OK called Abu Abdullah. First time for a while. Explained recent proposal fuck ups.
He told me that newspeople have been goading him with the usual shit (my words of course) about shutting down preachers of hate etc. etc. saying he is first on the list etc etc.
Think that they are really angry that he is British? I think so.
He also said that a recent Turkish TV piece he was involved in is calling him Al-Qaida's number one man in Britain.
None of the tabloids in Britain have made such accusations yet. They are usually first with this sort of thing. Strange.
September 16, 2005
MPACUK
OK. When I've posted about these guys before some have accused them of "being anti-semetic" and "linking to nazi sites"
These guys are the closest thing on the web to a representation of Islamic opinions I heard in Finsbury park. This post explains what the youth seem to feel about Islamic leadership in Britain:
No sooner had the British Government said jump; some Muslims responded by saying in true colonial subject style, “Yes Sir how high would you like us to jump”.
To some Muslims, saying No to Government is simply not in their vocabulary. To them, just being in the presence of Government Officials is an awe inspiring experience. Others are involved for the progression of their political party careers and to serve their Leader, Blair.
Many others are on board to milk the system for their own pet interests and projects. There is also another group of participants, a new breed of Muslims seeking to become Islamic consultants in the manner of Race consultants (so the recommendations will inevitably involve commissioning out identified areas of work).
These Muslims have made, or wish to make a career in an Islamic Relations Industry to rival the race experts. Of course there are also many that are sincere but politically naïve, and then there are also those who genuinely believe that their version of Islam is the true one, and has been hijacked by extremists who need to be countered.
Also Muslim Weekly: Forced marriages scrutinised
These guys are the closest thing on the web to a representation of Islamic opinions I heard in Finsbury park. This post explains what the youth seem to feel about Islamic leadership in Britain:
No sooner had the British Government said jump; some Muslims responded by saying in true colonial subject style, “Yes Sir how high would you like us to jump”.
To some Muslims, saying No to Government is simply not in their vocabulary. To them, just being in the presence of Government Officials is an awe inspiring experience. Others are involved for the progression of their political party careers and to serve their Leader, Blair.
Many others are on board to milk the system for their own pet interests and projects. There is also another group of participants, a new breed of Muslims seeking to become Islamic consultants in the manner of Race consultants (so the recommendations will inevitably involve commissioning out identified areas of work).
These Muslims have made, or wish to make a career in an Islamic Relations Industry to rival the race experts. Of course there are also many that are sincere but politically naïve, and then there are also those who genuinely believe that their version of Islam is the true one, and has been hijacked by extremists who need to be countered.
Also Muslim Weekly: Forced marriages scrutinised
IRELAND. BALROG.
If you have been following news of recent events in Ireland Balrog is right on the button as usual...
SNOW LIKES FUDGE
I love the guy. Gave me hope watching his program when there was none for many long years but if I had a piece of fudge for every time the geezer used the word "fudge" I'd have a nice little bag of fudge by now.
Fudging at the UN
==================
I can confess that I lobbied hard to go to this epic United Nations
summit in New York with 170 leaders at the biggest gathering the world has
ever seen. But my editor knows better than me, he can smell a bad story
a mile off.
Any great idealistic hopes we may have had that in some way this great
organisation was going to be rebooted for the better of humankind is
out of the window. The odour of stale cooking wafts from Second Avenue,
New York, and the flavour is fudge, yip, that distinctive smell of UN
fudge.
Jonathan Rugman is there braving the cooking pots and the cant, or to
be more precise, the can't, including an uninspiring speech from the
President of the lone super power.
Jon Snow snowmails
Fudging at the UN
==================
I can confess that I lobbied hard to go to this epic United Nations
summit in New York with 170 leaders at the biggest gathering the world has
ever seen. But my editor knows better than me, he can smell a bad story
a mile off.
Any great idealistic hopes we may have had that in some way this great
organisation was going to be rebooted for the better of humankind is
out of the window. The odour of stale cooking wafts from Second Avenue,
New York, and the flavour is fudge, yip, that distinctive smell of UN
fudge.
Jonathan Rugman is there braving the cooking pots and the cant, or to
be more precise, the can't, including an uninspiring speech from the
President of the lone super power.
