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I enjoyed the chapter on plane crashes in Outliers. How deferential are Malaysians to superiority?

Alf Ramsay's Porn Dungeon in the Chickory Tip incest cup.

Got round to it at the weekend. I loved it for the bits where he enjoyed music. Oldest man in the room and jumping all over at his first punk gig or him and his wife losing their mind when Peel plays Teenage Kicks twice. The bloke that played John Peel was shite like.

Lee Ryder is supposed to do that himself.

You never. Just mentioning it as a point of interest. Well aware that The Mag has a wider reach than my blog

You've got me thinking now. I could do a blog called WayneRooneysWages and petition him to feed Africa. Someone told me yesterday that if he drops a 50p piece, he's earned another before it hits the ground

I've been tweeting more than usual about it since the books came out and hammering the #NUFC accounts with most followers. True faith and The Mag have both PM'd me about writing more stuff for them, but none of the journos are picking it up as a point of discussion. Really need them to start banging the drum.

That new analysis is mine. It's been on the front page here for a few days http://www.toontastic.net/2014/03/the-myth-of-mike-ashleys-financial-competence-part-2/ They reference me at the bottom of their article.

At one point I hankered for him to take over Newcastle. A manager actually telling the players they can win despite all evidence to the contrary, instilling some pride, would be nice.

Class Documentary Available in full on iPlayer for a couple more weeks http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03wctxp/Storyville_20132014_Soccer_Coach_Zoran_and_his_African_Tigers/

The scissorhanded community were outraged by the whiteface too.

...and... I most definitely would.

As she later said to Piers Morgan... Like how he half-heartedly denies it. As if the Britain's got Talent host is going to be fighting the empire on his show.

