Honestly Dave is pretty close to losing my vote right now. Opting out of filtering is not the way to go about this. If he wants a filter then make it opt in. I hope the ISPs tell him to f-off.
David Cameron @David_Cameron 1m Join the campaign to protect our children online, and read the speech I’m about to deliver, at http://j.mp/16OoJHU #ProtectingChildren
Oh look, you sign the petition to support "family friendly" Dave and your tickbox to get emails from the Conservative party has already been ticked for you.
Nauseating.
"Forward this page on to other parents"
Beyond nauseating
And you don't mention labour,your party if in government would be doing exactly the same,stop whining.
Cameron's anti porn campaign is getting dangerously close to the old family values territory. What's the betting if his porn opt-in comes to fruition we'll find out within a year that 90% of the cabinet secretly opted using a false name.
Honestly Dave is pretty close to losing my vote right now. Opting out of filtering is not the way to go about this. If he wants a filter then make it opt in. I hope the ISPs tell him to f-off.
We have the economy on the edge,immigration to sort out,terrorist to deal with and the tories might lose your vote for a filter.
I give up,which ever party was in government they would be doing exactly the same.
Cameron's anti porn campaign is getting dangerously close to the old family values territory. What's the betting if his porn opt-in comes to fruition we'll find out within a year that 90% of the cabinet secretly opted using a false name.
"Perhaps the PM is wrong to push ahead with the plans he’s announcing today, but at least for once he is showing a bit of media aggression. If he’s able to replicate this with other policies, it will be another reason to be cheerful for the Conservative party, regardless of the details of today’s announcement."
We have the economy on the edge,immigration to sort out,terrorist to deal with and the tories might lose your vote for a filter.
I give up,which ever party was in government they would be doing exactly the same.
Labour had 13 years to filter porn and didn't. So you can't really throw the book at them there. That's with Catholic and Presbyterian leaders as well, so not exactly dirty porn loving atheists.
The Detroit fallout is sensational - a judge has blocked the bankruptcy as "state law guards against retirement benefits being “diminished,” and "It’s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.”"
As the Daily Mail are claiming victory for convincing Cameron that posing with relatives of murdered children to promote a speech, and nannying us over our internet use is a surefire way to "protect children", is this really the sort of article the Mail should have on their puritanical website?
It's nothing to do with "protecting the children", the Daily Mail just don't like the competition.
1. Daily Mail lobbies for "porn" filters. 2. Government grants desire. 3. Punters can only get their titillation at the Daily Mail site. 4. ??? 5. Profit.
We have the economy on the edge,immigration to sort out,terrorist to deal with and the tories might lose your vote for a filter.
I give up,which ever party was in government they would be doing exactly the same.
Labour had 13 years to filter porn and didn't. So you can't really throw the book at them there. That's with Catholic and Presbyterian leaders as well, so not exactly dirty porn loving atheists.
Labours under new management,these proposals by Cameron will be scrutinised and you may yet get what you want.
We have the economy on the edge,immigration to sort out,terrorist to deal with and the tories might lose your vote for a filter.
I give up,which ever party was in government they would be doing exactly the same.
Labour had 13 years to filter porn and didn't. So you can't really throw the book at them there. That's with Catholic and Presbyterian leaders as well, so not exactly dirty porn loving atheists.
"Detroit’s experience also teaches the value of confronting problems early instead of deferring them to the crisis point. Detroit has known for at least 25 years that it was headed toward a meltdown of its pension system.
But instead of adjusting benefits and increasing payments into the system, the city kept borrowing money from the funds and refused to make rational benefits reforms"
"Detroit also lost focus on its core mission, which should have been providing essential services to its residents. The city saw itself as a jobs provider, bloating its payroll and providing services in-house that could have been easily outsourced."
A government that focuses on serving its taxpayers first is less likely to lose its tax base. Detroit learned that the hard way. The key lessons Detroit’s situation can teach other governments is to borrow with extreme care and don’t make promises you can’t keep."
The Detroit fallout is sensational - a judge has blocked the bankruptcy as "state law guards against retirement benefits being “diminished,” and "It’s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.”"
If the lefties of the developed world think 'law guards against retirement benefits being diminished' then they are indeed in cloud-cuckoo land. But we know that anyway.
All Ed Balls and Redward need to do is pass a 'jam forever' law in 2015 and all the UK's financial and economic issues will disppear - it'll be the law!
The Detroit fallout is sensational - a judge has blocked the bankruptcy as "state law guards against retirement benefits being “diminished,” and "It’s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.”"
