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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Acceptance Speech In Full
UNRESTRAINED by a need to be credible, the novelist or tabloid hack can only envy Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and wonder where the story will next turn.
Ahmadinejad has now addressed the crowd and the mob and explained that things are as they because that is how they are meant to be.
Says he:
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Posted: 15th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Full Text Of Netanyahu’s Call For Palestinian State
ISRAEL Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will create a Palestinian state. hsia speech in full:
Honored guests, citizens of Israel.
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Posted: 14th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Jimmy Carter Haw Haws Ahmadinejad
JIMMY Carter is Haw-Hawing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
“I think this election has bought out a lot of opposition to his policies in Iran, and I’m sure he’ll listen to those opinions and hopefully moderate his position.”
1. It is claimed that Ahmadinejad won the city of Tabriz with 57%. His main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, is an Azeri from Azerbaijan province, of which Tabriz is the capital. Mousavi, according to such polls as exist in Iran and widespread anecdotal evidence, did better in cities and is popular in Azerbaijan. Certainly, his rallies there were very well attended. So for an Azeri urban center to go so heavily for Ahmadinejad just makes no sense. In past elections, Azeris voted disproportionately for even minor presidential candidates who hailed from that province.
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Posted: 14th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (8)
Ahmadinejad Voted For Mousavi And Iran Twinned With Chicago
MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad is President of Iran and all the Irans. The press goes bonkers. It’s a fix, right? Right? Right!
So fair is Ahmadinejad that even he voted For Mousavi.
But do not panic – Iran is to be twinned with Chicago. See, we’re not all that different.
Iran’s ex-Foreign Minister in an interview with The Nation’s Robert Dreyfuss:
A coup d’etat? They’ve already made one! They’ve created a dictatorship, in fact. Do you know that last night the security forces occupied the offices of many newspapers, to make sure that their reporting on the election was favorable? They changed many headlines.
They fixed the election.
The Guards are taking over everything, including many economic institutions. The ministry of the interior is increasing its control in all the provinces.
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Posted: 13th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)
Vladimir Putin Paints Himself A Bigger Sword
VLADIMIR Putin surveys the likeness and tells the founder of the Russian school of high realism, Ilya Glazunov, that the sword in one of his paintings was too short. It looks “only good for slicing sausage”.
Glazunov is the top brush at the head of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and a member of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
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Posted: 13th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Ray Nagin Killed By Barack Obama Death Cultists
THE Barack Obama Death Cult excites news media with its ways to off The President. But if they can’t have him, the BODC will have another. Today. it’s Ray Nagin in the firing line:
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin – in Sydney after being released from quarantine – tonight told guests at a United States Studies Centre dinner that he feared he would be assassinated by the Secret Service for speaking out against George W. Bush.
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Posted: 13th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Indiana Moves To Ban Smoking Lettuce
INDIANA Congressman Steve Buyer says smoking lettuce is just like smoking cigarettes or cigars or broccoli or…
An idiot, right? Iceberg is a gateway drug:
When cut, the stems of lettuce plants ooze a milky juice whose appearance, taste, and smell are said to be similar to opium. Once dried, the substance is called lactucarium, or lettuce opium. Used by the ancient Egyptians, the stuff was listed in the Pharmacopeia of the United States of America as late as 1916. It can still be found in herbals and such, which describe it as a sedative and cough suppressant. Lettuce opium can be found in all lettuce species but is most commonly extracted from wild lettuce, Lactuca virosa.
Elsewhere in Indiana:
Hoosier smokers may notice their cigarettes burning a bit differently next month.
That’s because starting July 1, a new law will require that all cigarettes sold in Indiana be “fire safe.”
Unlike traditional cigarettes, the new fire-safe smokes will burn out more quickly when left unattended and are designed to cut down on the number of smoking-related fires.
“The cigarettes are made from the same blend of tobacco as regular cigarettes,” said Indiana State Fire Marshal Jim Greeson. “The only difference to the consumer is they need to puff it more often or relight it.”
Indeed. You need to inhale more, and pull harder, to get your safety fag glowing.
Jess Brewer of Lafayette recently traveled to Kentucky, where the new law was implemented in April 2008. She said her first encounter with the fire-safe smokes was not good.
“Since coming back from Kentucky about a week ago, I’ve been coughing constantly and having chest pains because you have to inhale harder on the new cigarettes,” she said. The new design forces a smoker to inhale to get the flame through two strips of paper incorporated into the cigarette. If left unattended, the cigarette will go out.
“I’m totally against the change,” Brewer said. “What’s the point of making safer cigarettes if they lead to negative health effects?”
Best to stick with the salad…
Posted: 13th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Mirhossein Mousavi And Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Both Get 60 Per Cent Of Vote
IRAN is such a beacon of democracy that everyone wins.
