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I'm with you. Kill all the people.

Then the people that pick up their stuff.

Then the magpies that pick up their stuff.

Then kill the stuff.

Then stuff the killed.

Do it!

there is far more expensive shit to get wound up about.

Yep. The real 'landowners' are not our dated aristocrats, but Google, facebook, starbucks ect who don't pay their fucking taxes.

There's an odd conflagration of land management and privilege here. Sure, posh people shoot deer, but they are mostly crap at it. The deer populations are kept at healthy levels by people who work all year round, not just for fun in the summer.

On the subject of the Scottish Highlands, they are very fashionable with rich foreign business owners. Near where my cousin lives, Mr. Lego bought up a whole swathe, deforested some of it to have his freinds round to shoot stuff but they didn't know what they were doing. The deer population grew, some went lame, some starved, then they killed the whole lot and built a golf course.

Maybe the queen should become a tax collector for international tax dodgers.

Maybe the queen should become a tax collector for international tax dodgers.

Fuck yeah

Sweet heart tax deals anyone?

Govt 'thinks of the kids' (as a good excuse to continue eavesdropping that is)

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/11/gchq-national-crime-agency-dark-web-child-abuse

Nvm

The Govt are really pushing the media to release stories to back up their want to increase controls and monitoring on the internet at the moment.

Yup, let's crank up that fear button, guys... Let's see how much the plebs care about their privacy now...

hmmm... and when they're done catching all the kiddy fiddlers on the internet maybe they can crack on and let us know which members of the tory party have been doing similar things on an industrial scale since the fucking 80s.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/03/theresa-may-address-mps-chaotic-child-abuse-inquiry#start-of-comments

It's official (and not really a surprise); the 'Muricans have frikkin lasers. Odd name for a boat though...

http://news.sky.com/story/1390028/us-navy-laser-blasts-drone-out-of-the-sky

1. Protect from terrorists
   
2. Stop the kiddy fiddlers
   
3. Wipe out copyright infringement
   
4. Profit
   

Ponce is the only ship of the United States Navy that is named for Ponce in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which in turn was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, the first governor of Puerto Rico and European discoverer of Florida.

Well there you go. Cheers, @TW.

Edit: And when will they reveal that the moon is in fact a fully-operational battle station?

Have identity cards been mentioned?

How the U.S. Government Infiltrated Cuba's Hip-Hop Scene to Spark Change

Yet another crazy USAID project costing untold $millions. You really couldn't make this shit up

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/global/6405538/how-the-us-government-infiltrated-cubas-hip-hop-scene-to-spark

UKIP look to be getting some serious media backing.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/12/richard-desmond-donation-ukip-nigel-farage

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/dec/12/richard-desmond-papers-ukip-election-result-express-star

This seems apt...

UKIP are the only ones who'll give him a peerage, which is what Richard Desmond is really after. None of the other parties will, due to the fact he's basically a pornographer who owns two newspaper titles. Well, one newspaper and one cheap porn periodical masquerading as a newspaper.

Have I missed reviews of Russell Brand's performance on QT? Nothing in meme thread...I found him very poor, ill equipped to answer questions except for some apparently pre prepared mini speeches. Surely no future in politics.