Intriguing

Mr Reid also said the government believes the first al-Qaeda plot in the UK was in 2000 in Birmingham, preceding the war in Iraq and the 9/11 attacks.

Birmingham? Really? As in Birmingham UK? As in Al Qauida attacking BIRMINGHAM? What was the fucking target? I wonder if we are going to get any details of this thwarted plot, not that i want to appear cynical of course.

More 'publican humour

via Dave in Texas: Green Helmet Man's blog

All 24 suspects, held during raids in London, Birmingham and High Wycombe on Wednesday night, are British.

Imtiaz Qadir, from the Waltham Forest Islamic Association, said: "I know five of the men very well and they are really respectable young Muslim men. I am totally shocked. I don't believe they've done anything to warrant this."

The nineteen named suspects, aged between 17 and 35, are:

From Walthamstow, east London: Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25; Cossor Ali, 23; Assan Abdullah Khan, 21; Waheed Arafat Khan, 25; Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24; Osman Adam Khatib, 19; Ibrahim Savant, 25; Amin Asmin Tariq, 23; and Waheed Zaman, 22.

Also from east London: Nabeel Hussain, 22, from Chingford; Tanvir Hussain, 25, from Leyton; Umair Hussain, 24, from Poplar; Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, from Clapton; Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 35, from Stoke Newington.

From High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: Shazad Khuram Ali, 27; Umar Islam, 28; Assad Sarwar, 26; and Waseem Kayani, 29.

And, from Birmingham, Tayib Rauf, 22.

Under new anti-terror laws, police have up to 28 days to question the 24 suspects before deciding whether to charge or release them. Questioning is likely to begin later today.

Galloway vs Sky

War and Peace in Texas...

You think your grandma wasn’t like you? We had our doubts folks. We were in it with sixteen million Americans.

Can you imagine?

And throughout 1943, and 1944, and even 1945, the outcome was not assured. The end of it certainly was not known.

Even in August, we had our doubts. The Japanese mainland? What would it cost?

Will my brother be killed? My son?

My husband?

My son’s father.

They didn’t know about the bomb. They just knew we were in the fourth bloody year of the “war”, and they were war-weary, and afraid. And there were many moments when the outcome was in doubt.

The “end of it”, the date, was in doubt.

It seems like it will never be over. Sometimes we all say that. Well. Good. Evil. Yeah.

You still fight evil. You still refuse to let evil have its way.

That’s what you do.

Also from Texas- some news from London:

"BRITISH police claim to have found a "martyrdom video" in which one of the 24 British Muslims arrested over an alleged plot to destroy up to a dozen passenger aircraft sets out his reasons for joining the planned suicide attack.

British officials said the damning evidence had been found in the home of one of the suspects, who include a 23-year-old biochemistry student and a Heathrow security guard with an all-areas access pass.

The guard was in his airport uniform when he was arrested and led away in handcuffs.
The suspects are mostly of Pakistani origin but two are white converts to Islam. Abdul Waheed, 21, changed his name from Don Stewart-Whyte six months ago after growing up as the son of a Conservative Party official. "

FIRE BURN DEM

Girls dem sexy, and dem p*ssy fat
Yeah all di girls, di boys dem looking at
Some bwoy bow down, BOW DOWN DOIN WHATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing in this world could never have mi doin dat
I dont care if dem ban mi
Cause mi seh fi bun b*ttyman yuh caan wrong mi
Yo mi nuh born ova England a real African this
Real real real Rastaman this, BOOM!!!!
Chorus:
Rastaman dont apologize to no b*ttybwoy
Yuh diss black people then mi gun a shot yuh bwoy
Gimme di whole a di girls cause a dem have up di joy
Inna di Lake of fire mi dash yuh bwoy
Rrrrrrrr!!!! We apologize to no b*ttybwoy
Diss King Selassie then mi gun will shot yuh bwoy
Inna di Lake of fire mi dash yuh, AH HOY!!!!

