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UN Human Rights Council Cannot Be Relied On

13th November 2024 Going Postal 2557 Comments

If the US and Israel can unilaterally decide who lives or who dies in this world, and suffer no sanctions, then we are truly living in terrifying times. October 16, 2024 I don’t know why [more…]

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Fighting the Good Fight

21st February 2024 Going Postal 2421 Comments

The UN is actively addressing the challenges of international tax cooperation in the digital era, highlighting the necessity to revamp existing rules. A recent UN report offers three options: a legally binding multilateral convention, a [more…]

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No one is attacking me

7th January 2024 Going Postal 2644 Comments

Odysseus, when asked his name by Polyphemus, famously retorted ‘Outis’ – ‘no-one’, or ‘nobody’; thus, when the drunk Cyclops was having his eye gouged out by Odysseus and co., his call for help from his [more…]

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Colonialist Le Grand Fromage, Part Two

20th September 2023 Always Worth Saying 2767 Comments

Syria Saudi Arabia prepared its forces to launch against Damascus, while compliant UK Lame Stream prepared the media ground. Coordination of forces had been prepared in Jordan during Eager Lion 2012, UN the statutory septic [more…]

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Somalia: Political Fallout And Ramifications

5th April 2023 Going Postal 2942 Comments

Like the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the political fallout caused the usual sea change in the US bringing the Somalia adventure to an end. Paul Watson, though not a professional photographer, who won the Pulitzer [more…]

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Day of the Rangers

29th March 2023 Going Postal 3120 Comments

Independent journalists and non-UN aid workers had already done enough to discredit the approach taken under Operation Restore Hope and so were treated by the US-UN as “the enemy”. Throughout Somalia’s “peacekeeping war”, independent journalists [more…]

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Keystone Cops And 12th July

22nd March 2023 Going Postal 3046 Comments

Relief work had been halted overnight following the death of the Pakistanis. UN [read US] commanders tipped off aid agencies a “massive strike” would be carried out sometime in the next two days, imploring them [more…]

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Eating the Bugs…

21st March 2023 Going Postal 2534 Comments

There have been reports in the press recently about the approval of insects as an ingredient in the human food chain.  I have no objection to people eating insects – John the Baptist famously lived [more…]

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New World Order Falls at First Hurdle

7th March 2023 Going Postal 3004 Comments

Each morning in early 1993, UN Pakistan contingent troops answered the muezzin call to prayer. The purported common Islamic bond between Somalis and Pakistanis was considered by both sides to contribute to a special rapport [more…]

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