The Yorkshire Ranter

Well, the Americans have something to cheer however briefly. The corpse photos are out. I see the point, after all there are plenty of people here who don’t really believe in scientific proofs – but it’s a tad barbaric. Why not stick their heads on a pole and parade them through the streets of Baghdad..that’s…

This is an act of god-like genius.

Now that’s just plain un-American

Beirut Calling blogged a very interesting story concerning that US/Syrian frontier incident…here it is.. EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Syria raid killed 80 By RICHARD SALE, UPI Intelligence Correspondent Depicted by the Pentagon as a mere border skirmish, the June 18 strike into Syria by U.S. military forces was, in fact, based on mistaken intelligence and penetrated more…

It didn’t take long for the government’s line of attack to become obvious after the death of Dr Kelly, and it could hardly have been more depressing, more unworthy or more dishonest. The strategy is obviously to whip up a BBC-bashing campaign in the Murdoch press, always willing to have a pop at their oh-so-inconvenient…

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“There goes another pesky journalist!”

As is well known, all scandals are given a designation ending in -GATE in much the same way as tropical cyclones are given names and US invasions are given codenames according to where they occur. (Ops. DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, DESERT FOX – all Iraq, Ops. INFINITE REACH and INFINITE JUSTICE were both Afghanistan. In…

The NEF’s basic idea is that when a public authority of any kind has a capital project on, they could form a mutual pension fund to finance it. The members would sign up and pay in their pension contributions + employer contributions and the like, and the fund would build the project and lease it…

Well, it would appear there are two B727s making the news…PPRuNe link…..but it appears from the next page of the thread that it’s all over. The aircraft was apparently sold to a new owner after its repossession – who knew nothing of its dodgy and dramatic past. Haven’t we all met people like that! It…