tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65331012011-09-30T13:44:54.789+01:00Day-to-day thoughts and collected original sketches/skits, scripts and prose. Email me at schoolboyuk@gmail.comSchoolboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12685063482186940841noreply@blogger.comBlogger1481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6533101.post-65545517139308272302011-09-09T23:49:00.001+01:002011-09-30T13:42:35.235+01:00

As we hurtle towards the 10th anniversary of 9/11 (11th September for Anglophiles), I think what seems to strike many people is the surprise at how little it seems to have changed the world. Yes, we've had a couple of awful wars and a messy arab spring. But the Afghan and Iraq wars were ultimately wars of choice and the world and the US has stubbornly refused to be more just. Bush somehow

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So I write on the 9th anniversary of 9/11. I’ve not been especially active here for a number of reasons but I thought that, as this community centre thing along with the Qu’ran burning controversy was climaxing, I’d weigh in. Anyone who’s read other posts in this blog will not be surprised to learn that I feel that if no further buildings with a religious purpose were built anywhere in the world,

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http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret Says it all, really. Sigh.

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[Sources used are TV and radio so no links, I’m afraid] We’re getting ever closer to history truly being made when Barack Hussein Obama takes the reigns as president of the United States – my that’s a fine set of words, innit! However, as many suspected, a nation has decided to both get moving with a plan that only the outgoing Bush would tolerate and test Obama on the international front before

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Three once great brands of various ages are falling by the wayside and according to some commentators are set to be far from the last.   Woolworths was probably the most obvious as their mix and match stores contained nothing essential and they had surprisingly failed to grab the power of the web. MFI were the victim, also, of an inexplicable lack of innovation in the face of increasing

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I'm no economist but I've believed the abyss was coming for a couple of years. The transparently perilous increase in house prices, flatly ridiculous availability of cheap debt ("credit" is just a euphemism) and the fact that the US and UK economies, in particular, were fuelled virtually 100% by this unsustainable supply of debt combined with vast financial institutions perching their lives on

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We-he-ell. He well and truly did it! As I predicted, he beat the election out of the park and the GOP are reduced to beating each other up on the sidelines.The GOP have got the cause of their defeat (not being right wing enough) totally wrong and it looks like taking a while for the penny to drop that demographics are the key reason. The non-wingnuts are outnumbering the wingnuts, basically.There

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Quite staggering. This Austrian outfit was a virtually fascist party and this just amazes me. It's just strange. Very very strange.

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A truly awesome article. Stunning that it came out before Nov 4th.

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Sold to those who thinkThey value it,But then lose it, blinkAnd forget itPaper thin aspirations,Tokenised conversations,And plagiarised creations,Are killing off this nationHanging by a threadIs our culture,The work of the deadIs its vultureEndless third act redemptions,"Affirmative" rejections,And randomised elections,Are killing off this nationThe mould was brokenBy idiots,The spirit broken,By

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http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/fns-mccain-says-palin-counter-liberal   All I can do is watch this agog and continue to pray that this twisted version of McCain gets nowhere near the Whitehouse.

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http://www.slate.com/id/2202163/ - I can't believe I'd ever say this but I agree with almost every word Hitchens says. Go figure.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/13/us-elections2008-sarahpalin   So she says two key things that are, let's face it inconsistent. She says the whole "abuse of power" investigation was partisan and a witch hunting circus yet claims to have been entirely exonerated!   So this Partisan circus resulted in these "biased", "anti-Palin" investigators deciding she did nothing wrong?? If

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So Obama got through the second debate pretty unscathed; latest polls have demonstrated precious little progress for McCain. And Obama has handled himself OK, he didn't - and probably won't - reach the heights of the debating art that Bill Clinton managed but McCain just isn't cutting it.   But I'd be intrigued to see where we'd be now if Hillary Clinton had managed to get the candidacy.

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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Fact Check: Are business groups critical of McCain’s health plan? « - Blogs from CNN.comWell, this really looks like something Obama could capitalise on next debate. And when McCains appalling healthcare idea really becomes understood by voters, who the hell would wanna vote him in?

