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Barack Obama Death Cult: Change In White Supremacy
MORE news on the Barack Obama death cult in the Star, which says that the US presidential contender is being “shielded by a £50million security operation after death threats from twisted racist groups”.
How many untwisted, straight-down-the-line racist groups also wish death on Obama remains to be seen, but it could be more or less then three.
Says the Star: “FBI chiefs believe at least three white supremacist organisations want to assassinate the Democrat aiming to become America’s first black president.
The Star identifies the last bastions of white US Nazism as the National Socialist Vanguard, the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan. No mention of Golf Clubs of America, the Skull & Bones society or the Baltimore Country Club.
Which may be evidence of the change Barack Obama promises in action…
Posted: 9th, June 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (5)
George Bush Uses Power Of Persuasion TO Increase Oil Supply
GEORGE Bush told the New York Times on June 28, 2000: Bush Would Use Power of Persuasion to Raise Oil Supply.
Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.
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Posted: 8th, June 2008 | In: Money, Politicians | Comments (6)
Barack Obama: Radical Means Racism
ANDY Ostroy thinks radical measn racist. If you don’t like Obama are you just a racist?
The Republicans are great at framing issues and labelling candidates. And the new buzzword for Obama is radical. Right-wing radio host Sean Hannity has even re-named his show the “Stop Radical Obama express.” On his program Thursday he literally said “radical” about every fourth word. Radical, radical, radical. Get ready, Democrats. We’re gonna hear that word more in the next five months than we’ve heard in a lifetime.
Listening to Hannity’s program makes you wonder if he and his kool-aid-drunken listeners are not part of some twisted, brainwashed cult. They greet each other with “you’re a great American” and depart with “God bless you.” The level of ignorance that flows freely on this program is astounding. Hannity’s mission is clearly to poison anyone who comes within earshot of him with lies and deception about the Obamas. Here’s a few of his shameless rants from Thursday:
“I am telling you, Barack Obama will move this country in a direction that is so radical that it will shock your senses.”
“He (Obama) has views that would probably shock the average American.”
“He’s a Radical left winger, to the left of George McGovern.”
And on 1960’s terrorist William Ayers, embattled Chicago developer Tony Rezko and the Reverends Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger: Obama is “a phony. A friend of all these people, and who will associate with anyone who can help him politically.”
Throughout his program Hannity hammered home the term “radical associations” to describe these controversial relationships. It’s abundantly clear that Hannity’s goal for the next five months is to scare the hell out of his regular audience, and anyone else who might be listening for that matter.
Make no mistake: the constant regurgitation of the word “radical” is meant to conjure up all sorts of fear, anger and racial prejudice. Think “radical Muslim.” Think “angry black man.” Think Willie Horton. This sort of pandering to the racist dumbasses of America is beyond despicable, but it’s what the GOP does best. It’s pure propaganda. And like all good propaganda, if you say it enough it sticks.
That was a radical alternative to a reasoned argument…
Posted: 7th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
John McCain’s Changey
ON THE JOHN McCain website: “Obama’s Positions Are So Changey.”
Posted: 7th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Gordon Brown Ignore Daily Express Petrol Crusade
“BROWN BLOCKS OUR FUEL PETITION,” announces the Express on its front page.
“Gordon Brown yesterday banned our petition – demanding an immediate cut in fuel duty – from the No10 website.”
To the No.10 website and a hunt through rejected petitions for the Express’s cri de couer that so irked Gordon Brown.
Is it this one?
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ensure that the 2p-a-litre fuel duty rise planned for October 1 is scrapped and that instead fuel duty is substantially cut – Submitted by Geoff Marsh of Daily Express
If so, Anorak notes that it was rejected not because the Express threatens the fabric of the country and makes Brown uneasy, but because: “It was similar to and/or overlaps with an existing petition or petitions.”
Or was it this petition, one rejected because “It contained false or incomplete name or address information:
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Posted: 7th, June 2008 | In: Money, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (3)
Michelle Obama Video: The Non Denial Denial
MORE on rumours of a Michelle Obama video of her saying things that must not be said. See the video here.
