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The City of London is the old Elizabethan urban core, which was surrounded by the medieval city wall. When Lizzy found out the population had risen to one million (that was inside and outside the wall) she decreed that nothing could be built within one mile of the wall.

It didn’t work.

And everyone knows about how Shakespeare and company were going to get kicked out of the theater they’d built, because it was on leased land, and the landlord decided he wanted to do something else with it (such as, oh, I dunno, open a theater), so they waited until the guy left for the country during the Christmas holidays, and the actors and friends showed up, dismantled the theater, and rebuilt it in Southwark (across the river), renamed it the Globe, and gave it a paint job. :’)

“What th- where’s my theater?”

[searches street after street, finally gets to Southwark]

“You stole my theater!”

“No we didn’t. This is our theater. Yours was brown.”

If there is an attack, chances are there will be plenty of citizenry more than happy to carry out sentences before there is even a trial. I know we make fun of the Brits and Euros, but they do have a history of enacting genocide when they get pushed too far.

The French Revolution resulted in the bloodshed of thousands, the Holocaust, the pogroms, everything that ever happened to a minority that had the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And it wasn’t just the government that was doing this stuff either. If Muslims keep up their killing, butchering, raping, terrorizing, then chances are the citiznery are going to rise up and take the law into their own hands or the government will deal with it.

Considering the history of Europe, it’s likely that after various elections, there are going ot be some tough times for the Mudslimes and it’s not going to be pleasant. The French have already made their views clear throught the election of Sarkozy and the recent acts to ban the burqua, now the Brits are going to likely elect a Tory government that will start toughening up immigration and laws against the burqua and other stuff that will put the Muslims to the squeeze.

If another attack happens, the police are going to be the LEAST of the Muslim’s problems. It’ll be the citiznery that takes the battle to the streets and not only will the police be unable to stop the people, chances are the police will join right and in and merrily distribute weaponry to the people.

The Britts are going to rue the day they gave their weapons up.

The British are paying the price now for decades of being way too liberal in all their policies. All those decades of such behavior are now coming home to roost and they cannot blame anybody else but themselves. But this phenomena is not only happening in Britain but all over Europe. The Europeans are now seeing what all those years of giving in too liberalism has wrought and what it has wrought is complete and utter disaster for the European people. As an American, I suppose I should feel some kind of sorrow or pity for them but somehow I just can’t seem to work up that synpathy.

Thanks much! I know that BBC Worldservice radio commentators often claim that although the global financial collapse began with the subprime mortages in the USA, that it 'really' had its seeds in the nefarious financial creations of the City of London -- but alas, everything gets way too technical for my brain after their program introductions, except for understanding that there are LOTS of financial geniuses who perpetrated dastardly deeds who work in the CITY OF LONDON, as opposed say, to people workiqng in NYC at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.

Thanks again, AIT.

Well, there are people who like to advertise their sanctity, and from them an offer of prayer is boasting - if not bullying - and bloody irritating. But that doesn't seem to be the case here.

***Keep your eyes open folks. ***

Let me guess, look out for two White Irish men driving around in a white van...Probably Methodists.

Sarc/off

Obviously not, given that christian belief and church attendence are in decline. If your faith was determined by the faith of your parents, then that would not happen, not so?

For sure your upbringing has an affect upon you, often a decisive affect, but then we have all heard of children who rebel against their parents wishes. Its almost normal in fact :) There are any number of things that influence a person’s faith (or indeed lack of faith). Family influence and upbringing are only one factor, albeit a big one.

Christians believe that faith is a given thing anyway. Christianity is a “rescue” religion. In other words, everyone today who calls themselves a Christian was, at some time, not a Christian.

I and every one of my male buddies have at least one gun with us all the time. We are all over 60 years of age. In fact, I don't know any older 'gentlemen' who aren't 'packing.'

You're much safer when we're around.

Yes, Hennie Pennie, the CITY OF LONDON is a separate jurisidiction that one can cross into (almost like going from Rome into the Vatican city), you really do not know when you are in it, and it is almos exclusivel financial industry related. In this regard, there is no reaction in Asia yet, because it is as dead as a doornail out here right now, being 12 30 a.m. on Monday, and 10 30 p.m. in Singapore, etec ec. Give us another eight or nine years and some reaction may be forthcoming.

