A fascinating investigative article in Rolling Stone on a cabal of American neocons trying to get an invasion of Iran on the agenda – chilling because of what it suggests about the ability of such small groups of ideologues to drive global events. Full of dramatic cloak-and-dagger stuff too. Mediawatching types will be interested in the way they use the big newspapers as pawns in their scheme.
Nate’s take on Israel/Lebanon. He’s always worth reading, he’s an incredibly good communicator with an interesting perspective and an uncommon background. Oh, heck, I’ll just copy in his own introduction:
“This journal is about whatever crosses my mind. At the moment that’s mostly my struggle to make sense of the massive feeling of spiritual dislocation brought to a crisis by 9/11 and the 2003 Iraq War. There’s more but that’s the starting point. My name is Nate Cull. I’m a New Zealander by birth and residence, a Gen-Xer by cohort, a sysadmin by trade, a Post-Evangelical Christian by religion, and politically your guess is as good as mine, but I would have once called myself conservative. Like a lot of things so far and to come, that part of me is now in flames. ”
Go read. Incredibly worthwhile.
And on a completely different note, Cosmodemonic’s Failed solutions to being hungover at work – the link is to #1 in a short series. Warning: Cosmodemonic’s blog is not for the faint-hearted.
And on a more completely differenter note, Teresa’s recipe for banana bread makes me hungry just thinking about it. Yum. (Ooh, she’s just posted the recipe for the absolutely incredible white choc and cardamom fudge too. That stuff almost had me in tears it was so good. *sigh*.)
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I was glad to see that the Rolling Stone article they linked back to a similar information about the lead-up to the Iran war.
There really is very little difference between the build-up to war on Iraq and the build-up at the moment against Iran: the only difference, really, is that with Iraq they demonised a political leader, with Iran they’re demonising a religion and culture.
The big question, we all should be looking at, is how what is happening in Lebannon *right now* feeds into this. Was / is Iran encouraging Hizbollah to divert the West’s attention, to delay the American invasion? Is the West encouraging Israel, to build a platform of unease to further build support for their Persian incursion?
The answer is probably yes, to both.
hey there, more recipes to post later this evening.(been tied up in HR things) some choccy cake, some peppermint creams and the all important ‘Blue Peter’ biscuits! All strangeness will be explained in the posts!
Had forgotten you had had some of the tablet that year. Was thinking of doing it again at christmas this year. It was, shall we say, popular 😉