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Russsia are playing a long game. They cannot attack the free world like USSR also could n't (except through the window offered to them in world war II). They cannot look forward to client political parties winning elections - those are are destined to fail more or less like the communist parties have failed. Russia likes the domino theory, where they are in a position to exert influence. For example Iran and India lately. But most of all they want to disorganize the west using fifth column agents. Trump-Brexit-Orban and others, So Putin is looking forward to conquer the world in small safe steps. It's true that most Europeans in 2003 got scared and did not participate in the Iraq operation, earning the nickname "surrender monkeys". Now the ball is on the other foot: Trump is the new Quisling who pretends to be scared. I countered your venting successfuly but anyway what you say "politicians are scum" cannot be truer. Imagine you and I are government ministers. You call me on the phone one morning and say this: you: Hey, heard about that Nancy in Canada ? me: Nancy who ? you: The blonde one, remember when we were in Canada eleven years ago ? me: Oh yeah, what about her ? you: Have n't you heard man ? She's been caught by the mounties and they put her in a dungeon with the cat o' nine tails. me: Oh dear ! you: And she 's going to spill the beans about the corrupt deal we made through her. me: What are you talking about ? We have spent every penny in booze and night clubs. you: Does n't matter. It's going to be clonk-clink man if they find out. me: ... The conversation continues in this vein. But as we seen it before, why keeps repeating itself ? Because the chances are infinitessimal. In this imaginary conversation it so happened that we fell from the Akropolis without a parachute. Nobody from the next generation will pay atterntion to our freaky mishap.

Hannibal directive was in Poland, 1939. This one ? Hamas said on 7/10 "our heroic mutzahedin attacked Israel" they did not say "Hannibal dirrective". You could concoct something like deliberate lax security, like what the Americans allegedly did at Pearl Harbour.

Trumpism is a strange cult. When I was younger it was the commies and the hippies, the enemies of the state - according to the conservatives at least. There were also the apartheidists in the southern states and in South Africa, but this thing looked just bizarre to us whether we were conservatives or fellow traveling pinkos. Nowadays people believe in all sorts of strange things. The antivaxers top the bill. This one was the aspiring leader of the antivaxers political party: George Tragas. Strange figure. Back in 1986 he was a newspaper editor and I had a conversation with him about the Cernobyl accident. Looked very intelligent. He said to me "we must n't blame the new Soviet leader Michael Gorbatchev for it - it was n't his fault and the man is really trying to reform the system". That was in Gorbatchev's very early days. I had no idea and he surprised me. Then the man, Tragas, started embracing one strange cause after the other. Why ? For money obviously. In 2021 he wanted to start the antivaxers party but he himself got covid and died from it ! Left everything to his son. Ten-twerty-thirty luxury homes, in Greece, Germany, England, Beverly Hills, Chicago, Manhattan ... All from black money - could n't be justified. The son had to disown the will, or he was going to go to prison.

Why does Putin go for the 87% in the "elections" whereas Stalin favoured the 99.99% ? Alternatively why did n't Stalin like the 87% but insisted on 99.99% ?

I had a polyp the size of a tennis ball. Looked like a big mushroom rather. They removed after a three and a half hour operation. But five days later I was hopping about. It was 26 of April when the op took place. On May the 1st the doctor comes and says "beat it, go home". Then he returns and says "fiddlesticks - it's bank holiday, we can give no exits" - so I left hospital the 2nd of May. I had lost weight but I could do what I liked, eat sausages, pizzas ... Also in the same room at the hospital was an old man with a similar condition and he too walked out in a few days. So this one with Kate, after a succesful op as they say, is strange.

THE INFORMATION AGE AND MODERN GOVERNMENT ------------------------------------------------------------- The beginning of the information age in the eighties was strange. We, common folks, had access to various simple machines such as Commodore, Pet, Oric, Lynx ... and could do various computer jobs. But the state had nothing ! I used to go to places such as the tax authority offices and the post office and they were usings scraps of paper or little notebooks - like the little gift notebooks from the pharmacy shops. I used to say to them "hey, you dummies what are you doing here ? buy an Oric Atmos" and they were looking at me quite perplexed. At the same time in the Soviet Union and satelittes they did n't like this at all. How we managed to lag 50 years behind the west they were saying. That was some 5-6 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. But the Soviet communist faithfuls were saying "don't worry - the state will own the new technology sooner or later". Their prediction was wrong and correct at the same time. Soviet Union was into a downward spiral from which they never emerged, but the state as such regained the initiative, eventually. Nowadays we are all into big brother's eyesights. If we bought a sack of potatoes without a tax receipt we are caught and fined 5000-10000 for it. The left wing no brainers applaud - they think big brother is their friend. Ok, wait and see ...

