Strangely Perfect

Introduction You may not have noticed the co-incidence yesterday, but an Iranian aircraft crashed and the US Space Shuttle took off.  the co-incidence was in  the strange reporting that envelops such events. Iranian Crash This, as air crashes go, was pretty ordinary – something went wrong, it crashed, everyone died.  You’d expect some reasoned discussion, [...]

Today’s news at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) meeting in Moscow, is the final card played in a long game of bluff and revenge started several decades ago by Vladamir Putin. I’ve been banging on about this for over a year now in these pages. But hey!  It’s only me! So whatever the current [...]

Two apparently contradictory stories from two opposing viewpoints tell the same story in a way. Georgian president vows to reclaim 2 provinces – (Associated Press) Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said yesterday that he’d “regain control of the two breakaway provinces with the help of the rest of the world.” He said the West would “help [...]

US Nationalises Banks Well nearly – but they’ll never admit it.  The headline news in financial markets today (a Saturday! – no co-incidence there then?), is: Key US lenders to face new curbs BBC News U.S. Nears Rescue Plan For Fannie And Freddie Washington Post, source story The two psuedo-companies called Freddie Mac and Fannie [...]

It’s important that in these times of tit-for-tat diplomacy which have replaced common sense and dialogue, that the correct order of statements and actions is recorded. Otherwise, in a short time, a different history will be seen as people’s views and memories get clouded in the mists of time.  Eventually, a whole new history appears [...]

This follows on from my post with predictions here, How a Sensible Sounding Statement reveals US Ignorance of History Russians halt Nato co-operation Russia stops all co-operative efforts with international operations like Afghanistan, relief work & Georgia. Quoting from the BBC, “Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow’s response to their pleas would depend on [...]

Or Does it Mean, Ignoring History? Key Links: US, Poland OK missile defense base, riling Moscow Russia condemns US missile deal I can agree with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, for her statement, “Missile defence, of course, is aimed at no one. It is in our defence that we do this.” And it sounds [...]

Describes how New York, Washington and Moscow are all actually only 20 miles apart!