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BRITAIN’S BROADCASTING regulator and competition authority, Ofcom, says people could soon have to pay an "Ipod tax" to pay for crappy, yet expensive, programmes on ITV and Channel 4.

The tax wouldn’t just be restricted to Ipods and other MP3 players though. Anyone with a Sky satellite dish, an Internet connection and even a Freeview box will purportedly have to cough up to save shows like My Goldfish is Evil and London Tonight.

www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/26/britain-considers-taxi
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1059071/Mr-Average-breaks-law-day-spe
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#1, #3, #6, #7, #10, #17, Guilty - all at the same time.

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
is this all a joke?

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"Treacle tart, Hermione! Spotted dick, look! Chocolate gateau!"
-Ronald Weasley, Harry Potter Goblet of Fire

"The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been crowned The Faggot Family in a national competition, and to kick off their reign they will launch National Faggot Week. They displayed their fanaticism for the delicacy during quizzes, role-plays and mock commercials. Her husband Fred added: 'It's unfair because faggots were a British delicacy long before any of the others. The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.' The competition was organised by faggot producer Mr Brain's Faggots."
-BBC News, Family of faggot fans fly the flag, 27 January, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2698507.stm

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IGNFF: Going back a little bit, was it your choice to go overseas to Winchester – to what, I guess, was essentially high school?

JOSEPH HILL "JOSS" WHEDON: Yes. My mother suggested it, because she was on sabbatical, and enjoyed England, and didn't trust the schools in California where my father was. So I was to go for half a year, because she was taking a half a year sabbatical. I bizarrely managed to get into the single best school in the country, through no merit of my own. I really don't know how that happened. I was lazy, I was terrible, but through osmosis, I was learning more than I ever had before. It was so extraordinary. My family went back to America, and the school asked me to stay along, and I did [$$$$$$$$$$].

IGNFF: So you got to be the standard there, as the token lazy American.

WHEDON: I was the token lazy American, except when it came to English class, where I was relentless and unstoppable.

IGNFF: How palpable was the cultural difference, going to that school, compared to the American schools you'd gone to previously?

WHEDON: Well, let's see. I went from Riverdale, a fairly progressive private school that my mother taught at, where I'd gone for ten-and-a-half years, since first grade – because it went all the way through, K-12. I went from that, having never been out of the country, to a 600-year-old all male boarding school where I actually listened to a lecture on why co-education will never work. The cultural difference couldn't have been huger. The only thing that was the same was that, like at Riverdale, I had no money and was surrounded by very rich people.

IGNFF: That lecture had to appeal to the radical feminist in you...

WHEDON: Yeah. Well, you know, there's plenty of arguments that co-education is actually bad for girls in the present state of the country. But that was not his argument. Put it this way – at the end of it, I was like, "Sir, don't you think if God had wanted man to fly he would have given us wings?" It was very, very strange.

http://movies.ign.com/articles/425/425492p2.html



In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country's leading private schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by The Times, which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents. Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared. There has been no system of fagging for some decades. College prefects used to engage junior boys as "valets": by the 1960s this had become a voluntary arrangement in which the valets were paid for their services, and the system disappeared altogether in the early 1970s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_College
www.winchestercollege.co.uk/

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Crowd Urged Suicidal Teen To Jump
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20081001/tuk-crowd-urged-suicidal-tee
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Originally posted by piratenews:
"Littering" is defined in UK as dropping a single bread crumb on the grass.

"Offensive weapon" is defined as a butterknife in UK.

Quids is what I call em. Brits need em to buy Spotted Dick ("The Queen's favorite dessert") and Mrs Brain's Faggots.

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"Treacle tart, Hermione! Spotted dick, look! Chocolate gateau!"
-Ronald Weasley, Harry Potter Goblet of Fire

"The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been crowned The Faggot Family in a national competition, and to kick off their reign they will launch National Faggot Week. They displayed their fanaticism for the delicacy during quizzes, role-plays and mock commercials. Her husband Fred added: 'It's unfair because faggots were a British delicacy long before any of the others. The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.' The competition was organised by faggot producer Mr Brain's Faggots."
-BBC News, Family of faggot fans fly the flag, 27 January, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2698507.stm

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and I'm sorry Wulfen, you're not an idiot - you're patriotically stubborn

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Kwicko,

Sorry about the eye.

But, letting a homeless male proz bust in your eye will do that.

