cosmicway

Friendlies results are not so important. We lost to Werder Bremen same time last year.

Candidate walks in pub and there is a cup tie on the tv, live. It's the second half and the score is 0-1. Candidate says "wow, I hope the %??^4/.##45/ 5%^##234$$###$3 go out". We reply "we pray and hope, they go to extra time as things stand". Candidate leaves, does n't stay till the end of the match. Months pass, candidate returns and says "here guys, this is my new election prospectus". We go through it, contains new garages, new car parks, new shopping areas, jobs for everybody, new transport vehicles, then we co to page 3 and it says "lifelong supporter of %??^4/.##45/ 5%^##234$$###$3" ! Hey, we say, that's imposs, everybody here knows you always supported one of the local teams. Delete we add, utter shame will accompany you forever. "No" he says, "you are not communication scientists, what do you know about communication science ? They have lots of supporters, it's the thing to write in a prospectus" !

Margaret Thatcher was being paid 50 quid a go to enter the interview van. I expect the fee has gone up since then, but that's for the big shots. The lowly uptown back of the woods mister smarmy-face has to cough up, otherwise it's he and his pub landord. Mind you I have read somewhere that the legendary Richard the Lion heart was a bit of a fraud. His contemporaries nicknamed him "Richard I said - I said not". The truly progressive king was John John of the castle of Nottingham.

Huh ? What's the strange part ? Perhaps you have heard of the grooming allowance BBC pays to mr. Cameron whenever he speaks. But that's only the BBC.

The football season begins. The dreaded politicians will go back down, below, to their morbid hideouts. It's the age of the push button war but we have no button to make the scoundrelous ruffians vanish for ever. The best of them is an accomplish of the great train robbery. One who tears his clothing every day about all and sundry told me this once in private: "drat, that girl, the tv hostess mrs xxxxx, charges so much for one invitation, where am I going to find it ?".

They want independent Scotland those don't they ? Who will vote lab then ? It's curtains.

SNP ? Won't that mean curtains ? Middlessex is a kill zone for them.

What is going on ? If Falcao does n't catch fire, the hunchback is dead.

Lab lost the elections because of their archaic "let's go back to socialism" campaign. The Tories, who are also socialist but among themselves, won. In Greece -which is a different kettle of fish altogether but bearing similarities- socialists won but nothing works. You pick up the phone and it's dead, you turn on the water tap and it's empty.

Firefox is the crappiest of them all now. I use chrome but unhappily many of my passwords are in need of migration.

DA GREEK EURO FIX First of all the glorious “no” of the referendum. What happened to it is depicted in the picture below: (I know it’s one of those my foreign friends don’t connect with but it’s such an ever so nice picture, I could n’t resist. Ask another Greek friend of yours what it is.) The cost ------------ 50 bil plus closed banks while Samaras plan euro-bill costed 2.5 bil. Losers --------- Samaras: Loser Tsipras: Loser No voters: 1/3 of them were criminal junta supporters and they are losers Yes voters: Losers come what may. Bank robbers: The new unemployed. Winners ----------- Messrs Merkel, Schauble The dark secret of the turf ------------------------------------ Tsipras wanted to lose last Sunday. An ecumenical government was going to be called upon to sign the agreement and hold elections in October. Tsipras could come back and say “I ‘m a hero, I fought on the beaches, vote for me again”. He won because the junta lovers went for the “no” We already knew there were 10% junta supporters of the “no”, the ANEL and the neo-nazi Golden Dawn. Now it’s 20%, if one makes comparisons of voting patterns with January. Are the additional 10% mainly ANEL types or Golden Dawn types ? This is something we don’t know at this hour. The day after, Tsipras p*ssed in his p*nts proceeds to call a conference of party leaders to work out the agreement proposal. Sacks Varoufakis, hides his crazy “president of parliament” Zoe Konstantopoulos. End

GB were fighting for global security. Sometimes the leaderships made bad calculations. The anti-euros don't give a toss. They want to see exoset missiles fired all over the place.

If UKIP picks on Greece they way they do -and make mrs Merkel look a saintly figure in the process- imagine what they have in store for the Brits. Probably that instrument with which they were measuring peoples noses in "der alte vaterland". Their numbers is no surprise. The disaffliliation from the traditional Tories may be a surprise.

