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The message is getting through to CON MPs and more are wearing masks – politicalbetting.com
The message is getting through to CON MPs and more are wearing masks – politicalbetting.com
In one or two posts this week I have been critical of Tory MPs for, in the main, not wearing masks in the chamber.
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Has anyone started asking about 5-11 year olds, yet?
The Port of LA tells me there are 75 container ships waiting offshore right now. If that's not an all-time record, it's close.
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1451285991768080391?s=20
When I brought my procession of human bats up into the open world and the glare of the afternoon sun-previously blindfolding them, in charity for eyes so long untortured by light-they were a spectacle to look at. Skeletons, scarecrows, goblins, pathetic frights, every one; legitimatest possible children of Monarchy by the Grace of God and the Established Church. I muttered absently:
"I wish I could photograph them!"
You have seen that kind of people who will never let on that they don't know the meaning of a new big word. The more ignorant they are, the more pitifully certain they are to pretend you haven't shot over their heads. The queen was just one of that sort, and was always making the stupidest blunders by reason of it. She hesitated a moment; then her face brightened up with sudden comprehension, and she said she would do it for me.
I thought to myself: She? why what can she know about photography? But it was a poor time to be thinking. When I looked around, she was moving on the procession with an axe!
Well, she certainly was a curious one, was Morgan le Fay. I have seen a good many kinds of women in my time, but she laid over them all for variety. And how sharply characteristic of her this episode was. She had no more idea than a horse of how to photograph a procession; but being in doubt, it was just like her to try to do it with an axe.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10118185/Queen-spent-night-hospital-cancelling-Northern-Irish-trip.html
EDIT: was in hospital
The real issue with Nord Stream 2, is that it allows Putin & Co to shut off gas in Eastern Europe while keeping the lights on in Germany. So he can blackmail Europe in sections.
Shame on them for folding to this pressure so easily.
Startling fact. 250,000 have died in the Mexican drug wars
That’s more than died in the Afghan wars of 2001-2021
And still Mexico burns
0 - 19 0.07%
20 - 39 0.82%
40 - 59 7.61%
60 - 79 38.54%
80+ 52.97%
Between 2010 and 2018, excluding 0 year old deaths, the general breakdown for deaths is, at a crude rate of 1396.2 deaths per day. The average age of death is ~ 78.
0.36%
1.73%
8.39%
33.76%
55.76%
In the second half of 2021, the death breakdown for Covid is, (At a crude rate of 62.7 deaths per day)
0.30%
2.08%
12.34%
41.89%
43.39%
The average age of death is younger than it was at the start of the pandemic, perhaps around 4 years (79 -> 75) though it's hard to be accurate with 20 year banded age stats.
Trump apparently wanted to send US troops in to fight the drug cartels
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-send-troops-mexico-hunt-drug-cartels-2021-10
Somehow it struggles on. So far from God. So close to the United States.
And yes, I saw that news about Trump. It’s one of those occasions when you think OK he’s crazy but maybe he’s got a point
Only a large, organised, pretty brutal army can save Mexico, as far as I can see. Mexico cannot save itself. The cartels are gaining power, the violence worsens, and they threaten to destabilise the entirety of Latin America. And menace the USA
At some point America will have to react
The narcos will simply kill & bribe any force opposed to them until they are ineffective.
Am I wrong? I mean, this just seems obvious to me.
Naively I kind assumed it was all a bit relatively ancient history whilst watching.
Edit: presume you mean the Narcos - Mexico series?
There was an original Narcos that was Escobar and Col.
‘García, whose son César Ulises disappeared in 2017 and has not been found, described the macabre routine of such relatives as they sifted through excavated remains for those they had loved and lost. “You see these things up on the screen and say to yourself: ‘That arm looks sort of familiar, that head.’ It’s just so terrible – the viciousness that we’re seeing in this state,” she said.
‘Nearby stood Cecilia Flores, 54, whose 28-year-old son, Wilians, was taken in 2019. Four months later officials told her some body parts had been recovered from a notorious torture house called El Mirador. “They found a hand, his torso and forearm. I’m still missing the other hand and his legs,” she said.’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/02/jalisco-cartel-mexico-rise-guadalajara?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Re the current U.K. situation, the bulk of the cases are in the U18’s, and then their parents. There is a panic going on about cases, but the cases will start dropping soon, and without a need for restrictions.
