Who says the US can’t manage the Iraqi occupation? The office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction: “A new audit of American financial practices in Iraq has uncovered irregularities including millions of reconstruction dollars stuffed casually into footlockers and filing cabinets, an American soldier in the Philippines who gambled away cash belonging to…
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Guns for sale
Fancy an AK-47? Looking to buy an early Christmas present for your young, virile son? Look no further. Much more information here on these startling deals.
Survivors come second
Jewish historian Norman Finkelstein writes: “In The Holocaust Industry I documented the World Jewish Congress’s double shakedown of Swiss banks and Nazi holocaust victims. The mastermind of this plot was a repellent sewer rat named Rabbi Israel Singer who headed the World Jewish Congress. In the appendix to the second paperback edition of my book…
Money talks
Google’s unofficial motto may be “Don’t be evil“, but it appears the company is willing to sacrifice integrity for market share: “Google, the world’s biggest search engine, will team up with the world’s biggest censor, China, today with a service that it hopes will make it more attractive to the country’s 110 million online users.…
Warriors and wusses
Joel Stein, LA Times, January 24: “I don’t support our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car. Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on. “I’m sure I’d like the…
The brain-drain
Iraqi academics are being targeted. This international petition (supported by many of the world’s leading thinkers) aims to bring the issue to wide attention. Robert Fisk wrote on this disturbing development in July 2004: “Other university staff suspect that there is a campaign to strip Iraq of its academics, to complete the destruction of Iraq’s…
Living by delusions
Israel’s acting PM Ehud Olmert offers platitudes about a Palestinian state: “The choice between allowing Jews to live in all parts of the land of Israel and living in a state with a Jewish majority mandates giving up parts of the Land of Israel. We cannot continue to control parts of the territories where most…
Some revolution
So much for the Howard government’s care of workers: “The decision to scrap unfair dismissal protection for businesses employing fewer than 100 workers will create just 6000 new jobs nationwide rather than 77,000 claimed by business and the Government, a research study suggests. “The study is outlined in one of 22 papers criticising the recently…
Opening minds
Canadian-based Iranian blogger Hodder is travelling to Israel: “This might mean that I won’t be able to go back to Iran for a long time, since Iran doesn’t recognize Israel, has no diplomatic relations with it, and apparently considers travelling there illegal. Too bad, but I don’t care. Fortunately, I’m a citizen of Canada and…
Just another washed-up Zionist comedian
After my recent TV “debate” with Jewish “comedian” Austen Tayshus (information here), I received this email: “Mate, I wouldn’t discuss appearance if I were you. Resorting to swipes at my appearance is evidence of how bereft you truly are. You are ashamed of who you are, lacking even the basic knowledge of yiddishkeit. You are…