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Flight of white Britons from UK leaps to 70,000 per year ... but population still rising as Eastern Europeans come to Britain

According to Government estimates, the established white population of England dropped by nearly 250,000 between 2002 and 2006.

Official figures have previously indicated that about 50,000 Britons head for Australia each year and about 30,000 for New Zealand. Last year, a record 400,000 left the country to live abroad for at least 12 months.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1064526/Flight-white-Britons-UK-leaps
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400,000 Brits said Britain sucks in 2007:

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Flight of white Britons from UK leaps to 70,000 per year ... but population still rising as Eastern Europeans come to Britain

According to Government estimates, the established white population of England dropped by nearly 250,000 between 2002 and 2006.

Official figures have previously indicated that about 50,000 Britons head for Australia each year and about 30,000 for New Zealand. Last year, a record 400,000 left the country to live abroad for at least 12 months.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1064526/Flight-white-Britons-UK-leaps
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That what happens when you let Gangsta Govt get out of control. Socialism = Fascism/Communism/Gangsterism

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Russian nuke jet buzzes Hull England

Russian jet flies within 90 seconds of Hull

30 Sept 08



A Russian nuclear bomber managed to get within 90 seconds of Hull in a mock attack as RAF radars failed to pick it up.

The supersonic Blackjack changed course 20 miles from UK airspace, it has been reported.

The jet was picked up on RAF radars but only after it had turned back.

Critics of the Government’s cuts in defence spending say that they have left the country at risk. Four years ago four squadrons of Jaguar and Tornado F3 fighters were slashed from the RAF’s books.

In January it emerged that the Ministry of Defence will have to cut its budget by an extra £1.5 billion a year over the next three years, leaving the three armed forces vying with each other for the money.

The RAF is also expected to lose two of its frontline Tornado GR4 ground attack squadrons as part of cuts to existing forces.

A senior RAF pilot told The Sun: “The Russians made us look helpless. The Blackjack could have got even closer. It was a disaster — it basically gave the Russians the green light to fly wherever they want.”

Ministry of Defence officials confirmed the incident, but said the RAF had a “multilayered” approach to detecting and deterring enemy jets.

A spokesman said in a statement: “We are satisfied we have the flexibility to launch as many aircraft as the situation requires.”

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/3107008/Russian-jet-f
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Two Russian strategic bombers landed in Venezuela on Wednesday as part of military maneuvers
www.vhlinks.com/vbforums/2-russian-blackjack-bombers-land-in-venezuela
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"That's enough shit from you, Yankees!"
-President Hugo Chavez, owner of Chevron Oil Corp, TV broadcast to expell US ambassador and recall the Venuezuala ambassador

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400,000 Brits said Britain sucks in 2007:

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Flight of white Britons from UK leaps to 70,000 per year ... but population still rising as Eastern Europeans come to Britain

According to Government estimates, the established white population of England dropped by nearly 250,000 between 2002 and 2006.

Official figures have previously indicated that about 50,000 Britons head for Australia each year and about 30,000 for New Zealand. Last year, a record 400,000 left the country to live abroad for at least 12 months.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1064526/Flight-white-Britons-UK-leaps
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That what happens when you let Gangsta Govt get out of control. Socialism = Fascism/Communism/Gangsterism

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Don't forget all the American's that come here, I hear more Americans emigrate to live in London than any other nationality.

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Be careful what you post here Brits...


http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/64725

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and on a side note: Piratenews...you might want to watch your startling levels of rascism

*It's only raining down here, we'll be above the clouds soon*

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Semite.
1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and ARABS - b : a descendant of these peoples - 2 : a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language.
—Merriam Webster Dictionary

"A 'Semite' is any person living in that area, including Arabs and Christians. It's time we start talking about 'The Other AntiSemitism'. A Semite is not a Jew living in America or Europe."
—Ralph Nader (Arab-American from Lebannon), Indy presidential candidate 2008, Reform Party presidential nominee in 2004, Green Party presidential nominee in 2000, Arab-American Business conference, C-SPAN, 2003

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars
www.khazaria.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Ashkenazim.html
www.JewsAgainstZionism.com

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President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski visiting 'his boy', Osama Bin Laden, in training with the Pakistan Army, 1981. Photo originally scanned from the New York Village Voice. Photo credited to the Sygma/Corbis Agency, Paris
www.nysun.com/national/despite-criticism-obama-stands-by-adviser/62534/

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As much as that should piss me off, I do agree completely with it Cit.... although the fact that this story comes out now does not mean that this is the beginning of the timeline. Hell... we've never even admitted to doing the same here yet, and probably never will officially acknowledge that fact.

