The Lair of the Emerald Serpent

It is wonderful to see a Real Leader in action. We can rely on Dobby Putin to stand up for the rights of enslaved house elves everywhere. What a joy to hear the sound of marching boots in the morning as the freedom loving forces of The Motherland liberate the long suffering oppressed ethnic Russians of the Sudetenland.
But wait there's more. The minority millionaire ethnic Russians of Kensington and Chelsea also need a saviour in their hour of need.

It is truly touching to see the United States (and the grovelling Congo line of suck holes in Britain and Australia) being ever so concerned with the rights of sovereign states and The Rule of Law when it is exactly 11 years to the very day since their invasion of Iraq.

It's like Animal Farm all over again.

Wednesday 8th May marked the fifth anniversary of the goblin invasion of a certain mad house. The serpent was not there to celebrate and it is likely that no one still there either knows or cares. Had intended to give it a minor mention on the day itself but in the end had lots of online course stuff to do. So it’s likely a good sign that it has gradually been relegated to ancient history where it belongs
But the Megatherion goblins in spite of all the serpent snark devoted to them in recent years look like veritable saints and angels in comparison to their friends in Bangladesh.

In spite of the incredibly large number of dead and injured, this story only lasted a few days on most of the main stream media here. Bangladesh might be far away and over there but there is definitely a day to day connection to here. Those women were making stuff for a whole bunch of big name labels that can be bought in any big box shopping centre or main street mall here
Uncle Vernon was following this sad tale too and read in the papers that the dodgy building housed not just hordes of garment factory workers but retail stores and banks too. Yes. Goblins. They are everywhere

( Cotton Goblins and other Creepy Crawlies )

The silence is almost deafening. It is strange how the local media considered a certain anniversary worthy of attention only in the last week or so when back in 2011 some three months before September, there was so much talk about the Twin Towers and 9/11 in general

Back in 2002 and early 2003 there was no escape from the drama in Iraq and now you have to go pretty much sniffing the story out on the mainstream media. But there are notable exceptions (Robert Fisk is still the voice in the Wilderness that no one listens to until some twenty years later)

Having followed events in that bit of the world ever since the 1979 Valentine’s Day arrival of a certain Ayatollah, it’s been rather a roller coaster ride. But the six months or so leading up to the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 (with the then Australian prime minister not just grovelling along but baying for blood with the worst of them) must have been the most amazing example ever of Doublethink, double standards or maybe just plain old fashioned hypocrisy

( Doubleplusungood )