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Some of the stuff being posted on social media is making my blood boil One particular FB group called save humanity is passing off a video of a poor Syrian boy who lost 40 members of his family as the consequences of western bombing. This video has been on you tune for 2 years and is in fact the outcome of Assad barrel bombing his own people back in 2013 - this is around the time that he also used chemical weapons on his own people - we voted to use our air force to help fight Assad on behalf of the free Syrian army and this poor Syrian Boy but our MP's voted NO, we turned the other cheek and thought we are better off out of it and now anti bombing campaigners are trying to pass the video off as if we've done this damage (when I say we I mean the united nations led campaign against ISIS) Three times it has appeared on my fb feed and three times I've posted the link to youtube showing its 2 years old and is misleading information - but every time the link is removed by the site Social media is allowing dangerous amounts of miss information to cloud the judgment of people from both sides of the argument - this sort of thing divides us when we should be united in our opposition of the genocide taking place in Syria and Iraq

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As you say we should have pulled the plug as soon as we got relegated, capped any new players wages at a couple of grand a week and gone with what we had clearing the big earners as soon as the contracts were up If you'd have said that to me at the time though Id have called you a fool as I thought investment would have got us up within a season or two. Its not that long ago Id have liked to have seen us plunge further into the mire to sign ALF, Juke Dawson etc Suppose we didn't know how bad it was though and with a bit more visibility / knowledge of the situation maybe cutting back sooner would have been much more paletable We need a full clear out / start again and hopefully we can turn a corner in terms of culture within the whole club / business Not sure if that means league 1 but its certainly looking that way

ST - My point was that there is so much available oil elsewhere in the world that big multinational oil companies can go after but have shut down the projects as the price of oil has collapsed that they wouldn't not need to get involved with ISIS I would make the assumption that ISIS are not exploring for new oil fields, they are most probably getting what they can out of existing sites and selling it onto the black market for next to nothing (on the open market its now worth less than what we can pull it out of the North Sea for)

There is plenty available elsewhere that they aren't going after as the price of oil has halved in value I cant see BP stopping any future projects in the North Sea to then go and get involved with ISIS Its another tin foil hat job that

I thought Everton have been in the top flight since the 30's or something?

First aircraft dispatched overnight to the Omar air field with the aim of helping cut off some of the revenue of ISIS We'll never know but surely no women and children at an oil field? The likes of Dianne Abbott have made out like we would be carpet bombing Raqqa like it was Vietnam / Dresden all over again I just don't think it's like that at all It will need ground troops though, I'm happy for us to be part of a coalition to go in and finish the job

I worked it out at £650k based on 45% tax band for most footballers - either way it can't be right Unless they part paid but if your not going to pay it all then you might as well use the bit you can pay on a new striker

Send troops in too Get rid of these ISIS nutcases

I can't argue with any of that Never look on when fascists are commiting genocide

Here is the final section of Hilary Benn’s speech, which was greeted by (a very unusual) round of applause in the chamber. Mr Speaker, I hope the House will bear with me if I direct my closing remarks to my Labour friends and colleagues on this side of the house. As a party, we have always been defined by our internationalism. We believe we have a responsibility, one to another. We never have and we never should walk by on the other side of the road. And we are here faced by fascists. Not just their calculated brutality, but their belief that they are superior to every single one of us in this chamber tonight and all of the people we represent. They hold us in contempt. They hold our values in contempt. They hold our belief in tolerance and decency in contempt. They hold our democracy – the means by which we will make our decision tonight – in contempt. And what we know about fascists is that they need to be defeated and it is why, as we have heard tonight, socialists and trade unionists were just one part of the international brigade in the 1930s to fight against Franco. It’s why this entire House stood up against Hitler and Mussolini. It’s why our party has always stood up against the denial of human rights and for justice and my view, Mr Speaker, is that we must now confront this evil. It is now time for us to do our bit in Syria and that is why I ask my colleagues to vote in favour of this motion tonight.

I'm in Been in since I renews my driving licence and was asked if I wanted to opt out Think it's fair enough Allthough it would be great if you could sell them in advance and spend the money now

What did he say?

Ha ha I think I'd have preferred just going into admin on Friday as well

I'm in Not because we will be any more or less safe These fuckers have the most insane ideology since the nazi's They've committed genocide against the yazidis and are committing atrocities on a daily basis If their army are marching through Syria ready to take another city and murder thousands more then I believe we should join the UN and the rest of the world in bombing the shit out of that army and protect the people they are about to slaughter It takes a special sort of nutcase to unite Iran, Saudi, Turkey, Us, France, Russia, Denmark etc etc etc all under one cause We can't look on with this, these fuckers need to be stopped

Since wolf of Wall Street?

If we're in administration won't the players be released from contracts for this

We would then have to try and avoid finishing in the bottom 3 so we don't start next season in league 1 on -9pts and be favourites firvrelegation to league 2 Jesus

That would give them a total market capitalisation of over £3b - that's fucking barmy considered they barely make a profit Must be some other assets included, think it's the parent company rather than just City

I think I've said it before, even if HMRC try to push for an administrator to come in and start selling assets I'm sure they need to have a fairly substancial percentage of the overall debt owed to them Thus the paper debt of £170m owed to ED should keep him in the driving seat on which assets are sold off, when they are sold and who too

Not really happy with any 'for profit' company buying us

Assume timings down to the fact it's month end and it would have got out somehow, just managing the negative message in the best way they see possible Not great though, this is when we start to owe multiple people at the same time, very dangerous situation Although to force an administration I think you need something like more than 51% of your creditors to agree to force the matter. Whilst Eddie on paper is owed £180m he would still be the only one who could force anything

West Hams will die on its arse with the stadium move

Probably paying them to get rid of the dead wood