labour's chief propagandist, little ally campbell, says that al-jazeera's reporting is full of lies.



if that dishonest cunt says al-jazeera's lying, then al-jazeera MUST be telling the truth, since little ally believes that "truth" and "lies" have opposite meanings to those accepted by all others, except our tony, of course.

why has nobody else noticed this until now: even if he wins the war, blair has been humiliated?



thought i was all alone in the world in realising that blair's fucked himself.

not posted since 25th, been on hols.

we bomb, they suffer

we, the taxpayers, are going to bail out the m.p.s' pension fund to the tune of twenty million quid.



are these the same m.p.s who've said to the rest of us that it's just tough shit that our pensions are worthless and that there's nothing they can do to help us?



fuck, i hate these greedy, money-grubbing, dishonest, pimping bastards.

an open letter to nicholas bourne, a.m.



Childish comments about anti-war campaigners



Mr Bourne,



I find you comments on anti-war campaigners, as reported on icWales today, childish but, in a way you probably didn't expect, also reassuring that my views are correct.



I am, as you've probably guessed, anti-war. Not just anti- Iraqi-war but anti- all-war.



I do not believe that there are any circumstances under which any country's armed forces have the right to invade another country. To say that I should support "our boys" now that they're there is a nonsense. I don't believe that should have been deployed, so why should I support them?



As individuals I hope that they all return home safe, sooner rather than later, but as a force I think they shouldn't be there and shouldn't be supported. Stop trying to use people's natural concern for other humans in times of adversity to try to make some of us sound as if we don't care. We do, but on an individual level, not as an army, air force or navy.



I also do not believe that there is anything which cannot be resolved by peaceful means. Margaret Thatcher and her corporate whores always claimed that reform in S Africa could not be brought about by sanctions. What happened there? Reform happened because of the sanctions.



Sanctions could also have brought Saddam Hussein down, or at least helped to achieve this. But instead of doing what was done with S Africa, making life difficult for the regime, the sanctions which have been applied to Iraq have only hurt the innocents - the men, women and, especially, children who deserve a better life and NOT to be starved and deprived of essential medicines. But that's what you and your capitalist lackeys have given them.



Instead of waging war on those poor starving, diseased people, you should have been arming and organising them so that they could rise up against Saddam themselves. An imposed "democracy" will be useless.



The "democracy" in Afghanistan has meant the imposition of an oil company executive as president whose only job is to ensure that the oil pipelines get built. The country is in as bad or worse a state than it was when the Taliban were in control. Women are raped and murdered in equal numbers to the appalling way they were treated by the Taliban. Heroin production, the cessation of which was the only useful thing the Taliban ever did, is in full swing again. People are fearful, hungry and ignored by the very governments who promised to "liberate" them.



If supporting "our boys" means that I have to think it's OK to treat the Iraqis in the way the Afghans have been treated, if failure to support them makes me unpatriotic, then I'm not a patriot and I'm proud of it.



Why am I reassured? Well, if capitalists tell me something's right, I know it's wrong for most non-capitalists. You're a tool of the corporations so, if you say I'm wrong, I know I'm right.



A J Berrow

yellowtimes.org has been suspended again.



supression of the views expressed by the site's contributors does not stop people thinking those things, so the little fascists who've pulled the plug (again) are achieving nothing apart from convincing more people that the contributors' views are reasonable and correct.



if it's been suspended for again showing images of the casualties of the iraqi war: those casulaties are real. no amount of supression of the images changes that. we have a right to see what's being done in our name so that we can decide whether the spineless little shits who started this whole thing deserve to hold on to power or not when the elections next come 'round.

where do yellowtimes.org and smirkingshimp.com find their excellent contributors?



another article at yellowtimes.org by the brilliant john chuckman, something monstrous this way comes.

blair condemns t.v. footage of captured u.s. soldiers and hoon attacks 'sick' treatment of p.o.w.s.



