tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55612222009-02-21T08:40:29.291Z<strong>"Hello, I must be going..." -- Marx (Groucho)</strong>beta-bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02999619301943744393noreply@blogger.comBlogger448125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561222.post-47017920730460538682007-03-18T11:23:00.000Z2007-03-18T11:32:01.681Z

Is this the end of the USA as a superpower?"Please ignore all references to the USA" appears on all Tilda "Original America" rice packs in shops in L’Angleterre. Rumours that the company will soon stick "Please dump American dollar" on all rice packs sold outside the USA is unfounded though. "This has to do with GMO," says the shopkeeper, "not USD". Here’s the label at close quarter: Related

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"America has guided missiles and misguided leaders."—Ghazwan Al Mukhtar, electrical engineer, quoted hereThey say that when a bomb so powerful pounds human flesh and blood, the shadows of dead souls are embedded in the walls around the place where the human flesh and blood are so mightily incinerated. Such shadows exist in the aftermath of Hiroshima, and shadows of women and children are

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"Tel Rumeida is a small Palestinian neighborhood deep in the West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinian families from whom these settlers occupied lands, live directly next to these settlers and are often virtual prisoners in their homes, subject to the settlers' violent attacks and destruction of property."ß

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"Are YOU an anti-Semite? Do you know someone who is? Take this simple test and find out. Don't be surprised if you discover some painful truths about yourself and your country.1. Abraham was the Biblical ancestor of Arabs and Jews. Thus, logically, each group should be treated equally and with respect. True or false? If you answered True, you are anti-Semitic because you hate the Jews.2. The US

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It is a wonder of our age that the moment the US or its allies or proxies start bombarding dissident troublemakers, up fly an array of passports and identity papers to show that these are the terrorists that they've been looking for in connection with this or that. And then out comes a video with some bearded loon declaring Jihad against all manner of isms. But then we mustn't underestimate the

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We shall not name names but the alliance of the steadfast is slowly crumbling but no, not to fizzle out but to come out again to wage new wars in a new cocked hat. So hands up now those who thought it right to invade Iraq? Even now Kofi Annan is now saying that life was much better under Saddam. But to be fair, they didn't attack Iraq because the standard of living there was harsh. They attacked

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Pinochet riding an interesting horse by Steve Bell.General Pinochet at the BookstoreThe general's limo parked at the corner of San Diego streetand his bodyguards escorted him to the bookstorecalled La Oportunidad, so he could browsefor rare works of history. There were no bloody fingerprints left on the pages.No books turned to ash at his touch.He did not track the soil of mass graves on his

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The only consolation in the 'London Evening Standard', that most bigoted of newspapers in the Reverend Blair's benighted capital nowadays is its hilarious television reviewer Victor Lewis-Smith who once made the all too plausible claim that television sets in the land's lunatic asylums are permenantly locked to the ITV channel. It's the channel that's least likely to upset the delicate minds of

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Visit this page.ß

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Lebanon looks set for turmoil once again. First Hariri went in an explosion so massive that it blew a huge crater in the road. Fingers were pointed at Syria. Now it's Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, shot in a Christian neighbourhood in North Beirut. Once again, before anything has been established, fingers are pointing at Syria.Why are fingers so eager to point?This is the simple equation in

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This is a campaign that I totally support, so I shall reproduce the logo below coming as it does frm a totally unexpected part of the world:I shall go along with anyone who wants to switch off because television is the most subversive, distracting, corrupting device to have been born to this world. In the part of the world where I come from, the lure of television is such that it flickers

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Have the Arab leaders finally woken up or are they just not feeling very well?In Cairo last Sunday they decided to break from their shackles and agreed to start cash flowing again to the Palestinian Auhority, something which Arab banks have refused to do in deference to US's and Europe's disappointment that it was Hamas that was chosen by the Palestinian people in a fair and free election.

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The Neocons are on the run? Don't you believe it. They're all just scampering from a sinking ship and then when they're all dry and regroomed, they'll all come back wearing a new shirt.The watch should now be on the Democrats who're cock-a-hooping it to the Senate and wherever they get to now that they've got the votes. So what will they do now that they're on the Hill and the Republicans seem to

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"Israel and Australia are like sisters in Asia. We are in Asia without the characteristics of Asians. We don't have yellow skin and slanted eyes. Asia is basically the yellow race. Australia and Israel are not - we are basically the white race. We are on the western side of Asia and they are on the southeastern side." — Naftali Tamir, Israel's ambassador to Australia.ß

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Arab Prisoner: "To My Dear Family, Happy Ramadan!"This cartoon depicting Ramadan is by Omayya Joha, a Palestinian woman cartoonist living in Gaza. I came across this cartoon at Bint Jbeil an excellent website that speaks volumes about life under an occupying power. While the world sleeps:1. UN says Gaza crisis 'intolerable'2. West Bank Wall: cause of displacement and worsening humanitarian

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As the Pope is too busy elsewhere brewing up something else, we shall have to turn to another to hear about the Devil —"And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here." [crosses himself] "And it smells of sulfur still today."Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here,

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The German Pope Benedict XVI, ecstatic from the visit to his native Bavaria, took a swipe at Islam by borrowing from the pages of a dusty book, "Twenty Six Dialogues With a Persian", written in 1399 by the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II in in 1399. What the Pope quoted, and what the Emperor allegedly said (in his argument with a Muslim Persian) is worth repeating to put matters in perspective: "Show

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REMEMBERING 911Watch video hereThen go hereß

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QUOTE 1: Israel's assault on Lebanon was planned even before Hizbullah attacked and was aimed at driving a wedge between the different faiths that have been living in harmony in the country, a delegation from the World Council of Churches said on their return from a visit to Beirut and Jerusalem."We came back from Lebanon sharing the impression that this destruction was planned. And if the action

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"The Yesha Rabbinical Council announced in response to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that 'according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy.' "All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians," the statement said." (Efrat Weiss)* *

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Tony Blair, explaining his reluctance to call for a stop to the exchange of bombs between the Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel uses the interesting concept of "moral equivalence". What this means in effect is that because Israel is, as Blair sees it, morally superior to the 'terrorist' Hezbollah, it is free to do as it wills, and some of the results of this moral superiority (and I must warn you

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"Interesting strategy, isn't it? But Israel must know what they are doing....." — Sky News correspondent in Haifa, on Israeli bombing of Lebanese TV communication towers.ß

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You need only look at the map of Palestine from 1947 till now to see which 'country' has been benefitting most from the Middle East crisis. Simplistic you might think? Well, it's difficult to scoff at that when your lands have been held hostage, your Heights are occupied, and your hearth and home ever in the threat of rockets and gunfire.There's spin and propaganda, otherwise, how could the

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Why is the Middle East burning? Take a quote:"If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country."— First Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion.For more interesting quotes, go to Mona Baker's informative site.ß

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Politics is serious business, maybe too serious to be left to politicians; but I rue the day when politicians take themselves too seriously and become a menace to our cherished freedoms. In the days of Michael Foot and Denis Healey, when the British Labour party still had a shred of principle in them, heckling was looked upon as a necessary nuisance. Why, the two stalwarts made their names by

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