Biffin Bridge

William F. Buckley: Let's All Join Hands and Insult The Living

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:07:00 +0800

William F. Buckley, the apologist for the terror that was, enjoys the good life.

[LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE]

Script titbit:
Those of you that see conservatism as vile, may I raise a small voice of protest? It's not that we don't have an ideology, we do, the sole purpose of our Ideology is to satisfy those of our constituents that don't have the requisite analytical powers to understand that which doesn't exist. The world has elements in it that are so complex that the exercise of trying to change it for an undemonstrated credo appears to me to be impertinent! There has to be an authority even if they're judged to be wrong... Because the alternative to that is reason and that simply won't do you know, our praetorian duty will always be to keep Pandora's box firmly closed.

Links:

Noam Chomsky on William F. Buckley's "The Firing Line" in 1969

Noam Chomsky's Obituary on the Big think

William Buckley and Gore Vidal: 1968 Democratic Convention Chicago

Music:

Charlie Parker: Old Folks

Romones and Lemmy: R.O.M.O.N.E.S

Reckless Negligence Destroys Grade One Listed Building

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:28:00 +0800

The blaze at Garrick Villa is an example of managing agents recommending contractors that don't know what they're doing.

The fire was caused by a "handyman" who was using burning-off equipment on the grade one listed building, the area in which he was working was a feature that David Garrick employed the furniture designer Robert Adam to build around 1754 using theatrical set design methods to construct a timber canopy that was floated on top of timber columns and held in place using a system of steel ropes and pulleys.

The paint system inevitably contained lead which needed testing before removal, this being the case, anyone that was supposed to be working on the structure should have been competent enough to know that burning off paint on or near a roof is extremely dangerous as highly inflammable material builds up in the roof area, all it took was a spark to set it all ablaze.

The managing agents Churcod & Co have surveyors and architects that should be well aware of the required methods for working on this building as they have been responsible for its upkeep for many years.

negligence

cheeseheadcoleman Sings one Song to The Tune of Another

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:55:00 +0800

A famous Chelsea fan leaving early, the callous chants of away fans don't help.

[LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE]

cheeseheadcoleman recites Attila The Stockbroker's spiteful didactic verse to a reggae classic in keeping with this blog's parasitic habit of passing off other people's material...

Attila The Stockbroker

BBC World News Head of Programmes, Paul Gibbs, says: "If Max (Keiser) had been on our screens a year ago we wouldn't be in this shit."

Karmabanqueradio

Will Hutton: "For 30 years, greedy, callow, ignorant financiers, supported by no less callow politicians from all the political parties, have proclaimed the wonders of financial innovation and how proud we all should be of the City of London. The price tag for their behaviour is an economic calamity. We should never have bought such snake oil. The consolation in these dark times is that we never will again."

Noam Chomsky: Anti-democratic nature of US capitalism is being exposed

"attila the stockbroker"

Soka Gakkai: Operation Damage limitation

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:19:00 +0800

Daisaku Ikeda Pictured with General Noriega

Daisaku Ikeda, president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI), has 555 honorary citizenships and holds the most honorary doctorates awarded to a single individual!

[LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE]

Yoshihiro Tsurumi: "The Bush administration,regards democracy
in Japan as no different from that of Russia. Both are viewed as
'kleptocracies.' On the surface, the political leaders are elected; but
the truth is that they constitute a country completely dominated by the
ruling party, which is in cahoots with the bureaucrats. Through the
distortions generated by their years of holding onto control and the
election system, they work with pressure groups that support them for
their own benefits. It is as if the citizens were under domination of a
gang of robbers."

Takayoshi Kitagawa: "While I wouldn't say that Soka Gakkai is seen as a cult, they
are a very structured, organized, militarist group that wields
immense political power."

Takashi Shokei: Ikeda is "[a] power-hungry
individual who intends to take control of the government and make
Soka Gakkai the national religion."

Notice Board:

Rick Ross: Archive for Soka Gakkai

Rick Ross (consultant)

Daisaku Ikeda's Wikipedia

Michiyo Nakamoto: Japan's LDP puts faith in religious partner

Rie Tsumura: Rape claims are unacceptable

Republic of Palau Honors Daisaku and Kaneko Ikeda

Choice cuts: Ikeda's Problematic Speech

Japan Today: Outspoken professor vents fury over Asahi Shimbun story spike

Soka Gakkai’s Cocaine Business

Polly Toynbee: The Value of a Grandfather Figure

"Soka Gakkai "

Griff Jenkins: 愚か者

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Mon, 8 Sep 2008 08:05:00 +0800

Foxnewsはアメリカの広告塔で嘘をついています。
私はレポーターのGriff Jenkinsは愚か者だと思います。

[LISTEN TO PODCAST]

Evidence, if any were needed, that Griff Jenkins of Fox news is a media whore!