i don't remember either of these little cunts condemning the u.s. for publishing film of the afghan prisoners at guantanamo bay. nor do i recall them condemning the u.s. for holding those men in the atrocious conditions they are. nor do i recall them condemning the u.s. for refusing to give those guys prisoner of war status. nor do i recall them condemning the u.s. for holding those men without charge, without trial and without habeus corpus but threatening to try them by 'military tribunal' with the possible use of capital punishment.



capital punishment. for what? daring to raise their hands against some little american corporate slaves and land-thieves (a.k.a. soldiers)? fuck off.



blair and hoon - bastards, the pair of them.



all the americans who mistreat the guantanamo bay prisoners or support or supported their imprisonment - bastards.

two excellent postings at harpers.org:



the road to babylon



cool war

just discovered the wacky iraqi.



read it.

i have little to say about the bush/blair axis of evil's imperialist adventure in iraq except that they both deserve to die ugly and painful deaths for the appalling injuries to and deaths of iraqi civilians for which they are responsible.



cunts.

how did this appalling little shit richard perle ever get any influence in u.s. politics? every word he writes in his article in the guardian about how pleased he is that the u.n. is damaged, reeks of an extreme right-wing position where might is right and the weak get trampled under the jackboots of unthinking, uncompassionate, programmed soldiers.



why do the american people continue to allow intolerant fascists like this set their political aganda?



perle is a psychopath. like all psychopaths he only wants, he cannot give anything except pain and he has no conscience. he will help foment the conditions that will create world war three. his view of control over military might coincides exactly with that of another well-known fascist who started the second world war and used the same language to justify his illegal actions.



may the gods protect us from this man. may they take him from us prematurely so that the rest of the planet may be more at ease.

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since i'm in work, you can tell that i cravenly caved-in to my bullying manager - i need the money - but i'm looking hard for a new job and trying to discover what i can do about him under employment law.

my manager has made it abundantly clear that strike action as a protest against blair's illegal invasion of iraq will not be viewed with equanimity. if fact, i was told that a pretty dim view would be taken of it.



since my employer's management think that the stifling of political action is ok, i think that i want to work somewhere else.



will i strike anyway?



don't know.



my principles say "fuck 'em".



my need to have money in my bank account says "comply".



wait and see what i write tomorrow.

to paraphrase the incisive ted rall in his article don't support our troops:



members of our armed forces don't deserve insults, but their role in this war doesn't merit support. cheering them as they leave and holding parades when they return would certainly be misinterpreted by citizens of other countries as popular support for an inglorious enterprise--and it would make it easier for blair to send them off again, to iran or libya or wherever. let's keep our flags under wraps.

mike duncan's lies, damned lies, and ultimatums at smirkingchimp.com makes very interesting reading.



in fact, why don't you read all of smirkingchimp.com and yellowtimes.org, especially ted rall's the moron majority?

just read mr bush's war at smirkingchimp.com.



p.m. carpenter, your vision is very clear. i wish all the spineless politicans could see this, too.

nicholas von hoffman has a very good article at smirkingchimp.com: a faith-based war that promises disorder.



when so many commentators like von hoffman can see what bush and his fellow murderers are up to, why can't our pathetic m.p.s?



but then, m.p.s are politicians and, therefore, only interested in what's in it for them. following the lead of the totally unprincipled blair and his equally spineless cabinet will give them no problems. they may just, if they're really good boys and girls, get that nice new job with that nice new office with that nice new secretary and that nice new plaque on the door that their totally inadequate set of needs makes them require.



pathetic, indeed.

article by timothy bancroft-hinchey at pravda.ru: bush the bully and tory blair.

i'm now at more risk of a terrorist attack than at any time in my life.



thanks, tony.



your absolutely unprincipled waging of an illegal war against iraq has now made me a sitting duck.



clever fucker, ain't ya?



even if, as your cheap propaganda is trying to suggest, the iraqi army desert in droves in order to avoid immolation, the muslim world now hates the u.k. and the many terrorist who use islam as an excuse for their actions will now be turning their guns and bombs on me and my kids.



the fact that i did not, do not and will not support this war doesn't stop me or my kids being a target.