I'm the guy that's been telling people that there is an entire database of every single cell phone call ever made since they were 10 lb bricks you carried around in a breifcase. And if I believe that is true, why would emails and text messages which are infinately smaller not be saved as well?

You guys in Benny Hill land are just as advanced as us and your Government is just as corrupt as ours. Sometimes I wonder if the real strings are being pulled here or there (or even on some remote Island inhabited by Dr. Wiley)

My only solace is, even with any wrongdoings I may have done and communicated in a way that it's in a database somewhere, this technology will take a while to fully implement and persecute with and I'm just frankly not that interesting of a person. Plenty of higher profile idiots to send the Men in Black after first.

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack

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As much as that should piss me off, I do agree completely with it Cit.... although the fact that this story comes out now does not mean that this is the beginning of the timeline. Hell... we've never even admitted to doing the same here yet, and probably never will officially acknowledge that fact.

I'm the guy that's been telling people that there is an entire database of every single cell phone call ever made since they were 10 lb bricks you carried around in a breifcase. And if I believe that is true, why would emails and text messages which are infinately smaller not be saved as well?

You guys in Benny Hill land are just as advanced as us and your Government is just as corrupt as ours. Sometimes I wonder if the real strings are being pulled here or there (or even on some remote Island inhabited by Dr. Wiley)

My only solace is, even with any wrongdoings I may have done and communicated in a way that it's in a database somewhere, this technology will take a while to fully implement and persecute with and I'm just frankly not that interesting of a person. Plenty of higher profile idiots to send the Men in Black after first.

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On 19 November 2000, Reuters, the "Sunday Mirror", and the "Sunday People" all reported how Britain's 74 year old Queen Elizabeth wrung the neck of a wounded pheasant. Approximately 200 pheasants were raised solely for the purpose of being hunted on this estate.

www.all-creatures.org/sof/rolemodel-elizabeth.html

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"This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous - my husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy (babysitter Legge-Bourke). Camilla is nothing but a decoy, so we are all being used by the man in every sense of the word."
-Princess Diana letter, evidence to royal inquest into the assassination of Diana and Dodi Al Fayed
www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=41
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/20/ndiana120.xml

“If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats? Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now? The bastards murdered half my family. The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop tourism, we could stop the congestion.”
-Prince Philip, German Nazi King of England

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That's rather ironic Piratenews, since about 60% of Americans have hunting as a hobby in one way or another - does it make you feel safe, knowing you live in a country populated by serial killers with the right to carry guns? We've got one sweet old granny who MIGHT one day crack and kill someone by mobbing him with small dogs, but apparently you've got more loonies than sane people.

And yes, George Bush's ancestor's head is probably in the Houses of Parliament, but that's only because we can't get the current fucker's head stuck up there, that psychotic murdering warmonger

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Kerry's royal roots will give him victory, says Burke's

When it comes to American presidential elections, blue blood counts.

So say British researchers who predict that Democratic challenger John Kerry will oust President George Bush on November 2 because he boasts more royal connections than his Republican rival.

After months of research into Mr Kerry's ancestry, Burke's Peerage, experts on British aristocracy, reported yesterday that the Vietnam war veteran is related to all the royal houses of Europe and can claim kinship with Tsar Ivan "The Terrible", a previous Emperor of Byzantium and the Shahs of Persia.

Burke's director, Harold Brooks-Baker, said Mr Kerry had his mother, Rosemary Forbes, to thank for most of his royal connections.

"Every maternal blood line of Kerry makes him more royal than any previous American president," Mr Brooks-Baker said.

"Because of the fact that every presidential candidate with the most royal genes and chromosomes has always won the November presidential election, the coming election - based on 42 previous presidents - will go to John Kerry."

Similar research carried out on Mr Bush ahead of the 2000 presidential race showed that he beat Al Gore in the royal stakes, claiming kinship with Britain's Queen Elizabeth as well as with Kings Henry III and Charles II of England.

Mr Kerry is a descendant of Henry III and Henry II of England and is distantly related to Richard the Lionheart, who led the third crusade in 1189, according to Burke's.

He is also descended from Henry I, King of France and his wife, Anne of Kiev, giving him kinship with the royal houses of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the House of Rus.

