GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Keep It Simple Stupid
I bin thinkin’ (as I sometimes do) as a chief of spies (as I once was for police in Auckland), which can produce WMD out of nothing (such as my predecessors in the police did with Tuhoe).
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The American Emperor Strikes Back
The White House ceremony (it would be wrong to call it a press conference) in which the President gracelessly accepted the Iranian Government’s de-escalation of the international crisis which he, himself, had unleashed by authorising Soleimani’s assassination, was a vivid illustration of the new reality in world affairs.
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Orange Hawk Down: Trump’s speech on Iran as delusional as the way he selected the assassination
That’s right, this entire murderous extrajudicial fiasco was caused by a failed Jedi mind trick the Military establishment use to direct the President’s actions.
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A Few Thoughts On Iran Perception As The Stars Begin To Fall
As the missiles began to fall yesterday afternoon NZ time, I was struck by a few observances. Both of how much some things had changed – and, within those, how much yet disappointingly remained the same.
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“Death Is As Nothing Compared To Vindication” – On Soleimani and the Soleimani Doctrine, in 2018 and the Present
So, in response to Donald J. Trump’s .. desperate tweet from earlier this week, in which he threatened Iran with “CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. [sic]”; Major General Qassem Soleimani [a figure I have occasionally written about before, with some deserved degree of admiration] made a most interesting speech – the gist of which can probably be summed up in the following quote: “We are ready for you”.
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A Retrospective On The 2010s and 00s As Seen Through A Burning Middle East
It has been said, with some justification, that you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Where is Britain going?
After 9 years of bitter austerity, how did the Tories turn an entitled, lying clownish toff like Johnson into such…
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The modern rule of politics post Corbyn – woke social media is death and white males quite like their privilege thanks
The modern rule of politics post Corbyn that easily intimidated Journalists frightened of invoking social media lynch mobs & desperate politicians trying to win need to appreciate: If it’s popular on woke Twitter, it’s electoral death.
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Billionaires who funded Brexit have won their plutocracy – lessons from Corbyn’s implosion
God save the Queen, because tonight she can’t save the UK.
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Some Thoughts On Socialism As Jeremy Corbyn Loses The UK General Election.
WHAT BETTER DAY to assess the latest contribution from The Daily Blog’s resident Marxist than Election Day in the UK?…