And:
The headline of this story is that “Obama denies a rumor,” but he doesn’t really, at least from what I can tell from the reporting:
Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday batted down rumors circulating on the Internet and mentioned on some cable news shows of the existence of a video of his wife using a derogatory term for white people, and criticized a reporter for asking him about the rumor, which has not a shred of evidence to support it.
“We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it,” Obama said to the McClatchy reporter during a press conference aboard his campaign plane. “That gives legs to the story. If somebody has evidence that myself or Michelle or anybody has said something inappropriate, let them do it.”
Asked whether he knew it not to be true, Obama said he had answered the question.
But as far as I can see, he hadn’t, unless there were words spoken that were not reported.
Are hanging chads black or white?
Posted: 6th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Gordon Brown’s Scots Thrown Out Of London
GORDON Brown is in the mire and signs are that his grey-suited tartan army are being expunged from London.
Brown’s British but as this patient form at King’s College Hospital, London, shows, he can’t be Scottish – not in London.
We don’t want his sort here…
Posted: 5th, June 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment (1)
King Barack Obama Is The Tabloid Dream
“HE HAS a dream,” says the Sun’s front-page headline, words illustrated by a picture of Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama, mouth agape and right hand raised to the heavens.
News is that a man called Barack Obama has been chosen to contest the leadership of a foreign country, namely the United States of America.
The Sun sees this as big news, bigger than the Express’s front-page news of “PETROL STRIKE CHAOS”, the Star’s screamer that “BIG BRO: WE WILL SCREEN LIVE SEX” and the Mirror’s news of Gazza 2008. It’s that big.
The details are that over in the US, racism – Obama is of mixed race – has given way to misogyny – Hillary Clinton is defeated. Now the fight is between Obama and the aged John McCain, and we will see if racism can be undone by ageism. The race to the White House is the ultimate equal opportunities reality TV show.
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Posted: 5th, June 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (7)
China Bans Six Types Of Foreigner During Beijing Olympics
THE Olympics are coming and the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee (BOCOG) duly issued a set of “legal guidelines” for foreigners visiting China during the Games.
Please note the list of six types of foreigners that are not welcome.
(Picture: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
Writes the Shanghai Daily:
OVERSEAS visitors suspected of working in the sex trade, of smuggling drugs or belonging to a terrorist organization will not be allowed to enter China during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, organizers of the Games said today.
Foreigners with mental or epidemic diseases, including tuberculosis and leprosy, will also not be issued visas to visit China…
BOCOG has had to apologise for a training manual for using “inappropriate language” of people with disabilities:
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Posted: 4th, June 2008 | In: Back pages, Politicians | Comments (2)
Un Climate Talks Kick Off With Clown Boot-Sized Carbon Footprint
THE latest round of international climate talks has kicked off in Bonn, Germany.
The two-week session is not the end of so much expelled hot air and there are at least eight more chats planned in the next year and a half.
Also to be considered, according to the Associated Press, is a carbon tax on airline tickets. With 2,400 participants from 172 countries and eight more meetings yet to take place (the next in Accra, Ghana), the delegates certainly have a large carbon footprint from all that air travel.
Such is the way of progress, they travel so you won’t be able to…
Posted: 4th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Al Gore Is From Venus, Humans Are From Earth
ALK Gore is confusing Venus and planet Earth in his bad science exhibition:
After leading into the topic with the statement “there’s an illusion still out there that the climate crisis may not be real, and if you want to be one step ahead, believe me, it’s real,” he used as his first example “a tale of two planets, Earth and Venus,” which are the “same size, same amount of carbon, but on earth most of the natural processes have put carbon into the earth as fossil fuel.” He then pointed out the average temperature on Earth is 59 degrees (fahrenheit), and the average temperature on Venus is 875 degrees. But he didn’t point out that Venus is 67 million miles from the sun, and earth is 93 million miles from the sun – that plus undoubtedly many other significant differences in the composition of Earth and Venus would account for the difference in temperature. So Gore was not off to a good start.
