US I Visa Restrictions... attack on the UN and Free Press
A Tariff on Foreign Perspectives
https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/09/us-plans-to-restrict-foreign-journalists...
Ian Williams' Books
More Columns Than The Parthenon
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US Science Immigration policy silliest yet.
Everybody's favourite Nobel Prize had to move to Zurich. They should have offered Trump the IgNobel Peace prize he so richly deserves!
https://www.science.org/content/article/ig-nobel-hosts-science-s-sillies...
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The US Admin's War on Foreigners - and the Press
Me as FPA President Editorial for FPA Newsletter.
New Visa Requirements threaten Our Members
The Foreign Press Association was born in New York at the end of the First World War, and
also stuck around for the Second. Its members have chronicled epidemics, depressions and
recessions, witnessed the birth of radio, TV - and the Internet. However now there is an
impending "Perfect Storm," putting in doubt our raison d’ être. If the foreign press are not
Another epidemic of invertebracy at UN!
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Mindbender! Milo gets the boot!
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Obituaries
To keep dancing a jig on the grave of Mladic, I must add to Twain's alleged comment that he wished no man dead, but he often read obituaries with great pleasure, Hell, this one gave me rigor mortis of the dimples.
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Ding Dong the Demon's dead! Mladic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/europe/ratko-mladic-dead.html
I am opposed to the death penalty on principle... but if I would not bother joining abolitionists in a vigil to preserve Mladic. In fact even diehard abolitionists might will give this one a pass. Good riddance! What kept you, Death?
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The film that wrote it all in advance!
It is really deja vu all over again. Larry Beinhart's Wag the Dog.
Albania ((unheard when the film was made )- a war, a Presidential Peace Prize for a war that he invented, a gullible press led by the nose. The big difference is that this White House just stumbled serendipitously into a` swamp of Congressional and media fecklessness and contrived and constructed voter indifference.
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Indigenous languages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0B4vfT8Au0
Manx, Sami, Welsh and Scouse :)
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