http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=salt-tax The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 04:46:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22311#post-60240 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:47:16 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 60240@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2011/03/08/il-est-clair-qu-il-ne-va-pas-bien_1490039_3212.html#ens_id=1481986">It is clear he's very unwell</a></p> <p><blockquote>...///... D'autres informateurs ont raconté aux diplomates que le colonel Kadhafi, qualifié"d'homme extrêmement vaniteux", a subi des injections de Botox pour atténuer ses rides - ce qui expliquerait la nouvelle rigidité de son visage. Il s'est aussi fait greffer des implants capillaires, mais l'opération a mal tourné : "Il a souffert d'une forme rare de réaction auto-immunitaire, et on a dû retirer les greffons." ...///...</blockquote></p> <p>Actually, this suggests that he’s had radiotherapy treatments prior to which his immune status was altered by factor iv inversion (a condition which affects the interpretation of double-negative blood tests, i.e.: he would not have been given radiotherapy if the tests had been accurately interpreted)…which means not only that his blood will not clot but will soon separate, while he is clinging to life. He would need two 28-day cycles of daily plasma perfusions to attenuate this mishap (yes, he needs blood, buckets of it!) but an important factor in late-stage prostate cancer is morphine tolerance or intolerance. Given the other factors, it is most likely that he is morphine-intolerant and experiencing horrifying hallucinations.</p> <p><strong>Ghaddafi is dying the kind of death you don't know enough to wish on your worst enemy.</strong> It is urgent to recognise Libya’s new government, provide military and logistical support and to outlaw his wretched litter of whelps. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52173 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:36:08 +0000 FormerlyAlOPecia 52173@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If only it wasn't true. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52169 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:19:58 +0000 Mrblacker 52169@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like most people - I know nothing </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52149 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:10:51 +0000 Rowly 52149@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I wish we could get coin operated politicians </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52137 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:58:38 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 52137@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like this nutty scheme. * * * * * </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52134 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:37:54 +0000 Gerontius 52134@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>AJ<br /> Do you know something we don't ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19345#post-52127 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:05:36 +0000 Mrblacker 52127@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is defending proposals to install coin-operated street lights in every city across England as 'a way to ensure councils spend the money we give them appropriately'.</p> <p>The plans, outlined in the Localism Bill, will see current sodium bulbs replaced with new LED ones which will be operated by the insertion of a coin or token.</p> <p>"Every year, the Government give local authorities tens of millions of pounds and every year they complain that they don't have enough. Coin-operated lights are just a small step towards us making sure every penny they get is spent correctly."</p> <p>"The money will be given just once and recycled, ensuring that it's forever tied to the operation on the lights. Of course, councils could decide to keep the cash and get rid of their street lighting, but they'd risk the wrath of letters to the local paper if they did."</p> <p>Under the scheme, council workers would visit every light in their authority area once a day, inserting either £5 in coin or tokens to make the lights stay on overnight. Then in daylight hours, the same worker would return to empty the switching box, before coming back just before dusk to re-insert the monies.</p> <p>"It's a ludicrous scheme" Martin Aniston from the union UNISON said. "At a time when councils are having to cut staff and save money across the board, to get workers to travel around a council area to make sure lights come on is profligate."</p> <p>However, he said he hoped that if the plans are adopted, those workers who operate the lights would be encouraged to adopt UNISON membership. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19301#post-52054 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:19:01 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 52054@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheap thrill = 5*. Happy 01 01 2011 </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19301#post-52045 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:07:07 +0000 Dumbnews 52045@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Millions celebrate as they watch computer calendar change at midnight </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19301#post-52042 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:41:22 +0000 malgor 52042@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <br /> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19086#post-51575 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:43:24 +0000 Mrblacker 51575@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Green campaigners say the melting of a sheet of ice covering a water feature in the Midlands city centre, is undeniable evidence of climate change.</p> <p>The sheet - on the Waterwindow in Coventry - has been a feature of the city since the December Ice Age, and is starting to melt as temperatures rise.</p> <p>"This is definitive evidence that the world is getting warmer and something needs to be done about it before this valuable natural resourse disappears for ever." Jacinta Horrigan told anyone who'd listen.</p> <p>"This ice formed naturally in a defined period of cooling and now the authorities are letting is melt without intervening to protect what's left. It's diabolical."</p> <p>"They've also been doing their best to break it up, by getting a man to smash the ice on a regular basis. This was done on the pretext of 'health and safety' but we know it's just wilful destruction and a further demonstration of how those in power are raping the planet."</p> <p>However, a spokesman for Coventry City Council said the ice was a serious threat as people had been seen trying to stand on it and that Ms Horrigan only became interested in it when her niece told her about the ice sheet and had caught pneumonia by trying to skate on it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19055#post-51554 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:06:04 +0000 victory V 51554@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Are you a devotee of 'small is beautiful' by any chance? I remember the author pointing up the absurdity of biscuits made in London being transported to the North &amp; vice versa in that book 30+ years ago. A welcome return to form. Stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19055#post-51551 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:51:58 +0000 Sinnick 51551@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Does "unnecessary" include visits to relatives we don't like? In which case, I'm grateful for the weather warnings </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=19055#post-51507 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:52:37 +0000 Doylem 51507@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>“It’s quite a relief to get back to normal, after all the arctic weather”, said Bob Hargreaves, president of the Road Hauliers Association. “We have consignments of foodstuffs in our North of England depots that need to be delivered to shops in the south, and we have consignments of foodstuffs in our South of England depots that need to be delivered to shops around the north. If the snow had stayed much longer, people might have begun to question why we couldn’t leave most of these consignments where they were, deliver them locally, and thereby relief our already overburdened road system of a few thousand lorries. And then where would we be?”... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17182#post-47281 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:48:11 +0000 thisisall1word 47281@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Basically, if you work in some kind of high level super-tight secretive organisation, then choose your communication and collaboration tools wisely. Twitter and Yahoo Groups no longer cut it.</p> <p>President Sarkosy chased a rabbit, Prince Andrew told the US ambassador to fuck off and die, Obama needs to take ryhpnol to sleep, and George Osbourne has shingles. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17305#post-47184 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:36:36 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 47184@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>No: Ireland is Thatcher's promised land, a farcical fate which awaits us all. That said, it is also true that Hell is presentaly freezing over and providence no longer designates who wins at CasinoCap.</p> <p>In the meantime, this Irish shanty re-write was censored on The Guardian. Can't be all that bad, then:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/27/ireland-bailout-dublin-protest?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/27/ireland-bailout-dublin-protest?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments</a><br /> There is them that makes money the whole time they sleep<br /> There is many have houses that they canna keep<br /> There is some that have jobs<br /> That not even wogs<br /> Will rise of a mornin’ the wages to seek.</p> <p> Oh it’s Nay! No! Never! No-nay-never no more!<br /> Will gangsters and banksters be safe on our shores.</p> <p>Oi went to the market me fat pig to sell<br /> An’ when I got there ‘tis sorry to tell:<br /> Our own hedge funds had hijacked<br /> All the taties and hog backs<br /> An’ the sheriff and army and gardai as well.</p> <p> So it’s Nay! No! Never! No-nay-never no more!<br /> Will gangsters and banksters be safe on our shores.</p> <p>I’ll tell thee a riddle of one two and three:<br /> A Frog, Scot and Irish sat under a tree,<br /> An’ a branch of it fell<br /> On the Never-Do-Well:<br /> Not on Paddy or Marcel or Mac, but on thee. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17182#post-47183 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:27:19 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 47183@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You might like this one, too <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/01-7"><strong>CronyCap's running dogs</strong></a>. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17182#post-47181 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:22:52 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 47181@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Because you're worth it : <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/porter12012010.html"><strong>Executive summary supplied</strong></a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17305#post-46886 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:11:19 +0000 deskpilot3 46886@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17182#post-46537 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:35:16 +0000 rikkor 46537@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sinnick, that's perfect. I imagine that the salacious bits will be along the shocking lines of "a rich and powerful man sometimes has sex with a woman who is not his wife." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17182#post-46534 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:09:39 +0000 Sinnick 46534@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>rikkor, you wanted a summary ?</p> <p>Iran is mentioned once or twice; it's apparently got some baddies running it<br /> UK is run by a right twat; used to be run by a left twat<br /> Something to do with Somalia and bombs<br /> Arabs don't always like each other</p> <p>That help ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17182#post-46507 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:36:11 +0000 IABP 46507@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>People are only interested in the bits where they describe world leaders in derogatory terms.</p> <p>To be honest, America couldn't antagonise the world any more than they do now.<br /> They keep England off the bottom rung in the popularity stakes, which is their only purpose. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17182#post-46503 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:24:47 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 46503@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well, you could try <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">The Guardian</a> - they have helpfully highlighted the 'interesting' bits in each item.</p> <p>I'm looking forward to finding what the US thinks of David Cameron. We already know that Obama thinks him "lightweight" but surely that must have been him being diplomatic. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17182#post-46498 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:12:49 +0000 riesler 46498@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>we're just stunned that diplomats don't always tell the truth. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=17182#post-46490 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:42:08 +0000 rikkor 46490@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>They had about 10 pages of dense text in the NY "Times" about it this AM. Could someone do an executive summary of the most interesting bits for me, please?</p> <p>What a shocking surprise that our State Department has zero systems security! You could have knocked me over with a feather. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15756#post-42882 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:56:22 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 42882@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Will that goofy guy in asinine hag drag make us swallow? <a href="http://"><strong>Neo-Lib poster child</strong> </a>missed the moment to resolve the debt/bank crisis. <em>By absorbing the debts, the [Irish] government is condemning its people to a decade of grinding poverty and a deficit that's 32 per cent of GDP, a record for any country in the EU.</em> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15609#post-42514 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:44:48 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 42514@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>P.S.: all the neo-Liberal puppet regimes look set to implode within weeks of each other. Watch and learn. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=15609#post-42512 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:42:29 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 42512@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Freemarket rules in the race to the bottom<br /> None can rule over chaos, and no-one can stop 'em:<br /> Champions of nonsense, of vacuum and vanity<br /> Voting for this lot will challenge your sanity. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=13516#post-37186 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:37:36 +0000 Mr.3374 37186@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is it just me that noticed Wires won the cup twice on the trot too?</p> <p>edit: I think I'll add this to the other 2 threads too..... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=13516#post-37175 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:44:28 +0000 rikkor 37175@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sophia Dorothea does it. </p>