“Online misogyny set to be outlawed
Government will use new Bill to crack down on abuse of women and girls on the internet
Misogynistic abuse should be banned online, the Government believes.
Michelle Donelan, the Culture Secretary, is understood to believe the...
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The Official DOOM: Online misogyny
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DOOM: The Economy
“Businesses most pessimistic about the economy since the Great Recession
Companies face ‘nightmare’ of tax rises, soaring prices and lacklustre growth prospects
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Planetary DOOM: 2023 B(seeing)U
"Asteroid 2023 BU about to pass Earth in one of closest ever encounters
No danger, says Nasa, from delivery truck-sized asteroid that was discovered on Saturday and will pass lower than communication satellites
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Planetary DOOM: Earth
Earth’s Core Has Stopped and May Be Reversing Direction, Study Says
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyj...ion-study-says
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Overlords
Hi everyone! I just wanted to share a funny thought I had about AI. So, as we all know, AI is getting smarter and smarter every day. But here's the thing: I'm starting to think that maybe we're not the ones teaching AI...maybe AI is teaching us!
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The Official DOOM: ELE (Extinction Level Event or ☠️)
"Mites that mate on our faces at night face extinction threat
Study of tiny parasites points to gene loss from adaptation putting them on dead-end evolutionary course
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Inflation
CPI is 9.1%
Is that a B* bonus?
No wonder the unions are striking over pay.
https://www.theguardian.com/business...te-in-40-years
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DOOM: any form of rail journey over the jubilee weekend
And no doubt the lot at TfL will join in too.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ational-strike
Railway workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of national strike
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DOOM: Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern
"Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern
Cracks and fissures stoke fears of breakup that could lead to half-metre rise in global sea levels – or more
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The Official DOOM: Trainline
“Trainline shares crash as investors panic over state-owned ticketing site
George Soros among a clutch of investors to book big paper profits after betting that shares in the ticketing website would slide
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DOOM: Lambos
"Lamborghini plans to electrify entire range by 2024
Supercar maker to invest £1.3bn on building first hybrids and then all-electric model
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DOOM: 99 flakes
“Ice-cream vans hit by Cadbury flake shortage
Only the UK and Ireland are thought to have been affected by dwindling supplies as demand soars
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DOOM: Inflation
“With TV prices continuing rising, the global TV market and related supply chains will face more pressure in the second half of 2021, according to industry sources.
The increases in TV prices have been reflecting rising panel prices since June 2020, said the sources.
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DOOM: Extinction
"Extinction: Freshwater fish in 'catastrophic' decline
A report has warned of a "catastrophic" decline in freshwater fish, with nearly a third threatened by extinction.
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Catastrophic economic doom loop
A lot can change in 2 months.. especially the feeling of optimism at the Torygraph
(paywall warning)
20th June 2020 - Doom off
19th August 2020 - Doom on
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1441
New cases today - nearly 3 times since lowest point in June, but R is still less or equal 1?
Bham 5 times national average in the last week
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Hedge fund DOOM
"The world’s most popular hedge-fund strategy is no longer working.
Lansdowne Partners this week shuttered the long-short equity fund that made it famous, raising fears about the future of peers who make money by betting on winning stocks and shorting losers. Sloane Robinson also... -
stock market crash
Think we're on the way to seeing a major correction. PBC and others I'm subscribed to (not selling anything) have for the past few days suggesting / indicating we're about to see a major correction in US stock markets and then spreading. -
Black Monday refers to Monday, October 19, 1987
There's something about this that seems familiar. With the US economy reportedly slowing down and the DJ now 10 times greater than it was back then..
Something gonna to happen. Something wonderful.
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Germans told to stockpile food and water for civil defence
Germans government being over cautious? Or do they know something we don't?...
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Banking Doom
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oh dear (tm): Millions face 'retirement crisis' over pensions tax raid
"Millions of middle-class workers will face a "retirement crisis" if George Osborne pushes ahead with a multi-billion pound raid on pensions, a new analysis has found.