Sadegh Kharazi, a senior supporter of former Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi, told Reuters that surveys made by reformers showed that Mousavi was getting about 58-60 percent of the votes.
But Ahmadinejad’s representative at a supervisory body, Ali Asghar Zarei, said the incumbent was ahead with about the same level of support, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported.
Fix!
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Posted: 12th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Gordon Brown Slashes Military Spending
GORDON Brown and those rats leaving the sinking ships – and those rats oddly staying on the sinking ship – are behaving like a drunken sailor. Or a pirate.
If only:
Drunken sailors generally spend cash that they’ve already earned themselves, rather than running up debt to be paid by others. If our politicians started spending like drunken sailors, it would in fact represent a dramatic improvement.
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Posted: 12th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Australia Unveils Its Carbon Cops
THE climate cops are massing. Klimate Kops are grassing up mum and dad – literally. Und now zer Klimate Kapos are in Australia. Carbon Breather! Raus!
FRONTLINE police will be forced to become “carbon cops” under the Government’s blueprint to cut greenhouse emissions.
The Herald Sun can reveal Australian Federal Police agents will have to prosecute a new range of climate offences… Ms Wong’s office said AFP agents would be expected to enter premises and request paperwork to monitor firms’ emissions reductions.
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Posted: 12th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Holocaust Museum Killer Von Brunn ‘Raised Funds’ For BNP
HOLOCAUST museum shootist James W. von Brunn is linked to the BNP in a Washington Post article.
Read the case against him here.
Todd Blodgett, a former Reagan White House aide who later worked with several extremist groups, met regularly with von Brunn in the 1990s and early 2000s.
“Von Brunn is obsessed with Jewish people,” Blodgett said. “He had equal contempt for both Jews and blacks, but if he had to pick one group to wipe out, he’d always say it would be Jews.”
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Posted: 11th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (49)
Obama And Brown’s Gentry Liberalism
Gentry Liberalism
Here is a highly thought-provoking article in Forbes magazine about the phenomenon it refers to as “gentry liberalism” – a term designed to capture the mindset of the sort of person who has voted for New Labour in the UK and Mr Obama’s Democrats in the US. It is, of course, such a shame that the word liberalism has been bent out of shape to mean something rather different, but the underlying logic of the article is hard to contest.
Of course, Mr Obama has a while yet in power, but if I were one of his campaign managers, I’d look at the massacre of left-of-centre parties in Europe with a certain amount of forboding. He’s not invincible, not at all – Samizdata
Yvette Cooper Und Eva Braun
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Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Bid For Peter Viggers’ Duck House Second Home
TORY MP for Gosport Sir Peter Viggers, 71, is selling his duck house for charity. Mr Viggers will from now on put his guests up in a caravan or ‘otel.
This is the duck house he paid for, after a request for us to pay for it failed -Vickers claimed £1,645 on expenses for the5 ft Stockholm duck house. Now you can own it.
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Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (4)
Those Sasha Obama Rape Gags in Full
WITH too few jokes about The One, David Letterman makes a funny-funny-funny joke about raping Sarah Palin’s 14-yer-old daughter, Willow Palin.
Jim Treacher hold on to his sides:
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Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Fascist BNP And Anti-Fascists Fascists
THE BNP are an odious bunch. But they were voted in. And now their monocular leader Nick Griffin has been hit by an egg – a good egg hitting the bad egg, puns the Sun.
But what of the egg chuckers? Listen to them speak and then wonder if their garbled argument is as fascistic as the fascists:
Donna Guthrie from Unite Against Facism has spoken to the BBC:
And this from Martin Smith:
The bad egg good egg:
Posted: 10th, June 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (7)
BNP Does The Apprentice
MATT Buck looks at the BNP and the elections:
“Only idiots could fail to see the symbolic importance of Britain returning its first fascist members to the European parliament after yesterday’s elections.
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Posted: 9th, June 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (4)
The Respect Party Curls Up Its Toes
THE Annual Accounts of the Respect party makes for an interesting read. Fringe political parties – like UKIP, Greens, Veritas, the BNP and Labour – come and go:
Following the split in Respect in 2007 and the contestation of ownership of the party for most of 2008 the party suffered a large loss in both membership and income.
This is reflected in the drop in annual income from £210,093 to £36,237.35 and expenditure from £202,608 to £40,1515.16 between year end 2007 and 2008. This fall in overall turnover reduced the national organisation to a shoestring operation that employed no full or part-time permanent staff in 2008. It also witnessed a fall in membership from 2,472 members in 2007 to just over 500 by end 2008.
Many Respect branches ceased functioning. By the end of 2008 it was possible to identify ten functioning branches with about a dozen smaller groups of Respect supporters that were in a position to create a Respect branch in 2009.
