28.4.09

goldman sachs

...apparently isn't too keen on this website.

a mingus of many talents

15.7.08

16.4.08

Iran anti-vice chief 'in brothel'

Tehran's police chief, who was reportedly discovered in a brothel, has been arrested, it has been confirmed.

Local media have reported that General Reza Zarei was found with six naked women in a house of prostitution in the Iranian capital last month.

He has been taken to jail while his case is investigated, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said.

Gen Zarei was in charge of enforcing Iran's strict anti-vice laws, which include a ban on prostitution.

29.2.08

Israel warns of Gaza 'holocaust'

The deputy defence minister said the stepped-up rocket fire would trigger what he called a "bigger holocaust" in the Hamas-controlled coastal strip.

Israeli air strikes have killed about 30 Palestinians, including six children in the past two days.

cringe!! anyone else got any weird sensations reading about jews holocausting fellow semites? or is it just me?

25.2.08

another classic!

Punishing Saddam - Price was worth it!

23.1.08

15.1.08

reasonable and just

Lecturers and students at a prestigious university in Rome want a planned visit by the Pope to be cancelled as they object to his position on Galileo.

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Pope Benedict was in charge of Roman Catholic doctrine in 1990 when, as Cardinal Ratzinger, he commented on the 17th-Century Galileo trial. He has been quoted as saying the trial was "reasonable and just".

Galileo's inquisitors maintained the scriptures indicated the Earth was stationary.

Galileo, a devout Catholic, was forced to renounce his findings publicly.

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Fifteen years ago Pope John Paul II officially conceded that in fact the Earth was not stationary.

gotta love the god crew

29.12.07

Bhutto Clan Leaves Trail of Corruption in Pakistan

Butto, a student at Harvard and Oxford for six years in the 1970s, has been a vocal critic of "avaricious politicians." In a Harvard commencement speech in 1989, she said that such people had looted developing countries and left them without the means to tackle their social problems. Since she was ousted as prime minister during her second term, on Nov. 5, 1996, on charges that included gross corruption, she has been the leader of Pakistan's main opposition group, the Pakistan People's Party.

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Officials leading the inquiry in Pakistan say that the $100 million they have identified so far is only a small part of a much larger windfall from corrupt activities. They maintain that an inquiry begun in Islamabad immediately after Bhutto's dismissal in 1996 found evidence that her family and associates generated more than $1.5 billion in illicit profits through kickbacks in virtually every sphere of government activity -- from rice deals, to the sell-off of government land, even rake-offs from government welfare schemes. more

3.11.07

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10.9.07

7.9.07

osama! hehe

31.7.07

Iraq Resistance latest

Another great write up from Lenin's Tomb

Sata from a report to the US Congress: Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq











Meanwhile the Humanitarian/Health/Hunger situation is looking grim... look at this Oxfam report

3.7.07

hehe

27.6.07

26.6.07

Gordon Brown



the hardest working man in show business aka the godfather of Soul

gordon brown, taxed you for fun
lay me down with my nan she lies -
outside the door, of ward thirty four
never a frown - with gordon brown

every lie just like the last
chains of gold tied to the past
two distant lands blood on your hands
whos going down with gordon brown?

gordon brown, who's in charge now?
hands on the oar or stands at the bow?
whos going to pay? when you sail away?
never a frown with gordon brown

never, never a frown, with gordon brown
never, never a frown with gordon brown

Gordon and SOCPA

13.6.07

You tube

The machine is Us/ing Us a video essay about text and Web 2.0

What we are (do not watch if you are involved in religio-idiotic activity)

7.6.07

corruption, so what?




Prince Bandar, challenged as to whether there is corruption in deals with the Saudi royal family, replies: "Yes. So what?"