Remember the PFLP? Well, they’re back, thanks to helicopter gunship diplomacy. By John J Kelly from sources in Gaza There is still time for Israel to pull back from the endgame, but we are being told that the wanton slaughter of the past two days has met with ‘widespread public approval on all sides [...]
Category Archives: George W Bush
Update: Israeli F-16s blitz Gaza in a run-up to the February elections
December 27, 2008 – 11:29 am
Forget about sending aid – the previous post has unfortunately been rendered redundant by the news that Israel has attacked Hamas-run security compounds in Gaza, killing hundreds of civilians and wounding others – including the almost-obligatory deaths of two small girls allegedly killed by Hamas – in the process. See Gaza attacks. Although rocket attacks [...]
Inhumanitarian aid to Gaza before the turkey shoot?
December 27, 2008 – 9:47 am
Posted by John J Kelly – story by Sameh Akram Habeeb, supplied by Patrick MacManus The good news is that it has been reported that Israel is allowing 100 trucks with desperately-needed ‘humanitarian aid‘ into Gaza. The bad news is that is is probably part of a publicity campaign to divert attention from incursions into [...]
Ignoring India's poverty is a recipe for nuclear Armageddon
December 19, 2008 – 3:14 pm
Thank God for George Bush. He laughs in the face of fear as he gives more nukes to the country with the most hungry people in it. And the funny bit is that despite parts of the American Christian right actually jockeying for Armegeddon, he probably achieved all this by mistake, and in the process he [...]
Would you waste a shoe on Gordon Brown?
December 17, 2008 – 11:18 am
. . .clearly the answer is no. In the second surprise visit to Iraq in three days British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held a press conference with his opposite number, Iraqi US stooge Nouri-Al-Maliki to announce what we already knew (THUS Passim), namely that the last 4100 British troops would finally be withdrawn from Iraq [...]
UPDATE: Iraqi democracy in action, as predicted by THUS
December 16, 2008 – 1:42 pm
Unfortunately, my playful prediction that the Iraqi authorities would meet out summary justice to the shoe thrower was justified, as this BBC report illustrates: Shoe thrower ‘beaten in custody’. Apart from demonstrating absolute contempt for any civilised behaviour, this shows that George W Bush was either powerless to influence the actions of his ‘hosts’ in Bagdhad, [...]
Would you take a shoe for the President?
December 15, 2008 – 11:19 am
. . . . the answer is clearly no. Where was the Kevin Costner figure willing to throw himself in front of the Commander-in-Chief when enraged Iraqi journalist Muntadhar-al-Zaidi from Al Bagdhadiya TV, threw his loafers at George W Bush, ruining his latest ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech to the ungrateful Eyerakki people? Luckily, W is the mother of all [...]
Sub Prime Saturday Night Live sketch was no joke
December 12, 2008 – 10:49 pm
I personally don’t find this sketch particularly funny or shocking, but it caused an enormous stir in the US,and was pulled and allegedly banned by in its earlier form by NBC, possibly and speculatively because it allegedly implies that a Hungarian philanthropist was largely responsible for the collapse of the US financial system. If so, [...]
European Court rules UK DNA database an abuse of Human Rights
December 5, 2008 – 11:51 am
By John J Kelly On December 4 2008 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the practice of holding DNA samples of more than 1 million UK citizens, some as young as 10 years old, who have no criminal record but who have been investigated in the course of police enquiries, is contrary to Article [...]
Stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the US
November 25, 2008 – 11:56 pm
Thus is not normally a campaigning website, but please sign this petition on behalf of Gary McKinnon. The UK government and House of Lords have done nothing to protect a UK citizen’s rights. If it weren’t deadly serious, it would be risible, and is a horrible reminder of the nightmare slide into totalitarianism of the [...]