Jon Snow snowmails
September 15, 2005
Here's more than a whiff:
Galloway: "you know Hitchens you are a court jester at the court of the bourbon bushes"
Hitchens counters: "I suppose Mr Galloway we have to congratulate you for being absolutely consistent in your 100% support for unmentionable thugs and criminals"
It was the grapple in the Big Apple.
For almost two hours, Gorgeous George and the intellectual scruff his friends call Hitch hurled abuse at one another, British political theatre of the kind Americans rarely see.The two men continued to slug it out. Hitchens had this assault on Galloway's links with the Saddam regime:
"How can a man who is a business partner with this regime show their face in a city like this? The man's search for a tyrannical fatherland never ends. The Soviet Union's let him down. Albania's gone. The Red Army's out of Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia. The hunt persists!"
And Galloway on blisteringly good form accusing Hitchens of betraying the British left by supporting the Iraq war.
Galloway: "What you have witnessed. is something unique in natural history. The first ever metamorphosis from a butterfly back into a slug. You did write like an angel, but now you work for the devil and damn you and all your works."
from channel 4 snowmails
watch channel 4 news report here
Galloway: "you know Hitchens you are a court jester at the court of the bourbon bushes"
Hitchens counters: "I suppose Mr Galloway we have to congratulate you for being absolutely consistent in your 100% support for unmentionable thugs and criminals"
It was the grapple in the Big Apple.
For almost two hours, Gorgeous George and the intellectual scruff his friends call Hitch hurled abuse at one another, British political theatre of the kind Americans rarely see.The two men continued to slug it out. Hitchens had this assault on Galloway's links with the Saddam regime:
"How can a man who is a business partner with this regime show their face in a city like this? The man's search for a tyrannical fatherland never ends. The Soviet Union's let him down. Albania's gone. The Red Army's out of Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia. The hunt persists!"
And Galloway on blisteringly good form accusing Hitchens of betraying the British left by supporting the Iraq war.
Galloway: "What you have witnessed. is something unique in natural history. The first ever metamorphosis from a butterfly back into a slug. You did write like an angel, but now you work for the devil and damn you and all your works."
from channel 4 snowmails
watch channel 4 news report here
Mr Galloway and Mr Hitchens I presume...
from Anna:
WHAT'S LEFT? GALLOWAY VERSUS HITCHENS; PROGRESSIVES VERSUS OURSELVES
By Greg Palast
Man, it just felt so good watching George Galloway rip Senator Coleman an extra exit hole...
But before we rally 'round this stand-up guy from Britain, we should ask him a few questions of our own.Honorable Mr. Galloway, you met with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in 1994 and said,
"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength your indefatigability. And I want you to know that we are with you until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem."
After this effusive praise for Saddam, the two of you shared some Quality Street chocolates and some funny stories about Winston Churchill.
In 1990, Saddam executed a troublesome reporter, Farzad Bazoft, of the Observer newspaper of London. You complained about it at the time. Some time later, Saddam finished off about 100,000 Shi'ites and Kurds.My questions are,
"Are Quality Street chocolates your favorite brand? And did you forget the name of the reporter that Saddam executed? And how is it that you found the courage to challenge a bunch of US Senators but became such a pussy cat when confronted with a man whose killing spree easily exceeds theirs?"
WHAT'S LEFT? GALLOWAY VERSUS HITCHENS; PROGRESSIVES VERSUS OURSELVES
By Greg Palast
Man, it just felt so good watching George Galloway rip Senator Coleman an extra exit hole...
But before we rally 'round this stand-up guy from Britain, we should ask him a few questions of our own.Honorable Mr. Galloway, you met with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in 1994 and said,
"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength your indefatigability. And I want you to know that we are with you until victory, until victory, until Jerusalem."
After this effusive praise for Saddam, the two of you shared some Quality Street chocolates and some funny stories about Winston Churchill.
In 1990, Saddam executed a troublesome reporter, Farzad Bazoft, of the Observer newspaper of London. You complained about it at the time. Some time later, Saddam finished off about 100,000 Shi'ites and Kurds.My questions are,
"Are Quality Street chocolates your favorite brand? And did you forget the name of the reporter that Saddam executed? And how is it that you found the courage to challenge a bunch of US Senators but became such a pussy cat when confronted with a man whose killing spree easily exceeds theirs?"
