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I liked this comment on the Politico article about the Gilets Jaunes in the EU quarter of Brussels:
"By protesting in the EU quarter, the Yellow Jackets are barking up the wrong tree.
Of what use is complaining about high taxes to someone who barely pays tax?"
Mark Hodgson
stewgreen, I've searched the BBC website and they don't seem to be reporting it at all, which is rather shameful. Politico have it here:
"Police van set ablaze as Yellow Jackets protests hit Brussels’ EU quarter
Demonstrators block roads near European Union institutions."
https://www.politico.eu/article/yellow-jackets-demonstration-brussels-police-van-ablaze-as-yellow-jackets-protests-hit-brussels-eu-quarter/
Mark Hodgson
an inversion that works for me.....
If Theresa May had been half as aggressive, disdainful and Machiavellian to EU bureaucrats as she is to the British people, the EU would be paying US to leave and apologising for any inconvenience.
©Martin Durkin on Twitter
tomo
stewgreen
re:Brussels...
Busahaldabyltingen !!! (Iceland pots n pans rebellion)
I hope they surround Junker's official residence (with him in it) with a nice torch lit parade and vuvuzelas.
tomo
stewgreen
Google are turning the political handle - many Google Apps are now popping a dialog box on "app open" with a link to their Article 13 screeds...
Android also popping political kerrapp/BS (as you noted much of it GREEN tinged ) into the notifications list - sometimes for apps that I thought I'd disabled notifications for (several "updates" ago...)
I'm seriously starting to wonder about ditching Android and am looking at Tizen - but I think Samsung are not the sort of partner I care for after owning quite a few of their phones with tech issues over the years. There is a gap in the market for a handset maker who nukes all the BS stuffed into the present generation of phones - I sincerely doubt I'm alone in getting annoyed at the intrusiveness of the present raft of OSs and the main handset makers and I'm willing to pay a premium for what I want.
tomo
quote : Any mention by the BBC reporters of riots in Brussels today, in the style of Gilets Jaunes, against the EU headquarters over fuel prices, and cost of living ?
Can’t find any mention so far, but they are occurring, with at least two riot vans torched so far.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1052573/Brussels-riots-belgium-protests-violence-EU
stewgreen
Google 'New tab' is now pushing news links at me
from 10,
3 are from BBC Sport which I never look at ..no local connection
1 is Liverpool Echo - a paper I looked at one day 6 weeks ago
3 are from the Guardian, which I never read (but sometimes open to grab a link)
3 are from BBC news ... I do not open the BBC news website daily .. I open Guido or Breitbart more ..and the Times every day
... 3 are Green connected
... Tesco and VW plan free electric car charging points - BBC News
... Whales stranded in New Zealand_ Another 50 pilot whales die - BBC News
... 'It’s the only way forward'_ Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre _ Cities _ The Guardian
stewgreen
bbc dross at 6
6:25pm Danny Savage doing a report
'Here I am in flat fields which could be flooded by sea level rise'
... isnt that land that used to be flooded, but we drained it ?
stewgreen
Times a Norwegian married a Quebecois and went to have wilderness life in Yukon as fur trapper.
As he approached his hut he had ti kill a charging bear
... then found the bear had already killed his wife and baby when they were on their morning walk.
stewgreen
yeah... you can trust Google