Assault on Religious Freedom: Violent Crackdown by Israeli Police on Christian Worshipers in Jerusalem

The Arabic press is reporting violent assaults Saturday evening by Israeli police against Palestinian Christian worshipers in Jerusalem attempting to make their way to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for the “Saturday of Light” commemoration. The police attacks took place at the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in response to Christians objecting to the barriers the police had erected to keep crowds away.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who is appointed by the Vatican, told AP this week that the far, far right government has emboldened Jewish extremists to attack clergymen and commit vandalism against churches at an unprecedented rate. He said that the extremists now feel that they have government protection, adding, “The frequency of these attacks, the aggressions, has become something new.”

Source: Assault on Religious Freedom: Violent Crackdown by Israeli Police on Christian Worshipers in Jerusalem

Trump’s Al Capone Moment

The former president’s charges for falsifying business records don’t begin to capture the scale of his lawlessness. But they’re still worth pursuing.

Source: Trump’s Al Capone Moment

Old Dog Thought- The Age uses Lidia Thorpe to sell Peter Dutton

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Fighting Fake News with REAL, 17/4/23, Trump, Peter Dutton’s Grift, Morrison mustn’t be forgotten, Dutton and abused kids, Lidia Oh Lidia abused,

Unequal? Our analysis suggests Australia is a more equal society than has been thought

But Australia has been thought to be a less equal society than many European ones, sitting somewhere in the middle between the United States and countries such as France.

Source: Unequal? Our analysis suggests Australia is a more equal society than has been thought

Australia will be left stranded as a lonely Western outpost in Asia – Pearls and Irritations

The globe close up, South East Asia.

By working with AUKUS partners, such as the UK, or with Japan, Australia is betting on the past. It’s certain that the future will be different. The time has come for Australia to make cold and rational calculations on how to adapt to this Asian century, which will bear no resemblance to the American century. AUKUS is a walk back to the past, not the future.

Source: Australia will be left stranded as a lonely Western outpost in Asia – Pearls and Irritations

MEDIA RELEASE: Statement from SNAICC CEO Catherine Liddle in response to comment by Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in Alice Springs yesterday – SNAICC

MEDIA RELEASE: Statement from SNAICC CEO Catherine Liddle in response to comment by Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in Alice Springs yesterday - SNAICC

Peter Dutton is vying to be the worst racist Opposition Leader how on earth does for a moment think Australia let alone the LNP will accept him as their leader. The fact that he currently is reflects how far the LNP has fallen in the eyes of Australians.

“The claims of ‘rampant’ abuse fly in the face of evidence. Data from Territory Families show there has been no escalation in investigations of sexual abuse or exploitation.

Source: MEDIA RELEASE: Statement from SNAICC CEO Catherine Liddle in response to comment by Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in Alice Springs yesterday – SNAICC

The Abominable No Man – » The Australian Independent Media Network

What is not amusing is Spud’s response to the proposed referendum for an Indigenous Voice To Parliament. Just as Donald Trump gave permission for the worst of American society to be open and proud about how stupid and ugly, they really were Spud’s “No” campaign has given permission for the racists to be openly racist – albeit clothed in the pretense that they actually give a fuck about the welfare of our Indigenous fellow citizens.

Source: The Abominable No Man – » The Australian Independent Media Network

We must never forget Scott Morrison is a wicked man.

People died and to Morrison is just a big joke . We must never forget Scott Morrison is a wicked man.

 

‘Death to Christians’: Violence steps up under new Israeli gov’t | Religion | Al Jazeera

Jerusalem – Nothing about the attack or what happened since surprised Miran Krikorian. The Armenian owner of Taboon and Wine Bar in the Old City of Jerusalem was not surprised to receive a call the night of January 26 that a mob of Israeli settlers was attacking his bar in the Christian Quarter and shouting “Death to Arabs … Death to Christians.”