It would be better to change their stupid laws, train and arm the “real” British citizens and let the religion of peace practitioners understand any missteps on their part towards innocent British citizens would cause the mohammedans to cease to exist on the British Isles. Time to start deportations back to their homelands before ANYONE gets hurt, Brit or non-Brit.

Doesn't the City of London, with a capital 'C' refer specifically to the financial district located inside of London -- i.e., it is not London, it's different, its the separately incorporated very very old, olde City of London -- similar to how Wall Street is NOT either Manhattan or New York City.... but of course our Wall Street district is NOT incorporated as a separate distinct municipal entity.

Does anyone happen to know how the Asian markets are reacting to this terror warning?

We should expect to see Mumbai like attacks in this nation as well. We must keep watch. An attack is something very possible now that we have Mr. Hope & Change in office.

The UK have some of the most strict firearm restrictions. The folks there don’t even stand a chance.

Churchill & Powell told people this 50 years ago. Churchill was ignored & Powell was called a racist.

http://newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/Iran-sanctions-Housevote/2009/12/16/id/343434

that’s a cracker.

More B S from Washington in the Afghan war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: Liberal thinking and war fighting

It’s not just the enemy killing U.S. soldiers
You won’t believe new rules of engagement in Afghanistan

Posted: December 13, 2009
7:26 pm Eastern

F. Michael Maloof

WASHINGTON - New military rules of engagement ostensibly to protect Afghan civilians are putting the lives of U.S. forces in jeopardy, claim Army and Marine sources, as the Taliban learns the game plan based the rules’ imposed limits.

The rules of engagement, or ROEs, apply to all coalition forces of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Their enactment is in response to Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s complaints over mounting civilian deaths apparently occurring in firefights.

Despite the fact that the newly arrived U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, imposed the more restrictive ROEs to minimize the killing of innocent civilians, however, the Taliban is well aware of them and has its own forces acting in ways to counteract them.

The impact of new restrictions has created increasing frustration and concern among U.S. Army and Marine Corps troops who now are compelled to follow these rules despite the danger of letting the Taliban live to fight again another day.

Critics see the new ROEs being more oriented toward defensive rather than offensive operations, as evidenced by recent charges of murder against two U.S. Army snipers because they had targeted a Taliban commander who reportedly wasn’t holding a weapon.

The actual ROEs are said to be classified U.S. and NATO secrets, but based on individual soldier accounts, those restrictions include the following:

No night or surprise searches
Villagers are to be warned prior to searches
Afghan National Army, or ANA, or Afghan National Police, or ANP, must accompany U.S. units on searches
U.S. soldiers may not fire at insurgents unless they are preparing to fire first
U.S. forces cannot engage insurgents if civilians are present
Only women can search women
Troops can fire on insurgents if they catch them placing an IED but not if insurgents walk away from where the explosives are.
Often, rules of engagement require varying levels of approvals before action can be taken. In one case, villagers had tipped off U.S. forces of the presence of a Taliban commander who was threatening village elders.

To get permission to go after him, U.S. troops had to get 11 separate Afghan, U.S. and international forces’ approval to the plan. The approval, however, did not come until well into the next day. By then, the Taliban commander had moved on, to the consternation of the villagers who had provided the tip. Observers have claimed that it can take some 96 hours to acquire all the permissions to act.

In other cases, the use of force against insurgents may be blocked if they lower their guns, only to have those insurgents return later to attack.

Also, ISAF troops cannot engage insurgents if they are leaving an area where an IED has been planted. In one case, insurgents planting an IED had detected the presence of U.S. forces and immediately began leaving the area, tossing evidence of their preparations along the way. U.S. forces could not fire on them.

The ROEs in some cases have gone beyond limiting ISAF troops in their operations. In one case, ROE restrictions were in effect when four U.S. Marines twice pleaded by radio for artillery support in combat action in Kunar Province in Afghanistan - and twice they were refused, before they were killed.

F. Michael Maloof, a frequent G2B contributor, is a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

It’s a bigger danger in the UK than in India. Indian cops are armed with revolvers. British cops are armed with nightsticks. If an attack happens in the UK, I expect all British cops will henceforth be armed with either revolvers or pistols.

London and the UK has a real problem. Most of the Islamic fanatics are Pakistani in origin although there’s a large swath of Arab elements present in Al Qaeda in other groups.