So what the F are they going to do. Keep paying more and more out in unaffordable pensions and commitments whilst things just get worse and worse.
Coming to a town and city near you soon?
Apparently a federal court will let them go bankrupt - just gets moved up. Then the Auto city workers union will take them to the supreme court even when the cheques stop coming.
The productive citizens of Detroit left a while ago. The public sector employees and retirees are going to learn the hard way that they got what they voted for (51 years of one party lefty corruption and unions in charge). Lefties just can't seem to grasp the concept of public sector bankruptcy - they should holiday in Greece and Detroit to learn what it means.
The Detroit fallout is sensational - a judge has blocked the bankruptcy as "state law guards against retirement benefits being “diminished,” and "It’s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.”"
The Detroit fallout is sensational - a judge has blocked the bankruptcy as "state law guards against retirement benefits being “diminished,” and "It’s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.”"
The Detroit fallout is sensational - a judge has blocked the bankruptcy as "state law guards against retirement benefits being “diminished,” and "It’s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.”"
The Detroit fallout is sensational - a judge has blocked the bankruptcy as "state law guards against retirement benefits being “diminished,” and "It’s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.”"
All the figures look near the consensus of where we are. Their turnout data looks plausible too (51% certain to vote, otherwise spread across the range).
I can't think of any better way to create a generation of hackers than putting a bunch of network security measures between 14-year-old boys and their porn.
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
The only way is to find someway, anyway of bringing investment into the town. Which is why its so important to any town, or country to listen to those mobile, able workers and firms.
We're in global competition. Detroit couldn't even cope on a national level.
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
Usual ZH caveats apply but eye popping none the less
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The Detroit fallout is sensational - a judge has blocked the bankruptcy as "state law guards against retirement benefits being “diminished,” and "It’s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.”"
So what the F are they going to do. Keep paying more and more out in unaffordable pensions and commitments whilst things just get worse and worse.
Coming to a town and city near you soon?
Apparently a federal court will let them go bankrupt - just gets moved up. Then the Auto workers union will take them to the supreme court even when the cheques stop coming.
I'd say it'd be brave to second-guess what any court might decide in this case. That said, Detroit is hardly the first US city to go bust - though it is the largest. There must be precedent.
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
The only way is to find someway, anyway of bringing investment into the town. Which is why its so important to any town, or country to listen to those mobile, able workers and firms.
We're in global competition. Detroit couldn't even cope on a national level.
Suggest just bulldozing all the derelict areas might be a better solution.
The Detroit fallout is sensational - a judge has blocked the bankruptcy as "state law guards against retirement benefits being “diminished,” and "It’s also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.”"
So what the F are they going to do. Keep paying more and more out in unaffordable pensions and commitments whilst things just get worse and worse.
Coming to a town and city near you soon?
Apparently a federal court will let them go bankrupt - just gets moved up. Then the Auto workers union will take them to the supreme court even when the cheques stop coming.
I'd say it'd be brave to second-guess what any court might decide in this case. That said, Detroit is hardly the first US city to go bust - though it is the largest. There must be precedent.
"Stockton's largest debt is $900m owed to the California Public Employees' Retirement System to cover pension promises. The city has kept up with pension payments at the expense of other debt"
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
The only way is to find someway, anyway of bringing investment into the town. Which is why its so important to any town, or country to listen to those mobile, able workers and firms.
We're in global competition. Detroit couldn't even cope on a national level.
Suggest just bulldozing all the derelict areas might be a better solution.
Should the birth announcement be made before 1000 hours: flags should be flown immediately at full mast until 2000 hours.
Should the birth announcement be made after 1001 hours: flags should be flown at full mast the next working day from 0800 hours until 2000 hours.
Local authorities are not bound by this request but may wish to follow it for guidance. Devolved administrations are responsible for issuing instructions for the flying of the Union Flag on buildings in their estate and others as necessary.
What happens if 'events' take place that mean the flag needs to be flown at half mast, at the same time as full mast 'events'. Which takes priority ?
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
Usual ZH caveats apply but eye popping none the less
Will the Duchess's labour last longer than a pair of Aussie test innings ?
Going to the Christening?
Indeed I am .... in a few weeks time.
We'll be expecting a detailed account of the post Christening buffet.
Buffet !! .... buffet !! .... I'm not aware the catering has been outsourced to British Rail !!
In these austere times we all have to make sacrifices.
A buffet in the upstairs room of the Pig And Whistle will be quite sufficient.
