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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    would you just give it a rest.
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    Northern Ireland EAPC status.

    It should be pushing an open door.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Plausible deniability. Viscounts were fairly reliable. Lets put it this way, the UK Military establishment has plenty of "previous.".. including the trawler incidents Anyway enough on that topic
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    The Iranian response was unprecedentedly rapid for an event of this type. It would not have taken very long for the discovery to be made that it was their own missile which had taken down a plane or a drone or something. But it might be hours before the active duty staff would be aware it was a...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Please ,when you came onto this site,I hoped for an increase in rational discussion. For an official body to admit a mistake of this magnitude ,within this time frame is unprecedented. The situation in Iran was febrile.. just as it was in London, leading to the Brazilian lad, Carlos Mendes being...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I don't think so. The Dali Lama is superb, the Pope is superb, even I am super and we all don't feature in these magazines.. Nothing to do with intrinsic qualities.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Seriously ,it is your problem. What is fascinating is that the German and French rubbish gossip magazines are equally besotted. The magazines are interested only because it sells
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Which country?. There would be a disconnect between London and other parts of England. There would be a connect between London thinking on Brexit, and Scotland and NI.. As for the Welsh , my opinion is that they somewhere between dispair and Stockholm syndrome.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That news item referred to a decision in Oxford in March 2019, based on the then current belief that the UK would exit without any deal at the end of March 2019.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Welcome to local democracy. This is only a smigin of what has been endured in NI for decades. But closely at the date. Recycling old information is very close to trolling.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    General opinion within the EU is that the BJ implementation period is very unrealistic. The EU Trade Commissioner ..or as we call him Big Phil has been saying this for some time. He came back to Ireland fir the Christmas Hols. Eye witness accounts suggest a fire or flames at one of the engines...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Maybe or yet another drone strike or sabotage? The first victim of war is truth.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    There was one of those very droll deadpan l NI comedians who had a full routine based on this... He would start with. We got a television .It was wonderful ,we would watch it for hours... Sometimes we might switch it on. Then he would move on to what happened to those little grey people who...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Suitably ambiguous
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I am not convinced about that. A number of years ago, the pedelec market was zealots and homebrew enthusiasts ,it is now more quietly mainstream.. look even Halfords sell them. "For everything there us a season" The hot topics elsewhere are illegal scooters and possibly CBD smoking.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    These last set of postings are positively ghoulish. We should ,in so far as anyone can,be reducing tensions ,rather than racking them up.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. no not all friends!. ..and Dveh ,I am delighted that you have returned, your technical insights were always informative.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    At that time.. early 1960s there was an optimism in the USA. regarding atomic energy. I recall the arrival of a cruise ship called the Savannah into Dublin port, and it was Nuclear powered ..I remember the green blue glow of the chernkov radiation when looking into the reactor .. yes school...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think the Russian pact, would have seriously discomforted those same people. They had seen Hitler as a bulwark against Communism.The mood music changed after the invasion of Poland
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Apparently the WhiteHouse did notify,using the proper channels ,Congress of its attack on Iraq, after the event.