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hillary clinton | north carolina | barack obama | indiana | democratic anita64
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Rep Rick Larsen of Washington state did what the Representative whose district I live in did not do- Rick stood with the Constituency of his district and endorsed Barack Obama for President. Rep Jay Inslee did not. Way to go Rick. a.m. Rep. Rick La...

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may 2008 | rochester south | lab 819 | con 1847 | bnp 257 Letterbox, Allen Road
Hackney Lookout

Date taken: 11 May 2008 Location: Allen...

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Tags: hackney, conference, photos, police, ivanchuk, Round 2 MTel chess 2008, Innovation, water, Islington, Chess in Bulgaria, round 3 MTel Chess 2008, research, Knit, Finsbury Park, Cheparinov

post office | post offices | regulator postcomm | closure | office closures Now you can blame the EU
EU Referendum

Despite the insistence of the groupuscules that the EU is responsible for the post office closures, which are currently the subject of controversy, we have robustly maintained that the closure programme is a home-grown affair, brought upon us by our...

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abortion | embryology bill | human fertilisation | ivf treatment | father figure Can Cameron Lead the Cons...
Quaequam Blog!

Stephen Tall has pointed me to this piece by John Rentoul on the Independent Blog: David Cameron voted against the majority of Conservative MPs who took part in the division yesterday on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. He was one of 37 ...

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protect' | aid | burma cyclone | relief | bangladesh RickB
Ten Percent

China, Singapore and Thailand have signalled their disgust with the junta’s efforts to control aid and seize it for themselves, now it looks after an interruption aid is going to be shipped. Singapore slams Burma junta Burma cyclone: Lack of a...

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cannabis | class b | b drug | class c | upgraded Labour government by recl...
ORGANIZED RAGE

The Labour government by reclassifying Cannabis panders to the most reactionary elements within the UK media and US government.by Mick Hall.Just how bankrupt of ideas New Labour has become was demonstrated yesterday when the over promoted Home Secre...

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Tags: Cannabis, drugs, Jacqui Smith, labour, evidence based policy-making, police, dwugs is dwugs, Labour Party, New laws, crime, press, gordon brown, democratic accountability, Organized Rage, Lib Dems

tv addicts | drinking reality | england | nation overweight | binge A Guide to Briton
Disillusioned Discordian

Drawing deeply on the well of inspiration that is the featured items on Yahoo’s homepage… actually my sense of the world is becoming strangely affected by this site. Yahooification if you will. Well some bright spark has come up with a guide to desc...

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id cards | id card | nantwich campaign | theyve mostly | arguments previously Want BNP? Vote Labour
Love and Liberty

Have you seen Labour’s disgusting leaflets for the Crewe and Nantwich by-election? You might have been glad that the poisonous British National Party aren’t fielding a candidate, but you have to wonder if it’s just because the BNP are satisfied the ...

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edward timpson | crewe | nantwich | tamsin | election candidate Labour Party continue to ...
newsjiffy

Spitting Image had a sketch where then shadow cabinet members Michael Foot, Roy Hattersley, Neil Kinnock and Denis Healey sing about how "hopeless" and "p*sspoor" they are.I was reminded of this sketch when I read a post by Guido Fawkes about the La...

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staff dismissal | national staff | dismissal register | employers | employees RickB
Ten Percent

BBC Jon Kelly- Workers accused of theft or damage could soon find themselves blacklisted on a register to be shared among employers. It will be good for profits but campaigners say innocent people could find it impossible to get another job. An onli...

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nick clegg | regulate city | bad practice | dems pledge | leader Nick Clegg Bloggers’ Inte...
Gavin's Gaily Gigest

Bounding in nervously like a young boy on his first day at a new school*, Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats and MP for Sheffield Hallam, greeted the massed horde of Lib Dem bloggers with all the enthusiasm you’d expect from his youth...

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60th anniversary | israel's history | israel's 60 | jewish people | 60 years Fighting ‘anti-semi...
Pickled Politics

Johann Hari, to his immense credit, has come out fighting. A few weeks ago he wrote this piece for the Independent criticising Israel’s record of behaving towards Palestinians on its 60th anniversary. And why not? There has been plenty of posi...

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feel sorry | gordon brown | scared brown | furious resentment | blair scared Gordon Brown: see the cun...
The Devil's Kitchen

Gordon Brown's colleagues say that "there may well be a fuck load of skeletons in his closet but there's sure as hell no magic, ageing picture in his attic. I mean, just look at the cunt!"The Nameless One has a quite glorious post up, reminding us a...

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personal tax | basic rate | tax allowance | rate tax | tax year Grant Thornton: Darling F...
Iain Dale's Diary

I post this press release from Grant Thornton without comment...Basic rate taxpayers benefit by £120 while low income earners on £7,455 remain £32.40 worse off. Leading business and financial adviser, Grant Thornton, says the Chancellor's announceme...

