Some serious thoughts and reflections after some significant shuteye...
Some days on (Monday January the 13th)...
Though the following comments/observations/opinions were hurriedly scribbled down whilst listening to and immediately following the BBC's *Ben James' excellent world news bulletin early Friday morning (NZ time), as he commandeered their 'OS' programme from the London Newsroom...and thus may well appear my attempt to be 'wise after the fact' in view of what has since transpired internationally vis-a-vis the Iranian Government's attempts to obfuscate and duck-shove and otherwise extricate itself from an awful airplane catastrophe above its own capital city, Tehran...
...I'll trust my readership to accept that the following are my very own unvarnished opinions in the aftermath of/fallout and washout from the aforementioned, though I've somewhat adjusted certain aspects in a little (title only) blogpost yesterday (Sunday the 12th)...
So rather than now (after the fact) myself adjust what I had to say then, I'll simply put it as I did then.
If - with forensic precision - 'taking out' the military mastermind of/behind Iran's Machiavellian Middle-Eastern strategic manoeuvres is 'murder'...as the Iranian masses and even members of parliament are apparently declaring, as they chant "Death to America!" in a frenzy 'worthy' of the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 Queen Jezebel-fed prophets of the groves as they "cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them"...
then prithee tell me what would blasting to smithereens a planeful/planeload of innocents - Iranians, Canadians, Ukrainians, Afghanis, Brits, Germans, et al - over Tehran...coincidentally, at the very time a scary 'near thing' between that very nation and the U S of A was being narrowly averted...?
Sadly - but predictably, and that despite the usual beat-up upon (Mr) Trump (admittedly in this case for his own typically reckless piece of '[un]statesmanship' which essentially precipitated the Iranian response and global crisis) - the footprints of the Iranian regime/military are all over it...
And what does that portend/presage? Hey, you decide, but somehow it ain't pretty, as most of us have long since surmised, wherever we may be upon this rather fraught and troubled orb in space...
*It's awfully hard to find words sufficient to praise this particular journalist, **whose commentary/ analysis, interviews and other material this morning...upon the American-Iranian escalation/standoff, the fallout from/aftermath of the Aussie bushfires especially vis-a-vis how its animal population has fared and the recriminations over just who was and is ultimately responsible, plus smidgens later on concerning both China's ethnic Uighurs and the United Kingdom's problematic and protracted Brexit
...have been excellent, impartial and of the highest journalistic standards, a very rare thing to be able to say these days, in this era of highly partisan, ideologically-driven, politically predictable prattle...
...particularly in view of the metaphorical bloody nose that said BBC has been (arguably rightly) served by members of the British public for its somewhat biased coverage of the UK's ongoing Brexit
twists and turns, permutations and other meanderings here, there and pretty well everywhere...
Indeed Mr James' contributions to this single 'episode' (of OS) (plus his various other similar inputs over recent weeks, months and years) - alongside his colleague Jo Fidgen's own regular offerings to superior journalism (with her signature 'Outlook' programme that regularly features (through the wee hours weekdays NZ time)) - are of such a sufficiently high, almost unparallelled standard to warrant each being nominated for an Emmy (or whatever the award might be) for their superlative and even-handed informative journalism, which, as I suggest here (and oftentimes elsewhere) is such a rare thing these days. It's difficult to be too fulsome in tribute to either journalist, I assure you...
**Straddling the 6a.m. to 7a.m. time bracket (upon Dunedin, New Zealand's Hills AM Access Radio network, a station which weekdays (Tuesdays through Fridays) then broadcasts the 'award-winning' New York City-based Democracy Now radio programme also for a full hour...
To Be Continued...
Some days on (Monday January the 13th)...
Though the following comments/observations/opinions were hurriedly scribbled down whilst listening to and immediately following the BBC's *Ben James' excellent world news bulletin early Friday morning (NZ time), as he commandeered their 'OS' programme from the London Newsroom...and thus may well appear my attempt to be 'wise after the fact' in view of what has since transpired internationally vis-a-vis the Iranian Government's attempts to obfuscate and duck-shove and otherwise extricate itself from an awful airplane catastrophe above its own capital city, Tehran...
...I'll trust my readership to accept that the following are my very own unvarnished opinions in the aftermath of/fallout and washout from the aforementioned, though I've somewhat adjusted certain aspects in a little (title only) blogpost yesterday (Sunday the 12th)...
So rather than now (after the fact) myself adjust what I had to say then, I'll simply put it as I did then.
If - with forensic precision - 'taking out' the military mastermind of/behind Iran's Machiavellian Middle-Eastern strategic manoeuvres is 'murder'...as the Iranian masses and even members of parliament are apparently declaring, as they chant "Death to America!" in a frenzy 'worthy' of the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 Queen Jezebel-fed prophets of the groves as they "cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them"...
then prithee tell me what would blasting to smithereens a planeful/planeload of innocents - Iranians, Canadians, Ukrainians, Afghanis, Brits, Germans, et al - over Tehran...coincidentally, at the very time a scary 'near thing' between that very nation and the U S of A was being narrowly averted...?
Sadly - but predictably, and that despite the usual beat-up upon (Mr) Trump (admittedly in this case for his own typically reckless piece of '[un]statesmanship' which essentially precipitated the Iranian response and global crisis) - the footprints of the Iranian regime/military are all over it...
And what does that portend/presage? Hey, you decide, but somehow it ain't pretty, as most of us have long since surmised, wherever we may be upon this rather fraught and troubled orb in space...
*It's awfully hard to find words sufficient to praise this particular journalist, **whose commentary/ analysis, interviews and other material this morning...upon the American-Iranian escalation/standoff, the fallout from/aftermath of the Aussie bushfires especially vis-a-vis how its animal population has fared and the recriminations over just who was and is ultimately responsible, plus smidgens later on concerning both China's ethnic Uighurs and the United Kingdom's problematic and protracted Brexit
...have been excellent, impartial and of the highest journalistic standards, a very rare thing to be able to say these days, in this era of highly partisan, ideologically-driven, politically predictable prattle...
...particularly in view of the metaphorical bloody nose that said BBC has been (arguably rightly) served by members of the British public for its somewhat biased coverage of the UK's ongoing Brexit
twists and turns, permutations and other meanderings here, there and pretty well everywhere...
Indeed Mr James' contributions to this single 'episode' (of OS) (plus his various other similar inputs over recent weeks, months and years) - alongside his colleague Jo Fidgen's own regular offerings to superior journalism (with her signature 'Outlook' programme that regularly features (through the wee hours weekdays NZ time)) - are of such a sufficiently high, almost unparallelled standard to warrant each being nominated for an Emmy (or whatever the award might be) for their superlative and even-handed informative journalism, which, as I suggest here (and oftentimes elsewhere) is such a rare thing these days. It's difficult to be too fulsome in tribute to either journalist, I assure you...
**Straddling the 6a.m. to 7a.m. time bracket (upon Dunedin, New Zealand's Hills AM Access Radio network, a station which weekdays (Tuesdays through Fridays) then broadcasts the 'award-winning' New York City-based Democracy Now radio programme also for a full hour...
To Be Continued...
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