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As a friend said: "All I can say is, Death had better be casting an awesome movie with a damn fine soundtrack..."

Roland Emmerich is rebooting the Stargate Universe

Bruce, I feel you're missing the key thrust of this. It's not a question of whether they'll be benign or not. The question is would you really, truly be perfectly happy to abandon your say in your government purely on the fuzzy promise that they'll look after you in the future. But if they don't.. you'll have given up your chance to argue with them or vote them out of office.

Uh, Dude, this is not giving up bureaucracy. This is increasing bureaucracy, this is giving up your DEMOCRATIC vote. You will have NO say in the laws. You will not get to vote for representatives who make laws. You will not get the right to vote representatives out of office who make laws you think are wrong. Once laws are made by the EU, there is NO process to have them repealed. The people who make the laws aren't voted for. So, it's pretty much giving up any sense of having a say in how the government works. Just be a good little boy, give us the taxes, let us have our money, and trust us to do good by you. Be happy that you have a safe zone.

It does seem to be having that point of "Don't worry, we promise we'll keep you economically secure and happy. You just have to stop worrying your heads about democratic voting and trust the bureaucracy to handle everything."

Hmm Whitehall fears Russian football hooligans had Kremlin links

First we had a Operation fear; Then we had a Operation petty name calling; Now we have Operation Pretending it's only the other side who has behaved appallingly. This is just the most pathetic political debate I've ever witnessed.

For the random literature related thing... Think you couldn't possibly lose your amazon publishing account, think again

I find it more irritating than anything. And while you may say its hyperbole and not to take it seriously.. That is pretty much the campaigns as they've been run for the last few months. You don't get informed decisions when EVERY side is spending more time demonising the opposition rather than having valid discussion.

This is the big problem at the moment. Hell, the last half a year it's gotten that way. The Leave side seems to be pushing the demonising of the Remain with that treason , selling us into slavery, etc etc., While the Remain is demonising the idea of Leave as racist, isolationist and the rest of it. It's becoming very much a "If you vote Leave, you're saying you're a racist. If you vote Remain, you just want to be a looked after slave."

And for the random historical note... Today (the 18th of June) marks the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. This day, in 1815 marked the final defeat of Napoleon. Who was not a short French dude.

Bloomberg - Britain's Elite ignore the masses at their peril

First pictures of American Gods for those who might not have seen... With the current casting, this does look like it could be gold. Gillian Anderson as media, Ian McShane as Mr Wednesday, Peter Stormare as Czernobog, Orlando Jones as Mr Nancy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKcPEtKu7CM

Hell, one of the previous FBI BHU directors has made the comment (after he retired) that in the US statistically there are between 30 and 50 serial killers active at any one time. But the resources to actually analyse and identify the patterns aren't there because there's too much data to actually go through. So magnify that to the level of just buying guns and psychological signs... Edit: Also, look at the numbers. The FBI employs nearly 35,000 people, including special agents and support professionals such as intelligence analysts, language specialists, scientists, and information technology specialists. The US population is.. what, roughly 323 million and some, over a landmass of a touch over 9 million square km.

And now Putin is wading in claiming that Cameron is attempting to blackmail the EU msn - Vladimir Putin states Cameron may have called referendum to blackmail Europe

WarHistory Online - He's Called The Ghost and has the same medals count as Audie Murphy