Apologies for my extended absence without explanation. - Combination of Pig Flue (or whatever the hell it was - laid me low for the best part of 2 weeks) + pressing business matters and family commitments.
Best wishes to all for a better year than 2009 - though personally I'm not holding my breath because, on a host of measure, I frankly expect it to be considerably worse.
Hi Peter!
Yes, definitely missed and I am glad you are back. Sorry to hear you were unwell and pleased you are back on your feet again and hale and hearty. You could be right about this year and I'm not holding my breath either though I will wish you a Happy New Year in any case! :beer:
Peter Presland Wrote:Apologies for my extended absence without explanation. - Combination of Pig Flue (or whatever the hell it was - laid me low for the best part of 2 weeks) + pressing business matters and family commitments.
Best wishes to all for a better year than 2009 - though personally I'm not holding my breath because, on a host of measure, I frankly expect it to be considerably worse.
Well now we have an explanation. Glad you're on the mend and we have you back Peter.
Good to see you back, and glad you are on the mend, feeling better.
The time clock is over there in the corner; now let's get back to work, as the stables are filling up again and we need help with the shoveling.
Peter Presland Wrote:Apologies for my extended absence without explanation. - Combination of Pig Flue (or whatever the hell it was - laid me low for the best part of 2 weeks) + pressing business matters and family commitments.
Best wishes to all for a better year than 2009 - though personally I'm not holding my breath because, on a host of measure, I frankly expect it to be considerably worse.
Peter, I hope you are wrong but I am very worried on the war front. Ron Paul says there is much talk about a way to go into Iran. (Since when did the US require a valid reason?) WMDs was a ploy and a lie, Afghanistan even worse.
I saw an article yesterday that said the true number of US dead in Gulf war is 73,000....I'll post the article.
Dawn
Thanks to Magda et al.
I'm unlikely to maintain my previous posting rate. I'm trying to pay more attention to my own blogs; have increased my involvements in commenting on others and have an increased business load to cope with. I still regard DPF as a pretty unique and valuable resource though and will stay tuned.
Dawn - I'm worried too - VERY worried and like you sincerely hope I turn out to be wrong. Problem is, from where I am sitting, there is simply nothing positive to see in terms of the major power arbiters addressing the worlds converging and burgeoning problems of population growth, climate change, resource depletion and their derivatives. 'Globalisation' and 'economic growth' (on our finite planet) remain the twin holy-grails of the entire Western Establishment (for public consumption anyway). The US/NATO axis appears to be beefing up its interference, both overt and covert, everywhere. Watch out South America, Iran and Pakistan in particular.
It's pretty clear to me that regime-change in Iran is a prime objective - what replaces the present Ayatollahs is moot and of far less importance than neutralising a regime that (apart from Russia) poses the only real threat to US/NATO hegemony in the Middle East/Central Asia. From that perspective anything would be better than a cohesive powerful Regime in Iran - Break it up into its ethnic constituents is maybe the objective. For sure Shrub's promise to fund major covert ops in Iran back in 2006 (if memory serves) appears to be bearing its inevitable fruit and we can look forward to major upheavals there.
Peter, good luck, and stay close. Did you mention blog?; send info. Your contributions are significant; that last bit of analysis seems right on. Iran and Pakistan are smoldering, and South America is being warmed up with spy drones and more.
Ed Jewett Wrote:Peter, good luck, and stay close. Did you mention blog?; send info. Your contributions are significant; that last bit of analysis seems right on. Iran and Pakistan are smoldering, and South America is being warmed up with spy drones and more.
Thanks Ed
My blogs are:
http://www.sabretache.blogspot.com/
and
http://wantedforwarcrimes.blogspot.com/
I don't do either of them justice but intend to try a bit harder though 2010.
Thanks, Peter. I collect blog "bookmarks" and I shall become a regular reader and review both of yours 2-3 x a week. Don't apologize for what you may perceive as your shortcomings; others may see strengths. Just keep going... ready, fire, aim. And a new year begins soon.
Peter Presland Wrote:Ed Jewett Wrote:Peter, good luck, and stay close. Did you mention blog?; send info. Your contributions are significant; that last bit of analysis seems right on. Iran and Pakistan are smoldering, and South America is being warmed up with spy drones and more.
Thanks Ed
My blogs are:
http://www.sabretache.blogspot.com/
and
http://wantedforwarcrimes.blogspot.com/
I don't do either of them justice but intend to try a bit harder though 2010.
My compliments ...