Source: ‘Death to Christians’: Violence steps up under new Israeli gov’t | Religion | Al Jazeera

US Lawmakers Call on Biden to End US Taxpayer Support of Israeli Human Rights Violations

Al-Aqsa raid

“Each year, the U.S. funnels billions of tax dollars to the Israeli government, funding obscene human rights violations,” said Rep. Cori Bush, who signed the letter. “We must stop funding Israeli apartheid.”

Source: US Lawmakers Call on Biden to End US Taxpayer Support of Israeli Human Rights Violations

It’s Called the American Dream Because You Have To Be Asleep to Believe It – scheerpost.com -Audio

Quart does more by diving into the psychological implications of such philosophies dictating the way people view others struggling or prospering. She references Stanley Milgram’s experiments and how they reminded her why “Republican and Republican-leaning voters thought that people who were economically struggling, [had] done something wrong or they weren’t working hard, and also vice versa. They thought somebody like Trump was excellent, genetically superior, like a worthy politician, because they assumed that if somebody seems successful, powerful, wealthy, they must have done something right.”

Source: It’s Called the American Dream Because You Have To Be Asleep to Believe It – scheerpost.com

US Needs Separation of State and Media

One might argue the separation of the State and Media exists but from the Voters

It’s a safe bet the U.S. would be a completely different country if separation of media and state and separation of corporation and state were enshrined like the separation of church and state is, writes Caitlin Johnstone.

Source: US Needs Separation of State and Media

Trump reports meagre income from Truth Social media – Michael West

Former President Donald Trump says he’s not making much money from his social media network but estimates it is worth between $US5 million ($A7.5 million) and $US25 million ($A37 million), according to his personal financial disclosure form.

Source: Trump reports meagre income from Truth Social media – Michael West

Will Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump be protected by their mate the bribe-taking US Supreme Court’s Justice Clarence Thomas?Kangaroo Court of Australia

Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump have had a very bad week with their numerous court cases and smoking gun evidence in the Dominion Voting Systems versus Fox News defamation case could end both of them.

Source: Will Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump be protected by their mate the bribe-taking US Supreme Court’s Justice Clarence Thomas?Kangaroo Court of Australia

Old Dog Thought- In a race to the bottom Hanson & Latham arrived together but there a crowd not far behind

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Fighting Fake News with REAL, 16/4/23, Keating on Hanson, Truth in Humor,

Racism runs through Dutton’s ‘dog act’ in Alice Springs

Opposition leader Peter Dutton this week made serious allegations about Indigenous communities in Alice Springs. Again, he failed to provide evidence to back up his spurious, race-based claims.

Source: Racism runs through Dutton’s ‘dog act’ in Alice Springs

Peter Dutton’s comments in Alice Springs show why so many Indigenous communities don’t trust politicians – ABC News

Jacinta Price and Peter Dutton at a press conference in Alice Springs.

 

“What we definitively have not seen in the evidence and the data is an increase in child abuse or, in particular, in child sexual abuse. It is not reflected in any of the data sets,” Liddle said. Time and again, politicians across the spectrum prove they cannot speak accurately on behalf of Indigenous communities.

Source: Peter Dutton’s comments in Alice Springs show why so many Indigenous communities don’t trust politicians – ABC News

Libs’ ex-leader: We should join Labor to back Voice

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The former Liberal leader said national and state polls showed widespread support for the voice, and most people felt the opposition should be playing a more constructive role. “He hasn’t been playing a constructive role but more a wrecking role,” Dr Hewson said.

Source: Libs’ ex-leader: We should join Labor to back Voice

Stuart Robert stood to gain financially from friends’ company, a parliamentary inquiry has heard

Synergy 360part-owner David Milo, his friend Coalition MP Stuart Robert and another Synergy 360 co-owner John Margerison.

Senior Liberal MP Stuart Robert stood to gain financially out of a consulting company called Synergy 360, which was part-owned by his business partner and chief political fundraiser, and which helped multinational companies win millions of dollars worth of government contracts.

Source: Stuart Robert stood to gain financially from friends’ company, a parliamentary inquiry has heard

Fourth Estate or weapon of the state

A truly free and independent press is becoming a pipe dream as the mainstream media is increasingly used as a political weapon, writes Dr William Briggs.