I shared my guilty secret with Paula the other day during a stoned session playing with one of these. I've been listening to Sizzla's "Nah Apologise" for a while and find myself singing it. I'm totally against the sentiment, I think I'm just listening to it "ironically" but I got to admit, its a great track. I get the feeling that people who complain the loudest about what gay people get up to are probably having secret sausage fantasies themselves that they can't deal with, know what I mean? Though I probably wouldn't elaborate on this theory to Mr. Sizzla's face.

In a related incident, Steve from the Synergy project was telling me a really funny story about a "youth event" at the Synergy Centre which was run by a charity called groundworks, but a few Synergy hippies got involved with on the technical side. One of the softer chill guys had brought some decks and was "supervising" the kids using them. Anyway, the story goes some kids wanted to put this track on, not knowing the guy was gay. He fronted the lot of them saying

"OK. If you believe this do it. I am a bwattyboy, come on, kill me. Now."

After the muttering had died down he finnished triumphantly

"Well if you're not going to do it, I'm not going to play it."

I MISSED THIS ONE

Written by two senior journalists at The Times, the book starts with an account of how Abu Hamza who once worked as a doorman in sleazy Soho became radicalised after meeting a jihadist scholar in Mecca.

It ends with his incarceration for seven years after being convicted of inciting murder, race hate, and a terrorism offence.

Despite its forensic detail, the book is written like a thriller and is, in parts, fascinating.

But it does not explain how young Muslims attending the Finsbury Park mosque came to be in thrall to his brand of hatred.

Nor is the case for Abu Hamza the arch-villain convincing; many of the alleged connections to al-Qaeda style terrorists are tenuous at best.

It leaves one main question: is this low-grade hate-monger worth such a lengthy study?

ASS OVER TIT

With a sudden burst of sexy energy, I walked forward on the smooth black catwalk. At the end, I started to walk backwards, and then gave a little spin, something I’d been practicing.

The next thing I knew, like in a dream, my eyes were closed and I felt pain all up the right side of my body. Opening my eyes, I realized - I’d just fallen the fuck down. On main stage.

Lying b****... Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch

via rightwingsparkle

Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he’s never seen anything like it.
“Lying b**** . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician.”
No prizes for guessing which presidential front-runner drew these remarks in focus groups.
But these weren’t Republicans talking about Hillary Clinton. They weren’t even independents.
These were ordinary, grass-roots Democrats. People who identified themselves as “likely” voters in the pivotal state’s Democratic primary. And, behind closed doors, this is what nearly half of them are saying.

For Today I Am A Boy

One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful woman
One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful girl
One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful woman
One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful girl

But for today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

One day I’ll grow up, I’ll feel the power in me
One day I’ll grow up, of this I’m sure
One day I’ll grow up, I know a womb within me
One day I’ll grow up, feel it full and pure

But for today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

For today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

Standing 6ft 4in tall and with a shock of black hair, the 34-year-old has a voice as unconventional as his looks...As he collected his award from host Jools Holland to a standing ovation, Hegarty said the competition was "a bit nutty".

"It's kind of like a crazy contest between an orange and a spaceship and a potted plant and a spoon - which one do you like better?" he said.

As I sat my beautiful ass by the window in my first attempt to spy a nice cafe in South Kensington the phone rang. Me: "OH, HELLO MATE! HOW ARE YOU? YES, I AM FINE. JUST ENJOYING THE SUN IN A CAFE SOUTH OF THE RIVER! YEAH, I AM WORKING. I AM MYSTERY SHOPPING! Bollocks. Everyone started laughing out loud, shit. Italian background, you know, shouting and moving hands, what makes me really discreet.

