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[Charger]

What a great article and speaks quite well about the state of Europe right now. The people are starting to get fed up with all of it and it will show.

I was beyond happy to see the support REAL people gave Israel and I am so proud especially of us Finns for giving them such the top score. Speaks volumes. Regardless of what the leftist inpower-elite tries to do.

Thanks for posting that Vyn, what a great read.

[Vyn]

Glad you liked it!

A question I have for those folks that were calling for the removal of the Israeli contestant: wherein has your caring heart run off to? That woman is not directing any military activities, she's just singing songs. In fact, singing a song decrying a horrific event. Yet you taunt and terrorize her, threaten her physical well-being, and offer her nothing but hate and divisiveness.

I don't understand.

Perhaps that's a signal that I should sit down and simply let Greta Thunberg and Bambi Thug guide my mind and my heart.



Nah, perhaps not

[Zzzptm]

I've got friends in Israel who are calling for the IDF to get out of Gaza and for Netanyahu's resignation because his hardline moves didn't get the hostages returned. They do NOT call for the destruction of Israel.

I have Palestinian friends who are outraged over the IDF's heavy-handedness and the civilian catastrophe that resulted. They also have harsh words for Hamas' pride and hubris in precipitating the situation. They do NOT call for the destruction of Israel.

It's quite possible to be able to decry violence without calling for the additional violence involved in the destruction of a nation-state.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

This year the UK will be officially ignoring Independence Day...

Our lame duck PM has just called a General Election for the 4th July. It's like Turkey's voting for Christmas, he could have hung on for a few more months and maybe their unpopularity could have recovered. Look for one of the biggest swings away from the governing party in generations.

[Zzzptm]

This year the UK will be officially ignoring Independence Day...

Our lame duck PM has just called a General Election for the 4th July. It's like Turkey's voting for Christmas, he could have hung on for a few more months and maybe their unpopularity could have recovered. Look for one of the biggest swings away from the governing party in generations.

Could be he got a better job offer from somewhere and this is his way of putting in notice!

[Vyn]

I caught a headline about that, strikes me as being an act of desperation rather than part of a well-thought out strategy. But, UK politics isn't my forte, so what do I know?

[Charger]

Seems that UK politics have been in total chaos ever since they quit the EU....

[Charger]

Crazy Greta is at it in Finland this time!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13568571/Swedish-eco-activist-Greta-Thunberg-carted-police-attending-XR-protest-Helsinki.html


She and a bunch of other eco morons are sitting on a road in Helsinki blocking the traffic again...what a bunch of utter nutters!

[Vyn]

I note that her concerns are becoming more broad-based. For example, she stated:

"And the same machinery that's driving the climate crisis and environmental destruction, is also fuelling injustices, oppression and genocides. How many times do we have to repeat this same message?"

She is a Swedish person, protesting in Finland, but speaking in English. About nonsense.

lol

[Zzzptm]

Knowing what I know about the rubber industry of the early 20th century and the petrochemical industry up to date, I'd say that injustice, oppression, and genocide do go hand-in-hand with those industries. I'm aware that there's blood in my gasoline when I fuel up, but the structure of the world I live in means I have to use the stuff to live. I am an unwilling participant in the violence, but a participant nonetheless. As such, I look for ways to live so that perhaps some of that blood washes away. It may not be enough on its own, but I also feel that doing nothing at all is to be less unwilling in my participation in the violence of my personal survival.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I don't have an argument with the fact that climate change is happening and we should try and do somethi8ing about it. But it's been over a century since those sort of tactics have swayed anyone into changing their ways and generally it just makes the people they are targeting more determined to ignore them.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Today the UK and Northern Ireland go to the polls to elect a new government. Around 100 Members of Parliament (MPs) have taken the opportunity to stand down at this time, most of them Conservatives.

All 650 seats are up for grabs with the party to get the most able to form the new government. If they get 326 or more that will be an automatic victory otherwise they may have to form a coalition with another party.

Opinion Polls are predicting a massive win for the Labour Party (450+ seats), with the current incumbents the Conservative Party expected to be routed (dropping from around 365 to around 120 or less). There is even a scenario (albeit unlikely) where the Conservatives drop to 3rd place behind the Liberal Democrats. It's strange to think the UK is shifting to the left at a time when many countries are shifting to the right

I'm not one to stay up and watch the results as they come in, I'm just happy that the garbage party are likely to be out of power come tomorrow morning!

[Charger]

I just hope it will be at least somewhat moderate leftwing and not an extreme lefty as that always leads to more problems than results...coming from a country that had extreme leftwing nutters in charge for 4 years and they managed to ruin the economy (among other things) completely and we're very close of being in hole with no way out.

I don't know how left leaning the labour party is over there but I do hope they don't end up screwing things up even more like they did here!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

After Tony Blair took the Labour Party in to a more Middle of the Road direction, Jeremy Corbin over compensated and went too far left and made them unelectable. Keir Starmer has taken them back to a middle ground but perhaps not quite as far as Blair took them.

[Zzzptm]

Meanwhile in the USA...

My Internet was out pretty much all day yesterday.

I was able to cope, not the end of the world or anything.