Media manipulation

hell awaits, america: "mass manipulation, blissful psychosis, and 7 easy ways to achieve damnation"

an american with guts?

it can't be!

but it fucking well is.

not just one, but three clips of this excellent man, keith olbermann, on the subject of the military commissions act and the vile propaganda put out by the republicans.

oct 17 2006

oct 18 2006

oct 23 2006

habeas corpus, r.i.p. - molly ivins.

what can one say?



a law which makes it legal to :

• imprison without trial;


• imprison without charge, even;


• torture;


• refuse the detainee the right to challenge his / her imprisonment.

the u.s.a. is now exactly like hitler's germany and stalin's u.s.s.r. - there is no control whatsoever over the executive branch. they can do as they please with anyone they please without charge, without evidence, without judicial review, without habeas corpus - without any control at all.



the u.s.a. has become a hell on earth.



i'll never visit the shit-hole again until these laws are repealed.



i will also never, ever, ever support a british politician who treats the americans as friends and who does not do everything in their power to remove the agreement between the u.s.a. and the u.k. which allows extradition to the u.s.a. of anyone who's charged with any crime over there, as those people could be imprisoned forever, tortured or killed without anyone knowing what's happened to them, 'cos there's no judicial control over their detention.

i.p.s. refuses to say what i.d. cards will be used for!

i.p.s. stands ground on i.d. cards - el reg.

"a call for more detail on how the card might be used is met by an assertion that, until the card is in widespread use, it will not be possible to say for which processes it will be used."

what?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????

these cunts want to spend billions and billions of public money and can't even say what they want these fucking cards to be used for!!!!!!

what kind of fuckwits are they - and do they take us for?

israel's cluster bombing of lebanon

jan egeland, u.n.'s undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs : "what's shocking and, i would say, to me, completely immoral, is that 90% of the cluster-bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution, when we really knew there would be an end of this."

so israel deliberately dropped hundreds of thousands of cluster bombs on lebanon - munitions which are known to remain lethal for years after they're dropped because the fucking things don't always explode on release and lay dormant until someone touches them - when they knew the conflict was about to stop.

what kind of vicious, unfeeling, inhuman piece of crap would make that kind of decision?

an israeli prime minister - that's what kind of vicious, unfeeling, inhuman piece of crap would make that kind of decision.

it's time the rest of the world stopped pussy-footing around these genocidal bastards and told them exactly where the line in the sand is, how far they've stepped over it and exactly what kind of reparations they have to make and exactly what kind of other sanctions will be applied to the murdering cunts.

the zionist bastards running israel and the zionist bastards who keep re-electing them need to be made aware that there are consequences to their attacks on lebanon, their genocide in palestine and their complete disregard for international law.

but, as we know, nothing will happen because the u.n. is just a puppet of israel's patron, the fucking u.s. of a. - another bunch of genocidal bastards with a fascist government.

an atheist manifesto

i've intended to post this link for a long time and been too busy / preoccupied to do so for many reasons.



so here it is : an atheist manifesto - sam harris.



it seems appropriate to post it now, given all the nonsense about religionists wanting special treatment - money for faith schools etc.

wearing religious symbols in public

in case anyone misinterprets the reason i posted my last thing - i don't intend to have a go at anyone about wearing religious symbols in public.



people can wear what the fuck they please; they just shouldn't expect me to show them special 'respect' or, indeed, even acknowledge the fact that they're wearing them, 'cos as far as i'm concerned, showing you're a religionist marks you out as an idiot, deserving the 'special' treatment that schools reserve for 'under-achieving' children - remedial education to disabuse you of your silly ideas.



several commentators seem to be having a go as muslims, in particular, for wearing religious symbols in public. but what strikes me as odd is that they're particularly having a go as some muslim women for wearing veils of different types.



this is really sexist.



do these same people have a go at the near 100% of male office workers who wear that stupidest of items - the tie?



where the fuck did such a stupid item of clothing originate?



it looks to me like a willy extension - 'look at me, my cock reaches all the way up to my throat - and it's covered in flowers!!!!'



how fucking stupid.



you may guess from this that i refuse to wear ties. i have a huge collection of them, given me by many people, but i won't wear the cunting things except when i wish to appear particularly dumb, wearing a vilely coloured one along with that other sign of human male idiocy - the 'business suit'.

fucking irritating mosquito

"the mosquito gadget ... emits an irritating high-pitched sound that only young people can hear", it says here.



bollocks.



i'm in my 40s and i can hear the bastard things.



whenever pass a building which is using one of these, i complain to the h.s.e. because i reckon it could damage my excellent hearing.



all these anti-young-people things really get on my tits.



since when was it ok to treat people like shit just 'cos they're young?



all the miserable bastards who want to use these things were young once and would have complained about the way they were treated and now, in the way of stupid people everywhere, they get their revenge by doling out the same treatment to some other poor sod.



cunts.