Like everywhere they care about themselves and their friends.
In Terry Pratchetts' Disc World SF book series there is a continent where politicians are jailed immediately after elections as a preventive measure in order not to loose time. The Prime Minister runs his government work directly from his cell.
Gerhard
JM snipped-for-privacy@GMail.com wrote: |---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[. . .] | |[. . .] I wish CM would | |sort out his blog, as it's near impossible to find what you want." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
Did you consider downloading that entire thing and grepping through such a backup? I did so with websites without good search engines.
Politicians do not make the best websites (this is not a criticism of the contents of websites made by politicans).
|---------------------------------------------------------------------| |"To give some background to CM be resigned his post as ambassador to | |Uzbekistan when he failed to persuade his UK Foreign Office superiors| |to object to the CIA extraordinary rendition program running there, | |which entailed the CIA transporting people to the country in order to| |have them tortured and murdered - including using such barbaric | |methods as boiling them alive. Upon resigning CM became a | |whistleblower and suffered the consequeces of that action. | |Consequently, his allegations have been proven to be accurate in all | |respects." | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
I did not download those webpages concerning which I put ellipses, so I do not know who CM is above. CM above seems to be Whistleblowing Politician Craig John Murray whom I emailed on 5th February 2023.
A lawyer in a law firm which represents him is a distant relative of friends of mine.
"Our Man in Uzbekistan" in "Index on Censorship" is about Whistleblowing Politician Craig John Murray.
(S.
Theo <theom+ snipped-for-privacy@Chiark.greenEnd.org.UK> wrote: |------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Ariane has been launched for decades from Guiana which is French soil."| |------------------------------------------------------------------------|
It is not in Europe. It is in America. A republic de France may control it. Europe is a continent. (S.
"People get the government they deserve"
We do not get the government we deserve. (S.
Sweden launches sounding rockets within the Arctic Circle. (S.
A sounding rocket is nothing compared to a rocket designed to reach orbit! Not in the same league at all.
Jeroen Belleman
Jeroen Belleman snipped-for-privacy@nospam.please wrote: |-------------------------------------------------------------| |"> Sweden launches sounding rockets within the Arctic Circle.| |> (S.
Hello. Condolences on 9/11.
Someone wrote about a place, believing it to be within the Arctic Circle. So I responded about rockets which definitely are launched within the Arctic Circle. (S.
Jeroen Belleman snipped-for-privacy@nospam.please wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------| |"On 9/8/26 23:15, Cóilín Nioclásín Glostéir wrote: | |> Jeroen Belleman snipped-for-privacy@nospam.please wrote: | |> |-------------------------------------------| | |> |"[. . .] For the moment, they unite against| | |> |their foreign aggressor." | | |> |-------------------------------------------| | |> | |> Apparently not all of them. | |> (S.
They are a superset of not all of them.
|-----------------------------------------------------------| |"State your sources! | | | |Jeroen Belleman" | |-----------------------------------------------------------|
I do not own sources to prove a suspicion. Channel-4 News of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland publishes claims that man persons in Iran are scared of and not united with Iran's government.
I attempted to email a prosecuted scientist in Iran in August. I doubted that he or she is safe enough to respond. I did not get a response from her or him. I doubt that this lack of a response proves that "they unite against their foreign aggressor."
That scientist could had been murdered months ago for all I know.
I made this recording about Iranian evils before this war:
What have Americans done to deserve Donald Trump? Voting him in a second time was a serious error of judgement, and represents a defective capacity to notice when you are being lied to, but the American electorate has been lied to a lot over the years (weapons of mass destruction) and the American education system doesn't seem to train American children in the critical skills that they need if they are to be able to detect when they are being lied to.
There are 350 millions of them; if sleepy Don is only considered marginally suitable for the job, there must be shocking alternatives.
Hey, did you already get your tariff dividend? Have you plans what to do with the his next bribe present of $ 5K of your own money?
He seems like a copy of Zaphod Beeblebrox in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Wicki:
---------------------- He was briefly the President of the Galaxy (a role that involves no power whatsoever, and merely requires the incumbent to attract attention so no one wonders who is really in charge, a role for which Zaphod was perfectly suited). He is the only man to have survived the Total Perspective Vortex, though it was established (in the books and first two radio series) that he survived only because he was in an Electronically Synthesised Universe created especially for him, thus making him the most important being in that universe and thus uniquely equipped to survive its version of the Vortex. ... As a character, Zaphod is hedonistic and irresponsible, self-centered almost to the point of solipsism, and often extremely insensitive to the feelings of those around him. In the books and radio series, he is nevertheless quite charismatic which causes many characters to ignore his other flaws.
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Those willing to go to school seem to get mass murdered.
That which is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Jeroen Belleman
He's well worth it just to see all the wussy furriners quake in fear and frustration and anger. Great fun.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics
A couple of women left a bar late at night and a guy follwed them. He kept his distance and just wanted to be sure they got to their car OK.
I'm impressed at how many friendly and smart and different people (and dogs) I meet every day, all sorts of colors and sizes and sexes. The next generation, the college kids, are awesome.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics
I'm not American - Sydney is in Australia, not America.
See above.
Douglas Adams did have a lively sense of humour, but he was British, and Donald Trump clearly isn't.
Not all that many of them. It's a legal obligation to get educated, and while home schooling is an option, the parents have to do a lot work - on top of just teaching the kids - to demonstrate that the kids really are getting educated, if they don't show up at a school.
And schools aren't the only places where lunatic Americans with guns shoot lots of other people at once. It does make for tear-jerking news footage, and the American news business must have a commercial interest in sustaining the wide availability of hand guns to any psychotic who wants one.
I pity the poor europeans who have to kill people with cars and kitchen knives.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics
It's possible to do it. A car can kill a couple of people, but it's a lot easier with a gun. Kitchen knives are similarly limited - we had one nutter (a pyschotic who'd gone off his meds) running around the Bondi Junction shopping centre with a kitchen knife who killed a few people before the police shot him. The two guys with guns on Bondi Beach killed quite a few more.
Limiting access to guns does save lives, but there are other avoidable risks. Robert F Kennedy has killed more people (two) than most demented gun nuts just by lying about the risks of vaccination, but nobody is stopping him from doing it.
Of course kids dying of measles doesn't make for great new stories.
It's more incredulity than fear. Donald Trump's lunatic war on Iran has made the gasoline I buy more expensive, but the question that actually gets asked is "how could he have been so stupid?". If you enjoy being seen as contemptible morons you may be enjoying the experience.
The rest of us are wondering when he's going to get his bottom smacked.
The mid-terms are going to be the first opportunity, but the US electorate re-elected the twit in 2024 with stronger mandate than he got in 2016, so they can't be relied on to act sensibly.
There is when USA does it. They diverted Swiss F35 purchace money to patriot missiles. The president threatened Canada with an F35 kill switch.
It seems to me that a contract with USA gets you a solid maybe.
Yes, Craig Murray. His book "Murder in Samarkand" details his time in Uzbekistan.
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