We may trim the bolly by a bottle or two but Mrs JackW will not be happy .... so perhaps we'll cancel the gherkins order instead just to show solidarity !!
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
Usual ZH caveats apply but eye popping none the less
We have the economy on the edge,immigration to sort out,terrorist to deal with and the tories might lose your vote for a filter.
I give up,which ever party was in government they would be doing exactly the same.
Labour had 13 years to filter porn and didn't. So you can't really throw the book at them there. That's with Catholic and Presbyterian leaders as well, so not exactly dirty porn loving atheists.
Right, and dumb as this stuff is none of it remotely compares to the evil of things like the key disclosure provisions in RIPA (2000).
BTW, people who have been demanding that Labour produce some policies, can you see the problem now? They won't announce policies unless they sound good to the media, and policies that sound good to the media are very likely to be bad in practice, or they'd already have been done. So if you want Labour to announce policies you're asking them to announce things that sound good but work badly, and to make matters worse since they're popular the current government will nick them, so you end up enacting the worst policies that Labour can dream up, immediately, and there's nothing the voters can do about it.
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
The only way is to find someway, anyway of bringing investment into the town. Which is why its so important to any town, or country to listen to those mobile, able workers and firms.
We're in global competition. Detroit couldn't even cope on a national level.
We have the economy on the edge,immigration to sort out,terrorist to deal with and the tories might lose your vote for a filter.
I give up,which ever party was in government they would be doing exactly the same.
Labour had 13 years to filter porn and didn't. So you can't really throw the book at them there. That's with Catholic and Presbyterian leaders as well, so not exactly dirty porn loving atheists.
Right, and dumb as this stuff is none of it remotely compares to the evil of things like the key disclosure provisions in RIPA (2000).
BTW, people who have been demanding that Labour produce some policies, can you see the problem now? They won't announce policies unless they sound good to the media, and policies that sound good to the media are very likely to be bad in practice, or they'd already have been done. So if you want Labour to announce policies you're asking them to announce things that sound good but work badly, and to make matters worse since they're popular the current government will nick them, so you end up enacting the worst policies that Labour can dream up, immediately, and there's nothing the voters can do about it.
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
The only way is to find someway, anyway of bringing investment into the town. Which is why its so important to any town, or country to listen to those mobile, able workers and firms.
We're in global competition. Detroit couldn't even cope on a national level.
Detroit could spark a domino effect. Chicago and LA have similar huge liabilities, according to news reports.
Its all the fault of white working people, according to the Guardian.
They have moved out instead of staying to be taxed, insulted, mugged, burgled and murdered.
How dare they?
I can't imagine Chicago or LA would be following Detroit anytime soon. I was in Detroit briefly in 2006 and its one weird city with a small central zone of activity and a ring of poverty. The rest of Michigan is nice however and I would guess a lot of economic activity that used to take place in Detroit has simply moved elsewhere in Michigan.
Chicago on the other hand has plenty of economic activity going on inside of it and so will be able to support its liabilities for alot longer.
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
The only way is to find someway, anyway of bringing investment into the town. Which is why its so important to any town, or country to listen to those mobile, able workers and firms.
We're in global competition. Detroit couldn't even cope on a national level.
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
The only way is to find someway, anyway of bringing investment into the town. Which is why its so important to any town, or country to listen to those mobile, able workers and firms.
We're in global competition. Detroit couldn't even cope on a national level.
And? How is bringing non-taxing people from third world countries into Detroit going to create jobs, or pay taxes when you don't have a functioning economy.
In a functioning economy where you have the ability for increased investment, then maybe this might work...but you already have huge levels of unemployment.. so clearly there is no demand for labour there already.
Just because there's a economy theory of it, doesn't mean it is right in all areas and all places.
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
The only way is to find someway, anyway of bringing investment into the town. Which is why its so important to any town, or country to listen to those mobile, able workers and firms.
We're in global competition. Detroit couldn't even cope on a national level.
And? How is bringing non-taxing people from third world countries into Detroit going to create jobs, or pay taxes when you don't have a functioning economy.
In a functioning economy where you have the ability for increased investment, then maybe this might work...but you already have huge levels of unemployment.. so clearly there is no demand for labour there already.
Just because there's a economy theory of it, doesn't mean it is right in all areas and all places.
Disagree, put four ambitious, self-starting people together somewhere with property rights and rudimentary rule of law and they'll create an economy.