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The deficit of £3,913.81 recorded in the 2008 accounts is composed of income still to be received for publications by the national organisation and election expenses still to be recovered by the fundraising activities of local branches involved.
Spotter: Harry
Posted: 9th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
YouTube Kills Ahmadinejad’s Presidency
IT won’t be the Holocaust denial nor the jingoism that kills of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency of Iran. It will be the Iranian economy. And a video on YouTube.
In the clip, sent out e-mail and on CDs, Ahmadinejad tells a top cleric, Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli, that a “light” enveloped him during his address to the U.N. General Assembly and that the crowd stared without blinking during the entire speech.
“A member of the (Iranian) delegation told me, ‘I saw a light that surrounded you,'” Ahmadinejad said. “I sensed it myself too … I felt the atmosphere changed. All leaders in audience didn’t blink for 27, 28 minutes. I’m not exaggerating when I’m saying they didn’t blink. Everybody had been astonished … they had opened their eyes and ears to see what is the message from the Islamic Republic.”
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Posted: 8th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Barack Obama Is A Living God
ELAINE GANLEY and Jenny Barchfield are Associated Press writers watching President Barack Obama descend in mighty white light in the City of Light.
Obama and “wife Michelle and their two daughters touched lives in simple ways” during a private stay in the French capital… The French are confirmed fans of the Obamas… Michelle Obama…gets an A-plus for sartorial glamor, natural poise and sheer intelligence.”
But the common touch the first American couple represents, so antithetical to the traditional pomp and circumstance of French heads of state, sets them apart.
When dining out Saturday night at a no-star bistro, La Fontaine de Mars, the presidential party was served water, Coke and table wine to accompany foie gras, lamb and steak with shallots, and paid for meals “like any client,” said owner Jacques Boudon. “It’s just what they wanted.”
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Posted: 8th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Obama Gives Grassley The Twitter Finger
US Senator Chuck Grassley tweeted:
Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said ‘time to delivr on healthcare’ When you are a “hammer” u think evrything is NAIL I’m no NAIL
As Greg Sargent says:
One of these days Senators will figure out that tweets are, you know, public statements that are read by lots and lots of people, including reporters.
Give the nail a big hand (no, not the finger)…
Spotter: Balloon Juice
Posted: 8th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Exporting The BNP Nazis
THE BNP wins and its auf wiedersehen to their leader.
Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Griffin
If You Think We’re On The Run?
Mr Brown Goes Off To Town
On The Eight Twenty-One
But He Comes Home Each Evening
And He’s Ready With His Gun
Put the gun down, Gordon. Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 8th, June 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (4)
Wiping Away The Laughing BNP
RICHARD North looks past the bombast and the hype surrounding the BNP’s electoral gains and sees that the best way to sideline the BNP is to elect their leader Nick Griffin to a remote political outpost in a foreign field:
“THE British National Party achieved its most significant electoral breakthrough last night when it won two seats in the European Parliament.”
That is the view of the august London Times – a value judgement rather than a straight reporting of fact. What, after all, does “significant” mean?
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Posted: 8th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Labour MP Attacked By Roaring Cow In Park
FORMER Home Secretary David Blunkett “told how one of the cows ‘let out a roar’ on spotting eight-year-old Sadie.”
Sadie is Mr Blunkett’s guide dog. That’s Sadie now. “Neigh,” says Sadie. “Meooowwwww,” says Sadie. “Buck-buck-buck-buck-baaaaa.”
Mr Blunkett is walking in Derbyshire’s Peak District National Park on Saturday. That’s badger territory.
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Posted: 8th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (5)
Alan Sugar Says ‘Labour Offers No Route Out Of Recession’
SURRR Alan Sugar is soon to be Lord Alan Sugar – Lorrralan. Sugar is Brown’s big pointy finger, pointing the way ahead.
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Posted: 7th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Biased BBC Fails With ‘Lying’ Mandeleson
BRIAN Appleyard says it’s time to ditch the cosy politcal lobby that means the electorate can be lied to by a poltical leader and a BBC hack does nothing about it. Note: both are paid for by the taxpayer they are cheating:
Mandelson’s appearance on the Andrew Marr show this morning sustained me in my conviction that editors must now get together and agree to withdraw from the lobby system. Marr could not really lay a glove on Mandelson because he could not break the lobby and everyone at Brown’s press conference – Brown, the hacks – knew he was lying when he said he had not tried to get rid of Darling. In fact, he tried to make him go on Thursday night and Friday morning. The lobby, thanks to the years of New Labour spinning and bullying, is now a conspiracy against the electorate. Destroying it would go some way to purifying politics and political coverage. There are now no arguments for its continued survival.
The BBC will regrow its teeth once New Labour is kicked out at the next election and the Tories the Beeb doesn’t support get in…
Posted: 7th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
