Courtesy of Angus – remember the name Ian Shaw, folks, Bournemouth Borough Council’s housing manager.
When council officers stole* a baby buggy and after the couple reported the theft to the council, said council wanted £50 for them to get it back.
Said our Ian:
“The health and safety of our residents is our number one priority. It [...]
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What is it?
Meanwhile:
A ship is docked in the harbour. Over the side hangs a rope ladder with rungs a foot apart. The tide rises at a rate of 9 inches per hour. At the end of six hours, how much of the rope ladder will still remain above water, assuming that 9 feet were above [...]
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Dearieme:
Me:
I greatly fear that Dearieme has disappeared off the scene with the advent of the new site but one can only hope not.
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Here is a pdf with the names and the official organizations of people, until 2009, who are or were members of either the CFR, Trilateral Commission or Bilderberg Society.
Here is a Scrb read, tracing the dominance of members of these groups in the corridors of power, from congress through to education. for example:
There is no [...]
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Site working – check. Links holding up – check. People visiting – check. Comments working … ah … er … not completely.
The nature of the comments so far has put me under the hammer, as to what’s approved and what’s not. There was a woman came in with a “nice pics’ [...]
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Will Ireland stymie the European Superstate or will it come down to the last ditch attempt by 27 Czech Senators:
The senator who lodged the new complaint, Jiri Oberfalzer, told the BBC it centred on persisting concerns that Lisbon infringed upon Czech sovereignty. He and his colleagues want the court to decide whether the treaty forms [...]
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Women are not a special sacrosanct group in society, for goodness sake – they are one half of society and among them are the intelligent, stupid, long, short, fat and thin, strong and weak, just as with men.
There are differences in temperament which are gender based – men tend to have a certain mindset or [...]
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ACguitardotcom says, of David Russell:
In the realm of classical guitar, there is a small handful of luminaries whose concerts and recordings have earned them international stature. Scottish-born guitarist David [...]
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Alex Goodall heads his post on this “Speechless“. I am too. First we had the incident in Pittsburgh, reported by Harry Hook as “rare video footage“and now it’s turned out to be far from an aberration. Rare, Harry?
Why the dressing in black and formed into ranks, like something from an apocalyptic movie? Why the beating [...]
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Where is the national executive? Where is Ian Parker-Joseph whom I count as a friend but who might not be too rapt at the tenor of this post.
Nevertheless, this is politics and no one is going to give us anything on a plate.
Where is LPUK?
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There were already more than enough warnings:
1. The American Academy of Dermatology says most bulbs used at salons emit UVA and small amounts of UVB rays. It is also believed that this is contributing to a variety of cancers.
2. According to Nicholas Lowe, author of Skin Secrets, using a tanning bed will not offer the [...]
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