Have We Become too Damn Political for Our Own Good? Have We Forgotten the Human Element that Unites Us? Hey ChatGPT, Still There?? The nice, convenient and simplistic blame game starts again where politicians – and more importantly non political actors mixed with a bunch of criminals – seek to […]
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Can you feel the “Vibes”? Maybe you’ve just had too much to drink! When It Comes to Cheerleading the ICC the EU Takes a “Superficial” Stand But When It Comes to Meaningful Support for the ICC’s Mission/Efforts Its Another Story Altogether (so no EU credits for the cheers, soundbites and […]
Read More Forget the Economy/Trade, Technology and the Environment we may end up getting busy just putting out internal and external fires
Read More A very interesting interview about protests as a strategy for forcing change and the evolution of this strategy through the years. It covers the challenges involved in the current landscape of political power (though they may have missed a key element of foreign lobby groups coupled with increasing level of […]
Read More As disgusting and shameful are scenes of rampage during demonstrations throughout France in the last few days there needs to be a clear distinction between those demonstrating peacefully and the gangs that infiltrated these demonstrations (which seem quite deliberate/organized). So politicians need to be careful about painting all with […]
Read More No, No Evils for Me Thanks you very much Let’s First Sort the Mess
Read More First time to know about South Tyrol (Südtirol) German ethic majority and how under the Fascist period Bolzano was reversed to be predominantly of Italian majority. As for this clip, I agree on most points made by Jeffrey Sachs except the point about Russian occupation of Ukraine under any pretence, […]
Read More A Truly Brilliant Speech – A Must Watch (about a lot more that what the title suggests)
Read More An URGENT Global Challenge that Super Charges Many Other Global Challenges that all Fall Under the Protective Shield Called “The Status Quo” The far right in Europe understood the gig so they adjusted leadership profiles to become (authoritarianism with a different complexion)…. (and that part is a personal opinion).
Read More Right off the bat let me begin by emphasizing how inspiring it is watching the leading opposition figure in Germany and one aspiring to lead the next German government repeating talking points of Donald Trump word for word about Zelensky not being the right person and the need for elections […]
Read More Now and Then (look for more on Youtube) It’s truly amazing how the west seems to have gone full circle in terms of promoting isolationist policies the likes that we’ve seen pre-WWII. Isolationist policies that had they been successful Europe would be an utterly different place than what we see […]
Read More Quite an interesting interview, just wish that new NATO posture was followed a few years ago even before the Ukraine conflict began, maybe we wouldn’t have been in this mess. The real (abc) questions though are; a) what is NATO (-) the US of A, and where is the European […]
Read More Congrats to Navi Pilay for this award – more like a nice gesture – for her serious work in defending human rights – I just wish it was a joint award with Francesca Albanese who paid and continues to pay a personally price for exposing/continuing to expose genocide and human […]
Read More The question now would be whether that counts as indication of how this term has come to represent a political pressure point to be used conveniently by Israel rather than the intended cause – precious cause – of defending all forms of religious hate/bigotry and human atrocities committed around the […]
Read More Brilliant Speech! Fundamentals of rules based order have always been clear to everyone, so is the need for UN reform; the problem is allowing powerful states to dictate and distort them at will for reasons of self interest. This problem did not start today but the consequences are merely more […]
Read More The feeling one gets watching the reports on these UN meetings and speeches is that instead of nations facing up to the trump administration and taking meaningful action, the same pattern continues of tiptoeing around trump with meaningless statements of “concept” and “intent” that achieve previous little. So called leaders […]
Read More Here is another question; are they discussing symptoms or the underlying disease? Remember symptoms are likely to vary and develop in different directions and if you focus primarily on them you might as well give up predictions and deal with them as they come if you believe this is sustainable. […]
Read More Danish government runs off to celebrate a deal where both sides frame in quite different terms (just for starters). Any negotiations that touch on matters of sovereignty should NOT be had in the first place and if it was indeed a matter of NATO interests being discussed NATO members should […]
Read More In response to a question about her views on opening up to negotiations with Russia, she actually seems to argue publicly the reverse logic; why should Russia want to talk with us, and not even once attempting to make a point about any form a leverage the EU has in […]
Read More A story that tells you all you need to know. No sorry – I stand corrected – it “emphasizes” what you already know about a conflict that is now shackling the west into submission; not only leaders but more and more its citizens that do not have same level of […]
Read More Devolution can be the answer but cleverly navigating this issue can help settle this question for good while the numbers supporting independence are still low but not by being/seeming overly confident. On the other hand I believe – as was the case in the Catalunya independence movement in – that […]
Read More It seems to me that Germany may be using Palestinians as human shields as a psychological block pushing it to do all to help cover the guilt of its disgusting genocide committed during WWII – covering genocide by complicity in another genocide, now how clever is that? Maybe Germany’s demilitarisation […]
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Talking about jewish friends or the threat of antisemitism I have no issue with whatsoever, but in this context it promotes the false talking point that this is a conflict of religions which it most definitely is not. For people who want to make comments or wish to engage on […]
Read More Wake up calls are sometimes more important than an event in itself cause it allows us to recognise realities we’ve been living in for far too long; the ride on complacency train through fantasy land. In my opinion and at this precise time in history middle ground politics is no […]
Read More Security/Defence, Migration Control, Ukraine/Russia Conundrum; These are the focus points for Europe. Not foreign policy, resolving foreign conflicts, protecting international law or attempting to help shape a new world order. To the contrary, the strategy is quite simple; build a huge wall, reinforce your security and all will be well. […]
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Read More This threat is not news and yet we see little in the way of assessing/mitigating the risks by governments. They seem to be distracted by the benefits/fascinated by the opportunities and are spending much less time in understanding/preparing for the risks in the fast/haphazard way the technology is being implemented […]
Read More Two points; The approach of banning trade on settlements is one that’s been tried and tested and already failed miserably as we can clearly see. If the Israeli government itself is promoting the development/expansion of illegal settlements and promoting despicable attitudes towards Palestinian – the real owners of the land […]
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It’s more of an approach/philosophy of life not based on theory but rather on where we are in this day-and-age and how we’re all becoming more obsessed with consuming goods and associating that with quality of life. This also made us more vulnerable as a society to the whims of […]
Read More A very interesting exchange and you can make of it what you will but here’s the thrust of the argument; while any commission reviews the real threat of antisemitism – a clear and valid threat – it seems to shy out from discussing the overall context in the fear – […]
Read More This Rotten System Across the West is Really Getting Out of Control All Because of a Conflict that has Shackled Political Systems, all but Eliminated long-held Values and Continues to Torch Regions Is This the New Genius Migration Control Strategy?? HOW INCREDIBLY CLEVER….