blair, apart from anything else, you're just plain fucking incompetent: you're supposed to keep us safe; you've failed, so resign, you cunt.

if bajanman can see that the u.s has become a nation of the living dead, why can't the u.k.'s spineless m.p.s see it and stop acting like the u.s. has some legitimate reason to cold-bloodedly kill innocent iraqis?



to all those m.p.s who voted against tony blair yesterday: you are obviously principled, honest people whose concern is the plight of the innocents who will die or be maimed in this war. you are heroes.



to all those m.p.s who voted for tony blair yesterday: you are obviously unprincipled, dishonest people whose concern is only whether you attain or maintain high office through party patronage. you are cunts.

blair (cunt) has tried to justify his wholly illegal and immoral attack on iraq to the house of commons.



smith (cunt) supports him.



it saddens me that our elected representatives will allow the user of such mendacity to sway their wills in favour of this appalling act of agression against innocent iraqi civilians - for it is they who will die on their thousands at the hands of this most bloody of politicians. blair (cunt) likes to be compared to churchill, so they say. well churchill was a bloody murderer too - remember the welsh miners he had shot just for going on strike? - or do acts of horrendous violence make no difference to our politicians any more?



the story of the disgusting hain (cunt) bartering all principles, supporting the war in order to gain some small political advantage yesterday, was utterly sickening.



all politicians who vote for this revolting action should be deliberately voted against at the next general election.



let's get the murderers out of parliament.

when exactly will our saviour george do something about creating a palestinian state and throwing the little israeli bastards out of it, then?



three articles from just one day's guardian (today's) shows what the racist bastards are up to:



enclosing the best palestinian agricultural land within a huge wall so that thieves can take it from the palestinians with impunity;



refusing to accept there will ever be a palestinian state;



killing ten more palestinians, including tiny children and teenagers, while destroying a refugee camp while in search of "terrorists". for "terrorists" read "any people who aren't compliant jews".



if that isn't enough to earn the miserable, racist, genocidal cunts a good hammering from georgie-porgie's troops, what is? do we have to wait until they've killed all the palestinians? or 'til they detonate a nuclear weapon in palestine? or will the only thing that'll make the american cunts do something about it be when oil is found in israel and george and his fellow greedy bastard oil barons decide that "regime change" is required so they can get their hands on it?

here's a good 'un. the bbc stopped the broadcast of a 'correspondent' film comparing iraq with israel in terms of their "weapons of mass destruction", as nuclear bombs are euphemistically called these days. it shows the abundance of evidence that the israel has these thnigs and shows the dearth of evidence that iraq has them. it instead ran the program late at night when no-one would watch it.



predictably, israel's apologists accuse the bbc of bias:



'neville nagler, the director general of the board of deputies of british jews, said: "i would suspect this film is one-sided and part of an agenda to liken israel with rogue states in the middle east."'



correction, neville, baby. israel is the rogue state in the middle east.



israel has nuclear weapons.

israel is presiding over genocide against the palestinian people.

israel openly murders american peace activists.

israel believes itself above international law.

israel thinks that its dumb religious beliefs make it special and not subject to the rules that should apply to all countries' dealings with their neighbours (this is not anti-jewish, ok: i think all religions are stupid).

clare short's apparently decided not to resign from the cabinet despite getting herself lots of helpful publicity by claiming that she would resign if blair took our country into a war without a second u.n. resolution.



all blair had to do was promise her a role in rebuilding iraq after he's destroyed it and everything's suddenly hunky-dory in clare's tiny world.



fucking hypocrite.

it appears that rachel corrie was killed deliberately.



funny how the u.s. gov has made no comment (that i can find) about, let alone a condemnation of, the israelis openly murdering an american citizen, but they can find millions of reasons to threaten millions of iraqis who've never hurt anyone.

i've said it before. i'll say it again: if anyone i love gets hurt by military action or by terrorists after this war's started, i'll take it out personally on blair and bush, should i live long enough to. they both deserve to die violently for their actions.

no number of weasel words will change it: bush and blair are about to start a completely illegal, completely unjustified, completely immoral attack on some of the most deprived people on the planet.