The cartels have taken over heroin, and also synthetic drugs: meth, fentanyl. They’re the people filling America’s streets with opioid loons
As I say, the USA must soon be pro-active rather than reactive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chapo_(TV_series)
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80133042
Country/Death toll/year
Yemen, 233k+, 2014
Syria, 500-600k+, 2011
Nigeria (Boko Haram), 350k+, 2009
Democratic Republic Congo (Kivu), 100k+, 2004
Sudan (Darfur), 300k+, 2003
Mexico, 150-250k, 2006
The underreporting of the goings on in Africa & Mexico is quite something
Best stick to Herefordshire.
Although iirc he turns up on occasion in Narcos- Mex
A mighty and powerful force is trying to overthrow the Mexican government, or, at least, make the government its own meaningless puppet. And they are reasonably close to winning, and 250,000 are dead and many more displaced
How is that not a ‘civil war’?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10117735/Vladimir-Putin-slams-monstrous-West-teaching-children-change-gender.html
He was superb as Escobar
I’ve seen a few. They’re not hard to find. I don’t ever want to see any more. Maybe I shouldn’t have watched the few I did. But isn’t that itself a kind of cowardice? Looking away, averting the face, pretend it isn’t happening?
Suffice to say they make the worst ISIS vids look… quaintly medieval
https://youtu.be/ozuFCYJQ4os
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Drives centrist pundits potty but Cummings is sharp on many things. Ruthless focus on core politics & message, & ignoring confected daily 'crises', is something left must learn.
Very different reason now - this is because there aren't enough people to unload the cargo.
Nuclear is being replaced - mostly - by a combination of renewables and cheap (and highly polluting) lignite.
(Plus, of course, overall Germany electricity demand has fallen.)
Eeesh
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new-meth/620174/
Have a sneaking admiration for the PRI. Things arguably went really tits up when they let others win.
An important question.
It also means that Ukraine has no power over Russia. Previously, it recieved a toll for the gas that passed through, and it could threaten Russia with cutting off their gas exports to Europe.
So, the people who really get screwed by Nord Stream 2 are the Ukranians.
I'm not so convinced about Eastern Europe, though. The Baltics have a gas interconnector with Finland, and their own LNG import terminal, specifically to avoid Russia being able to turn off the gas. (Curiously, it was always planned for Finland to be able to export gas to Estonia, but the Estonians did a great job of buying LNG cargoes, and have made out like banditos selling gas to the Finns.)
Poland also has a large LNG import terminal at Swinoujscie, which it is the process of expanding.
For the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, they're on the main European Entsog natural gas network, and they have relatively diversified natural gas purchase agreements.
Last thing... Germany now looks like it also building an LNG import terminal at Hamburg, so the whole of Europe (including the UK) is much more secure in its long term gas supplies than has previously been the case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnFlx2Lnr9Q
Crackdown on homelessness by providing a home. That'll do it,
I may appear like Lennon, but I ain't smart enough to be Dylan. And who is?
And the US tried the "military attacks" on the cartels in the past. US forces (mostly via Dyncorp) attack coco crops directly in Colombia. And US forces have also engaged in raids in Mexico on cartels.
None of it makes a difference, because the demand for illegal drugs is so enormous, and the money involved so vast, that all you do is shift it around. If (and it's a big if) you were able to kill all the cartel members in Mexico, all it would do is mean that prices rose (reduced supply), making bringing it in from Asia or growing it in Wyoming was worth the risk.
If there is demand for an illegal product, there will be supply.
Edit to add:
If you really wanted to get rid of the cartels, start locking up middle class Americans for drug offences.
I used to be a legaliser. Now I’m not
The only countries that have cracked this are the zero tolerance countries. East Asia. Severe sentences and the death penalty.
The only man to control the Mafia was Mussolini. He did it by killing thousands, often innocent
A terrible crime. But the drugs problem has reached a stage where alternatives are worse. 250,000 have died already, in Mexico alone
I don't disagree.
Legalise things that are merely bad for you, and criminalise (and punish *users* severely) for stuff that is more problematic.
The fewer cases you start with, the easier it is to control with less onerous restrictions.
In all my life I’ve never known a time like this, where the forces of global evil seem so strong, on so many fronts, and the good guys seem so divided and helpless
ETA and that is always the trouble. Collateral damage. And edge cases. Is the chief torturer's chauffeur innocent?
The idea that the US government knows where to find the bosses and could just snuff them out with a few helicopters of marines is ridiculous.