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Neither the Government nor the people of Afghanistan perpetrated 9/11 - the war was effectively declared against OBL and his clique; the fact that parts of the country have been bombed back to the stone age, thousands of innocents have died, and there is currently no effective administrative control over large swathes of land is merely collateral damage.

It is an unnecessary, unwinnable, and technically illegal war. I find it odd that the USofA, which fought a war of independence to free itself from foreign tyranny and imposition, now sees fit to impose it's view of 'world order' on those areas of the world with resources that may prove valuable to American consumers..

Iraq, Afghanistan, sending guns to the Syrian opposition, Libya - what have they got in common ? You cannot impose democracy on a country - people have to find their own way; you may not like the outcome but you are duty bound to respect it.

The security services knew about the Woolwich attackers for years before Drummer Rigby was killed, this knowledge failed to prevent the attack. The problem is as much about how the data is used as the process of collating it - incompetent data management and flawed analysis generate significant risks.

The best way to maintain national security is to not start illegal wars.

Does somebody taking 3 part time jobs count in the stats as 3 new jobs created ? If so, what a great way to inflate the figures !

Given the number of us on here, maybe we could open a SWF PRINCE2 Project Management consultancy ?

The 'change over' never happened. HTH

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081028205758AAaEDdM ( Why did Queen Elizabeth cut her hair and dye her skin white? )

Heart playing a song that IMO sounds better live than on the album

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer".

Therefore, all those male suitors such as the Earls of Leicester & Essex and the Kings of Spain & Sweden were going to have a nasty surprise if they had ever struck lucky ?

Watch out Verbal, I think you may have pulled.

Why do the IMF, Mervyn King, and many leading city economists like Albert Edwards think it's a bad idea ? That all it is doing is fuelling a new house price bubble that, should it fail, will lead to the taxpayer ( as underwriters of the loans ) having to pick up the tab. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/mortgages/10074452/IMF-warns-on-dangers-of-Help-to-Buy-mortgage-scheme.html http://www.irishtimes.com/business/london-briefing-osborne-savaged-over-moronic-help-to-buy-scheme-1.1416951

Having received one of these requests I checked the other members of Glasgow's extended "forum family", it seems to include every banned user currently registered. What is the link between befriending Big G and being banned ?

That's 2 more than Citeh, Stoke, and Chelski combined - and more minutes that the U-21s of all but 2 of our rivals.

One season, 2 admins, and about 4 owners !

I tried following the link in the BBC article but couldn't find what they are referencing - I assume that if it can be found it would have the details team by team. I would have also thought that the Beeb might have done a bit of positive research to balance the naming and shaming of the five teams.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22687663 "English under-21s made up 2.28% of the total minutes played in 2012-13 with Manchester City, Chelsea, Swansea, Stoke and Wigan failing to field an English player under 21 all season." At least Saints did their bit.

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Yep, we're all in it together http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jun/04/home-retail-group-terry-duddy-pay-rise http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/27/centrica-16m-gas-price-rise http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=6568 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/economics/article3775830.ece

Key word highlighted.

Just open your minds for a second and think about what sort of world we are living in if the conspiracy theorists are right.

It sounds a wonderful idea when the rigs are hundreds of miles away, but when they're on your doorstep it's a different matter. :(

8 for me.