08.23.07 - 08:53am
For a man who has spent his entire presidency asserting that black is white and up is down while everything around him turns to disaster, no misrepresentation or twisting of the facts is a fabrication too far. And yesterday, George W Bush finally went for broke. After spending years denying, avoiding and scoffing at any comparison between Iraq and Vietnam, he stood up in front of American war veterans, with that smirk on his face, and fully embraced it.
08.21.07 - 07:10pm
Among the more sordid episodes in the report is Johnson’s agreeing to supply friend and convicted fraudster Darius Guppy with a journalist’s address, knowing that Guppy was planning to have the journalist beaten up, with “a couple of black eyes and a… cracked rib”.
08.21.07 - 09:23am
Newspaper reports, and to a lesser extent the television news, breathlessly parroted the police line that the camp had been “infiltrated by troublemakers” and was being taken over by monstrous “anarchists”, who cared little for the stated cause but were simply out for a fight with the police. All of it was nonsense.
08.19.07 - 01:02pm
Our economic system routinely rewards those who contribute relatively little to the public good while those who do exactly that are expected to make do with a pittance and a warm glow
Nurses in England will decide by the middle of September whether to take industrial action over the government’s final below inflation pay offer, […]
08.16.07 - 11:07am
Further to the revelation that AT&T censored anti-Bush lyrics in its webcast of last week’s Pearl Jam concert and the communications giants attempts to paint it as an isolated mistake by a junior staff member, news reaches me that a crew member involved has revealed he had previously been explicitly ordered to censor anything “political”.
08.16.07 - 08:59am
According to a story in today’s press the Ministry of Defence has given 38 security passes to representatives of BAE, allowing the arms company’s employees to come and go as they please at the ministry’s Whitehall HQ. Apparently, one of the passes is held by the controversial company’s chief lobbyist, Julian Scopes. A total of 96 passes have been issued to representatives of various arms companies, including Qinetiq and Lockheed Martin.
08.13.07 - 12:25pm
Taken from TomPaine.com, which I believe got it from a joke e-mail:
President George W. Bush was scheduled to visit the Episcopal Church outside Washington as part of his campaign to restore his poll standings.
Bush’s campaign manager made a visit to the Bishop, and said to him: “We’ve been getting a lot of bad publicity because […]
