Porter Valley in ice and snow
23
Nov
The snow arrived on Tuesday night. But not until Thursday did a steel city lull release me to walk with steel city canine, in the cold and sparkling, up the Porter Valley. * * *
Thus spake Queen Ursula …
23
Nov
Europe’s manufacturing powerhouse, Germany, is in crisis. President Biden’s ecocidal sabotage of NordStream 1, with the abject acceptance if not full-on collaboration of Europe’s comprador leaders, robbed it of the cheap energy which kept it competitive. As Europeans pay … Read More »
ICC throws both UK and EU a curve ball
22
Nov
Much ado about nothing? Yes it is – given that a UK visit by either the genocidal state’s leader or the defence minister he sacked is about as imminent as seeing Joe Biden on Mastermind. We may safely assume that … Read More »
Five things to know about Kiev’s ATACMS
20
Nov
Reactions to Team Biden’s U-turn: Forbes business magazine, November 19, 2024 Caitlin Johnstone, November 20, 2024 British tabloid exclusive reveals that Sir Keir – his permanently puzzled look that of a man unable to know what a genocide looks like … Read More »
Words from the heart on genocide
19
Nov
Question: what have the following in common? One, the eye surgeon thrust by destiny, Michael Corleone style, into the role of Arab leader falsely vilified by the same dark forces – their true motives hidden, their power to gaslight vast … Read More »
Three Sunday shorts …
17
Nov
Three video shorts, average duration twelve minutes, hand-picked by The Steel City Elders for your enlightenment and ongoing edification. They begin with the significance of Kazakhstan, western neighbour to Xinjiang, north-eastern neighbour to Afghanistan and scene of the failed US … Read More »
Babies, bathwater and Rachel Reeves
16
Nov
There are those I feature approvingly within narrowly defined parameters and despite views on other matters I find dangerously misguided or even abhorrent. Take Owen Jones. His humanist failure to see the dirty war on Syria for what it truly … Read More »
This was no Kristallnacht II …
14
Nov
Maccabi fans in Dam Square chant Zionist slogans before the UEFA cup match with Ajax. Middle East Monitor, November 11 It should surprise nobody. Why would anyone of sound and attentive mind expect the political and media classes who’ve spent … Read More »
Gaslit in Amsterdam/Trump foreign policy
12
Nov
The Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, November 8, 2024 Gaslighting for Israel continues apace, regardless of the hit to corporate media credibility, but as Newton helpfully pointed out, “every action has an equal and opposite reaction”. Coverage of Thursday’s events in Amsterdam triggered … Read More »
A rubber tramp in Redcar – again
9
Nov
On Monday I left steel city house at 21:03, driving northeast at a steady fifty mph to pull in just before midnight at a deserted layby on Loverose Lane, near the confluence of the A61 and A1 northeast of Ripon. … Read More »