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[h=3]xe·no·pho·bia definition [/h]Pronunciation: /ˌzen-ə-ˈfō-bē-ə, ˌzēn-/ Function: n : fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.

Speaking to Meridian Tonight, Marc Jackson was asked what his background is and who was behind his consortium. He told the programme... 'I was trained by Xerox, many many many years ago. I'm a business strategist, many people say I'm a photocopying salesman, which I always find quite amusing.' 'I actually have been in the past,been heavily involved in the fitting out of Southampton football club stadium. Obviously I have an IT background, sales background, but also I have had involvement at Southampton Academy and scouting for many, many years.' 'To give you an instance I was involved in the scouting of Adam Lallana from Bournemouth sadly, to Southampton.' 'I have many, many contacts in football, I have many contacts abroad as well, in American MLS football as well as in Dubai.' 'So it's a mixture of many many things, all put together with a vision for a football club and we are going to drop the blueprint into here, but all will be revealed.' When asked if it was his money he was investing in AFC Bournemouth, Jackson smiled and said... 'It is a consortium' When pushed on who is in the consortium, he added... 'That is, something that really and honestly will never be answered properly and completely, but the truth of the matter is, there will be answers to that to an extent in tomorrow's (Thursday) press conference.'

There was no charge for the Lend Lease aid delivered during the war, but the Americans did expect the return of some durable goods such as ships. Congress had not authorized the gift of supplies after the war, so the administration charged for them, usually at a 90% discount. Large quantities of undelivered goods were in Britain or in transit when Lend-Lease terminated on 2 September 1945. Britain wished to retain some of this equipment in the immediate post war period. In 1946, the post-war Anglo-American loan further indebted Britain to the U.S. Lend-lease items retained were sold to Britain at 10% of nominal value, giving an initial loan value of £1.075 billion for the Lend Lease portion of the post-war loans. Payment was to be stretched out over 50 annual payments, starting in 1951 and with five years of deferred payments, at 2% interest.[26] The final payment of $83.3 million (£42.5 million), due on 31 December 2006 (repayment having been deferred in the allowed five years), was made on 29 December 2006 (the last working day of the year). After this final payment Britain's Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Ed Balls, formally thanked the U.S. for its wartime support. I guess a 90 % discount on US wartime aid and thousands of US lives lost in Europe wasn't enough for you lot. What we repaid was about 10% value of the durable goods we kept, like battleships and the post war Anglo-American loan, that funded the NHS, amongst other Socialist experiments. At least Ed Balls had some gratitude, unlike you lot. The US making a fortune out of the UK from the aid they gave us? Yeah, that's right....

A 1942 Gallup poll conducted after Pearl Harbor, before the arrival of US troops and Churchill's heavy promotion of the special relationship, showed wartime ally Russia was still more popular than the United States among 62% of Britons. However only 6% had ever visited the United States and only 35% knew any Americans personally. In 1986, 71% of Britons, questioned in a Mori poll the day after Reagan’s bombing of Libya, disagreed with Thatcher's decision to allow the use of RAF bases, while two thirds in a Gallup survey opposed the bombing itself, the reverse of American opinion. The above 2 polls and subsequent history have shown how clueless the UK general public is, demonstrated so well by many of the posters on this thread.

I am saying that they obviously shared our values enough, to die for the freeedom you are exercising, spouting xenophobic rubbish. I would call that a "special-relationship". Personally, I'd be happier restricting the bandwidth you are currently inhabiting...

The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, that honors American soldiers who died in Europe during World War II. The cemetery is located on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach (one of the landing beaches of the Normandy Invasion) and the English Channel. It covers 70 ha (172 acres), and contains the remains of 9,387 American military dead, most of whom were killed during the invasion of Normandy and ensuing military operations in World War II. Included are graves of Army Air Corps crews shot down over France as early as 1942. Only some of the soldiers who died overseas are buried in the overseas American military cemeteries. When it came time for a permanent burial, the next of kin eligible to make decisions were asked if they wanted their loved ones repatriated for permanent burial in the U.S., or interred at the closest overseas cemetery.

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Rain stopped play, from where I'm sitting....

In the spirit of a previous poster: UC AlbinoLeffe (Italy) Blooming (Bolivia) Burntisland Shipyard FC (Scotland) Civil Service Strollers (Scotland) Club Destroyers (Bolivia) Colonel Bolognesi (Peru) Deportivo Moron (Argentina) FC Englebert (Congo) FL Fart (Norway) Gala Fairydean (Scotland) Go Ahead Eagles (Holland) Golspie Sutherland (Scotland) Hallelujah FC (South Korea) FC Holy Paul (Congo) Inverurie Loco Works FC (Scotland) Joe Public FC (Trinidad and Tobago) Wigtown and Bladnoch (Scotland) Jorge Wilstermann (Bolivia) KFC Winterslag (Belgium) Mito Hollyhock (Japan) Old Boys Basel (Switzerland) Pele FC (Guyana) Prima Ham FC (Japan) Shooting Stars FC (Nigeria) Sint-Eloois Winkel Sport (Belgium) South Georgetown Ballweavers (Guyana) The Strongest (Bolivia) Total Clean Football Club (Peru) Wikki Tourists FC (Nigeria) Wormatia Worms (Germany) Young Boys (Switzerland) Young Fellows Juventus (Switzerland)

Don't think I've forgotten about the comparative performance of our two companies, Johnny Big Bo££ox....

