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    Poll: Re: USA elections 2020

    I think you could use that description to describe all 50 states at present, so he must have won!

    Trump is a political outsider, he hasn't sat well in the big chair in the White House, it isn't...
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    Poll: Re: USA elections 2020

    You mean Beijing Biden, surely not! Fact is he hasn't been specific about anything, because he can't given the divisions in his own party. There remains no clear strategy other than a "Get Trump out...
  3. Re: Jewish professor pretended to be black - and now apologizes.

    I think she was heavily influenced by the "Beastie Boys"
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    What a load of rubbish from a supposed academic institute. History isn't about collecting truthful accounts, its being able...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    I think this lady deserves respect, to stand up and say what she thinks because of the death of her father. Pity we live in a world of so many sheeple!! Even if her legal challenge to the Chinese...
  5. Re: Conflict on China/India border - Three soldiers killed in hand-to-hand fighting.

    Throwing punches and stones is one thing, throwing missiles around would be something else. China's willingness to escalate the tensions still further by bring additional heavy equipment in the area,...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    People aren't really being informed that the death rate for Covid 19 is probably only the tip of the iceberg of impacts associated with this disease. You would expect any new disease to have an...
  7. Re: Uighurs in China are blindfolded and led to boxcars in drone footage.

    Those that view China in a bad light, really need to understand that in a world built around the mega money of global capitalism, the interests of the Chinese Communist regime and large Western...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    This is a novel coronavirus to humans, you would expect death rates to be high initially and then fall naturally as the virus adapts to its new host. The falling death rates even in countries with...
  9. Re: Hagia Sophia: Turkey turns iconic Istanbul museum into mosque

    It certainly did so looking at these pictures. The Çamlıca Mosque is very impersssive indeed, both inside and out and does show a high sttandard of design and craftsmanship. Did Erdogan commision its...
  10. Re: Hagia Sophia: Turkey turns iconic Istanbul museum into mosque

    This is an ancient building that needs respect, not to be part of an egotistical leader’s pathetic attempt at playing power politics.:disgust:

    It was built as a Christian Orthodox building, but...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    It seems nothing has been learned in the lack of information regarding the possible outbreak of yet another deadly disease, and WHO are far from being proactive in clarifying the situation.



    As...
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    Sticky: Re: Current Game Sales

    Me also! :) I downloaded "Mount and Blade" back in 2005. Played it for hours and hours. Then after a failed HDD and a lost key didn't play it again for years until I got Warband recently on Steam....
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    Sticky: Re: Current Game Sales

    Yes, Mount and Blade Warband has 75% off at only £3.74, together with "Viking Conquest" at £2.49 and "With Fire & Sword" only £1.99. I got the last two in the sale.
    Still hours of fun with all the...
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    Sticky: Re: Current Game Sales

    "War of Rights" has 50% off on Steam until the 9th July. Great multiplayer battle game.

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/424030/War_of_Rights/

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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    Quarantining areas is never easy, but where there are social divisions, it will inevitably prompt a fractious response to authority. Populations in Western Countries though aren't use to the type of...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    There have been violent clashes with police in Italy, after a cluster of Covid 19 cases were found in five apartment blocks in Naples and the buildings were placed under quarantine. These blocks of...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    True science develops through creative thinking and challenge of ideas all the time, it thrives on it. However, scientific research is so often restrained through lack of finance. Most research is...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    I see more danger from groups deciding what we can or should say or believe, than fringe groups theories. Theories can be challenged and debunked with debate and facts that are proven. When you...
  19. Re: Conflict on China/India border - Three soldiers killed in hand-to-hand fighting.

    Don't babies fetch good money these days?

    Currently both India and China seem to be re-inforcing their military forces in the disputed area, despite recent talks aimed at de-escalation. Sources in...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    German authorities getting tough on those who deliberately flout quarantine laws. I don't think anything like this has been seen yet outside of China.