So the UK has a real problem in its midst. It’s huge in comparison to the US.

“Wouldn’t want to stereotype anyone, would we?”

the Brits aren’t as bad on profiling as they are in America. I think MI5 is perfectly happy to accept that pakkers are more likely to be terrorists

Subject: Fwd: Fw: Labor Strike by Al Qaeda

> Muslim
> suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day
> strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins
> they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with
> Al Qaeda management have so far failed to produce an
> agreement.
>
> The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that
> the number of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after
> his death will be cut by 25% next January from 72 to only
> 60. The rationale for the cut was the increase in recent
> years of the number of suicide bombings and a subsequent
> shortage of virgins in the afterlife.
>
> The suicide bombers’ union, the British Organization of
> Occupational Martyrs (or B.O.O.M.) responded with a
> statement that this was unacceptable to its members and
> immediately balloted for strike action. General Secretary
> Abdullah Amir told the press, “Our members are
> literally working themselves to death in the cause of jihad.
> We don’t ask for much in return but to be treated like
> this by management is a kick in the teeth.”
>
> Mr. Amir accepted the limited availability of virgins but
> pointed out that the cutbacks were expected to be borne
> entirely by the workforce and not by management. “Last
> Christmas Abu Hamza alone was awarded an annual bonus of
> 250,000 virgins,” complains Amir. “And you can be
> sure they’ll all be pretty ones too. How can Al Qaeda
> afford that for members of the management but not 72 for the
> people who do the real work?”
>
> Speaking from the shed in the West Midlands where he
> currently resides, Al Qaeda chief executive Osama bin Laden
> explained,
>
> “We sympathise with our workers’ concerns
> but Al Qaeda is simply not in a position to meet their
> demands. They are simply not accepting the realities of
> modern-day jihad, in a competitive marketplace. Thanks to
> Western depravity, there is now a chronic shortage of
> virgins in the afterlife. It’s a straight choice between
> reducing expenditure and laying people off. I don’t like
> cutting wages but I’d hate to have to tell 3,000 of my
> staff that they won’t be able to blow themselves
> up.”
>
> He
> defended management bonuses by claiming these were necessary
> to attract good fanatical clerics. “How am I supposed
> to attract the best people if I can’t
> compete with the private sector?” asked Mr. Bin-Laden.
>
> Talks broke down this morning after management’s
> last-ditch proposal of a virgin-sharing scheme was rejected
> outright after a failure to agree on orifice allocation
> quotas. One virgin, who refused to be named, was quoted as
> saying “I’ll be buggered if I agree to anything
> like that........it’s too much of a mouthful to
> swallow”.
>
> Unless some sort of agreement is reached over the weekend,
> suicide bombers will down explosives at midday on Monday.
> Most branches are supporting the strike. Only the North
> London branch, which has a different union, is likely to
> continue working. However, even members of that branch will
> only be using waist-down explosives in order to express
> solidarity with their striking brethren.

Police expect Mumbai-style terror attack on City of London

But there's not a damn thing they can do about it. Wouldn't want to stereotype anyone, would we? Even if it costs 500 innocent lives and a few hundred billion. .Wouldn't be worth it. Oh no.

That looks like an interesting book you’ve linked to. The review are fascinating.

Officials now report an increase in “intelligence chatter” — communications captured by electronic eavesdropping agencies. One senior security adviser said the police warnings had intensified and become much more specific in the past fortnight.

“Before, there has been speculation. Now we are getting what appears to be a definite plot to carry out a firearms attack on London,” he said.

Keep your eyes open folks.

Any mother of a child that sick who refuses prayer is equally as sick. Amazing.

I hear crazy stories like this all the time from the UK.

The question is, do Brits ever do anything about the insanity, or reverse it in a single case?

"The Death of Christian Britain"

“Great” Britain is no more.

she could say a prayer, but when the mother indicated they were not believers she did not go ahead.

So it sounds like the teacher followed all the rules of ordinary politness.

And yet she is treated as if she threatened the girl for her lunch money.

How sad.

Its a sick sick country over there, put it out of its misery. We need closure.

We know what the response would’ve been if the teacher had been a Mohammadan...

A long article but the gist is here.

And so this is Chrsitmas in the UK.... time to get that great Gospel out!