Rumsfeld's famous hand shake with Saddam provides the proof on tha
Saddam is Hanged for His Crimes, Who will Hang Bush/Blair for Theirs? - 0 views
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Ridiculous misinterpretation to back such a statement
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Saddam was originally a CIA man recruited to assassinate the previous Iraqi president Abdel-Karim Qassem
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First time I hear this one, also not substantiated with references, this article should be in the science-fiction section
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2849.htm Info on Saddam's relationship with the CIA
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his war of aggression against Iran
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From this I can safely say a Pro-Iran biased writer is the author
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Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980 - partly instigated from a border dispute between the 2 countries - Iran was supplying the Kurds with weapons in the border areas. http://www.brucekelly.com/saddam-hussein-iran.html Both countries deployed chem weapons http://www.fas.org/irp/gulf/cia/960702/72566_01.htm The US supported Iraq against Iran. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/irq8-m29.shtml
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From a Facebook commentor on the article: "In a secret 1981 memo summing up a trip to the Middle East, then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig wrote: "It was also interesting to confirm that President Carter gave the Iraqis a green light to launch the war against Iran through Prince Fahd" of Jordan." U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniev Brzezinski met with a Saddam Hussein in July 1980 in... Read More Amman, Jordan, to discuss joint efforts to oppose Iran."
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From a commentator on the article on Facebook: "In a secret 1981 memo summing up a trip to the Middle East, then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig wrote: "It was also interesting to confirm that President Carter gave the Iraqis a green light to launch the war against Iran through Prince Fahd" of Jordan." U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniev Brzezinski met with a Saddam Hussein in July 1980 in Amman, Jordan, to discuss joint efforts to oppose Iran."
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Why doesn't this diigo thingy remove my posts when I tell it too ... grrrrr
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Pelosi Now Remembers Harman Wiretap - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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when you are briefed on something, it isn’t your information to share with anybody else, whether they are briefing you on legal opinions or whether they are briefing you on actions they are taking, you have no ability to share that information with anyone else, so even if I wanted to share it with her I would not have had the liberty to share it,” Ms. Pelosi said.
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What is the point of a briefing if you are not allowed to use the information? Sounds like a "Yes, Minister" script.
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HomeBuy Direct - Housing - Communities and Local Government - 0 views
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they will be invited to choose one of the HomeBuy Direct properties brought forward by the developers.
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Why do the developers get to choose? Why can't all new homes below x value be eligible, as in Northern Ireland?
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Apparently Darling gave this scheme an extra 80 million pounds in today's budget.
140,000 Miles of African Roads Added to Open Street Map | Development Seed - 0 views
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It’s really important that data like GIS data is “open” and freely available to everyone, otherwise that economic (and digital) divide will never lessen.
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OSM is far from a mere hobby project
CUES Skybox: A Model for Credit Union Board Renewal |Ginny Brady |April 2009 - 0 views
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It usually takes some kind of crisis to get people to participate - CU Conservatorships, Mergers, Scandals? Believe it or not we have not had one comment from any of our members on the corporate controversies. We want a board and management that make the members secure and not have to think about their CUs viability and strength and yet we want involvement. How to get both is the challenge.
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A challenge - if a healthy democracy means healthy governance, how do we make the democracy healthy?
Naval Show to Feature Submarines From China - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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China Is Off to Get Millage Internationally
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Credit Unions Sleepy? Unexciting? Two Young Execs Beg to Differ - 0 views
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Davis said he’s seen credit unions as very open to new ideas. Although some may be stuck in the past, he cited online banking and bill pay as two specific examples where credit unions have led the way. Shell added that while credit unions may be somewhat conservative, considering the current economy and the troubles facing many banks, that conservatism has “probably been a really good thing.”
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Short profile of young marketing execs
You are being lied to about Pirates | w w w . P e t e r S a n t i l l i . c o m - 0 views
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The pirates showed “quite clearly - and subversively - that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal navy.” This is why they were popular, despite being unproductive thieves.
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Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the U.N. envoy to Somalia, tells me: “Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it.” Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories
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European ships have been looting Somalia’s seas of their greatest resource: seafood
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a column from the Independent - a fascinating alternative view of the Somali Pirates
YouTube - ricoism's Channel - 0 views
Leading article: Bad judgement - Leading Articles, Opinion - The Independent - 0 views
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When a good journalist needs to be robustly defended, it must not be afraid to do so.
