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The Peace Initiatives
First Nixon’s strategy, via Toodles:
Now this Trump initiative:
My comments:
- Nixon may well have had that as his ideal but he had a monster beside him in Kissinger.
- That X posting had CBS, PBS and the WEF as sources. To slightly tweak (we, not I) the words of Nero Wolfe … “Once we knew that (they’d) lied on that point, then anything else they said (had to be taken as) quite unreliable.”
It’s as Andy had presented in good faith … Sky News UK. The UK bit is vital with Sky as it is Uniparty “safe conservatism” of the Farage type in this country, whereas Sky Oz positions itself more like GB News here … they do allow “far right” noises now and then, but still with the sharp edges MSMed off.
Sky News UK positions itself as the working man’s conservative voice, in a Boris Johnson way before he went full WEF. With that Chagos report, they ran with the Chagos people being “removed”, a fair angle, but playing down what Starmer is doing … the very thing the country’s pundits are on about.
And in saying the US should not be there … then who would be there? Britain? Nope, it’s the Chinese, innit, as in London.
This is the challenging task for pundits … we ourselves must note all these snippets and side-anomalies, but there’s no obligation on readers to pick up on the messy fragments as a whole.
Give you an example. There was a local cabby, good chap, on about the bad players as we are, was down on Momentum taking over all preselections in our area, whilst his mate was all for Corbyn whom he thought was “at least for the working man”.
Wot, in Islington?
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Side note:
I can’t really run “short” youtubes here at HQ because as you see, they take massive column space with no chance of reducing size under normal circumstances. Same with “longs” but at least longs are in proportion for shape. I ran the Nixon one now just to illustrate how one youtube short can dominate an entire column due to youtube configuration.
Similar situation in the evening. Running a youtube slap bang in the middle of all the screenshots looks awful, it’s jarring, it dominates It’s not the fault of the sender, bless his or her heart … it’s youtube itself. If I do it, e.g. Agadoo, it had to be as a separate post where full width is appropriate as a “feature”, e.g. with our baroque offerings. There’s one coming up on runway engineering … it needs to be full width.
An example where it really should not be full width is an opinion piece where the presenter himself is dominating the entire window. By way of contrast, look at the 1267:7 … loud, garish thumbnail but to the presenter’s credit, in the actual presentation, he reduces himself to the right lower side.
I tend to put those loud youtubes at NOWP in comments, which constricts the size somewhat, then signpost from here. Again, it’s not to downgrade our boys but to stop youtube’s maximum sensation game.
Techies reading this will say James, that’s bollox … youtube just use a tweaked iframe. Yes they do and yes, I can write my own lil ole iframe from templates kept on stick here … yes I can do that but look at all that extra time required doing it, time I should be spending, as pundit, on the topic we’re on at that time. Game’s not worth the candle … I have to use my time to cover all contingencies.