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I'll deal with the US first: On analysing the polling patterns, it's looking more and more sewn up for Obama and the debates are going his way. The residual tactics of the GOP seem nasty, desperate and are old hat - I really think the public are sick of dumbed down discourse.   The VP debate had Palin looking like a cocky local station news anchor, winking in the "see you tomorrow at the same

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Looks like American voters are no longer fooled by Bush-like waffle and "folksiness" and can understand someone approaching a statesperson when they see one. Bodes very well for Obama.   Meanwhile, Palin was the most dishonest debater of the two. Shock horror.

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A very interesting and enlightening article. What the US government is really doing in this credit crunch.Win £3000 to spend on whatever you want at Uni! Click here to WIN!

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Two epic American conventions and by god they were as American as they've ever been! Yes, we had the usual theatrical gimmicks, lack of any political debate of any kind, talking points co-ordinated, wheeled out and used as if video tape didn't exist before September 2008. And such tree melting disingenuousness and cynicism the moon turned green instead of its usual brain grey. Can we please pause

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RIP, Tim Russert. I haven't been in a position to watch Meet the Press over here in the UK for that long but it was a very worthwhile program and ensured the audience had not had an interview choking in fluff. He was revolutionary in trying almost obvious things and by all accounts was decent, instinctively neutral and open minded (ideal for a journalist) and very human. A giant in the political

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Well we're finally tiptoeing through the Election Season proper of the US 2008 presidential election and it's starting out rather farcically, if you ask me. Four different winners, none of which were predicted in December and some which weren't even predicted 12 hours before the primary itself! Well, I have to say as politicians go, I do feel there is a fair range of talent out there, so I can

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I've read the book and I read the blog. This is essential for all literate human beings to do, in my opinion, brilliant stuff. http://unspeak.net/

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OK, so we've got some more hype over a killing. Now it is a very sad death and no one can possibly argue otherwise but the hype is incredible.I have to say though that in many ways I go along with it because it serves a purpose. It serves to show the whole city united in horror and disgust at the murder and to possibly shame some key youths into squealing. It appears to be working and I expect it

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Ah, can you feel the sun on your face even when indoors? Can you hear the sound of children laughing whilst on a subway train? Well that's probably because Karl Rove has finally quit.   Rove sets just about everyone's teeth on edge not because he is a Spin Doctor, not because he looks a bit like a Hitler toady, not even because he has been perceived to be the brains and, some say, ventriloquist

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Got a spare twenty minutes so my pronouncements here won't have links but nothing I'll say here can't be discovered yourself.   We have a new prime minister and Karl Rove is departing. We see the White House maintaining the line that the US has gotta stay there and be more aggressive, if anything. We also see Bush employ Vietnam in his argument to continue in Iraq and, in the process, make

Schoolboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12685063482186940841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6533101.post-51177353926818684262007-07-14T22:50:00.000+01:002007-08-30T22:55:58.482+01:00

YouTube - What George W. Bush Really Did At Emma E. Booker:

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I've been grateful for the last week or so that I have access to non-UK news channels. If I hadn't I would have been largely snoozing my non-work hours away. Why? Because of this extremely tiresome missing girl story that is dominating the news networks.   I'm entirely empathetic towards the family affected but I'm being asked to care exponentially more about this particular missing child than

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BBC NEWS World Middle East US Iraq troops 'condone torture'Another wonderful achievement by George W Bush. Mission accomplished, mate.The time has long since passed that I have had to proselytise in my own words, simply giving you links to facts and reality basically show you the state of things for what they are. *sigh*

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How the American right-wing talked bollocks on Iraq from beginning to... well, there hasn't been an end. Click on image to view full page. The Blog Tom Tomorrow: What They Said The Huffington Post

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Fantastic Bill Maher Op Ed clip on BushThanks to CrooksandLiars.com.

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BBC NEWS World Americas 'No proof' of Iran nuclear armsWell, there you are. I said this was a complete fabrication, as per the usual Neocon strategy from the 70s onwards. And as it usually runs, they are pronouncing certainty that Iran is developing weapons without anything like solid proof of it actually happening.

