Iceland volcano

[Magda Hassan]

Just watching the chaos caused by the volcano erupting in far away Iceland. It may just be starting and this could go for some time yet. This is already causing immense difficulties for stranded travelers and it is also making big dents in the profits of the airline industry. I recall that the dust from Krakatoa also upset the photosynthesis and harvests in many places for a couple of years afterward and I wonder if this is going to do the same for the European summer crops and what that means in after effects as this will effect everyone though not Cubans though as they are 100% food secure and probably out of the range of damage.

Kind of a taste of nuclear winter without the radiation?

Part of me wonders if there isn't some old Icelandic god that is pissed off with the events in that part of the world

[Peter Lemkin]

Just watching the chaos caused by the volcano erupting in far away Iceland. It may just be starting and this could go for some time yet. This is already causing immense difficulties for stranded travelers and it is also making big dents in the profits of the airline industry. I recall that the dust from Krakatoa also upset the photosynthesis and harvests in many places for a couple of years afterward and I wonder if this is going to do the same for the European summer crops and what that means in after effects as this will effect everyone though not Cubans though as they are 100% food secure and probably out of the range of damage.

Kind of a taste of nuclear winter without the radiation?

Part of me wonders if there isn't some old Icelandic god that is pissed off with the events in that part of the world

This is MUCH, MUCH smaller than Krakatoa!!!!! It will all blow-over in a few days, most likely. One can't predict the length of an eruption, but most in Iceland do not go on for long...and are tiny, compared to explosive events such as Krakatoa. However, high-technology is very vulnerable to old-fashioned things, like volcanoes! :vroam:

[Magda Hassan]

Ah, that's good to know. So it will just muck up a few travel plans and the airlines bottom line? And gods just slightly pissed off.

[Paul Rigby]

The vital deep political context:

The Vile Shadow over Britain

by Donald Lube-Tambora, The Daily Excess, 16 April 2010, 1815hrs

An enormous Brown eruption, filling the skies of Britain with dangerous chunks of hubris and large quantities of dubious psephology, threatens the country with a once-every-four-or-five-years mass Conservative extinction event, claimed distraught climatologist Troy Cameroon last night.

“There I was, making the political weather, when No 10’s occupant erupted with laughter at my performance in the first election debate,” sobbed Cameroon. “Has this slack-jawed Cyclops no heart?” he added, to no one in particular, in the rapidly emptying press room.

Cameroon’s loyal army of mainstream journalists sought solace in hotel bars, restaurants, and Maltese Milo’s Club a la Pole. They were every bit as distraught as their fallen tailor’s dummy.

According to Nigel Cholmondley-Warner, Torygraph leader writer, “This Downing Street eruption has cast a dark shadow over the obvious political earthquake metaphor, and, just as bloody annoying, kyboshed my weekend jaunt to Washington, where I was to be given an award for my editorial urging a pre-emptive US nuclear strike on a sleeping Persepolis.”

Cholmondley-Warner was in no doubt who was to blame: “That man Clogg, and his first-rate impression of Tony Blair. I will never forgive him. But I will forgive that whirling hussy in the 12” heels. Trebles all round, please, Milo!”

Clogg a Shoe-in?

The positively volcanic outpouring of mirth occurred at the conclusion of the first televised debate between prospective Prime Ministers in British history. While the present incumbent exceeded expectations by turning up with his pants on and zip up, Cameroon appeared to many to have gone bonkers.

“He declared war on China, the silly upper-class twit,” commented Ken McGuiness, the Daily Mirror’s veteran political correspondent. “And what about that glassy-eyed stare, eh, worse than Cyclops himself?”

McGuiness was surprisingly unqualified in his praise for Clogg’s Blair-like effusions of faux-sincerity. “Breath of fresh air, brave reformer, man-of-the-people. Until, that is, the Lib-Dems start polling consistency over 26.33 recurring, at which point he is a dangerously naïve twelve year-old public schoolboy intent upon handing over Trident to Kim-Ill Megalomaniac and the Irano-Syrian Taliban.”

