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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Trump Wounded. God Help America Now
Guess what happens when you and all your legions brand a political opponent a dictator, tyrant, rapist and, as voting day draws near, the American Hitler? Here’s what happens:
Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop … then a pause and then … pop, pop,pop, pop.
And Donald Trump goes down in the bright sun of a late Pennsylvania afternoon. He clutched an ear as the secret Service piled on and buried him stacks-on-mill. Moving as a scrum, they hustled him offstage, a pumping fist rising out of the mass of bodies as the knot found the safety of an armoured SUV waiting by the wings.
Briefly to be seen, blood on his right ear, the one he cupped at the first shot, with a trickle marking his cheek.
Who did it? No details yet in these first minutes, nor any word on secondary wounds, although there are reports you can hear ‘Shooter is down! Shooter is down. We’re good to go’ An arrest?
That second bracket of shots, it seems they were from one or more Secret Service agents returning fire.
Witness…
We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
The history of the Jewish state, just like that of the Holocaust, is undoubtedly unknown to these deniers of Israel’s legitimacy. They are but the latest iteration of the five Arab states’ war in 1948-49, by which they expected to destroy the fledgling Jewish state. They lost, but have since used the motley collection of Circassian, Turkish, Jordanian, Syrian and Lebanese Arabs, renamed Palestinians in 1967, to ceaselessly prosecute the original war of rejection.
Aug 29 2024
8 mins
In provincial France, and among Parisians inconvenienced by the restrictions on their movement (some of them can’t return home without passes), the feeling is slightly different. The cost of this festival is unknown; it will never be known, but it is suspected to be large and will fall on taxpayers.
Aug 29 2024
7 mins
