Biting Back

Bloggerheads: The Alisher Usmanov Affair

Detailing, investigating and discussing the circumstances that led to the temporary closure of the Bloggerheads.com site (and others) via the actions of Fasthosts, Schillings and Alisher Usmanov.

Hooray :)

Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran

THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.

The Sunday Times

A different kind of blitz

Once again, the official line is swallowed whole and US Government is assumed to be honest, transparent and straightforward in its stance towards Iran.

There is no mention of Iraq, for example, as if the US’s recent track record of outright lies and deception have no bearing on their allegations against Iran. They simply did not happen.

Nor is there even a hint that what the US Government is apparently contemplating is a monstrous and entirely criminal act. Instead we get the usual recitation, distortion, suppression and insinuation. It's a different kind of blitz but it's just as lethal.

Many Angry Gerbils

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights : report 23 - 29 August 2007

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)


Three children from the Abu Ghazala family, who were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces in Beit Hanon on 29 August 2007

• 12 Palestinians including 6 Children killed by IOF and a 13th Dies of previous Wounds.
• 3 children killed in 2 extra-judicial executions.
• 5 children killed by excessive force in the Gaza Strip.
• 33 Palestinians, including 11 children and a mentally ill person, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the OPT.
• Mother and brother of a killed child among the injured.
• IOF conducted 21 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
• IOF arrested 30 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and 13 in the Gaza Strip.
• IOF raze 12 Dunums of agricultural land in the southern Gaza Strip.
• IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT, and continues to isolate the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
• Severe humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip due to the closure.
• IOF positioned at various checkpoints and border crossings in the West Bank arrested 3 Palestinian civilians, including a woman and a child.
• 1 Gaza resident detained at Erez on his way to Gaza from Ramallah.
• Israeli settlement activity and attacks by Israeli settlers continue

Read the full report

The Blog Is Back

Forcibly extricated from its cage, the blog is now back online.

What Did You Call Me?

Wesley has a few words to say to Patrick Mercer MP after his remarks are reported in The Times.

That Email

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Abuse of Human Rights

Lord Falconer said the European Convention on Human Rights “does not in any way properly inhibit us from fighting terrorism”.

But his remarks fly in the face of court decisions which have left Tony Blair’s anti-terror laws in tatters — by ruling they ABUSE human rights.

The Sun Says

Contrast this with

The Sun and Rebekah Wade are the true traitors; conniving in the dilution of civil liberties, supporting the very measures which remove our rights in order to fight those who have no respect for them.

Obsolete

Go and read the full article on Sceptic Isle about Scum-watch: Yet more lies about human rights

Messing About Again

Just in the interests of balance.


This is a vendetta... and I'm Sparticus.