they care not a jot for the people they will kill and injure. they only think of their short-term political lives.



as one of the guardian's leader writers has it today, "rarely have a war's proponents been so blind, so wrong and in such a rush".



blair should be removed from office immediately with a no-confidence vote by his own mps. bush should be impeached and arrested in order to remove him from office.

peter lee has a superb article at smirkingchimp.com: is tony blair getting ready to sell out bush?



let's hope it works out like that - i don't fancy being the target of all the angry muslims that blair and bush will create with their unjust, illegal war.

privatisation of the n.h.s. by the back door has started.



the fucking government has undertaken to allow the public to buy shares in its new 'foundation' hospitals.



exactly when those shares will be bought by corporations, effectively privatising the n.h.s., is a matter of timing rather than of possibility.



these cunts need sacking now.

blair's crap about respecting the u.n. so that he can use it as a fig-leaf for his and georgie-porgie's attack on iraq has been shown to be complete lies.



he had no intention of using the u.n. unless it followed him and bush like some little fucking lap-dog. the cunt's now said he'll go ahead with an attack without u.n. approval.



there's democracy for you.



there's respect for the law for you.



if he behaved with such contempt for the law when he was a practitioner, it's no wonder he was advised to go into politics 'cos, while most lawyers see the law as a big game, at least they are trying to work within the rules.



blair has nothing but contempt for the rules, nothing but contempt for the law, nothing but contempt for the u.n., nothing but contempt for the british people who have made it clear that they don't want this war.



he's a cunt.



and an american lap-dog.

very funny but very scary: god speaks out on bush, richard procter.

'afghan prisoners beaten to death at u.s. military interrogation base'.



need i say more?

i never thought i'd have to admit this, but a daily mail writer and i agree on something.



the normally-barking andrew alexander has an article 'america kept the cold war boiling' in today's issue about how crap american foreign policy is and how it appears to have the sole purpose of fomenting trouble all around the world, how dumb america's executive are and how they seem to want conflict. dulles was accused by eden of 'wanting the third world war'. sound familiar?



a highly recommended read.



i would link to the article, but the appallingly bad daily mail web site seems to have no articles other than some news stories.

it seems that that most grubby of grubby newspapers, the sun, is determined to see ron davies, a.m. for caerphilly, sacked.



allegedly, ron visited an area which is apparently a 'notorious gay cruising haunt' and had sex with a man. the sun claims to have 'a photograph showing mr davies engaged in sexual activity with the other man'. ron says no indecency took place.



now, call me a prude if you want to, but isn't following people around and taking photographs of them when they're engaged in sexual activity just a little bit perverse? the sun's photographer, if there was indeed one present and some sex took place, must be a very deeply disturbed person if s/he gets her/his kicks from photographing other people having sex. i really think s/he should be in therapy.



do i give a damn if ron was engaged in sexual activity? do i, hell. people's sex lives, as long as consenting adults are the only people involved, are their own business.



it appears that the spine-free little shits who run the labour party are now intent on getting ron to resign (see link above).



they're trying to make ron resign because of his bi-sexuality and his alleged sexual activity in a public place.



now, these people are members of a political party which knows that one of its members, a cabinet minister, has paid to download images from a paedophile web site.



my opinion of those people - lower than the sun's grubby little photographers and reporters. their hypocrisy is utterly sickening.



the sun should be investigated by the p.c.c. and fined heavily for this invasion of privacy. the labour party in caerphilly should be held up to ridicule and disapprobation for their obvious homophobia and lack of moral courage.



i've not used any links to the sun's crappy little web site 'cos i wouldn't dignify their homophobia by linking to them.

bush, straw, powell and mandelson have all threatened the remainder of europe with dire consequences if france continues to oppose a new u.n. resolution on iraq.



mandelson said the u.s. ' would behave "like a sheriff and his posse" sorting out the world's problems if europe refuses to engage with washington'.



