Wonder if CNN etal will be promoting this statement of concern by the 'highly principled' military caste concerned for the direction of their constitutional state? Whither, indeed?

nytimes.com/2020/12/27/wor…
Nation-States often make settlements within themselves to get ahead - sometimes you want a "culture of forgetting". In Spain's case, there was a general agreement to put the Civil War & after behind it. The Spanish military was a genuinely national institution so it esp did this
In NATO HQ/exercises in the 1970s, it was not uncommon to have visiting older Spanish staff officers (Spain was not a member) wearing German decorations (that Germans could not wear) the Spanish oficers had won as youth fighting in the Blue Division against the Soviets.
There was (and is) nothing wrong with Spain that would not have been solved by the promised Carlist restoration - it offered traditional Spain its rights as well as a degree of autonomy to the outliers & the urban weird, albeit the Catalans would have to be watched ... Tragic end
As for good coups.... the Spanish Communists looted Madrid’s synagogues....General Franco's Catholic and Moorish army helped reopen the Madrid synagogues & restore crucial local Jewish communities (who in Morrocco helped finance Franco's airlift). What is Spanish for Whither?

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28 Dec
Wonderful piece by Gideon Haigh on the duly famous wartime dissent of Brisbane's Lord Atkin in Liversidge v Anderson [1942] AC 206 & the enduring value in a judge being right for posterity even if their Zeitgeist says they are wrong

theaustralian.com.au/life/lord-atki…
The full text of Liversidge v Anderson [1942] AC 206 is here - Liversidge was a man of unusual associations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Li… & had been (perhaps understandably) interned in 1940 and Sir John Anderson was Home Secretary & the detaining authority

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"It has always been one of the pillars of freedom, one of the principles of liberty for which on recent authority we are now fighting, that the judges are no respecters of persons and stand between the subject and any attempted encroachments on his liberty by the executive...."
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26 Dec
As poor a substitute as Rugby 7s is for Rugby XV, there is nothing more ersatz than watching this BBL nonsense when one desires - indeed, one demands - Test Cricket. Indeed, play should start promptly each day at 0900 and end only at sunset. These 1030 starts are lazy. #AUSvIND
There was a stage in Australian cricket when dropping catches meant Allan Border would have you on the first plane home etc .... laziness in the field shows a lack of team spiritedness and poor attitudes that need an urgent adjustment. #AUSvIND
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Being the Opposition Leader is always hard/thankless but both Labor & Coalition only win from Opposition with Leaders from their parties' Right where the most ruthless & realistic of either political coalition reside vs the wet/weak/weird to their Left.

theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…
I mean, sure, this is brutal, but the reality is that Albo has always run on Left issues that have limited appeal to actual men:

"Mr Albanese — a passionate South Sydney Rabbitohs supporter, who has a beer named after him — continues to struggle in winning over male voters."
The 2017 gay marriage vote identified a large ethnic/traditional vote: "The contest for ethnic votes ahead of the election, including the sizeable Indian-Australian and Chinese-Australian communities, is viewed by Labor strategists as critical in winning and holding swing seats"
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Good morning all & OTD in 69AD, the Roman Senate declares Vespasian - Rome's leading General whose troops had acclaimed him Emperor on July 1 - as the last Emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors. Vespasian, a forthright soldier, righted the Roman state & provided needed order. ImageImage
Will add that Roman law & 'Mos Maiorum' prized order for the Roman state above other niceties. Vespasian had 'performance legitimacy' & a record of imposing order which by 68-69AD meant most Romans saw his Army as a legitimating authority to which the Senate had to pay heed.
The Romans - being a practical & historically literate people - realised that whatever qualms they may have about a Sulla, Caesar, Augustus, Vespasian etal, each provided a needed order that could impose law & provide justice & thus each was of use to #SPQR
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20 Dec
Will only add that it has long been the most fervent wish of Sydney's Northern Beaches that outsiders only be allowed to travel there on "essential" business - with "essential" being defined very narrowly. Gladys may have started a regime the locals will want made permanent.
New cases down - well done Sydney & NSW Health
Well done Northern Beachers.
Australia's lifters keep on lifting

The calm professionals of New South Wales' Health's tracking/tracing unit deserve a medal for containing Covid as well as they have - well done also to the stalwart Northern Beachers, who admittedly probably want outsiders kept out anyway

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You can tell people who have never served in any military or governmental organisation who think, somehow, coups or uprisings are remotely feasible in the weeks before Christmas....you would not even get the Coup’s relevant computer logins & a printer before early March.
For all those about to “But Franco” me, his Army was part Catholic, part Moor, in an era when few military officers let alone troops had families, and his rising was in July, when the troops were not getting leave for the northern summer & a coup in actual Spain was “going home”
Would add that Franco’s Army followed him as he was a successful General & quite ruthless in quickly achieving results. Look around at the post Sept 11 Generals & they are mostly hopeless losers & ruthless only at stabbing each other in the back & being fired for gross immorality
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