Shareef Aleem was interviewed by the little grifter but Fox chose edit the conversation in preference to sensationalism, nice...

KGNU Independent Community Radio Afternoon Sound Alternative
4 September 2008
Rush Transcript

Shareef Aleem: "...Fox news man, this is a trip man, when they had the protest rally on the 24th of August in front of the state capital I was out there doing my media work, of course, and I was interviewing Ward Churchill and this Fox News reporter, really irritating bastard by the name of Griff Jenkins, you know, pushed his way though everybody pushed me to get to Ward Churchill to ask him a question, so, we lit Fox News up and if you want to check it out man go to YouTube and type in Fox Attacked the back story part 1 and you can see your boy Shariff Aleem doing it mean like a gangster lean beating the hell out of Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, Carl Rove and the rest of the Republican devils that's in office, heh-heh, no doubt, in honour of that man I'm going to play this cut that Naz did called Sly Fox this is off of his new CD.
... Fox News, I don't know if you've been following this Republican National convention man, but they're just cheer-leading and everything McCain and Palin does is right and they can do no wrong, and ain't that a trip? The Republicans are the first people to be telling Black folks get over it, your into your victimization, quit being a victim and when the White girl get up there; oh they're beating up on her because she's a woman and Barak Obama is so sexist!
GIVE ME A BREAK. O.K!? Fox News is the main one doing this cheer-leading... Joseph Goebbels will be smiling in his grave to know such a station exist."

Trash Audio: Vanessa Feltz

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:44:00 +0800

What price is free speech in the UK when a concerned individual can castigate anyone on radio talk shows except when accusations are made against global corporations.

[LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE]

The following podcast will argue that the public should be prevented from asking impertinent questions, that are no business of theirs and it would be better for all if we put or faith in self-regulated corporate responsibility.

Vanessa Feltz of BBC radio London has a popular radio show where she sifts through articles in the gutter press, administers pastoral care and invites her adoring listeners to contribute by phoning in, reactionary, morally indignant callers are most welcome.

Ann Diamond was sitting in for Vanessa Feltz while she was away, what a pity Vanessa didn't stay away, I say ditch the bitch.

Music
Norman Long: We Can't Let You Broadcast That
Gregory Isaacs: I'll Be On MY Way

What the lily-livered liberals say:

Grauniad: British libel laws violate human rights, says UN

Killer Coke

coca-cola

Supsa part 2

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:45:00 +0800

Baku-Supsa and the Baku-Batumi pipelines:

From what I understand Supsa is not a port but has a sub-standard oil storage depot near by [Link Bankwatch] , the oil at the Supsa terminal is sent to two ports: Poti, to the north which in the state of Georgia, presumably getting its oil by pipeline, and, Batumi to the south in semi-autonomous state of Ajaria by train.

Leaving aside the political aspects of the B-T-C pipeline, what benefits could be argued of using the B-T-C pipeline over these two pipelines that go to the black sea and what’s the future of the Baku-Batumi pipeline?

Batumi gets more oil from Supsa than Poti yet transit by train is surely inefficient, so, why does the oil from Supsa to Batumi get sent by train?

The bombing of Poti by Russia has meant no oil has been handled by either port, yet, Batumi appears to be fully functional will they be handling the oil that was destined to Poti and Ceyhan which was damaged by the PPK in Turkey?

Email from Isabel Gorst Financial Times:

“Oil delivered to Supsa by pipeline is exported from a loading facility located 2km offshore. It is not necessary to take it from there to Poti or Batumi.
There is no pipeline to Batumi, only a railway line
BTC is better than Baku Supsa because it is bigger and delivers oil to a deep water Mediterranean port freeing shippers from the inconvenience of navigating the crowded Bosphorus.”

Pictures of Poti and Supsa taken in 1999

Georgia Hopes for Boost from Caspian Pipeline

Hot News Turkey: Georgian oil ports Batumi Supsa operate party

BBC Robin Lustig on Georgia and Polish public opinion

**UPDATE**

The Georgian economy minister, Eka Sharashidze said that the Buku-Supsa was hit with two Russian missiles South East of Tbilisi which Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the deputy head of Russia's General Staff, has denied doing.

