You have 30 months at the very most. I’m leaning towards 22 months.
The real economy is keeping it going (like here), when it finally gives (debt) it’s not going to be pleasant for any of us.
Edit. The war with China will be the give away.
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"Some arms supplies to Ukraine from the US continue, but some no longer do”
Ushakov, Putin’s foreign police aide
President Ahmadinejad was reported (over and over again) in 2005/6 to have called for ‘Israel to be wiped off the map’. Such was the obsessional propaganda that every broadcast and print mention of his name was accompanied by the tag line “. . .who has called for Israel to be wiped off the map”. (I’ve just discovered that it appears to have been first reported - in those words - by Al Jazeera, October 25 2005. Well well.)
It annoyed us so much Miriam complained to the BBC and (wow!) was invited to contribute to a live discussion on R4’s Feedback. In the meantime various linguists/commentators including the Grauniad’s Jonathan Steele had picked up that what he actually said translated more accurately as “the regime that currently occupies Jerusalem will disappear from the pages of history” We had other taglines we objected to at the time - “Jean-Charles de Menezes who was killed by police who mistook him for a terrorist”, as soon as it happened and long before an inquest verdict, was a favourite - but Ahmadinejad’s was the big one. M was duly booked in and took part in a conversation with a couple of BBC News big cheeses.
We listened to the edited broadcast in Konya, on our way to Palestine, in late 2006 and were almost impressed by the seriousness of the BBC response; it was prepared to concede on air to at least ambiguity in the language which they had helpfully interpreted a certain way. On our return to UK we think we heard slightly less use of the tagline but it was obviously still current. It still is, surprise surprise. If you really search the BBC website you can find a mealy-mouthed concession from the governors on the abuse of the language but they still justify it in terms of the emotion Ahmadinejad wished to convey.
There was a terrible irony behind this fandango; Roger Bolton, the smarmy creep who presented Feedback, had once been the hero who made Thames Television’s ‘Death on the Rock’ (1988) - and got it broadcast! (he obviously went on to get the injection for the BBC job). Can you imagine that happening today??? Another world.
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… alas, poor Don. If only he’d had a wearable health gizmo to ward off incoming dumdums.
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If my memory serves me correctly, the, “Wipe Israel off the map” was originally translated by a company called something like ME Enterprises, an Israeli firm that did a number of other translations at the time. All of them of course, translated to suit the Israehell agenda. As for Aljazeera, I guess once a Quatari, always a … fake member of the axis of resistance and alternative media.
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That was it! Ta.
I read the whole of the inquest into the killing as it unfolded day by day. Towards the end, when it got to the bit where the witnesses on the train were describing what they actually saw happen in front of them, it was obvious, to me at least, that their verdict would be unlawful killing. But the Coroner, who obviously thought the same thing, had other ideas and forbade the jury from deciding on that verdict. And the jury obeyed!
There was no evidence against Menezes unless one surveillance officer saying (IIRC) “I think it’s him” (meaning, if he really did say that, he thought that Menezes was the alledged terrorist Osman and despite the fact that he looked nothing like Osman) can be classed as evidence? Especially when other surveillance officers said nothing of the kind.
Why was Menezes killed?
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Bless you Rich, you’ve given me the chance to trot out again my best-ever conspiracy theory (yes, its only a theory but it fits the facts - and I think its all mine!). I’ve not thought of it for ages - I remember running it up the flagpole on ML & TLN to sadly little acclaim but whatthehell, try this on your pianola:
The spooks had done 7/7 just a fortnight before. They wanted - and had - something lined up to move public attention along; reassure the public that ‘terrorists’ were not going to succeed again; reinforce the perception among UK Muslims, already traumatised by massive oppression under ‘Prevention of Terrorism’ legislation, that any of them could be in the crosshairs (without actually antagonising them by killing a Muslim and thereby provoking public disorder and, for that matter, not pissing off the white UK public by killing one of us either); and test the effectiveness and competence of the new Israeli-trained Met. police death squad (they passed with flying colours). (The manner of the killing was a dead ringer for Israeli practice, then and now, and the Met. were known to have a training relationship with the Israelis.)
The patsy was chosen for his appearance, gender, age, unimportance, his distance from family and friends. His prime asset was his dispensability (and his life was duly dispensed with).
The leader of the operation was Cressida Dick who went on to become Met. Police Commisioner with the support of the then Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer. He was the DPP who, in 2009, upheld the decision not to prosecute the police officers who had killed Jean Charles de Menezes. (How many potential conspiracy theories . . .!)
All the attention since the killing, up to and especially including the recent film has been on highlighting (and hand-wringing over) the failings and mistakes (hence the endless repetition of the tagline) of the Met:
Disquieting, heartbreaking, oh how awful! The cover-up is still solid but has to be told again and again (like all the other cover-ups). Isn’t it awful how our security services can so easily make so many mistakes that actually advance their own agenda by keeping everybody scared and stupid?
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I’m pretty much sold. Except the last part with the shooter. Could simply be arrogance (regular cops are dicks, now imagine one with special powers and a license to kill).
The only way to tell is knowing the shooters identity and what happened to them afterwards. But we’ll never know. Interestingly, did you know that the crew of the Columbia shuttle were all twins…
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I agree with everything you’ve said above. Just one addition to your list of why he was chosen. He was on contract to London Underground and many suspect that he had seen too much. So, find a patsy in the Met to lead the kill operation, promise him/her (oh, her, even better for the new age agenda) a big, big promotion, and use Sneer Starmer to do a Jimmy Saville. Nothing to see here and no point in prosecuting, the f****** who shot de Menezes seven times when he wasn’t resisting.
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