BBC should broadcast Gaza appeal

The BBC should broadcast the Gaza appeal. Their claimed reasons for not doing so are unconvincing. Many people seem to suspect that the real reasons are fear of the Israeli lobby and Zionists within their own ranks.

 

Use Israel’s US aid to restore Gaza

Why not divert the money the US gives to Israel to repairing the damage Israel did in Gaza?   Make the criminals pay for their crimes.

 

Israeli lies about white phosphorus

I listened to a BBC interviewer ask an Israeli Government spokesman if Israel was using white phosphorus shells in Gaza. The lying bastard said they were not. But they were. Read this.

What gets me about the way the Israeli spokespersons lie is that they do it with such bare faced effrontery. They just don’t care whether they are believed or not. They just don’t care what the rest of the world think about their lies.

They know that AIPAC etc controls the US Government policy on the Middle East and as long as Big Bully backs them they can say and do whatever they like. That needs to be changed. America is never going to change their image in the world or improve relations in the Middle East until they distance themselves from this nation of murderous thugs.

 

Is it time to designate AIPAC as a terrorist support group?

Is it time for the American Government to designate the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and other  lobby groups of that ilk,  as  organisations which support overseas terrorist activity?  AIPAC is clearly providing support for the  the Israeli government and their activities in Gaza are clearly terrorist in nature.

If AIPAC was so designated it would cut off their funding and halt their ability to interfere in  American’s domestic politics.

America needs to stop AIPAC etc. meddling in US politics. The results of the meddling are clearly not in Americas best interests.

 

A Presidential Medal for Tony Blair

A Presidential Medal for Tony Blair – TIME

So Tony has won Bush’s medal for arse licking. Congratulations Tony, you deserve it.

I wonder if he will have to kneel to receive his medal. He should be familiar with the position.

 

Israeli agent provocateurs attack British police to disrupt demonstration

Agent provocatuers  disrupted a demonstration  against Israeli war crimes in Gaza by attacking British police guarding the Israeli Embassy. As was intended media attention focussed on the violence rather than the demonstration.

The BBC did its usual job of ass kissing on anything connected with Israel. Since it got kicked by the government it has made sure it toes the party line on anything important [and you cannot get anything more important than sustaining the Labour Party's Zionist funding].

 

Israel’s attack on Gaza “a war crime”

A group of academics and lawyers have a letter in The Times of London which condemns Israel’s attack on Gaza as a war crime.

 

Photographs of Israeli terrorism

Some photographs of Israeli terrorism.  If the US wants to clean up its image after the Bush years it needs to distance itself from this out of control state.

 

Israel murders hundreds more Palestinians

It will be interesting to see if the new US administration is as supportive of the Israeli terrorist state as Bush has been. Being associated with Israel is costing the US a lot. How long will they carry on paying?

Hamas has been firing rockets into Israel but the response is completely out of proportion.

If the US had followed the Israeli policy on retaliation they would have launched a massive nuclear attack on Saudi Arabia after 9/11. After all, almost all the 9/11 attackers were from Saudi Arabia and therefor the US would have been justified in devastating the entire country

 

US plans death squads for Afganistan

The New York Times reports that the US plans to introduce ‘local malitias’ to Afghanistan, following their success in Iraq.

“Local malitias’, what baloney. These are death squads. In Iraq one of their main functions has been to go out and murder people seen as insurgents.

These squads may be effective but the US is still paying people to carry out murders. That’s a disgrace and a crime. When the new administration takes office they need to take a close look at what has been happening.

To their great shame the main stream media has not paid more attention to the activities of these squads in Iraq. When these gangs started we  had a few video clips on the BBC showing people being dragged off and murdered. These clips soon stopped appearing and the BBC and the newspapers have been very quiet since.

 

British Telecom kills Phorm discussions

Techdirt reports that British Telecom has banned all discussion of Phorm on its forums and deleted all existing discussions.

“You may recall that BT was one of the bigger supporters of Phorm, the controversial clickstream tracking system that would allow ISPs like BT to insert their own behaviorally targeted ads into your web surfing. The company held extensive trials with the system, without letting users know that their clickstream data was being sold to advertisers in order to do more targeted advertising. Now that UK officials have decided that Phorm is legal, if clearly explained to consumers, BT has chosen a funny way to make sure there’s clarity around the system. Slashdot points out that BT has apparently banned discussion of Phorm on its forums and erased earlier forum discussions about the technology. How’s that for openness?

Is it really so hard to allow open discussion on such a topic? If BT believes that it’s reasonable to use the technology, then why not explain why clearly, responding to the critics? The only reason to erase these discussions is if BT knows that what’s it’s doing is highly questionable, and BT would rather not have to explain itself.”

BT has been heavily implicated in the Phorm scandal. It was one of the three ISPs first identified as colluding with Phorm.

At first glance this latest move just looks like crude censorship. If it is not I would be interested to read a justification from BT.

 

Apple running empty on innovation

Yet another Apple product event. Yet another Apple product event with nothing innovative to announce. The fanboys got themselves all hot with anticipation but Apple’s event today was even duller and emptier than the last one.

