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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1253862/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Falklands-tests-special-relationship.html

The Daily Mail in a lather over that most awkward of things…reality.Our dream ‘date’  has moved on and we are in a harem….not a special relationship.

Get over it .The US has been dating the Chinese and we have been lingering ( and confusing that with a special relationship….something a bit like Turkey lingering around the EU waiting to get hitched but at least  now seeing that she was never in with a chance …..and moving on)

The US did’nt ask us to contribute in Iraq..Blair insisted.We shed our blood …for a relationship…forget OBL /AQ /Saddam/WMD…the real reason for us was to keep in close to the US.At least the US had some grand strategy.We were just flirting…something of a national obession.Hence the Conservatives knew instinctively not to question the Iraq war..as they were in on the game …as is everyone it seems.Who’s the more shameless for it , Bush necons  or Blair-cons?…We are!

If we get onto a new bulletin in States…we get so chuffed…we put the news report of us into a another news report …telling us about how the US love to know about….how lovely

2 trillion $ of bonds are 2 billion love notes between China and the US.

When Obama got elected…Brown got him a pen carved from a for famous anti-slavery ship 200 years old……from the captains desk i believe…Obama gave him a DVD boxset from the supermarket.

So there probably are some personnel issues here as well.Did Obamas visit to the UK ,in his youth ,leave a bad taste in his mouth….Something happened..because he is treating us as if we are a small nation without any independent foreign policy ideas ( other than the US  ones …and therefore no need to discuss anything with ).

Obama seems a natural at treating us for being  on the rung of the food chain ladder that we really happen to be really on……and the Daily Mail is having none of  it.

Corporations as countries

East saves too much because they have no Social security nets.

We did’nt…because we have Social security.

They have too much money …we borrow it cheaply.

Spend on fluffy toys and holidays.

We leave debt for children instead of security net.

To help upright the social security net..and its funding failure and failures to come…..

we import cheap labour to reduce our costs…instead of importing money…we import people.

We are balanced.

But we can’t extend the net to the new comers…..

So ..with new biometrics able to track anyone anywhere reliably…..you can be anywhere..receiving your social net or working anywhere helping the social nets of other people.

You become geographically undefined and economically aligned with Sovereign fund .

You become a member of an economic association and not a land.

A corporation or corporation like body will run the fund effieciently.

Countries will become companies.

Our evolution continues.

The hierarchies just get more evolved with every iteration.

Will happen after the security umbrella that nuclear weapons cheaply afford Developed states extends everywhere….so no security levy tax on anyone.

( NuNu Nations  Under a Nuclear Umbrella….Can I put myself humbly forward as the NuNu Guru .)

Which won’t be needed as land will not be needed rto be protected…

the new armed services will be Lawyers.

And Fukuyama’s End of history gets filed in the bin.

Palin in a nutshell.

I remember her being called a post tortoise or something by someone in the US..asked to explain….he said she was like a tortoise on top of  a post that could’nt help itself and begged the question of what kind of fool would put it there ( McCain in that context).

I think she is a pleasant enough person…just a bit foolish to be a Politician but great for the admiring audiences of Amygdalas…..The new great democracy ..Fox , Palin …all feeding from  the energy of the Amygdala.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1967793,00.html?iid=digg_share

Palin posted on Facebook that the scene was “another punch in the gut.” This time, however, Palin’s outrage prompted not an apology but a smackdown, from Andrea Fay Friedman, a Family Guy voice actress — who actually has Down. “My parents raised me to have a sense of humor,” she said. “My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.” Ouch. Cartoon 1, Politician 0.

Do you believe that white-male conservatives are hypocrites for limiting women’s abortion rights? Why, we have Mr. McLuhan right here: Palin — a woman! — says that when she was pregnant with Trig, she had the fleeting thought that she could have an abortion but didn’t. Disagree with her foreign policy? Her son Track went to Iraq! Reject her claim that health-reform “death panels” will cull special-needs children? She’s worried about her own special-needs child! With Palin, the political is always intensely personal. She styles herself as someone who has given bodily to her beliefs, and that makes her connection with her followers visceral, a blood tie.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1967793,00.html?iid=digg_share#ixzz0gcJgia81

Great read …shame to cut and paste

Whose an Arab now?

Watching a program called  Meet the ancestors on the BBC and they examined the DNA of man from bones found from a medieval grave.He was from Syria.Not an Arab ..a  Syrian.Saying that an Englishman from way back was an Arab was probably more than the viewers can take handle.

