Radovan Karadzic

Five films from Channel 4 News about Bosnia. Watch all of them.

Billy Bragg is relevant apparently...

Good Journalism on Fox?

Revenge of Gujarat: Its Not a Movie.

excellent comment about this from Raul at Pickled Politics

...To those who accuse India of discrimination against muslims you have no idea about how the Indian state operates...

THE SUN OWE ME MONEY

Ha ha ha I can't fuckin believe it! Not only do The Sun steal the work of independent film makers off of youtube and pass it as their own, now they DELETE RASTAS FROM PHOTOS. Why is that then?

via Pickled Politics

You weren't expecting that

The Star Bradley Whitford, Josh in The West Wing -" We've just lost eight years because we've had the worst President in history at the most delicate time in history."

OK. So the yanks are the bad guys, but we all knew that. The British who are the good guys do a deal with the Chinese who almost become the good guys until the evil yanks offer them a nuclear deal. The whole plot spins around the post Kyoto2 rave which everyone is at and in the end the world economy crashes. Unusually the darker skinned guy doesn't get it first. He doesn't even die, he drives off. Oh and there is a dancing bear.

For a more scientific review click here

I'LL HAVE A K PLEASE BOB

I just found a really good PDF about ketamine written by the government of all people. As usual with these things they are paying way over the odds for their drugs but they can afford it eh.

FIRE BURN DEM

Everyone should watch Burn up. Everyone who hasn't already that is. Its an "Eco-Thriller". Its hilarious.

Some reviews:

...To say Beaufoy’s characters are two-dimensional would be an insult to flat surfaces...

...It probably would be sensible to at least wait until I’d seen the second part before condemning Burn Up as an absolute stinker. But why wait...

...It wasn’t a bad attempt at taking on climate change in a dramatic made-for-TV format. The first turns at addressing a new social/political phenomena are always going to be a little cliched...

..I expect it’ll get so much sillier in the final episode. But the greenies won’t care anyway...

I found the whole thing fucking hilarious. I laughed all the way through. After these stupid luvie terr-ist fantasies (First episode of Bonekickers and Britz) we needed a global warming thriller! I read loads more reviews of this where people were complimenting the acting. Strange. It looked to me like everyone was acting with the script stuck up their ass sideways. Don't get me wrong, I agree completely with the sentiment- we've got photo-voltaics on the roof, Mescoli woodchip burners, I cycle everywhere- I don't even use the tube if I can help it, but this is just crap. Hilarious, but crap. Can't wait for episode two.

Guess Wot?

Abu Hamza is- wait for it, still, still, still, still, definitely going to be deported. He is.

Frontline

Guns for Hire - The Good, the Bad and the Unregulated

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HELP

HALT?

round and round and round we go...

Britain should stop extraditing prisoners to America following the CIA’s admission that it ‘tortured’ terror suspects, an influential group of MPs has demanded.

The move by the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee would prevent the extradition of hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza, who faces terror charges in the US, and Babar Ahmad, accused of fund-raising for the Taliban.

Ministers have previously been willing to take at face-value statements from President George Bush that the US does not resort to torture.

But the committee says this should no longer be the case after CIA admitted the ‘waterboarding’ of three detainees

TESTIMONY

Amazing tales from some people who survived 7/7 by Testimony films on 4oD

IRAQ

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NO SHIT

Abu Hamza is apparently the single most newsworthy British Muslim.

TONIGHT

Online at the Frontline club A Fragile Soverignty

Chaired by Jon Snow (C4)
Patrick Cockburn (journalist and author)
Toby Dodge (QMU, London)
Major General John Batiste (via skype)
Yahia Said (Revenue Watch Institute and LSE)
Dr. Ali Al-Dabbagh (Iraqi government - via skype)

BONEKICKERS

OK, its got a christian cult based on the knights templar whose aim is to cleanse Britain of Muslims by the sword. This cult is led by a charismatic Christian. Its got a couple of brainwashed orphans, one of whom cuts a Muslim's head off with a sword. It ends with the discovery and subsequent burning of a hidden vault of crosses, supposed to include the cross of Jesus. The evil cult leader burns with the crosses. All of this and it still comes across as tepid. Is it me? Is this made by the same luvies who made Britz?

on the BBC iPlayer

UPDATE:

Some great blog reactions


Christianity-is-not-leftwing says

Extremist Christian sect beheads a Muslim? - Welcome to the weird and whimsical, wonderful world of 'Bonekickers' the BBC drama designed to make the unchurched believe - well - anything. And of course the scene is shown in graphic and sickening detail so that there can be no doubts about the subliminal message.

Chances of getting away with portraying this idea with religions reversed? - Approximately zero!

Bin Laden's deputy with bogroll

Abu Qatada, the man once described as Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe, was pictured out walking the streets on the third anniversary of the 7/7 terror bombings. He was carrying a lot of toilet rolls.

Marina Hynde in The Guardian says

...And so with Qatada. He was described breathlessly this week as "one of the world's most dangerous terrorists",

"Bin Laden's deputy in Europe", and even "Bin Laden's No 2". What a preposterous way to dignify this chap with the bumper pack of bog roll (the only clear link to a number two in the entire affair). It's the same witless flattery that led to Richard Reid being designated "the shoe bomber", as opposed to "that idiot who couldn't even set fire to his trainers"...

More Extradition

A judgment in the case of Hamza vs The USA