Gently Back Into the Water 823

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I had excellent news from my cardiologist yesterday.  Ready to think about other things now.  I am horrified by the continuing stream of ” royal” baby hype on television.  Truly pathetic – is this 1313 or 2013?  Who buys into this nonsense?

I thought the Lib Dem take on Trident missiles was hilarious.  This small group of islands does apparently need to retain the ability to wipe out one third of the urban population of humankind, as a defence against something undefined – possibly people we invade getting too annoyed about it – and  in order to increase our “influence” in the World.  As we plainly have less influence than the Germans, who don’t feel this need for the power of obliteration, I do not quite see how this works.  Nor do I see Pakistan, which does have nuclear weapons, as very influential.  Nor do I quite understand how our influence can be increased by possessing something  under effective American control.  But there you are.

Anyway, the Lib Dems have come to the intellectually scintillating conclusion that we do need this world shattering power, but we don’t need it on Wednesday or Thursday afternoons or on Saturday mornings, which will be cheaper.  Brilliant, and plainly does not dodge any big ethical or practical questions at all.

 

 

 

 

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  • Sofia Kibo Noh

    @Rouge. 9 01pm

    Thanks.

    Good to know Tom Sharpe enjoyed his last years.

    Surprising to find a little detail of the man in, of all places, a property supplement.

    Surounded by “…row upon row of books – and beautiful black and white photos taken by Sharpe during his days as a photographer and anti-apartheid activist in South Africa turn his office into an intimate gallery. His activism landed him in jail on more than one occasion.

    “I enjoyed being interrogated,” he laughs. The police who arrested him gave him material for the characters he ridiculed so entertainingly in his books.”

    I always thought Constable Els, Leutenant Verkramp and Inspector Flint were too good not to have been inspired by experience.

  • Fred

    “I think I’ll register. Need to find the day.”

    It looks a bit limited to me.

    Something like this would give you a far greater range of cars you could play with.

  • Flaming June

    I had to laugh at this.

    “Hasbara” courses at Israeli universities exposed in new report
    http://electronicintifada.net/content/hasbara-courses-israeli-universities-exposed-new-report/12612

    Desperation is very evident.

    Felt sick when reading this however. The 73 year old Harry Webb is scraping the barrel now.

    MEMBERS OF the audience at the Cliff Richard concert at Nokia Arena on Saturday night were so focused on the Peter Pan of Pop that they did not notice the couple canoodling in the VIP box – though some people might have wondered about the beefed-up security detail. The couple in question has been known to sneak into the movies once the lights are dimmed, and to sneak out again just before the movie ends.

    Their names are Binyamin and Sara Netanyahu, and like so many Israelis of their peer generation, they’re fans of Richard, and decided to enjoy his show after meeting him earlier in the week and receiving a personal invitation.

    They were having fun just like regular people – well, not quite. After the performance they went backstage to congratulate him, as did British Ambassador Matthew Gould and his wife, Celia.

    http://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/Grapevine-Jared-says-Like-320047

  • Hasbarista

    New Yorker Krishnamurphy to fellow 911 cleaner, “NEVER AGAIN will I imbibe cancer for Larry Silverstein, after banning cancer treatment for first responders on cost grounds, he is still claiming an extra $4 billion in further damages?!!” Its true only the Almighty can arrange for these highly cunning devils.

  • Sofia Kibo Noh

    @Villager. 9 20pm

    “Btw what do you make of Pakistan, its nukes and the ISI/Jihadist complex?”

    I’m no expert on Pakistan but I trust you have read the details provided by other posters on these threads.

    What I see of Pakistan fits the larger picture of what happens when a rogue super-state and it’s acolytes interfere with strategically important or resource rich parts of our world.

    Since the Second World War, the United States has:

    1) Attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, most of them democratically elected.
    2) Attempted to suppress a populist or national movement in 20 countries.
    3) Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.
    4) Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.
    5) Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.

    More detail from Pilger, who paints the big picture well here:
    http://www.newstatesman.com/global-issues/2012/01/pilger-obama-war-britain

  • Flaming June

    What happens next when a huge city like Detroit goes bankrupt?

    Detroit becomes largest US city to file for bankruptcy
    Detroit has lost a quarter of a million residents in the past decade
    The US city of Detroit in Michigan has become the largest American city ever to file for bankruptcy, with debts of at least $15bn (£10bn).

    State-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr asked a federal judge to place the city into bankruptcy protection.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23369573

    The population is 713,000.