And, as ever in America, race is the unspoken issue bubbling away underneath Detroit’s astonishing collapse. It used to be a successful white working class city with the highest wages in the USA. It is now a black public sector sewer. The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
The only way is to find someway, anyway of bringing investment into the town. Which is why its so important to any town, or country to listen to those mobile, able workers and firms.
We're in global competition. Detroit couldn't even cope on a national level.
And? How is bringing non-taxing people from third world countries into Detroit going to create jobs, or pay taxes when you don't have a functioning economy.
In a functioning economy where you have the ability for increased investment, then maybe this might work...but you already have huge levels of unemployment.. so clearly there is no demand for labour there already.
Just because there's a economy theory of it, doesn't mean it is right in all areas and all places.
Disagree, put four ambitious, self-starting people together somewhere with property rights and rudimentary rule of law and they'll create an economy.
Put four ambitious people, and 100 non ambitious people, and you've got a recipe for disaster.
We have the economy on the edge,immigration to sort out,terrorist to deal with and the tories might lose your vote for a filter.
I give up,which ever party was in government they would be doing exactly the same.
Labour had 13 years to filter porn and didn't. So you can't really throw the book at them there. That's with Catholic and Presbyterian leaders as well, so not exactly dirty porn loving atheists.
BTW, people who have been demanding that Labour produce some policies, can you see the problem now? They won't announce policies unless they sound good to the media.......
Right on cue, Yvette was on R4 complaining that the government should have gone further faster......tho she did have one sensible point about sex education....
'The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others. I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
On topic. I don't think that Nigel Farage knows which constituency he'll go for yet, theres an awful lot of organising to do.
I myself will be going to a UKIP hustings to pick London MEP's this coming Saturday. It will be the first one I'll attend; I will let you know how it pans out.
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If you include Edward VIII then Edgar Atheling should be as neither was crowned.
Further Henry VI did outlive Edward IV the first time round.
I give up,which ever party was in government they would be doing exactly the same.
"Perhaps the PM is wrong to push ahead with the plans he’s announcing today, but at least for once he is showing a bit of media aggression. If he’s able to replicate this with other policies, it will be another reason to be cheerful for the Conservative party, regardless of the details of today’s announcement."
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/07/david-camerons-porn-announcement-shows-unusual-media-aggression/
And why the 'Great Pornwall of Witney' is unlikely to work:
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/07/porn-porn-everywhere-but-will-david-camerons-proposals-actually-work/
Nanny State wants to stop you playing chess by blocking online pawnography. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BPxpgTWCAAAvZr0.jpg:large
Populus VI figures: Lab 39 (↔); Cons 32 (↑1); LD 12 (↔); UKIP 9 (↓1); Oth 8 (↔). Tables popu.lu/s_vi220713
Crazy.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130719/METRO01/307190099/Ingham-County-judge-rules-Detroit-bankruptcy-withdrawn?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
It does raise the prospect of an 'opt-in' witchhunt down the line. A witchhunt the Daily Mail would doubtless relish leading....
1. Daily Mail lobbies for "porn" filters.
2. Government grants desire.
3. Punters can only get their titillation at the Daily Mail site.
4. ???
5. Profit.
https://twitter.com/JamesManning4/status/359272204841660416/photo/1
http://m.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/26/photography-pornography-law
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130722/OPINION01/307220006/
"Detroit’s experience also teaches the value of confronting problems early instead of deferring them to the crisis point. Detroit has known for at least 25 years that it was headed toward a meltdown of its pension system.
But instead of adjusting benefits and increasing payments into the system, the city kept borrowing money from the funds and refused to make rational benefits reforms"
"Detroit also lost focus on its core mission, which should have been providing essential services to its residents. The city saw itself as a jobs provider, bloating its payroll and providing services in-house that could have been easily outsourced."
A government that focuses on serving its taxpayers first is less likely to lose its tax base. Detroit learned that the hard way. The key lessons Detroit’s situation can teach other governments is to borrow with extreme care and don’t make promises you can’t keep."
That'll get you into all sorts of hot water, filter or no filter..
Coming to a town and city near you soon?
All Ed Balls and Redward need to do is pass a 'jam forever' law in 2015 and all the UK's financial and economic issues will disppear - it'll be the law!
FFS.
Autocity workers union will take them to the supreme court even when the cheques stop coming.The productive citizens of Detroit left a while ago. The public sector employees and retirees are going to learn the hard way that they got what they voted for (51 years of one party lefty corruption and unions in charge). Lefties just can't seem to grasp the concept of public sector bankruptcy - they should holiday in Greece and Detroit to learn what it means.