Mixed Intellegence: Where the Heck is Supsa?

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:21:00 +0800

Pictures of Poti and Supsa taken in 1999

US Department of Energy (EIA): "Baku-Supsa Pipeline (AIOC "Early Oil" Western Route) Baku to Supsa (Georgia), terminating at Supsa Black Sea Port "

Wikipedia:The Baku-Supsa Pipeline (also known as the Western Route Export Pipeline and Western Early Oil Pipeline) is an 830 kilometres (520 mi) long oil pipeline, which runs from the Sangachal Terminal near Baku to the Supsa terminal in Georgia. It transports oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli field. The pipeline is operated by BP.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline goes through Georgian territory and not Russian aligned that's why BP, Chevron, Total, Hess and others built it, but, According to the map above, provided by US Department of Energy, there's a thick red line indicating a pipeline! The Baku-Supsa Pipeline terminates at the port of Batumi in the Russian affiliated autonomous region of Ajaria!
Supsa looks like a one horse town in Georgia, it doesn't look very much like a port, I think I'm going Poti, Poti is also in Georgia, I guess that's why Poti was bombed but Russia said it was no threat to oil shipments, Will that mean business as usual in the Russian-friendly boomtown Batumi?

Reuters: Georgia's oil port of Supsa is operating only partially and oil tankers are not going into its Batumi port?

I guess not...

This much I do know; US energy interests with all the usual suspects are somewhere in the mix including Zbigniew Brzezinski and Blackwater.
Jeremy Scahill's book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is now available in a special updated edition!

Poti (north), Subsa (middle), Batumi (south)

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Supsa oil storage depot

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Addendum:

The BBC says that oil is transported from Supsa to Batumi by rail Link

The Baku-Batumi pipline Link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cv4l8

US Popularity Contest 2008 Backroom Boys: Zbigniew Brzezinski

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:49:00 +0800

It’s nice to know that the old guard like Zbigniev Brzezinski is imparting his wisdom to young Turks like Barack Obama under the universal banner of "change".

[LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE]

Allan Nairn: As US Votes on Who Will Hold the Trigger, Mayans Propagate Civilization
“The US Democrats’ dove is Barack Obama, whose chief foreign adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, greenlighted Israel to deliver the actual killing rifles (Galils) to Guatemala, since his President — Carter — was a little embarrassed.”

Noam Chomsky: It’s Imperialism Stupid
You can surmise that if everything runs without a hitch, and it is in the US interest, then Brzezinski is all for it!

Barry Grey: A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski
Brzezinski reading out damning allegations to the US senate from a New York Times article dated the 27 March, 2006 that in a memo, prepared by a British official who was present in a meeting between President Bush and his subordinate Tony Blair it was stated “that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush [allegedly] talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation.”

“God is on Your Side” (RealPlayer)
Brzezinski encouraging Mujahideen to kill and be killed to help the US bring down the Soviet Union.

Cooperative Research History Commons: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Further evidence of Zbigniew’s reckless meddling.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

US Popularity Contest 2008: Obama Becomes Third Favourite

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:50:00 +0800

I wonder if Cynthia McKinney would wear this T-Shirt?

LISTEN TO PODCAST

Barrack Obama is currently 11/4 third favourite to win the US Presidential election the reason for these low odds is probably because of his corporate appeal and an ability to forsake natural justice in favour of votes, welcome to the club Barrack!

Electronic Intifada: How Barack Obama learned to love Israel

The Angry Arab News service: Posts About Obama

Addendum:

Is Barack Obama the Messiah?

With friends like these…

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:47:00 +0800

weallspeakfootball
Originally uploaded by mindcaster.

Bicyclemark pictured enjoying the hospitality of the “Coke house” Berlin Football World Cup 2006 (board lodging and free tickets to games!)