Source: Fourth Estate or weapon of the state

Patrick Lawrence: The Disinformation Complex: An Anatomy – scheerpost.com

There seemed no sorting out the godawful mess amid the incessant waves of mis– and disinformation to which our corporate media subjected us.

Source: Patrick Lawrence: The Disinformation Complex: An Anatomy – scheerpost.com

Blinded by Hate: Republicans Too Busy To Notice Plummeting Poll Numbers for Trump and GOP | The Smirking Chimp

Of course, that hatred of democracy is why Republicans are less worried than they should be about their ballooning unpopularity. Republicans are already dependent on gerrymandering and voter suppression to give them power way beyond what they actually earn at the ballot box. They clearly expect, or hope anyway, that they can corrupt the system even further, so that voters never have a real say in who their leaders are again. But if this progressive backlash keeps growing, voters may actually have a chance to throw Republicans out before the GOP fires the kill shot on American democracy.

Source: Blinded by Hate: Republicans Too Busy To Notice Plummeting Poll Numbers for Trump and GOP | The Smirking Chimp

What Tucker Carlson left out of his defense of accused Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira | Media Matters for America

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson defended accused Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira, a member of the Air National Guard arrested Thursday “in connection with the leak of dozens of highly classified documents containing an array of national security secrets” largely related to the Russian war in Ukraine, by inventing honorable motives for his alleged actions without any supporting evidence.

Source: What Tucker Carlson left out of his defense of accused Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira | Media Matters for America

“He can’t risk discovery”: Experts say Trump’s lawsuit against Michael Cohen could badly backfire | Salon.com

Michael Cohen and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Legal experts say former President Donald Trump’s $500 million lawsuit accusing former attorney Michael Cohen of both revealing his confidences and “spreading falsehoods” about him “makes no sense.”

Source: “He can’t risk discovery”: Experts say Trump’s lawsuit against Michael Cohen could badly backfire | Salon.com

Old Dog Thought- Why is this man still an MP? Who does he represent?

Synergy 360part-owner David Milo, his friend Coalition MP Stuart Robert and another Synergy 360 co-owner John Margerison.

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 15/4/23, Stuart Robert,Fourth Estate, Racism,

Eddie Betts backs the Voice to parliament

Eddie Betts said he had canvassed a range of views before deciding to back the Voice.

AFL great Eddie Betts has thrown his support behind an Indigenous Voice to parliament, describing the proposal as a pathway to inclusion and respect in decision-making.

Source: Eddie Betts backs the Voice to parliament

‘Inhumane’ debt collection of welfare overpayments ends – Michael West

Debt collectors will no longer be used to recover welfare overpayments, which will instead be handled in-house by the relevant government department.

Source: ‘Inhumane’ debt collection of welfare overpayments ends – Michael West

Rex Patrick on AUKUS submarines: “an astonishingly bad deal” – Michael West

Rex Patrick on AUKUS submarines: “an astonishingly bad deal”

The Defence Department has outdone itself with the AUKUS submarine project. In Paul Keating’s words, “it’s the worst deal in all history”. That’s not just because of the staggering $386 billion price tag, but because of the form the program is to take. Former submariner Rex Patrick looks at the most astonishingly irrational part of the announcement.

Source: Rex Patrick on AUKUS submarines: “an astonishingly bad deal” – Michael West

Americans Are Dying and Dying … and Dying – CounterPunch.org

However, between 2021 and 2022, life expectancy in the U.S. declined from 77.0 to 76.1 years and the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reports that this is the lowest level since 1996; for 2022, it increased to 79.05 years. In 2021, life expectancy for males was 73.2 years and for females 79.9 years, and by 2022, male life expectancy reached 73.9 and for females 79.5.

Source: Americans Are Dying and Dying … and Dying – CounterPunch.org

‘He Must Be Impeached’: Clarence Thomas Made Undisclosed Property Deal With Billionaire Megadonor

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

Trump tried to buy SCOTUS Harlan Crow did and long before Trump

“Harlan Crow is not, as Thomas claims, his ‘dearest friend’ so much as his corrupt benefactor,” said one critic. “Thomas is unfit to serve on any court, let alone our nation’s highest court.”