The sun is the bright orange thing…
Posted: 4th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
The Plot To Kill Barack Obama And Hillary Clinton (Video)
MORE on the plot to kill Barack Obama, and the now lesser plot to kill Hillary Clinton:
To Manhattan, where artist Yazmany Arboleda is launching his new exhibition: The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama.
Says Mr Arboleda: “It’s art. It’s not supposed to be harmful. It’s about character assassination — about how Obama and Hillary have been portrayed by the media. It’s about the media.”But the spooks are unhappy. Show over. Mr Arboleda explains: “The Secret Service had to do a whole questionnaire with me. It was about an hour of questioning. They asked if I owned guns, if I was a violent person, if I had ever been institutionalized.”
Were the working out if he was capable of offing Obama, or up to the job?
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Posted: 4th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Barack Obama On Modesty And Healing The Planet
BARACK Obama, he’s so very modest:
At this defining moment for our nation, we should be proud that our party put forth one of the most talented, qualified field of individuals ever to run for this office.
Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children…that this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…
Posted: 4th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Jason Wood Orgams Over John Prescott’s Textualised Book
SIGNS that Australian MP Jason Wood has been reading John Prescott’s works and reviewing his past speeches.
(Picture: Beau Bo D’Or)
On the matter of genetically modified organisms, Woods offered “genetically modified orgasms”.
“I support the member for McMillan’s call for the government to conduct an independent broad-ranging scientific investigation into the genetic modification of food and biotechnology to assess not only the health of the crops and the food, but also the potential for contamination, the commercial implications for Australian primary industry, and the benefits and risks associated with genetically modified orgasms, orgasms.”
A multiple orgasm.
Some way to go to match Prescott’s interfracted ten-year digestivised policy directititive, but it’s a start, and Prescott was talking with his mouth full, feeling sick anmd adesk covered in secretary and biskitty wrappers.
But we note the start of a trend, when political diaries are taken to heart and become text books for how polticos should behave while in orifice…
Posted: 4th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Obama’s Step For Racial Equality
Marc Ambinder looks at Obama and McCain:
What a different emotional register from John McCain’s; Obama seems on the verge of tears; the enormous crowd in the Xcel center seems ready to lift Obama on its shoulders…McCain appealed to Clinton supporters based on their resentments, pointing out that the pundits and party elders seemingly anointed Obama; Obama appeals to them based on their hopes, promising that Clinton would play a major role in securing universal health care.
Obama thanked his grandmother above all else; without her, he said, none of this would have been possible. She is white, of course. The explicit message is obvious. The implicit message: this thing, this event, is much more than just a step for racial equality.
Posted: 4th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Light A Match For World Environment Day
WORLD Environment Day is almost upon us and you can do your bit.
As the wind-powered UN site says, it can be celebrated in many ways, including “street rallies, bicycles parades, green concerts, essay and poster competitions in schools, tree planting, recycling efforts, clean-up campaigns and much more.”
Anorak will be celebrating by lighting matches.
Researchers form the University of Exeter, the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the Met Office Hadley Centre and the Brazilian National Institute for Space Studies conclude that “cleaner air is threatening the survival of the Amazon rainforest”.
Writing in the journal Nature, the team said they have identified a link between reducing sulphur dioxide emissions from burning coal and increasing sea surface temperatures in the tropical north Atlantic.
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Posted: 4th, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
UN Banquet: They Come To Eat Mugabe Not To Bury Him
THE 40 heads of government taking part in the UN food summit are investigating food at a table in Villa Madam, a palace on the lower slopes of Monte Mario, Rome.
The Telegraph says the menu is a secret but thought to be “rigorously Italian”.
Dinner follows a light lunch of vol au vents with sweetcorn and mozzarella, paté of crevettes and pumpkin, veal with cherry tomatoes, spinach and a fruit salad.
Not in attendance is Robert Mugabe, who is uninvited to the fact–finding eatathon hosted by Silvio Berlusconi and Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general.