DAVE BONES 2ND DREAM
Trying to knock the herb on the head has repercussions.
Dreaming is one of them.
Got pissed woke up on a boat. Strange dream fresh in my mind. This time I was kissing two really nice girls on a bench attached to other benches floating down a river. The second girl I recognised as a girl I was at college with 10 years ago. She was small and thin and a bit gothy, none of which I usually go for but in my dream she was a very passionate kisser and had a surprisingly nice ass to hold.
In part two of my dream I was talking to an ex-girlfriend I am still in love with only she had turned into a male acquaintance of mine. I was explaining to her that it was much easier to talk to her now she had changed into a bloke.
Dreaming is one of them.
Got pissed woke up on a boat. Strange dream fresh in my mind. This time I was kissing two really nice girls on a bench attached to other benches floating down a river. The second girl I recognised as a girl I was at college with 10 years ago. She was small and thin and a bit gothy, none of which I usually go for but in my dream she was a very passionate kisser and had a surprisingly nice ass to hold.
In part two of my dream I was talking to an ex-girlfriend I am still in love with only she had turned into a male acquaintance of mine. I was explaining to her that it was much easier to talk to her now she had changed into a bloke.
September 13, 2005
"Cheap holidays in other peoples misery?" There was definately a bit of that, but the Goa economy has a lot of involvement from Westerner's with kids who have carved for themselves a "great escape" from the west over the last 20 years. There is a lot of real harmony.I'm glad that it was hard for me to dance with a kid in front of me with an outstretched hand. I'm glad the kids with their hands out was something I never got used to in a year in India. I didn't always give them money, but I didn't hit them or shout at them like I saw a lot of "enlightened hippies" doing. The prevailance of their attitude was what really disturbed me.
"Its their karma man!" they'd say.
Fucking convenient explanation.
Partying with the Kallash tribe in the North-west frontier province in 2000. A full-on Animist fertility culture in an area where Osama Bin Laden could (and probably does) walk around freely.
On the "tribal dance floor"kids from 14-16 years old are actively encouraged to flirt and find a wife and groups of young Karachi male tourists (who the tribe have a lot of trouble with) are punched in the face if they get too close whilst the local Muslim Police with AK-47s turn a blind eye. I smoked a spliff with one of them.
When America invaded Afghanistan I should imagine a lot of Taliban came through the pass at the top of the valley. I met Taliban on their way through when I was there including a couple of British guys. The Kallash are culturally threatened by Islam. If they want to get anywhere in larger Pakistan it pays to convert. I wonder if an influx of Pakistani taliban into the area has proved any problem to them. the kids faces still haunt me. They were amazing.
September 12, 2005
LIVE 8
Remember Live 8? I was well enthusiastic about it and thought that poverty was going to be made history in my lifetime.
The Man Who Betrayed the Poor
Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Geldof stays silent
by George Monbiot
America's black children are twice as likely as whites to die before their first birthday.
I saw somewhere that half of the children in the third world live in poverty.
Pverty isn't history.
And Geldof says........??????????
The Man Who Betrayed the Poor
Even as the G8 promises fall apart, Geldof stays silent
by George Monbiot
America's black children are twice as likely as whites to die before their first birthday.
I saw somewhere that half of the children in the third world live in poverty.
Pverty isn't history.
And Geldof says........??????????
POPE ON A ROPE
Jesus, Mary and all the saints. The guys who used to run the most well known commercialy sucessful "Goa" party in London 10 years ago are going to meet the bloody pope!
Chris Deckker; founder of Earthdance International, and Abigail Lewis; Earthdance Executive Director, will have an Papal audience with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome where they will present him with the “Declaration of Peace,” which will include the thousands of signatures from people around the world, representing a global call for peace and unity.
Chris Deckker; founder of Earthdance International, and Abigail Lewis; Earthdance Executive Director, will have an Papal audience with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome where they will present him with the “Declaration of Peace,” which will include the thousands of signatures from people around the world, representing a global call for peace and unity.