Background:

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert of Karmabanque have websites, blogs , podcasts and are Al Jazeera filmmakers, their premise is that “price proceeds news.”
They have long held the belief that the best way to stop unaccountable bankers and corporations from destroying the planet is for activists to agree on a targeted boycott; that boycott is Coca-Cola…

Choice cutz taken from: Yeastradio podshow (quote taken from 30:31 into the show):

Madge: (Referring to sub-prime, the death of the Dollar, global warming and other subjects covered by karmabanque) “Max was right on about this stuff, not that the rest of us weren’t…”

Bicyclemark: “I just wanna [sic] add one more thing to that? (High Rising Intonation) I love Max very much or at least like him a lot… they’ve done a lot for me, but, but, a lot of people including Max and Stacy on karmabanque, karmabanqueradio.com, they really enjoy being right… I think we’re missing something, even 9/11 conspiracy people with all their websites and their videos have the same problem they lay out a little, y’know, argument, which may or may not be right, in Max’s case a lot of it is turning out to be right…(And here’s the stinger)
But you’re not offering anything to stop it, your not offering much of anything, all you’re doing is being right and celebrating being right."

("Et tu Brute"?)

Madge: “and making lots of money being right.”

Exclusive:
Stacy Herbert of karmabanque has told Biffin Bridge that Coca-Cola is still the boycott of choice.

…and here’s something that was prepared 2 years earlier.

Bicyclemark says the boycott of Coca-Cola is "old fashioned"

Bicyclemark Roasted on Karmabanque (the kamabanque link "Page Not Found") So you can...

[LISTEN TO THE ROASTING HERE]

If you like : )

Mindcaster's Ad hominem defence of corporate freebies: (one of bicyclemark’s pals who took the picture above at the weallspeakfootball junket sponsored by Coca-Cola at the Berlin world cup 2006) “straightchris you are like mosquito touchdowns, one point of interest, incredibly annoying but dismissible with one coordinated slap; a step further from this observation you’re a couch moralist spewing borrowed material on anyone you can find. It’s about time you deliver some comprehensive and original thought.”

berlin0606156
Originally uploaded by bicyclemark.

Biffin Editorial:

Madge Weinstein is a pioneer of podcasting who has promoted karmabanque and featured karmabanque in her show in the past.
She has also promoted Democracy Now to her audience as well as the global boycott of Coca-Cola.

Bicyclemark is also a veteran of podcasting with many interesting shows to his credit; which makes the nuanced comments about karmabanque hard to understand.

For bicyclemark to suggest that Max and Stacy have “done nothing”, is mistaken, they have both asked him to promote the boycott of Coca-Cola, a boycott that they have been working on since at least 2004.
The Karmabanque aim is to monetise dissent by using a targeted boycott, the Internet being the tool for this kind of viral marketing.
All you’ve got to do is use the banner.

*Biffin Bridge has not asked permission to host the karmabanque Sunday Roast with bicyclemark audio and assumes that it is covered by the creative commons licence.

Boycott Coke and have a nice day.

killer-coke

US Popularity Contest 2008: Thompson Flounders!

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:00:00 +0800

The betting public is let down by a blowhard that didn’t have the heart.

Sparky Collins, a trans gender Cuban reporter for Gambling911.com kept a dignified silence when Fred Thompson’s odds were slashed from 10-1 to 8-1 after he made remarks about Cuban immigrants being terrorists.
Sadly fascist Freddy was unable to sustain his vigour after this initial show of good form, as he has now surrendered from the race.

Steward’s inquiry:
Fred promotes the theory that Mars and Jupiter are also planets in the solar system that are warming up and he will not be hectored into admitting that global warming is a result of human activity*.

Fred Thompson is a visiting fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank funded by… Exxon Mobil.

*Experts on global climate change were censored by the Bush administration whose ties with the interests of oil and energy are well documented .

The coefficient of power in majority voting is ((2n)!/(22nn!2)

Auntie lies best

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:22:00 +0800

The BBC it’s “all good” until it’s too late! Back in 2002 Max Keiser of Karmabanque was talking about the impending Sub-Prime crisis the BBC makes it the word of the year for 2007 although they didn’t cover sub-prime until very late in 2007…

The BBC is a publicly funded corporation paid for by everyone in the UK who owns a television or equipment that can receive television programs this costs £135.50 ($270 aprox) per household per year.

The BBC’s charter is to “inform educate and entertain.”
To achieve this aim this is how the BBC fills our day in the UK:

Jeremy Paxman: an over-paid belligerent hack who conducts pointless interviews with the political class; a waste of time and money.

Matt Frei: Anchor for BBC America who looks like a Fox news reporter and fuck me running sounds like Fox news reporter too! Small Frei says: “There is no doubt that the desire to bring good, to bring American values to the rest of the world and especially now in the Middle East is now increasing tied up with American military power,” nice! (source John Pilger: Freedom next time).
Executive producer Rome Hartman states that "With Matt in the lead, we mean to bring the world home to America...to cover stories people won't find anywhere else on U.S.” I agree it won’t be a bit like Democracy Now, LinkTV or Al Jazeera.

