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Is that not obvious? I mean, did the Scientists at Aberystwyth University really need to do this research?
We thought it was obvious to cover our head thinking we lose our body head through our head, turn out to be false due to the little boffin at some laboratory somewhere in a place we couldn't spell doing all kind of research to find this out.
Least we know for a fact that fistbumping is a perfectly vegan thin to do.
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We thought it was obvious to cover our head thinking we lose our body head through our head, turn out to be false due to the little boffin at some laboratory somewhere in a place we couldn't spell doing all kind of research to find this out.
Least we know for a fact that fistbumping is a perfectly vegan thin to do.
The initial study [citation needed] was done with soldiers. The watched them on infra red cameras and noticed they lost most heat through their heads. This study ignored the fact they were fully clothed, apart from their heads.
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everyone looking forward to the next soccer world cup? i suspect this sort of awfulness will only get worse as the months tick by. Fifa. The world's premier slavery enablers.
Not much difference to building Dubai from the sound of it.
Have you spent time in either, Ed?
Thought not.
It's true that migrant workers aren't treated brilliantly throughout the Middle East, but the organisation who are building the infrastructure for the World Cup notoriously treat their workers appallingly.
The office which I use most often is based in an area which sits in the centre of the labour camps here in Dubai. It's like a large town that operates and exists separate to the rest of the metropolis. I drive through this everyday and have interacted regularly with the guys who live there - so much so, I no longer pay "white tax" on anything I buy there.
I accept that the conditions aren't the best, but these chaps have a tremendous sense of survival and will do anything for you. The reason that their situations are different is because there has been so much negative press about the labour force being mistreated. Developers own vast swathes of low rise accommodation which provides them with (in some cases) better sanitary conditions than they were used to in their home countries. They send almost all of their money home to fund education, healthcare and whatever else is needed by their families in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka etc. In fact, the Pakistani's are very respected by the Emirati's because they take their religion significantly more seriously than the locals do...
The Qatari's are indeed a funny bunch: there's one family (the one in charge) that controls everything. One of the many issues that occurs throughout the Middle East is that when a company which is owned by anyone remotely connected to a ruling family fails, it's virtually impossible to recoup any outstanding funds - after all, how do you take a Sheikh to court?
Qatar keeps it's labour force in truly appalling conditions, paying them the lowest possible rates and generally treating them worse than cattle. A lot of the issues have arisen as a result of people being poorly educated - not just the workers, but the business owners too.
Besides, labour forces throughout the world are treated appallingly with increasing regularity. It's just that the Middle East is a popular "whipping boy" for the press in the UK.
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Nobody seems to have noticed this latest round of sabre rattling...... And to think that we had those glorious years between the wall coming down in Berlin and the twin towers coming down in NY when it seemed like peace was breaking out everywhere - now it appears that we are staggering toward the end of days in every sphere. I'm off to get drunk.
Jim Kuhnhenn, *Associated Press*
Posted: Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 1:08 AMWASHINGTON - In an escalation of tensions, the Obama administration accused Russia on Monday of conducting tests in violation of a 1987 nuclear missile treaty, calling the breach "a very serious matter" and going public with allegations that have simmered for some time.
The treaty confrontation comes at a highly strained time between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia's intervention in Ukraine and Putin's grant of asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
An administration official said Obama notified Putin of the U.S. determination in a letter Monday. The finding will be included in a State Department annual report on compliance with arms-control treaties that will be released Tuesday.
The U.S. says Russia tested a new ground-launched cruise missile, breaking the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that President Ronald Reagan signed with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Russian officials say they have looked into the allegations and consider the matter closed.The Obama administration has expressed its concern over possible violations before, but this is the first time that the administration has formally accused Russia of violating the treaty. It comes in the wake of the downed Malaysian airliner in Ukraine and as the U.S. and the European Union seek to ramp up sanctions against Russia.Two officials said the U.S. was prepared to hold high-level discussions on the issue immediately and wanted assurances that Russia would comply with the treaty requirements. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive issue publicly ahead of Tuesday's report.
The New York Times first reported the U.S. move Monday.
The officials said the Obama administration has informed Congress and U.S. allies of its decision to seek Russian compliance. Obama, who has made nuclear disarmament a key foreign-policy aim, has little interest in having Russia pull out of the treaty altogether.Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20140729_U_S___Russia_tested_missile.html#OcPPCSIg4BTmDCIX.99
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[quote="Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press"] a highly strained time between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia's intervention in Ukraine and Putin's grant of asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
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This is utterly facile equivalence.
Sorry? Not getting into the corner with the journalist in question, but where is equivalence an issue? I think he's just saying that both Ukraine and Snowden have been issues that have strained the relationship - which they have.
Actually, don't under-estimate how exercised the 'muricans are over Snowden.
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Oh, I know that... They're idiots as well but they haven't started fracking yet...
Erm...
"Hydraulic fracturing has occurred for decades in Australia, but on a very limited scale. Whereas about 1.5 million fracking jobs have taken place in the United States, only 2,500 have occurred in Australia, according to the Victoria report."
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'Remote control' contraceptive chip available 'by 2018'
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Nobody seems to have noticed this latest round of sabre rattling...... And to think that we had those glorious years between the wall coming down in Berlin and the twin towers coming down in NY when it seemed like peace was breaking out everywhere - now it appears that we are staggering toward the end of days in every sphere. I'm off to get drunk.
What "peace breaking out"? This was a period of incredible failings all over the planet. Just only did millions of people in Europe loose their jobs but hunger also returned all the while we had very bloodly civil wars in Algeria within which between 1991 and 11 Sept around 150,000 people died. The war in Afghanistan, of course, raged. We had the 1st Gulf War.. Somalia, Yemen, Congo,.. Oh and Enitrea and Ethiopia went to war.. And a genocide in Rwanda which brought death is a short period of time in 1994 to 800,000 people. We had fun and games with the Taureg--- see current events in Mali--- and a civil war in Mali.. The break-down of the USSR resulted too in its share of civil wars.. The Ossetia War in Georgia and Chechen are just two of many.. And we had the whole mess with Yugoslavia. And lets not forget that long playing Pakestan and India conflict.. Oh.. forgot.. Liberia.. And the Middle East.. we had the 2nd "Intifada" blazing away before 11 Sept.. I'd say that "war breaking out" was the mantra..
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Sorry? Not getting into the corner with the journalist in question, but where is equivalence an issue? I think he's just saying that both Ukraine and Snowden have been issues that have strained the relationship - which they have.
Actually, don't under-estimate how exercised the 'muricans are over Snowden.
The equivalence is more on the merkins' side (rather, the subset of merkin powers-that-be that don't give a fig for their own constitution).
On the one hand, a state agency being called out for illegal domestic activity, on the other, an aggressive nation state setting off big bombs.
I read it as the journalist making these of equal importance.
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The White House is urging Congress to reject an attempt to stop the National Security Agency (NSA) collecting Americans' phone records.
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LBC doing a cycling chat at the moment.
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You lovable fool of a "newspaper"..
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Is that not obvious? I mean, did the Scientists at Aberystwyth University really need to do this research?
On a serious note, what about hugs? I think we should send ChainBreaker to Wales asap so he can assist!