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    Meanwhile yet another meat...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    There is a difficulty in trying to trace the origin of this virus using current genetic material alone. All viruses mutate, especially a coronavirus. Using gene sequences from infectious virus, you...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    Before you continue with the usual China good, West bad or inverse rhetoric. You should be made aware that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is the focus of a possible source for this disease,...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    I don't believe there is any anti-science feeling. However there is a great deal of scepticism about the way science research is carried out, because so much is funded by large influential...
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    Re: Coronavirus outbreak - From China to the World.

    China has for weeks now been trying to attribute blame for the virus outbreak to foreigners. The recent outbreak in Beijing was almost immediately linked to what was described as exposure of a trader...
  25. Re: How will the end of support for the current TW Launcher affect DEI?

    Have been using the old launcher for months without issue. Now today, the new launcher appears and the previous one discontinued. Result - cannot play either Attila or Rome, with the message...
  26. Re: Multiculturalist triumph: Dijon turns into a war zone due to Chechen-Algerian gang war.

    Those questioning the validity of aternative news sources, should really be asking why peole are turning to them to get informed.
  27. Re: Multiculturalist triumph: Dijon turns into a war zone due to Chechen-Algerian gang war.

    I think you will find, my low opinion of the news media and its reliability to cover world events, is not unique to me. Increasingly news stories are selected on the basis of the outlets own...
  28. Re: Multiculturalist triumph: Dijon turns into a war zone due to Chechen-Algerian gang war.

    With respect, if you look hard enough there is bound to be some reference story somewhere. This was not front page news in the UK. Instead, the BBC online news, had front page stories on free school...
  29. Re: Conflict on China/India border - Three soldiers killed in hand-to-hand fighting.

    Given what we know today, it seems unlikley that this was a deliberate provocative action by China, but rather a direct consequence of the poor relationship between India and China. More details have...
  30. Re: Multiculturalist triumph: Dijon turns into a war zone due to Chechen-Algerian gang war.

    What I find shocking, is not the incident but the scarcity of coverage in the main UK news media. This was a small French town turned into a virtual war zone, with gangs of youths brandishing weapons...
  31. Re: Conflict on China/India border - Three soldiers killed in hand-to-hand fighting.

    Asian News International giving Chinese casualties as 43 dead!! If they weren't using guns, was this a mass brawl or something?

    Of course it might not be Chinese agression at all. I guess it is...
  32. Re: Conflict on China/India border - Three soldiers killed in hand-to-hand fighting.

    Surely though the widesread perception in China at present, is that America is weak on the world stage. Covid 19 has damaged the economy and is starting to spread further in many states. There is...
  33. Conflict on China/India border - Three soldiers killed in hand-to-hand fighting.

    Is this incident just another border clash in the disputed area, or could it be a strategic move by either Xi Jinping or Narendra Modi to play on nationalistic sentiment, given the economic effects...
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    Re: Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Riots.

    Tasers do indeed have the potential to kill, depending upon the medical condition of the target. This likelihood is increased if fired multiple times. However, if you see the video footage (I cannot...
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    Re: Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Riots.

    You probably know more about this than me, but I think that it doesn't necessarily count for an offence, if he was sleeping in the vehicle intoxicated. Except of course it was a private carpark and...
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    Re: Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Riots.

    They tried to shoot him with a taser, he snatched it and ran away turning to fire it. They knew precisely what had been discharged and that the guy was running away. There is absolutely no reason to...
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    Re: Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Riots.

    Anyway, it beggars belief that this shooting in Atlanta could happen. The guy resisted arrest, but wasn't a criminal, was unarmed and running away from police officers when he was shot three times!
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    Re: Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Riots.

    True, I was thinking about Colston's. But without removal I'm sure many Confederate statues would have gone the same way as this one in Durham. Wow, just look at these angry black folk avenging their...
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    Re: Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Riots.

    I think it is far less damaging and socially divisive, to decide not to erect a statue, than an angry mob to tear one down or cause damage after it has been stood for decades. Violent actions don't...
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    Re: Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Riots.

    Only 4 years you say, but you do understand as an American, the sheer trauma this war brought to the fledgling nation at the time, would last decades afterwards. America would never be the same...
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