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7 hours ago, wideawake said:

Geneva, Switzerland, 21 April 2025 – Klaus Schwab, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, has informed the Board:

“Following my recent announcement, and as I enter my 88th year, I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member of the Board of Trustees, with immediate effect.”

 

https://www.weforum.org/press/2025/04/world-economic-forum-announces-governance-transition/

 

Tony to take over?? 

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13 hours ago, wideawake said:

Geneva, Switzerland, 21 April 2025 – Klaus Schwab, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, has informed the Board:

“Following my recent announcement, and as I enter my 88th year, I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member of the Board of Trustees, with immediate effect.”

 

https://www.weforum.org/press/2025/04/world-economic-forum-announces-governance-transition/

 

 

88 years old, the same age as the Pope who died a few days ago. 

 

88 mph - Delorean time travel. 

 

 

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All of a sudden, the mood in the air is pro Christian, pro Uk, pro morals and integrity. Who the fu$# do they think we are? Peace, peace. In their hearts they harbour and plot war against us. Monumental, biblical months ahead, it's going up a gear.

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22 hours ago, Dazzer said:

Tony to take over?? 

 

Who's Tony ?

At first I suspected Yuval Noah Harari would take the lead but now I think he might want to keep his job as an advisor behind the scene, who knows...

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3 hours ago, wideawake said:

 

Who's Tony ?

At first I suspected Yuval Noah Harari would take the lead but now I think he might want to keep his job as an advisor behind the scene, who knows...

 

 

Tony Blair, who was once a WEF board member.

 

Board members today include

 

Ajay S. Banga (President, World Bank Group)

Larry Fink (Blackrock)

Al Gore

Marc Benioff (Salesforce)

David Rubenstein (Carlyle and CFR)

Christine Lagarde (Euro Central Bank)

 

 

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7 hours ago, wideawake said:

 

Who's Tony ?

At first I suspected Yuval Noah Harari would take the lead but now I think he might want to keep his job as an advisor behind the scene, who knows...

Our favorite war criminal Tony Blair. 

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Neither have I!

 

'I haven't had my recycling taken since January'

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A front room filled with bags of cardboard boxes, empty milk cartons and metal tins is the current reality for Frances Jones.

The 72-year-old from Sparkbrook has not had her recycling collected by Birmingham City Council since January due to the ongoing bin strikes.

Mrs Jones is living with her recycling because she cannot book an appointment to the tip without owning a car, something she has described as a "flawed system".

The council said only residents with a booking, linked to the registration plate of their vehicle, external, were permitted to access recycling centres, with "no exceptions".

 

The council has said residents must keep hold of their recycling "until the next opportunity" if they cannot access a tip.

 

"At the moment [the recycling] is mainly in the front room, or in the back. It's not nice. It's just very frustrating and worrying not knowing how long it will go on," she said.

Neighbours were being helpful and offered tip runs but she felt awkward about asking someone to take her rubbish away, she added.

from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypvejpp01o

 

Solution: put your recycling in with the rest of the household rubbish, which is still being collected.

 

That's exactly what I am doing, as are other households across Birmingham. I don't have access to a car so I'm unable to take my recycling to the tip either. No way am I accumulating rubbish in my own home, and no-one else needs to either.

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11 hours ago, Dazzer said:

Our favorite war criminal Tony Blair. 

 

Oh that scumbag, we have a few of them also here in Canada like Trudeau, Poilievre, Singh, Carney, Freeland and many others in key positions. Those bloodsuckers are everywhere and they just can't seem to get enough of it.

 

Once a WEF**ker, always a WEF**ker   🤮

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On 4/26/2025 at 4:44 AM, Sportsfan28 said:

I think we knew this was coming when the bus crash story came about a few weeks ago. Yet another dodgy death linked to that disgusting royal family. 

https://news.sky.com/story/virginia-giuffre-who-accused-prince-andrew-of-sexual-assault-has-died-her-family-says-13355731

Suicide is a favourite spook death to use when they want rid of someone.

 

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On 4/23/2025 at 1:21 PM, Grumpy Owl said:

Neither have I!

 

'I haven't had my recycling taken since January'

from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypvejpp01o

 

Solution: put your recycling in with the rest of the household rubbish, which is still being collected.

 

That's exactly what I am doing, as are other households across Birmingham. I don't have access to a car so I'm unable to take my recycling to the tip either. No way am I accumulating rubbish in my own home, and no-one else needs to either.

In the old days we used to burn it in oil drums. I still burn mine today.

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11 minutes ago, RobinJ said:

In the old days we used to burn it in oil drums. I still burn mine today.

 

I'm sure you're sensible enough to do that outside. Meanwhile in Birmingham...

 

Plea to not burn recycling during bin strike

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People in Birmingham have been urged to not burn uncollected recycling during the bin strike after a resident was rescued by firefighters.

West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) said the resident, who escaped injury, was given oxygen by fire crews and treated by paramedics after trying to burn recycling inside their home.

The incident came amid the suspension of routine collection services in the city during the ongoing refuse workers' strike, which began on 11 March.

Emily Fernandez, head of fire prevention at WMFS, said burning household recycling, including cardboard, paper or plastics, was "very dangerous, especially indoors".

from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr79gndqj5o

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On 4/23/2025 at 6:00 PM, Dragon Slayer said:

Pope's death. St Georges Day, Willy going to funeral, end of 'wokeism', Shakespeare's birthday, surge in Christianity. Are you getting it yet? They are 🤑🤪😆 at us. Wankers.

I see no surge in Christianity where I am.

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I would like one day to buy a home, but there's no way I'd be tempted to buy any new-build.

 

For starters, they're all out of my price-range.

 

Secondly...

 

New build estates plagued with constant problems

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When Reece Aleksander moved into a new-build housing estate in the West Midlands five years ago he thought he had bought his dream home.

However, he said it had become a nightmare.

A landslip before Christmas has blocked access to his and some other residents' homes ever since. But Haden Cross Drive in Cradley Heath also features street lights that have never worked and sewers that still have not been taken on by the water company.

Developer Dunedin Homes said the landslip was not a "simple, quick or easy fix", but that it was working on a temporary measure. It added that much of the work on street lights had been completed and that sewers would be adopted "in due course".

from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70ze74l6jpo

 

In a nutshell, these big developer firms are only interested in making profit, lots of it.

 

Many of these new-build developments are built cheaply and shoddily. They might 'look nice' when they're finished and done out inside, but do they justify the cost?

 

If you're paying between 250k and 500k for a 'new' home, you shouldn't have to expect to deal with 'snagging' issues, and glaring problems like incomplete roads/footways or sewerage issues.

 

 

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White smoke appears, and the bells of Christendom ring out!

 

Fumus albus apparet, et tintinnabula Christianitatis sonant!

 

 

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