perhaps my understanding of the english language has slipped, but i thought that 'engage' in this context meant 'converse' or 'discuss' - i didn't think it meant 'crawl right up the arse of and behave like a lap-dog'. silly me, i should have known that some little power-crazed, money-grubbing fraudster of a politician would have a better grasp of the language than me.



and most of the world's real problems are created by the u.s. how will they sort them out? not in an honest way by saying 'we fucked you over. here's money and other aid to say we're sorry, and we promise never to interfere again', i'm sure.



straw 'referred to the u.n. and nato and said: "it would be very unacceptable if we were to place those institutions at risk"'.



i quite agree. but surely they're being put at risk by people who scream, whinge and have tantrums when those institutions will not roll over to be fucked up the arse by the u.s.



straw is a disgrace to the institution he represents in that he is now presenting to the u.n. the requirements of the u.s., not the interests of the u.k.



mandelson is a fraudster who has lied in parliament.



they should both be removed from and banned from ever holding public office again.

an update to yesterday's rant about israeli murders of palestinians.



some brutal little israeli cunts have crushed a pregnant woman to death.



it's time the world stopped listening to the israelis using the holocaust for sympathy (as cover for their attrocities) and paid attention to what the murderous bastards are doing to the palestinians.



the israeli experiment needs to be stopped now.



the israelis are out of control. they will not stay within their own borders. they will not respect their neighbours' right to a peaceful life. they will not stop butchering innocent palestinian men, women and children in huge numbers.



israel needs to be disbanded as a country and become part of a greater palestine. all the people not born there should be sent back to their birth countries. the people born there should be forced to fully integrate into palestinian life. they should not be forced to abandon their religion, even though their religion is what makes them believe they're allowed to behave in the disgusting way they do - after all, they're chosen, aren't they? if they don't want that, tough. imprison the bastards for life - but make sure they're treated better than the palestinians they've killed and mutilated so that they can't get a compliant media on their side again.

peace is inevitable.

fascism is raising its ugly head everywhere.



"at the infamous 2001 genoa g8 summit, the world was stunned when a young protestor was shot dead by police, but only recently did the rest of the ugly story emerge. in one especially vicious event, italian police raided a school being used as a temporary dormitory by international demonstrators and independent media. claiming two petrol bombs had been found in the school and that an occupant had tried to stab an officer, police charged into the school and proceeded to smash windows, computers and heads in a gruesome attack that injured 72 occupants, many seriously. bystanders kept outside the school during the prolonged raid reported hearing spine-chilling screams and then seeing the battered bodies carried out on stretchers.



what happened later is significant. of the 93 inside the school arrested by the police that night, all were later released without charge. then just last January, a full year and a half after the brutality, it emerged that the Italian police had in fact planted the petrol bombs at the school, and the officer who claimed to have been stabbed had in fact lied.



in other words, the italian police had fabricated evidence against dissenters in order to justify beating them to a pulp."



from heather wokusch, the dangers of dissent at smirkingchimp.com.



of course, italy's had more than a little practice at fascism, but i'd thought that would have gone away now, since it was finished over 60 years ago - i was wrong, obviously, and the disgusting berlusconi is picking up where mussollini left off.



cunt.

i've just been prompted to think about trickledown economics after reading this article at smirkingchimp.com.



the u.k had trickledown economics in the 1980s, when the country was run by the corporate pirate, margaret thatcher.



what happened was a prolonged boom-and-bust cycle in which millions of honest, hard-working people lost all their money, their homes and their possessions - oh, and margaret thatcher became much richer.



if bush thinks that's the way to run an economy, he's even more stupid than i thought; and i already thought him a complete moron..

very pleased to see that the turkish parliament has spiked the u.s.'s guns to some extent.

i see a country that really needs a regime change and u.n. sanctions applied against it and the u.s. to invade it and get rid of its muderous bastard leader.



it's run by a mass-murderer, it invades its neighbours with impunity, treats the people in the lands it has occupied with almost unimaginable brutality, it kills eleven civilians in two days including women and children and the u.n. will do nothing about it despite the fact that it is in material breach of multiple u.n. resolutions.



it's called israel.