Source: ‘He Must Be Impeached’: Clarence Thomas Made Undisclosed Property Deal With Billionaire Megadonor

Ex-prosecutor: Alleged secret Giuliani tapes could have “devastating impact” on Fox News’ defense | Salon.com

Rudy Giuliani (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

A former Tucker Carlson producer accusing Fox News of pressuring her into providing misleading testimony in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit filed amended legal complaints on Tuesday claiming there are secret Fox recordings of Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies admitting they had no evidence to support their Dominion election fraud lies, according to The Daily Beast.

Source: Ex-prosecutor: Alleged secret Giuliani tapes could have “devastating impact” on Fox News’ defense | Salon.com

“Potential for criminal penalties”: Experts warn judge could punish Fox for “engaging in misconduct” | Salon.com

Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

 The judge overseeing Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Wednesday sanctioned the network for withholding evidence during discovery and said he’s considering launching an investigation into Fox’s legal team for not being “straightforward” with him, The New York Times reported.

Source: “Potential for criminal penalties”: Experts warn judge could punish Fox for “engaging in misconduct” | Salon.com

In Pentagon Leak, the Problem Is What’s Classified

This aerial photograph taken on March 8, 2023 shows The Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. (Photo by Daniel SLIM / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

 

The government has arrested a suspect but regularly exaggerates the damage from the unauthorized sharing of secret documents.

Source: In Pentagon Leak, the Problem Is What’s Classified

Old Dog Thought- How much less hounded and safer would Australians feel and be under a ‘Basic Living Wage’

Fighting Fake news with REAL 14/4/23, Aukus cripples the budget, The Hounding continues under the ALP Welfare System;

Peter Dutton’s dirty laundry of corruption scandals is a mile long and overshadows his leadershipKangaroo Court of Australia

Peter Dutton

Peter Dutton has a long list of corruption scandals that have never been addressed in the past but would need to be before he was ever to become Prime Minister. Some of the scandals I have written about over the last few years which are listed below and in the below video.

Source: Peter Dutton’s dirty laundry of corruption scandals is a mile long and overshadows his leadershipKangaroo Court of Australia

Peter Dutton left with a difficult decision, after Julian Leeser’s stand blows big holes in his Voice argument – ABC News

Peter Dutton wearing black glasses standing in front of a blurry australian flag looking straight toward the camera

In the same way Peter Dutton targeted Africans as if they were all cut from the same cloth Australia-wide pointing to Dandenong as being representative of why our immigration policies have failed the nation. Meanwhile, Dandenong hasn’t been a national issue at all.  He’s gone to Alice Springs to declare Alice’s current indigenous issues reflect indigenous Australia and is in need of AFP policing and not a Voice. It’s exactly a mirror image of Trumpists in America

Dutton blows up 2800 cases as if they are representative of 3% 0f Australia’s 750,000k indigenous people that need policing. If that’s not the same racist argument we have heard for the past 250 years then what is. Particularly because it’s his reason for a “No” vote on the voice

If a reporter gets abused for simply asking “What is your evidence Mr Dutton?” The cop in Dutton reveals itself and The ABC blamed for not  simply amplifying Dutton’s politics as Murdoch does. Is Dutton really a leader in control with his finger on the pulse? Is he there to help the people of Alice or simply there to help himself?

Weeks ago Dutton claimed he’d spoken to “authorities on the ground” and when it was pointed out he hadn’t left his office he generated this trip. He said he’d spoken to lots of people “on the ground”. He’s standing alongside Jacinta Price “the lots” remain unnamed and haven’t rushed to support him saying “We spoke to Peter and provided him with his facts” Peter Dutton has a way of manufacturing misdirection, and in this case, it’s look at Alice’s problem as if it were an Australia wide problem. It’s a distraction to the issue really at hand ” The Right of First Nation’s People. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to Constitutional recognition and a  Voice” after 240 years.