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why can't | couple weeks | bit sporadic | spirit bear | exams coming Belly Talk
Mrs. Mogul

I received a $25 Starbucks gift card from someone for Mother's Day. Looks like I'll be going there within the next couple of weeks. Caffeine and pregnancy! Woo hoo!My Mother's Day was nothing special. Regretting as usual that we went to do grocery s...

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banking system | labour party | you'll thank | best explanations | explanations how Too Big to Fail
A Very British Dude

TravelGall's post on banking regulation misses one major downside of excessive regulation of the financial sector: Only very large organisations can afford the subsequent regulatory burden. This means that even when a small bank, like Northern Rock ...

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vaccine opt | routine vaccinations | refuse routine | mmr | tough sanctions Call for vaccine opt-out ...
Christian quoter

BBC reports. "Tough sanctions are being proposed for parents who refuse routine vaccinations, such as MMR.In an article for the Fabian Society, leading public health expert Sir Sandy Macara called for child benefit to be linked with vaccination upt...

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pack beer | child | australian driver | alice springs | seatbelt Australian driver straps ...
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An Australian driver has been fined for putting a seatbelt around a carton of beer instead of a five-year-old passenger.Constable Wayne Burnett told reporters he was "shocked and appalled" to discover the driver's priorities when he pulled a sedan o...

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tits cope | great tits | birds | warming great | britain seem Great tits and Jan's cock
Liberal England

Norfolk Blogger has quite rightly awarded Headline of the Week to the BBC for its:Great tits cope well with warmingMalcolm Redfellow's World Service also notes this story and goes on to inform us that the RSPB has banished the word "cock" from its w...

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google helps | social media | web | latest company | service aimed Brand reputation and cons...
Our Friends Electric

How do you get to be a futurist? Is there an application process or do you just keep ontop of trends and extrapolate forward like some kind of commercial sci fi writer. The Society for New Communications Research has some futurists on their board an...

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british energy | nuclear power | utility edf | french utility | french swoop News Values Today
EU Referendum

With its usual unerring sense of what is really important in what is going on in the world, Channel Four News tonight devoted a very short item to the news that EDF, Electricite de France, is confident of buying British Energy. This company not onl...

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new policymen | ideas mooted | rigorous new | johnson during | election promises Boris: the u-turns and cr...
Pickled Politics

According to the Sunday Times today: At least two ideas mooted by Johnson during his campaign have been squashed by his rigorous new policymen. A proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants who are “established” in London has been quietly dropped. Johns...

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premier league | vows wigan | sunday's decisive | bruce vows | bruce insists Tell Us How EPL Talk Can ...
EPL Talk

The 2007/2008 season has been the most successful one in EPL Talk’s history (since our launch in 2005). In April, the web site had more traffic than World Soccer Daily and CSRN combined, has grown a whopping 5457% since April 2007 and is curre...

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climate change | dementia patients | people caring | dementia care | dilemmas facing Plug for new book - clima...
Paula Keaveney - Lib Dem ...

New Friends of the Earth book'How can I stop climate change?' released this week Friends of the Earth's new expert guide to climate change reveals how getting involved in your local community can help to stop climate change - while also being fun, s...

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alistair darling | tax | low paid | paid workers | tomorrow's draft Alistair Darling is Absol...
A Very British Dude

"The fairest and most effective way" to help the low paid is to raise tax thresholds by £600 rather than the Government's preferred approach which is to take all their money and make them beg for some crumbs in the form of tax credits, said the Chan...

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Tags: Politics, Alistair Darling, Burning our money, Labour's not working

gordon ramsay | gordon ramsay's | seasonal gordon | ramsay's office | ramsay does A recipe for disaster
EU Referendum

Whether it is Bono, or that self-important idiot Bob Geldof, celebs in their own way have done more damage to the developing world, and the reduction of third world poverty, than enough.Now, to add to the long line of brain-dead celebs out to do dam...

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tamsin dunwoody | crewe | election | nantwich | dunwoody dunwoody Cameron's Crewe handicap
Conor's Commentary

An ICM poll in Crewe for the Mail on Sunday suggests that the Tories will win the by-election by a narrow margin on a 10% swing since the general election. But with the sort of poll leads they are scoring nationally, the Tories should be winning a b...

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Tags: labour, jonah, conservatives, Irish Labour, tamsin dunwoody, Crewe by-election, Timmy Timpson, local politics, gordon brown, failure

mr hirst | apple core | 18 hours | police cell | accused dropping Envirocrime - it's tough ...
An Englishman's Castle

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