jamesbottomley.bsky.social
UK-based older project consultant guy with history in both public and private sectors. Enjoys chatting about politics, society, culture, etc. Spent time in many countries, including working in the US, so moderately familiar with other lands.
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Can you give us the gist Mehdi? Lots of us are careful not to support the NYT with actual money.
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Trump is such a great opportunity moment for thick redneck local cops all over the country to swagger their stuff.
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It exposed for all to see that the Trump circles regard members of the US legislature as nothing more than a minor irritant on their road to dictatorship.
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£ to a p this will have been lifted from a lobbyist PR release. BBC newsroom is famous for being extra credulous to the lobbyists, especially if they also happen to be right wing.
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It's increasingly looking like we mostly need to give up eating fish, which is not a good thing, perhaps inevitable though given population sizes. Factory farming is almost as bad as strip mining the oceans in its environmental and species damage. There isn't an alternative.
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ROFL. The Eye nails it as usual.
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Those that do leave invariably come back. Life in London, it turns out, is a lot more pleasant and enjoyable than in the cultural deserts of Dubai, Monaco and the Grand Caymans.
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I've lost track of the number of times the media reported a mass exodus of millionaires and billionaires. IT NEVER HAPPENS.
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Permanent war does benefit all the usual suspects, like arms manufacturers and related security industries. There's too much money at stake for US corporations to easily give up on the Bibi. He is their friend and they are his.
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Either that or it's just another evidence of continuation of business as usual under a wrapper of public rhetoric. They sent their arms sales envoy to Tel Aviv on the same day that the Fore-sec came out against the IDF and they continue to run spy flights for Israel.
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The Senate needs to issue arrest warrants for Noem and the agents involved.
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A statement worthy of Heinrich Himmler and Saddam Hussein.
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It's the Military Cooperation Agreement (2020) that the UK signed with Israel. Routine stuff from the MoD's perspective. Horrific to the rest of us.
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It's the classic battle against tyranny now.
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The clip reminds one strongly of videos from Iran, Saddam's Iraq, China, etc. Total indifference by the state to their own laws and norms, fanatical suppression of free speech.
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There is now clearly a strong case for this.
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So clear from her behavior and that of those federal agents who assaulted him that his skin colour and accent were the driving factor. They didn't see a Senator, they saw an angry Mexican.
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To look at it another way, it's approximately 2 minutes of Elon's annual paycheck.
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It's getting ever clearer that this is a do or die showdown with tyranny.
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It's just a re-announcement, nothing new here.
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A difficult project when there is no story beyond wearisome platitudes and a lukewarm rehash of late Blairism.
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Clearly Palestinians were not considered part of 'human dignity' when he initially greenlighted them being denied water and food.
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Oh dear. Someone's loaded the Musk repair module into Grok again.
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The fact that you could never nuke a city without cheating must have had some effect on you.
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As usual, Cameron will be on the wrong side of history on this one.
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Sigh, yes, you're right of course. He only poses as a chap on the side of the working man.
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Although having BBC output defined by Farage and his cronies would probably make a change from having it controlled by the IEA as it presently is.
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It's a good and accurate article. That old adage about generals always fighting the last war - in this case, Labour is still fighting 1997, but without the charisma of Blair and the skilful manipulative scheming of Mandelson and Campbell. Starmer isn't even a politician, he's a middle manager.
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Some proposed changes:
Race Across the World - becomes Racists Across the World
Death Valley - now Death Camp Valley
Have I Got News for You - Has Nigel Got Time to Screw You
Walking with Dinosaurs - Zimmering with Reform Members
I Kissed a Boy - I kissed a Fascist Boy
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I remember things like this being announced in the Blair/Brown era - they didn't develop into much and were usually motivated by contractor graft, which very probably lies behind the current announcement - there's a fat contract there.
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Yeah, in the end it's not really about cost, it's about kowtowing to the Blackrocks of this world, but also ministers don't want to be in the direct firing line for the protests about broken rivers and polluted seas. Keeping key services arms length was a major privatisation motive.
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US police have been at training courses run by the IDF and this is straight out of the Israeli playbook, shooting reporters.
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Maybe this cop was one of the ones trained by Israeli security forces? Shooting reporters is pretty standard stuff for them.
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Not really any different now to Peron's Argentina, Gaddafi's Libya or Kim's North Korea.
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He's changed his tune.
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Funny thing is though, if the BBC and other media focus too much on stories away from Oxbridge people, it starts to feel like they aren't covering the news properly, or making the right dramas.
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He's a member of the upper classes of England. He gets paid £1m a year for his ranting and posturing. He owns property all over the place, particularly in EU countries. He doesn't even really drink the beer he's always getting himself pictured drinking, he prefers fine clarets and expensive wines.
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There'd be the usual rants in the Mail and the Telegraph about the rich departing in droves, but the funny thing is, they generally either don't leave, or come back. It's basically a lot nicer in England and London than it is in Monaco or Dubai. Money isn't worth having if the society is in a mess.
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Have you tried countering with AC/DC's 'Hell's Bells'?
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Hopefully it will bring down crypto as well when it crashes.