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Toaster Mantis 
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 Posted: September 18 2015 at 14:15 |
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Speaking of the Syrian Refugee Crisis, a co-worker of mine just posted this documentary on her Facebook wall. Looks like just as was the case with the Taliban and IS, the United States and NATO have way more to answer for in this crisis than the popular media narrative lets on...
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: September 23 2015 at 03:52 |
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Remember of that incident with David Cameron and the pig? Looks like it's only the tip of the iceberg. Between the Jimmy Savile scandal and the Rotherham sex slavery coverup, is there any British public institution left that hasn't covered up rape for the sake of public relations?
No wonder it took so long for them to catch "the Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe... |
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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TGM: Orb
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Joined: October 21 2007 Location: n/a Status: Offline Points: 8052 |
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Posted: September 23 2015 at 04:29 |
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While I don't entirely believe the pig thing, I am curious as to why Downing Street didn't immediately and officially hammer it as categorically false. I suspect that it's probably because other matters in book - Cameron's knowledge of Ashcroft's tax affairs and so on are not things that Cameron wants to comment on. |
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Svetonio
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 00:03 |
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JJLehto
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Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
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Posted: September 26 2015 at 00:51 |
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John Boehner, Speaker of the House, has announced his resignation, not just from his position but his Congress seat entirely, mid term, due to pressure by members of his own party.
Officially it's because of Planned Parenthood, specifically that he was willing to keep PP funded to prevent another government shutdown as was being threatened, but it seems to be the culmination of frustration by the fervent anti gov members...lots of criticism about him not being tough enough on Obama and too willing to moderate...scary times that Boehner, whose been as big a road block as there can be and has presided over a gov shutdown already, has been dubbed not extreme enough.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: September 30 2015 at 04:09 |
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I kind of take it as only half of the truth... some of those prep scghool and Unis have some fairly brutal initiation processes...and going through them is supposed to create some kind of bond for later business life. Eton pupils (Cameron was one of them) are generally known to be able to get away with murder... They could destroy any establisjment/pub/hotel and the families would pay for the damages aqs long as it didn't fgo public. It seems that the Eton mentality still has something of a Feudal/medieval sprit and privilage going on today... Outrightly denying it would start the press to show them wrong... better to lay lmow profile on this issue and act as to ignore it. |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: September 30 2015 at 04:28 |
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On another subject, I'm starting to really wonder how much our democracies are actually democratic, after this Catalan thing!!
(This post is valid if the numbers expressed on Sundau evening are still valid, of course >> no time to check them) I mean, this independance issue was called a "landslide victory", but I actually think the NO votes won.... Indeed if the two separatist parties won 72 or the 132 seats up for stakes in these elections (this a comfortable majority, but not a landslide), they only gathered 48% of the votes expressed (don't get we wrong, this is already imprssive, as in Belgium, it would take 4 parties to gather that %age), meaning that the other non-separitist parties gathered the remaining 52% of them ballots... The discrepency between the seats and actual %age of votes has me wondering.   .. Just how proportional are those seats attributions??  So AFAIAC, Catalonia actually said NO to independance, because the YES votes did not get the needed 51% Just like the UK elections seemed somewhat "rigged" since the actual voting results doesn't reflect the seat attribution in Westminster parliament.... Or FTM the US' system of these electors and a state going entirely to one party - even if the state's outcome was 51/49 It seems that proportionality (or proportional representation of the people) is more and more erased from our" democracies". This is nothing new of course, but it never seemed so flagrant as today. |
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Svetonio
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Posted: September 30 2015 at 08:26 |
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-defense-official-russia-has-launched-airstrikes-in-syria/ar-AAeX7Jj  Russian military TV channel "Star" today (30.09.2015.) released "explosive" news that Syrian President Assad sought Russian military aid, which, for now, only applies to the engagement air forces. As it has already discussed the Russian Council for National Security, it's expected proposal of the President of Russian Federation on this issue. It becomes clear now that the question of the survival of the Syrian President is a matter not so much of American politics and already comply with the requirements of the US strategic partners in the wider region, particularly the Israel. Israel has received guarantees that will not be threatened by Assad's actions, at the Putin-Netanyahu meeting, a few days before the session at the UN. Saudis, as truly feudal state, whose ruling clan in the list of beneficiaries has Al Qaeda and IS, have a vital interest to see fail of no secular Arab country (Libya, Egypt , Syria, Iraq). Therefore, Saudis will either be isolated or less supported by the United States in the coming period, because by reporting US media it's clearly to see that slowly changing of Washington and London crusader-like politics on the Middle East. | ||
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