Happy Face

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It's becoming Weekend at Bernie's esque. He keeps doing rotting farts and everyone around him has to cover it up.

Numbers hold up for the original decision. Little evidence of Bregret https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/03/29/attitudes-brexit-everything-we-know-so-far/ Even stronger support for article 50 there too. 2/3 want it to go ahead.

http://news.sky.com/story/sky-data-brexit-poll-half-of-britons-happy-about-talks-starting-10816972 Not sure reversing the pubic decision will be a vote winner for a couple of election cycles yet.

Christ. It's a series of gut punches.

http://www.metacritic.com/music/a-crow-looked-at-me/mount-eerie Glowing praise. Haven't bothered since Wind's Poem. Will have to give this a listen.

http://www.themag.co.uk/2017/03/heres-newcastle-united-record-transfer-fee-progressed-years-now/

I believe so. Leaked slide with the chain of command from 2013 ends at potus. They have weekly meetings to agree the kill list. https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-kill-chain/

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/26/trumps-war-on-terror-has-quickly-become-as-barbaric-and-savage-as-he-promised/ Reflects what i had been trying to say in the discussion between ewerk Renton and I on whether his increased military budget contradicted his campaign pledges on being non interventionist.

I'm not equating. I'm saying one demands much more of a response than the other. The one that's getting none. While a terrible tragedy is used to shift an agenda that impacts relatively few.

600 suicides from unreasonable back to work interviews for the disabled don't demand any change. 4 deaths in 4 years from Terrorism, THAT demands action.

Just catching up with Sherlock. The Jimmy Saville one was canny canny brutal. Tended to stick to how the hospital and his wealth enabled him though, more than the broadcasting corporation that gave him his noteriety and turned a collective blind eye in the real life version. Funny that.

Aye, that's why i did the follow up post. Was commenting on the poke, not you

Still funny though, obviously

That's not fake news though. Trump isn't a reporter. He's a politician and would be unique among them going back decades if he wasn't a shame faced liar. Fake news is where reporters and members of the public spread falsehoods regardless of the evidence purely for partisan means. A bit like The Poke blaming Donald Trump for fake news. They persist in spinning simplified garbage as news because it's easier and more popular than tracing the history of media collusion in politics. I mean, it's 14 years since Saddam's wmd being a slam dunk.

Seen some discussion on increased surveillance doing its job earlier, so here's another of his that adds more context to the reasons we've only had one death from Islamic attacks on the UK for a decade https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/24/isis-celebration-over-the-london-attack-is-a-dance-of-defeat?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other This is due to various factors. One has been the the declining influence of al–Qaida, the veteran group responsible for the 9/11 strikes, which was based in Pakistan, where around a million Britons have roots. By 2011, al-Qaida was hugely weakened and the connection between Britain and Pakistan was less relevant. By 2014 the group had been supplanted as the world’s leading jihadi organisation by Isis, while Afghanistan and Pakistan had been replaced by Syria and Iraq as the crucible of global jihad. Another factor has been the reduced role played by the UK in Afghanistan and Iraq – wars that at their height acted as a recruiting sergeant for jihadi groups. New counter-terrorist strategies after the 2005 attacks, more resources and legislation also made a significant difference.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/25/khalid-masood-was-a-convert-with-a-criminal-past-so-far-so-familiar Jason Burke always excellent on jihadi trends... Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis), which established its new caliphate in 2014, offers adventure, camaraderie, violence, excitement, relative comfort, cash rewards and even sexual opportunity in a way which contrasts dramatically with the asceticism of previous militant groups like al-Qaeda. A young man from Dortmund or Lyon or Sheffield could thus expect much that a gang back home offered but repackaged. Violence was no longer wrongdoing but resistance, and even redemption. The extremist’s selective teaching of religious texts encouraged former criminals to see themselves as washed of former sins by their commitment to jihad. A disproportionately high number of militants involved in plots in the west have been converts. In the UK between 2001 and 2013, 12% of “homegrown jihadists” were converts, but less than 4% of the overall Muslim population were. In the US, the total in 2015 was 40%, against an overall level of 23%. There is little systematic research but conversion appears to precede any interest in radicalism in most cases. The most likely scenario therefore is that Masood’s personal journey to extremist violence depended on social media, radical websites, and informal networks of like-minded activists, combined with external events in the Middle East or twists in his personal life. A real decision to participate in violence – to kill and be killed as a “martyr”– could have come quite suddenly, and quite recently.

Just for holding an ice cold pint like it's a tumbler of whisky.

Headline should be - 8 month FBI investigation still can't provide evidence of Russian 'interference' in US election Headline is - FBI investigates Russian 'interference' in US election

At the time Comey wrote to congress to say they were investigating Clinton (on the eve of the election) they had been investigating the Trump campaign's links to Russia for 3 months.

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I was just going from the day they came in. But 2003 and 2008 are obviously what cumulatively fucked whatever principles they could claim.

Maybe if someone Corbynistas found tolerable came to the fore there might be some slackening in their resolve. As it is they're offered only everything that tainted Labour the previous 20 years.

Ah, that's better.