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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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There is a new book out on the death of David Kelly, this will be of interest to those who enjoy learning of conspiracies and those who enjoy exposing conspiracy theorists alike. Ie all of those who enjoy shoehorning events into their belief system, and ascribing false motives, eg psychiatric illness, lust for power, making a financial killing, ...(and that is just the tactics of those who consider themselves as evidence based skeptics exposing the conspiracy theorists)...to others with whom they disagree.....
Such is the power of fuzzy narrative to shape views, and create ill will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ydXdwCJv0
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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I have listened. The author seems a) monumentally boring b) to have nothing new to say and c) completely lacking in judgement. I hope it wasn't you!
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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So we now have the Muslim Sadiq Khan in charge of the Metropolitan Police and the Muslim Sajit Javed in charge of MI5. I may have to switch my support to the Leninist Corbynistas.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Or mount a coup myself.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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This is ridiculous, if border patrol does its job they get criticised if they don't do their job they get criticised.
This is a story simply because she is pretty and so it's a good photo.
She got exactly what she deserved, 2 weeks in detention, and became a minor celebrity. Pretty good from her perspective.
On the Trump side, can anyone explain why it is that Cedella was detained....yet her much older sister, who was smarter and took her sixteen year old son with her out jogging across the border, was not?
The older French sister and the son are now living in the US (as they never showed for their immigration hearing). Put upon Grandmama is now looking after the sister's younger three children. Still she and they will still be better off as Cedilla's sister will send them money back. But the family parodoxically is still split.
It is increased migration, made easier by smart phones, that in the main splits families, not govt policy.
Incentivising people to take children, with them across borders actually harms children cf boat sinkings.......
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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The photo-op principle bedevils the whole immigration debate. The overwhelming demographic of illegal migrants is young, male and black. Or brown or Muslim or slanty-eyed or whatever it is that is currently upsetting the host nation. If they weren't they'd be waived through as students or tourists or patrials or skilled workers or whatever it is that is not currently upsetting the host nation. But, but ... this cannot be portrayed in, yes, the liberal meedja.
"We want a mother, we want two doe-eyed kids, we want a back story involving brutality from one of the usual suspects, we want a journey of incredible hardship. We don't want a Nigerian chancer who paid five grand to his local people smuggler. Unless there are five hundred Nigerian chancers and they're swimming around in the Med. That we can use. Especially if the Eyties and Maltesers are refusing them entry. Unfeeling bastards." |
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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The other thing that baffles me is that illegal migrants are never treated as illegal. The classic example is the tradition of Mexicans being rounded up on one side of the border and driven across to the other side so they can have another go. Normally, states punish people in order to discourage actions they're trying to stop -- and vary the punishment to achieve this end. But migrants are deemed not to be criminals and therefore cannot be punished at all. Except being disallowed entry of course and even this is increasingly waived.
Again normally, the moral culpability of the miscreants is not a major factor. It is the stop-them-doing-it that is the major factor. It is true that six months in chokey after risking life, limb and a bucketload of cash is not going to be a huge deterrent, but it is surely correct (presupposing that you want to stop them trying in the first place) to at least up the ante. After all, how are illegal economic migrants different from any group of poor people trying to rip off rich people? We are not normally so squeamish, and by 'we' I mean people living in rich countries and, no, I am not saying that economic migrants necessarily rip us off, but the state is sure as hell trying to limit them, presumably on our behalf. What interests me is that the usual policy is not being followed and it not being followed is subject to universal careful ignoral.
Speaking of myself I ought to declare an interest. As a near recluse living in a rich and already cosmopolitan neighbourhood I couldn't care less how many are let in except that the more they do let in the cheaper and quicker I get everything I want. I haven't got a job affected by cheap labour (I wish!), I don't pay sufficient taxes to pay for the increased services, I don't support a political party that might get rewarded or punished for its immigrant policy. Like every human being who ever lived I hate, fear and despise foreigners. Don't let there be any mistake about that. It's just I don't mind them.
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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Mick Harper wrote: | As a near recluse living in a rich and already cosmopolitan neighbourhood I couldn't care less how many are let in except that the more they do let in the cheaper and quicker I get everything I want. |
I'm shocked, shocked! to find that illegal immigration is being encouraged here, by you of all people.
How many do you want? And where do you want them shipped to?
Channel Ports are too damn obvious and risky. If you wanted them shipped "FOB Notting Hill", it would cost extra. Using the SS Boreades is out of the question, that's already exclusively reserved for M'Lady Boreades personal transport. Or shipping legal goodies. In any case she can't get any closer to you than Chelsea Harbour, and M'Lady Boreades isn't a Chelsea supporter.
The best I can think of at the moment is to ship a container-load to Ryde, and put them on the tube train at the Pier Head.