Source: Peter Dutton left with a difficult decision, after Julian Leeser’s stand blows big holes in his Voice argument – ABC News

Slow implosion of Liberal Party accelerates under Dutton

The facts are that the Liberal Party’s lurch to the far-distant depths of Right-wing politics began during the ’90s, so if anyone should claim credit for the inevitable destruction of the Liberal Party, it’s probably John Winston Howard.

How Howard screwed the Libs How Howard screwed the Libs John Howard somehow made his way into power in Australia, staying PM for 11 long years, yet his divisive legacy may marginalise the Liberal Party for far longer than that.

It’s true that Dutton is holding firm to the Coalition’s core policy framework, rooted as it has been in fear, hate and otherness, which helped to get Howard elected an inexplicable four times. And yes, this essentially unchanged platform also helped propel Abbott and Morrison into power, with a short stint from the not-quite-as-Right Turnbull thrown in.

But this extreme Right-wing stance was not really in full view until Morrison took it to new evangelical heights and displayed its glory for all to recoil.

Source: Slow implosion of Liberal Party accelerates under Dutton

The incredible shrinking ASPI – Pearls and Irritations

China, vector flag.

A Propagandist disguised as a Think TankThe ASPI

The think tank continues to enjoy the patronage of powerful benefactors with deep pockets, and it is going nowhere; but, in some respects, the game is up for ASPI. Its current leadership is being pushed into the model of the communist state it so reviles. Shameless propaganda when it can get away with it, and secretly meeting behind closed doors when it can’t.

Source: The incredible shrinking ASPI – Pearls and Irritations

World pressure ramps up, Australia finally moves on money laundering by lawyers, accountants and the property lobby – Michael West

MoneyLaundering

After 16 years governments dithering, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is moving to introduce Tranche 2 of Australia’s money-laundering laws, finally tackling the powerful lawyer, accounting and property lobbyists. Nathan Lynch reports.

Source: World pressure ramps up, Australia finally moves on money laundering by lawyers, accountants and the property lobby – Michael West

Scotland, aiming at 40 GW of Offshore Wind, has just installed the Deepest Fixed-bottom Wind Turbine in the World

Scotland Showing The Way

The small country of Scotland, with a population of about 4.5 million, has forged ahead with renewable energy at a much faster pace and to greater effect than most other industrialized countries. Virtually all of its electricity consumption can now be met from wind, solar, or hydro, though because it exports some of that electricity to England, the grid mix in Scotland itself is not actually 100% renewables.

Source: Scotland, aiming at 40 GW of Offshore Wind, has just installed the Deepest Fixed-bottom Wind Turbine in the World

Caitlin Johnstone: The West’s Long Plan to Crush China

And in fact, we do not have to do it in our day, either. We don’t have to do it in any day. The only reason we’re being pushed toward a profoundly dangerous conflict with China is because it’s the only way for Western imperialists to maintain their hegemonic control of this planet, but their hegemonic control of this planet has brought us to a point of endlessly escalating nuclear brinkmanship and looming ecosystemic collapse. It hasn’t exactly been working out great, is what I am saying.

Source: Caitlin Johnstone: The West’s Long Plan to Crush China

Ten Men, $1 Trillion, and the Personalization of American Capitalism – CounterPunch.org

While the US was never an economically egalitarian nation, at least in recent history, it has fallen to become one of the least equal among any countries in the world that likes to consider themselves democracies. Combine this with the decline in social mobility in the US that is getting progressively worse by generation, and it is hard to conclude that the American Dream does exist except for a few.

