Comments on: POLITICS AND PARANOIA BY ROBIN RAMSAY

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:50:48 +0000

@admin: forgot to mention about the Moore thing. Don’t be too hard on yourself, you’re no doubt going out on a limb publishing the stuff you are so good for you!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:45:08 +0000

@admin – thanks, I found the other blog not long after leaving that comment! Will tune in for future posts.

@Robin – I’m sure we readers won’t mind if there is some overlap between work here and in Lobster. Most of us are probably happy Lobster is there at all, I have no idea if anything exists that would cover the same ground.

The Georgia stuff is interesting, I didn’t quite know where to hang it, but good old economics makes as much sense as anything else. But what’s in it for Georgia? They essentially chose sides and regard NATO membership as some kind of international legitimacy, and are prepared to become a US client state? Forgive my complete ignorance of these things.

By: Robin Ramsay

Robin Ramsay — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:58:11 +0000

I read somewhere that the average blog is read by 3 people. So I just need to two more to make it to average…..
my difficulty with blogging is that whenever I think of something worth saying a bit of my brain says ‘ This might be a piece for Lobster’. I guess I will just have to get used to using the blog as place for first drafts and stray thoughts. Of which here’s one. The Independent had a front page headline last week about the war?conflict?skirmish? in Georgia: “After a war lasting six days in which scores have died”. Scores? Of course they have no idea about what is going on down there: no sources other than tainted/propaganda sources; and no reliable figures on deaths. ‘Scores’ is a sub’s bet-hedging guess, I suspect: gotta put something but has no information.
The real point about the Georgia thing is seeing the US and Russian military-industrial complexes getting back on the road – contracts, careers back on track. Just for a minute there peace almost broke out! In this country, where politics has yet to be completely corrupted by money, it is difficult for people to grasp that US foreign poplicy exists mostly to renrich the military-industrial complex. As in: why have Poland and Georgia in NATO, given the geo-political damage this will do to relations between Russia and the rest of Europe? There will be a clause in the contracts somewhere which forces them to buy US weapons systems. That’s the price of entry.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:27:14 +0000

Andrew: Robin is still finding his way around blogging and might not find your comment . . .

Re. Michael Moore. You are quite right. RR hated the comment too and never wanted to run with it. His useless publisher – who is penning this reply – thought it would bring him to a wider public . . .

FYI: Robin now has his own blog on the picnic website. (You have left your comment in the Author Blog. Since then, we have set up a separate blog for him.)

If you go into http://www.picnic-publishing.co.uk , you will find a tab ‘Political Blog’ next to the ‘Author Blog’ tab. Robin posts here when he feels like it. The ones up to date are well worth looking at.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:05:04 +0000

Robin -

Great to see you writing a blog. It’s good that we don’t have to wait for a new Lobster to get some of your thoughts! Always thought-provoking.

I am hopefully not alone in thinking you are of much more value than “Britain’s answer to Michael Moore”

Best,

Andrew