Showing posts with label The UK Independent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The UK Independent. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Like the soul of the tyrant himself, Trump's administration is beset with fear and is full of convulsions and distractions, including on immigration enforcement, reversing last week's pause on deportations

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  All his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles.             ...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Crimes in high places: Mad King Ludwig admits he decided to pause tariffs early in the morning on Wednesday when he also posted "This is a great time to buy", which amounts to market manipulation

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    Trump was asked by a reporter on Wednesday when he decided to put a pause on the tariffs.   “I would say this morning. Over the last few...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Numbskull Jesse Watters' masculinity prohibits eating soup in public, crossing your legs, drinking with a straw, milkshakes, waving with both hands, self-awareness, intelligence informed by history . . .

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... “I have rules for men,” Watters began on   Wednesday’s [Fox News] The Five.   “They’re just funny, they’re not that serious. Like, you d...
Friday, November 22, 2024

Pete Hegseth wasn't honest with Trump about his past

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 Trump transition team ‘quietly’ looking at alternatives to Pete Hegseth after he ‘wasn’t honest’ about past Donald Trump ’s transition team...
Sunday, September 8, 2024

I guess Harris accepted Dick Cheney's endorsement because she figured it would boost her approval rating

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Monday, April 8, 2024

Our poor hard-working queens lol

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When your cope becomes your hook:   How drag developed drinking problem: 'Everyone expects us to be loud and wasted'... . .. bottoml...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Kurds and Arabs backed by US retake ISIS' strongholds in Raqqa

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Story here . ISIS' control of Mosul ended in July. So Trump has defeated in 10 months what Obama let develop into a grotesque scou...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Of course the inaugural attendance estimates were lower: Protestors blocked and delayed entry

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Reported here : After almost two hours of delays, the security gates at 7th and Independence Avenue opened to cheers from the restless...
Sunday, October 9, 2016

New UK Prime Minister Theresa May excoriates elites like Obama: "If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere"

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From the text of her speech to the Tories, reproduced  here , in which you will hear echoes of American politics: ... [I]n June people...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Neanderthal US General Stephen Wilson should know about raising rhetoric, compares Vladimir Putin to Adolph Hitler

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You should be very afraid when a man with his finger on the nuclear trigger like General Wilson exposes himself as a demonizing thinker....
Friday, May 8, 2015

In defeat Nigel Farage realizes the problem is representation, as the American founding generation understood

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Here : "There is also the question of what is fair and reasonable. For so many millions of voters to have just one representati...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Philippe Val, pro-Israeli refounder of Charlie Hebdo, says slaughtered cartoonists "were not bad people"

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Cabu's "Gay Lobby in Conclave" in ridicule of the Roman Catholic Church electing a new pope in early 2013. Excuse me. ...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Obama Devotee And Vogue Editor Anna Wintour "Rehabilitates" Fag Designer John Galliano But UK Independent Never Mentions From What

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Well not from homosexuality! but from Anti-Semitism, that's what: On 8 September 2011, Galliano was found guilty of making anti-...
Monday, April 8, 2013

"The Prophet Without Honor In Her Own Country": Thatcher Dead at 87

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both free at last 'The second negative [which helped end her prime ministership] was [Mrs. Thatcher's] intransigent attitude to furt...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Marijuana Makes At Least 2% Of Its Consumers Insane

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So says a story for The UK Independent, here : The long-suspected link between consuming cannabis and developing schizophrenia has been repe...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

President-Elect Hollande Of France Owns Property Worth $1.5 Million

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According to this story, three properties in the French Riviera. Part-ownership apparently is involved with two of the three properties, wh...
Monday, April 30, 2012

George Orwell's Black Vision of Total Surveillance Realized With Drones

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So says Peter Popham for the UK Independent, here : The use of drones for the surveillance purposes sketched by Gitlin takes us back to thei...
Friday, December 25, 2009

Slavery in 2009: A Damning Indictment of Human Decadence

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There are hundreds of thousands of slaves in the city-state of Dubai, a playground for ex-pats: Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of mile...