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Best of the Bag Decade: BAG Looks at the Iraq War
"The Iraq War has been (and still is) a frequent subject on BAGnews and, frankly, such a topic of government and media spin that I find it impossible to highlight the best posts in a single entry. This is particularly true when I read through the sharp analytic comments posted by our readership over the years. To encapsulate the coverage, I’ve restricted myself to the year and a half following the 2004 election, a time when the Bag moved to consistent posting of photographs instead of political cartoons. It was also a time in which the war propaganda machine played at full power to a usually compliant media. "
Cranmer: Gerry Adams to preach on forgiveness
"Victor Barker, whose 12-year-old son James died in the 1998 Omagh bombing, said: 'Asking Gerry Adams to speak about love and forgiveness is like asking Myra Hindley to lecture on child-minding. I think it's a big mistake and completely misguided. Channel 4 is being used by Mr Adams. It is offering him a platform for doing what he does so well, of coming across on camera as a genuine, peaceful person who wants to promote peace and love.'"
Sharmine Narwani: Being Anti-Israel and Anti-Zionist Is the "New Anti-Semitism"
"A Jewish woman, deriding protesters at a UK rally on Sunday in support of charging former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni with war crimes, declared loudly into a TV camera that being anti-Israel and anti-Zionist is the "new anti-Semitism." Such licentious language. Meant primarily, I might add, to inflame passions and mislead public opinion by invoking a word - anti-Semitism - that we have been well-conditioned to condemn above all other forms of racism or prejudice. I am sorry the woman fears anti-Semitism, pogroms and hatred around every corner. It's not my problem, frankly. Let her get therapy. Does that sound harsh? Sorry, again. But I for one get pretty irritated hearing false cries of anti-Semitism against anyone who criticizes Israel, its human rights crimes, its crazy settler movement, its unique brand of crypto-racism against non-Jews living within the state and its occupied territories."
Obama Grants Israel $2.775 Billion In Security Aid from occupied Iraq :: [reg.de]
"United States President, Barack Obama, signed the Foreign Aid Budget Law of 2010 which includes granting Israel $2.775 Billion in security aid to the state of Israel. The budges is the second in two years and is considered part of the US aid to Israel which will total $30 Billion in the coming ten years."
Cranmer: Copenhagen Accord is no accord at all
"And make no mistake, this conference was about the establishment of a world government to enforce the provisions of whatever was agreed at Copenhagen. For the first time in an international treaty, the word 'government' was used of a global enforcement agency. Since nothing was agreed, there is no such agency, and no such enforcement."
Is Stealing Wi-Fi Wrong? – Neatorama
"Flip open and fire up your laptop, find an unsecured wi-fi signal and check your email … have you just stolen wi-fi? It may be illegal in some places, but is it immoral? Can wi-fi be stolen?"
The year in nonsense – Bad Science
"It’s been a vintage year for dodgy science in government. We saw reports on cocaine that were disappeared, dodgy evidence to justify DNA retention, and some government advisors who estimated the cost of piracy at 10% of GDP, to media applause, and then failed to tell everyone they’d got the figure wrong by 1000%."
Jews sans frontieres: BBC rumbled
"Spot the difference between the BBC post I blogged below and the story that now appears at the same url."
An Englishman's Castle: Obama - Quitter not a fighter.
"You would think all his years in the Chicago Political Machine would make him feel at home in the squalid deal making corruption of Copenhagen. Maybe he doesn't like to be reminded of how he rose to power."
Weapons Used in Gaza 2006-09 - John Brissenden
"In 2006, the samples were collected two weeks after the end of the attacks…. In 2009 samples from Crater 1 and 2 in Tufah were from bombings occurred on January 14, and the samples were collected on January 28. Summary of the metals used in the weapons and their effects"...
The Curmudgeon: Kim Howells: A Tribute
"I really must spare a mention for Kim Howells, the tumescent apparatchik whose bumbling inanity and ethical nonentity have earned him ministerial posts in half a dozen government departments, while Britain's leading liberal newspaper has bestowed upon him the endearing epithet "outspoken". Howells' most recent claim to fame is last month's advice that the Government would do better to spend the resources of the Afghan campaign on spying and imprisoning at home; but he has many other achievements to his credit. "
Proper spelling and grammer (sic)
The joys of internet spelling. Even the headline is wrong!
Carter Ruck make the BBC squeal - Letters From A Tory
"When will this end? Big law firm grinds down opponents with increasingly expensive lawsuits, opponents left defenceless and/or demoralised, lawyers walk away happy, lawyer’s client scores a big win. Should the taxpayer really fork out over £3 million just to prove a point, or do they have a duty to ‘hold their ground’? Seriously depressing stuff."
Lord Monckton barred from Copenhagen conference – pushed to the ground by security
"Europe is no longer a free society. It is, in effect, a tyranny ruled by the unelected Kommissars of the European Union. That is perhaps one reason why police forces throughout Europe, including that in the UK, have become far more brutal than was once acceptable in their treatment of the citizens they are sworn to serve."
Unite vs BA and the Unions vs the State
"One wonders what business it is of Justice Cox to express her opinion on a matter that should have had no bearing on the ruling handed down. It was obviously at the forefront of her mind to the point where she felt quite happy to attack a democratically arrived-at decision in her summation."
An Englishman's Castle: Ocean Acidification - The Hockeystick
"Is it just me or does there seem to be a change of target as to what we should be worrying about?"
Could someone please buy George Monbiot a book of economics?
"As economic growth is not defined or constrained in toto by the availability of resources, rather, by our ability to add value to them, then the constraint upon economic growth is not the resources of the physical world but of our knowledge in how to add value to them. Thus perpetual economic growth can be accomodated on a finite planet."
jhn brssndn! - Quote
"...contemporary projects of nation building are...imposed by force from the outside through a process that now goes by the name “regime change”. Such nation building resembles less the modern revolutionary birth of nations than it does the process of colonial powers dividing up the globe and drawing the maps of their subject territories."
Blood & Treasure: use and deployment
"if you look at (Blair's) actual legacy it’s been to demonstrate that what follows a tyranny can be worse than a tyranny. He’s the man who, against all odds, helped make Saddam Hussein look good. So it’s another big, hearty fuck you to the people who shared his stated belief in the use of military power to help bring about a just and humane international order. "
Mmm whatcha say? That you only meant well? Of course you did
"...in my eyes, the “end” which Blair sought was both illusory and reprehensible. Illusory because the idea of a free, democratic Iraq was never going to be achieved with force of arms, and reprehensible because what has been achieved isn’t better than the “disappearances” or militarism of Saddam’s regime. So if Saddam is an “evil dictator”, does that make TB an “evil democrat”?
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