Marc Cassin 🐗

Just reading the Ukraine deal. Ukraine should join the EU. The EU should then leave NATO (if the USA is mediator between NATO and Russia, it is de facto no longer in NATO). The EU can set up its own aemed forces including Ukraine, and, like France already is, be independent of the USA.

Capitalists conveniently forget that a strong state infrastructure (everything from roads to broadband, education to utilities) gives a country the advantages to compete in business across the world. Other countries have understood this for decades.

I'm v surprised at the UK 's position in the table. From the media coverage atm, we're going to hell in a handbasket. Not my experience, travelling around the pubs in the country. Business as usual doesn't make headlines.

Were you fed the diet of worms?

N Ireland's existence is historically based on the differences between Christian faiths. Without the anti-RC stance, it is difficult to justify its continuation, especially with the South's pivot away from RCism in recent decades. An absolute minefield.

I hope that the reporter was not a muslim as it is once of the worst insults of the faith. Maybe the POTUS was comparing the reporter to a beloved cast member of the Muppets? However, I doubt that he is sufficiently quick witted or generous.

It's made in black now for the redaction of printed documents. Big business in the Western Hemisphere.

Is there any genius mathematician out there who has developed an algebraic formula that links the effectiveness of politicians to their relationship with the media? Or is it simply inverse?

Building on flood plains is contentious when only 12% of UK land is built on. It raises questions about the green belt and its fairness to the population overall.

They can report a flood without commenting that it is on a flood plain. They can report a contraction in the economy without hypothesing on the policies or events that caused it. The BBC has become a pulpit where people look for answers. It has no mandate for this. It is filling a gap.

A PBS reports essential and important information. The BBC not only reports, it investigates, interprets, and interrogates. It decides what is newsworthy and prioritises accordingly. It acts as moral judge tho' unqualified by example. And this is only one dimension.

The BBC has its fingers in too many pies not to have a target its back from capitalists to communists. In politics, it is a lazy substitute for democratic process, attempting to hold politicians to account, whilst the BBC itself is human and not perfect. It is a PBS that has run riot.

The media can't get out of the habit of rubbishing government. A habit developed over the past fifteen years with some justification. They need to focus on alternative workable solutions that will not piss off the markets yet reduce inequality.

Iraq = WMD = war
Venezuela = fentanyl = war
Once the example is set, others will use it as precedent.
A war in S America could provide the justification to suspend domestic elections in the USA.

The British press doesn’t mince words. 🇬🇧

On a busy train journey out of London, I stood in the corridor, next to a Pakistani man, my age, and his teenage son. The man was scolding his son in Urdu. When he finished, I smiled and said, I have no idea what you said but it sounds exactly like how I talk to my son. Both he and his son smiled.

Iraq = WMD = war
Venezuela = fentanyl = war
Once the example is set, others will use it as precedent.
A war in S America could provide the justification to suspend domestic elections in the USA.

So many angry people. Channel the anger into encouraging people to vote, the democratic process. If that doesnt work at the next elections, accept the result that the democracy of the middle ground has failed and that a new way or new country must be found.

Looking at life through a middle class lens is a Victorian (19th C) error. The vast majority live in debt and squalor to satisfy a tiny elite.

The lesson from history is that the elite (and there always is an elite)can only be so far removed from the middle class (not the mob) before there is a reset. The bigger the gap, the more painful the reset.

Democracy was a 20th century phenomenon that was reluctantly accepted as a counter to communism. As communism is no longer in vogue, democracy is under threat from the current iterration of narrow elitist self interest. They forget that the middle ground will always conquer in the long term.

Are they bangs?

In these times, it is not acceptable to criticise anything related to one strand of the Abrahamic faith. It is perfectly acceptable to demonise another strand, and to ignore or vilify a third. I wonder what Abraham would think?

When the time comes to disband ICE (and it will), make sure to get all the kit back otherwise you're going to have yourself a residual issue that might not go away as quick as you might like.

Two types of people conflate the behaviour of the present israeli government and the wider jewish diaspora. Firstly, the uninformed. Secondly, those who exploit any form of human difference for their own ends.

Saw you in NN1 last night. Loved the content and the jazzy dress. Pls give eye contact outside the front 3 rows and get much better presentational tech relevant to the venue. Otherwise, wouldnt have missed it.

He'll heal scrofula too if you touch his clothes.

I'd like to think that was true. You might want to review the list of winners. At least a couple might not qualify under your criteria. The prize is awarded by the family of the man who invented dynamite. Maybe it should be the Oppenheimer peace prize now for the nuclear age?

Does this now mean that Israel can have a general election? I am eagerly anticipating the US mid terms. This would be a bonus.

As you have just done above, i would see it as a positive, an opportunity. The anti-establishment candidate. Long overdue. It should have some mileage in today's febrile political pit.