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Reaction to Jeremy Bowen's censure
Bowen 'breached rules on impartiality' - April 16, 2009 - The Independent - 0 views
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The BBC said it had no intention of taking any disciplinary action against Bowen. Nonetheless, the findings were made by the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee – which includes such figures as Richard Tait, the former editor-in-chief of ITN, and David Liddiment, the former director of television at ITV – and will cause great concern within the BBC newsroom.
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"It was not necessary for equal space to be given to the other arguments, but ... the existence of alternative theses should have been more clearly signposted."
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some detail and context
People: Jeremy Bowen under fire over Israel reports | News | The First Pos | Apr 16 2009t - 0 views
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Greg Dyke, the BBC's former director general, who said it was wrong for the trust to spend months investigating individual reports by journalists that had been compiled under pressure and tight deadlines."The problem is that journalism is not an exact science,"
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Pressure of deadlines is not an excuse, but it does increase the burden of proof for intent. In addition, in a complex story like this, balance arises from the totality of coverage, and an individual report can only be approximately neutral. Should we not expect an experienced reporter like Bowen to provide some original interpretation of motives?
CentreRight: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? | Apr 15 2009 - 0 views
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Not wearing a bulky jacket, didn't vault the ticket barrier, didn't resist arrest, wasn't alerted by the shout of 'Armed police' which wasn't ever issued, in fact.
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Lance Corporal Mark Aspinall. Held down and beaten in a street in Wigan, he was then charged and convicted of assaulting the police, a conviction only over-turned on production of the video evidence
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The police, particularly in London, appear to have forgotten that they police only with our consent. They are not the armed wing of the state.
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Conservative blogger asks if there is a culture of violence in the Met.
London G20 Police outnumbered and attacked « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG - 0 views
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Inappropriate use of force brings with it trouble for the officer who transgresses, as it always did except for the fact that such things were rarely captured on cctv or mini videos - but if they ever show the footage of the anti-Vietnam war Grosvenor Square riot in 1968 you’ll see some stick happy police officer who, ultimately, got the sack
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Hardly something that should result in the local bobby from an English village being pilloried along with every other officer in the land.
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I’m-a-citizen-not-a-criminal says that those police who “just stood and watched their colleagues break the law are equally to blame”. The same goes for protesters.
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Nasty video of protester brutality
Replace Police With Spin Doctors « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG - 0 views
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testing an age old theory about what happens when you approach a 6ft riot cop and tell him to fuck off repeatedly?
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I blame Globalisation. Lets test this theory by choosing six other countries in the world, going over to each country one at a time, walking up to a riot cop and telling him to fuck off repeatedly. Compare injuries on return to UK. If you return to UK.
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Will this person now be arrested for verbally abusing a Police Officer? If not, why not?
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Other countries are worse. So? The rest of us would be jailed for assault if we hit someone with a stick in response to extreme provocation.
SOCIALIST UNITY » DEREK DRAPER - YESTERDAY'S MAN DAMAGES LABOUR | April 2009 - 0 views
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I actually do have some sympathy with Derek Draper’s argument that this was a private e-mail conversation, but the mistake Draper made was seeking to get down in the gutter and slug it out with the likes of Paul Staines.
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The electorate respects conviction politicians, and the labour movement project to build a secure and just, better world is a principled and enduring platform that needs to be restored to the heart of left and centre-left politics.
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Obscene, libellous smears are not the same as political tittle tattle.
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Sums things up. Sad really.
In place of smear | Ed Mayne | LabourList.org | April 2009 - 0 views
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But if he hadn't done it, someone else would have got there eventually. It's up to all of us now to stop this happening again. Some people tell me that blogging is the future of politics. If this is the case, I very much hope it gets more mature with its increasing importance.
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We can all agree that censorship is not the route to go down. Therefore all political parties and all press and media outlets have a responsibility to regulate themselves
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Mayne fears that blogs have dragged politics into the gutter and threaten democracy. I hope not, but I'll wait for more evidence.
Kimberley Strassel Says the British Conservative Party Is No Example for the GOP - WSJ.... - 0 views
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The next election will instead be a referendum on a worn-out Labour movement. If Conservatives win, it will be because the party has made itself less offensive to the electorate than those currently in charge.
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He instructed the party to do "social action" projects (say, helping renovate youth centers), to show it cared about ordinary Britons.
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Beyond this bold agreement with the status quo, the party has refused to articulate its own agenda, lest any part go down badly with voters.
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Thats how it looks to me right now as well. We shall have to see what the campaign brings.
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