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Post by auntieannie on Mar 10, 2019 21:57:13 GMT 2
and on another subject altogether, its 60 years today since the Tibetans lost their country.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 11, 2019 2:29:19 GMT 2
annie,
i know
& those camps for muslims in china are reprehensible, but no one wants to give up cheap chinese goods
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 11, 2019 12:53:13 GMT 2
auntieannie
Pioneering as in beating a path for others to follow.
I think the better choices, in terms of security, are to bring them back or kill them. So I guess it is bringing them back.
There are a lot of ex-jihadist/mujahideen at large in non-Islamic majority countries , some dating from as far back as the USSR's occupation of Afghanistan, I don't hear much about them. They don't seem to go around blowing stuff up, but I dare say that some are practising terrorism.
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 11, 2019 12:58:45 GMT 2
It seems that we have such a nostalgia for the Soviet style leadership of the post Khrushchev era that we are reviving it.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 11, 2019 17:13:14 GMT 2
slow
do you mean the cults of personality, too?
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 11, 2019 18:06:01 GMT 2
Quick Jibe: Nobody ever accused UK PM May of having a personality.
More seriously, you have a very good point, but the personality is mythic: an imagined solidified nationhood.
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 12, 2019 17:58:52 GMT 2
The UK government is busy stripping "jihadi brides" of their UK citizenship on the basis that they are, well, how to put this, FOREIGN!
E.G. Have Bangladeshi parents.
It has been pointed out that such a practice is clearly racist as were that person UK born with UK parents and grandparents there is no way they could be stripped of their UK citizenship no matter what terrorist atrocities they had committed.
Some UK citizenships are it seems more equal than others.
N.B.
Oddly, UK citizens in Northern Ireland could I suppose be stripped of their UK citizenship on the basis that they are entitled to Irish citizenship.
While we are on this subject: the requirement placed by the UK government on landlords to ensure that tenants are legally entitled to residency, (failure to comply could result in a lengthy term in gaol for the landlrd), has been struck down in Court as being a racist policy.
This was part of PM May's (then Home Secretary) "hostile environment" policy, designed to encourage foreigners to go home.
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Post by Baz Faz on Mar 13, 2019 11:01:47 GMT 2
The Brexit tumbril rolls along. The government's Brexit plan was defeated in parliament yesterday. Today there will be a vote on that carcrash that is having no deal at all. Bizarrely there is no option to put to parliament to have Britain stay in the EU. Nor to have another referendum.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 13, 2019 16:40:36 GMT 2
oh baz,
quite the mess
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 13, 2019 18:04:06 GMT 2
If it weren't for that crap, i'd be happily living in the UK.
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 14, 2019 13:02:55 GMT 2
PM May votes down her own motion (aka turd) !!!!
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Post by Voy on Mar 14, 2019 15:26:32 GMT 2
That suggests Mrs. May might make one more effort to get her unpopular plan through Parliament, threatening hard-line Brexit supporters that, if it fails, she will seek a long delay that could, potentially, mean Brexit never happening. Quote from today's NYT...  |
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Post by Netsuke on Mar 14, 2019 22:14:49 GMT 2
The European Court of Justice has ruled the UK can cancel Brexit any time and does not need permission.
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 16, 2019 13:52:04 GMT 2
There is a word for it: Hypocracy
Sometimes it is nice to know that a thought is not original.
In this case a sniglet courtesy of Dr. Margie Sved: Hypocracy (hi-pock-ruh-see) A political system controlled by hypocrites.
That could just as easily be "by poseurs, pretenders, actors, or fakers", and be etymologically within bounds.
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 16, 2019 13:54:58 GMT 2
The European Court of Justice has ruled the UK can cancel Brexit any time and does not need permission.
But nobody would dare. Instant political death.
On second thoughts: The government is a millennial death-cult, so perhaps ...
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Post by Baz Faz on Mar 17, 2019 0:19:16 GMT 2
Farage (whom Trump instructed the British government should be the UK ambassador in Washington) is starting a 200 mile march to London to protest that Brexit is not steaming ahead as he would like. He is, of course, not personally going to march the whole way. Or even most of it. He rants that Brexit is being denied by the "elite" in parliament. And yet... the two most prominent Brexit MPs are William Rees-Mogg (father a former editor of the Times, a career in investment banking) and Boris Johnson (Eton school and Oxford). Farage is an ignorant hypocrite. He rants against the EU while happily drawing his salary as a Member of the European Parliament.
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 17, 2019 22:17:03 GMT 2
I agree with what you write, Baz. I don't like it.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 1, 2019 19:36:11 GMT 2
i worry about hong kong
loved seeing the demos in london
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 1, 2019 21:14:57 GMT 2
Yes, democracy is being attacked everywhere these days. It is very worrying.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 1, 2019 22:40:01 GMT 2
as the amazon burns
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Post by slowcoach on Sept 6, 2019 22:35:13 GMT 2
Sadly that be the wrong Amazon.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 6, 2019 23:00:48 GMT 2
bezos is scum
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Post by Netsuke on Sept 7, 2019 0:26:47 GMT 2
A pox on communist houses!
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Post by tzarine on Oct 5, 2019 5:51:43 GMT 2
between bojo & the trumpster, i can just shake my head
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Post by Voy on Oct 5, 2019 14:35:11 GMT 2
and aint that the truth -- sheeeut
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 6, 2019 10:37:50 GMT 2
Why are politicians like a bunch of bananas?
Because they start out green and quickly turn yellow.
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 6, 2019 11:35:31 GMT 2
In Britain the public does not vote for a prime minister but to elect members of parliament. A prime minister is appointed who can command a majority in parliament. Conversely if he cannot win a majority of members of parliament he cannot be prime minister. Today there is a report that Johnson might refuse to resign if he is defeated in parliament. That is the attitude of a dictator. Two possibilities loom. If Johnson tried to press ahead with Brexit without a deal (illegal) he could be prosecuted and sent to jail. The second possibility is that the Queen could send for him and sack him. This is without precedent in modern times (it last happened in 1834, I think) because the Queen or King is meant to be above politics.
This is the chaos caused by politicians pursuing Brexit which was only voted for by 37% of the electorate.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 6, 2019 16:17:10 GMT 2
i'm cheered by the spirit of hong kong
people of all ages w their umbrellas
i fear the police brutality
meanwhile @ home, it's more antics of the trumpster
& impeachment
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 6, 2019 18:24:44 GMT 2
as ambrose bierce succinctly put it: a statesman is a dead politician...
he then went on to define 'politician' (in the 1880s)as "An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared.
When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive."
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Post by tzarine on Oct 9, 2019 1:03:11 GMT 2
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