Of MICE and Mancunians

Legendary political weatherman Dweeb Chuffbutty IV has followed the great pall of nonsense settling over Britain with a keen eye. Speaking from his smart offices in Teaparty, Arizona, the home of the Monsanto Institute for Conservative Education, Chuffbutty, the man who masterminded the recent electoral triumph of Bulgaria’s Boris Badonov, was in doubt as to the meaning of the thick clouds of sulphurous rhetorical debris darkening British skies: “It’s God’s judgment on thirteen years of Communist Kleptocracy. Voters have a clear choice. Elect that zealous privatiser Cameroon or you will all die in a Biblical plague. It’s that simple.”

Mancunians were all together less apocryphal. Bill Greenall declared himself undecided – between a Chinese take-away, or a Biryani. His companion, Melanie Trafford, sought to put events firmly within a historical perspective. “It’s Grímvötn all over, ain’t it? But never mind. There’s always a nice, hot bath and what with all that free pumice stone…”

[Peter Presland]

The vital deep political context:

The Vile Shadow over Britain

by Donald Lube-Tambora, The Daily Excess, 16 April 2010, 1815hrs

"....a dangerously naïve twelve year-old public schoolboy intent upon handing over Trident to Kim-Ill Megalomaniac and the Irano-Syrian Taliban.”

Which just goes to show that even the Daily Express is not immune to occasional flashes of satirical brilliance. I've been chuckling away at that for 5 minutes.

I do wonder if such stuff slips through because editors-in-chief are too full of themselves to look closely at items not claiming to be 'news' per se, and that the deeply subversive nature of some of it just goes right over their heads anyway

[Paul Rigby]

Which just goes to show that even the Daily Express is not immune to occasional flashes of satirical brilliance.

Nor, it would appear, is Murdoch's most establishment-friendly organ:

Nick Clegg nearly as popular as Winston Churchill

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/po...100966.ece

My goodness, the FO/SIS spin-doctors really are hard at work bigging up Cloggy.

What next, I wonder, "Clogg the Son of God?"

You can see the appeal of the Clogg-Cable double act. "Sound" on Europe and killing duskier types across the globe, plus big "free" marketeers, the pair of them.

Bombs away, the age of the Liberal imperialist exterminator is back with us.

Or wasn't that Bliar's pitch?

[Paul Rigby]

The front-runner for the trophy to be awarded for the most ludicrously self-dramatising piece of journalistic idiocy during the current "Icelandic volcano death storm" idiocy is unquestionably The Observer's Henry Porter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr...ye-witness

I felt the breath of the beast and heard the volcano stir inside the mountain

There, there, of course you did, Henry. Or perhaps not:

I

left before the big eruption, but even if I had been trapped...

[Peter Lemkin]

The last time this volcano in Iceland erupted, it was before there were airplanes. This lasttime in the late1880's, I believe, it erupted for a few months, then went silent. A few more weeks more and there will be fewer airlines companies around. Not a conpriracy (at last):rofl:, but ol Mom Nature, who humans used to worship, and now ignore almost entirely. She is slow, but she rules supreme....no contest.:elefant::top:

[Jan Klimkowski]

The last time this volcano in Iceland erupted, it was before there were airplanes. This lasttime in the late1880's, I believe, it erupted for a few months, then went silent. A few more weeks more and there will be fewer airlines companies around. Not a conpriracy (at last):rofl:, but ol Mom Nature, who humans used to worship, and now ignore almost entirely. She is slow, but she rules supreme....no contest.:elefant::top:

Gaia 1 Capitalism 0

[David Guyatt]

Which just goes to show that even the Daily Express is not immune to occasional flashes of satirical brilliance.

Nor, it would appear, is Murdoch's most establishment-friendly organ:

Nick Clegg nearly as popular as Winston Churchill

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/po...100966.ece

My goodness, the FO/SIS spin-doctors really are hard at work bigging up Cloggy.

What next, I wonder, "Clogg the Son of God?"

You can see the appeal of the Clogg-Cable double act. "Sound" on Europe and killing duskier types across the globe, plus big "free" marketeers, the pair of them.

Bombs away, the age of the Liberal imperialist exterminator is back with us.

Or wasn't that Bliar's pitch?

My guess is that we might see a unity government for the first time since WWII, and that is why Clegg is being hyped the way he is.

The Estabishment know what is coming and the people, sadly, can't begin to understand the crippling effects of paying off the massive debt following the most mass bank heist ever.