MALICE AFORETHOUGHT

Australia's Nanny State

In all its forms, in all its wickedness, he slept more than he had ever slept because he was depressed, and sleep was the only escape. If escape into tormented dreams was escape at all. In pristine suburbs and grotty holes, in places where he no longer belonged and did not want to be. Already the world had overlapped several times; he had done his best and should have been free. To murmur into dusks. To entertain past passions. To hear the stalking through the bush; the shriek of cicadas in the summer. "He will regret it the rest of his life." Yes, well that may be. But he would like to have been free of the commentary. 

The cruel past, the distant future, things were running headlong into walls. He remembered Colin as much as he remembered anyone, and transposed their long legs. He wanted to reach down and kiss them, these vaporous forms. "It was a bit of a shock, seeing him naked." Yes, well, as he had said, he could do without the commentary. "Shirt lifter." The changing guards, the changing nature of everything, made as if for relevance but opted out. He was kind when there was no room for kindness. Life was stark when it should have been dismembered. Flyovers and underpasses, traffic that dissembled out along long ribbons. He could have been free. Instead he was trapped.

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http://rt.com/politics/volgograd-terror-foreign-ministry-993/

The suicide blasts in Volgograd signal that it’s time for international players to stop dividing terrorists into “good” and “bad” ones based on geopolitical agenda, and to unite the globe in a battle against the threat, Russia’s Foreign Ministry stated.

“A strike, cynically planned on the eve of New Year celebrations, is another attempt by the terrorists to open a domestic ‘front,’ spread panic and chaos, cause interfaith strife and conflicts within the Russian society,” the ministry said in a statement.

The two consecutive suicide attacks in the southern Russian city of Volgograd - which killed more than 30 people on Sunday and Monday - will not see Russia retreating in its “tough and consistent battle against the insidious enemy that knows no boundaries and can only be stopped collectively,” the ministry said.

The ministry stressed that the Volgograd blasts were staged using the same template as recent terror attacks in the US, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and other countries.

“The position of some politicians and political strategists, who are still trying to divide terrorists as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ ones, depending on current geopolitical aims, is becoming evidently mischievous,” the ministry stressed. “Terrorism is always a crime and the punishment for it must be inevitable.”