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Neocons turn on Bush for incompetence over Iraq war Special reports Guardian UnlimitedAh, but thousands if not millions of us were saying well before the war that an invasion would be countrerproductive and end in tears. It didn't take "Delphic" (to quote Perle in thsi article) powers to see where we'd end up. Let's face it though. We went WAY WAY WAY beyond incompetence in describing Bush et

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BBC NEWS Business US stops audit of Iraq rebuildingWell I'm stunned. Absolutely stunned.Not.

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BBC NEWS World Americas Sex-row US pastor 'bought drugs'Jus' puttin' it out there, in the unlikely event that you missed it.Real life really is better than fiction.

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I was in Liverpool on a night out with my girlfriend and a lesbian couple who wanted to see what the gay scene was like in the city. I had absolutely no idea so we just wandered about (research had shown was) the main gay pub street.I was stunned to see that every place was stuffed mainly with gay men and their attendant "fag hags". Barely any lesbians and very few male couples.With my gay

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BBC NEWS Science/Nature 'Only 50 years left' for sea fishHave a read of this see if at the end you think a damn thing will be done about this.Why why why do I think not?

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/29/do_mess_with_texas/ superb. Read it before the mainstream media try to squish the facts.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolenPretty much everything you need to know that the guy was not only a thief in 2000 but also in 2004. The Mainstream Media wilfully ignore not only the massive corruption in the Whitehouse (and the Bush family) but also the pretty blatant destruction of democracy the Republicans have been responsible for. If the GOP does "

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Chron.com Katrina funds earmarked to pay for Neil Bush's software programSurprised? You shouldn't be. How dark and deep can this Bush family slide? It really is stunning how twisted and taudry their activities are throughout the generations.

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American Bar Association accuses Bush of violating constitution and law. Who else is gonna jump ship this year?This is a pretty damn conservative group: http://www.abanet.org/

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There was a period, even very recently, where I would eye with huge skepticism the countless "government to blame" conspiracy theories. I think this was because I had never really lived through events where there was so much to be suspicious about. I've only had a decade or so of adult years and they have been, let's face it, rather uneventful. Thatcher dribbled out of office, then Major, after

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BBC NEWS World Middle East US official admits Iraq aid theftThe words "tip" and "iceburg" spring to mind.

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BBC NEWS World Americas US 'selected' Iraq intelligenceNow, if he doesn't know what really went down, then no one does. Case closed, in my opinion. Any doubters out there who read this?

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KRT Wire 02/07/2006 State Department sees exodus of weapons expertsTake note. Bush wants war and there are ever fewer dissenting voices in government that might be able to do anything about it. America is in big big trouble. And the world is going to suffer it as well.

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BBC NEWS World Americas US plans to 'fight the net' revealedHey, sit back. Relax. The US is only looking out for us!Unbelievable.

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Abu Ghraib Damn good page summarising some startlingly blatant lies from Rumsfeld et al. Plus a a summary of the whole issue.

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http://warisforsuckers.com/clip.php?id=890&p=0 - watch and learn something you may not know.

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Investing - The Tamiflu Tug of War - FORTUNE - Page: "Among the beneficiaries of the run on Tamiflu is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who was chairman of Gilead from 1997 to 2001 and owns at least $5 million of the stock, which has jumped from $35 in April to $47. Former Secretary of State George Shultz, who is on Gilead's board, has sold more than $7 million worth of Gilead in 2005. As

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10214.htmA simply fantastic article from The New Statesman which articulates much of my sentiments about the situation. The nation has been let down by decades of erosion and governmental stagnation. Not to mention the slow starving of government of liquid cash to pour into vital projects like levees.Katrina has taught America some valuable lessons

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For the 0 readers out there salivating for more posts, I'm incredibly busy at the mo. So hang tight and I will return!zzzzzooooooooooooommmmm!

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Guardian Unlimited Special reports MI5 links Iraq to extremists in UKBlair et al should admit how wrong they are, wouldn't you say? Ah, but then they'd have to change their rhetoric...

