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Labels: War

…and we give these people guns!?!

Labels: Odds and Sods

Donald Rumsfeld could still face war crimes charges. But probably won’t.
As the USA are not signed up to the International Criminal Court. Although Rumsfeld could be arrested on a visit to a country that has signed to it, I imagine that it is ever going to happen, what with who he knows and the grief for the arresting parties.

Anway, only two more years…

The Date: Friday 8th December 2006
The Time: 10pm-2am
The Place: ScuBar, Manchester
Who: Damon, Kev, & Mark
What: Breaks & Techno
How Much: £3

www.cloudedjudgement.co.uk

Labels: Music

Somehow, the news that Donald Rumsfeld has resigned completely passed me by yesterday.
Lenin has a posted a doodle with a rather good likness.

Rumsfelds’ successor, Robert Gates an ex-DictatorDirector Of Intelligence, probably won’t be much different in substance (oh, what a cynic), but we await to see how he delivers it.

The last quote from the NYT article linked above is nice:

Mr. Bush, meanwhile, was asked at his news conference how he could have been so hopeful of Republican victory in the face of polls predicting such serious losses. His answer seemed to reflect an irritation not with Republican candidates or strategists, but the public.

“I thought when it was all said and done, the American people would understand the importance of taxes and the importance of security,” the president said. “But the people have spoken, and now it’s time for us to move on.”

Labels: Bush, Politix, USA

Looks like the Israeli army only pulled out of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza so it wouldn’t hurt any of it’s own.
You see, the Israelis do care about (some) people in Gaza.

Labels: Israel, Palestine

The Democrats in the US mid-term elections have got their wish and gained enough seat to wrestle control of the House of Representatives from the Republicans, and could get the Senate too.
This will mean, in theory, that the President cannot just sweep in legislation.
It could even have a (positive) effect on the USs’ foreign policy.
But, the Democrats and the Republicans are hardly chalk and cheese so don’t expect too much.

Democrats swept Republicans from power in the House of Representatives and moved to the brink of capturing the Senate, where their final victory could be delayed by a possible recount in Virginia.

Democrats rolled up gains of about 30 seats in the House in Tuesday’s elections, riding to a huge victory on a wave of public discontent with the Iraq war, corruption and Republican President George W. Bush’s leadership.

In a setback to Bush and Republicans, Democrats picked up four of the six Senate seats they needed for a majority and led in races for the other two, in Montana and Virginia, threatening to take control of both chambers of Congress for the first time in 12 years.

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Labels: Politix, USA

Saddam’s gonna swing then.
Time for a poll:
Which other vicious gits should also be seen at the end of a rope for commiting the ultimate Crime of Aggression of invading a sovereign country?

Former South African president, P.W. Botha, has died at his home in Wilderness on the country’s southern coast. He was 90. VOA’s Delia Robertson has this profile on the man who introduced some reforms in apartheid South Africa, but who also established a shadowy parallel government that ruthlessly oppressed opposition, assassinated opponents and was involved in widespread state-sponsored violence.

Immediately after being elected Prime Minister of South Africa in 1978, P.W. Botha stood on the steps of parliament in Cape Town and promised the country a streamlined government that would administer openly, honestly and fairly.

When pushed from power by his cabinet colleagues in 1989 he had established himself as an executive president presiding over a bankrupt administration that spent 20 percent of the national budget on defense; and included nine so-called homelands for black South Africans operating at varying degrees of nominal independence.

Most importantly he had put in place the so-called State Security Council, a shadowy parallel government whose tentacles reached into every aspect and level of South African society. The Council, in which he had the final say, was drawn primarily from defense and intelligence structures and included some members of cabinet, but by-passed parliament altogether.

One isn’t supposed to speak ill of the dead.
Dunno why not, if someones a tosser when they’re alive, dying just makes them a dead tosser.

P.W. Botha. Unrepentant Racist.
Tosser.

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Labels: Dead Tossers