Will the Duchess's labour last longer than a pair of Aussie test innings ?
Any future for Detroit (and I’m personally not really sure there is one) will somehow need to deal with the race issue as well as the financial ones – so an absolute stinker of a problem for someone to have a go at. How do you persuade colour blind businesses back into a simmering black war zone where even the police advise you not to come (check out Detroit’s crime stats, literacy rates, etc)?
Odds - 5000/1
We're in global competition. Detroit couldn't even cope on a national level.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-21/25-facts-about-fall-detroit-will-leave-you-shaking-your-head
12) Detroit was once the fourth-largest city in the United States, but over the past 60 years the population of Detroit has fallen by 63 percent.
9) An astounding 47 percent of the residents of the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.
Our instructions from the Ministry:
Flag flying instructions: Royal birth
Should the birth announcement be made before 1000 hours: flags should be flown immediately at full mast until 2000 hours.
Should the birth announcement be made after 1001 hours: flags should be flown at full mast the next working day from 0800 hours until 2000 hours.
Local authorities are not bound by this request but may wish to follow it for guidance. Devolved administrations are responsible for issuing instructions for the flying of the Union Flag on buildings in their estate and others as necessary.
A buffet in the upstairs room of the Pig And Whistle will be quite sufficient.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21997802
"Stockton's largest debt is $900m owed to the California Public Employees' Retirement System to cover pension promises. The city has kept up with pension payments at the expense of other debt"
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/cricket/family-ties-highlight-ashes-divide/story-e6frg7rx-1226682926468
The brains of the warner family.
BTW, people who have been demanding that Labour produce some policies, can you see the problem now? They won't announce policies unless they sound good to the media, and policies that sound good to the media are very likely to be bad in practice, or they'd already have been done. So if you want Labour to announce policies you're asking them to announce things that sound good but work badly, and to make matters worse since they're popular the current government will nick them, so you end up enacting the worst policies that Labour can dream up, immediately, and there's nothing the voters can do about it.
Its all the fault of white working people, according to the Guardian.
They have moved out instead of staying to be taxed, insulted, mugged, burgled and murdered.
How dare they?
Baby's ethnicity 'hard to determine'
Seems a bit presumptuous...
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2010/06/21/197634/the-regrettably-impossible-alternative-to-shrinking-detroit/?mobile=nc
The world would certainly be shocked if there was no Germanic lineage in the father's side though.
All that does is to bring the US closer (and lower) to a level of a third world state...
I can't imagine Chicago or LA would be following Detroit anytime soon. I was in Detroit briefly in 2006 and its one weird city with a small central zone of activity and a ring of poverty. The rest of Michigan is nice however and I would guess a lot of economic activity that used to take place in Detroit has simply moved elsewhere in Michigan.
Chicago on the other hand has plenty of economic activity going on inside of it and so will be able to support its liabilities for alot longer.
Must be those foam flecked ranters at the Guardian, misleading us again....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-23403935
Probably lucky they didn't cook it.
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In a functioning economy where you have the ability for increased investment, then maybe this might work...but you already have huge levels of unemployment.. so clearly there is no demand for labour there already.
Just because there's a economy theory of it, doesn't mean it is right in all areas and all places.
In October of 2012, President Barack Obama triumphantly declared he “refused to throw in the towel” and “let Detroit go bankrupt.”
In January 2009, the president signed an executive order to close the U.S. prison camp. But four years later, the prison remains open.
http://www.markpack.org.uk/44473/labours-mp-for-tottenham-tells-residents-wait-till-september-for-help/?utm_source=WordTwit&utm_campaign=wordtwit&utm_medium=referral
We're not evil, just wicked - Owen Jones' generosity (and logic) falls a bit short
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/leftwatch/2013/07/were-not-evil-just-wicked-owen-jones-generosity-and-logic-falls-a-bit-short.html
This lad does make me laugh ;-)
'The 1967 riots (triggered by blacks vs a very white and harsh police force) were devastating and caused the start of white flight, lefty hegemony and endless deficits. That is a statement of fact – blame I leave to others.
I expect tim will find a way to blame Maggie or Dave.
No,Tim will go for millionaires & old Etonians.
I don't think that Nigel Farage knows which constituency he'll go for yet, theres an awful lot of organising to do.
I myself will be going to a UKIP hustings to pick London MEP's this coming Saturday. It will be the first one I'll attend; I will let you know how it pans out.
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130722/DEFREG03/307220017?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
It seems there were Mig 21 jets on board as well as rockets.