Sunday 1 July 2018
Thought for the day
I'm reading the Robert Harris novel The Ghost.
It's about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the British Prime Minister of the time, and the renditions.
It's all fiction of course.
But strangely in this morning's Internet Guardian I did read two stories about these events, including one about the 75 rendition flights in Scotland.
And then I remembered there was an airport terrorist attack in Glasgow one time. I seem to recall it involved a car driven by a doctor crashing into a concrete barricade and bursting into flames outside the main building. I could never understand why somebody would make such an idiotic attack that was always doomed to failure. But it now looks to me as if the driver knew that rendition flights were using the airport and wanted to stage some form of protest.
Of course, since I'm not in possession of any facts, other than the two Guardian stories, one by Peter Beaumont and the other about the MSP's demanding an investigation, I'm only making an assumption.
In other news the 'Welcome to America' cover of Time Magazine which shows Donald Trump standing in front of a 2 year old child separated from her mother has now been shown to be a deception.
The mother, seen with her child in the original picture, has been erased, and the border guard has been replaced by the president. The child's head has been cynically tilted backwards to gaze into the president's face. The truth is that the child and mother, from Honduras where the father still lives with his several other children, were never separated by the US authorities.
The mother paid the smugglers $6,000 for the journey. The father is employed as a harbour man in Honduras.
The reason I know that 'The Ghost' is fiction is because in real life the ex-British PM is still alive.
The reason I know the Time cover which has now been seen all over the world can be nothing more than a bad joke and part of the anti-Trump campaign, is because the true story with original photographs was reported in German in the weekend supplement of my local paper.
The more things change the more they remain
insane.
It's not very long ago we had all those fake news so-called chemical attack videos on mainstream news, BBC, cnn, et al, featuring children being splashed with water, which the children and their parents told Robert Fisk and a handful of other reporters who were doing their job properly was some kind of rebel faction / anti-government / white helmet publicity stunt.
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People are beginning to realise about these fake news pictures and the result is they hide and retreat to the woodwork. They would of course not say that there have been any 'mistakes'. When I posted the other day about the hypocrisy of news reporting about the Mexican border crisis the comments just died to nothing. I took it as an endorsement of what I had said. I must get hold of that book as my next read, The Ghost.
ReplyDeleteThe Time cover led me to the Internet and I stumbled onto the Jimmy Savile pedophile 'circle' and names like Rolf Harris, Ted Heath, Cyril Smith, to name just three . my God it's horrific.
DeleteIt all makes me wish to stop reading the paper and stop listening to the news on TV - but then that would be called 'burying my head in the sand' wouldn't it? And would it much matter at my age? The answer to the last two rhetorical questions is probably yes.
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DeleteHas Mrs Merckel wriggled out of a crisis with Seehofer tonight? Transit camps along the Austrian border is the compromise. 22:00 hours UK time.
ReplyDeleteSeehofer. First sign of trouble frm Mama Merkel he threw in the towel. She must have known he would. It looks like Austria's gonna have to sort out the mess again. In the beginning she wanted them all. Her "Wir schaffen das" policy. Eager to oblige Austria sent all who wanted to go to Germany to Germany on Rail Jets and in convoys of white buses. I've seen them pulling in at autobahn service areas. They are completely unmarked. Now she plans to export them to the country they came from. To me the whole affair is like a Monty Python sketch.
DeleteI wondered what the reaction from Austria was because I could see that that problem has been pushed Austria's way. "Transit camps" as if they are to be in tents along the highway to wait. What for nobody knows.
DeleteIt boils down to transit camp/s on the Austrian border - like a German version of Calais I think - On the news just said Farage had spoken in EU. Junker is fiddling while Rome burns. Orban is standing firm.
DeleteMacron has sacked his French Ambassador to Hungary for finding words that the Ambassador was agreeing with Orban. In fact I think the ambassador has been misquoted, probably said the truth about anti-semitism, and Macron got all embarrassed. Austria are not having any of the Merkel's new ideas by the looks of things this morning.
DeleteSebastian Kurz is a very intelligent and astute politician for his age.
DeleteToy Boy Macron is a bit of a Champagne Charlie according to Italy's Salvini. They fit together well do the trio Macron, Junker, Merkel. When Mama goes, as surely she must, what will they do. Maybe she won't go. Here she's known as the flip-flopper. Seehofer isn't popular here for his pro-Merkel flip-flop.
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