Thursday 24 March 2011
On tonight's Newsnight with Kirsty Wark:
Portugal's parliament has rejected an austerity budget, prompting the resignation of Prime Minister Jose Socrates.
An international bail-out, similar to those accepted by Greece and the Irish Republic last year, now looks far more likely.
We'll be asking what Portugal can do without a prime minister, and what the implications might be for Euro-zone members, particularly Germany.
As fighting in Libya continues in key cities, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's tanks and artillery forces seem unstoppable, despite air strikes by international forces.
How effective have the coalition forces been and how long might it take to stop Col Gaddafi's forces?
And Matt Prodger has a report on the US soldier Bradley Manning, who is being held in solitary confinement in a US military prison - accused of leaking confidential documents to the Wikileaks website.
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At 24th Mar 2011, ecolizzy wrote:An interesting read....
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At 24th Mar 2011, flicks3 wrote:I approached Angela on the steps leading up to the central library in 1980 after seeing her in the life class at art school. Nobody said much of a word to anyone else during class, twas serious concentration. I was a bum plonked into the 'A' level class for being able to use a pencil, turned out to be just about the best 'A' level art class in the country almost all were expected to get grade 'A'. Angela a already had 'A' level grade 'A' in art and was doing it as a continued interest to her music degree . Angela is amongst the most beautiful women and most beautifully dressed women on earth and a real war zone to be around . We finally did each other in about ten years ago having a row about art. I still wanna know how much it cost.
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Comment number 3.
At 24th Mar 2011, flicks3 wrote:Keith Snow interviewed by Bonnie Faulkner on Japan :-
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Comment number 4.
At 24th Mar 2011, barriesingleton wrote:NO WONDER DAVE GOES ABROAD TO DUFF ALI ARAB (#1 link)
Displacement-behaviour-Dave can't face the multicultural mess at home, so he gets a cheap 'victory' over Gaddafi, and says: "What a good boy am I!"
Will NewsyNighty send someone with a degree of ethnic affinity, to assess if Leicester is part of the squeezed middle, and what their reaction will be to us letting them down so badly, after they have volunteered to come all this way and do the jobs we don't love?
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Comment number 5.
At 24th Mar 2011, ecolizzy wrote:#4 One not to miss Barrie?
/news/uk-england-12804182
I read that the muslim population of britain is 4.5% if they were interspersed and intigrated across Britain, you'd hardly notice them, why do they live in enclaves, are we that horrible to them, but then we love stick our oar in, in other muslim countries!
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Comment number 6.
At 24th Mar 2011, barriesingleton wrote:WE ARE ALL THE SAME - OR PERHAPS NOT - BUT THEN AGAIN (#5)
Apparently, only nasty white individuals like me (a small minority) want to be amongst their own kind (especially when old, sick, or subject to a dental drill).
Why then do ethnic enclaves occur? Might brown folk, in truth, prefer their own, as I do? That would make them as unpleasant as I am! That would mean we ARE all the same. But if we are all the same, why don't we mix? I think I'll have to think it out again.
I expect the truth is that we nasty white people, make incomers so unwelcome that they are forced to cluster together for comfort. How silly - it's not as if we hold their lives any less valuable than ours, is it! Where would they get an idea like that?
Tony is good at global integration stuff, across boundaries of every kind - let's get his view. Mind you: he seems so haunted by something, HE can't settle anywhere . . .
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Comment number 7.
At 24th Mar 2011, BrightYangThing wrote:"....why do they live in enclaves...."
Actually EecoLizzy, I am often quite envious of the lifestyles, and close extended family support groups of many of the Asian/eastern especially cultures.
It can feel invasive in our own communities, I grew up in a part of NW London that changed drastically in quite a short period of time but as we mostly western Christian residents lost our sense of identity and community, it was replaced by a different one.
Sometimes, partial integration was pretty successful but never totally. We/they can't win.
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Comment number 8.
At 24th Mar 2011, Mistress76uk wrote::o) Jeremy gets praise from US Critics over his interview of Alistair Burt on the Libyan Crisis.
Jeremy is the platinum standard.
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Comment number 9.
At 24th Mar 2011, barriesingleton wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 10.
At 24th Mar 2011, barriesingleton wrote:WE ARE ALL THE SAME - OR PERHAPS NOT - BUT THEN AGAIN (#5)
(currently hanging at post #6 – modified to placate)
Apparently, only white individuals like me (a small minority) want to be amongst their own kind (especially when old, sick, or subject to a dental drill).
Why then do ethnic enclaves occur? Might folk, in truth, prefer their own, as I do? That would make them as as I am! That would mean we ARE all the same. But if we are all the same, why don't we mix? I think I'll have to think it out again.
I expect the truth is that we white people, make incomers so unwelcome that they are forced to cluster together for comfort. How silly - it's not as if we hold their lives any less valuable than ours, is it! Where would they get an idea like that?
Tony is good at global integration stuff, across boundaries of every kind - let's get his view. Mind you: he seems so haunted by something, HE can't settle anywhere . . .
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Comment number 11.
At 24th Mar 2011, ecolizzy wrote:#7 close extended family support groups of many of the Asian/eastern especially cultures.
I suppose I've always been lucky and lived with my family around me BYT, but not too close! ; )
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Comment number 12.
At 24th Mar 2011, RolDeed wrote:No 1 Is the mp for Leicester A nulabour Vase, you Know the One Who Blames His Mother, I Think that Tribe in the Particular Has A Big Something Against Women in General
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Comment number 13.
