This one had me laughing at the absurdity, from today's Guardian:
"The former prime minister, whose son, Sir Mark, was convicted in a South African court of involvement in the attempted 2004 coup, allegedly told [Simon] Mann at a meeting at her Belgravia home: "I'm sure it's going to work".
It is claimed that Thatcher likened the need for radical change in the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea to the way London's Docklands had been redeveloped during the 1980s.
She is also alleged to have encouraged Mann to talk to a group seeking to overthrow the then president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, with the words: "We must always look after our friends, Simon …"
What was that woman on?
Showing posts with label hypocrisy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hypocrisy. Show all posts
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Fearful Irony
Nothing Like a State-wide Conflagration to Bring Out a Man's True Character.
- Fk the free market gimme the funds to fight the fires, Feds - is what Mad Hatter Republican Governor Rick Perry, who only recently cut funding to the main fire-fighting forces in Texas by 55% seems to be saying.
See the frightened Governor call for Federal Funding, here.
- Fk the free market gimme the funds to fight the fires, Feds - is what Mad Hatter Republican Governor Rick Perry, who only recently cut funding to the main fire-fighting forces in Texas by 55% seems to be saying.
See the frightened Governor call for Federal Funding, here.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Guilty Consciences
It’s the politicians that are protesting too much. Now why would that be?
Cory Hazlehurst at Liberal Conspiracy or at his own blog, Paperback Rioter, on the reaction of the political classes to the Woolas affair.
Stuart Jeffery on Tory politicos hypocritically knee-jerking about behaviour at student demo. Funny how it’s all 'high jinks' when Hoorays like them do it for fun, but 'criminal destructiveness' when ordinary people feel desperately driven to similar acts.
Cory Hazlehurst at Liberal Conspiracy or at his own blog, Paperback Rioter, on the reaction of the political classes to the Woolas affair.
Stuart Jeffery on Tory politicos hypocritically knee-jerking about behaviour at student demo. Funny how it’s all 'high jinks' when Hoorays like them do it for fun, but 'criminal destructiveness' when ordinary people feel desperately driven to similar acts.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
The Long Reckoning
From Opium Wars to Currency Wars.
What do you do when uppity natives won’t buy your goods?
Keep pushing opium at their population until they become addicts and start coughing up the dough you need?
Threaten them with a gunboat?
Sadly can’t be done in these days of political correctness. Besides which, they have more blood and treasure than we do.
Send your best Hong and his gang wearing poppy flowers, just to remind the Yellow Peril who’s boss? Flood your economy with quantitative easing, and then administer a stiff warning to the blighters for the 'tidal wave of money'?
Or how about a cap on their exports? Not at all protectionist.
No? Oh well, back to the drawing board. Let’s just hope they don’t cut up rough and hold it all against us, eh?
What do you do when uppity natives won’t buy your goods?
Keep pushing opium at their population until they become addicts and start coughing up the dough you need?
Threaten them with a gunboat?
Sadly can’t be done in these days of political correctness. Besides which, they have more blood and treasure than we do.
Send your best Hong and his gang wearing poppy flowers, just to remind the Yellow Peril who’s boss? Flood your economy with quantitative easing, and then administer a stiff warning to the blighters for the 'tidal wave of money'?
Or how about a cap on their exports? Not at all protectionist.
No? Oh well, back to the drawing board. Let’s just hope they don’t cut up rough and hold it all against us, eh?
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