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Former Bush aide turns critic as Iraq inspector The tip of the iceburg. Just the tip. And the US government and its political minions tries to claim the UN is hopelessly corrupt or incompetant!

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I name the four powers who are behind the al-Qaeda conspiracy This article by former Tory MP Matthew Parris perfectly encapsulates and explains my motivations for my approach to the entire phenomenon of the war on terror. This describes the situation perfectly in why I have felt uneasy from the very beginning - and by that I mean 9/11 and the reporting of that onwards.

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BBC NEWS | World | Africa | World 'ignores' Niger food crisis Not one word in G8 about this. Just shows how full of rhetoric and bluster 1st world politicians really are.

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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Conflict 'kills 25,000 Iraqis' This is, if anything, an underestimation of deaths and, believe me, all insurgent deaths known to anyone at all will be reported (it serves the authorities to report them, to show how lethal and to be combatted they are) so what are we left with? We have most deaths by disenfranchised/greedy criminals and occupation forces killing

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Newsday.com: 18 Killed in Clashes Near Afghan Border: "Pakistani soldiers fought militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, the military said Sunday. Eighteen people, including one soldier, died in the clash.A military statement said some of the dead were women and children, while a military official told The AP that a majority of those killed were women and children who

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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran-Iraq talks heal old wounds Please god this sort of, as the Americans will see it, entanglement with Iran will make it politically impossible for the US to support invasion or even Israeli bombing - which the Israelis have all but threatened on more than one occasion and, in fact, performed already once.

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Mirror.co.uk - News - EXCLUSIVE: WAS IT SUICIDE? The first couple of hours I noted the lack of Allah Akhbar cries. I would not be in the least bit surprised if they were manipulated in a clinically cold way and that they didn't expect to die.

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Newsday.com: Poll: Bush Approval Rating at 42 Percent This'll get Bush smiling. Not.

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Ok, so things are happening.Can I just say that I do genuinely trust the police on these kinds of matters. I think they are now so skilled in this sort of case and would be so averse to deliberately participate in any inside job or get suckered into a goose chase by some Israeli plot or any other similarly extreme explanation. So on this matter I'm gonna just believe what they say.There were four

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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraq's treasures still being looted If you didn't look for this stuff, you wouldn't know how little control anyone has out in Iraq. This is just one example of how the invasion has impoverished Iraq.

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BBC NEWS UK Police appeal for bombing footage"On Sunday, three people were arrested at Heathrow Airport under anti-terror laws, but no link to the attacks was made. They were later released without charge."Just more examples of how terrorism continues to be played up in the media. Two sentences devoted to the releases but many more devoted to the original arrests.My post here also contains

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No surprise from me. Just anger and I feel simply sick of it all. Sick of pointless causes being used to justify evil violence.I knew it would happen eventually, mainly because it was so easy to do and required so few people to do it that no amount of MI5 activity would pick it up.I have said on Digital Spy that me and a mate could do it for little more than £500.The timing was devastating and it

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Live8, or Live 8, is underway and I am very split on it. I hate how the combined worth of the stars performing (don't forget, Paul Mccartney's there) totals the GDP of probably the poorest 5 African countries, are performing their latest singles.I hate how Tony Blair sees this as a fantastic opportunity to get the electorate behind him again (distracted from Iraq) and to once again cast him as a

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I'm watching Bush lying again on Fox. He is making his Iraq speech. He keeps claiming that the US will "leave" when the job is done. This is not true as there will be permanent US bases there whatever happens. See: http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2004/040323-enduring-bases.htm and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/21/AR2005052100611.html They include official

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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Crucified nun dies in 'exorcism'Yes, folks, this sort of madness still goes on in the 21st century. Stunning.

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Bush at all time low So the US electorate is seeming to be seriously regretting re-electing him. It took less than a year. Let's also not forget that GOP senators are also grumbling. The main problem with all this is that it is all after horse has bolted and things are gonna keep going like this until 2008 (!). Iraq, Social Security and some serious leaks about Bush's approach to the invasion

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So I've seen it and I have to say it did pretty much everything I thought it would do. It's a film that has to be viewed within the confines of the saga itself - and the foibles therein previously exhibited. All the usual faults are there; substandard dialogue and inconsistent acting (diarmid is superb but McGregor is, ahem, weak).This, like you would hope, is very reminiscent of Empire Strikes

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Come back soon when I'll review the final Star Wars film once I've seen it today.