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oh dear: George Osborne's buy-to-let raid risks damaging UK economy
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/house-prices/12154769/George-Osbornes" George Osborne’s multi-billion-pound raid on landlords risks damaging Britain’s economic recovery, according to a committee of MPs.
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I'd rather have a bowl of coco pops
Coco bonds: what are they and why have they hit bank shares? - BBC News
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Bank of England poised to act if household debt spirals
"Bank deputy Sir Jon Cunliffe warns consumer debt remains 'large by historic standards', leaving the economy 'vulnerable to shocks'
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oh dear: Financial market turmoil could blow a hole in Osborne's budget plans
Financial market turmoil could blow a hole in Osborne's budget plans, says IFS
Chancellor's 'inflexible' budget surplus rule could come at a high cost, warns IFS, leading to big tax rises (
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Buy-to-let DOOM: investors 'to sell 500,000 properties' as confidence plummets
"Landlords will sell 500,000 properties in the next 12 months, according to new research from buy-to-let investor trade body the National Landlords Association (NLA).
It says landlord confidence is at its lowest ebb since the dark days of the banking crisis.
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Migration crisis is putting the UK at grave risk.
Migrant crisis: EU at grave risk, warns France PM Valls - BBC News
Can't we just send them all home? Start with the French.
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The pound seems rather poorly
Is it just going to drop and drop and drop? It seems a bit odd to me that with China struggling, [mostly foreign-owned] oil tanking, etc, the pound is weakening so substantially.
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Oil - How low can it go?
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10 warning signs for investors 2016
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Buy to let stamp duty surcharge and other related news
Buy-to-let homes face higher stamp duty:
Autumn Statement: Buy-to-let homes face higher stamp duty - BBC News
Good article showing the differing opinions on the BTL market:
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So who on CUK is voting Labour?
Most lot here call themselves free spirits and consider themselves intelligent.
Can all those cartoon socialists come forward and show us their crack?
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Will The Housing Market Pick Up After The Election ?
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OK, you can all start to panic now
BBC News - Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow hospital
Put up your barricades, break out your shotguns, and go and hide in the cellar with your Army surplus tinned food
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Got a sniffle?
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Ebola outbreak: Nurse infected in Spain
It's getting closer. Wonder who else she has been in contact with before the diagnoses, and who the 'contacted' have been in contact with and so on.
And our government thinks ISIS is the bigger worry...
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Another large leak at Fukushima
Linky
The bozos are about to start extracting spent rods, normally shifted around by robotic devices with millimetre precision so they don't touch. These rods are damaged, bent and about to be removed manually. By these people. That can't measure a pot and fill it with... -
Mortgage rules relaxed for contractors
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WWIII starts October 22 at 02:30 GMT
North Korea threatens 'merciless strike' against the south - Telegraph
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Credit Crunch 2.0 SP1
Bank of England plans cash injection move to ensure liquidity | Business
Basically a repeat of 2008/9 on the cards.
And Gordon Brown nowhere to be seen.
Menawhile, in Athens, they are taking the cuts to benefits in a typically Greek way.
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ConDems will solve the deficit
Public finances disappoint at start of fiscal year | Reuters
Britain's public finances made a disappointing start to the fiscal year as weaker tax receipts and higher spending led to the worst borrowing tally for a month of April on record.
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Rapture has commenced...
If the 18:00 local time prognostication is correct, the people of Kiritimati, Christmas Island and Kiribati should have been the first to be enraptured (or cast into the pit, or whatever) a few minutes ago.
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What will I do with my last 56 minutes ?
It all ends soon - apparently.
The missus has gone to bed.
I'll probably just crack one off then and fall asleep.
Bye Bye. Nice knowing you all.
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Have you made peace with god (or the Mods depending on your faith)
Start of the Raptures tomorrow, so you got 5 months to make your peace or join the legions who have licked the Chutney Spoon
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Daily Doom
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Next year 10,000 Britons are going to die.....
...due to global warming.
Health effects of climate change in the UK : Department of Health - Publications
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