Being an Arab is an emotive term now…as if no one wants to be one even though plenty are.Southern Italians are plenty Arab as are Sicilians  and the Maltese and other Mediterranean places ( Spain) .The jews themselves in Europe were essentially a community of Arabs

Irsael is a strange recent one…where nearly half the immigrants were Arabs and considered themselves Arabs until they got to Isreal and decided it was better to drop that part of their Jewish identity as it did’nt chime with times.

Jesus is an Arab . Christainity and Judaism and Islam have Arabs for prophets…….OK thats stretching a bit now ( a bit only..a very little bit  )…but Arab is a plastic container within which semitic people move in and out of nowadays .Egyptians moved into it , jews moved out.

Its really a language based semitism and nothing else.Because if Arabs are genetically determined..then they have a larger footprint then most people care to know.

When you hear   semites ( Isrealis ) telling other semites ( Palestinianans) that they should go and live with the semites ( Arabs )   , supported  by Aryans organised by semitic religions , explaining that  they had a semite state ( Israel ) here before ( 2000 years ago ) and thats those semites ( Palestinans ) should’nt be there , even though the semite state of the Palestinians pre-dates the semite state of Israel by a wide margin of centuries.

 Arab is an ethnicity and the Mediterranean basin should be considered their homeland  because thats where they all are..whether some  care . to admit it or not.Arabs in Marseille as as natural as the Nords on the Shetland Islands..and likewise…finding Europeans  anywhere along the Mediterranean rim is just as natural ….( Israel).

Credit card abuse

Credit rules being tweaked.

I’ve always thought it quite obscene that the credit card rules  reward wealthier clients with a   free credit service and to pay for the privilege…they raided the poorer clients with extra interest to make the whole thing profitable.Where is the ethics in that?

The Government should make sure that the service is zero funded by poorer clients and that the load on the system placed by wealthier card users should be shouldered by them alone  ( if you pay off the bill within the free credit period you essentially get a free service……but who’s paying?).I for one am never going to accept a credit card that is free .There is nothing like a free lunch in life…..but a free lunch and getting some poor student desperado to pick up the tab for me ? WHATTTT! ( the italics is WordPress ..I can’t undo it right now)

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/credit-card-rules-ding-best-customers-2010-02-17?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Alas, while the idea was to help the people in trouble, the more likely outcome is that card issuers will treat responsible borrowers and troubled ones the same by making it harder on the good guys.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/21/police-figures-unexpected-drop-crime

How does that work?

Hard times are here yet the crime stats are down!

Its down to the PlayStation 3 and xBox 360

Firstly..these household gadgets and white goods are not worth anything 2nd hand that compensates for the hassle involved in burglary.

Secondly, most young males who are potential trouble makers are busy online fighting and killing each other …….a bit like Avatar ( make believe online world death and mayhem ) that soaks up all the adrenaline.Leaving very little energy for hanging around outside in the cold boozing and fighting.

The Iranian Revolution..overplayed

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704337004575059223341853914.html

WSJ use a small time span to explain to explain forces that have been unfolding over a larger time frame….

Essentially..Arabs come in two flavours….urbane metropolitan civilsations or nomads .The West has put all its security eggs and moral support with the nomads…all the cranky conservatism that goes with it gets a free security umberella from the West ( Kuwait , Qatar , Saudi , UAE , Bahrain , Oman , and Yemen ..even though that effort failed.)

The large centres of clever , cultured mature societies that strived to get onto the democratic ladder…were trashed by the US and UK’s best efforts.So Iraq and Iran get Western approved Dictators .You can’t write out the role of the West and shoe horn the Iranian Revolution into the centre.

Heres some of the flaws in the article

Most notably, the government of Saudi Arabia, in response to both the forces unleashed in Iran in 1979 and to an uprising by Islamic radicals at the Grand Mosque in Mecca that same year, granted new power, money and freedom to the kingdom’s conservative clerical establishment.

That is the lazy version.The attack on Mecca was by the AQ precursor wacko Wahabi  Sunni sect from Saudi Arabia itself.They did’nt appear from nowhere just to mark the arrival of the Iranian Revolution.So Saudi had its AQ template already ..within its own borders..its own people.

Most people who have an interest today with the ME still believe it was Shias that perpetrated the attack.Amazing how even recent history is just plain lost .

Further abroad, the Iranian revolution led directly to the creation of the Hezbollah armed Islamic movement in Lebanon, which has become a military threat to Israel more real than that posed by any surrounding Arab state

Hezbollah came about as a reaction to the massive influxof  Isreali armour across the Lebanese border.As is par for the region , reaching for a weapon as you are being invaded-attacked-threatened is proof that you need to be invaded-attacked-threatened.Look at the threat posed by Iran…the discussion about bombing Iran is freely discussed as it were so normal …then we are shocked that they feel the need to  arm themselves ….as if that were proof itself that we were right about the threat in the first place….A typical piece of WSJ type of conundrum within a conundrum within a pea brain type of thinking.