We were going to face City anyways.

Pool out - Manure in.

The above is true. Today Sanchez was more to blame then Disasi for the Leicester goal and we did n't have a truly world class c.f. since Diego. Makes a huge difference if you have someone like Diego or Drog. But the team is average because there is no system. Slow buildup. You did n't observe that today because it was an opponent from the championship, but we have n't got the ways to move the ball that City, Pool and Real Madrid have. About Arsenal I won't say anything because I have n't been watching a lot of Arsenal this year, but look at the way Real Madrid and City move the ball against organized defenses. You know they 're going to reach the box and create some sort of situation almost every time.

Pool - Chelsea, City - Coventry is the draw.

MVP

Chelsea 4 - Leicester - Doyle + Sterling 2. Pochettino out.

Why did m*****f***ing Sterling take that pen ? Where is Pochettino ?

PSG - Barca Atleti - Dortmund Arsenal - Bayern Real - City

Both City and Pool are in the cup.

Someone has to tach those players positioning and movement off the ball - how to play as a team. Have you noticed something about Man. City and Real Madrid ? When they have to play against an organized defense they can always move the ball downfiled to promising position. This we can't do with the same fluency-effectiveness (but in the old days we could of course).

The thing between magas and Mexican immigrants is not new in America. I remember in the days of the tea party they were talking about exactly the same things and also in the late seventies, when it was Reagan v. Carter. In Europe the situation with immigrants from the middle East is relatively new, but not in America. For America much bigger problem is the guns-bazookas-light artillery with which they kill one another but Trump through a clever manipulation managed to raise racial tensions to unprecedented heights. He did this in 2016 but also now. In the UK in the seventies Margaret Thatcher was doing the same thing. She had disowned Enoch Powell who was way too extremist but she was doing the same thing. In those days the UK immigrant population were seldom and almost never appearing in police reports. The only exception was the -yearly- riot in Portobello road, every August. But that was politically instigated by some anarchist-communist groups. Despite the situation being calm, Maggie T. staged a mini-Trump performance and in the end won the elections with the help of Saatchi and Saatchi. Trump has magnified this twenty fold - as he even talks about surrendering Europe to Putin Yet as things stand he seems to be the favourite for November.

Newcastle was beatable, I never joined the prematch lament talk here. I wrote about the wider issues.

If you are left -I 'm saying if- you should support Stalin. Any other type of leftism is for autistic circus performers. Within the sphere of left wing logic only Stalin is true left.

BET365: US politics ------------ Donald Trump 1.90 Joe Biden 2.75

The level of 2008-2012.

Let's face it. The players we brought the last three years, including the champions league year were not Chelsea level and things went from bad to worst. The champions league team was not as good in the premier and from the foreigns teams we played only Real Madrid and City were premier league top ten level really. Then we lost Rudiger and Kante and starting from August 2022 things are bleak. The replacements of the old squad were the likes of Lukaku and Aubameyang and the great white hope Mount proved a flop - he 's gone. Every single one of our present crop of players could do great in Italy, Portugal, Netherlands. Those are lower standard leagues (used to rule the world, now they are lower standard). But the present squad are not Chelsea level.

We ended because of the Jew baiting question. Also it's a fact racism makes no distinction between legal and illegal, in addition it is not possible unless one is a police officer. So we are effectively asked and encouraged to do nasty things against everybody once we have identified him as foreigner. If the man is coloured we identify quick, if he is not it may take some time. The PAOK Salonika fans are into such a fascist cult themselves, against anyone who is not from Salonika in their case. So they have developed systems. If you are in Salonika and someone asks you where is the EMY meteorological service buidling you better turn around and run fast. In fact a Salonika man confided this to me. He asks me in Athens "where is the building ?". I respond "but it's inside the airport" then he says "I tested you - this is what we do in Salonika".

I never defended Israel on political issues. Their enemies are islamofascists no different to BNP and they are firing rockets and beheading babies. So my issue is equality, it's not charity or donations. I had to be forced to answer a Jew baiting question no intelligent person would n't ask of me. I don't know where you live, mountain, desert, snakes, bears - you know.

Jew baiting is called the kind of rubbish you write me, not just antisemitic, But apologies, people in the mountains don't know this lingo.