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“Hey Vladimir, ever heard of Budgie Smugglers?”
Vladimir: “Such a small bird. Ever heard of Vlad the Impaler?”
Vlad the Impaler was from Romania
He was from Sighisora and was a nasty bit of work
His head was placed in a jar of honey and wine/ vinegar and sent to Istanbul so they could be sure he was finished
The Christian Moslem nexus that the USA have forced upon Europe due to their incompetent action in the Middle East will be a tragedy in slow motion.
cause it was a good day 🙂
Global CO2 visualised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UEZqyGU5RU
Among the most striking features visible in the first year of OCO-2 data is the increase in carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere during winter, when trees are not removing carbon dioxide, followed by its decrease in spring, as trees start to grow and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4758
this is a good read on Willie Nelson, Social Thinking, legalising pot and capitalism, and saving a good smoke.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/willie-nelson-crusade-stop-big-pot.html
Putin is the only world leader worth the title at the moment, probably the best in several generations ?
Abbot is a waste of pixels.
in case you havent heard the news, Abbot is no longer a world leader.
Really? He’s basically a dictator responsible for invasion of Ukraine and Georgia, detention and murder of political opponents and journalists, sponsoring the Assad regime so he can sell more guns – basically, he’s abysmal. If you think he’s great, that really is a damning commentary on you.
And the invasion of Kosovo and its separation from Serbia, the civil war in Libya ? Is it OK when the big western powers do it.
What about Saudi Arabia invasion/bombing ( with direct US help)of its small neighbour Yemen after their president fled to Riyadh ?
Of course it isn’t ok when western powers do it, and I think the people culpable for that behaviour are also awful ‘leaders’. But let’s not go around pretending that Putin is any kind of leader that we should seek to have in the world.
Newsflash. Westerners like you don’t really get a say on who others choose to lead their country. that’s a bad habit you’ve got from the regime change mindset of Imperial Britain and Imperial America.
Newsflash. We still can say that people should be charged with war crimes for their actions. We can still deplore war, and arbitrary detention, and suppression of political opposition, and torture. We can still say leaders are bad leaders, and we can still criticise people who laud leaders who do those things.
There’s more than a few people on here who are seemingly willing to ignore their principles to praise Putin.
DPG you and this BBC smartass have a lot in common, basic ignorance of history and the facts being 2 commonalities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwWMaJJ_MSg
But don’t let the truth get in your way.
And which exactly of the things I stated has Putin not been responsible for, then?
What behaviour of his is worthy of being considered a good leader?
Putin is an outstanding protector of Russian national interests.
And his recent record 89% approval rating demonstrates that the Russian people approve of the job he is doing on that.
The Americans have killed far more civilians during Putin’s reign than he has.
Further the Americans are in Syria illegally, trying to (again) illegally overthrow a sovereign government using proxy Islamist fighters.
Again, I am not saying that the US are in any way good. More than one group of people in the world can be terrible at the same time.
Putin might well protect Russian interests, but that is basically protecting the oligarchy interests. That doesn’t necessarily extend to the Russian people – and certainly doesn’t extend to those he has arbitrarily imprisoned, detained, killed, and so on. People who aren’t ethnic Russians who are living in Donbass, Crimea, or South Ossetia are also unlikely to think he’s a good leader.
And really, % approval ratings aren’t a good measure of whether someone is doing a good job. I’m quite sure Kim Jong Un has a better approval rating than Putin’s – that does not mean he is a better leader.
Yeah, just look at NZ as a prime example of your final paragraph.
In Just a Few Weeks, Corbyn Has Already Brought Significant Change to Labour
It seems that not doing what the Tories say works for Labour. Strange that eh?
Kelsey on the TPP not being a done deal. Spread the word,
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/11/02/exclusive-jane-kelsey-tppa-has-not-been-signed-crucial-protest-on-14-nov/
Lecture05 Why Economists Disagree: The common blindspot on the Environment
Keen continues to show that mainstream economics simply can’t work.
Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist
The blog post mentioned in the video.
bloody good read, thanks.
I saw on Nobody Likes A Tory a mention of this Auckland Future local political party that apparently Wanker, sorry, John Key supports. That’s enough to make me highly suspicious of this lot.
what’s Nobody Likes A Tory?
I think it’s this.
ok ta.
from the comments, “Centre-right” my arse ! “Auckland Fascist Future” would be more apt.
It’s almost like inter-generational deprivation jiggers your education no matter what your ethnicity.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34667100/poor-white-boys-get-a-worse-start-in-life-says-equality-report