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Open Thread – Tues 29 Mar 2022
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Mad, bad and dangerous to vote for
Came across two very similar articles on the net with almost identical titles and with sentiments very close to my own. First this: “We Live in a Time of Utter Madness and We’re Ruled by Lawless Monsters”. If you would like to see who was saying what, please go to the link. And then there was…
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Lord of the Flies
Last Friday a few hundred young schoolgirls and schoolboys, all of whom should be in school, participated in a “climate strike” outside the Prime Minister’s Sydney residence, Kirribilli House. As we know, this protest about “climate change’ was yet another one of those same school strikes that have been occurring across the West since 2018.…
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A Secret Weapon in Poland?
Joe’s in Poland. A secret weapon? Did he say that any use of chemical weapons would “trigger a response in kind?” Has America stockpiles of chemical weapons at the ready? Deny it if you like, but the words of the US Commander-in-Chief count for something. Don’t they? Did he actually say to American troops in…
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“A war that stood out for its ‘notoriously incompetent international butchery’”
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. That’s from The Charge of the Light Brigade, a reminder for those of you with a…
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Meme of the Day #30
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Open Thread – Weekend 26 Mar 2022
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The “nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use”
These things do escalate. Where does this end up? Biden says U.S. would ‘respond’ to Russia if Putin uses chemical or biological weapons. US President Joe Biden says NATO would respond if Russia was to use chemical weapons in Ukraine, adding the “nature of the response would depend on the nature of the use”. Pretty open-ended.…
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Yellow journalism in the nuclear age
Since we are onto another mass-catastrophe issue in The Ukraine, we don’t want to leave Covid behind without remembering what an incoherent public policy disaster it has been. And here to assist is an excellent column by Adam Creighton in The Oz: Covid fears left behind in the wake of Ukraine. I will merely excerpt…
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Bellicosity by Proxy
Saw a reference to Zelensky being akin to Batman in the minds of western media pundits. If he were Batman, fighting who? Could be Joker, or Riddler or Penguin etc., but given Putin’s well-publicised way of dealing with opponents, I’d plump for Poison Ivy. Farfetched? You ain’t seen nothing yet. From comic-book allusions to the…