September 11, 2005
ITS NICE TO BE NICE
Some of you may know that I spend a lot of time debating with Republican's. Some of you are them. Its good to know you all. When I find a Republican I can relate to at any level I tend to hang onto them like grim death. I spend very little time communicating in cyberspace with those whose worldview I share. Republicans have 95% of my cyber-time and I'm not joking. I've heard Republicans talking about Moveon.org. I might have clicked on it once, can't honestly remember.
I wonder sometimes if I have isolated myself too much.
As details of the Guantanamo hunger strike emerged, I wondered, through my joviality and politeness whether I was achieving anything. I know I am dealing with a nice person and that means everything to me.
I cried.
I wonder sometimes if I have isolated myself too much.
As details of the Guantanamo hunger strike emerged, I wondered, through my joviality and politeness whether I was achieving anything. I know I am dealing with a nice person and that means everything to me.
I cried.
I HAD A DREAM
Woke up. Couldn't sleep. I was in India, or someplace. There were hippies everywhere, partying, enjoying themselves. I had the feling that I didn't have much money and couldn't realy partake in third world hedonism. I moved away. Inland a bit. I saw a group of 60 or more people massaging each other on the sand around a central hippie guru. I went to speak to him and thought about joining in.
The transition is unclear, but I then found myself in an old Indian wooden building, narrow but at least 5 floors. It was full of westerners. I stepped through a neatly aranged pile of a typical "lonely planet" travellers belongings, complete with tablets only the amount of stuff was exagerated.
I walked towards a stircase and bumped into a friend of mine who left his life here and went off to India years ago. I was really pleased, and couldn't beliee we had re-met under such circumstance.
"Shit! Keith! How are you man?" I asked, grabbing his shoulder warmly on the staircase.
"You are shouting. You need to chill man." he said and went to walk up stairs.
I couldn't believe it. I walked outside and i the distance snow was lying on the sand. Hippies were body surfing this snow somehow as I walked towards them.
Somehow I came round in a room full of hippies chopping down ganja plants at the stem and talking to each other enthusiastically about their harvest. My heart was in my mouth. If I was caught here I would go to an Indian jail for a long time. If my mother found out it would kill her. I couldn't stay here.
I walked outside into another room which was full of brand new tiny sports cars, with a few ganga plants drying against them.
The transition is unclear, but I then found myself in an old Indian wooden building, narrow but at least 5 floors. It was full of westerners. I stepped through a neatly aranged pile of a typical "lonely planet" travellers belongings, complete with tablets only the amount of stuff was exagerated.
I walked towards a stircase and bumped into a friend of mine who left his life here and went off to India years ago. I was really pleased, and couldn't beliee we had re-met under such circumstance.
"Shit! Keith! How are you man?" I asked, grabbing his shoulder warmly on the staircase.
"You are shouting. You need to chill man." he said and went to walk up stairs.
I couldn't believe it. I walked outside and i the distance snow was lying on the sand. Hippies were body surfing this snow somehow as I walked towards them.
Somehow I came round in a room full of hippies chopping down ganja plants at the stem and talking to each other enthusiastically about their harvest. My heart was in my mouth. If I was caught here I would go to an Indian jail for a long time. If my mother found out it would kill her. I couldn't stay here.
I walked outside into another room which was full of brand new tiny sports cars, with a few ganga plants drying against them.
September 10, 2005
MUSIC NEWS
I'm going big guns on the showbiz. A while back I was listening to R.Kelly's "Trapped in the closet" saga epic every morning before working on some chewns of me own. No idea if he's fraternised with under age girls. "I believe I can fly" is one of my favourite "bong rush" tracks as well.
I saw an award ceremony on TV last night. What a bunch of bland idiots. Destiny's Child were the deserved winner's of All time best selling girl band. They are great. Shame they went on to sell burgers. Its nice to see the American's slagging Coldplay. I don't like music journalist's (except for Charlie) but "a blown up band trying not to deflate" is right.
I saw an award ceremony on TV last night. What a bunch of bland idiots. Destiny's Child were the deserved winner's of All time best selling girl band. They are great. Shame they went on to sell burgers. Its nice to see the American's slagging Coldplay. I don't like music journalist's (except for Charlie) but "a blown up band trying not to deflate" is right.
