Links For The Day:
How very peculiar it is that Tony Blair’s ‘respect’ policy is resurrected it every time George Galloway and Respect are in the news – this time with added bluster and authoritarianism.
Mr Blair would like impose his petty cultural imperialism on those irritating chavs and is happy to abandon that nasty, obstructive British system of justice on the way. But only for the poor – because as we know, nice middle class children never misbehave . All this, just because his ego won’t let him even potentially lose a media war.
Not content with again trying to co-opt the ‘R’ word, it seems Our Tone is also trying to match George’s screen time. The difference is, his opinions aren’t being censored.
The public is not impressed. Here’s Blair on Newsnight, facing an unimpressed Swindon audience and being called gutless by Kirsty Wark-video (24hrs only).
Blair didn’t believe that ASBOs could be bought online. Well here’s the proof: Buy your own Asbo!
Red Dwarf meets The Office: New BBC2 SF comedy series Hyperdrive starts tonight at 10pm. Woot! See the preview here.
US domestic spying whistleblower has come forward. The allegations are no longer amorphous and vague and easily sidestepped – now they have a face and a name.
Supreme Court Nominee Alito lays out his judicial philososophy:
“It?s what we call in law school the slippery slope and if you start answering the easy questions you are going to be sliding down the ski run into the hard questions, and that?s what I?m not so happy to do.”
Yeah, and Prezniting is hard work too.
Bird flu in the Caribbean? 2000 mysterious Trinidadian poultry deaths in 3 days…
‘Fishing with Jack Twist’ – is it the new Brush clearing ?
You decide.
NewsHog: Swiss “Echelon” Catches Sniff of CIA Secret Prisons
“For instance about two months ago, according to the Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick, it intercepted a fax transmission from Cairo to the Egyptian embassy in London concerning the much-denied CIA secret prisons in Europe…
The message was picked up by the secret service’s Onyx satellite listening system on November 10, just three days after the Council of Europe launched its investigation into allegations that the CIA was running secret interrogation centres in Europe.”
New Yorker Seeks Italian Parliament Seat :
“The seats in Italy’s April 9 election are being offered to Italian voters abroad under a 2001 constitutional amendment. Expatriates also will send senators from three other districts: Europe, including Russia and Turkey; Asia, Australia and Africa; and South America.”
This is an interesting electoral experiment, but knowing Berlusconi, there has to be an ulterior motive.
And last but not least, at The Smoking Gun: The million-selling novelist who conned Oprah Winfrey
