Yrs ago … learn a new language …

Draft ~ to be expanded.

Yrs ago …

It was 2001.

I was made redundant. 2001.

The interview was for a comp technician that had to travel all over UK maintaining software at retail outlets all over UK.

It transpired at the interview that the software – and the company – originated in Germany and that there was hostility between the German and UK subsidiary.

I don’t know for certain whether the UK subsidiary still exists but I doubt it.

My suggestion at interview that I should do German with the main company didn’t go down at all well. Real programmers are willing to learn new programming languages at the drop of a hat. You learn languages to understand. FM I should be thought of the day.

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US support for Israel must stop immediately

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

 

 

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A conspiracy theory is …

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.

 

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