thanks karl.. there are some particularly poignant comments from lavrov on bucha specifically.. the west keep on racking up the false flags without offering any proof.. without an open accounting of these events - mh17, skripals, and etc. etc. - no one who examines any of this closely is going to believe a word the west says regarding russia... it doesn't matter if a bunch of suckers buy into the bullshit, because it is the people who examine these events closely who matter.. none of it stacks up.. i am with russia in this regard... telling lies and hiding the truth doesn't cut the mustard..
I read Acheson's autobiography half a century ago, so I had to look it up to assure myself that I wasn't wrong:
Dean Acheson was the son of an anglo Canadian clergyman who was working for the Episcopal Church in Connecticut when the young blight on humanity was born.
Wikipedia ges it right I think:
"..Dean Gooderham Acheson was born in Middletown, Connecticut, on April 11, 1893. His father, Edward Campion Acheson, was an English-born Canadian (immigrated to Canada in 1881) who became a Church of England priest after graduating from Wycliffe College. He moved to the U.S., eventually becoming Bishop of Connecticut. His mother, Eleanor Gertrude (Gooderham), was a Canadian-born descendant of William Gooderham, Sr. (1790–1881), a founder of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery of Toronto. Like his father, Acheson was a staunch Democrat and opponent of prohibition..."
Incidentally the Gooderham building in Toronto is one of the city's landmarks. It is still nothing compared with the demolition derby of sovereignties for which Acheson and his Bidenesque minion Truman inaugurated.
"megacities like Los Angeles and San Francisco (where I have visited)"
San Francisco is not a "megacity" - not even close. Population is less than a million, 815,000. The greater Bay Area, of course, is much larger, but not nearly as affected by the city's issues as the city is.
It irritates me when people who don't live here make observations about how ugly and destroyed the city is. I was here originally in the 1970's and trust me, it hasn't fallen very far. The only reason there are more homeless now, aside from the disaster which is the US economy, is that San Francisco finally has a decent Welfare system, and other major cities treat their homeless by giving them a bus ticket to San Francisco. Not that the city doesn't have a major crime and homeless problem, but so do most large US cities. The present city administration seems more inept than previous ones, who weren't all that great, either, but that is just my subjective impression.
The real problem for these critics is that San Francisco has a long history of being "left", from the "beats" in the 1950's to the "hippies" in the 1960's-70's, and now to the "woke" nonsense. Most of the critics of this city are conservatives, whose credentials for being critical are wanting, to say the least.
The "migrant issue" and the "border wall" are all bullshit the conservatives hit on because they're basically racist, self-entitled assholes. The US population is between 370 million and 400 milllion. The number of illegals is thus probably less than five percent. If the US can't handle that influx, then the problem is the US, its economy and its social structure, not the illegals. The same applies to the so-called "fentanyl problem". As someone once said, if the US has a drug problem, the question is why do US citizens want to drug themselves into a stupor - not where the drugs are coming from.
The rest of Lavrov's comments were spot on, as usual - with the possible exception of still supporting "Israel's right to exist", which, frankly, was non-existent from 1947 if not earlier and now is even more so, as it is obviously an illegal, fascist, imperialist, colonialist, terrorist state. If the Iraq invasion was justified on those terms, then the US should be invading Israel tomorrow.
I did say the Bay Area was large. The rest of the Bay is ten times the size of San Francisco. Somehow I doubt Lavrov spent much time in the rest of the Bay Area.
richard.. things have gotten worse in the last 5- 10 years... i am in the vancouver area.. one part of this is the weather in parts east which motivate people to move to the coast... another is the one way bus tickets you mentioned... but the fact is, homelessness continues to grow and san fran is not immune to it.. in fact, it is likely to suffer more, along with all the major cities on the west coast - portland, seattle, vancouver, and los angeles too... the greater san fran is a mega city... most people when they visit san fran are not thinking about the boundaries between the different areas.. it is one big sprawling mess of urbanization...
the topic of fentanyl is complicated, and a sense of hopelessness is only part of it..
thanks karl.. there are some particularly poignant comments from lavrov on bucha specifically.. the west keep on racking up the false flags without offering any proof.. without an open accounting of these events - mh17, skripals, and etc. etc. - no one who examines any of this closely is going to believe a word the west says regarding russia... it doesn't matter if a bunch of suckers buy into the bullshit, because it is the people who examine these events closely who matter.. none of it stacks up.. i am with russia in this regard... telling lies and hiding the truth doesn't cut the mustard..
