A Political Refugee From The Global Village

An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms

Wednesday, 31 July 2024

Lennonism is the big danger to Christian civilisation, not Leninism

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Przemysław Babiarz, a Polish commentator, was suspended by the state broadcaster TVP for criticizing John Lennon's song 'Imagine...

Worse than Watergate

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Arnaud Bertrand: Ex-CIA agent Philip Agee: "In CIA, we didn't give a hoot about democracy. If a country did not cooperate with us, ...

Sanctions fail

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According to Alistair Crooke, who was often right about the Syrian war, one egregious folly was the American belief that Russia could be def...
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I think coup is the wrong word

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A senior Washington official told Seymour Hersh,  “Obama called Biden after breakfast [on July 20] and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamal...
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Tuesday, 30 July 2024

Demonic forces at the Olympic Games

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The spokesman for the Romanian Orthodox Patriarch was reported in the newspapers yesterday saying the parody of the Last Supper at the Olym...
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All men dream: but not equally.

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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but...
Monday, 29 July 2024

Quotations

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"Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and t...

It WAS intended as a parody of the Last Supper.

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I was wrong it seems and the controversial scene in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony was intended as a parody of the Last Supper.  Even i...
Saturday, 27 July 2024

Is this picture blasphemous?

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  Clearly not. It is mocking the enemies of Christ. Was the scene of drag artists sitting round a table in the Paris Olympics opening ceremo...
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Quotations

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"I know I'm not attractive to everyone but I only want to be attractive to the ones that see the poetry in me" ~Frida Kahlo ...

We live in an age of narcissists: Biden is as narcissistic as Obama or Trump and much less competent than either

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By the way, I am not talking about malignant narcissists who resemble psychopaths, just people motived by vanity.   This is Freddie Gay two ...
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David Goldman writing as 'Spengler' in Asia Times yesterday

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In 2022, I argued that a demographic imperative —the declining population of non-Muslim parts of Asia versus the growth of Muslim population...

I have a feeling Kamala Harris will defeat Donald Trump

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I have a feeling Kamala Harris will defeat Donald Trump.  She knows how to come across on video. She looks like she'd be amusing to have...
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Friday, 26 July 2024

Why is America making economic war on any of these countries?

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 From the Washington Post.
Monday, 22 July 2024

American oligarchy

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The American presidential election in November will be the first since 1976 not to have a Biden, Bush or Clinton on the ballot.  It will how...
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Sunday, 21 July 2024

I don't think Joe Biden is a good man

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Now suddenly power has ebbed from him and we see the foreign policy disasters of his administration as the result of his senescence. 

Men and women

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    'Not long ago Harvey Mansfield took a call from a journalist. She wanted a comment on a former colleague....

America is still neo-con and the biggest danger to world peace

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Since the start of the millennium America has been the great danger to world peace, except to some extent when Obama and to a much greater e...
Wednesday, 17 July 2024

Happy birthday, sir!

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Group Captain John Hemingway , DFC , AE , a Dubliner who is thought to be the last of 'the Few', celebrates his 105th birthday today...
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British news in brief

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The Times today:  The Royal College of Physicians has advised doctors that they are “uniquely positioned” to talk to patients about climate ...
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