That's unfair as it comes with the "cooking of the books". It happened but why did it happen ? Since the poster goes back in time, I have to go back in time too, even though I don't like doing this a lot. In 1967 a dictatorship was installed in Greece and NATO-EEC did n't do anything about it. Some active support too. In 1974 the pet dictatorship invades Cyprus, the Turkish allies betray them and counter-invade themselves. Dictatorship falls, but Cyprus remains occupied. Again NATO-EEC whistle carelessly. Go stop the left wing lunatic fringe from growing in numbers now (n.b. the eventual book cookers or whatever). So it's an anti-Greek statement really coming straight out of the ss-kommandatur of her Himmler. In 1977 the EEC accepted Greece and Greece remained in NATO in spite of the afore mentioned injustices. That was before the socialists gained power, K. Karamanlis was trying to mend things allover. The precise of the European states was thus: it is desirable to have Greece in the EEC for political and military reasons. It's weak economy makes it a little premature but the size of the country is small and so any problems are also likely to be small. With socialists after 1981 it became dangerous. I was expecting huge problems because at the same time Margaret Thatcher -the strict monetarist- was pm in London. But nothing happened. It appears Ronald Reagan came in between lured Andreas Papandreou and at the same time asked Maggie to stay quiet. NATO was the all important thing those days. Anyway the same men who are now anti-Greek on the bailout issue, were then calling for its destruction, the imposition of another dictatorship and so on.

If there is a union at all it can only be of this type. Otherwise it works like a man who has lost control of parts of his brain. The alternative "lift the bridge - back to the trees", is whatever one thinks it is but rejects the entire union idea - or has to do so ultimately.

Farage appears to be one of the extremists indeed. All he cares about is immigration. About everything else he either does n't comprehend or does n't care (economy - global security). The congratulations he mailed to Greece for the so called "no" result of the referendum were read by the opposition in an effort to take the mickey out of the situation, but no government spokesman of mr. Tsipras party made any reference to them. The Farage-Lepen doctrine turns the world into an endless domino of rival baathist regimes shooting rockets against one another. There are some sour grapes already, there will be new ones. I believe he is one of the men in the Paris metro incident really. As for Greece it was always European. Leave the ancient and medieval history alone and look at today's world, the geopolitical structures that were created in the latter half of the twentieth century. It begins with Greece and the -Churchillian- Britain. The two countries were immensely different in size and strength but we talk in terms of the development of political doctrines, not size and strength. Ok, the Moscow lovers will have none of it, I know, but that's how it happened. Can't be changed now guys. Sorry ! The British people themselves under a Farage regime will enjoy a junta like that of generalissimo Franco and Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Below one of Nigel's friends talking to the BBC:

Well I suppose you have to be someone mentioned in the news to get to you. If I had the dough though I 'd give some to my old college. They will make a "cosmicway fund" for future students.

About universities it is a fact that in Tory ideology only the rich who should be able to afford. Hence all the tricky laws they make. That way there will be only Tory graduates and fewer with other political affiliations, including the more radical ones. Therefore the intelligentia of the future who will inevitably make industries run will be part and parcel of Smith square. That's what they always believed. It's true that in the early fifties universities were spy recruiting grounds, notably Oxford and Cambridge. The reds were scheming to take over Britain. It was what we call today an "asymmetric threat". But they are taking it too far, because they want every one to go around with a photograph of mr. Cameron in his pocket.

Those grants have to be repaid if your income after uiniv, is above a certain thseshold, or no ? I remember one showed me the contract. I think it was 2008 or 2009 and the university was Essex. It mentioned 65,000 euros a year and he did n't say anything to me about not having the intention to repay, but he said "fat chance" about the 65k. I don't know quite what he is doing now.