Burke's research showed Mr Kerry also has historical political connections in the United States.

He is closely related to John Winthrop, the first Massachusetts governor - the state for which he is now a senator - and his maternal grandmother was the granddaughter of Robert Winthrop, who was speaker of the House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849.

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/17/uselections2004.usa1

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MoD stunned by massive data loss

A computer drive with the private details of a huge proportion of Armed Forces personnel is missing, the Ministry of Defence said today.

The portable drive contains the names, addresses, passport numbers, dates of birth and driving licence details of around 100,000 serving personnel across the Army, Royal Navy and RAF, plus their next-of-kin details.

It also has data on 600,000 potential services applicants and the names of their referees.

Officials are "not ruling out" the risk that bank account details of personnel were held on the drive, which belonged to its IT contractor EDS.

The department said it learned of the loss on Wednesday and MoD Police were investigating.

The missing drive is the latest information security breach to hit the MoD. In July it admitted 658 of its laptops had been stolen over the past four years and 26 portable memory sticks containing classified information had been either stolen or misplaced since January.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mod-stunned-by-massive-data-lo
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UK Speed Cameras to Monitor Every Stretch of Road

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www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.
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The UK Commission for Integrated Transport last year proposed a nationwide blanket of speed cameras as a means of fighting global warming. After a series of trials, the Home Office is now set to make this a reality by approving early next year the SPECS3 "distance over time speed measuring device" that will make it impossible to drive on any primary road in Britain without being tracked and subjected to an instant fine for exceeding the posted speed limit.

"With respect to technology, we are in a period of explosive evolution in traffic control technology," a commission report entitled Transport and Climate Change explained. "The Highways Agency already uses several technologies which are either intended to manage speed, or lend themselves to that purpose by monitoring speed and sending drivers messages about their behavior.... Reducing climate impacts of the motorway network should be a major consideration in the development of motorway control and communications technology."

The commission estimated that new SPECS3 cameras could monitor every driver on 31,136 miles of principal rural and urban roads at a cost of £443,687,656 (US $769,693,415). While the initial investment appears substantial, the commission noted that "enforcing the 70 MPH limit using SPECS would pay for itself within around two years." (View sample deployment map.)

The original SPECS systems, first approved in 1999, photographed vehicles when they entered a road, communicating the time of entry via a fiber optic link to a second camera positioned, say, two miles distant. After the second camera had identified the passing vehicle, the amount of time it took the car to pass between the two points was converted into an average speed. The system's limitations included an inability to ticket cars that changed lanes in between camera locations and a purchase price of £800,000 (US $1.4 million) to deploy over a distance of just a mile and a quarter.

SPECS3 solves those limitations. It uses an ISDN connection to transmit data between any two cameras in the entire network, as well as the police headquarters, without the need for the expensive dedicated connection. This configuration slashes deployment cost over the same distance to just £67,000 (US $116,000). The system can also track drivers not only as they change lanes, but as they switch between different roads and highways. Pilot projects are already underway in Camden, Surrey and Northern Ireland where road trials began in April. Once established nationwide, records on all vehicle movements will be stored for five years in a central government Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) server, allowing police to keep tabs on criminals and political opponents. Work on the data center in north London began in 2005 and officials expect real-time, nationwide tracking capability to be available by January.

The original SPECS cameras were found to be quite successful. Between 2000 and 2005, a single camera in Nottinghamshire generated 76,000 tickets worth £4.2 million (US $7.2 million). London's entire SPECS network generated as many citations in just three weeks. London camera officials did admit, however, that 5600 tickets were sent to motorists who were completely innocent.

www.thenewspaper.com/news/25/2560.asp

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MoD stunned by massive data loss

A computer drive with the private details of a huge proportion of Armed Forces personnel is missing, the Ministry of Defence said today.

The portable drive contains the names, addresses, passport numbers, dates of birth and driving licence details of around 100,000 serving personnel across the Army, Royal Navy and RAF, plus their next-of-kin details.

It also has data on 600,000 potential services applicants and the names of their referees.

Officials are "not ruling out" the risk that bank account details of personnel were held on the drive, which belonged to its IT contractor EDS.

The department said it learned of the loss on Wednesday and MoD Police were investigating.

The missing drive is the latest information security breach to hit the MoD. In July it admitted 658 of its laptops had been stolen over the past four years and 26 portable memory sticks containing classified information had been either stolen or misplaced since January.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mod-stunned-by-massive-data-lo
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