The Zimbabwean leader dines alone in the five-star Hotel Ambasciatori Palace, served by his cadre of loyal African chefs and waiters lest a local Roman plate wallah render unto the Zimbabwean Caesar what Caligula and Tiberius once dined their last upon.
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Posted: 4th, June 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comments (2)
Robert Mugabe Meets Agriculture Jihad
SAYS the Mirror: “Cabinet minister Douglas Alexander will snub Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe at an international summit on food shortages.”
Good of the Mirror to announce this snubbing lest the Zimbabwean despot not realise that it’s happening.
And if that’s not enough to learn him, the Sun says Britain may strip Mugabe of his honorary knighthood. Mugabe is no match for British spite (surely, might?).
Mr. Mugabe is in Rome, at the invitation of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, which is holding a conference to discuss the international food crisis.
Also in town is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who’s taken along the Minister of Agriculture Jihad Mohammad-Reza Eskandari.
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Posted: 3rd, June 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (2)
Gordon Brown’s 42 Days Fisked
Fisking Gordon Brown on 42 Days at SpyBlog
Posted: 2nd, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
That Michelle Obama Video In Full
OVER in the US, there is a rumour that Michelle Obama, wife to Barack Obama, reportedly, could be, or might be, in a video that possibly shows that she is allegedly, perhaps, calling white persons, or persons who are white and white-ish, “whitey”, or something else.
On Fox News, a nodding head, or expert, is wondering if the video exists and if it does or does not exist what it would and could mean, if it were true or otherwise etcetera.
Exclusive to all networks…
Posted: 2nd, June 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (9)
How The Potato Wars Started
RADIO Netherlands Reports:
Chile and Peru have for some time been embroiled in a dispute over the origins of the potato. Chile’s latest claim to be the region where potatoes first grew is being hotly refuted in the Peruvian press.
Scientists agree that the ubiquitous root vegetable originated in South America and that Spanish colonists brought it to Europe in the 16th century. Current thought puts its first location in the vicinity of Lake Titicaca in Peru.
The controversy is far from over. Researchers in Bolivia say they have found traces of the potato which are more ancient than those found in either Chile or Peru.
You say potato, I say this is war and you will die by a thousand chips (surely cuts?)…
Posted: 2nd, June 2008 | In: Politicians, Strange But True | Comments (2)
George Bush Won The War On Terror
GEORGE BUSH’S legacy – a good point:
“But when a professed enemy succeeds as wildly as al Qaeda did on 9/11, and seven years pass without an incident, there are two reasonable conclusions: Either, despite all the trash-talking videos, they have been taking a long, leisurely breather; or, something serious has been done to thwart and disable their operations. Whatever combination of psychology and insanity motivates a terrorist to blow himself up is not within my range of experience, but I’m betting the aggressive measures the president took, and the unequivocal message he sent, might have had something to do with it.”
And he makes the gaffes…
Posted: 30th, May 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Al Gore: The Opera
AL Gore: The Inconvenient Opera:
First it was the film and the book. Now the next stop for Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is opera.
La Scala officials say the Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera on the international multiformat hit for the 2011 season at the Milan opera house. The composer is currently artistic director of the Arena in Verona.
Other suggested titles: The Liar of Seville; La BoPrivate Jet.
Posted: 30th, May 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Condoleeza Rice’s Late Night Encounter With Kiss
OOOER…
CONDOLEEZA Rice met the legendary glam rock quartet when they happened to share a hotel in the Swedish capital. Rice was in Stockholm on Thursday for an international conference on Iraq. Kiss had a sold-out gig to play on Friday.
“I was thrilled,” Rice said of her late-night encounter with frontman Gene Simmons and bandmates Paul Stanley, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer in the executive lounge of the Sheraton Hotel…
Do you think… No… Maybe…
Posted: 30th, May 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Scott McClellan Flowchart
THE Scott McClellan flowchart – what was he thinking…
Posted: 30th, May 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment
