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Possible Scottish independence preparations?
Status of extraordinary renditions?
Talk to Searchlight on whether the far right has changed in the last twenty five years?
Where will Gordon put the nuclear waste and will it be safe?
Is the US missile defence system really for rogue states? I know the Russian "military-technical" statement does not mean air-strikes but ...
Zimbabwe - how long will it take to get sanctions that bite into the ruling elites personal finances? I normally slag off our security services but they can use as much force as they like on any CIO operatives over here from Zimbabwe.

The formula requires that each problem of the World be wrapped up in a few sprightly
phrases?

What is missing is a careful assessment of public opinion in Iran. According to reports in the Christian Sciece Monitor, the urban population is very much in favor of the West, but despises Bush and his policies.

Pundits encapsulating the NeoCon line will completely miss this aspect and the concommitant opportunity to obtain a most valuable strategic ally in Iran.

Can we view things from other than the Israeli Foreign Office line?

who removed iranian democracy in the first place and imposed the shah? Based on the 'success' of that bit of Hollywood are the Neocons dreaming of a Shah 2?

The people to interview are the official usa war gamers who proved there is no successful attack for the USA on Iran.

The real threat to the uk is not iran but the neocons.

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More Davis tilting at windmills? Who will be his Sancho Panza?

maybe he would be better off in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ where you can get a pension of around £190,000 a year - more than the prime minister's salary. But lets sweep this under the big red bbc carpet....

"Terrorism- Its cause and partial cure".

This has been and is being studied intensively.

The first problem is a definition (there being none that is generally accepted).

One could have a look at it from different angles for many weeks.

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snap!

If you're going so predictably on US/Israeli plans to attack Iran, shouldn't you explain that this is just the latest concert party concocted by the Neo-Cons/Israeli Lobby and placed at the heart of British foreign policy. This follows on from the Iraq disaster, and runs up to and including, your recent regurgitation of the ridiculous Litvinenko pantomime.
Perhaps in your quest for a fair over-view of the situation, you could examine what significance having people like Straw, Rifkind and Miliband in key positions has on the policies of this country, in the light of their links to Israel. And a comparison should surely be made of the nuclear weaponry and international-inspection of Israel and Iran, and of how even-handed 'British' policy has been towards these two countries. Naturally, these points won't be simply ignored, or pulled.
Perhaps you could also explain why you've never examined these issues in the past.

On the "Betty Ford" clinic for terrorists - it would be very interesting to get a serving military intelligence officer in say Afghanistan to comment on whether they think this is money well spent.

I wonder if 40 Commando have a ping pong table out there?

THE 'FAR RIGHT SMOKE SCREEN

By asserting that criticism of hawkish, pro-Israeli policies plays to 'the far right' or that explication of demographic STATISTICAL improbabilities is conspiratorial or paranoid, just licences (usually covert) predatory abuses I suggest. All groups have to be monitored in the context of discrimination law, not only to ensure that no group is discriminated AGAINST, but also that they are not discriminated FOR after natural group differences are highlighted through research. Discrimination is dicrimination, and all too many miss this rather subtle/tacit aspect of altogether. We live in times where group differences and their implications are regularly being censored, and there's a very real risk that there some groups may be unfairly benefitting at the expense of other and campaign to preserve this advantage. Few complain that this is discriminatory because it doesn't fit their naive concept of anti-discrimination or 'equality'.

Frank Gehry's Maggie Centre in Ninewells
Hospital Dundee - just along the road - is
indeed a gem! Opened by Sir Bob Geldof.

You could also usefully take a look too at what seems to me to be another British
Council scandal - this time close to home
rather than in far-off Russia or Palestine:



The paper trail is very interesting .......!

At some point too your culture team may want to review the forthcoming Hadrian
exhibition at The British Museum. This is
quite well timed as Unesco has this week
extended its Frontiers of the Roman Empire (United Kingdom and Germany) to take in
Antonine's Wall in Scotland. Martha knows
Latin, doesn't she? And Boris may have a view from Londinium worth exploring too?

Another victory for the SNP .....................!
The point about Ant's wall is that it failed!
And Hadrian is also getting re-interpreted.
There's also a Roman Legion in Blair Atholl.

Come on SNP. Rock this useless Govt and opposition.

"Martha knows Latin, doesn't she?"

She might know Latin, but she doesn't appear to know any Greek. When introducing Harrison Birtwhistle's latest opera on Newsnight Review recently, she seemed to think the myth of the Minotaur had 'influenced' Homer.

If Deadtired digs into Graves (section 88 on Minos and his Brothers) he/she/it will find a
footnote to the last sentence of his para (i)
'For Zeus had appointed him [Alcmene who was married to Rhadamanthys in the Elysian
Fields, after her death] one of the three Judges of the Dead; his colleagues were Minos and Aeacus, and he resided in the
Elysian Fields' 'Footnote 14: Diodorus Siculus: v. 79; Homer: Odyssey iv.564'.

Line 564 of Book Four of The Odyessey cross-referenced by Robert Graves does
not mention Minos by name but Homer's
press pass was probably checked by him/
it before he filed his report for Women's
Hour on the latest recipe using ambrosia
and his hard news item for Newsnight BC?

'Sources close to Menelaus report that he received a divine tipoff suggesting that it
was not ordained that he should die and meet his fate in horse-pasturing Argos, but to the Elysian plain and the ends of the earth will the immortals convey him [cf:
'extraordinary rendition'?] where dwells
fair-haired Rhadamanthus, and where life is easiest for men. And now .... the weather:
There is no snow on the Elysian plain, nor heavy storm, nor ever rain, but always Ocean sends up blasts of the shrill-blowing West Wind that they may give cooling to men .....And now for something different:
Procrustean beds - torture or fair game?'

Or maybe Martha just misread the opera
programmes notes ......??

Homer Simpson maybe.

It was the later 'Latins' that closed down the Philosophy schools so no wonder they are at a bit of a loss forever doomed to wander the labyrinth poor things.

Plato's Phaedo has the story and according to Proclus the use of myth by Plato is a method of retellling of a dialogue by other means.

In this case the myth is another way of talking about the spiritual discipline of 'going into the labyrinth'.

Pierre Grimes PhD has unfolded this point of the labyrinth myth in the Phaedo which can be watched as a ytube wakingsoul playlist called 'The Sacred Myths of Plato: Phaedo' .

I think the politics of the Hadrian exhibition at The British Museum sound very relevant:



And not just because he was apparently gay
which is probably what will get the headline.