Apple had so little to announce that they spent half their time on describing a new method of making cases. Jesus, even Microsoft has not been reduced to that.

What next, will they have a juggler come on stage? How about a few tunes from the Apple Pipe Band.

Apple seems to have run out of steam and out of ideas.

Jobs was asked why they were not announcing an iTablet [a netbook sized device with a touch screen]. He could not see the need.

“That’s a nascent market that’s just getting started, and we’ll see how it goes,” Jobs said.

Poor Jobs  doesn’t he get it?  Dude, the cloud is the computer. The most important trend today is mobility. People want to be able to access the internet while they are on the move. They do not want to carry a heavy laptop and they want to have an easy to use interface.

Nascent market?  “Currently, nine out of the top 10 best-selling laptops on Amazon are netbooks. Over 2008, manufacturers shipped 10 million netbooks. And looking farther ahead, ABI Research forecasts that manufacturers will ship 200 million ultra-mobile devices, including netbooks by 2013 — which is about the same anticipated size as the entire laptop market worldwide.” Link

Actually, I think Jobs does get it and it scares him. What’s the future for a company selling expensive laptops when people  actually want £300 netbooks.  I also think the reason why Apple has not produced an iTablet is that Jobs is afraid that it would cannibalise laptop sales. An iTablet would have to be priced in the £400-500 range, no matter how cool its design. That is not good business from Apples POV if customers buy a cheap Apple iTablet instead of an expensive Apple laptop.

I have just bought an Asus PC1000. It weighs less than the Apple Air, it has a ten inch screen and it runs Linux. It cost under £300. It has a solid state memory and a long lasting battery. When I add a 3G modem stick I will be able to access the internet anywhere. It does not have a touch screen but Asus is planning a model that does.

I also have a large screen desktop and a laptop. When the desktop goes it will be replaced with something similar. When the 6 pound plus laptop goes it will not be replaced.  It now falls uneasily between the desktop and the netbook. It is not as usable as the 24″ screen desktop, nor as portable as the netbook. I don’t need it any more.

 

City of London Police let Phorm off

The Register reports that the City of London Police decided not to formally investigate BT and Phorm for their adware trials.

Quite right. It is the police’s job to hold the proles down while we pick their pockets, not interfere whilst honest entrepreneurs are creating wealth for the nation.

Mind you, there was one worrying bit in the CLP’s response. They said they thought that BT’s customers had ‘given implied consent’ by having an account with BT. Surely that would not mean that by owning my house I give burglars implied consent to break in?

 

Setback for British terrormongering industry

“Counter-terrorism officials are said to be “dismayed” by the outcome of a trial in which eight men were accused of a plot to blow up transatlantic planes.

Three men were convicted of conspiracy to murder but the jury did not convict any defendant of targeting aircraft. One man was cleared of all charges.” BBC

Despite all the efforts of the terrormongering industry, including certain newspapers and the BBC, an unreliable jury failed to produce the required convictions.

Clearly the government now needs to change the law to guarantee convictions in such cases. I think that all that should be needed to produce a conviction should be police suspicions or an editorial in the Daily Mail.

 

Cameron’s foolish rant on Georgia

This morning I listened to David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader, on the radio ranting about Russia and Georgia.

His idea is to get Georgia into the EU and NATO as soon as possible. That will show the Russians.

He does not appear to have noticed that NATO is a military alliance in which all members agree to come to the assistance of any member who is attacked.

I can see how Georgia gains from being in NATO. What do we gain? In return for our guarantee to fight to protect Georgia, what do we get from the deal? Apart from dead, if the worse came to the worse?

Is Cameron willing to fight a nuclear war to protect Georgia, because it could come to that? Nonsense, you may scoff. It could never come to that. In fact, that is exactly what Cameron did say. When the interviewer raised the possibility of Georgia leading us into war his pathetic response was that he just knew it could not happen.

Mr Cameron wants to read the history of WWI. We should have stayed out of that war but Asquith’s government had foolishly signed a treaty with the French that committed us to going to their assistance if Germany attacked. That treaty cost us 2.4 million dead and wounded. Nobody expected that WWI would turn out the way it did. If we had stayed out the Germans would have kicked the French about a bit and then gone home, just as they did in 1870.

After listening to the interview I can see two possibilities.

1.  Cameron is a dimwit who cannot see the possible consequences of running to Georgia’s assistance.

2.  Cameron is unhealthily solicitous of the financial interests of the people who have funded the pipeline which carries oil from The Caspian Sea. These people have spent billions building the pipeline and expect to earn billions more from the oil it carries. I am sure they have been busy ‘lobbying’ every Western politician they can lay their sweaty little hands on.

In either case Cameron is clearly not a chap you would want as Prime Minister. At one point he looked quite good but the flaws are starting to show.

Of course, oil is the reason why the West cares about Georgia. Look at a map. The oil is in the Caspian. The problem is getting it out. Georgia is one of two options. Turkey is the other. Oil is why Turkey is being considered for EU membership. Not because Turkey in the EU would be good for Europe. Just because some people will make a great deal of money from the oil that will be carried on pipelines through Turkey, or on tankers through the Bosporus.