Det er 36 år siden, de to herrer skrev sammen sidst:
Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought
By Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward – June 8
As Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, he posed the question: “What was Watergate?”
Countless answers have been offered in the 40 years since June 17, 1972, when a team of burglars wearing business suits and rubber gloves was arrested at 2:30 a.m. at the headquarters of the Democratic Party in the Watergate office building in Washington. Four days afterward, the Nixon White House offered its answer: “Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it was,” press secretary Ronald Ziegler scoffed, dismissing the incident as a “third-rate burglary.”
History proved that it was anything but. Two years later, Richard Nixon would become the first and only U.S. president to resign, his role in the criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice — the Watergate coverup — definitively established.
Mere HER i The Washington Post – printversion. Man kan få sideinddeling her, hvis man synes, det er sjovt.
Secretary of State for the Home Department. Indenrigsminister, Theresa May. Nu lover de konservative i England igen at begrænse indvandringen. De truer med at lave nye love, hvis ikke dommerne ændrer udvisningspraksis. Venstrefløjens hoforgan, Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstol, sidder tungt på “demokratierne” i EU og indfører institutionel socialisme per dekret. Løfter om indvandrerbegrænsninger har vi jo ligesom hørt nogle gange før, men det er da en fin spinøvelse indenfor disciplinen, træde vande:
Home Sec Theresa May on Marr Show (10Jun12)
Failed Conservative home secretary Theresa May is interviewed by Andrew Marr, full interview.
Recorded from BBC Andrew Marr Show, 10 June 2012.
Toughen up on human rights or we’ll change the law, May tells judges who refuse to deport foreign criminals
By Steve Doughty | 11 June
Theresa May yesterday declared war on judges who refuse to deport foreign criminals because of their human rights.
The Home Secretary said the courts should stop allowing overseas prisoners, law-breakers and illegal immigrants to stay in Britain on the grounds that they have a right to a family life.
She promised a vote in Parliament to ram home to judges ‘what the public believe’ and persuade them ‘to take into account what Parliament has said’.
SCO. Det er ikke kun en cykel fra Smidt & Co, – det er også en asiatisk interesseorganisation. Kaplan følger med i, hvad det er for en fisk og hvad de laver. Det gør jeg også engang imellem – fra 8. juni 2012:
Robert D. Kaplan on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Agenda)
Stratfor Chief Geopolitical Analyst Robert D. Kaplan looks at the significance of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is seeking to spread its influence as far as Turkey.
En ret nørdet diskussion om krigsstrategi & taktik - faktisk ikke overdrevent interessant. Fra 8 juni 2012:
A Conversation on Counterinsurgency as a Strategy with George Friedman and Robert D. Kaplan
Stratfor CEO George Friedman and Chief Geopolitical Analyst Robert Kaplan debate the viability of counterinsurgency as a military strategy.
Ayatollah Livingstone. Ville gøre London til et fyrtårn for islam. Røde Ken. Som selv er ret velhavende. Og Jew Hating Ken. Mente ikke, jøder ville stemme på ham, fordi jøder er rige, sagde han. Heldigvis tabte The Labour Party stort, da der var lokalvalg den 3. maj 2012 og konservative Boris Johnson kunne fortsætte som Londons borgmester. Livingstone tabte også til Johnson i 2008:
UKIP Nigel Farage & Red Ken Livingstone on collapsing Eurozone Sky News 10 Jun 2012
Labour Ken Livingstone agrees with UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage that the Eurozone must breakup.
Dalrymple om Livingstone – herlig, velskrevet ironi:
No Representation without Taxation: Theodore Dalrymple finds much merit in a proposal from Ken Livingstone
by Theodore Dalrymple – March 13, 2012
Theodore Dalrymple is surprised to find himself agreeing with Ken Livingstone – so long as we also have a new law banning hate speech against the rich.
The resentful define the rich as those who have more money than themselves; while the politicians who play to this resentment never consider themselves as members of the rich.
No one better illustrates this last principle than Kenneth Livingstone, erstwhile mayor of London, and perhaps soon again to be mayor. Mr Livingstone’s company – presumably a sole-trader company – made £238,000 last year and £284,000 the year before. This puts him firmly in the upper one per cent of the population as far as income is concerned; he is, I think it fair to say, one of the rich.
The Bill Is $50, No — Wait — $125 Billion (and Counting) for Spanish Banks
June 10, 2012 – 7:33 am – by David P. Goldman
There must be somebody besides us ex-bankers-in-remission rolling around the floor laughing about the succession of headlines on Saturday afternoon. First came this:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund is estimating that Spanish banks need at least a euro40 billion ($49.87 billion) capital injection following a stress test it performed on the country’s financial sector.
and an hour or two later, this:
Spain will seek financial help from its Eurozone partners but exactly how much won’t be known until private audits are undertaken, the country’s economy minister announced Saturday. Earlier, European finance ministers discussed plans to offer Spain up to $125 billion (100 billion euros) in a bid to stabilize its banks — and ease concerns over the even bigger European debt crisis. [...]
Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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