Whatever. I made my way to the second cafe, took pictures, sat down to enjoy my Baileys Latte and the phone rang. It was a Brazilian mate of mine, so I felt free to explain him what I was doing in Portuguese, my mother tongue, so nobody would discover my true identity. Finished my Baileys and said goodbye to the barman, who said goodbye back, BUT IN PORTUGUESE!! The fucker was Brazilian too! I completely fucked up everything.

Secret societies, if you thought about inviting me to join you and after reading this you changed your mind, I would like to let you know that I AM GOING TO START MY OWN SECRET SOCIETY, SO PISS OFF!

via Hot Air: a day in Londonistan

via Dan Covan

Being born and raised in New York City, and spending most of my life here I've never seen anything quite like, this past sat. night, as complacent nation put together such an amazing event "One Night of Fire"

Last sat night at 7:57 I went to the center of the Brooklyn Bridge, and met up with over 2 thousand people who had also received word of this gathering to celebrate the heat of the summer,. .if its gonna be hot why not bring it in with a bang, the kind of bang that hurts no one, but might bother many, perhaps many need to be bothered, because they don't bother enough, . .this may be a point of view,.but hello is anybody out there,. ? I dare say YaY!!Some video can be found at:

http://www.youtube.com/results?tag=onenightoffire

Hundreds of photos can be seen at:

http://www.ahutchdesign.com/nightoffire/

http://www.601video.com/files/danger/index.html

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=one+night+of+fire&z=t

UNCLE JIMBO ON CNN

via Right Hand of God

PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL 2006: COUNTERCULTURE

3rd – 22nd August. Free admission to everything.

Film, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, Comedy, Cabaret and Combined Arts

With three weeks of non-stop screenings of new independent short films
at at
least two venues every night (Westbourne Studios and Inn On The Green),
Portobello Film Festival is "the biggest celebration of independent
films in
Europe” (The Independent).

Hamza wins right to appeal

Three of the country's most senior judges at the Court of Appeal in London decided Hamza should be allowed to challenge the convictions, setting the stage for an appeal trial as early as October.

"The impact of the pre-trial publicity and the publicity during the trial itself on the fairness of the proceedings generally should be considered by the full court," said one of the three justices, Igor Judge.

The long delay between the time the crimes were committed and the decision to prosecute should also be examined, the appeal ruling said.

Hamza's Finsbury Park mosque was at the centre of some of the most high-profile terrorism cases of recent years.

via Rightwingsparkle (who has a different take on Alan Moore here.)

We have to put our hands up and admit to our complicity in the sexual problems we have. As for incest, yes, in real life, incest is very, very, very seldom an idyllic thing. It's much more often a monstrous thing that destroys people's lives. However, we're not talking about real life. We are talking about the human sexual imagination. Sigmund Freud, frankly, I've not got a great deal of time for, because I think he was a child-fixated cokehead, to be perfectly honest. But his is still the prevalent paradigm in our attitude to sexuality. And Freud said that all sexual desire was sublimated incest. I don't agree with that for a moment, but it does suggest that incest is one of the big players in the theater of our desires. So that has to be referred to.

We felt we had to explore even the problematic areas of pornography, because they're a big part of pornography. We didn't want to be accused of turning out something arty that claims to be pornography but isn't. We felt that if we were going to do this thing, we were going to have to do it properly. We wanted it to be as pornographic as possible, and as artistic as possible. We wanted it to be a pornography that would include even the more extreme pornographies.

One of the Forest Gate terror suspects is to be arrested after child porn images were found on his family's computer, it has emerged.

Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, who was shot in the shoulder during the ill-fated operation, is expected to be quizzed as part of the investigation into the discovery later this week.

The development comes after extensive forensic tests on his family's computer, which was seized during last month's raid in Forest Gate, east London.

The primary purpose of examining the computer was to establish whether Mr Kahar, or his brother Abul Koyair, 21, also arrested during the June 2 operation, had any links to terrorism. To the astonishment of detectives, a number of 'very disturbing' child porn images were found.

Ooooh....Shall I get one?... shit.... I don't know....