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Lord Agnew has just resigned over the government’s lamentable track record on tackling Covid fraud. The same Lord Agnew who referred six firms to the VIP fast track lane for lucrative test and trace contracts. Such integrity.

Finally restored

GOLD should be soaring.
https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-price-chart.do

NATO said on Monday its members, including Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Spain, are "putting forces on standby" and deploying more ships and jets to Eastern Europe amid concerns Russia will invade Ukraine.
"NATO will continue to take all necessary measures to protect and defend all Allies, including by reinforcing the eastern part of the Alliance. We will always respond to any deterioration of our security environment, including through strengthening our collective defense," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stated.
The move comes as the United States and the United Kingdom started withdrawing their embassy staff from Kiev, citing threats of Russian military action in Ukraine.
Baha Breaking the News (BBN) / NP
https://www.teletrader.com/nato-deploys-more-forces-to-eastern-europe/news/details/57136325?internal=1

Yeah we all are suffering massive losses
GOLD was my insurance and it's let me down BIG TIME

How many (gray) inquiries does Johnson need to investigate his abhorrent, unethical and immoral behaviour?

In the name of God, go. !!!!

Touchstar (TST) guides FY(Dec) pretax up over 200%, EBITDA up over 20%, above market expectations. "Rate of growth in revenue and EBITDA will accelerate in 2022."
[SP=75.5 Cap=7m]

FTSE 100 was down 0.20% at 6:32 am CET

surfing USA
Beach boys... Brian Wilson RIP
GREAT group/songwriter

200 boxes ??

Sue Grey will interview the DOM tomorra
She has records of partygate movements from the Downing street police
Bodger days are numbered ..haha

Hoarding is the smart thing to do to avoid food inflation for several months.

Surprised this extra process happens..... RE- HSP– Hargreaves Services

"the business acquires dust from steel plants across Europe and converts it into more than 300,000 tons a year of pig iron and zinc concentrate. In the past this dust would have gone into landfill. Now it is sold to big firms for use in construction and manufacturing"

Thats a lot of dust

Ukraine's military power

Kiev has nearly 255,000 active military personnel alongside 900,000 reservists, which is a high number for a country the size of Ukraine (just over 44 million people). But Russia’s total manpower including reservists exceeds three millions, a number which is more than the US, the world’s most powerful armed force.

“Of course Ukrainians don’t want to have to fight with the Russian military. But if Russia invades, they will definitely fight,” the former US diplomat says.

“They will fight hard and effectively. They will impose serious losses on Russian forces and Putin understands that.”

Ukraine has a lot of tanks and is ranked 13th across the globe with 2,430. In terms of armored vehicles, Kiev also ranks high, occupying the seventh spot globally with 11,435. Kiev’s artillery power is also formidable at 2,040 batteries. But compared to Russia, which has the world’s largest tank repertoire, and being the third largest artillery power, it’s not much.

But Matthew Bryza, the former US ambassador to Azerbaijan, a diplomat who knows Russia and its connections with former Soviet republics like Ukraine very well, thinks that the “Ukrainian military has proven to be a very effective fighting force since 2014.”
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/amid-the-threat-of-a-russian-invasion-how-capable-is-ukraine-s-military-52442

Russia and China have signed a cooperation agreement.
What this means is unclear BUT I wouldn't believe anything they say...

Excellant BEEB Q&A KENNY...
Did you know this.......
"In 1994, Russia signed a document that became known as the Budapest Memorandum.
Among other things, it committed Moscow to respecting the independence, sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine after it got rid of its Soviet-era nuclear weapons.

But 20 years later Russia invaded Ukraine, annexing Crimea and fomenting a war in eastern Ukraine."

Isle of Wight sea eagles: 12 more birds of prey released
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58419639

Stunning remote Island of Mull a sanctuary of wildlife far away from the killing fields of grouse moors were estate gamekeepers poison meat to kill any perceived predator.

The decline in fuel duty tax will be gradual like it is with tobacco tax, so will be managed as other taxes are increased and new taxes introduced.
All in my opinion

SURPRISED !!
A complete coincidence m8....I was going through twitter and saw the "barn door tweet" and was so impressed I posted it here.
Will checkout autumn watch on Iplayer and watch it today
cheers...

Persecuted to extinction in the UK, but reintroduced from Norway during the 1970s. White Tailed Eagles are our biggest bird of prey, with a wingspan is 2.2 meters, they can weight 5kg and have a territory of 70 square kilometres.
https://twitter.com/ChrisChalkPhoto/status/1484431940606377988/photo/1