Birds and bees
25
May
Today in Attenborough.
Author Archives: steel city scribe
The crazy world we live in
24
May
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Can Alice Miller shed light on America?
23
May
Every once in a while I try to make sense of otherwise savvy people who refuse to see a reality staring us in the face: that on any number of metrics the USA is the world’s most lawless state. * … Read More »
Roger Waters on the Douma False Flag
22
May
Yesterday on Facebook, erstwhile Pink Floyd powerhouse Roger Waters, even better off stage than on, wrote this of the Douma lies. WHERE ARE THE HEADLINES? On April 7th 2018, Al Nusra/White Helmets, whoever, staged a chemical weapons attack in Douma, … Read More »
Two days at Attenborough
20
May
Monday. Walking the Erewash Canal from Long Eaton to Trentlock, I snapped a moorhen and remembered I need to go back to Nottingham to see the moorchicks spied from my canoe nine days ago, on the Beeston Cut opposite the … Read More »
I had no desire to die in a rice paddy
19
May
For a characteristically witty piece on “President Bolton”, see Caitlin Johnstone in fine form with a post four days ago and viewable here. But this Daily Beast offering from thirteen months ago, on the man’s appointment to National Security Advisor, … Read More »
A New York cabbie on French numbering
18
May
At a certain stage in our passage through life’s rich tapestry, we get to realise a few things. One, everybody’s nuts. (Most of us can more or less feign sanity till we get home to our nearest and so called … Read More »
Syria: the lies unravel
17
May
This from Peter Hitchens in yesterday’s Mail. Strange news from the OPCW in the Hague A dissenting group of scientists and others recently published online what they say is a report prepared by an employee of the Organisation for the … Read More »
Profit and the Arms Economy
15
May
Nagasaki bound. “Fat Man” on its way, August 1945 Three years ago, Global Research showed that interests backing Trident also finance Russia’s nuclear programme. This news, relayed a few months later by the Canary, should have caused a storm in … Read More »