The Right Dishonourable Podcast

Right Dishonourable podcast

The Right Dishonourable Podcast is a relatively good, well done, interesting (for me at least, IMO) podcast on social & cultural issues.

gaulliste libre post on Greece developments

Blog gaulliste libre: Avec la Grèce, la gauche de la gauche s’est discré...:

Donald Trump Leading After 1st GOP Debate

He's in the lead still, even more, now that the first GOP debate has been held by FNC. He was criticised for his answer to Ms. Kelly on women and responded on Twitter and the press https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY1SePRIZKc.

But there are larger issues the GOP in the USA ought to consider;

However, Trump’s ugly bombast is a distraction from a far more serious problem for the GOP. Three years after Romney lost the women’s vote by a double-digit margin, in part because of his support for defunding Planned Parenthood, the presidential debates last week made clear Republicans have only become more disrespectful toward women’s bodies, more deranged in their hatred of Planned Parenthood, and more dismissive of female voters.(1)

Note:
(1) http://www.thenation.com/article/the-gops-contempt-for-women/

US Republican Senators can't handle Iran deal.

Their performances in hearings demonstrates they can't handle international diplomacy or negotiations, etc

Link: Slate.com article 'Not Fit to Lead'

French get unfair flak

Just mt view, the French get more flak than they deserve. Though with the Calais problem(1)  they do deserve it, but not elsewhere.



Notes:
(1) http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33751619

Fawkes Got Fawked!

http://zelo-street.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/guido-fawked-owen-jones-smear-hypocrisy.html

Oh what a tangled web some weave!

Berlin 1945 in colour

Berlin in 1945 in colour

A very clear collection of clips on YT of Germany's divided capital under Allied occupation

ALP Socialist Left Forum: Responding to Chris Bowen on Labor's 'Socialist Ob...

ALP Socialist Left Forum: Responding to Chris Bowen on Labor's 'Socialist Ob...: above: Federal Labor Shadow Treasurer, Chris Bowen The following article is a critique of a recent contribution on debate surroundin...

Aust. Coalition Govt. in poll loss

The current Federal Government of Australia is polled to lose the next federal election here in Australia. Trailing behind the ALP, the Australian Labor Party(1).

Not hard to guess why. PM Abbot has broken nearly all major 2013 election promises he made, and repeatedly attacked the working-class with welfare cuts, changes to the retirement pension, funding cuts to the ABC & SBS and even his promise not to raise taxes or make deals with the Greens in the Senate which he has broken to increase petrol taxes.

On and on the pledge breaking goes. Combined with a clearly biased Speaker of the House of Reps(2)

Note:
(1) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHidIyHWoAARXec.jpg
(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J1sjXYKnyg

US & UK claim Edward Snowden docs. somehow resp. for Rival's detection

If Mark White(1) wants his readers to actually believe there were leaks by Mister Snowden, he's had plenty of time to read up. I doubt he can read millions of files without access to them.

Just giving the spin from MI6 & the CIA is just the writings of vulgar propaganda. And judgment of acts is supposed to be based on motivations and physical outcomes, not vague, alleged, possible outcomes.

Note:
(1) http://news.sky.com/story/1501852/spy-leaks-have-put-more-than-lives-at-risk

More Gazans would vote for Fatah in latest poll

Fatah in poll lead(1).

Their business of course, but Hamas has clearly lost the political majority it gained in 2006.

Note:
(1) http://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/609

interested party: "You have pissed me off:" Dems defend Montana eart...

interested party: "You have pissed me off:" Dems defend Montana eart...: An astroturf group in Montana calling itself 'Americans For Prosperity' has been targeting the Republican lawmakers who have not ple...

Israel election campaign continues

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday panned the international community for negotiating 

with Iran while taking no steps to curb its sponsorship of global terrorism, as top American and 

Iranian diplomats attempted to hammer out a deal in Geneva

Meanwhile, the police commissioner said the evidence against the Netanyahus with regard to alleged financial impropriety was solid enough to warrant an investigation, and the attorney general was reviewing the accusations against the premier and his wife.

A separate housing report by the State Comptroller was slated to be released later this week, but ahead of its publication, Netanyahu’s rivals attacked him for the high cost of living.(1)

Unfortunately most domestic issues not being addressed, certainly not by the Right-wing parties. And the planned speech by Netanyahu to the US Congress should not occur, in my view.

Note:

(1) http://www.timesofisrael.com/february-22-2015-netanyahu-likud-comptroller-elections-iran/

Chris Christie losing supporters

It has begun, particularly due to his character flaws and behaviour;

He does not return phone calls. He does not ask for support. He arrives late for meetings. And he acts as if he has all the time in the world.

The complaints have piled up for weeks, dismaying many longtime supporters of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and sending others into the arms of his rivals for the presidential nomination, according to interviews with more than two dozen Republican donors and strategists.

As a half-dozen other candidates aggressively raise money and chase endorsements in Iowa and New Hampshire, friends and detractors alike say Mr. Christie’s view of his status and pre-eminence within the Republican field is increasingly at odds with the picture outside his inner circle.Policy advisers, donors and even a prominent New Jersey state senator who met his wife through Mr. Christie have all flirted with or committed to rival candidates. One potential donor, Woody Johnson, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets, will back Jeb Bush, according to three people close to the Bush campaign. Mr. Johnson attended a round of Bush fund-raising events on Wednesday in Chicago, where the former Florida governor acknowledged him by name.

In Iowa and New Hampshire, Mr. Christie’s negative ratings in some opinion polls are higher than his favorable ones. He has been slower than Mr. Bush to lock down support within the Republican Party’s pool of big-name “bundlers,” and it is unclear how quickly Mr. Christie is amassing cash. A spokesman declined to say, or even provide a range for, how much money the governor’s leadership political action committee has raised.

“He’s a very popular figure, but he’s made a mistake by not creating the necessary momentum for the kind of national organization you need to be successful,” said Anthony Scaramucci, a New York hedge fund manager who is now backing Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. “He’s not touching enough people. And I think this is a classic rookie mistake.”

Friends say Mr. Christie is both understaffed and too controlling. They also say he is convinced that his raw talent and charisma can overcome the political obstacles in his way. Thomas H. Kean, a former governor of New Jersey and Mr. Christie’s onetime mentor, with whom he mended fences after a public break, said Mr. Christie had “gotten in the habit of kind of doing everything himself.”

“You can’t do that in a presidential campaign,” Mr. Kean said.

Link;

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/us/some-chris-christie-supporters-now-turn-their-backs.html