An Opera in Twenty Farts -- We have entered the period of fart diplomacy in the episode that will
become known as Obama's Syrian Farce. We all know that Freedman's account is
patently untrue. Putin discussed this possibility with Obama at the G20, and
Kerry, Muppet as he is, probably recalled something in his fried brain and
blurted it out. The idea that the world has been saved by a blunder, is the
disney version of the Syrian crisis that obviously appeals to hacks like
Freedland. Why that is so, I will leave you, dear colleague, to ponder.
Fart diplomacy is that tactic used by Great World Leaders when they have been
caught with their pants down and their underwear is not, shall we say, what
their mothers would have wished. Its aim is to drown out the obvious judgments
of onlookers, such as "You've been had, you bunch of gits !", by making loud
rude noises and stinking up the air. "A little hair on my pinkie can destroy the
whole of your army with its arm tied behind its back ! God bless Mrka"
In reality God will do no such thing. Swayed between amusement and disgust,
God is wondering whether to perhaps inflict a plague of piles on Kerry and
Obama, as they swagger and posture like drunk children in a sandbox.
"Well., sure, this may work, but I am highly skeptical," says Grand Poopie
Obama, looking suitably skeptical. "See, there's a lot of things that will have
to be got right, and that will take time, and we dont have time, God Bless Mrka
!"
"Assad is famous for his lies,"shouts Kerry, and then "Shit, what bit me in
my ass ??!! God is that you biting me in my ass ?!! What did I do ? Told lies ?
OK, but hell, that was for the sake of Mrka !"
"Listen up, Assad, we are going to press on with getting permission to blow
Syrian babies to smithereens, regardless of what You and Mr Pootin have come up
with. So dont think you're off the hook, Adolph, We've got your number."
In Russia in the UN and in Syria, well intentioned diplomats are scuttling to
try to prevent the destruction by US tomahawks of thousands of mothers and
children, o, yes, and men too. Obaqmna never mentions men who have been
murdered. You've noticed that too ? Its not in the script. And while these
earnest. efforts are afoot, we get loud farting trombone sounds from the Rose
Garden of the White House. "This is too little too late. Assad's slaughter of his people must stop. Now
! "
Question from meek embedded reporter looking remarkably like Jonathan
Freedland, but that's just a coincidence (promise): "Mr Obama, do you have any
messages for the rebels who continue to slaughter Syrians in huge numbers ?"
The Great Poobear puts on suitable furrowed brow intended to display "deep
thought: " The Syrian people have had enough misery. The world is watching. I
cant stand idly by. This too must cease. Assad has killed more Syrians than
Adolf Hitler ! Hiccup. Burp"
And so it will go on for several days, this period of fart diplomacy, during
which the Leader of the Free World will discover a way of pulling up his pants
so he can strut, jaw out like Mussolini, to show the Mrkn people that they can
be proud to be Mrkn,.... again. Kerry ? Listen, Ive got a tip for you. Give it a few months and then go
around the trash cans in Farrgut Park across the road form the White House (that
Bastion of World Freedom and Democracy), and you may find Kerry in a can among
the Dr Pepper bottles.
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In an interview with the Telegraph’s chief political commentator Peter Oborne on the Telegraph’s website, Mr Farage said: “We will fight every single seat.
“And we will probably fight more seats than the other parties because we are established in Northern Ireland too.”
Mr Farage also said it was possible that Ukip could hold the “balance of power” in a hung Parliament after the next election.
He said: “If you really want a referendum you make sure that Ukip win the Euro elections next year to keep the pressure on and then you make sure that Ukip has decent representation in the House of Commons in 2015. Who knows? What if Ukip held the balance of power - there would be a referendum then.”
It has also emerged that Ukip has been mopping up donors who previously had committed their cash to the Conservatives.
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They included Stuart Wheeler, the former Tory treasurer who has given £300,000, and Lord Hesketh (£31,000), a former minister under Margaret Thatcher.
Other big donors who used to back the Conservatives are Michael Stone, a hedge fund manager who gave £20,000 and Sir John Craven, a former City banker, who gave £12,500.
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But the project will involve a massive new transport network of three new pipelines to move a total of 16bn cubic metres a year of offshore gas through Georgia, Greece and under the Adriatic Sea to Italy. One leading human rights campaigner argued last night that a campaign in Britain and elsewhere was growing to halt dependence on the Caspian "carbon corridor" that has brought disruption to populations that live along the route.
The next phase of Shah Deniz is expected to be given the go-ahead before Christmas by BP, which operates the project and has a 25% stake in it alongside Statoil of Norway, which owns a further 25%.
The project will bolster European gas security and reduce dependency on Russia but it also enhances the position of Azerbaijan, a country whose president, Ilham Aliyev, is accused by Amnesty International of presiding over a human rights "crisis". Al Cook, vice president of BP in Azerbaijan, said the deal – on the back of a summer deal with BOTAS of Turkey – was another "vital milestone" in developing the project.
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When national governments can no longer clean up the mess—as happened in Ireland, Spain and Cyprus—the survival of the entire currency union is thrown into doubt.
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