Laurie Taylor: a Pot smoking Lothario and fucking bore who hosts the radio 4 show “Thinking Allowed”, his son, Matthew Taylor is the former head of policy studies for the Blair Labour project, Matthew talks bollocks on BBC current affairs programs with irritating regularity.

Melvyn Bragg: a smug Labour peer with a radio program called “In our time”, pleasantly diverting self-congratulatory intellectual onanism.

Vanessa Feltz: a media whore and talk show host who quotes extensively from The Daily “hate” Mail, a fascist paper in the UK. The Felch show is the worst of all on BBC radio London, a station that celebrates reactionary stereotypes as if it were a virtue 24/7.

Andrew Gilligan: an ex BBC Journalist who had to resign because he reported allegations that a dossier published by the British Government had deliberately suppressed intelligence reports about the military capabilities of Iraq.

Titbits from John Pilger’s “Freedom Next Time”:
“Impartiality is a principle that is suspended whenever the establishment is under threat.”
“2% of the BBC’s coverage of Iraq was given to anti-war dissent”

The Iraqi academic and activist Sami Ramadani’s view on the BBC

The bad News:
If you phone up TV licensing the chances are that you’ll be told that because the BBC streams programming over the Internet you are obligated to pay a licence fee.
If you cancel your TV licence you will be given notice that your “property is currently under investigation” in big red letters, ooh frightening!

The good news:
You can use the BBC iPlayer online and have a TV, TV card and digital receiver in your house, but, TV licensing will come ‘round to inspect your home and make sure that you are not using them for receiving or recording live TV broadcasts.

The bad News:
Will the rules change once there is the capability for live TV streaming through your Internet service provider?

…and finally:
The Sun, a tabloid newspaper with a long and bigoted history in the UK, owned by Rupert Murdoch, a cunt, has the scoop on the BBC planning to show adverts on selected television programmes.
What Sun readers think

…and now a message from the Carlyle group.

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:11:00 +0800

Bin Laden Coke
Originally uploaded by zer(o_0)ne.

Osama bin Laden: “As a prelude, I say that the USA has the biggest economic power and has the most powerful and most modern military arsenal and spends on this war and its army more than the world spends on its armies.”

Is Osama trying to calm the US sub-prime market meltdown? He’s got the cash why should he care about suckers being over leveraged?

Not that I give a damn but somebody with his wealth and resources should be able to order an apple laptop with an iSight camera and get it delivered to the tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan: the picture and sound quality of his keynote speech stinks on ice! After all, he managed to get hold of an all-whistles-and-bells kidney dialysis machine…

Propaganda:
All Broadcasting Caucasians

The British Bullshit Corporation

Sources:
Documentary about The Carlyle Group

Addendum:
Stacy Herbert thinks Osama has a false beard and is in Diego Garcia

The Reverend Fr. Dennis H. Holtschneider: upholding the DePaul tradition on free speech

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:12:00 +0800

Picture shows Thomas Klocek DePaul circa Fall 2004

Many people believe that The Reverend Fr. Dennis H. Holtschneider was unduly influenced in his decision to deny Norman Finkelstein’s tenure because of the damning dossier on Finkelstein sent to the Dean by Alan Dershowitz AKA “the Dersh”, “Fake”, “Plagiarist”, “the dude who keeps saying Ad Hominem”, “Morty the troll” co-author of the authoritative commentary of “From Time Immemorial” as told to a research fellow that’s not too hot at spelling or checking the sources.
The Reverend Father wrote that Norm, as with all staff, needed to: "strive to be objective in their professional judgment of colleagues."

straightchris was so moved by his conviction that he sent an email to Holtschneider of DePaul praising his believes:

DePaulPresidentsOffice[at]depaul.edu

Your Eminence,

Thank you for keeping up the tradition of suppressing academic freedom, your part in Norman Finkelstein’s tenure bid is outstanding!
We live in modern times and it is unfortunate that Norm didn’t suffer the same fate as Cayetano Ripoll…

Keep the up doctrine of faith!

Your servant,

straightchris

Norm’s site

Frank Menetrez: Dershowitz v. Finkelstein: Who's Right and Who's Wrong?

Student mag at DePaul

The case of Klocek

DePaul Students Protesting for Prof. Finkelstein and Larudee

¡Suzanna demuestra la solidaridad para el Normando!