Read More First time I see Alice Weidel giving a speech in English, great stuff. But a few confusing parts for me; talking about values, freedom of speech and democracy under attack. Well great to see her defending these values but what I don’t understand is how these values can be represented […]
Read More Are we to expect the worthless “sanctions” ticket by the EU shortly? It provides a free pass on weekends from 9:00 – 18:00 (so maybe worth it when you’re stuck)
Read More Excessive Levels of Democratic Governance Model/Values Continue to be “Played Out” on Occupied Land; how inspiring to watch the perpetrators, the observers and enablers dancing to the same tune miles apart while “lying undercover”. Truly, the so-called western alliance has become one big/fat joke. Of course the bigger joke are […]
Read More There are aggressors, there are defenders and there are clowns who merely push buttons. The worst part of warfare is when you suffer and die for the wrong cause because the person controlling the button/joystick does not really comprehend the meaning of sacrifice in a world with a diminishing sense […]
Read More Brass Instruments deemed security risk and slapped with TT (aka trump tariffs); but not to worry, the string and woodwind instruments have dodged it…for now! My hope is that the UK and possibly Europe sync up with these tariffs with similar one on US manufactured musical instruments and tools. Remember […]
Read More History matters not to trap us but to guide us because we seem to be repeating old mistakes with a slightly different/more sophisticated approach with new tools and actors that trap into an endless cycle when we really should be miles ahead. Where relevant in my opinion I will be […]
Read More Disinformation is an extremely consequential subject that does need to be tackled fairly urgently as its foundational principal is abusing democratic governance models to achieve political, ideological or even commercial/financial ends; in other words “corruption” pure/simple. I totally agree with analysis in this clip and highly recommend watching the complete […]
Read More Just another day in the occupied territories (nothing much…..) Well at least Palestinians got recognition from some western nations they “exist” that should do the trick…
Read More I guess the EU’s suggestion of it having passed the “Ceuta” test after the border breach considering all the wildly disgusting attacks on Spain after the incident instead of supporting it is kinda like passing the smell test during anosmia – blocked nose from a cold. It’s truly fascinating how […]
Read More When the Joker Becomes the Joke
Read More Did I just post about “National Interest” Scam? Well, here’s another one just to keep us going about “‘Reformat’ UK” councillor promoting free speech, child care and “National Interest” in his own special/unique way; The Scam (take 2) UK Re’format’ Style
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Read More Here’s what we’ve seen; once the breach occurred rightwing politicians/media were not interested in how/why it happened because the narrative was already prepared/signed off and ready for circulation along with the accompanying theatrics because they knew well that this presents a golden opportunity for reactionary panic to fuel public sentiment […]
Read More Here’s what I hear “de-risking with China” and here’s what I also hear; dependancy on key natural resources, manufacturing and security on both the US and China. My hunch is that without the EU investing in market diversification/expansion, natural resource exploration/diversifying suppliers, achieving military & political independence no de-risking can […]
Read More The breach of the border itself is not the issue as an incident that must and I’m sure will be resolved, but its clear the incident is being “played out” in right-wing media as an opportunity to supercharge the reactionary anti-immigrant sentiment that may end up having lasting/detrimental ramification on […]
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Board of Peanuts Reached a Deal with Hamas Say’s Who? Say’s Trump! (oh, ok, subject closed…) This is becoming a trend and the intention behind it seems to be as follows; diversions intended to give confidence something is in the works, then a disagreement to prolong the conflict and give […]
Read More STRICTLY NOT FOR EU CONSUMPTION (that goes without saying) but if you think its for US consumption you must be kidding (the west becomes the wild west because they still seem to think they can get away with it ‘scot-free’)
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