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10/10 up on the southside. I hear from the Palace (Crystal) that it's pretty heavy up there too.

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Chime by Orbital, assuming it's 40 somethings who > are like me. > Smells Like Teen Spirit? > Groove Is In The Heart? +1 to all of those

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Louisiana, > I've reported that empty salt bin. > > I've also reported the following empty salt bins - > Goodrich School corner of Goodrich and Dunstans > Road, corner of Dusntan's road with Forest Hill > Road, and corner of Barry Road with Upland Road. > > If anyone spots other empty salt bins I'll also > TRY getting them refilled. It does appear that > salt in Southwakr is already running low. Hi James I checked the grit bin last night and it's still empty. That's more than two weeks after I called Southwark to get it refilled, and more than two weeks after I last wrote on this issue on this thread. And of course now we have snow again. Are none of the ED grit bins being refilled?

Hi Ian, I was on the Nunhead to CP walk that day. I'd be interested in doing the full monty super-hike, going further out east. Let us know if this one is planned again.

A happy ending!

It started, stopped, and now it's started again. I'd say now 7/10 or so (southside on the hill).

I'm quite happy with G&B's position. It's clear. I always make sure I have some local cloth bags (East Dulwich SNUB; Crystal Palace cinema campaign etc.) when I head down to the bottom end of the Lane. I have also learned not to try and buy wine from G&B on my way back from the airport (when there is no way I'd have any space or bag for anything - I returned last night with around 25kg of goodies from Bilbao, and an extra box with wine would have been out of the question).

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've just started a thread about one recent leak > (concerning the involvement of British police in > the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann) > in the lounge: > > The Truth of The Lie Sue, the Guardian covered the UK police involvement at the time. I read it, at the time. The Guardian then covered the 'leak' of the report of the cable discussing same. Which has produced zero new evidence, as the Portuguese authorities accurately state. I don't know which newspapers you read, but it's clear throughout the Wikileaks affair that many papers have failed to report stuff in the Wikileaks stream purely because *they were not among the select press* that were part of the leak process (El Pais, The Guardian etc.); and thus got into a huff about anything in the cables. But clearly, the cable just confirms stuff already reported by UK media at the time regarding relations between the different police forces. There is no evidence of anything, just hearsay about process. So not quite sure what your point is here.

adoodledo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank you for your suggestions. > > f-t, i like your style. I had already put "Teenage > Kicks" into my pile of records to possibly play, > but will now consider promoting it to the > post-countdown spot. Noo, no no, overplayed, boring. RosieH has hit the nail on the head. Good tune, familiar but not overplayed, excellent and appropriate lyrics. Teenage Kicks is for those with a complete imagination bypass, the brain dead DJ.

Why not start one?

Rent-a-mob often being the Socialist Worker mob. Never backward in hijacking legitimate protest for their own purposes.

Dickensman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I feel most affronted at the various governments > trying to strong arm wikileaks, > > just as I would feel most indignant if someone > tried to stop this forum from operating and > providing > > a service the way it does. The interweb being what is it is, sites taken down will often pop up again somewhere else, but often not without considerable hassle. There are many ISPs, there are many countries running their own domain registries...and there is always Bolivia :-S I am concerned about the situation with payment companies. There are so few of them, and clearly they are easily swayed by a politician or two. To say that someone is doing something illegal, when the basis for that statement is a letter sent between two other parties, and the letter does not make that claim, seems dubious in the extreme. In the early days of interweb, there was much talk of alternative payment systems, but it's mostly fallen to the usual suspects to run the show; and PayPal is now a giant in the pocket of the US. (I'll be interested to see how Datacell's case with Mastercard pans out.) Perhaps the issue of payment systems needs to be addressed again. In fact, I maybe the 4chan/Anonymous/Operation Payback crew could do something useful, like build an independent payment system.

Heather. She's great. :-)

We've just had some recycling collected this week, but otherwise....It's been a while.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not arguing they're not intelligent, I'm > arguing that they've got day jobs to do which > means they're unlikely to be as well informed as > your professional diplomat. > > Start sharing the inside story with them, and > they're going to expect to have influence on > events. They'll be basing their decisions on half > baked news stories, popular prejudice, greed, Ah, so nothing like Prince Andrew then?

I feel for you Sue, but haven't heard anything in the last month. Presumably you're wondering about a reduction in number of years required?

I've been running Squeezeboxes since 2006, and fully support everything said by Siduhe.

They are great, and have drawn admiring comments from visitors. A real asset to the neighbourhood, and will be there for many moons. Can anyone remember the foundry's name? I know it's there but my memory's bad.

The Chagossians have been treated so shabbily throughout. (6) Like you, Brendan, I'm both unsurprised and angry at some of what passes for government, at our expense (in both senses).

Piece by Naomi Wolf in the Huffington Post

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I also cant help thinking that the people who are > most up in arms about this, are the same people > who are convinced 9/11 was a big American plot, > and Diana was killed by the royal family. If this means what I think it means, cheap shot and easy way to write off a whole lot of very sensible people. Though I have no clear idea exactly what you mean by "the people who are most up in arms about this". What is "this"? AFAIK, supporters of some openness have not yet (a) proposed kidnapping anyone's son or (b) proposed assassinating or murdering anyone. Yes, there are some really strange ones on the other side, and some of them are too close to power for comfort.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think Joe Public is mostly concerned with > transparency in XFactor decision making truth be > told ;-) Yesterday I discovered there's a game show called Pointless. Can this be true?

+1 MP. I've still to see any good reason from the USG of why they withheld for 2-3 years (from Reuters, who were using FOI) the footage of the Reuters reporters being killed; and all the other people killed and injured (including children) by US forces in that footage. Though the footage certainly gave a fresh perspective on the idea of saving lives.

Santerme Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Plus he is a suspect in a rape case The case does not appear to be 'rape', and the EAW does not mention the word rape. It appears to revolve around a condom splitting, and this eventuality under Swedish law possibly contributing to a change in the balance of power during sex; with one of the prosecutors concerned being involved in pressing for proposed changes to Swedish law in this regard. One of the two women got upset that Assange had had sex with another woman apart from her on that trip and so decided to press charges for 'sex by surprise'(and then withdrew them). Don't think that's an offence in the UK. And as some will already be aware, one of the women concerned is fairly 'ultra' on the feminism front (and has blogged about how you can get at men using the law). Assange was staying with her for several days. Yet she pressed no charges during that time, it appears; it appears she only pressed charges once she'd chatted to the other woman he had sex with in Sweden, and found out he'd had sex with her. All very confused. This does not seem to be a cut and dried case, and there seem to be all kinds of things going on apart from any sex. (Interpersonal relations and jealousy, careerist prosecutor wanting to change the law, disagreements between different prosecutors in different towns, Swedish laws very different from our own, international politics etc.) I'm not defending the guy. Just saying that propagating the 'rape' idea (which has a certain image in many minds including my own) seems somewhat misleading. Ah, I was looking at the Interpol thingy, not the EAW. My bad.

The restaurant floor of the Queen's Hotel in Church Road, Crystal Palace. Amazing views through around 300 degrees.