Love his little windsurfer The vast bulk of the commentary issuing from American commentators about the Russian military action in Ukraine involves condemning exactly that which they routinely advocate and which the U.S. itself routinely does. So suffocating is the resulting stench that those who played leading roles in selling the public the attack on Iraq and who are still unrepentant about it, such as David “Axis of Evil/The Right Man” Frum, have actually become the leading media voices condemning Russia on the ground that it is wrong to invade sovereign countries; Frum thus has no trouble saying things like this with an apparently straight face: “If Russia acts the outlaw nation, can it be expected to be treated as anything but an outlaw?” Enthusiastic supporters of a wide range of other U.S. interventions in sovereign states, both past and present and in and out of government, are equally righteous in their newfound contempt for invasions – when done by Russia. Secretary of State John Kerry – who stood on the Senate floor in 2002 and voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq because “Saddam Hussein [is] sitting in Baghdad with an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction” and there is “little doubt that Saddam Hussein wants to retain his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction” – told Face the Nation on Sunday: “You just don’t in the 21st Century behave in 19th Century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext.” The supremely sycophantic Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer – as he demanded to know how Russia would be punished – never once bothered Kerry (or his other Iraq-war-advocating guests, including Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius) by asking about any of that unpleasantness (is it hard at all for you to sermonize against invasions of sovereign countries given, you know, how often you yourself support them?) American invasions and occupations of nations halfway around the world are perfectly noble, but Russian interference in a part of a country right on its border is the supreme act of lawless, imperial aggression. Few things are worse than watching America’s militarists, invasion-and-occupying-justifiers, regime-change enthusiasts, drone-lovers, and supporters of its various “kinetic military actions” self-righteously wrap themselves in the banner of non-intervention, international law and respect for sovereignty. Does anyone take those denunciations seriously outside of the class of western elites who disseminate them? American media elites awash in an orgy of feel-good condemnation in particular love to mock Russian media, especially the government-funded English-language outlet RT, as being a source of shameless pro-Putin propaganda, where free expression is strictly barred (in contrast to the Free American Media). That that network has a strong pro-Russian bias is unquestionably true. But one of its leading hosts, Abby Martin, remarkably demonstrated last night what “journalistic independence” means by ending her Breaking the Set program with a clear and unapologetic denunciation of the Russian action in Ukraine: For all the self-celebrating American journalists and political commentators: was there even a single U.S. television host who said anything comparable to this in the lead-up to, or the early stages of, the U.S. invasion of Iraq? Even now, how many American TV hosts on the major networks and cable outlets report on the types of American killings described in the first three paragraphs of this interview with Hamid Karzai, or the ongoing extinguishing of innocent human lives by President Obama’s drone attacks, or the pervasive chaos and suffering left in the wake of the NATO intervention in Libya that they almost universally cheered, or the endless brutality of the West Bank occupation and Gaza domination by the U.S.’s closest Middle East ally, or, for that matter, U.S./EU interference in the very same country that Russia is now condemned for invading? As political science professor As’ad AbuKhalil put it yesterday after listening to Obama’s condemnation of Russia: This is what imperialism is all about: to give yourself the right to intervene in far away places and to project power in every corner of the globe, including the arctic, and to disregard world public opinion. Imperialism is to have the temerity to lecture and hector Russia about the evils of intervention in the affairs of its neighbor, Ukraine, where the U.S. and EU are blatantly conspiring against Russian interests there. . . . Obama sends drones around the world to kill people, including Americans, who have never been put on trial and yet sounds like a peaceful dove when offering lessons to Russia. Basically the U.S. is objecting to attempts by Russia to play a smaller and even far less aggressive version of its own world game. When that sort of commentary and reporting appears frequently on major American television outlets, American celebration of its own “free press” can be taken seriously. Or, put another way, until hosts of major U.S. television programs do what Abby Martin just did on RT in connection with a major American military intervention, American commentators’ self-justifying mockery of Russian media outlets will continue to be as persuasive as the condemnation of Russian imperialism and aggression from the David Frums of the world. UPDATE: The official RT account on Twitter seems perfectly proud of Martin’s statements, as they re-tweeted my commentary about her monologue condemning Russia’s actions: UPDATE II: In response to my question about whether any U.S. television hosts issued denunciations of the attack on Iraq similar to what Martin just did on RT, Washington lawyer Bradley Moss replied: “Phil Donahue (MSNBC) and Peter Arnett (NBC).” Leaving aside that Arnett wasn’t a host, this perfectly proves the point I made, since both Donahue and Arnett were fired because of their opposition to the U.S. war. Arnett was fired instantly by NBC after he made critical comments about the war effort on Iraqi television, while a memo from MSNBC executives made clear they were firing Donahue despite his show being the network’s highest-rated program because he would be “a difficult public face for NBC in a time of war”. During that same time, MSNBC’s rising star Ashleigh Banfield was demoted and then fired after she delivered a stinging rebuke of misleading pro-war TV coverage by U.S. outlets, while Jessica Yellin, at MSNBC during the time of the war, admitted in 2008 that “the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war that was presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president’s high approval ratings” and that executives would change stories to make them more pro-war. All of that stands in rather stark contrast to the clear denunciation of the Russian intervention by Martin which RT broadcast and this morning is promoting. We’ll see if she suffers any recriminations, but if she does, U.S. media behavior during the attack on Iraq was hardly any better. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/03/04/rt-host-abby-martin-condemns-russian-incursion-crimea-rt/

I've seen people throw punches in the office and not get sacked so I disagree there, however, despite the over-egging on MOTD and 606, he's absolutely spot on about the culture of the club. You pay peanuts....

Champion, I can begin at the beguine then.

They are in the fountain, aye. You want to try going to a neutral pub for the derby if you haven't got a ticket. There's more of a frisson than you get in Newcastle, the nagging doubt/excitement that it could kick off any time soon...but it rarely does. ...you could be the hair trigger.

Last month too

"...Sessions!"

I know you like the Hardcore History ones. Do you not listen to the Common Sense podcasts he does as well? Last week's was before the Russian movements in Ukraine and he was going dippy that the news was covering it as a civil dispute, rather than looking at the wider picture of US diplomats intervening. All the news outlets covered "Fuck the EU" comment as gossip, ignoring the collusion between US and Ukrainian dissidents that should have been a huge and scary story...which was bound to draw a Russian response. Dan Carlin's mint.

Working my way up from the bottom of the front page I found this funny, sad and satisfying all at once. It's the only way he'll learn

Only had themselves to blame. Seinfeld''s law, we look the other way on statue defecation, they get out of the way of cars.