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• Nor Has Her Glory
  on Mar 4, 2014 in Barack Obama Crimea Crisis Crimean Peninsula Duma Geopolitics Geostratergy Kiev Kremlin Moscow Naval Infantry Navy Russia Russian Troops Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych Vladimir Putin
  With the sunriseImage: E. Arrott | Voice of AmericaJust as our alarm goes off at 6.30am on March 2nd, my wife begins to stir reluctantly in the darkness and ponders the impending working day. It is another peaceful morning in the Metroplex, but...
• Maximizing The Minimum
  on Feb 7, 2014 in Barack Obama census debt Democrat economy inflation lifestyle minimum wage Republican Senate social cohesion states Tom Harkin Wal-Mart
  Something newImage: Mike Kalasnik | Wikimedia Commons 2.0A great deal of time has elapsed since I have put pen to paper as it were, I recently got married and simultaneously emigrated from Britain to the United States and – courtesy of UPS – one...
• Seriously Syrian
  on Aug 31, 2013 in 6th Fleet Air Strikes Assad Regime Barack Obama Bashar al-Assad Chemical Weapons Civil War Intervention Marine Nationale Syria Tomahawk US Sixth Fleet
  Chemical Immediate Action DrillImage: James Gordon | Wikimedia Commons 2.0This sub-heading is familiar to me; it is used in the military CCS Aide Memoire, or Survive to Fight manual or Survive to Operate thingy, or whatever some expendable...
• All Along The Euphrates
  on Aug 31, 2013 in 6th Fleet Air Strikes Assad Regime Barack Obama Bashar al-Assad Chemical Weapons Civil War commons vote David Cameron Intervention Marine Nationale Syria Tomahawk US Sixth Fleet
  Chemical Immediate Action DrillImage: © James Gordon | Wikimedia Commons 2.0This sub-heading is familiar to me; it is used in the military CCS Aide Memoire, or Survive to Fight manual or Survive to Operate thingy, or whatever some exp...
• Zoomed in on Zimmerman
  on Jul 19, 2013 in Sanford FL Ted Nugent court system Gun Control race issues demonstrations Hillary Clinton Eric Holder Trayvon Martin murder in the second degree Sanford Police George Zimmerman citizens on patrol
  Go ahead dispatch…Image: © David Shankbone | Wikimedia CommonsOn a dark, dim and rainy night in Sanford, Fla. in February of 2012, an armed neighbourhood watchman, George Zimmerman, was executing his evening patrol. He was conducting his...
• Do The Egyptian
  on Jul 13, 2013 in Egyptian Military Freedom and Justice Party Hosni Mubarak Democracy political prisoner Cairo Islamism Bassem Youssef Revolution CNN Arab Spring Tahrir Square Mohammed Morsi Islamist constitution
  Image: © Rraheb | Dreamstime.comSummer must follow springA couple of weeks ago I was pondering which issue to share with you in this round of ruminations, it’s a prerogative of mine not to deviate from a steady alternating pattern of international...
• When the Green Mist Descends
  on Jun 26, 2013 in Navy S.E.A.L.S. C.I.A. Djibouti Mokhtar Belmokhtar Gulf of Aden Mali Somalia In Amenas Algeria Salafism Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Boko Haram radical Islam Nigeria Horn of Africa al-Shabaab
  Image: © yoh4nn | iStockphotoA new theatre, a different fightI am back, I apologise for the literary sabbatical that spawned from my vacation in the U.S. Talking of which, whilst there, I watched on C.N.N., with some disdain, the thumping tedium of...
• The Second Impediment
  on May 8, 2013 in Federal World Government Virginia Tech Survivalist U.S. Gun Control gun legislation N.R.A. Senate anti-gun Sandy Hook Elementary Senators Republican pro-gun Liberal Columbine High School Democrat
  Image: © Alptraum | Dreamstime.comGuns, Guns, Guns Today I was wondering around Marks & Spencer’s, trying to find a linen suit to wear for my fiancée’s college graduation. It turns out the pursuance of such an item is a much more discordant...
• The Price of Persia
  on Apr 27, 2013 in Sunni MI6 U.S. Embassy Secret Police C.I.A. Iran Argo Carter Mossadegh Operation Ajax Reagan Shi'ite Ayatollah Khomeini Churchill Islam Shi'a Revolution Iran-Iraq War Persia
  Image: © Sadikgulec | Dreamstime.comOn Revolution Powered by Gustav Holst’s ‘The Planets’, I am pondering Persia, commonly known as Iran, its revolution in 1979 and other notable governments displaced hitherto. When a population removes their...
• Bonfire of the Chavs
  on Apr 17, 2013 in Karl Marx Tories Budgets Heather Frost Welfare State Social Responsibility Ian Duncan-Smith socialism Precariat Society Benefits Mick Philpott Welfare Reform
  Image: © Mark | Page One What do I believe in? Before I go any further on this topic, I would like to go over my own personal place on the international and domestic political landscape, as I believe that for this particular post that it’s necessa...

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