Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Israel PM Netanyhu visits China - wow didn't see this was coming. I figured China would be searing after the Israeli air strikes of Syria.

I finished City of thieves, an interesting tale of Russia during WW2 by David Benioff , yesterday. Benioff blended humor in nicely to brutal tales of the German occupation of Russia. The character Kolya,  a Red Army deserter and fledling writer, quipped a few times about how a writer  often  borrow  the best lines of other writers.

When I first heard the line  "nothing is true , everything is permitted"  in a Jim Carroll song  (circa 1980),  I considered it a solid line from the jaded junkie,  however most data points back to this line being a deathbed utterance of  Hassan-i Sabbah, the early 12th century leader of the Hashashinis (later to be called Assassins). Then again, that may not be true.

Sports, politics,  and assassins- did I capture the events of the day?


Put in a penny,   check the Chechnyans,  pat the poet,

enough of this vamp: To put together; fabricate or improvise:

8/28/13

Is Obama going to take us to war ( recall Libya?)  with Syria w/o Congressional  approval. Why not let both sides (Assad & Iran vs.Al Queda) kill each other? And,  I get the chemical warfare argument.

9/1/13

 Now King Barack says he'll consult Congress on Syria although he doesn't have to. Load of crap from BO

10/26/13

FBook follows Obama's NSA lead trying to give me cyber staph with its search graph . The govt and  corporations don't value privacy so stop trying to sell us that crap.

Is Putin's attempt to incorporate Ukraine  going off the rails despite the $$$?  Ukraine's Prez is compromising but folks want more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25923199

4/21/14

NSA spying , invasive  airport searches ,   and a kid hops the fence and sneaks into the wheel well of a plane. Indeed everything is permitted.  link

4/28/14

Fits with the topic title. Donald Sterling, the former owner of the NBA Clippers before a lifetime ban for racist comments, was a DNC & NAACP donor.

7/20/14

Blog title  fits my  theme of the day.
USA border agents strafed at the Rio Grande
Russian separatists moved the bodies from  the Malaysian airlines ' wreckage

11/13/14

Thought this would fit the blog title from BBC:

European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker denies allegations he encouraged tax avoidance during his time Luxembourg prime minister

12/09/14

Didn't Feinstein sign  off on the alleged CIA ills she's exposing today?  quite a time for Dems to be transparency

4/9/15

What happened to Feinstein's "war' with the CIA?

4/13/15

Hey China: Why not reduce taxes on the mainland?  or other things. link

Parallel trading has been a key factor in the growing anti-mainland sentiment in Hong Kong.
There is huge demand in China for household items from Hong Kong, in particular milk powder, as they are seen as being both cheaper and better quality.

7/31/15

Is mainland China creeping into Taiwan's culture? link

 But opponents have charged that the revisions whitewash Taiwan’s authoritarian period under Nationalist rule before it became a democracy in the early 1990s, and amount to inserting pro-mainland China ideology into the curriculum.

1/17/16

Good election for Taiwan:  Taiwanese voters have voted for Ms Tsai  to keep Beijing at a distance. Hope she's succesful.

1/18/16

China's response is not surprising but still chilling. 

Chinese state media lashed out swiftly in the wake of the victory, saying that Taiwan should abandon its "hallucination" of independence.

6/5/16

 Malka Leifer an Israeli woman facing 74 child sex charges in Australia, is mentally unfit, due to panic attacks, to face extradition. I'd have panic attacks, too. Plus they just lifted her house arrest

7/25/16

A political marriage  #kyi and Gen Min Aung Hlaing , not only permitted but possibly working. Kyi has gone from being under military house arrest to getting  a  visit from Gen Hlaing. #burma

9/5/16

My favorite headline of the day

What Al Capone can teach India about prohibition

Gujarat, a state in India ,outlawed alcohol in 1958, but contraband liquor is still readily available at hooch stalls.

1/1/17

#shawcross is proposing a charity tax to fund a  hotline that will advise charity trustees how to increase and enhance public trust in charities.  and this guy is permitted to keep his job as chairman of the UK Charity Commission

4/11/17

Mainland China has hurt a once vibrant #hongkong  economy, but did permit Hong Kong leader-elect Carrie Lam to state the obvious on  Tuesday: 
"there is no room for moves towards independence in the former British colony which she said needs the support of the central government in Beijing to boost economic development over the next five years."

6/25/17

Update on #malkaliefer: #israel continues  to prevent her extradition as she leads a normal life in Israel  then runs to a nuthouse each time she faces an extradition hearing to Australia.

6/30/17

Hey we're just enforcing the law. F'n commies: Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, 37, known as "Me Nam" #MotherMushroom was sentenced  ten years in jail by a court in #Vietnam for blogging. Yep, she dared to question the state.

9/20/17

American Left on a mission to destroy Dems: #NancyPelosi heckled as 'liar' in DACA protest in San Francisco.

11/04/17

Politicians permitted to say anything. #Bush1, the ex Prez who said read my lips, no new taxes, then raised taxes, calls #trump, a blowhard. Now that's rich!

11/29/17

#SlobodanPraljak drank from  a small bottle a liquid what he claimed was poison during a War Crimes Trial. I guess security permits this????

12/29/17

This would prove everything is permitted:  I've been invited to #PrinceHarry 's wedding. Now, back to dislodging my tongue from my cheek.

2/18/18

This fit the blog theme. Nigeria's top anti-corruption judge, #DanladiUmar ,tasked with high-profile cases, has been charged with illegally accepting money.  accused of demanding a bribe from a suspect.

9/26/18

I guess everything  has been permitted in #acapulco : The entire police force has been disarmed and put under investigation for being under the control of drug cartels.

4/28/19

 Ain't this sadly amusing from #JeremyCorbyn who can't control the anti-Semites in his Labour Party: #TheresaMay should not be rolling out the red carpet for a state visit to honour a President (Trump) who used racist and misogynist rhetoric,"

10/28/19

 A vase given to then PM Thatcher by former #Cyprus president #GeorgeVassiliou three decades ago was sold at auction. Diplomatic protocol bars selling off state gifts. No answer yet from the British Government.

11/10/19

 Outgoing Sri Lankan President #Sirisena  pardoned #JudeJayamaha, from a wealthy, high-profile family, saying he had behaved well in prison and had been jailed  at the age of 19 over an "incident of impatience". The act of impatience was the 2005 murder of a Swedish woman #YvonneJonsson .

1/14/20

 Watch out folks! A Swiss judge, Judge Philippe #Colelough, said due to the imminent danger of the climate crisis the students ,who played tennis inside a Credit Suisse branch in 2018 in protest of fossil fuel investments, were not guilty of resisting arrest and refusing to pay fines. Yep, everything is permitted.