alanjjohnstone
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I'm afraid the cosmetic industry has beaten you to it , Alex. They have been promoting and advertising male make-up for years and its succeeding if you care to look at the men's section. Gone are the days of only after-shave and spray deodorants…a lot of skin lotions and hair treatments now, lip glosses too, disguised as outdoor protection salves.Nor should we forget Beckham's skirt wearing fashion attempt a few years back. When working outdoors in Winter many of us wore women's tights under our overalls.
Perhaps Left Unity will now soon involve the Catholic Church's left-winghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-2407922750,000 have signed up supporters of Sister Teresa's policies which are:• A government takeover of all banks and measures to curb financial speculation• An end to job cuts, fairer wages and pensions, shorter working hours and payments to parents who stay at home• Genuine "participatory democracy" and steps to curb political corruption• Decent housing for all, and an end to all foreclosures• A reversal of public spending cuts, and renationalisation of all public services• An individual's right to control their own body, including a woman's right to decide over abortion• "Green" economic policies and the nationalisation of energy companies• An end to xenophobia and repeal of immigration laws• Placing public media under democratic control, including the internet• International "solidarity", leaving Nato, and the abolition of armed forces in a future free Catalonia
I'm always impressed by the writings of Eugene Debs. This article from 1904 is a worthy contribution to this thread http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1904/negronemesis.htm
A not very frequent interview with Assad. Perhaps someone can tell me where the BBC has had such a lengthy interview with him? http://sana.sy/eng/21/2013/09/10/501729.htm
When you were in therapy didn't your counsellor explain to you that some of us untermenschen would not give you the respect your superiority deserves.
Actually it appears it was RUSSIA's Putin initiative to put Syria's weapons under international control…And future destruction of the stock-piles. Once again fooled by the BBC spin which turned it into an Obama idea. Syria has already agreed in principle.
For the background on the other actors in the Syrian civil war, this article on Qatar is exceptionally good on little-known facts on it. http://www.countercurrents.org/rudolph090913.htm
Back from the brink?I think Obama's solution is a useful one depending on the conditions, of course. US Marines deployed to guard the stock-piles won't get anywhere and i doubt Americans would accept Russian or Iranian or even Venezuelan troops. Perhaps a joint force of the non-aligned.But we do have a template in North Korea where the nuclear establishments have UN video cameras monitoring them. Cheap and effective but i suppose it cannot offer actual resistance if someone actually arrives to remove the chemical weapons to use.But perhaps a combination of cameras and security-guards..Swiss Guards from the Vatican? A timely offer from the Pope would certainly help, they are all professionally trained in modern arms and are not just ceremonial or carrying pikes. That would certainly give an end to Stalin's jibe, how many regiments does he have…I also read that the PKK are reconsidering their ceasefire …how that effects the Syrian Kurds and Turkey, i'm not sure….again Janet may offer more info. I did read Turkish aircraft were moved closer to Syrian border so its evidence their role will be a more active one.
I hope someone is going to eventually explain this thread to the rest of us in an easy to understand way so we know what it's all about
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/07/us/north-dakota-white-only-town/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+(RSS%3A+Most+Recent) How glad am i that it isn't the Leith i lived in!
If Obama bombs its the beginning of the End Days, i tell you, the start of the Rapture…Armageddon…It's in the Bible… One in four Americans in a survey suspect that Barack Obama might be the antichrist. But it could be Assad according to here http://www.isawthelightministries.com/antichrist.htmlIsaiah 17 ‘Look, Damascus will disappear! It will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer will be deserted. Sheep will graze in the streets and lie down unafraid. There will be no one to chase them away. The fortified cities of Israel will also be destroyed, and the power of Damascus will end. The few left in Aram will share the fate of Israel’s departed glory,’ says the Lord Almighty.” Isaiah 17:1-3 (NLT)…its the end of the world, i tell you…repent …repent your sins, you materialist non-believers,
I can refer you to when Benn deployed armed police against pickets around 1976/77. Under Harold Wilson powers were introducd to provide a separate Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary [now the Civil Nuclear Constabulary] with arms. There's about 650 of them, still carrying guns.Benn was then the energy minister in charge of nuclear power and there was an unofficial strike at Windscale. "The Civil Contingencies Unit at the Cabinet Office had prepared a plan "to break the strike with troops, thus leaving Tony Benn as a sort of latter-day Churchill" (The Times, 29 May 1980).He justified his actions in terms of "national security".But i agree with you. Comparing someone to Hitler should not be taken lightlysee blog posthttp://www.socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2013/09/hitler-lives.html
I challenge anyone to tell me when Cameron and Hague announced that only the Syrian government had the capability of launching the sarin chemical attack that news reporters reminded viewers of its use of this substance by the terrorist group the Aum cult attack of 1995 in Tokyo.
If Assad loses CNN reported back in 2012 that the Pentagon estimated 75,000 troops would be required to secure Syria's chemical weapon depots to ensure they did not fall into terrorist hands. Obama/Cameron/Hollande promise no boots on the ground so can we assume then that it will be Saudi troops, already used to prop up the Bahrain Sunni dictatorship against its Shi'ite democratic rebels. Or perhaps Turkish, and Janet will no doubt inform us of the risks that entails for Turkey's own stability.