The long Arc is a post-colonial dogs meal of a collection of borders , oil interests, cranky nomads with Western blank cheque security blankets and youthful demographics.

Concentrating on Iran is on par with the region blaming only Israel for everything…but I suppose we can leave that to the Arab versions of the WSJ

Blairs performance ar Chilcott

I  thought I’d look forward to this piece of Political theatre.Blair would be culled over 6 hours .Instead all I heard was reasonable-ness all round.Just a regular bloke trying his best to  make the world a safer place.Nearly turned off ..it was so boring.

Then he let slip that Iran was at fault ..it was the Iranians  that wot stole the peace.W O W ….Wow .!.What rot.What dangerous rot.This man has’nt had enough here.He’s making ground for an alternate universe..an alternative pantomime that is his head.. where he is a visionary …and yes..crusader.

All would have been fine and dandy had it not been for the beastly Iran -AQ connection.Breathtaking abuse  of the facts.Is he in a matrix….a special place .Was the Iraq -AQ pile of shyte lies  not enough to make  him feel embarrassed  …..NOT this bloke.

This is the most dangerous man in the world .Bush has nothing on this guy.Blair has convinced himself that the bullshit that he so helpfully  served others …is gospel..and theres more from where that came from!

Just imagine..he was so popular in the US..it would’nt been too farfetched to have seen another 911 event cause  a ‘system pertubation’ like…the US change the rules and allow a messiah like figure like Blair to comfort them and lead them onto a further battle against evil by taking on Iran as well….we missed that ‘Omen’ style scenario by a smaller margin than we think.

And the irony of being a peace envoy for the ME….breathtaking.

This is guy who has his credentials hanging around him with all the  dignity of  his pants round his ankless He thinks he  can get himself re-evaluated by history if he can take his place as the visionary who  saw that AQ was EVERYWHERE ..under your bed …everywhere …especially the two countries where they never existed before.

But I was disappointed he did’nt become the first president  of the EC ( the rise of the Roman empire which according to the Christian fundamentalists is the hand maiden to the creation of the State of Israel…the precursors to Jesus coming to earth to lead the fight against evil ( … Muslims…OH YES).Watching the messiah play out his epic vanity and in his epic role would have made for some great Freudian moments.

Shame…I’d love to see how he takes credit for the fall of the regime in Iran when it falls ( for it will and HE WILL TAKE CREDIT) ….And Blair will certainly write himself into the epic role of man who reshaped the ME and saved the world.No the sad loser..oh no…oh no.

Australian Vs Indian racism

Ok…so ..I agree that the stats definitely show that race attacks against Indians are above the average and are sure signs of racism.Therefore the Aussies should take the cartoon on the chin and accept some flak.

Indians , quite co-incidently , are also a nation of racists.They love white skins and have an elaborate caste system thatvalues the whiteness of the upper castes and separateness of the lower ‘blacker ‘ ones.

Every few years , a few thousand poeple are culled by their fellow countryman in communal riots …usually the poorer blacker  types getting shafted.

The big difference with the Australian attacks  is the class of Indian being attacked.Its the Indian middle class news media types being shocked by attacks on other middle class students.They are more likely to come from the higher whiter castes whose lives count many times more than fellow darkies from home.

Cynical……yep….that India , along with fellow BRIC country Brazil…..deeply racist colour stratified country/culture.

Funny how all the BRIC’s are racist.China could’nt quite stomach the half-black contestant for a popular talent show, Russia has it own white supremicist/nationalist that hate all blacks…and India and Brazil have their own thing going.

Some shame  on Australia….but really..its the Exxon oil slick calling the kettle black..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8480047.stm

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has suggested the state could reduce prison spending by housing undocumented inmates in Mexican jails.

In comments made during a question and answer session, he seemed to suggest the prisons would be specially built.

Mr Schwarzenegger said the costs of building and running the prisons in Mexico would be half of California’s.

The UK and other aging populations around the world will have to reduce their costs as they lose their Tax base to an aging population by siting the Elderly in other countries.

If they don’t , they will feed a spiral  within which the young leave because of the high Tax ( needed to look after the  Elderly ) and therefore increase the tax burden on those that remain.Eventually , we will have to export the tax intensive sections of society…the Elderly and the imprisoned.Welcome to Globilization.

I hope it gets all up and running by my 75th birthday ( the new retirement age in the future….).I don’t fancy being looked after by grumpy teenagers in a rainy gloomy setting.

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