Thus Putin's Empire of Lies.
I read Acheson's autobiography half a century ago, so I had to look it up to assure myself that I wasn't wrong:
Dean Acheson was the son of an anglo Canadian clergyman who was working for the Episcopal Church in Connecticut when the young blight on humanity was born.
Wikipedia ges it right I think:
"..Dean Gooderham Acheson was born in Middletown, Connecticut, on April 11, 1893. His father, Edward Campion Acheson, was an English-born Canadian (immigrated to Canada in 1881) who became a Church of England priest after graduating from Wycliffe College. He moved to the U.S., eventually becoming Bishop of Connecticut. His mother, Eleanor Gertrude (Gooderham), was a Canadian-born descendant of William Gooderham, Sr. (1790–1881), a founder of the Gooderham and Worts Distillery of Toronto. Like his father, Acheson was a staunch Democrat and opponent of prohibition..."
Incidentally the Gooderham building in Toronto is one of the city's landmarks. It is still nothing compared with the demolition derby of sovereignties for which Acheson and his Bidenesque minion Truman inaugurated.
Thanks for that bit of bio. Might need to reread that sooner than later, but there's so much happening I don't see where I can find the time.
"megacities like Los Angeles and San Francisco (where I have visited)"
San Francisco is not a "megacity" - not even close. Population is less than a million, 815,000. The greater Bay Area, of course, is much larger, but not nearly as affected by the city's issues as the city is.
It irritates me when people who don't live here make observations about how ugly and destroyed the city is. I was here originally in the 1970's and trust me, it hasn't fallen very far. The only reason there are more homeless now, aside from the disaster which is the US economy, is that San Francisco finally has a decent Welfare system, and other major cities treat their homeless by giving them a bus ticket to San Francisco. Not that the city doesn't have a major crime and homeless problem, but so do most large US cities. The present city administration seems more inept than previous ones, who weren't all that great, either, but that is just my subjective impression.
The real problem for these critics is that San Francisco has a long history of being "left", from the "beats" in the 1950's to the "hippies" in the 1960's-70's, and now to the "woke" nonsense. Most of the critics of this city are conservatives, whose credentials for being critical are wanting, to say the least.
The "migrant issue" and the "border wall" are all bullshit the conservatives hit on because they're basically racist, self-entitled assholes. The US population is between 370 million and 400 milllion. The number of illegals is thus probably less than five percent. If the US can't handle that influx, then the problem is the US, its economy and its social structure, not the illegals. The same applies to the so-called "fentanyl problem". As someone once said, if the US has a drug problem, the question is why do US citizens want to drug themselves into a stupor - not where the drugs are coming from.
The rest of Lavrov's comments were spot on, as usual - with the possible exception of still supporting "Israel's right to exist", which, frankly, was non-existent from 1947 if not earlier and now is even more so, as it is obviously an illegal, fascist, imperialist, colonialist, terrorist state. If the Iraq invasion was justified on those terms, then the US should be invading Israel tomorrow.
San Franciso and its surround certainly qualifies as a Megalopolis--Megacity. I was born and lived in that environment for @40 years.
I did say the Bay Area was large. The rest of the Bay is ten times the size of San Francisco. Somehow I doubt Lavrov spent much time in the rest of the Bay Area.
richard.. things have gotten worse in the last 5- 10 years... i am in the vancouver area.. one part of this is the weather in parts east which motivate people to move to the coast... another is the one way bus tickets you mentioned... but the fact is, homelessness continues to grow and san fran is not immune to it.. in fact, it is likely to suffer more, along with all the major cities on the west coast - portland, seattle, vancouver, and los angeles too... the greater san fran is a mega city... most people when they visit san fran are not thinking about the boundaries between the different areas.. it is one big sprawling mess of urbanization...
the topic of fentanyl is complicated, and a sense of hopelessness is only part of it..