Source: Ten Men, $1 Trillion, and the Personalization of American Capitalism – CounterPunch.org

Trump sues his former lawyer Cohen for $US 500 million | The New Daily

Grifted funds were raised not for politics but for personal use, and revenge. Employment of lawyers who in all probability won’t be paid. It is what Donald Trump has done all his life to turn American law into a tool and it has allowed him.. Breaking people for revenge’s sake is his sociopathic bent. This is personal it’s not political but the money spent will have been taken from political donations. Cohen is just someone, a Jew, he intends to squash for the benefit of his  Nazi funders to watch on cheer and keep donating whether he wins or loses. Just another scam

Source: Trump sues his former lawyer Cohen for $US 500 million | The New Daily

Donald Trump ridiculed by court staff for claim they ‘cried’ over his arrest – Daily Record

The only one crying is Trump

One told The Mirror: “The only thing Mr Trump was truthful on is that yes we do see murderers but at all times we remain professional. No one shed any tears whether they support him or not. “We are trained to be courteous and polite but we don’t show emotion like that – particularly over an arraignment. You’d think the way he spoke he was the victim of the biggest miscarriage of justice in history.

Source: Donald Trump ridiculed by court staff for claim they ‘cried’ over his arrest – Daily Record

‘Never met anybody smarter’: Trump gushes over Kim and Putin – Alternet.org

'Never met anybody smarter': Trump gushes over Kim and Putin

Murdoch and Trump promoting each other for mutual gain once again. A Circus for America to watch not for news but mutual profit. A grifter’s ethic-less paradise. The real news being Tucker Carlson thinks Trump’s an utter dislikable prick, and Trump thinks the same of Carlson. That’s the true underlying reality being played out on Murdoch media. It’s a wholey personal transactional scam for mutual gain, and money on a Murdochian stage.

Former President Donald Trump rhapsodized over the authoritarian leaders of two of the United States’ biggest foreign adversaries during his appearance on Tuesday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight.

“Never met anybody smarter. How smart is Kim Jong-Un? Top of the line,” Trump said of the North Korean dictator.

Source: ‘Never met anybody smarter’: Trump gushes over Kim and Putin – Alternet.org

Old Dog Thought- Stuart Robert maintained a Cabinet Minister’s job was to lie for the Party.

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 13/4/23, LNP Shame, LNP Split, Peter Dutton’s Dirty Laundry,

Dutton leadership takes a hammer blow

Shadow attorney-general Julian Leeser has delivered a hammer blow to Peter Dutton’s authority as leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party on the very issue he had planned to unify it around.

Source: Dutton leadership takes a hammer blow

A fizzled campaign to muzzle free speech – Pearls and Irritations

Israel Palestine.Flags

Antisemitism, like all forms of racism, is a scourge and Australia has not been immune to it. Traditional antisemitism is not hard to identify or call out whether it is in graffiti, slogans or slurs. However, when it comes to debate over Israel and Palestine, what is or is not antisemitic is a highly political issue.

The Executive Council of Australia Jewry, the Zionist Federation of Australia, and the private Australia Israel and Jewish Affairs Council act as a lobby and take an aggressive, if not belligerent, stance against strong criticism of Israel or Zionism, claiming that it is by and large antisemitic except when conducted within very narrow parameters (theirs). Anything supporting the rights of Palestinians is usually condemned. They largely echo the Israeli government. However they cannot claim to speak for all Jews, nor should they seek to police debate about Israel and Palestine in Australia.

Source: A fizzled campaign to muzzle free speech – Pearls and Irritations

Anti-Protest Laws Are Not About Safety, They Are About Silencing Dissent – scheerpost.com

Anti-Protest Laws Are Not About Safety, They Are About Silencing Dissent We must not allow our movements for justice to be silenced by laws that criminalize dissent.

Source: Anti-Protest Laws Are Not About Safety, They Are About Silencing Dissent – scheerpost.com

AUKUS designed to remove public resistance to Australia stationing US nuclear submarines – Pearls and Irritations

President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speak at the AUKUS meeting in San Diego, March 13, 2023.

What is the Scam?

The real reason for the AUKUS submarine deal might well have been the U.S. wish for a port and base in Australia from where it can send its own nuclear submarines to harass China. The offer to Australia to buy nuclear submarines was likely only made to remove Australian public resistance to the stationing of nuclear submarines (with nuclear weapons) on the continent.

Source: AUKUS designed to remove public resistance to Australia stationing US nuclear submarines – Pearls and Irritations