At 24th Mar 2011, RolDeed wrote:PanoRama Tonight, Wasnt That A Wonderfull Example of An English Lawyer.
OH OH OH LOL
You Suckers Pay For TAT
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Comment number 14.
At 24th Mar 2011, RolDeed wrote:QT Its High Time we who Live on these Islands Withdraw from International Intervensions. 2World Wars and More, We have enough of our Own Problems Here.
I could Go On (i am a goon) but YOU Whoever YOU are Won't Post/Play Cricket
Freedom of Speech would be handy
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Comment number 15.
At 25th Mar 2011, RolDeed wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 16.
At 25th Mar 2011, RolDeed wrote:It's Been A While
Since Anybody Mentioned The Death Penalty/Target Practise
Pass Me The Link No 2
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Comment number 17.
At 25th Mar 2011, RolDeed wrote:In Through The Front Door .. Out Through The Back Door
My First Visit to An Arab State There Was A Rape, The Idiot was Caught.
2 of The Local Police Took the Subhuman Straight Through The Station into The Back Yard .. BANG .. that was The End of That Useless Article.
Cost to The Population less than 10 Pence.
There are many Victims of Crime who's Lives are worth Less Than 10 Pence to The Criminal, and to certain members of Society.
Am I Repeating Myself Am I Repeating Myself Am I Repeating Myself I Do Hope So
The Lives of some Criminals are worth A Fortune to those who work within The Criminal Justice? System.
Their Mantra is We Love Killers .. They Don't Like Soldiers They Have A Licence.
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Comment number 18.
At 25th Mar 2011, Mistress76uk wrote::p Looks like I'm not the only one who considers Angela Eagle to be useless.
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Comment number 19.
At 25th Mar 2011, Mistress76uk wrote::p So much for the Egyptian "revolution." Problem is, in all these Middle Eastern countries, no matter who comes into power, it either stays the same or gets worse eg Iran.
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At 25th Mar 2011, barriesingleton wrote:QUID PRO QUO? (#18)
Not so 76, but your excessive over-rating of Mr Paxman tends to devalue your other appraisals. (:o)
There is nothing especially useless about the Eagle-Sparrow. She has passed selection for Westminster by a party-committee, taken advantage of a rosette-proxy-vote to gain a seat, WITHOUT DYING OF SHAME, and now uses the verbal runs technique, to make up for being useless. A standard Westminster cipher-ninny unit.
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At 25th Mar 2011, Mistress76uk wrote:@ Barrie#20 - :p Jealous much? You'll find that Jeremy IS one of the world's top journalists - and that's not just my opinion.
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At 25th Mar 2011, kevseywevsey wrote:I wonder how long will it be before we have our own revolution; the type we see in the Arab lands?
Not a far-fetched possibility really is it when you consider the religious and cultural fault lines on our own soil. Maybe one particular group would demand autonomy from the rest of us. Introduce their own laws and customs and build a wall of difference from the majority. They would introduce their own brand of religious specific tax and banking system. Maybe they'd rather prepare and eat meat that has been given its own religious brand of slaughter. We'd see them every other night on NN banging-on about how they are peace loving but sadly for them they feel like victims and oppressed by the host nation and its decadent infidel customs. Maybe this particular group pushed just that bit too hard for their own brand of governance that the British army had to be deployed to 'keep the peace' ..blood on the streets. A coalition of the Arab nations would respond with a no fly zone over bradford, Leicester and Tower Hamlets -using Britsh built jets and American made missles. I'm I cursed with vision? Northern Ireland or Kosovo anybody?..history teaches us a lot I always think...
Can someone please arrange for me a sham marriage..because I really want out of this country.
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At 25th Mar 2011, jauntycyclist wrote:why does kirsty keep asking convoluted wordy questions [not just to foreigners] that leave very little open space for the guest to move into to and make revealing statements? making noise is not the same as making a question. try questions with 50 words or less.
americans brutalising people before trial? surely not. Hollywood made several westerns describing the small town groupthink.
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Comment number 24.
At 25th Mar 2011, kevseywevsey wrote:Me at22
Mod..how in Gods name can that post be up for furthur consideration?
We have ourselves another Guardian reading mod folks. A young mind not yet fully formed.
Don't take that wrong mod. The world is a lot meaner than I could ever be..you've just not experienced it proper yet
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Comment number 25.
At 25th Mar 2011, kevseywevsey wrote:Mod, heres one for you. Will you allow this video to be shown:
SOUTH KOREA buries alive three million pigs: Screams of terror & pain.
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Comment number 26.
At 25th Mar 2011, barriesingleton wrote:IT'S AN ERUDITION THING (#23)
Quentin Cooper (Material World) attempts to put all possible answers into his questions, as does Laurie Taylor (thinking Allowed). Taylor compounds the fault by applying the stumbling affectation of 'intellectual overload' of the speech circuits. The ultimate stumble was that practised by Parkinson. Kirsty is in a class of her own.
And you don't get to be weather-girl without lisp or similar.
Edgy or what! Awards all round.
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At 25th Mar 2011, kevseywevsey wrote:Me at 25:
ah well, there you go. I suppose the video of S Korea burying 3 million pigs alive was too strong. Yes the world is very cruel ain't it mod. Now, what about my post at 22...just click the nesessary button. Do it when they are not looking eh. You know I'm right Moddy.
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