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.

Slumdog Millionaire actor gets beaten up – by his father

And so the improbable but inspiring story of Slumdog Millionaire gets shot to pieces as the father of the little lad who acts in it (and is from a slum himself) gets beaten by his father as he returned home from the Oscars ceremony.

A bleak reminder of how bad things are for young kids and especially how bad things are in India, where a ruthless caste system exists that cements child abuse, abuse of women and of the poor into the society there.

My apologies about the source of course, but more on the slums of India and the caste system can be found here and here.

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.

Forced marriages…and forced not to marry

This will be a really quick one and I’m going to write a few more posts about this over the next week or two as it is something very close to my heart and really something that I wish could simply dissapear.
Whilst a lot of emphasis is always put on forced marriages and how they ruin peoples lives, not much emphasis is put on people who are forced to be away from those they love and those they would like to marry or be with.
It is actually almost as bad to be honest. So many young men and women are forced to steer clear of the person they love and threatened with so many different things if they dare to disobey. As a result they end up living pretty miserable lives.
I’ll elaborate more once I catch up with my ever-increasing pile of work!

Blair questioned for the second time.

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I wonder what the policeman said..?!

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.

Stupid teacher photocopied child’s face

Now if this was my child I would bash the teacher very, very hard. And then photocopy their face with their eyes open. Silly fool. Article

Shilpa Shetty – most annoying BB winner?

Bookies have placed Ms Shetty as odds-on favourite to win in the BB circus.

I think if she does, she will surely be the most annoying. She was hard-done by, and went through alot of grief. But man, is she annoying or what?!

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

Lovely London covered in snow

I love London in the winter. I like getting warm and walking around Oxford Street then turning into Regents Street and walking to Trafalgar Square. I like going upto Westminster Bridge and then walking down the Thames. Its an amazing experience just walking past so many people with the ones you love and really enjoying the true feelings that this city evokes. Its a tough city, no doubt about that, but it has a warmth to it. I think winter more than any other time of the year really brings that out.

Unfortunately the city is also being run by an egoistic bastard.  Here is a link to a good article about snowy London.

Shilpa Shetty is an annoying bitch.

I actually used to think Shilpa was ok. I mean she still is; in a wierd way. She isn’t stupid, she doesn’t come up with stupid questions, she doesn’t bark out but she is goddamn annoying. She has to be the most annoying person I have ever seen on television. I just saw a half hour sesion where she tried to become a leader in a task which really didn’t work at all and all she ended up doing was shouting in a squeeky voice and imposing her opinions on everyone else. Kind of like what an annoying pretentious empty headed rich kid would do!
Now as for Dirk? I like him! I also like his taste in cigars…

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

Great article by Boris Johnson.