farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Perhaps give Russians and Chinese national discounted tickets to wind up the French even more.how about trips round Sydney Harbour ?
Australia buys nuclear subs au us uk pact
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Yossarian
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They've decided leaving the ambassador in place offers better taunting opportunities - "We're not irrelevant, you're the ones who are irrelevant."
“Our British friends explained to us that they were leaving the E.U. to create ‘global Britain,’" French Secretary of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune said before the ambassador recalls were announced. “We can see that this is a return to the American fold and a form of accepted vassalization,” he said.
“We know their permanent opportunism,” said Le Drian on French television, comparing Britain’s role to a “fifth wheel on the wagon.”
TopCat
Putin fanboy
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
In an amusing parallel of China's rather strident, and remarkably unsuccessful, diplomacy - France has cancelled a meeting between the French and British Defence Secretary's, another meeting between the French-British Defence Council, and - perhaps most astonishingly - a visit of the President of Switzerland to Paris, because Switzerland had the temerity to (traitorously) decide to buy US fast jets, rather than French ones.
not being an expert in French domestic politics I don't know how this looks in France, but to me it looks like Macron has been sniffing industrial quantities of glue...
not being an expert in French domestic politics I don't know how this looks in France, but to me it looks like Macron has been sniffing industrial quantities of glue...
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
They have to position themselves to fight over the scraps.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I don't know about submarine crews, but I did read a study that said that MS is an expected diagnosis in Marines about seven years after serving in either Afghanistan or Iraq. There's currently about 28,000 former Marines with MS receiving benefits from the VA.
gosub
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They are just trying to get us to shrug
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
maomao
普費斯
Tragic and still far less than the innocent Afghan lives wastes in that conflict.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
No argument here.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Have you got a link for that? Ta. Not questioning it just personally interested.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I became curious when I realized that every military veteran I know that served in Afghanistan had MS. They claim it was caused by something they were given to prevent malaria that was neurotoxic, but I don't know if there's a connection or not. It probably explains some of the anti-vaccine hysteria you see on the right. Naturally, the military officially says there's no connection, but their credibility is lacking at this point.
Here's an overview:
What Is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)? Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
MS is a disease of the central nervous system that can cause symptoms throughout the body, as well as thinking and memory problems.
www.everydayhealth.com
Here's an article from 2004, on the connection between military service and MS:
None of these are the article I read. It was one line in something I read a week ago. I'll see if I can find it.
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andysays
Love and solidarity
Idris2002
cavalcade of hubris
I've taken Lariam, which was originally developed as anti-Malarial in Vietnam and is notorious as a really dodgy and untrustworthy thing to put in your system. Unlike a lot of people, I didn't have a psychotic episode as a result, though I do recall pretty bad night in Makeni. . . anyway, long-term Lariam use is also meant to fuck up your liver pretty bad. I take it what your veteran contacts were given wasn't Lariam? Or was it?I became curious when I realized that every military veteran I know that served in Afghanistan had MS. They claim it was caused by something they were given to prevent malaria that was neurotoxic, but I don't know if there's a connection or not. It probably explains some of the anti-vaccine hysteria you see on the right. Naturally, the military officially says there's no connection, but their credibility is lacking at this point.
Here's an overview:
What Is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)? Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention
MS is a disease of the central nervous system that can cause symptoms throughout the body, as well as thinking and memory problems.
Here's an article from 2004, on the connection between military service and MS:
None of these are the article I read. It was one line in something I read a week ago. I'll see if I can find it.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
They never said the name, but the effects they mentioned sounds like might it be. The US military has a long history of using their soldiers as guinea pigs.
This.
www.theguardian.com
Boris Johnson’s military alliance in the Pacific is reckless post-imperial nostalgia | Simon Jenkins
The Aukus deal has enraged China and humiliated France, when British diplomacy should be concentrated on Europe, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
gosub
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We live in a world where the likes of Rio Tinto can run automated mines on the other side of the world form London, one where HK journalists, get arrested as 5eye agents for tweeting statements from the now FC&DO. A world where unnotified Russian exercises at the edge of the EU are more accurately discussed by the Sun on a Saturday than when the European Commission a couple of days later or The Guardian the day after. That should be sprinkled in, I can thin of a few true truths regarding France relationship that should be sprinkled in. Though if this is the place it certainly isnt the time. Germany - China tooThis.
Boris Johnson’s military alliance in the Pacific is reckless post-imperial nostalgia | Simon Jenkins
The Aukus deal has enraged China and humiliated France, when British diplomacy should be concentrated on Europe, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
it was interesting how EUrope covered 75th of VJ day. and its causes...UK has a different place in the world.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Hmm, this puts a different light on things regarding the French claims that the cancellation came out of the blue, from 1:48 onwards:
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I saw a tweet - which obviously I can't find - this morning which showed over a dozen articles in mainstream Aus media from February (I think) onwards in which its obvious that senior government and RAN officers are saying that the deal is in very serious trouble with problems of cost over-runs, timetable slippage, retreats on workshare etc...
You might almost think that the French Embassy in Aus don't read the papers, or that the French government is being disingenuous about the degree of surprise. If Australia had broken a Aus$90bn contract the French would be suing - and the French aren't suing, so its pretty obvious that the Aussies have operated entirely within the wording of the contract.
Personally I think it's interesting that some seem to think that France in entitled to be informed/consulted over who Australia chooses to deal with - I rather doubt they'd take the same view in other circumstances...
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Surely you're not suggesting the French aren't telling the whole truth...
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
It would be great if all subs were like the Thunderbirds.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Someone is feeling left out a little...
The US has always been against the Canadians having their own nuclear subs, having gone so far as to invoke a few treaty rights to stop them from buying an add-on to the Trafalgars back in the 1980s. (Though the end of the Cold War killed it just as effectively)
The US has always been against the Canadians having their own nuclear subs, having gone so far as to invoke a few treaty rights to stop them from buying an add-on to the Trafalgars back in the 1980s. (Though the end of the Cold War killed it just as effectively)
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
The Danes are looking to beef up their capabilities in the north Atlantic - they have replaced the big air search radar in the Faeroes which was removed in the early 90's, and they are looking to expand their radar facilities and deployed forces in Greenland.
Keflavic in Iceland is seeing a great deal more traffic - there was a trio of B-2 bombers detached there for a couple of weeks in the last month, the NATO air policing task continues, and NATO anti-submarine aircraft are using it at a tempo not seen since the late 80's.
Keflavic in Iceland is seeing a great deal more traffic - there was a trio of B-2 bombers detached there for a couple of weeks in the last month, the NATO air policing task continues, and NATO anti-submarine aircraft are using it at a tempo not seen since the late 80's.
gosub
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There is some stuff in there to chew over but any serious defense any list would end up shredding that guy
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Bolt is a grade A cunt. A more polished version of the scum that inhabit GB News, a cheerleader for Trump, a defender of the pedophile Pell and now apparently a covid denier. He might be correct on some points (stopped clocks) but hopefully he'll be sent underwater in a leaking sub.
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