I notice trolls are letting loose on another blog of mine. They don't like the fact that I dare to actually say something less than praiseworthy about C.B. STRIKE books. That makes me a "traitor" who doesn't "really like STRIKE at all". Yeah, that makes sense. 🤦♀️ I don't always praise my dog either; I still love him. They've warned people off "their" tags, like they own all the STRIKE related tags. 🤦♀️ GOOD. Hopefully it means less moronic comments.
Anyhoo, I'll continue to make appropriate comments [positive, negative and neutral] as I see fit. And anyone who wishes to have a look and wander along is welcome. I don't think JKR is transphobic and I support her right to free speech: take it or leave it. JKR is a good writer of thrillers but I haven't read another thing she has written.
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Rolling Stone goes IN on Kissinger
Their coverage is strikingly different from almost all of the rest of the US and most western media.
Whoever wrote the Daily Mail eulogy linked in the second Rolling Stone article is on the shiny shiny drugs. Also, the recommended tags that popped up for this were ... amusing, let's say.
Presented without further comment.
GOOD RIDDANCE
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies (rollingstone.com)
The infamy of Nixon's foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history's worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him
BY SPENCER ACKERMAN
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100.
Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection in June 2001. [...]
McVeigh, who in his own psychotic way thought he was saving America, never remotely killed on the scale of Kissinger, the most revered American grand strategist of the second half of the 20th century.
The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, estimates that Kissinger’s actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon’s and then Gerald Ford’s foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people. That includes “crimes of commission,” he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile, and omission, like greenlighting Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor; Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh; and the inauguration of an American tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds....
ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY
Media, Conservatives Team Up to Lionize War Criminal Henry Kissinger
The notorious U.S. diplomat responsible for millions of deaths died on Wednesday at the age of 100
BY CHARISMA MADARANG
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Henry Kissinger, a national security adviser and former secretary of state under two presidents, has evaded accountability, even after death. On Wednesday, the notorious war criminal responsible for the deaths of millions, died at the age of 100.
During his lifetime, Kissinger prolonged the Vietnam war and expanded it to Cambodia and Laos; green-lit Indonesia’s bloodshed in East Timor, Pakistan’s bloodshed in Bangladesh, and supported military coups in Chile and Argentina. According to Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger’s Shadow, the estimated death toll for foreign policy policies tied to Kissinger is between 3 million and 4 million.
Yet the headlines following his death have been astonishingly void of accountability, but not surprising. Publications from both the left and right lionized the war criminal. The Wall Street Journal credited Kissinger as the man who “Helped Forge U.S. Foreign Policy During Vietnam and Cold Wars,” while BBC called him the “Divisive diplomat who towered over world affairs.” In a loaded headline, Daily Mail lauded the him as a “Nobel Prize winner who stared down the Soviets,” while also labeling Kissinger as a “VERY unlikely sex symbol.” [...]
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I would like to say I am not rewatching the BBC's Cormoran Strike. I am cured, I have moved on, I am definitely not obsessed.
But I can't.
Up to Lethal White before I knew what had happened. 😁
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Race to get last children out of Bakhmut as city becomes ‘hell on earth’
“War breeds euphemism and metaphor. In the battle for the Donbas city of Bakhmut, threatened with a closing encirclement by Russian forces after seven months of bitter fighting, there are ‘White Angels’ and ‘Dark Angels’, the ‘road of life’ (the Bakhmut-Lysychansk highway, which is anything but) and the ‘Invincibility Centre’. The White Angels, a police evacuation group, scour the lethal districts of the shell-ruined city to evacuate children and the elderly.Their counterparts, the Dark Angels, take out the dead. The Invincibility Centre is where the few thousands of civilians who remain can find water and hot food cooked by the volunteers who have stayed in the city, even as in the past fortnight it has faced an increasing threat of finally being overrun. ...”
Guardian
****NY Times: This Is What Trench Warfare on the Front Line Is Like
NY Times: Whirring Into Action in Ukraine’s Skies
Aljazeera - Russia-Ukraine live: Russia attempting ‘to encircle’ Bakhmut (Video)
NY Times: With Ukraine Under Pressure in Bakhmut, Fight Becomes a Battle Over Roads
BBC - Bakhmut: Fighting in the street but Russia not in control - deputy mayor
Bakhmut has lost 95% of its pre-war population since the start of the Russian invasion
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