...and advice which that well known cheese eating, surrender monkey of a bank should have heeded. I'm talking about BNP Paribas, Jonah's employer. Yes, they're French, they're smelly and they couldn't help sniffing condesendingly in our direction, when it came to the state of our respective economies. I was thinking of this thread that was an attempt to describe the actual strength of the UK economy, when compared to the shifty French and their shoulder shrugging approach to debt. In particular, over 2 years ago, Jonah posted, in reply to me: Well, Jonah's own bank, BNP Paribas recently reported holding the most Greek debt of any of the French banks, about 5bn euros of sovereign debt and has set aside 534m euros to cover its Greek exposure. My forecast? Watch a French banking crisis emerge over the next few weeks and whether Sarkozy and the French government can bail them out. 534m euros set aside for the Greek debt? Try 1.5b euros and you might be closer to the mark.... Of course, my opening post about Saints avoiding administration by paying off the £5M overdraft to Barclays was completely wrong, but I'm more of a broad brush, macro-economic kind of a guy.....

We took our usual seats for the Leeds game, noticing that the seat next to us was empty. An young chinese guy moved along to the seat, holding the seat ticket a camera and wearing a signed Saints shirt. He took about 20 photos before kick off, and we settled down to watch the game. First goal and my son and I are jumping up and down, high fiving and shouting. The next goal and we are hugging each other, in between jumping up and down. We sit down for half time, as the chinese guy goes down to the pitchside for more photo opportunities. Second half and we watch the third goal, go in. I glance to my left and my son is hugging the Chinese guy and jumping up and down. "What was that about, mate?" I asked my son, smiling. "He was watching us hugging each other for the second goal, Dad and it looked like he wanted to join in, as he came on his own, so I thought I'd better give him a hug for the third goal."

At least let us speculate. Com'on Alps, you know what they say. If you can't laugh at yourself, at least let me do it for you....

To be fair, I think calling obesity a fairly serious illness is stretching it...

I miss the old Riot Act, to be fair: Unfortunately, these were replaced by the Public Order Act, 1986, which I think, provides enough power, if we had enough police on the streets, instead of paper shuffling behind a desk:

Pity they didn't think as carefully when they used real ones, that kicked the whole thing off. Am I the only one, post De Mendez, to think that arming the Met is akin to letting them play "Call of Duty", for real...

Your adopted country was founded by thugs and criminals....

These riots are the direct result of a generation, that has grown reliant on the benefits system that rewards dysfunctional families. The sense of entitlement without the responsibility to earn that right has been instilled in a large number of families, that have been housed and fed at taxpayers expense. The welfare state in broken and we will go through a lot of pain to fix it. I hope the government has the balls to continue with the difficult task, in the face of pressure from the unions and the criminals. (and I don't mean Ed Balls)

Has anyone noticed that the fee is about what Marcus paid for the club, stadium included... Business Genius....

Some are 15 years old, others as young as 12. When will this nightmare end? Please do not click this link, if you are easily offended...

You have mail...

You could always open the cached copy of the webpage. It looks like this: Harry Redknapp, tax evasion and Mandaric’s ‘offshore account’ By Gavin Sheridan – August 3, 2011 New here? You may consider subscribing to our RSS feed or for updates via email. I recently obtained interesting documents from a Florida court which outline further details of the investigation into tax evasion by people formerly associated with Portsmouth Football Club. The investigation is part of ‘Operation Apprentice’ a long standing investigation into alleged football corruption. In 2007, then Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie was arrested — along with then manager Harry Redknapp, then club owner Milan Mandaric (now owner of Sheffield Wednesday), agent Willie McKay and former Portsmouth player Amdy Faye — over allegations of corruption. The five men were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting. Last year Redknapp, who is the current manager at Tottenham, was charged with “two counts of cheating the public revenue of an estimated £40,000 after voluntarily attending London’s Bishopsgate police station”. Redknapp has been touted as a successor to Fabio Capello as England football manager. According to The Independent: Charges concerned two payments, totalling 295,000 US dollars, alleged to have been made from Mandaric to Redknapp via a bank account in Monaco, evading the tax and National Insurance contributions due between April 1, 2002 and November 28, 2007. Mandaric, now chairman of Leicester, was charged with tax evasion relating to the payment of 295,000 US dollars to another person via a Monaco bank account, evading tax and National Insurance. Storrie was charged with concealing a signing-on fee for ex-Portsmouth player Amdy Faye by paying it into the midfielder’s bank account. The allegation related to the transfer of Faye from Auxerre to Fratton Park for £1.5million in August 2003. For his part, Redknapp sought to have the case against him dismissed in November last year.

The original source for the documents was here. If you type mandaric in the search archive box, you can download the documents for $10.

I think if I was Sarkozy or Merkel, I would rather pay a little more in interest, rather than watching billions in German and French bank loans go down the tubes, or French and German public money being used to vainly propping up Italy and Spain to try and save the euro. It will happen, mark my words....