Hope
is a soporific.
Dark,
Whistling In The:
“A
United Nations independent expert today called on States and
Parliaments to ensure that all future trade agreements stipulate the
primacy of human rights and to align existing treaties with the duty
of States to fulfill binding human rights treaties and meet
environmental and health goals”
Takes
One to Know One:
Convicted insider trader Martha
Stewart says
‘I’m
voting for Hillary Clinton'.
Blow
The Bugles!
The UN General Assembly has convened the first-ever summit
Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants. Since
this is an assembly essentially identical to the people who have done
so well with CO2 emissions, Human Rights, Global Warming and Peace In
Our Time, confidence is high that a strongly worded proclamation will
soon appear.
Precisely:
A couple of days after accidentally killing 80 of Assad's soldiers
during a cease fire, a US
airstrike has
killed
eight Afghan policemen. Another
airstirke in Syria, this
one apparently by the Russians, has destroyed a UN food and
medicine relief convoy that was headed for refugees west of Aleppo.
Creaming
The Crop:
Turkey
is
blocking
Syrian
refugees with
college degrees from being resettled in the US.
Balking
In North Dakota:
The
Death of the Great Bakken Oil Field has begun. Just a few years ago,
the United States was on its way to “Energy Independence.”`
thanks mainly to fracking, and particularly to fracking in North
Dakota's Bakken Play and the Eagle Ford play in Texas. We've been
led to believe that the frackers would produce massive flows of cheap
oil thanks to tecnology and entrepreneurial
expertise
and God's love of Americans and their automobiles. Production from
the Bakken is down 25% from its peak, headed down the far side of the
bell curve to bankruptcy. Production from Eagle Ford is already down
40%. Plus it seems entirely possible that the shale producers have
not made a penny from all the hithering and yoning and earthquakes.
And wait till they have to settle the lawsuits...
Quoted:
If
you don’t give a damn about children and grandchildren, then of
course there’s less to worry about.
Ingrates:
After winning a Pulitzer Prize for their detailed reporting of the
secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden, the Washington Post
is demanding he be prosecuted for providing them with secret NSA
documents. Nope;
he
should be pardoned and lionized.
Cruise
News:
The Navy's newest littoral combat ship (LCS) suffered two two
catastrophic engine failures in three days, forcing it to abandon its
planned voyage and limp towards Florida. This is the third LCS to
suffer “significant engine problems” in the last three weeks and
the fifth in the last year. The LCS go for $480 million a copy –
although 'go' seems not quite the right word. The entire class has
been recalled to port.
Homesick:
Archaeologists
from
Denmark’s Museum Silkeborg have found a 3,000 year-old cooking pot
with the remains of supper still burnt onto the bottom - a failed
attempt at making cheese.
Place
Your Bets:
An expedition
to study effects
of microplastics on the
smallest creatures in the oceans, the tiny zooplankton that form the
base of the aquatic food chain, will soon set sail. Guess what
they'll find. Guess what good it will do.
This,
Just In:
Hundreds
of Buddhist
nuns
trained in Kung Fu are biking through
the
Himalayas
to oppose human trafficking
A
Parting Shot:
4 comments:
Precisely: A couple of days after accidentally killing 80 of Assad's soldiers during a cease fire, a US airstrike has killed eight Afghan policemen. Another airstrike in Syria, this one apparently by the Russians, has destroyed a UN food and medicine relief convoy that was headed for refugees west of Aleppo.
You can add "Saudi Arabia has hit a 3rd MSF Hospital with US supplied "smart bombs" and is using US supplied White Phosphorus bombs on civilian targets in Yemen."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/doctors-borders-hospital-hit-rocket-yemen-160110125006083.html
Makes a pressure cooker look like a squib.
It's headlines like this that make you wonder just who is in charge of these bloodbaths and why NOBODY is held accountable. This is the real problem eating at just about everybody not in a position of power on the planet.
If the responsible parties were held accountable 'theoretically' this stuff wouldn't keep happening.
Well, that's the theory anyway...
So, is the question 'where are the 'adults'? ' or is it more like 'Adults? What adults?'
A little birdie told me the area where the airstrikes killed Syrian soldiers was being continuously monitored by drones for days prior to the attack. Fog of war, not so much.
No no. Anony 12.43, I believe you misunderstood. it is not "fog" of war, anymore it's "frogs of war", warts and all.
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