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https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/report-muenchen/china-lebensmittelpreise-100.html

In German

Investigation into how Russia and China even before the start of the Ukraine war took measures that increased cost of wheat globally. Tagesschau also had an investigation into China's influence on UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.

If there is anyone looking like a braindead twat here, it's you.

Keep digging fuckwit, you might strike oil.

Ignore is all of your friends.

You say that, but this thread has been incredibly confusing for the past few days as a result

That's only because people aren't ignoring this fuckwit. More ignores = less replies.

Your generalisations are offensive, fuck off

I don’t think you know them at all. They have form for being a self aware, intelligent and considered poster on this forum.

Thanks for a sensible reply. The Africa remark was a parting shot as I turned to walk off with both guys shouting 'fuck off and call the police then'. I said I would, and repeated the number plate out loud a couple of times. One of the guys was outside the car by now. A thumping seemed likely. I needed something to distract them for a second so I could get to a safe distance. So I said 'the people being killed by climate change are your brothers in Africa'. It was meant to startle them and to suggest I was well-meaning but misguided. I wouldn't say it in the normal course of events. But I got to my door without a kicking. Success.

I'm sure I remembered the registration correctly, so the car was probably stolen. (Having a false plate is a criminal offence. It's not worth doing unless the real registration would trip the ANPR in a police car. ) Maybe the driver kept it running for 25 minutes because the ignition was damaged and the car could only be started by opening the bonnet?

I'm leaving this topic now. It's a boring derail and just pearls before swine.

I'm sure I remembered the registration correctly, so the car was probably stolen. (Having a false plate is a criminal offence. It's not worth doing unless the real registration would trip the ANPR in a police car. ) Maybe the driver kept it running for 25 minutes because the ignition was damaged and the car could only be started by opening the bonnet?

Are you in the Met?

pearls before swine

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No, I'm a criminal. We all know this stuff.

Even without all the mad generalisations and outright bullshit. The daft focus on not seeing too many black people at climate protests can be explained somewhat through the fact that only 2.5% of the UK population are black, even in London where that's 13.5% the protests themselves won't be solely by Londoners, obviously Nick has explained that some of his best friends are black and seemingly a lot of his unfortunate neighbours so maybe he's just got a skewed idea of actual demographics and is wondering why all the people he sees locally don't think the same as him and go on protests when really those protests are attended by a small amount of people from most communities.
Either way his original post should've read "I asked two dickheads in a range rover to stop idling but they acted like dickheads and refused, I wish more people knew idling is dickhead behaviour."

Ignore is all of your friends.

So much this. Don’t engage.

So I said 'the people being killed by climate change are your brothers in Africa'. It was meant to startle them and to suggest I was well-meaning but misguided. I wouldn't say it in the normal course of events

Fucking hell.
I did a racism to avoid being attacked.

I agree. But being a former media person who is really panicking about climate change, I'm always thinking about how to get the message across before it's too late. And nearly all my black friends/acquaintances have told me the papers and the government are liars. Which is true. Distrust has been massively magnified by the Windrush scandal, the endless murdering of black guys by the police, Covid, the lockdowns, the US research scandal etc etc etc. I get too agitated about things.

I think the consensus is you did a terrible job of getting your message across both irl and virtually.

I'm always thinking about how to get the message across

Yeah, I see that.

Sarcasm is lost on this one, I think.

a former media person

So many questions

Nick has explained that some of his best friends are black

Pretty sure he said some of his best friends are middle class.

It's sickening isn't it. We're all struggling through a heat wave and the lefties are trying to exploit our suffering for their wacky eco agenda. They just have to make everything political.

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Can someone explain the server issue? Some sort of internet enabled immobiliser or something?