Archive for the ‘USA’ tag
Change I Can Believe In?
Obama
Barack Obama is President elect of the USA. This is a truly historic moment and quite possibly, one of the most important results in my lifetime. I have avoided watching any analyses on TV or online. I want to get my own thoughts in order first.
A UK citizen living near London, I stayed up until 02:30 this morning watching the results come in. Shortly after Pennsylvania was called for Obama, a senior Republican strategist all but conceded. I figured it was all over and went to bed.
I have been a fan of Obama since I saw him on The Daily Show. He presented as a charismatic, young African-American, intending to run, not as black candidate, but as a candidate who happened to be black.
Popularity: 3% [?]
The Craig Murray Documents II
I have been looking through some USA reaction to the little storm we are having over theses documents.
For the anti-Bush brigade try Jesus’s General or a link from the Progressive Blog Alliance.
Interesting responses at Gateway Pundit: The Tashkent Papers and Ambassador Craig Murray and ‘THE NEW MOONBAT CRAZE IN BRITAIN‘ from Michelle Malkin. for the pro-Bush lobby.
Popularity: 2% [?]
Psyops in the Blogosphere?
Reading this in today’s Guardian about a Pentagon psychological warfare operation (psyops)
It was revealed yesterday, on the eve of elections in Iraq, that the Pentagon had set up a $300m (£170m) psychological warfare operation that involves placing pro-American messages in foreign media outlets across the world, including those of its allies, without disclosing the US government as the source.
This crystallised some thoughts I had been having about this comment in this blog, an extract below,
How many of you have to die before you wake up, I wonder? Do you need an Israel-like intifada with weekly explosions on your busses, in your coffee-shops and your theaters before the reality of your situation dawns upon you? Do you need children dead on your streets with no visible external wounds but who’s internal organs have been turned to liquid by the blast wave from some jihadi’s Allah-glorifying act of murder?
Popularity: 4% [?]
Arguments for the Defence
Today in Parliament, The Prime Minister made it clear
In respect of the allegations of so-called torture facilities or detention facilities across Europe, I really know nothing about them at all. I clearly know there aren’t any such here.
He also said
Torture cannot be justified in any set of circumstances at all.
Ok, so now we all know where the UK stands on that. So why did he feel it necessary to add
It is just as well to remember that some of the people we are talking about are people that we need to detain for reasons of action against international terrorism.
Some of these people are highly dangerous. Some of them can provide information that is of absolutely fundamental importance in preventing terrorism. There should, of course, be proper treatment of anyone detained.
Popularity: 2% [?]
