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Month: July 2014

  • US support for Israel must stop immediately

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    The US cannot support such a genocide. US must stop supporting Israel now.

    ed: UK [sorry US] support for Israel is huge – billions of dollars. OK I’m researching it: military, money …

    18.15 edit: I got these graphs from Why Israel and other foreign militaries — not the global poor — get the biggest US aid packages. It’s not the whole story because Israel will get aid other than foreign aid.

    US foreign aid to Israel 2015

     

    US foreign aid per capita

     

    per capita gdp

     

    5/8/14: $3.1 billion military aid budget from US to Israel

     

     

  • A conspiracy theory is …

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    A suspicion that a group has conspired to arranged something …

    Is that so difficult to accept?

    Don’t political parties conspire to promote something to their best advantage? (spin)

    Why shouldn’t other groups conspire to promote things or events to their best advantage?

    Don’t they have reasons to do so?

    Conspiracy theories

    29.7.14 I like ‘conspiracy theories’. Tone doesn’t.

     

  • Coming soon :: Comment on the penumbra

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    26/7/14 DRAFT subject to many revisions

    OK, this is taking longer than expected.

    It seems very sensible that those intending to influence government are not terrrists

    because

    that is the [ed: very] basis of representative democracy i.e. that elected representatives represent their electors. You cannot be a terrrist on the basis of intending to influence government because that is exactly what active citizens do and are expected to do. That is recognised as completely legitimate action.

    penumbra is used as a legal term.

    TBC

    ed:

    UK definition of terrorism ‘could catch political journalists and bloggers’

     

  • Coming soon :: Call me Al ed :: Let’s call him Al

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    ed: Alexandr

    ed: Looks like you’re having it now instead of coming soon …

    Alexandr Litvenienko. Poisoned by Polonium-210. That’s the way it was reported back then. It’s getting reported now that he was poisoned by Polonium …

    Alexandr, Alexander. Litvinienko, Litvinenko. The point is that his name is Russian (Russki) – like other foreign languages and alphabets it can’t readily be translated into the English (Latin?) alphabet.

    I have been reliably informed that Russki nicknames are often far longer than their original names which seems a lot weird. Anyway let’s call him Al.

    ed: the wider meaning of al

  • KLF (and Death Bang Party)

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    Is Old, but eternal

     

    ed: There’s been a really good thunder storm here && I’ve been searching for heavy thunder storm music. Heavy bands could do more with thunder, Er ..

    One day my prince will come. Like all of us, I missed mine. He was wonderful and I was prejudged …

    Anyway …