Politics & Stuff

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If it was an attack of some sort, its getting the desired result ie it looks like the government is on the way out. However I think it was mega incompetence with disastrous results.

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  On 06/08/2020 at 17:20, We Hate Scouse said:

Don't get me wrong, I like to keep an open mind about these things, but I just can't see a reason that someone would do something like this and then there be a cover up.

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Thats fair my friend, its good to be open minded.

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A completely deranged Trump claims Joe Biden will "hurt God" if elected president

 

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  On 07/08/2020 at 13:12, 11Drogba said:

 

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lol, reduced to a Manc wank

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It really makes me sad when dictators like Lukashenko win elections like this...

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  On 28/04/2012 at 06:28, Spike said:

Do you like Politcs? Yes? No? Could care less? Well in this grande topic we discuss politics.

Here is a test for those curious.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Don't take the test too seriously, and post your results if you want to.

My results lean heavily towards Liberty and Communism/Socialism. The stupid image extension isn't allowed on Talk Chelsea.

Keep things civil people.

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This was mine

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Britain’s New Record: A Recession Worse Than in Europe and North America

Seventeen years of economic growth have been wiped out in Britain’s late and long lockdown.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/business/britain-economy-recession-coronavirus.html

Britain discovered on Wednesday that its economy had suffered a recession deeper than any other reported by a European or North American country during the coronavirus pandemic.

The reasons for the severe downturn in the second quarter include an economy that relies more heavily than most on consumer spending and a longer national lockdown than its neighbors.

Still, the cost of the pandemic provided another grim record. Last month, the government reported that Britain had Europe’s highest rate of excess deaths.

“A few months ago, I said hard times are coming and today’s figures show hard times are here,” Rishi Sunak, Britain’s top finance official, said on Wednesday.

Economic output declined by 20.4 percent from April to June, compared with the previous quarter, official preliminary statistics showed on Wednesday. It’s the worst recession since the government started keeping records in 1955 and takes the British economy back to the size it was in 2003. The fall in gross domestic product was twice as large as in the United States and Germany.

The government’s relatively slow response to the pandemic in March largely explains Britain’s fate. The closing of schools and businesses began weeks later in Britain than in some neighboring European countries. In those crucial days, the coronavirus was able to spread further and the problem was worsened by failures in contact tracing, testing and the protection of nursing homes.

 

This led to a longer period under a more severe lockdown, which began in late March and only started to be lifted in mid-June. Compared with the United States, which instigated state-by-state shutdowns of varying lengths and severity, Britain’s lockdown also affected a greater share of the population for a longer period.

The longer lockdown was “at the root of the economy’s underperformance,” Samuel Tombs, an economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, wrote in a research note.

An Oxford University index on the strictness of government responses, including school and workplace closings and travel bans, showed that Britain’s lockdown was more stringent in the second quarter than in Italy, Germany, Spain and the United States.

Britain was also more vulnerable to the economic impact of social distancing measures because of its large services sector. In the second quarter, spending on accommodation and food services — a category that includes hotels and restaurants — plunged by 87 percent.

 

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  On 19/08/2020 at 07:52, Vesper said:

 

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THis shit would have made threats going back and forth just 20 years ago.....that was quality Vesper

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oh the humanity!

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Reuters sketch of Steve Bannon appearing handcuffed in court in Manhattan today.

 

Steve Bannon Is Charged With Fraud in We Build the Wall Campaign

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyregion/steve-bannon-arrested-indicted.html

Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former adviser and an architect of his 2016 general election campaign, was charged on Thursday with defrauding donors to a private fund-raising effort called We Build the Wall, which was intended to bolster the president’s signature initiative along the Mexican border.

Mr. Bannon, working with a wounded Air Force veteran and a Florida venture capitalist, conspired to cheat hundreds of thousands of donors by falsely promising that their money had been set aside for new sections of wall, according to a federal indictment unsealed in Manhattan.

The fund-raising effort collected more than $25 million, and prosecutors said Mr. Bannon used nearly $1 million of it for personal expenses.

Despite the populist aura he tries to project, Mr. Bannon is known to enjoy the high life, and he was arrested at 7:15 a.m. on a $35 million, 150-foot yacht belonging to one of his business associates, the fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, law enforcement officials said.

Working with the Coast Guard, special agents from the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan and federal postal inspectors boarded the yacht off Westbrook, Conn., the officials said. Mr. Bannon, 66, was on deck, drinking coffee and reading a book, when the raid occurred.

The criminal charges, filed a week before Mr. Trump was to accept the Republican nomination for a second term, marked a stark turn of fortune for the flamboyant political strategist. Mr. Bannon first came to prominence when he was in charge of the right-wing media outlet Breitbart, where he had aligned himself with the alt-right, a loose network of groups and people who promote white identity.

As chief strategist, Mr. Bannon was one of the most powerful figures in the White House early in the Trump administration, but he stepped down in August 2017 after frequently clashing with other aides.

With the indictment, Mr. Bannon became the seventh Trump associate to have been charged with federal crimes, a list that includes Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager; Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser; and Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s onetime lawyer and fixer.

 

 

 

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When dictator takes automatic rifle it means he is gone soon... Fucking idiot, who you gonna shot, your own people?

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Horrific video of yank coppers in Wisconsin shooting an unarmed black man in the back this fucking SHIT has to end!!!!!!!

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Jonathan Pie - written by alt right Spiked 

https://libcom.org/blog/unsurprising-reason-jonathan-pie-rants-sound-straight-out-spiked-06022018

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  On 24/08/2020 at 05:21, Vesper said:

Horrific video of yank coppers in Wisconsin shooting an unarmed black man in the back this fucking SHIT has to end!!!!!!!

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If that was any of my family members that got done like that by that coward...... That was filthy, avoidable and totally not needed. Who the fuck gave you the permission to kill an unarmed man going nowhere surroundered by 2 other cops?