mauvais
on reddit or something
That's been going on since the 1980s and the al-Yamamah arms deal. Just my perception from a limited set of factors but I do think the tide has started to turn though.
Many dead in coordinated Paris shootings and explosions
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JHE
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I suppose you are right that it's a form of censorship, but there is censorship and censorship. This is not pretending that there are not dead bodies. It is just obscuring some of the details, isn't it? This may be in part because the broadcasters fear that for some people the unedited footage may be too traumatic. I think it is also out of respect and concern for the friends and relatives of the dead, some of whom may not want the corpse displayed on the TV for all to see.
(Where I live, the TV news shows corpses on the street without any obscuring of the image. I don't have a strong preference for or against the BBC - and more generally British TV - policy.)
mauvais
on reddit or something
Against the acceptability of arms exports and general complicity with the Saudi regime and its similar peers.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Not the cards. I'm hugely in favour of data sharing across public services, including security and policing, and I guess a master data management approach is needed. No-one particularly needs a single citizen view, but matching records should be made easier. The cards were a bad idea, supposed to sugar the pill but actually offering all sorts of ammunition to libertarians.
bimble
floofy
Leaving aside their internal human rights issues, just on the subject of financing for wahabism in general, it seems to still be the top source of ready money and just a few polite emails in return?
US embassy cables: Hillary Clinton says Saudi Arabia 'a critical source of terrorist funding'
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
I wish that were true but the Saudis have been the biggest buyers by far in the global arms market for the past 12-18 months and with that kind of money on offer it's clear that Cameron & Co will make sure that we keep selling to them. Huge amounts of bribes are on offer to the people who make the decisions, there's no way they are saying "no" to that.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Using Telegram when that's in the Russian's hands. Stupid or suspicious? Stupid probably.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
I hear morons are changing their Facebook profile picture to the tricolour.
Nauseating.
Nauseating.
Numbers
an ting!
My feed is full of it.
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hiraethified
Why is that nauseating? Why are they morons?
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
It's that sort of naive analysis which had Quinn demoted to doing wet jobs for Saul in Berlin.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I haven't myself but my French family and friends and their non French friends are and they all say you can go fuck yourself. As do I.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
why?
how does it help in any way beyond making them look like they really care?
likesfish
You can't park here sir
It usually turns out there was a file somewhere.
ffsear
Well-Known Member
fuck off
ffsear
Well-Known Member
damnit, you've just spoiled the next couple of episodes for me!
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
You know why.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
With a name like spitfire I expect no less.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
It's just a gesture of solidarity, same as the je suis Charlie Hebdo stuff. Fine if that's how they feel.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
so people who don't do it don't care? what is judgmental about it?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
That's Doctor Kim Howells to us plebs.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Apols, thought you'd be up to date with channel 4 if you were enough of a fan to post excerpts from an espionage procedural in a thread about real life horror.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
that was bollocks as well
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hiraethified
No, I really don't know why. I see people expressing their sympathy and support to a terrible event in all sorts of ways. Some may not be the way I'd do it, but I'd like to know why you think people choosing to put a French flag in their profile are "morons" and what it is you're finding so nauseating. Could you provide a straight answer please?
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Yeah, that's what he was saying!
mauvais
on reddit or something
Like I said, just an anecdotal snapshot, but it seems to me that the public these days are far more aware of Saudi and far more likely to link it to the source of terrorism. It's already become problematic for smaller arms companies to do business in the Middle East.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
So you think nationalism with a nasty whiff of racism is an appropriate response. I bet not a single one of these plonkers make much noise about the other mass slaughter going on in the Middle East in the last few days.
At the very least you're playing right into the hands of IS by getting all Al Murray.
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