If they were able to track hundreds upon hundreds of pagers at a time (which would have to have been fitted with bespoke GPS as well as the explosives, because pagers don’t carry such), I’m not sure that that would let them off the hook, given that they detonated in supermarkets, public spaces, homes and god knows where else.

Geneva Convention, rule 12, indisputable breach:

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule12#

They’re facking terrorists and should be referred to and treated as such.

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Jake Moon (U11781)
posted 8 minutes ago
The highest paid civil servant, until he left last year, was the head of the HS2 programme, on 650k.

Fantastic value for money
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What do you think the pay should be for someone put in charge of the largest infrastructure programme the country has ever seen? Which it was at the time I believe.
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Anyone paid more than the PM that makes them PM in disguise apparently.

That said the head of HS2 for £650k pa is a joke considering what a shiiteshow it's turned out to be.

Trump says rising sea levels are “a good thing” because he thinks he would “have more seafront property”: “Isn't that a good thing?”

Lol

The company behind the UK arm of the TGI Fridays restaurant chain has said it plans to appoint administrators, putting the future of its 87 outlets and 3,000 employees in doubt.

The American diner brand could disappear from UK high streets after Hostmore, which is listed on the London stock market, said administrators from advisory firm Teneo would be appointed and its restaurants sold off to rivals. The restaurants will continue to operate as normal in the interim.

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