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ABC News: Saudi Prince Accused of Drug Smuggling Avoids Prosecution My god. The US (and the Bush family) really knows how to pick its friends, don't it.

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The Connecticut Post Online - News This story is interesting. Just imagine the scandal if this had happened in Britain. This sort of thing reaks of Banana Republic.

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StrangeAh, the 2005 general election. An election where the turnout fell (if you strip out postal voting), the winner's share fell to as low as Simon Amstell's trousers and where the Tories somehow managed to gain 50 seats yet grew their share nationally by something like 0.5% (roughly the percentage of hairs on Paul Mccartney's head that are their real colour).Strange indeed. So we now have a

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Sky News : The Tough Battle To Get Into Britain Any Chance of the Tories shutting the hell up about this now? Only once they lose the election, I suspect, and then move on to a new leader. Sheesh.

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Incidentally, if no one's noticed, I've put a link to this blog's XML/RSS feed in my links to the right. So you don't have to remember to visit every time and can be spoonfed the stories I find, the stuff I write and the other things I put into the blog that most likely 0.000 people read. Hell, an average blog probably only gets the writer as its sole reader, so this ain't out of the ordinary.

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CNN.com - Berlusconi under pressure on Iraq - May 3, 2005 There was 90% popular opposition to Italy taking part and now it looks as if those in government are crumbling. Much like the coalition in general, with Hungary and Poland and Spain withdrawing. Of course, it's highly likely that this sort of thing will only make headlines in the US if the British did the decent thing and pulled out in

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Gallup: 50% of Americans Now Say Bush Deliberately Misled Them on WMDs And yet the fool was re-elected! Go figure...

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Proof Blair was told war could be ruled illegalBlair didn't want to hear it.

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Just posting some material from last month that didn't get performed in the end. I like them, though."Making Thinroads"RACHEL HUNTER COMES ON STAGE.HUNTER: Hello there, I'm Rachel Hunter and welcome to “Make me a Supermodel”. This is the show where young, thin, young, female, thin and...thin ladies compete for a lucrative modelling contract. We're going to be at least as strict as we would be in

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MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Row as BBC cuts Bafta speech Must say I was very pleased to see this excellent documentary win major TV awards. I am also not in the least bit surprised that this speech was cut entirely. But his point is entirely correct. When journalists, especially broadcast journalists, extrapolate consequences and expand ideas from slivers of fact that is when

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Why We Fight A superb documentary.

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BBC NEWS World Europe Pope John Paul II dies in VaticanA shining example of pure religious zealMy assessment of the pope.He was a shining example of pure religious zeal. And a marvellous example of the deep flaws the church has never really rooted out.He naturally spoke out forcefully against atheist communism, but only once he was safely in Rome as Pope was anything more than an agitant.

Schoolboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12685063482186940841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6533101.post-1112282183787840932005-03-31T16:16:00.000+01:002007-04-30T15:00:02.898+01:00

New Torture Memo Implicates Top US GeneralColin Powell only now feeling uneasy about the US's pre-war behaviour. Bit late, mate.General suggesting techniques that, shock horror, we saw in US prison camps but yet he claims he never gave permission for them to be used. Hmmm.

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FOXNews.com - Politics - Fifty-Nine Ex-U.S. Diplomats Oppose BoltonIt virtually goes without saying that this plea (as sensible as it is) will go unheeded. It's not like it's the first time a collective if experts has proclaimed abhorrence at a Bush policy or decision.

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USATODAY.com - Bush approval slips to 45%, lowest of his presidency It took twice as long to get this unpopular in his first term. Hmmm...America regretting its decision?

