Omar Al-Bashir indicted

So now Ocampo has got what he wanted – the indictment of Omar Al-Bashir. Does Omar deserve it? I don’t think so and certainly many Northern Sudanese are up in arms against the whole sham.

Of course the Southerners are loving it; after all, anything to annoy the president causes them great joy – so imagine the glee when they heard about this. Plus, they have already managed to convince a number of rebels in Darfur to fight against Khartoum…this simply adds more to the whole air of uncertainty in the country. It appears that the SPLA and SPLM are getting far more than they could have dreamed of getting.

Yes there are problems in Sudan – Darfur itself is a catastrophe but it wasn’t Bashir’s making and certainly the reasons behind it are not what people around the world think. Other problems of economy and development are more pressing – particularly as once they are addressed Darfur can be solved.

I think from now on Bashir will be forced to have his holidays domestically; I’m not sure if he will risk flying out anywhere anymore.

And the bloody Arab League is a disgrace too.

If you mess up a bank – and one of the largest in the world – and then resign….you can look forward to a 16 million pound pension pot

the shredder

So this gentleman, who was known as fred the shred because of a legendary reputation of cost-cutting and clinical efficiency, turns out to have been the plum behind the near collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Mr Peston, economist extraordinaire and wry-smile of the year award holder said this about him. Mr Peston also give the low-down on the actual negotiations that happened before the pension was approved.

So now, as a tax-payer and one that almost totally owns the RBS – I am pretty cheesed off. But then again, with such a system in place, I don’t blame him for taking advantage of it. I guess many of us in such a situation and with such financial power at our fingertips would right away guarantee ourselves such a large sum of money – no questions asked.

Barack Obama lookin’ slick!

In tux, with his ever-stylish wife:)

I must say I really dig this guy – I hope he is able to do something great for America and the rest of the world

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You don’t mess with the Zohan…sorry the Mandelson!

As the chairman and chief executive of Starbucks, the international caffeine empire now knows…you don’t mess with Mr Mandelson.

This is a man who has been reviled and hated by almost 86% of the country (a totally made up figure just to appear slightly credible), resigned twice from Cabinet, managed to get on a boat with a sleazy oligarch and make Osborne look worse for wear and get off scott-free.

So when Mr Schulz talks disapprovingly of the UK economy in the presence of Mr Mandelson, the Mandelsonian inner PR cogs get whirring as the machine roars into overdrive.

Who the F***k is he? Mr Mandelson thundered, using expletives to get in with the great unwashed and attacking a Yankee to get in with the more nationalistic unwashed!

Something that has now endeared him slightly within the media and those who follow UK politics. For about 12 hours I would imagine.

Our economy is still going down the pan unfortunately and his cursing isn’t doing much about it.

Anyway, Mr Schulz apologised.

Home Office in paedophile cock-up

When will it ever end?!

A paedophile sex attacker recommended for deportation struck again after a Home Office bungle let him remain in Britain.

Somalian asylum seeker Sadiq Mohammed, 31, was yesterday convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl.

 

He was jailed for four years in 2000 after he sexually assaulted two women and a girl of 14.

A judge recommended Mohammed be deported after completing his sentence because he was a danger to women, and his presence was ‘detrimental to this country’.

And so what happens? He gets to stay here and surprisingly carries out another string of attacks. Is this government actively bringing people here like this man or what exactly?! Read more…

 

Lord Levy arrested – AGAIN!

Once again, the boys in blue bring a proud smile to my face as they chase tony’s cronies out of office and into jail! Lord Levy, Mr Blairs personal Middle East envoy (Dumb move! He is Jewish – hint: Middle Easterners don’t like Jews very much; apart from Israelis) has been arrested for the second time in connection with the cash for honours scandal.

Fantastic stuff. I would give anything to see Blair getting shackled off after him!

Halliburton Hillybilly – Dick Cheney. With Apologies to hillybillies everywhere!

