The race to find that plane

The Chinese govt finds itself in quicksand of its own making.  The Nationalist fervour it has been whipping up against its neighbours recently with an almost state sponsored truth that their brown neighbours are beneath contempt and their islands and seas obviously belong the great and far superior Chinese nation. Sound familiar?  Chinese people are convinced without a shred of doubt theirs is the most powerful nation on the planet, without an inkling of an understanding of economics and the fact that they also have more souls living in abject poverty than any other nation and that the wealth they have is reliant on selling their goods to those beneath them. Manila has now been bullied for a number of years for the audacity to let a group of Hong Kong citizens be the victim of a vicious crime by a madman and laying claim to islands within actual sight of their country. Earth orbits and sending a box to the moon have given its people the belief that their government is all powerful and conquering, even if was 60 years after everybody else did it.
Yet they cannot find an itty bitty aeroplane that was flying to its capital, how can that be its faithful citizens ask? We are the greatest nation on Earth, and why can't you punish those brown bastards who owned the plane?

Sounds harsh, but that is the reality of the Chinese media,  and the already government sanctioned demonstrations against the overwhelmed Malaysian govt in Beijing.
Over the next few days and weeks the Chinese government will claim victory in trying to find the stricken airliner, and even possibly twist it so that it appears that it was their efforts that ultimately led to that finding, whenever that will be.
The Chinese govt has a lot to lose, its credibility amongst its own citizens being the fiirst, you can't claim to be Superman but not be able to get a cat out of a tree.

For those gone

Impose Leveson NOW

Impose Leveson recommendations NOW!

PCC ruling.
Intrusion into grief or shock

i) In cases involving personal grief or shock, enquiries and approaches must be made with sympathy and discretion and publication handled sensitively. This should not restrict the right to report legal proceedings, such as inquests.

*ii) When reporting suicide, care should be taken to avoid excessive detail about the method used.

Daily Mail front page headline this week (I refuse to link or post photos from this rag anymore it only gives them hits and therefore revenue ) ;

' The moment Mick heard L'Wren was dead: Jagger's face is etched with grief after hearing ...'
This together with a photo of moment Mick Jagger heard.

The toothless PCC will do nothing,  the time for self regulation is over.
Implement the Royal Charter, and be damned with them. #TheDailyMail #levenson #MickJagger

The Big Bang

What a time to be alive!
The most significant scientific findings, in millenia are being discovered not only during our lifetime but in just this decade. These findings will be marked down for generations to come. It was during the first few years of the 21st Century they found out the true size of our universe( 14 billion light years, 400 billion galaxies, each with 300 billion stars), the finding of 700 earth like exoplanets and the realisation of billions more, the time when man  was truly able to comprehend the Earth's position in the stars.
 2013/4 was the year The Big Bang was finally proven incontrovertibly with the actual echo and light from that moment a trillion trillion trillionth of a second after the Big Bang taking place being discovered. This was the time the Higgs Boson was found. Of course Einstein foresaw a lot of these findings, but it has taken decades for technology to catch up.
The next frontier? Of course to find other life, but also to detect the 'Multiverse'. 
Fascinating times!

Return of The Cold War.

In the end nothing can be done against Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea and its threat to annex the whole of Ukraine.  It is tragic that Europe once again finds itself in the same old position of before both World wars. This is no different from Germany marching into Poland.

Although the west may be unable to stop Russia,  appeasement and inaction are just as dangerous as they were before. When the dust settles Georgia,Poland and Russia's other western neighbours will be extremely nervous and uncomfortable,  wouldn't you be?
After a 20 year hiatus,  there will be an inevitable resumption of the cold war, which ultimately Russia can ill afford as it couldn't 20 years ago.
This seems now to have been Putin's aim, he was never happy with the loss of the Empire and longs for the return of his halycon days back in the KGB. He has always felt deep regret and shame in his belief that Russia was humilated by losing the cold war. His long term plan was to right that wrong and restore the world order.
 Nato has no option but to move East, for the US to establish major bases in Poland and reignite the long postponed missile defence shield and Reagan's 'star wars' system. Pacifists will object, nuclear proliferation will once again become a part of our life, but in the end there is no alternative.
A major European power is once again marching into sovereign territory,  today Russia is holding major military exercises in The Mediterranean,  where's next, The Channel?

Propoganda Propoganda Propoganda

Press Freedom and Glasnost are long dead, welcome to Soviet Russia.

Putin Moves Against the Press http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/03/vladimir-putin-press-censorship-galina-timchenko.html

Co-op Group chief executive Euan Sutherland

Disgusting!  Apparently this wanker, sorry banker demanded to be paid £3.6m or he would walk! Don't just walk you cunting excuse for a human being, run, run, run and take the rest of your twatish robbing motherfucking friends with ya! You are not wanted, you are a despised sub species, and I hope your kind are hunted down and exposed for what you are, the scum on the top of a rotting pond of deceit and nepotism who are responsible collectively for the biggest recession for a hundred years.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26525590

Nothing at all

Ukraine; Choose peace not war

Ukraine , the Crimea stand at a dangerous crossroads, what happens now will affect millions. Naked Russian aggression and provacation  is undeniable. But military action is not necessarily inevitable.
The best policy may be to ignore the Russian action, thereby protecting the Ukranians, particularly children. War would be disastrous in the extreme. 
Of course every country must have a right to defend itself, but what must be remembered is that the Crimea was Russian until the time of Krushev and that its people are 60% ethnically Russian, so they may actually want to go back to Russia, although no one has asked them. 

That is why Russia's actions are inexcusable and will almost certainly lead to the  diplomatic wilderness, this so soon after the apparent showcasing of Russia's modernisation at the Sochi olympics.
Conflict must be avoided at all costs, nobody wants to see war torn cities and yet more refugees fleeing a war they didn't choose instigated by yet another tyrant.
Let the Russians come,  but expel them using political means. Give the Crimean region a choice, to stay with Ukraine, to join Russia or independence. 
The Ukraine government also needs to reassure the Russians that they can continue to use the port of Balaclava as a Naval base, their shared Soviet history is still intertwined with the present and certain exceptions must be made.
Choose Peace!