September 09, 2005
SHOWBIZ GOSSIP
OHHH!!! Our does my bum look big in this? big pants brit-bollocks showbiz reporter has come back today with rumours about a certain showbiz personality!!!!
TEE HEE HEE HEE HEE !!!!!!!!
She's heard that a certain waitress was working in a certain east London restaurant attatched to a popular bar/venue. A very tall, very serious customer came up to her and said, slightly flustered:
"Is there any better restaurants than this around here?"
Not knowing who she was talking to, and giving a bit of attitude back she answered:
"I don't know, ask the chef."
sort of challenging him to go in the kitchen and insult the guy.
"Do you know who that is?" asked her fellow member of staff as she passed the kitchen. "That's Ali G that is."
TEE HEE HEE HEE HEE !!!!!!!!
She's heard that a certain waitress was working in a certain east London restaurant attatched to a popular bar/venue. A very tall, very serious customer came up to her and said, slightly flustered:
"Is there any better restaurants than this around here?"
Not knowing who she was talking to, and giving a bit of attitude back she answered:
"I don't know, ask the chef."
sort of challenging him to go in the kitchen and insult the guy.
"Do you know who that is?" asked her fellow member of staff as she passed the kitchen. "That's Ali G that is."
September 08, 2005
GEORGE BUSH
Rightwingsparkle tells me we are in the same tribe. I want to believe that. It is very interesting how our perspectives of George Bush are polar opposites. Everyone, even Tony Blair, even Abu Hamza seem like nice guy's to me. I'm sure Hitler's friends would say "You just didn't understand him". They are all nice guy's. I have no idea how many, if any innocent deaths Abu Hamza is responsible for. I KNOW George Bush is responsible for thousands of innocent deaths in Iraq. I KNOW he mostly keeps silent about thousands of innocent deaths in Chechenya.I know that his family are involved in the stranglehold a few rich families have on the arab world.
I see Osama bin Laden as someone who is fighting back against this using tactics that I disagree with.
Maybe George Bush is just a nice person who I don't understand properly. Or maybe he is the one who doesn't quite understand what he is involved in.
I see Osama bin Laden as someone who is fighting back against this using tactics that I disagree with.
Maybe George Bush is just a nice person who I don't understand properly. Or maybe he is the one who doesn't quite understand what he is involved in.
September 07, 2005
Du Monde
Its one thing joining in debates with Republicans on their own blogs in hope of some progress (which I believe we are making in a way that never existed in such a splendid manner before blogger.com)
Its quite another taking the piss out of a new stranger who is in all probability on your "own side"
Why did I call du monde a "cheese eating surrender monkey?"
Mr. Du Monde, if you ever make it over to my blog I have linked to your blog already and you haven't even got one yet.
Where would you like to be? left? right? or all over the place?
(also check out "extreme golfing" here)
Its quite another taking the piss out of a new stranger who is in all probability on your "own side"
Why did I call du monde a "cheese eating surrender monkey?"
Mr. Du Monde, if you ever make it over to my blog I have linked to your blog already and you haven't even got one yet.
Where would you like to be? left? right? or all over the place?
(also check out "extreme golfing" here)
TOP RANT 2005
And the award goes to...
I don't spend a lot of time on lefty blogs at all. I found Tom enthusiasticaly giving Oxen a bollocking. I can't stand humourless conscientious lefty's sort of in the same way Trey parker describes.
Tom makes me laugh. However, top ranter 2005 has got to go to Angry Black Bitch
That, Katie, is both bullshit and the motherfucking problem.
A wake up call for us all…
A bitch does not see the Katrina fucktitude as a wake up call for conservatives alone. People will find a way to absolve themselves of their role in this shit. 52% of this country voted for Scooter...
rant away bitch!
I don't spend a lot of time on lefty blogs at all. I found Tom enthusiasticaly giving Oxen a bollocking. I can't stand humourless conscientious lefty's sort of in the same way Trey parker describes.
Tom makes me laugh. However, top ranter 2005 has got to go to Angry Black Bitch
That, Katie, is both bullshit and the motherfucking problem.
A wake up call for us all…
A bitch does not see the Katrina fucktitude as a wake up call for conservatives alone. People will find a way to absolve themselves of their role in this shit. 52% of this country voted for Scooter...
rant away bitch!
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