Friday, August 5, 2005
CC NEWS - MY BULLSHIT DETECTOR WENT INTO OVERDRIVE!!!
I have some respect for Sean. But I have to say that this post, or the link within it, is quite jaw-dropping. Click on the link to see the entire text, or come with me as I take selected quotes from it and comment. It's about Bush being homely and cuddly, human even, as he hosts meetings with world...
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Thursday, August 4, 2005
America the Teenager
I'm always a bit reluctant to crow too loudly about the superiority of Britain over the US. I mean, everybody knows that our civilization here dates back several thousand years. Stonehenge is older than the pyramids of Giza and, while it seems to have been built by a 'stone-age' people, the fact...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2005
45 US Servicemen Killed in Iraq in Two Weeks
There have been over 1,800 US service men and women killed in Iraq since this nonsensical and illegal war began. There have been 45 killed just in the last two weeks. There have been a further 13,000 wounded. And, of course, over 25,000 Iraqi civilians, caught in the crossfire, just ordinary people...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Morality, Terrorism and the Laws of Motion
Terrorist bombings in London, where a great scientist by the name of Sir Isaac Newton is buried, raise important questions of morality and laws of motion. It is customary to discuss and condemn terrorism in the realm of right and wrong. Terrorism is morally wrong, it is commonly believed, because it...
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Monday, August 1, 2005
Lawyers, Guns and Money
There are 200 million guns in civilian hands in the United States. That works out at 200 per lawyer. Wade through the foaming websites of the anti-Semites, weekend militiamen and Republicans, and it becomes clear that many among America's well-armed citizenry have performed the same calculation....
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Friday, July 29, 2005
An Uncomfortable Day for the "War on Terror"
Yesterday, the IRA issued a statement that said the armed struggle in Northern Ireland is now over, and that they will place all their weapons 'permanently beyond use'. Uniquely in such a situation, both the UK and Irish governments have warmly welcomed this statement, and the fact that it contains...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Cause & Effect
Is it me? I mean, is it my Universe that's skewed, or is it my so-called 'leaders'? Blair held a press conference today and got very, very defensive over Iraq. He's given a "robust defence" of his actions - namely supporting the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 kicked off by George W. Bush - a...
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Iraq: This is Now an Unwinnable Conflict
As he completes another tour of duty in the chaos of Iraq, award-winning reporter Patrick Cockburn charts how Bush and Blair's 'winnable war' turned into a mess that is inspiring a worldwide insurgency The Duke of Wellington, warning hawkish politicians in Britain against ill-considered military...
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Monday, July 25, 2005
The Four Powers Behind the al-Qaeda Conspiracy
AT TIMES of national emergency, the habit of the news media to drop a story or a lead in mid-air when it seems to be going nowhere unsettles the public. The media betray a sort of sheepish wish to “move on” from an erroneous report, hoping that their audience will not notice. Rather than acknowledge...
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Friday, July 22, 2005
A London Shooting - by Police
After the small, apparently botched attacks in London yesterday, we've just had a man shot dead in Stockwell underground station by armed police. The most disturbing thing about eye-witness reports this morning is that, apparently, the man was running from the police, but tripped as he leapt onto a...
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