Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
So nearly as many as the number of schoolgirls murdered by the US on day one.
It shows how far the media in the US has fallen that this is seen as exceptional.
Vance looks like a severed testicle that has been rolled round a barbershop floor.
An excerpt from Roger Fisher’s March 1981 article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, titled “Preventing Nuclear War”: “My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the president. If ever the president wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him, first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The president says, ‘George, I’m sorry, but tens of millions must die.’ He has to look someone in the eye and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It’s reality brought home. When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon, they said, ‘My God, that’s terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the president’s judgment. He might never push the button.’”
White House Military Office Coast Guard aide Lt. Commander Woody Lee carrying the President Emergency Satchel (aka the “Football”) while walking next to President Ronald Reagan (who had recently undergone surgery on his left hand), near the White House, January 10, 1989.
In the March 1981 issue of the @bulletinatomic.bsky.social, conflict resolution expert and Harvard Law School professor Roger Fisher described his “quite simple” idea to force US presidents to viscerally confront the lethal consequences of ordering a nuclear attack. books.google.com/books/about/...
In Kent they were looking at saving money by closing libraries and waste facilities.
I'm not saying that their core support are illiterate fly tippers, just that there may be a correlation.
Tapp would be more suited to the Tories. I'm pretty sure thats why he got selected for the Dover constituency. The previous MP was the appalling Tory (turned Labour) Natalie Elphicke who took over from her husband Charlie after he was jailed for being a sex pest.
Can we PLEASE skip the part where the UK experiments with fascism/faragism/trumpism and go straight to, say, a national Green New Deal and a huge arts revival?
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
🤣🤣
60 countries boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics in protest at Russia invading Afghanistan.
Leaving this here for no particular reason.
These people do like their made up names. 'Boris' Johnson, 'George' Osborne, Grant 'Stockheath Fox Green' Shapps....
Early Neanderthals walked into this cave, went three football fields into the earth, created 15-foot-wide bubbles of rock, lit and tended small fires upon them. Then they left.
This unique find has implications for how we underestimate many past peoples.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-look-at-...
So Cletus was fine with the open corruption, pedophilia, sexual assaults, formation of an untouchable paramilitary force, mass abductions, murder of citizens, tearing up the constitution, ignoring the law but.....
He can't afford to fill his truck.
That's what made him think Trump is a dick.
OK
I want to do this next door so badly x
A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.
Just another Monday…
A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
🏺 #MosaicMonday
Oh dear- does he realize quite how much previously friendly allies now loathe Trumps America.
The previous wars against Iraq had the media salivating about how efficient and deadly tank shells were.
It was because they used depleted uranium which is nearly twice as dense as lead.
This remains in the environment.
Birth defects spiked in areas where DU was heavily used.
War always is.
This happened a lot all round the world in the cold war. The CIA got very good at orchestrating regime change of any country that they decided was turning socialist. They normally helped to install military right wing hard men.
On December 18th, 2008, a foreign journalist threw a pair of shoes at President Bush, becoming one of the most iconic presidential moments of all time.
Myth : "There Are No Nazis Anymore"
Actuality: Another UK Nazi Terrorist stopped before a planned mass killing.
Paul Page had 600 weapons, landmines, hand grenades, other explosives ... and of course, paedophile material.
buff.ly/XLRi0aJ
Sleepy black cats.
I want to come back as a cat.
This. Every bloody word.
Agreed, but if we don't start now, there will be nothing left.
Here are some good starting points to avoid US stuff.
www.goeuropean.org
detrumpez-vous.com
buy-european.net/en
Hungary should be suspended from the EU