The banks keep your money. They also use it to finance various types of projects. They also pocket some - you can't escape that. Do you think the company to which you pay your phone bills are saints ? Or they take just enough to pay the workers who dig the streets to place the optical fibers ? So it's not as cut and dry as you say. Now that the dust seems to be settling it looks like we 're going to pay through the nose for a new agreement. Back in January the government of mr. Samaras talked of 2.5 bil additional tax measures for the year 2015 and for 2016 they promised we will be free of such obligations - meaning that we are going to have a balanced budget and there will be therefore no need for additional punitive tax measures. Syriza accused him of robbing the people's blodd but I did n't hear the word "liar". Something in "liar" I did n't hear and now the total bill for three years is 50 bil -courtesy of mr. Tsipras (also the supporters of mr. Samaras are now saying they were talking of 1 bil, but as I remember 2.5, I say 2.5). What's the trick ? How is it that the verbose and resounding "no" became a yes, before the rooster crowed thrice ? Let me tell you the dark secrets of the turf: Tsipras made the referendum to lose. He says we lose, then an ecumenical government signs the agreement, then there will be elections in October - as ecumenical governments cannot go beyond 5-6 months. I will say "I 'm a hero, I fought on the beaches, vote for me again". He stood a good chance as well. But, but, but ... The result was 61% no. A simple comparison with the result of the last elections shows this was 40% left wing and 20% right wing. Granted in the last election we had 10% right wing anti-european vote, that makes an additional 10% right wing vote. Those who disagree with that analysis talk of 25% right wing vote because -they say- 5% of Syriza supporters voted yes (that's a minority view with which I disagree). So the JUNTA voted the yes. I don't know how many of them are of the neo-nazi golden dawn type and how many are of other type, but it's 20% JUNTA vote. Their reasoning is diabolical as you can readily grasp and nothing to do with the poor masses etc (who are indeed poor masses and have big problems during the present crisis - there can be no doubt about that). So mr. Tsipras p*ssed in his p*nts as well as apprehensive of the consequences of a disorderly Grexit, goes off and signs. End of story.

I 'm not a "Smith square" employee. But the leftists are equally problematic and perhaps more. In 1967-74 we had junta black is black in Greece. Yet the poor Bulgarians who were living under communist regime were escaping to Greece hidden in refrigerator vans. Sometimes the doctors had to amputate their legs.

If those Tory behaviours are to be called extreme, it is the fault of the leftists who make wild marches and burn theatres and cinemas. The people are estranged and vote Tory. In addition we have the Moscow-Lenin branch of leftists with their tanks (in their imagination now).

The leftists approach things in childish fashion. To them "democratic Europe" means the political parties they consider affiliated to them should win everywhere, every time. That's impossible and even undemocratic indeed. It further does n't follow that Europe under the influence of mainly SYRIZA type parties will knock on his door and say "here mister Tsipras, you can have all the euros you want and make them into confetti - we English, French, Portuguese patriotic socialists will pay the bill, hairdressers et al" ! In Europe there should be more direct democracy indeed. It's not as if it is a dictatorship under generalissimo Franco now, but more democracy is needed. Those who are in direct opposition to it are the eurosceptics who don't want any Europe at all. Also the die hard reds who are still crying because the Soviet tanks failed to reach Calais, In addition there should be a common fiscal policy. We have common monetary policy but without common fiscal policiy we are like a team without goalkeeper indeed. Once we elect who is in charge of finance -the "tzar" as is nicknamed- I don't see the problem. It's as democratic as any other democratic system.

The new finance minister of Greece is mr. Tsakalotos, a leftist indeed. But do you know what the name Tsakalotos means in Greece ? Tsakalotos grand father was the general of the Greek army who smashed the communist rebellion in 1949 ! A name dreaded by the communists for decades. Tsakalotos the general had nothing to do with the junta of 1967. He was a patriot. Initially, in 1948, the Greek army was under the leadership of American general Van Fleet. Van Fleet made some serious strategic errors in his effort to encircle the communist hideouts in the mountains. He was replaced by general Papagos -the war hero- and Thrayvoulos Tsakalotos was in charge of operations in the mountains. Under the inspired leadership of those two the Greek army marched from victory to victory, until what was left of the insurgents had to flee across the border to neighbouring Albania (the Hoxha regime). During the last years of his life, Tsakalotos was visited by the surviving communist general Marco Vafiadis -his opponent in the mountain war. Vafiadis said that war should never have happened and the two old men became friends. Somehow the grandson became a leftist and eventually joined the SYRIZA party.

Varoufakis will go to foreign universities and make lectures for a fee of 25000 $. I wonder. Was the guy who taught us "fortran for beginners" earning that much for each lecture ? I went to a couple of those, with invited speakers. One was about black holes. Useful stuff but it did n't look like a 25000 $ invitation. I wonder what Harvard students learn from those imbeciles. The Harvard exams are nothing to lauch at, but Varoufakis ? I bet the tea ladies they have over there are better. Amazing situation. Why can't people throw away money like that when I 'm around ?