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Whingers' corner
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AtomKraft » Fri Mar 18, 2022 10:46 pm
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boac/ Admin 2.
I don't care what Plum posted. You shouldn't delete it or ban him.
You left wing types are always in favour of control and...
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I think on that note it is a good time to close Whingers' Corner.
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Tue Mar 22, 2022 10:01 pm
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Rus in Vrede, Pik.
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by Capetonian » Fri Oct 12, 2018 6:55 am
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Pik Botha, the world's longest serving foreign minister, who had a tough job as South Africa's foreign minister during the Apartheid years, died...
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My sister was a friend of his daughter, they both studied at the Michaelis School of Art together and she also had lunch at their place on occasion.....
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Last post by Cacophonix
Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:18 am
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All is not well in the world's ideal democracy-South Africa
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by Seenenough » Fri Aug 24, 2018 12:24 am
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South African is coming more and more into the US news cycle because of the land grabbing.It is evident in talking to our friends who are still there...
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Losing Ministers almost as fast as Trump.
South Africa's finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has quit after admitting meeting members of the Gupta...
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Last post by Woody
Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:58 pm
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Is the irony not lost on people here! Ha ha ha
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Fliegenmong » Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:39 pm
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Australia's second longest serving Prime Minister....and arguably one of the more um....'average'...John Howard gave a talk tonight regarding...
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Odd how the countries with useless governments tend to have charming inhabitants, and vice versa. I'm thinking of Greece and Italy, for example. And...
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Last post by OFSO
Tue Oct 09, 2018 10:12 am
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Chaos in Turkey
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by Slasher » Sun Sep 02, 2018 7:29 am
I believe the lira is headed for another fall. Lecky and natural gas prices rose 14% industrial (9% residential) and inflation is running 16% (July...
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Last post by Woody
Sun Oct 07, 2018 2:47 pm
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Good luck, Angela!
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BenThere » Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:53 am
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May you live long and prosper.
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The story of Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and pre-and post-Apartheid South Africa has yet to be told. The ruins of white rule are there, the rejection...
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Last post by BenThere
Fri Oct 05, 2018 2:39 am
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Spanish Government totters.....
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OFSO » Fri May 25, 2018 7:37 pm
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Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy on the ropes over party graft case
By aritz parra, associated press
MADRID — May 25, 2018, 9:33 AM ET
Spanish...
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Riots in Barcelona today as separatists clashed with Spanish police demanding higher wages. Many injured.
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Last post by OFSO
Sat Sep 29, 2018 5:10 pm
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Do as I say...not what I do.
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by ribrash » Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:12 am
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Don't usually bother with politics,but this made me laugh.
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Labour doesn't like to pay when it's actually Labour that has to pay, not someone else.
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Last post by BenThere
Thu Sep 27, 2018 11:50 pm
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Soros' one world order
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by Seenenough » Wed Sep 26, 2018 3:42 am
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It seems that in the Soros one world order that people accused of anything are guilty until they can prove that the allegations against them are...
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Soros has been connected to Black Lives Matter, Antifa, violent attacks at Trump rallies on MAGA hat wearers, campus suppression of conservative...
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Last post by BenThere
Thu Sep 27, 2018 11:45 pm
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Island politics getting weirder by the day
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Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:48 pm
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There's some minor focus on PEI politics from off-Island as there will be a referendum on PR rather than FPTP at the same time as the next Provincial...
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Thank you.
Are there any decent MPs who might be potentially good leaders; and if there are, are they trying to become leader (but failing), or are...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:47 am
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US 'Black' Bioweapons Research Labs
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Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Sep 16, 2018 5:10 pm
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Interesting report about the US conducting covert biohazard research abroad, the article concentrates on Georgia
Shifting samples around in...
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AAh! Got the juices flowing, Plum!
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Last post by Boac
Tue Sep 18, 2018 9:42 am
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Hurricane Florence
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BenThere » Tue Sep 11, 2018 9:13 pm
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Bearing down now on Carolina, it seems to be a serious storm with lots of wind and rain. If I lived in those parts, and I was just in Myrtle Beach...
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Fox3, thanks for the clarification regarding G . It never, AFAIK, got a mention here.
As they say, hurricanes are like wives; warm and wet when they...
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Last post by Magnus
Mon Sep 17, 2018 5:47 pm
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Our clients are now entire Countries
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by Seenenough » Fri Sep 14, 2018 4:15 am
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A Media Strategist tonight, in defense of Google's co-operation by allowing the Chinese Government to censor search content, has argued that there...
