Picture from Iain Dale.
Update: It looks like a hat-tip is due to Kerron Cross for originally posting the pic.
Labels: Odds and Sods
October 18th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
Picture from Iain Dale.
Update: It looks like a hat-tip is due to Kerron Cross for originally posting the pic.
Labels: Odds and Sods
October 18th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
Picture from Iain Dale.
Update: It looks like a hat-tip is due to Kerron Cross for originally posting the pic.
Labels: Odds and Sods
October 17th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
The Foresight report on why we’re getting fatter:
I would argue that it isn’t our biology that is wrong, but the food chain that has been developed by capitalism, with intensive farming and processed factory foods that contain the cheapest ingredients and loads of additives.
Labels: Health
October 16th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
Don’t help Burma, help China.
How does the “Saffron Revolution” affect the China and the US?
First it’s a fact which few will argue that the present military dictatorship of the reclusive General Than Shwe is right up there when it comes to world-class tyrannies. It’s also a fact that Myanmar enjoys one of the world’s lowest general living standards. Partly as a result of the ill-conceived 100% to 500% price hikes in gasoline and other fuels in August, inflation, the nominal trigger for the mass protests led by saffron-robed Buddhist monks, is unofficially estimated to have risen by 35%. Ironically the demand to establish “market” energy prices came from the IMF and World Bank.
The UN estimates that the population of some 50 million inhabitants spend up to 70% of their monthly income on food alone. The recent fuel price hike makes matters unbearable for tens of millions.
Myanmar is also deeply involved in the world narcotics trade, ranking only behind Hamid Karzai’s Afghanistan as a source for heroin. As well, it is said to be Southeast Asia’s largest producer of methamphetamines.
This is all understandable powder to unleash a social explosion of protest against the regime.
It is also a fact that the Myanmar military junta is on the hit list of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Bush administration for its repressive ways. Has the Bush leopard suddenly changed his spots? Or is there a more opaque agenda behind Washington’s calls to impose severe economic and political sanctions on the regime?
October 12th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
After Congress labelled the genocide in Armenians in 1915-17, erm, genocide, Turkey has recalled it’s ambassador for ‘consultations’.
Can’t be doing with upsetting a T.W.A.T.* ally, now can we Georgie. After all, if 1.5 million is a genocide then…
*The War Against Terrorism
October 11th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
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“These terrorists chose to deliberately place innocent Iraqi women and children in danger by their actions and presence.”
Sounds like someones been employing the same PR advisers as Israel:
Fucking Arabs, all the same, it’s in their make-up, don’tcha know?
There’s better examples of the victim being blamed, but I’m drunk and can only just find the keyboard, never mind anything else.
Labels: Iraq, Israel
October 11th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
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Labels: Music
October 9th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
Craig Murray, sticks a middle finger up to Usmanov, and his lackey lawyers Schillings, by making his first post a repost of the article Usmanov took such exception too.
Labels: The t’internet