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There has been a peaceful revolution in the UK opposition Labour Party. Traditionally the leader was elected by the members of parliament belonging to the Labour fraction. Now the leader was elected by the party members from a short list for which the candidates, all MP's, needed to win the support of a small number of his/her fellow fraction members. Because the election would look rigged if all candidates belonged to the right wing of the party several fraction members support a left wing candidate they themselves wouldn't be voting for, Jeremy Corbyn. Today Corbyn won the election with 59.9 % of the votes. The Labour Party grew by a quarter of a million members during the election campaign.
Corbyn is for ending the Trident program, for genuine autonomy for Scotland, for talks with Argentina about the Falklands/Malvinas, against bombing in the Middle East. But the parliamentary elections are only in 2020 so its a long time before he has the chance to become prime minister.
All the same it is a shock to parliamentary politics in UK and in Europe.
Corbyn is for ending the Trident program, for genuine autonomy for Scotland, for talks with Argentina about the Falklands/Malvinas, against bombing in the Middle East. But the parliamentary elections are only in 2020 so its a long time before he has the chance to become prime minister.
All the same it is a shock to parliamentary politics in UK and in Europe.
At last i found time to look in my Dutch newspaper from yesterday that was closed yesterday morning. In expectation that Jeremy Corbyn will win the Labour leadership election it reminds the readers that financiers has warned that they might end their donations, clearly accepting that the policies of a political parties will not be determined by its members, nor of course the voters, but by its financiers.
It does however mean that attempts to take the UK into further military actions; especially in Syria, will now be formally opposed by the official opposition.
I am surprised that Corbyn made it this far. Not in so much as he won the election, that has been obvious for some time, but more that he did not suffer a heart attack or some other accident before hand.
The Valley Wildfire in California mushroomed out of control this weekend with gusty hot winds, and has destroyed hundreds of homes and other structures, burning into and through small towns, shutting down highways, and it is zero contained.
Here are several pictures:
See:
for many more pictures. I will be adding them as the week ahead goes on.
Here are several pictures:
See:
for many more pictures. I will be adding them as the week ahead goes on.
I cannot say I like it.
When will El Nino kick in and bring enough rain?
Miragedriver
Brigadier
95,000 Russian troops in massive military drill
Moscow (AFP) - Russia on Monday launched its largest military exercises of the year, Centre-2015, involving some 95,000 soldiers including ground troops, navy and airforce units.
The long-announced war games are "the most large-scale drill of 2015," the defence ministry said.
Russia has recently intensified snap checks of its military might, testing its capabilities from the Arctic to the Far East as relations with the West have plunged to a post-Cold War low over the Ukraine crisis.
Centre-2015 takes place at 20 sites across Russia's central military district, which reaches from the Volga River to the Ural mountains and Siberia in the east, while also including far northern Russia.
Troops from member states of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), made up of several ex-Soviet countries, are also involved in the exercise.
The defence ministry said the war games are aimed at testing the readiness of the military of the CSTO countries to "manage coalition groups of troops in containing an international armed conflict."
Russian Buk-M2 surface-to-air missile systems in the Victory Day parade at Red Square in Moscow on M …
The troops will simulate "blocking and destroying illegal armed formations during joint special operations," the ministry said.
The drill begins as leaders are to arrive in Tajikistan for a summit of the CSTO that starts Tuesday.
The exercises running to September 20 include 20 naval ships and up to 170 aircraft, the defence ministry said.
President Vladimir Putin will observe the drills during one of the days, Russian daily Izvestia reported last week, without giving details.
The main action will take place in the Urals, in the Siberian Altai region and in the southern Astrakhan region and the Caspian Sea, the commander of troops in Russia's central military district, Vladimir Zarudnitsky told journalists, quoted by Interfax news agency.
In European Russia, 12,000 troops will take part in drills at military ranges in the Urals region close to Kazakhstan involving around 90 tanks as well as 20 artillery and rocket launcher systems.
Kazakh troops will also take part and a military delegation from Nicaragua will act as monitors, Zarudnitsky added.
Back to bottling my Grenache
Moscow (AFP) - Russia on Monday launched its largest military exercises of the year, Centre-2015, involving some 95,000 soldiers including ground troops, navy and airforce units.
The long-announced war games are "the most large-scale drill of 2015," the defence ministry said.
Russia has recently intensified snap checks of its military might, testing its capabilities from the Arctic to the Far East as relations with the West have plunged to a post-Cold War low over the Ukraine crisis.
Centre-2015 takes place at 20 sites across Russia's central military district, which reaches from the Volga River to the Ural mountains and Siberia in the east, while also including far northern Russia.
Troops from member states of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), made up of several ex-Soviet countries, are also involved in the exercise.
The defence ministry said the war games are aimed at testing the readiness of the military of the CSTO countries to "manage coalition groups of troops in containing an international armed conflict."
Russian Buk-M2 surface-to-air missile systems in the Victory Day parade at Red Square in Moscow on M …
The troops will simulate "blocking and destroying illegal armed formations during joint special operations," the ministry said.
The drill begins as leaders are to arrive in Tajikistan for a summit of the CSTO that starts Tuesday.
The exercises running to September 20 include 20 naval ships and up to 170 aircraft, the defence ministry said.
President Vladimir Putin will observe the drills during one of the days, Russian daily Izvestia reported last week, without giving details.
The main action will take place in the Urals, in the Siberian Altai region and in the southern Astrakhan region and the Caspian Sea, the commander of troops in Russia's central military district, Vladimir Zarudnitsky told journalists, quoted by Interfax news agency.
In European Russia, 12,000 troops will take part in drills at military ranges in the Urals region close to Kazakhstan involving around 90 tanks as well as 20 artillery and rocket launcher systems.
Kazakh troops will also take part and a military delegation from Nicaragua will act as monitors, Zarudnitsky added.
Back to bottling my Grenache
