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Ghost Dog's JournalJuncker regrets EU silence on Brexit campaign 'lies'
... “It was a mistake not to intervene and not to interfere because we would have been the only ones to destroy the lies which were circulated around. I was wrong to be silent at an important moment.”
Cameron angered fellow EU leaders by promising a referendum on Britain’s membership of the bloc in a bid to prevent voters deserting his ruling Conservatives for the UK Independence Party. Having secured some special concessions from the EU, he then campaigned to keep Britain in the EU in the June 2016 vote.
Juncker has said that he kept out of that British debate, partly because Cameron told him it would be counter-productive. Many EU leaders were irritated, however, that Cameron’s campaign made little mention of the special deal they had given him...
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-juncker-mistake/juncker-regrets-eu-silence-on-brexit-campaign-lies-idUKKCN1SD1B9?il=0
Is Brexit breaking Britain?
Local elections point to Remain but big parties sell mantra of ‘need to deliver Brexit’
First, and most obviously, there is interpretation. Electoral desertion of the two main British parties was not a shift by voters towards “Remainy” parties, as described by Robert Peston, ITV’s economics editor. The parties in receipt of voters favour were 100 per cent Remain.
This is not just semantic quibbling: the British media, with one or two exceptions, immediately bought into the narrative that the electorate now just wants Jeremy Corbyn and Teresa May to “get on with Brexit”. Surprisingly, it wasn’t just the ultra-right wing, billionaire owned bits of the press. Even the BBC was at it. In the unlikely event of a referendum on the future of the BBC, I would now vote to abolish it: the betrayal of its public broadcasting mandate has been grim to observe.
Secondly, there is the psycho-pathology of the whole thing. It’s tempting to talk about gaslighting, Orwellian double-speak, believing six impossible things by breakfast, confirmation bias and lots of other psychological theories and descriptions of the oddities of human behaviour. None of these come close to an explanation. Perhaps it is a form of mass psychosis...
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/brexit/is-brexit-breaking-britain-1.3881604?fbclid=IwAR2kVXnN7lxwE9rIKAnAZ13_eo1SSAWrSPPKxdaA2qm0QRxZ0y5D9LNvTk8
XPost in General Discussion: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212077716
From the comments at the Irish Times:
Woman removed from flight after 'refusing' to watch safety video
The service from Wellington to Auckland had to return to the gate prior to take-off, where the woman was removed from the aircraft for failing to comply with crew instructions.
“The passenger will receive an infringement notice under Civil Aviation Authority rules relating to the use of a cellphone,” a police spokesperson told Newshub, confirming that they responded to a request to meet flight NZ424 this morning...
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/air-new-zealand-flight-woman-removed-police-safety-video-mobile-phone-a8902506.html
Sandy Denny / Fotheringay: Banks of the Nile
According to Reuters, cough,
there was a "pre-dawn military uprising on Tuesday, urged on by opposition leader and Lopez ally Juan Guaido, (which) failed to gain steam."
Does that sound like an accurate description of events, to anyone closely following events?
According to the same Reuters article, López was "arrested during a protest movement in 2014 and transferred to house arrest in 2017. He appeared together with Guaido and dozens of soldiers on Tuesday after escaping his home and before seeking refuge at the Spanish residence." Reuters chooses not to detail the charges against López: incitement to violence in demonstrations which resulted in several homicides by violent demonstrators loyal to him, on which he was found guilty and sentenced.
However, Reuters does report that "Tens of thousands took to the streets across the country on Tuesday and Wednesday, heeding Guaido’s call to keep the pressure on Maduro. Clashes with security forces left four dead, along with hundreds injured or detained... In a tweet about the death of a protester at the hands of security forces on Wednesday, (Guadó) said, “The murderers will have to take responsibility for their crimes” and members of the armed forces were “sworn to protect the people..."
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-venezuela-politics/venezuela-opposition-figure-facing-arrest-warrant-says-he-met-with-generals-idUKKCN1S81JC
You couldn't make it up. Without such help from Reuters & Co, that is.
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