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The Dublin Anti-Austerity March Will Change Nothing: Photos
IN Dublin, 50,000 protestors marched against the austerity package and the bailout – a £85bn euro loan. Posters of Taioseach Brian Cowen were burned outside Leinster house. One man held up a picture of Cowan being offed by a guillotine. Come the revolution…
On The Ha’penny Bridge a big banner declared: THE WORKERS PARTY SAYS NO TO MASS UNEMPLOYMENT.” Well, the workers’ party would. But keeping the public sector workers in work would only add to the problem. The march will change nothing.
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Posted: 27th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
EDL V UAF In Preston: Photos And Scores
IT’S the umpteenth week of the Unite Against Fascism versus the English Defence League shout off. This weekend the touring team are in Preston to celebrate Lancashire Day. The score so far: 9 arrests in total today for drunken or disorderly. Results: EDL and UAF lose. Students win.
Posted: 27th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Barack Obama And Prince Charles: Two Green Peas In A Thin-Skinned Pod
SO, which US leader is the most stupid? This is big question in the media since Sarah Palin called North Korea a friend of The US. She responded to her error (and, yes, she know she had made one) with a witty address based on Barack Obama’s litany of verbal rickets.
The media is so biased that in today’s Independent readers get the “great American gaffe-off”, pitting Sarah Palin against George Bush. What, no Bill Clinton, a man who didn’t even know what “sexually relations” meant? No Joe Biden, the current VP, the man who told wheelchair bound Missouri Senator Chuck Graham to stand up to be recognized at a rally. “Chuck, stand up, let the people see you,” said Joe.
What, no Back Obama, the man who called her a “pig” and once attempted to enter the White House through a window?
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Posted: 26th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Dara And Sara Are Iran’s National Dolls Declare War On Barbie
AS Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeks to promote marriage and wean wayward Iranian youth off concrete penises and Grammar Of Change, reader Ed Brett turns us onto Dara and Sara, Iran’s “answer to Ken and Barbie”; aka the Ahmadinejad child sex dolls.
Ken and Barbie never looked like forming much of a question, let alone a coherent answer. But Iran is nothing if not reactionary and brings to the market “Muslim dolls”.
Again, this is odd. Giving a doll a name is one thing, but making it religious seems out of kilter with its lack of soul; although the shiny eyes do lend themselves to evangelical Christianity.
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Posted: 26th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
United Nations Says It’s OK To Execute Gays
THANKS to your caring United Nations is it legal to execute gays and lesbians. The United Nations want nations to investigate killings based on discriminatory grounds.
Sexual orientation was previously listed as one of these forms of discrimination, alongside ethnicity, religious belief and linguistic minorities, that would require an investigation. Other protected are journalists, lawyers and demonstrators, street children and indigenous communities.
But not the gays. Not any more.
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Posted: 26th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood Gets It Wrong On Israel And The Jews
HARRIET Sherwood brings Guardian readers news of Israel – and she gets it wrong. Says she:
Israel has approved a £15m five-year plan to develop the area around the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site…
No. The Temple Mount is the Holiest site in Judaism. On it sits the al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. Temple Mount is where the Holy of Holies was, the place where the Ark of the Covenant was housed during the first Temple. That as the house of worship built by Solomon the son of David in 957 BCE. The Dome was completed in 692 CE.
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Posted: 25th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Journalist Kneels Before Nick Clegg: Photos
DID the Press Association journalist have to kneel when she interviewed Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister at Durand Academy Primary School in Stockwell, south London?
Hadn’t she heard that Clegg is now a pariah, the man who went back on his pledge to do all he could to end student fees for higher education? This is the man who failed education.
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Posted: 25th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Sarah Palin Says North Koreans Are Allies And So Are The Cybermen
SARAH Palin, the White Out Obama, says, “Obviously we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.”
This is what comes of living so close to Russia – you start thinking you’re one of them. Palin may like to consult her namesake Michael Palin for advice on travel matters and discover that North Koreans are the enemy, much like the Cybermen…
Here’s Mr Kim – he makes no gaffes, for sure:
Posted: 25th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Student Demo 2 In Photos: Will They Urinate On The Cenotaph?
ON Whitehall students are protesting against fees. It’s Demo 2. And it is live on the BBC and Sky. And all we will read about is the violence.
In Manchester:
The general consensus seems to be that Manchester’s was a peaceful protest so you won’t see much in the papers. They must have sent all the trouble-makers down to London.
In London, one police officer had sustained a broken arm. A student ninja is stood on the top of a police van. The windscreen is smashed. “Pigs” has been written on it and a cone placed on the roof. (The van was parked slap bang in t the middle of the road, somewhat foolishly.) And that’s it.
But Sky News and the BBC have acres of live news to fill so there are shots of people not doing very much and police stopping them from doing anything too newsworthy.
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Posted: 24th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Ireland Protests In Photos: Art Inspired By Fear And Loathing
THE new troubles in Ireland are inspiring graffiti artists and art lovers (the Bank of Ireland art auction is underway). Dublin Artist ADW has daubed a wall with a picture depicting Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan and Taoiseach Brian Cowen as the Blues Brothers. They should like it – the Blues Brothers win in the end.