Interesting poem I found on Evan Siegels site. Quite accurate I think!
Halliburton Hillbilly, Paul Henning with Jerry Politex

Come ‘n listen to my story ’bout a man named Dick
A neocon so wrong, he made our nation sick
Because one day, spouting lies very rude
He took us to Iraq to get their crude

Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea

The first thing you know, Dick’s friends are millionaires
But we said, “Dick, move those troops out of there”
Dick said, “Can’t stop me, they ain’t come’n back”
And he loaded up more troops and moved them to Iraq

Iraq, I said, dead bodies, civil war

Well, now it’s time to say goodbye to Dick and all his ilk
Better late than never, though the milk’s been spilt
But in ‘08 you’re invited back again to his locality
To have another helpin’ of his hospitality

Madness, that is: lies, theft, killing

Y’all come back now, hear?

Gay rights in adoption

Can’t say I agree with David Cameron on this one…He should have been more firm. I think he is convinced there are alot of gay people in the party! There might well be, but I think by and large, the Tories are rather conservative (duh!) and disagree with him.

What are these guys playing at? Two gay men adopting a child? “Hello! We are your new father and father! Well actually he can be the mother at times…naughty boy!” It’s disgusting.

“Cleric” marries woman with mental age of 7

and then gives her the boot as soon as he sorts his papers out.

This is a really disturbing story about a poor woman who is a mute and suffers from a host of things that basically give her a mental age of seven. She is actually 28 years old. Now the girls father is trying to sue the man. I reckon he should also be sued for allowing this arranged marriage to take place.

Pink Mist

I just saw this very gruesome and harrowing set of pictures on Sileas’ blog. Truly terrible and a reminder to all of us of the terrible nature of war, violence and injustice.

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Israeli forces – the worst and most unethical in the world.

What keeps Blair going???

Tony Blair is disliked by many in his party. Many people in the country can’t stand him. Many international figures pity his pandering to the whim of the great Yankeedoodle Bush. He is embroiled in a peerage scandal, he has undermined the institution of political accountability, he has appointed disgraced (and resigned) ministers time and time again, he has buggered up in Iraq, our troops are in a dire situation, his government hands out monstrously large contracts to failing companies (EDS, Capita and more), the education system has gone balls up, the Home Office is a third-rate workplace with incompetent fools messing up, the FCO is full of twits, there is a serious housing crisis that is getting worse by the day…BUT HE STILL DOESN”T WANT TO PISS OFF!

How deluded is this man? Does he really think that after all this time he can still offer something positive to this country? What can he do in the coming months that he couldn’t obviously do in the past two terms? I would rather Cameron losing and Brown becoming PM tomorrow if it meant that Bliar would be out of Downing Street.

What keeps him going?!

The noose draws tighter around Blairs neck!

Leaving incriminating documents around for the old bill to find, are we? Come on the MET!  Get him!

Full prisons

Cool cartoon by Matt

Saddam hangman T-Shirts

On sale now
Dignity after victory it seems, from the great bastion of freedom, democracy and human rights

The sound of sirens

The streets and pubs of Radford found fame in the Sixties in the Albert Finney film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Now the area’s drug gangs and drive-by shootings have turned Nottingham into one of Britain’s most notorious cities. Tim Adams meets the police, parents and footballers fighting to save a community under siege. Continue reading

A good article about the very depressing state of one of Britain’s cities. I can think of a few more that are just as bad. Well done Blair, you really are fighting crime.

Over two hundred laptops lost with sensitive information

What more? Why bother hunting terrorists down when bloody civil servants from the Home Office and Ministry of Defence have lost hundreds of laptops, many with sensitive information every year! The cost is ridiculous (over a million) to replace them AND the information could have got into anyone’s hands.

The MOD is meant to DEFEND our country not bloody lose sensitive information about the country! The Home Office should be let off lightly; this is the least of their worries. Their main concern should be finding ways to sleep at night after the shit they are getting this country into. I hope they all get burgled by illegal immigrants and then set upon by paedophiles who are roaming the streets of Britain. My god; if I was a criminal I actually would have so many things to do – I wouldn’t know where to start! Paedophilia – if I get caught, I’ll be unmonitored when let out. Murder/rape/theft – if I get caught, I won’t be put into prison. Illegal immigrant – I won’t get caught; I’ll get a job in the Home Office!

