Strangely Perfect

Block ACTA and Stop ACTA! Truly, our freedoms are at stake.  While notionally an idea to prevent copyright theft, it’s real purpose opens the floodgates for any undemocratic organisation to walk over our freedoms (such as they are) for which our forefathers slugged their guts out.  Read this, then either; walk away (wondering in a [...]

Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, aged 23, of Ketchum, Idaho, is a member of the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, from Fort Richardson, Alaska.  He was captured in circumstances that aren’t clear and has appeared in a Taliban video (prev at http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-soldier20-2009jul20,0,4913063.story), seen world-wide. So far, it appears [...]

Recently Seen in Squid News  (see here) (the newspaper for beaked Humboldt squid everywhere) Reports are coming in that the size of American humans is increasing and Squid on holiday in the San Diego area are asked to stay alert from some of the more aggressive of the species that are known to camouflage themselves [...]

High Hopes Replaced by Low Expectations It’s the torture, see? UK In the UK, when Blair was first elected Prime Minister, the people in the country had such high hopes.  There were promises of an ‘end to sleaze’ and an ‘ethical foreign policy’. Since those heady few weeks in the UK; We’ve had years of [...]

British Torture and Denial of Human Rights On the day that some Serbian leaders were convicted and others released as free men following charges for war crimes, (see Kosovo trial clears Serbia leader ), a UK minister, John Hutton, has “apologised for previously incorrect answers to MPs” (I’d call that lying in a normal language), and [...]

Admiral Mark Fitzgerald told the BBC that  Somali pirates ‘hard to defeat’.  So even though NATO want to install missiles all over Europe to counter a mythical threat, and even though they have highly advanced RADAR, monitoring and communication systems, they still can’t manage to do what the Royal Navy did very effectively 200 years ago [...]

Guantanamo prosecutor steps down is the latest news from the Hippocratic Centre for Freedom, Justice and the American Way that is a corner of Cuba. (HCFJAW) In this episode, the military court has come to disagreements with itself over an Afghan man dragged round the world after being captured fighting for Afghanistan in Afghanistan. He [...]

Following on from the two bombers landing in Venezuela only 11 days ago (which I reported here when talking about the decreasing effectualness of Bush and USA power in the world), they will shortly be joined by a mean and capable looking ship called Peter the Great as well as a few others. They are [...]

As part of my (recent!) continuing mission to question all politically motivated acts based on scientific data, I’ve decided to check up whether the boffins are right or if Mayor Ray Nagin is pulling a fast one, or even if it’s a knee-jerk over-reaction following the public cock-up that was Katrina. New Orleans residents flee [...]

Or Does it Mean, Ignoring History? Key Links: US, Poland OK missile defense base, riling Moscow Russia condemns US missile deal I can agree with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, for her statement, “Missile defence, of course, is aimed at no one. It is in our defence that we do this.” And it sounds [...]

Like I said in a previous recent posting,  the next war will be fought OVER Europe. There’s another little domino being added to the stack that will one day, come falling down around our ears.  Typically, it’s US led.  They want to post “defence” missiles as far away from the “homeland” as they possibly can [...]

Guy Negre’s air-powered car could be a life, jobs and environmental saviour.