They may less like the violence, such as the word “TRAITOR” painted on the broken windows of Fianna Fail Transport Minister Noel Dempsey TD’s constituency office in Trim, Meath.
But, then, the political elite are alright – their company cars and police outriders have managed to escape the cuts. The masses will be kept at bay…
Posted: 24th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
The First Korean War In Photos: Chinese And US Make Ready
NORTH Korea has fires upon South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island. The talk is of “massive retaliation”. Two South Korean marines are dead. Are we on the verge of war a repeat of the 1950s? Will the US fight the Chinese? The nuclear-powered USS George Washington is heading to the region.
Before pictures from that bloody time – and the images are evocative and emotive – a look at what the North Korean news service is saying about matters:
THE Supreme Command of the Korean People’s Army Tuesday released the following communique: The south Korean puppet group perpetrated such reckless military provocation as firing dozens of shells inside the territorial waters of the DPRK side around Yonphyong Islet in the West Sea of Korea from 13:00 on Nov. 23 despite the repeated warnings of the DPRK while staging the war maneuvers for a war of aggression on it codenamed Hoguk, escalating the tension on the Korean Peninsula.
The above-said military provocation is part of its sinister attempt to defend the brigandish “northern limit line,” while frequently infiltrating its naval warships into the territorial waters of the DPRK side under the pretext of “intercepting fishing boats.” The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK standing guard over the inviolable territorial waters of the country took such decisive military step as reacting to the military provocation of the puppet group with a prompt powerful physical strike. It is a traditional mode of counter-action of the army of the DPRK to counter the firing of the provocateurs with merciless strikes.
Should the south Korean puppet group dare intrude into the territorial waters of the DPRK even 0.001 mm, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will unhesitatingly continue taking merciless military counter-actions against it. It should bear in mind the solemn warning of the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK that they do not make an empty talk.
There is in the West Sea of Korea only the maritime military demarcation line set by the DPRK.
Remember when..? Around 100,000 British servicemen and women served in the Japan-Korea theatre during the war. British casualties: 1,078 killed; 2,674 wounded; 1,060 missing or taken prisoner.
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Posted: 24th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
Students Hang Nick Clegg Effigy: Photos
STUDENTS massed at a place guaranteed to get them a sympathetic ear: outside the Guardian and Observer newspaper offices where Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was giving the annual Hugo Young Lecture. That’s Clegg in the noose. Well, ok, it’s a likeness the students in balaclavas had erected to prove a point. The crowd chanted:
“Nick Clegg, shame on you, shame on you for turning blue.”
Clegg escaped from another exit:
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Posted: 23rd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Daily Star Front Page Ireland Crisis: ‘Useless Gobshites’ Edition
IRELAND is in crisis and the Daily Star Ireland puts the thing in perspective with a photo of the elected elite and the headline: USELESS GOBSHITES…
Posted: 23rd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
After The Porno Scanners TSA Dick Gropes Are Coming To The UK
LEST you suppose that the TSA groping policies in which children are felt-up, women perved at and men fisted by airport workers who get to operate the porno scanners, know that Lord John Reid, once home secretary, is a director of G4S and a partner in the Chertoff Group. What do they do?
Well, G4S is a specialist in airport security.
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Posted: 23rd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Ireland’s Minsters Living In Fear Of The People: Photos
CAN Nationalists and anti-capitalists profit from Ireland’s Troubles? At the Gates of the Government buildings in Dublin, Sinn Fein protestors massed, including TD Aengus O’ Snodaigh. There were tussles with Gardai, whose wages will be paid by a bail-out from the International Monetary Fund and European Union. Is this humiliating for Ireland?
Bruno Waterfield has news that not all Irish feel shame so keenly:
Irish ministers are so concerned over protests that austerity plans to cut chauffeur driven cars and police outriders have been shelved to protect the government amid heightened post-EU bail-out security.
Keep the window wound up, lads, and the helmets on. Feel the fear…
Posted: 22nd, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Want You To Marry A Young Iranian And Defuse The Sexual Bomb
IN Iran they used to marry young. Now the youth wait longer and hug the big penis. There are between 13 million to 15 million Iranians of marrying age who are not married (legal age: 15 – before 2004 it was legal to marry at age 9). And that number is growing.
“The sexual bomb we face is more dangerous than the bombs and missiles of the enemy,” said Mohammad Javad Hajj Ali Akbari, head of Iran’s National Youth Organization, late last year.
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Posted: 21st, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Boy Stripped And Felt Up By TSA: Video
THE US’s TSA is in the news for its grope downs and dick measuring service. Here’ a video of the border guards patting down a young boy and taking his top off.
While you sing the song and watch the Boehner go, wonder how it is that when the enemy attacks it is your civil liberties that are curtailed.
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Posted: 21st, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Boehner Escapes TSA Dick Measuring Service: Cancer Sufferer Forced To Show Breasts
TO Charlotte, where Cathy Bossi, a flight attendant, is forced to bare her breasts during a TSA pat down / rub down / grope at the at Charlotte Douglas International airport where she works.
She is ordered to pass through the full body scanners. She will be radiated. Bossi has had cancer. She’s not all that keen on being zapped, but complies. But it’s not enough:
“When I got out of there she said because my I.D. was on my back, I had to go to a personal screening area.”
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Posted: 21st, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Swiss Fascists Seduce Muslims With Tales Of Naked Women
THE Swiss People’s Party (SVP) says that Switzerland is a land full of very clean, tight-skinned, young, naked white women who bathe in the ice cold waters of Lake Zurich.
You might think this is a lure for immigrants, who have long laboured under the misconception that Switzerland is a land of fascists, civic pride and organised suicide.
The SVP also has also posted online an image of older, dressed Muslim women who are also sat in a large puddle of water, possibly a disused muddy puddle or quarry.
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Posted: 20th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Afghanistan Time To Go Demo: In Photos And Acronyms
ANOTHER weekend of demonstrations in London and with it the birth of another acronym for the media to conjure with. The British Muslim Initiative (BMI) is in central London as part in the Afghanistan: Time to Go demonstration. Joining them are CND and STWC (Stop The War Coalition). There were lots of banners and placards demanding “PEACE”. Do the peaceful march and shout? Or is PEACE another acronym (People Expect Acronyms Cleverly Explained)…
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Posted: 20th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Young Socialists For Orgasms: Spanish Political Movement Promises An Ejaculation With Every Vote
A VOTE for the Young Socialists in Catalonia will give you an orgasm. Vote now and vote often. Spain’s equality minister says the advert is “misleading”. Indeed it is. Men can also vote for Young Socialists, although not as often, obviously…
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Posted: 19th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Soldier Who Refused To Return To Afghanistan Hands Back Medals
JOE Glenton is the now ex-soldier who was jailed for nine months refusing to return to Afghanistan. He had fled to Asia and Australia.
Today he handed in his veteran’s medal to 10 Downing Street in London.
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Posted: 19th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (18)
The TSA Protest Song: Comply With Me, Obey, Obey, Obey
COMPLY with me is the song to hum as your body is put through the hands of the TSA’s dick measuring service and breast groping syndication. Americans are now getting the same stinking treatment they used to reserve for foreigners.
Anorak’s pal behind the Rubber Curtain, Iowahawk, bring news of the protest song of the age. Bend over and grab your ankles. You’re in for a bumpy ride.
Comply with me, before you fly away
Remove those shoes and take a cruise through my peekaboo xray
Comply with me, I’m your friendly TSA
Comply with me you domestic coach class bums
If you opt out I’ll just give you a shout to my icy handed chums
Comply with me bend over here it comes
Once I get up there where your hair is tickle-ish
I’ll just fish
got my wish
Once I get you up there you’ll be squirming like an eel
You may squeal
At the feel when we’re together
Proctology is such a lovely trade
I’ll show you, love with my rubber glove
Try not to be afraid
I’d be a perfect gentleman if had just obeyed
Comply with me, I’m GS-8 pay grade
Janet Napolitano says to sprad em wide
Have you tried…Astroglide?
Janet Napolitano knows your clothes are off
Head alof
Turn it and cough when we’re together
Don’t crack wise or I’ll ruin your whole day
Please don’t frown when I pat your down, it alerts the CIA
It’s a perfectly legal practice
Except at Gitmo Bay
Comply with me
I said comply with me
Obey
Obey
Obey
Posted: 19th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Tory Councillor Suspended From Party For Agreeing With Barack Obama On Gays
BRISTOL Councillor Chris Windows has been “voluntarily suspended” from the Conservative Party. (No, not suspended from a rafter with a black bin liner over his head and wearing stockings and suspenders – he ‘s no Tory MP.)
Windows has been censured for saying that he was “disturbed” to learn that Sir Ian McKellen had been speaking to school children about being gay. Says he said:
“I am unhappy and a little disturbed at the involvement of Stonewall in our local schools and particularly the use of a certain leading actor as a potential role model for our impressionable young people.”
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Posted: 19th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Ireland: The EU’s Malign Institutions Kill The Nation State
THE extraordinary editorial in The Irish Times yesterday asks “whether this is what the men of 1916 died for: a bailout from the German chancellor with a few shillings of sympathy from the British chancellor on the side”, writes Richard North.
“There is the shame of it all,” it says. “Having obtained our political independence from Britain to be the masters of our own affairs, we have now surrendered our sovereignty to the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. Their representatives ride into Merrion Street today.”
But its one of their commenters, Bryan O’Donoghue, who reminds the newspaper that it has been consistent cheer-leader for the project. Not least, we ourselves can recall, it was a voluble supporter of the Lisbon treaty. Thus asks O’Donoghue: “Has this paper once openly opposed a European integration step, no matter how undemocratic or how much power it concentrates in the hands of the EU3?”
“Why,” he then asks, “now turn around a[nd] criticise the power that has been handed to Europe due to successive treaties, unions and economic arrangements, that the IT, is a principal supporter of?”
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Posted: 19th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
