Archive for February, 2011
One Law for All
No, not payment of corporate tax. Someone wanted on questioning for sexual assault charges in an advanced liberal democracy is to be extradicted.
He is appealing (chorus, “oh no he’s not”).
Posted: February 24th, 2011 under Wikileaks.
Qaradawi on Muslims and Jews
This is a cross post by Dave Rich of The CST Blog
With Sheikh Qaradawi back in Egypt and back in the news, it is worth revisting a collection of his rulings and other writings on Israel, Jews and Zionism, Fatawa on Palestine, which was published some eight years ago, translated into English in 2007 [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2011 under Islamism, antisemitism.
Monday Nights With Yad L’Achim
by Joseph W
Yad L’Achim is a religious pressure group led by the messianic Chabad rabbi Dov Lipschitz. The group regularly intimidates Jews who believe in Jesus, and other religious minorities in Israel.
Earlier this week, Israeli news service Kikar HaShabat reported on a “prayer rally” organised by Yad L’Achim in Ashdod.
The prayer rally took place outside another building, where other [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
Republicans’ hatred for unions now out in the open
The thin veneer hiding Republicans’ utter contempt for organized labor has dissolved in recent days.
Not only is there a GOP-led assault on collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin and Ohio. Now there’s this:
One hundred and seventy-six House Republicans voted to defund the National Labor Relations Board, effectively shutting it down until September. Although [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2011 under Stateside, The Right, Trade Unions.
Will Chavez see the error of his ways?
Nikolas Kozloff, who wrote a sympathetic book about Hugo Chavez a few years ago, writes about the strong and enduring ties between Chavez and Moammar Gaddafi.
Bizarrely, Chávez declared “What Simon Bolívar [the Great Liberator of South American independence against the Spanish] is to the Venezuelan people, Gaddafi is to the Libyan people.” Gadhafi then praised [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2011 under Latin America, North Africa.
“We thought about that”
A liberal blogger named Ian Murphy had the bold and brilliant idea of phoning Wisconsin’s union-phobic Republican Gov. Scott Walker pretending to be the rightwing billionaire David Koch. He got through and spoke to the governor for 20 minutes, doing what sounds to me like a caricature of a rich, greedy rightwing bastard. But if [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2011 under Stateside, The Right.
The pathetic admiration of the Latin American left for Colonel Gaddafi
This is a cross-post by James Bloodworth
While events in Libya are greeted with shock and indignation across the world, there are some who’s instinctive reaction to such barbarism is not to condemn the perpetrators, nor to ask how those responsible can be brought to justice, but to add the massacre to their [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2011 under The Left.
Defend Mike Hancock
The LibDem MP for Portsmouth South, Mike Hancock is undoubtedly fond of much younger women and has admitted to extra-marital affairs, but I cannot see any way to excuse allegations made against him during the 2010 General Election.
In running for the the Justice and Anti-Corruption Party, Les Cummings distributed a leaflet calling Hancock a paedophile [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2011 under Lib Dems.
Mass Graves in Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F13z4M35qDI
This is more sombre than graphic, and appears to show a seafront mass-burial in Libya.
Hat-tip – DaveM.
Posted: February 23rd, 2011 under North Africa.
Drumming up hatred in Birmingham
Tomorrow evening Gilad Atzmon is scheduled to give a talk on Palestine in Birmingham.
The meeting has been organised by members of the University of Birmingham Friends of Palestine Society.
Earlier this month the society got in trouble with the university for the remarks of far left campaigner Mike Prysner at a society meeting.
During his lecture, Mr [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2011 under Do Something!, antisemitism.