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BBC NEWS World South Asia US to sell fighters to PakistanOf course, the US is not really selling them to Pakistan, it is buying them from the arms industry for Pakistan. The US is providing over $3bn dollars in aid to this dictatorship which has already wriggled out of blame for its top scientist providing nuclear technology to Iran.In many ways it has echos with Iraq and Iran and how they

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I'm actually writing again! It just happened. I sat down and in two days I have about 6 sketches, which have already gone to the Treason Show. The script editor just invited me to send stuff to the Newsrevue as well, so we'll see where that takes me. I really love writing and it is ball crushingly frustrating when I can't get ideas flowing.So, I'll put some of the better scripts up here once

Schoolboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12685063482186940841noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6533101.post-1111409872738117892005-03-21T12:57:00.000Z2007-04-30T15:00:02.899+01:00

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Israel confirms settlement growth The simple truth is that if Israel had the slightest interest in peace where both sides win they would not be doing this. It's insanity of the most inexcusable kind.

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BBC NEWS | Programmes | Panorama | Blair's case for war questioned Stunned? Me? Not in the least...

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Hmm, I sometimes forget that I can have opinions, opine until I start repeating myself, but I am shamefully low in a lot of knowledge many I look up to take for granted.Sure, I had a brief bit of Latin at school, I have a smattering of Spanish, I know something of history, geography and sociology. I have a deep interest in psychology and communications media. I have a passive interest in

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stmThis report tells a very important story. Nevermind that Big Oil won out over "mental neo-cons" just look at who the neo-cons are and what they wanted to do. It really is scary.

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Well, I'm finding it increasingly hard to write, especially now that I have become a freelance photographer. So, with that in mind, I doubt I shall add any posts to this blog for around six months. Once I do, I shall reveal who I am and start publicising my work - Pets and kids portraits welcome, sort of thing - and showing my favourite pics on this blog.Should I ever write anything else - and

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It seems I have to be tanked up on spirits and cola to have any writing impulse these days so, as I am currently half cut on said concoction, here I am. You can't imagine how creatively constipated I have been. I have been so busy that I have been unable to concentrate on anything long enough to even be passionate enough to comment on huge stories. It also makes me slightly uneasy at the vague

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Busy, tired all the time and unemployed is not what you want in the run up to Christmas. It's also not want you want if you want to write. I currently have difficulty typing accurately due to tiredness and a worryingly unfocussed mind. So this is a brief post. If it was any longer I'd miss typing errors, so knackered am I. :(

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I'm getting Sky+. Should I be fortunate enough to have snagged any non-British eyes to this rather substandard blog, Sky+ can be explained better than I can by visiting http://www.sky.com I have been getting more and more bored with TV and being able to choose from more channels and being able to record better is also a boon, together with easy DIY upgrading of the hard drive for a few pounds.

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Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69 Only in America, dude, seriously.

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We're a creature of three levels and they ruin our lives, What we are, what we show and what we want in our lives, We want to be seen as calm and true and happy souls, But we're really insecure and lose sight of our goals We ignore our selves at the cost of happiness, The image of it's easier even if you're a mess, In truth, we hate ev'ryone including ourselves, But we never admit this, whoever

Schoolboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12685063482186940841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6533101.post-1099508241180293792004-11-03T16:50:00.000Z2007-04-30T15:00:02.901+01:00

I had written a piece but then it got deleted before I could publish so this will be a little rehashing of it. "Kerry was the wrong man. About as charismatic as a rheumatoidal filing clerk." I never supported Kerry, I just didn't support Bush. Kerry fucked up this election like no one else could. The Democrats fucked it up. This was always an election for Kerry to lose rather than for Bush

Schoolboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12685063482186940841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6533101.post-1099359044756119252004-11-02T01:30:00.000Z2007-04-30T15:00:02.901+01:00

CBS News | Even Republicans Fear Bush | October 31, 2004�14:23:31 Every American should read this article. It may then have an effect on the election in my opinion.

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FAIR MEDIA ADVISORY: If Only They Had Invented the Internet This is the sort of weakness many members of the media on both sides of the Atlantic. Both parties play the game, of course. That is, Kerry and Bush. Now journalists expect to be spinned to but why do they seem so naive as to barely question if they are being outright lied to? Answers on a postcard please...

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