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Finally hereditary peers have been removed from the UK House of Lords. Personally this should just be the start.
Bishops next, the Lords Spiritual have no place in Government in the 21st century.
Then just get rid of the whole Lords and Ladies sh1t. When Lord Cameron was foreign secretary were other countries impressed or did they just laugh?
The UK may be the land of the Magna Carta and the home of the mother of Parliaments but it shouldn’t be run as if it was still the Middle Ages.
The US has mustered the world’s most powerful naval assets in the Persian Gulf but is apparently unable to keep the Straits of Hormuz open for shipping. It is not actually physically closed as some ships can pass through belonging to non aligned countries. It is the threat of attack and insurance.
The inability of the US to negate Iranian forces threatening shipping gives the lie to the claims of destruction and decapitation of Iranian forces.
Or is the wish for NATO to come to US aid merely a pretext for eventual US withdrawal from NATO?
Countries are wisely choosing not to get involved in the mess created by US/Israel. However, Trump threatens to “remember” and he is a vindictive man.
Difficult to establish if this is the plan all along, or just Trump.
A war and the inevitable retribution could of course create a “Reichstag Fire” opportunity for Trump to restrict democracy in the US ahead of the mid-terms. I do not believe for one moment that he will voluntarily leave office without creating a republican hegemony and a Trump dynasty.
The echoes with 1930s Germany are chilling.
With the resignation of Trumps top counter terrorism official who says Iran posed no threat to the US, it is becoming more and more clear that it is Israel calling the shots.
A pre-emptive move to neutralise the only effective threat to an Israeli annexation of the West Bank? Supported by Christian Evangelical hawks in the US who believe that the return of the Jews to Israel will bring the rapture and a second coming of Christ.
If true then the world is being held to ransom by people with literal belief in the Bible or their version of it.
Someone tell me this is the 21st century and not the Middle Ages please….
Top US counterterrorism official resigns over Iran war, urging Trump to 'reverse course' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4g66r3z40o
Israel Is Ready to Use a Nuclear Weapon in Iran https://flip.it/.MuWQC
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When MTG says he has gone insane, then all I can say is God help us. And I say that as a Humanist.