Finally a tobacco farm state wakes up
https://apnews.com/506ff76c61f640f492ee96174995bdfd
Of course the farms are mostly growing weed now. The big boys moved on to addicting by vape.

London is currently enjoying a peaceful holiday, because climate protesters have blocked a lot of the traffic.

So, who poured the concreteberg?

London is currently enjoying a peaceful holiday, because climate protesters have blocked a lot of the traffic.
So, who poured the concreteberg?

It's also called Fatbergs.
Made from people that still doesn't understand that you cannot throw everything in a kitchen sinker or a toilet!
Actually here we now collect grease, food disposals and any biological stuff really (except from feces that is) from our homes and companies and put that in a container that goes to biogas refinner.
Problem solved:)

But can you collect 105 tons of unused concrete? :-)

Just saw the article and thought, oh no, not again...
Well, concrete is a different matter.
If you want to plug pipes then use concrete.
So why not put it in the sewers?
Let me think for a moment... Hehe:)

Kentucky's bread and butter has been Wiskey, Tobacco, and Coal, all deadly and dying.

REPLACED by DEADLYer SUBSTANCEs and DEVICEs, with DEM/LIb/PROGRESSIVES/Socialists/ANARCHISTs/HATERs
DOING NOTHING to STOP ONSLAUGHT. LOVE of FELLOW Citizens is dA LEFTist CREED.

RUBEWorld LIVin' and DYin' dA OLD FASHIONED Way

21st Century OHs and ONE GREAT WINNING as USUAL ORANGe YAPe

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

Good Friday Agreement?
Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or Comhaontú Bhéal Feirste?
Derry: woman killed in 'terrorist' act, say Northern Ireland police
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/19/derry-woman-killed-in-terrorist-act-say-northern-ireland-police

A 29-year-old woman has died after shots were fired in Derry, with police in Northern Ireland treating the death as a “terrorist incident”.
Assistant chief constable Mark Hamilton, from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said a murder inquiry had been launched after the death in the Creggan area of the city amid unrest on Thursday evening. Petrol bombs were thrown and images from the scene show vehicles alight and others burnt out.

Are IRA back on their feet again?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/journalist-lyra-mckee-killed-derry-ireland-riots
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-47985469

Sinn Féin's vice-president Michelle O'Neill said she was "shocked and saddened at the tragic news", adding: "I unreservedly condemn those responsible for killing this young woman."
Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster called the killing "a senseless act," comparing the incident to the violence seen in the Troubles.
"Those who brought guns onto our streets in the 70s, 80s & 90s were wrong. It is equally wrong in 2019," Foster said on Twitter. "No one wants to go back."
The SDLP's Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan tweeted: "Just leaving Creggan, heartbroken and angry at the senseless loss of a young life.
"Violence only creates victims, that's all it ever has done. The thoughts and prayers of our city are with the young woman's family and friends, may she rest in peace."

The woman in question, Lyra McKee, was a journalist 'doing her job' - reporting on police raids aiming to forestall rumoured terrorist activity on Easter Monday.

According to witnesses, a person fired shots indiscriminately towards police vehicles.
The woman should have standing next to them and then been hit by an elapsed bullet.
It is unclear if she was there to report the incident.
A witness says that the woman collapsed at a police car and was driven to the hospital by the police.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-47985469

These riots makes me wonder if Brexit is now also part of the problem.
There have been many that suggest and warned that this would happen because of Brexit.

In the so-called Good Friday Agreement in 1998, Northern Ireland's various political groups, as well as the British and Irish governments, agreed on the conditions for a division of power. This means, among other things, that the border must be kept open and that the inhabitants of the north can freely choose whether they want to be Irish or British citizens or both. Northern Ireland also has the right to break out and join the Republic of Ireland if it is approved in referendums on both sides of the border.

Then there is religion of course...

In the 17th century, the English crown colonized Ireland's northernmost part, Ulster, with English and Scottish Protestants to reduce the risk of rebellion by the Catholic Irish.
Population-wise today is a shift in progress, which probably around 2020 gives a Catholic majority in Northern Ireland for the first time since the 17th century.

The complexities of Irish history, and of the relationships between Britain and Ireland, have certainly played a major part in delaying Brexit. The ramifications include:

Britain and Ireland have had a common travel zone (passport-free borders) ever since the Irish Republic became an independent state 100 years ago.
The Good Friday agreement in 1998 reinforced the openness of the land border between Norther and Southern Ireland.
After Brexit, that land border becomes the border between the UK and the EU.
Under Brexit, Britain wants to end the free movement of people between Britain and the EU.
But not with Ireland.

