Strangely Perfect

Bloody Sunday The Saville Report, probably the longest and certainly the most expensive enquiry in the UK ever, is now out.  The ramifications are continuing, despite the Prime Minister trying to draw a line under everything.  See Bloody Sunday report published History On that day in 1972, 13 folks were killed, and overall, in what [...]

Pleasant but Not Decisive Days in Evreux Full Gallery Here Evreux is an old cloth & dye town where the poor were much troubled in olden days and where the current mayor (unlike mayors of nearby towns),  refuses to boot out all the black people.  France is a strange place.  Some towns really are like [...]

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 [...]

Freedom and the Law In stark contrast to the US which still insists on draconian measures against people thought to be bad (the lowest of the low Rumsfeld called them), the UK has had a landmark ruling for common sense in a democratic, freedom-loving country. Nine Law Lords have unanimously ruled it was unfair for [...]

I’ve been thinking about the perilous mentality of the 52% of Americans who think torture is all fine and dandy.  And then I saw a neat little video piece on the BBC this morning which casts a few French people in the exact same spots in June 1944 and now.  It’s here: D-Day in France: [...]

News Items The only news item missing is that from a premiership football club at the wrong end of the league regarding the future employment status of it’s manager… There have been two news items in the UK today that must surely have everyone either rolling their eyes in the air, or laughing down their [...]

Pre-Script Comments are now closed on this posting as Google Treasure Chest is dead. However, the problem has not gone away – the menace continues. For further information, all chat on this and subsequent scams is now here: Google Revolution, Different Name, Same Scam! and here: More on Google Profits and Pacific Webworks/ Introduction This [...]

Chinese Censorship: As part of the BBCs “take” on the international views on the new, 44th President of the United States, their China correspondent Michael Bristow has reported that his inauguration speech was censored in China. Apparently, the English version on the Xinghua News site is okay, but the Chinese version for the locals has [...]

It’s here on Wikileaks! Text and xls spreadsheet – it’s all here. The Wikileaks site went a bit awry earlier today and then fell over completely (as of 20081119 20:31 GMT).  There sure are a lot of people who want to know lives round the corner!   ;-) It’s back up now (20081120 20:24) Wikileaks [...]

I hope everyone is fully aware by now about my opinions on anonymous commentary and spammers.  Er.. yes… they’re shit.  And what I do is fully explained in my site privacy policy, here. Anyway, my Russian friend left a little note, which I’ll leave, here, because in itself, it’s pretty innocuous.  However, visitors to my [...]

Protest over Pakistan share slump, – says the BBC article this morning.  Apparently the people in Pakistan have had enough of falling share prices so have smashed up the Stock Exchange so that no-one can do deals any more! This is of course bang in line with the means of the original spread of Islam [...]

The BBC have a little video piece today about a B17 Flying Fortress, The Liberty Belle, which is visiting the UK, today.  Within the piece is a link which I urge people to follow through to this page, http://www.libertyfoundation.org/history-photos.html Please watch all the pictures through in the slide-show.  Anyone with any trace of empathy for [...]

Gear mistake flattens sports car This was the heading in a recent news report.  Some woman managed to drive her car right on top of two others in a public car park! There are two apects, or thoughts, I have on this tale: I hope she has her licence removed and has to take a [...]

Discussion of Iggy Pop painting by Alistair Campbell. If contact can be made, I’d like Alistair to do the new covers for the forthcoming releases.