When they get off the Central Line tube near you, they may well be hot, sweaty, dirty and thoroughly miserable. But I'm told that's normal for the Central Line, so they will be indistinguishable from all the other hot, sweaty, dirty and thoroughly miserable sheeple that travel cattle-class that way day-in and day-out.
I'm assuming you can arrange the documentation? What with you being an expert on forged charters etc? Just don't try and make them work in McDonald's. That a blatant breach of their Human Rights.
M'Lady Boreades refuses to use modes of transport like a tube train until they have a First Class air-conditioned section.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Yesterday's terrorist incident in Westminster -- lone nutter drives into concrete bollard and injures a few people -- illustrates an important AE principle: for every action there is a completely unequal reaction. It got the full kitchen sink: twenty minutes of OB Guru-Murthy before 'back to John Snow for the rest of the day's news'. In case any of you terrorists are watching and want a good chunk of prime time this is how to do it.
The rest of the day's news included the next illustration of the principle. Ten minutes of American OB from a Washington park breathlessly congratulating several thousands anti-racists for standing tall in the face of a few dozen racists. It was always said the American Communist Party was only kept afloat by the subs from FBI infiltrators but nowadays it is only the eternal vigilance of the left that is keeping the far right going. Remember, Klansmen, ring CNN first.
Then to close the show they gave us the third example. A year ago nobody in Britain had ever thought about anti-semitism. That will never do! Let's plaster the airwaves with it because Oh Jeremy Corbyn once said something nice about a mural in East London which looked at in a certain light could conceivably.... This time he had put some flowers on the wrong grave or something. Anyway, I can report Britain is once more alive with the sounds of anti-semitism. If any of you Cossacks are listening.
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Ring ring
"Mick, can I crash at your place?"
"Of course. What's the occasion?"
"The Nurses Against Nazis demo."
"Then certainly not."
"Why not?"
"Well, if there are a lot of Nazis you might get injured and your mother will have a right go at me. If there are only a few Nazis you'll be giving them the oxygen of publicity."
Ring ring.
"Mick, can I crash at your place?"
"Of course. What's the occasion?"
"I want to get a new dress at Harvey Nicks."
"Didn't you ring before?"
"My sister."
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Wile E. Coyote
In: Arizona
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Advice for Catalonian politicians rappers, artists, puppeteers and err folks that wear yellow ribbons.... when you flee Spain come to the UK, and stick your self in an embassy, but not the Ecuadorian one as there is a self important dick already there.
Advice for Spanish politicians and europhiles. Most rappers are dicks, but once you start imprisoning people because of lyrics, then you will soon be jailing women for short skirts.
There is no sign of release for the 9, despite the socialists being in power. It turns out that idiocy is not the sole prerogative of the "fascist" right.
ps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43407694
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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Yes, as I keep pointing out, the Spanish are doing all the wrong things. Imagine how quickly the Scots would agree among themselves for independence if London started being nasty as opposed to being infinitely forbearing. If only we'd done that in Northern Ireland back in the sixties when (briefly) both sides loved us.
Since you mention it, I was always puzzled about one aspect of the Lasagne situation. After a bit, the Met Police announced that 'guarding' Julian had cost them two million pounds. Why? We wanted him 'to escape', didn't we? As the most famously recognisable face in the world (after Kim Kardashian) he had nowhere to go so whatever happened he would be someone else's problem. Clearly, someone somewhere wanted him holed up safely in the Ecuadorian Embassy. I demand explanations. Preferably non-conspiratorial ones. No, on second thoughts, let's start with the conspiratorial ones.
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Boreades
In: finity and beyond
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Paging Admiral Harpo, will Admiral Harpo please report to reception.
Harpo, old chap, can you nip onto the Circle Line round to The Admiralty and ask your matelots WTF is going on?
The good ship SS Boreades has just been on extended martime duties and had to venture up the Tamar past Devonport. We were shocked (shocked I tell you) to find not even one attack-class vessel in port. That included both surface and sub-surface fleets. I've not seen anything like it in 20 years.
We are left with the following possibilities (at least)
1) HM Navy has broken with decades (if not centuries) of tradition. Not a single vessel is in need of expensive time in port for refits and refurbishment.
2) They are all on holiday. Or sold. Or scrapped.
3) Summat's afoot, perhaps NATO, not reported by Al Beeb.
By the way, M'Lady Boreades was a trifle annoyed that the progress of her flagship down the Tamar was impeded by a member of the Einsatzgruppenversorger class of vessels. A1413 to be exact, just coming into port. Different times when the biggest ship in one of HM Navy's dockyards is one of the biggest ships of the German Navy. Perhaps Harpo's dear old uncle was on board?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin-class_replenishment_ship
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Mick Harper
Site Admin
In: London
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I was just about to delete Einsatzgruppenversorger on grounds of taste when I discovered it was an actual ship type. So I have learned something today -- Germans do not use their language as the Anglo-Saxons do. Whether this is significant or not is another matter.
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