Duly Noted: Distortions, lies and history
From the desk of George Handlery on Sat, 2009-05-30 12:04
1. As an anticipatory kowtow to third world sensibilities prior to their articulation, some countries consider sending forces to” protect” high-sea shipping. The terminology implies that attacks are to be reacted to in ways that make pirates retreat without needing to harm them. The implication is that when such actions dissuade perpetrators from completing their attacks, strikes will be postponed to be repeated once the conditions are more favorable. This means, like in the case of the slap-on-the-hand persecution of domestic crime, that an alternative future victim is created.
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EU Hit Parade
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Sat, 2009-05-30 11:56
A quote from a Vlaams Belang press release, 25 May 2009
No one pays more to the EU than a citizen of Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium. A Fleming pays twice as much as a Walloon, triple as much as a Briton and five times more than a Frenchman.
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