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The US consistantly ignores other countries Laws and legal systems when it pleases them whilst demanding the world bows to theirs, about time they...
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Last post by Bob
Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:53 pm
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RBS. What a bunch of bankers
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AtomKraft » Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:05 pm
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Was reading today about how RBS 'may' be guilty of "the largest theft anywhere, ever".
This refers to their infamous 'Global restructuring...
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Slightly economical with the truth wasn't he? What arrogant bastards some of them are.
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Last post by FD2
Fri Sep 14, 2018 10:28 am
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Chaos in the Channel
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Bob » Wed Aug 29, 2018 6:59 am
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C'mon OFSO, what's the story?
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Now that's what oysters taste like to me, which is a pity since we have some of the best in the World here, but all other seafood I really like.
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Fri Sep 07, 2018 11:28 pm
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Mr Trump Blimp
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om15 » Fri Jul 06, 2018 7:48 am
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The Mayor of London, Mr Khan, has given permission to those people who dislike Mr Trump to fly a large insulting balloon portraying Mr Trump as an...
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Yes, Mr Khan, wearing his suit (and not his favourite bikini) signed off his approval for the blimp to fly over London. Legitimate protest and all...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Sat Sep 01, 2018 4:07 pm
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All is not well in the Venezuelan Workers Paradise.
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Stoneboat » Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:17 pm
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The New York Review Of Books: Hell of a Fiesta.
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Best I can tell, even diehard Conservatives round here preferred an airhead to a dictator (so they have told me).
However, soon as one of the other...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Sat Sep 01, 2018 3:24 am
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Racism in NZ
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by Wilco » Tue Aug 28, 2018 1:37 pm
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From another thread we were informed:
“NZ has also had a few female Prime Ministers, and a female Governor General or two. I wonder if we will ever...
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33: I think I haven't been here long enough yet - he talks a good talk though...
John Hill: Apologies for getting the wrong end of the stick.
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Last post by FD2
Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:05 am
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The row over 'anti-semitism' and Labour
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Boac » Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:17 pm
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I am struggling here to see what this is all about.
1) I cannot see why the party cannot just adopt ALL parts of the IHRA document defining...
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The Corbyn/Khan coalition of Islamist and traditional Labour supporters may well be formidable in coming elections. Should they prevail, I will have...
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Last post by BenThere
Tue Aug 28, 2018 5:48 pm
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Exhuming the General
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OFSO » Thu Aug 23, 2018 5:21 pm
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One of the planks of the manifesto of the Socialist party that now rules Spain was to exhume the body of General Fransisco Franco and bury it in a...
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a most impressive and moving memorial
Which was built by men taken as prisoners-of-war during 1936-1938 and kept in prison for years afterwards....
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Last post by OFSO
Tue Aug 28, 2018 1:28 pm
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The world is in safe hands..
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John Hill » Mon Aug 27, 2018 8:31 pm
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How could Trump possibly fail with these people behind him?
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This thread seems to be getting quite personal. Locking it to further contributions before I am tempted to send both protagonists to the naughty...
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Last post by admin
Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:19 am
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Indian woes
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OFSO » Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:30 pm
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Pleas to help people living in the Indian state of Kerala on my TV.
Thinks..... (1) monsoon comes every year (2) too many people in India (3)...
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And little Ubajunga has to walk 5 miles each day to access fresh water .....move nearer the fecking water idiots!
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Last post by Sisemen
Mon Aug 20, 2018 4:22 pm
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Carrillion goes bust...
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Cacophonix » Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:25 pm
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Well here's another fine mess the government has got us into and who will pay? Us folks, the hard hit tax payers!
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Carillion: Government...
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On C4 Wednesday.
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Last post by Woody
Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:18 am
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Latest Trump boo boo
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AtomKraft » Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:20 am
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Well, I had my doubts until seeing the video of the two of them giving their joint press conference.
Hubris is a word that springs to mind.
Does...
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Half a man perhaps
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Last post by Bob
Thu Jul 19, 2018 8:14 pm
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Caption contest?
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Bob » Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:53 pm
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...Shirley? :D
Cheetos.jpg
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My counter is that those without the US alliance are even more diminished. The US seems to manage to attract kindred nations, as we see in the former...
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Last post by BenThere
Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:11 pm
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Suggestion: A software Mrs Thatcher
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OFSO » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:30 am
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With a ditherer in charge of the UK and several only-in-it-for-me's waiting in the wings, something has to be done. Like her decisions or not, Mrs...
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You should perhaps start with the human beings who knew Thatcher's wrong decisions were wrong at the time.
I firmly disagree with the first part of...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:04 pm
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