So we have a sort of Schrödinger's Border - indeed, some commentators have talked of Schrödinger's Brexit. We invented it, but we don't know how to fix it.

If it all goes badly, it's a very real possibility that the 'Celtic Fringes' will go their own way:

Scotland has already held one referendum on leaving the UK, but decided to remain, partly because they were promised (at the time) that the UK would remain in the EU. Scotland also voted to remain in the EU in the Brexit referendum, but will be dragged out by the English and Welsh voters for Brexit. There's a very real possibility that there will be a repeat Scottish independence referendum, and this time they'll vote to leave the UK and - I would guess - apply to join the EU as an independent state.

As you say, Northern Ireland has the right - under the Good Friday agreement - to decide in the future whether to re-unite with their southern neighbours in the Republic: the process is laid out in the agreement. The current dominant political party - the DUP - is profoundly unsympathetic to the Nationalist cause, but they are a minority of the population as a whole: only 36% of the votes in the 2017 general election. I suspect that some nominal 'unionists' might decide the unification of Ireland as a single member of the EU would be preferable to the rump British state outside it. But I don't know the numbers.

So, there are differences, disagreements, arguments and anger. And in Ireland - again for historical reasons - anger often spills over into violence. I'm sure they're connected.

Then there is religion of course...

In the 17th century, the English crown colonized Ireland's northernmost part, Ulster, with English and Scottish Protestants to reduce the risk of rebellion by the Catholic Irish.
Population-wise today is a shift in progress, which probably around 2020 gives a Catholic majority in Northern Ireland for the first time since the 17th century.

Don't forget the attitudes displayed by the (English, Protestant) landowners to their poor (Irish, Catholic) tenants during the Great Famine - and consequent exodus - in 1845-49. I've travelled in Ireland, and visited some of the famine memorials and museums. Until you read some of the contemporary local reports, you can't have a real feel for the extreme rapidity and devastation of that event.

As you say, Northern Ireland has the right - under the Good Friday agreement - to decide in the future whether to re-unite with their southern neighbours in the Republic: the process is laid out in the agreement. The current dominant political party - the DUP - is profoundly unsympathetic to the Nationalist cause, but they are a minority of the population as a whole: only 36% of the votes in the 2017 general election. I suspect that some nominal 'unionists' might decide the unification of Ireland as a single member of the EU would be preferable to the rump British state outside it. But I don't know the numbers.

That is what I find hilarious. After several hundred years being shackled by Britain, thrown off those shackles only to allow themselves to be permanently handcuffed by the EU.

So, there are differences, disagreements, arguments and anger. And in Ireland - again for historical reasons - anger often spills over into violence. I'm sure they're connected.

They are & by the same bedfellows for a few hundred years - Nationalism, Politics & Religion.

Ireland permanently handcuffed by the EU?
I would say that Ireland are among the gainers being in the EU.
Ireland is a receiver like the Baltic States, Malta and Luxemburg.
Then also with a corporate tax with 12.5%. The EU area average is 21%
Only countries like the Balkan states, Lichtenstein and Isle of Man can compete with that.
No wonder that Ireland want to stay in the EU that Britain want to exit.
Seems like Ireland like EU handcuffs.

Yes handcuffed. Why do you think that one of the crisis in the EU is "National Sovereignty"? Too many Government Ministers have been ignored/side-lined by the EC/EP. Are you forgetting that several countries actually rejected the EC/EP's interference & forced them into holding a 2nd referendum. The same occurring with Brexit.

You need to differentiate between a nation & the DF's in charge.

I hate abbreviations!
So with the help of Internet...
European Parliament, abbreviated as EP.
The European Commission, abbreviated as EC.
DF? The Dansk Folkeparti perhaps. No.
Maybe this link works.
Category:EU institutions glossary https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Category:EU_institutions_glossary
No.
So what is DF?
Sigh....
Well I got two out of three:)

And I will also have to say that english abbreviations doesn't work that often to names like Europaparlamentet and Europakommisionen. Both will be abbreviated E and E:)

Use your imagination as if I clarify, it will be a definite 1 month's unscheduled vacation. :-)

Hint: D=dumb. :-)

Perhaps I should RTFM.
D as in dumb, F as in ... . Sorry, still don't get it...
Bear with us non-english speakers in the EU:)

Got it now?