Maybe thats the strategy – give the criminals so many options they will be so confused which crime to commit they won’t commit any!

322 sex offenders gone missing. Please resign Dr Reid

I’m surprised he still has the gall to go into work everyday…or maybe he actually doesn’t go in and that’s why the Home Office is such a joke? He also wants judges to sentence less people to prison. Great stuff – for all the budding criminals out there; go and do your thing! Don’t worry about getting caught – whatever your sentence will be – it won’t be prison. Article

Casinos are being banned in Russia – and brought over here by Blair

Just as Russia prepares to ban Casinos and gambling for all the problems that they cause; Mr Blair wants to have supercasinos installed here in Britain.

Russia, a country that would arguably benefit more from Casinos than Britain is banning them. Britain which will suffer from Casinos, is, surprise surprise, bringing them over here by the bucketload.

Well done Blair. I hope you die a losing gambling addict.

Bushisms!

Bushisms are always a laugh…they prove that you don’t need to be terribly intelligent, clever or even smart to run the most powerful nation on earth. True democracy in action.

This one might explain why things turn out the way they do for Bush – I don’t think he thinks he is here on this planet.

“I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn’t here.” August, 2002

Ten years in, and still they can’t make the trains run on time

Great article by Boris Johnson.

Hamas; Terrorists or politicians?

EVENT

This promises to be an interesting debate; It’s an evening with the controversial Palestinian academic Dr Azzam Tamimi and it is held by the frontline club – a really funky journo-scholar retreat near Paddington. I just saw on their site that they even rent out a few bedrooms in the building!

Hoodie banned from entering store in York. Hoodie DOB: 2004

A two year old boy was banned from entering a store in york because of his hood. Hoodies are usually stupid loutish layabouts who cover their heads with a hood from what a friend of mine used to call a “rapist’s jumper” (because at one point it seemed most rapists would sport a GAP hooded sweater. They do this to look tough, mean and from the hood (pardon the pun). This species of Human also waddles rather than walk because of its gravity-challenging clothing which never falls off nor stays up but rather their trousers stay between their waists and their thighs. This allows for their underwear to be shown to the rest of their kind as a form of social competition.

The stupidity of it all!

How are we expected to live in London?

 

A flat (I don’t know why its called a flat exactly) the size of a professional snooker table is on sale for 170′000 pounds. So its basically almost two metres long and one and a half metres wide. Oh and as you might be aware, flats are leasehold so you aren’t really buying; you’re renting it for a really long time. Even though some leaseholds are for 100 years or even 999 years; leaseholds in Kensington and Chelsea, Mayfair and Knightsbridge are way less. Anyway there you go; London has become so expensive that a place where someone can barely lie down in is for 170′000 pounds. Article

Bigger fines for drivers who use their mobiles – More money stolen by the government

 

Everyone knows that it isn’t the best idea to hold a mobile whilst you’re driving…so the government has decided to add three points to the licence of anyone caught driving and talking, so to speak. Thats all very well. But WHY DOUBLE THE FINE?! From 30 to 60 pounds. Another set of high fines for the government coffers to fill up from. If it’s a serious offence, then surely the points are enough of a deterrent – If it is serious to lose someones life over or a few in the case of a serious crash…then why is the fine less than smoking in a non-designated area?!

More money for the government. More fines for us. I think they might as well fine us for going to work and paying taxes. BECAUSE I FEEL STUPID STAYING HERE AND PAYING SO MUCH TO GO TO WORK AND PAYING SO MANY TAXES THAT I SHOULD BE FINED!

Jade Goody is now suicidal

I am not sure what exactly she is wearing – but that’s irrelevant to this post. The contorted face of Jade Goody covers a soul so tormented by her own inadequacy it wishes to commit suicide. Not the greatest thing in the world at all, and certainly never something to wish upon other people – but can Jade Goody commit suicide? I don’t think she will know how to engineer her own death at all. Article