Actually I quite like smoking and all the things advertised on this poster so it shows how messed up I am and how tricky and pointless it is to pontificate about this sort of malarky.
A couple of posts back Thus got on an uncharacteristically high horse about the dangers of Methadrone. My comments were not [...]
March 29, 2010 – 12:12 pm
Shilly-shallying about what to do about Chinese designer ‘plant food’ drug Methadrone/Mephedrone/MCat is another unwelcome example of how New Labour’s passive/aggressive approach towards protecting citizens’ rights does the reverse. It’s enough to drive a man to spliff.
Last October, former NL drug czar, the (perhaps) aptly named Professor David Nutt resigned/was sacked from the Advisory Council on [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Culture, Drugs legislation, Policy, Political spin, Uk Home Office, Uncategorized, World health, citizens' rights, civil rights, consumerism
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Tagged advisory Counciul on the Misuse of Drugs, alan Johnson, MCat, mephedrone, methdaone, MKat, Polly Taylor, Professor David Nutt
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December 31, 2009 – 8:16 pm
Clearly the Chinese government has a poor grasp of history. Last time they tried to stop English dope peddlers we sent gunboats up the Yellow River and pounded their Mandarin asses until they agreed to be addicted to opium.
In those great days we were helped by the US, then Imperial apprentices, now big swinging dicks. [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Afghanistan, Human rights, International Affairs, Middle East, Political spin, War on Terror, human rights abuse, miscarriage of justice
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Tagged British heroin smuggler Akmal Shaikh knew what he was doing and did it for money, China executes the most people i is 14th when per capita judicial killing is taken into account, China's judicial killing of a British citizen carries more legitimacy than the countless acts of extra-judicial killing perpetrated daily by the US under the banner of liberal intervention, Chinese-British relations, one death is a tragedy 1000 a statistic, opium war, the fragrant Hamid Karzai
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November 3, 2009 – 1:43 pm
Thus predicted this outcome so long ago and so many times that I can scarcely be bothered to highlight our previous posts. Yet the grotesque reality of the US, Britain, NATO and especially the UN rewarding endemic fraud, corruption and weak government by a second term, all enacted under the banner of democracy, surpasses all [...]
September 14, 2009 – 1:57 pm
A credible, inclusive and secure election was intended to deliver a government with sufficient legitimacy to win back the trust of the population and to work with the US and NATO to restore Afghan Sovereignty. Instead, the Afghan population in general, and the youth and political activists in particular, now believe that a deeply flawed [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Culture, Global security, Insurgency, democracy
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Tagged Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan election fraud, Ashraf Ghani, Bank of Ghazanhar, Bashardost, Clare Lockhart, Dostum, government of national unity, Hamid Karzai transitiona government, Institute of State Effectiveness, Insurgency, interest free loan of $2 million to Karzai, Karzai declares assets of $1000, Karzai-Abdullah coalition, popular Afghan insurgency, Richard Holbrooke, Taliban
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August 25, 2009 – 9:08 pm
“If Karzai’s warlord cronies have over-egged the firnee and their boy romps home with an incredible margin, Iran-style riots are almost inevitable. On the other hand, if he narrowly wins, it will be more difficult for the opposition forces to cry foul. Given that he achieved only 54 per cent in 2004, the ‘ideal’ result [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Afghanistan, Asia, Global security, Human rights, Insurgency, United Nations, War on Terror, citizens' rights, civil rights, democracy
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Tagged Abdullah Abdullah, afghanistan elections karzai lead narrows, Hamid Karzai, Karzai and abdullah to settle election with a pro wrestling bout, karzai campaign financed with 2 million dollar interest free loan, thus magazine proposes jeb bush as afghan election monitor
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August 24, 2009 – 4:18 pm
It is rumoured in Kabul that the Independent Election Commission is under pressure to rush out election results in an effort to accustom public opinion to the legitimacy of a Karzai victory which some are already claiming could be greater than 70 percent. Unofficial reports (Press TV) claim that Karzai has won with 3,244,196 votes [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Afghanistan, Development, Global security, Insurgency, Intifada, Middle East, Palestine, United Nations, War on Terror, democracy, gaza
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Tagged Abdullah, Afghan elections, Afghan government of national unity, AIPAC, anti-semitism, by John J Kelly, Fatah, fundamentalists, Ghani, Hamas, Independent Election Commission is under pressure to rush out election results, Jews, Karzai, Karzai rumoured to declare victory by more than 60%, Palestine, taliban intimidation caught on camera
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August 23, 2009 – 7:12 pm
Over the past three days, as the Lockerbie ‘terrorist’ release turns into a full-blown international incident, we have heard not one word, or even a Twitter, from the man who saved the wurreld (and its banks). This is highly unusual; Gordon and his wife Sarah Twittered from Inverkilliecrankie, or wherever they are on holiday, catching [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Africa, Global security, Human rights, International Affairs, Libya, Middle East, Totalitarian drift, US Politics, War on Terror, democracy, extradition, human rights abuse, miscarriage of justice
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Tagged Add new tag, admitted discussing the subject a couple of weeks ago with Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif at the Rothschild villa in Corfu, by John J Kelly, Colonel Gaddafi, David Miliband, FBI head Robert Mueller, Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown's silence, Iran Air, kenny MacAskill, Libya, Mandelson, Mandelson has prosptate operation in sympathy with al Megrahi, Pan Am Flight 103, Prince Andrew, Saif-al-Islam Gaddafi, Scottish National Party
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August 23, 2009 – 11:54 am
While resisting the temptation to say ‘we told you so’ (Thus passim) – it is glaringly evident that, as predicted, the Afghan elections were neither free nor fair. Except that by an extraordinary contortion of logic and semantics, the EU monitors have declared that they were ‘generally fair but not free.’ Well, thanks for putting [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Afghanistan, Global security, Insurgency, Intifada, Policy, Political spin, US Politics, United Nations, War on Terror, citizens' rights, civil rights, democracy, miscarriage of justice
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Tagged Abdul Rashid Dostum, Abdullah Abdullah, Afghan elections neither free nor fair says Thus Magazine, EU election monitors, Hamid Karzai, John J Kelly, Muhammad Qasim Fahim, neither warlord will secure more than 50% of a turnout well below 50% of the population in the first place, Pashtun, Takik, UNAMA, warlords
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August 20, 2009 – 1:11 pm
Fuck yeah – if it’s fucking hearts and fucking minds you want to fucking win over, walk this way with the fucking US Marines. We’ll capture those fucking hearts and minds or tear the bastards out and shove them up their sorry goddam asses. By John J Kelly.
Last night, BBC Newsnight aired a warning that [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Afghanistan, Global security, Insurgency, War on Terror, democracy, human rights abuse
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Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, BBC film of US marines patrolling Helmand, BBC Newsnight Helmand US marine patrol, by John J Kelly, counter insurgency, Douglas Alexander, hearts and minds, Helmand, Jeremy paxman, President Karzai passes Status Law legalising rape within marriage, Status law, Taliban, UK Development Secretary and jackass, Us marines, War on Terror
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