  • resident dissident

    “Craig on RTE Radio 1 right now.
    A programme about Whistleblowers”

    Perhaps he might wish to talk about the Putin and the Party of Thieves and Crooks treatment of Navalny – unlike anyone else here. Or is Navalny the wrong kind of whistleblower?

  • Indigo

    Welcome back, Craig.

    Has anybody ever told you that you have a somewhat dry – though still cutting – sense of humour?

    … Cheered me up, no end, tonight.

  • A Node

    resident dissident 18 Jul, 2013 – 10:32 pm

    “Perhaps he might wish to talk about the Putin and the Party of Thieves and Crooks treatment of Navalny – unlike anyone else here. Or is Navalny the wrong kind of whistleblower?”

    Instead of telling other people what they ought to be talking about, perhaps YOU might like to talk about Navalny. Make it interesting and you might attract some responses. That’s the way it works.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Conflict

    ‘Obama’s UN pick vows push for Israeli seat on Security Council.
    Of course white women cannot speak with forked tongue…

    (Hint)”I will never apologize for America,”

    Perhaps an offering of remorse; mea culpa Samantha, may just give thousands of children in Iraq, trauma imbued orphans; in pain; blistered from ill fitting prosthetics; continually bleeding from badly treated burns; contorted; crippled; scared and mutilated – – that small spark of hope, that outstretched hand, that motherly caress that signals comfort, warmth and ease.

  • Kempe

    “Perhaps he might wish to talk about the Putin and the Party of Thieves and Crooks treatment of Navalny – unlike anyone else here. ”

    I fear you’re wasting your time RD. It would upset the anti-west weltanschauung around here to acknowledge that evil exists outside of the US/UK/Israel axis and their associated sphere of influence. This is also the country considered by Wikileaks to be an ideal refuge for Edward Snowden so consequently must be the very paragon of an open and fair society.

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    “That’s the way it works.”

    I, too am interested Resident. I know you are capable. Go out on a limb. I won’t saw it off.

  • whack that Piñata

    Panama grabbed Robert Lady, US government torturer and fugitive from Italian justice. He’s just small fry. He’ll sing like a canary and then any country that goes by the Princeton Principles can start rolling up the USG crime-against-humanity syndicate, right up to Cheney, Bush, and Obama.

    What a priceless response to US extradition demands for Snowden: Hey, sorry about Lady, but what can we do? Aut dedere aut judicare, right?

    At this point does anybody doubt that this is an international campaign of public disgrace? Next up, review by the Human Rights Committee; the Committee against Torture on deck; Pakistan’s charges of aggression in the offing… UN special procedures piggybacking on the rest. The last time the world got together like this, the spooks had to give them Nixon’s scalp.

    The deep state is prepared: their spokesmodel Barack Obama was born to be a scapegoat. They surveilled his ass and vetted him and plucked him from obscurity to take the blame for CIA cadres Cheney and Bush.

  • Ben Franklin -Machine Gun Preacher (unleaded version)

    frackin’ beyootifull…

    “PANAMA CITY—A former CIA base chief convicted in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect from an Italian street has been detained in Panama after Italy requested his arrest in one of the most notorious episodes of the U.S. program known as extraordinary rendition, Italian and Panamanian officials said Thursday.
    Robert Seldon Lady, the former CIA chief in Milan, entered Panama, crossed the border into Costa Rica and was sent back to Panama where he was detained, according to an Italian official familiar with Italy’s investigation of the rendition of Cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the case.
    A Panamanian National Police official said Lady, 59, had been detained Wednesday on the Costa Rica-Panama border. The official also spoke on condition of anonymity due to lack of authorization to discuss the matter.

    Read more: Panama holds ex-CIA station chief in rendition – The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_23685917/italy-convicted-ex-cia-chief-detained-panama#ixzz2ZRYurYPT
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  • whack that Piñata

    Someone, Watergate was CIA purging its puppet ruler,

    http://whowhatwhy.com/2012/05/07/watergate-revelations-the-coup-against-nixon-part-1-of-3/

    The genocidal bombing of Cambodia got removed from the impeachment articles but the message went out loud and clear, “Oops, won’t happen again, bad apples, don’t you know, &c &c.”

    c.f. now, the bumbling burglary of Aurelia Fedenisn’s lawyer. Congress roughs up NSA, and news reports consistently repeat that it’s ‘the administration’ being denounced. Almost as if NSA gives a shit what Obama thinks about their programs. Crash dummy Barack Obama is belted in and ready to go!

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