Quotations

“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. 

J Robert Oppenheimer

"Many commentators are already claiming that the war with Iran is ‘spiralling out of control.’ I try not to be uncharitable: I am a Catholic, after all, and the Church tells me it is a sin. But if I were tempted, I should say that the only thing spiralling out of control is cliché.

"Iran said it would hit out wildly if it were attacked. It also made clear that direct attacks on the leadership of the Islamic Republic would be treated as an existential threat. So why anyone is now surprised that Iranian missiles are hitting targets, some clearly deliberate, some apparently random, in every Gulf Cooperation Council state (including Oman), in Jordan, in Cyprus, and of course in Israel, is a mystery."

Sir John Jenkins, Director General of MI5 from 1981 until 1985, in The Spectator today. Since MI6 participated with the CIA and the Mossad in the attempt to provoke a revolution in Iran in December and January, and may have blood on their hands, it's hard to see that people are outraged when  a drone hits our base in Cypris. However journalists are scornful that we are only now sending a battleship to Cyprus as if ships are a defence against drones.

“Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend.” 

Edmund Burke

Elon Musk

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Mar 2

If one is to use the term “First Nations” or “Indigenous Peoples” or “Native Americans” in the Americas and Antipodes, then, in fairness, it should also apply to English, French, Spanish and other such peoples in Europe