Interlude: Next country to invade?

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Sat, 26 May 2007 15:29:00 +0800

Fuck! The seppos are going to bomb Bogan!
Somebody tell these drongos it’s a map of planet Chomsky not a fucking smörgåsbord!

Norman Podwhoretz, the recipient of the "Guardian of Zion Award, wants Bush to bomb Iran!

Norman Podhoretz: The Case for Bombing Iran

On a more serious note, the Israeli entry “Push The Button” failed to make the Eurovision Song Contest Finals in Helsinki this year because of vote manipulation by the former Eastern block countries, and, a desire by dark forces within Eurovision to gag any political dissent regardless of the musical merits! The Israeli entry by Teapacks has an ingenious use of the Spanish Phrygian scale that modulates on three or more themes, uses two European languages and an urban argot based on Phoenician Aramaic incorporated in a surprising syncopated middle section; a cogent case if any were needed to abandon phone voting and restore the panels of library music experts better able to scrutinize the performances. Judge for yourselves!

Eminent Trolls: The Wrath of Dershowitz

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:05:00 +0800

The Dersh has drawn up a comprehensive brief about Norm on why he should lose his job at DePaul University and has sent it to Dean! I bet Dershowitz was a right little snitch at school…
“His scholarship is no more than (wait for it) ad hominem attacks on his ideological enemies.” I’m no scholar but isn’t it ad hominem to dismiss a body of work as ad hominem without addressing the substantive issues mate?

[LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE]

Notice board:
Peter N. Kirstein: The Entire Text of The Suchar Memorandum Concerning DePaul University Professor Norman G. Finkelstein (with commentary)

Alan Dershowitz’s blog post

Noam Chomsky Accuses Alan Dershowitz of Launching a "Jihad" to Block Norman Finkelstein From Getting Tenure at Depaul University

Norman Finkelstein puts the phoneys of the Tehran conference in their place

Feud Weakens Prof’s Tenure Bid

Irsahd Manji’s alleged “disconcerting” email from Norman Finkelstein

Nichole Simon’s blog post on those Mean Kids and death treats

Carlos Latuff’s sticky Wiki

Dershowitz “teaching Yule Brenner some respect”

Norman Finkelstein on Lebanese TV (the edited YouTube version)

Norman Finkelstein on Lebanese TV (the un-doctored version)

Soros adds voice to debate over Israel lobby

Creative Commons

Main sources:

As’ad AbuKhalil

Norman Finkelstein

Addendum:
Dr. Marcy Newman: Tenure

Crystal: the dersh was staring at my boobs

Peter Novic’s views on Dershowitz’s interference with Finkelstein’s tenure

Norman G. Finkelstein Solidarity Campaign (links to most of the relevant documents)

dershowitz

Zac Goldsmith, Karmabanque and The Coca-Cola Hedge Fund.

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:17:00 +0800

Zac Goldsmith has joined the Tory Toffs who say they can manage events by trusting some very nasty people.

[LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE]

Edited transcript:

Zac Goldsmith, editor of the Ecologist magazine, had some kind of problem with Monsanto involving an article written by Brian Tokar back in 1998, the first run of 14,000 copies were destroyed and after that some high street newsagents refused to sell them.

Zac is a partner of a bookmaking firm called Fitzdares in London, his associates are James Osborne MP and Taki Theodoracopulos, Taki did three months in Prison for trying to smuggle 23 grams of Cocaine into the UK. (How could Fitzdares get a license when a convicted drug smuggler is "involved"?)

The Washington Post wrote on December 25, 2004: “The anti-Coke campaign has been called by its founders (Karmabanque) a "smart boycott." Goldsmith said he believes he can push Coca-Cola shares to as low as $22.”
Goldsmith later said: "The hedge fund is not mine in any sense I didn't set it up. I haven't provided financial support, and I do not manage it. Any suggestion to the contrary is false."

Zac Goldsmith now works with a John Gummer MP who is on the Coca-cola environmental advisory board

David Cameron said: “Who better than Coca Cola, a firm with a better distribution network in sub-Saharan Africa than any aid agency, to get materials out to needy populations?”

Steve Hilton is the Conservative Party consultant and godfather to David Cameron’s first child, his business consultancy “Good Business” has clients such as McDonald's and Coca-Cola.

Zac Goldsmith: "Coke represents the cutting-edge of a global monoculture that is undermining real human diversity,"

Cameron said Ronald Reagan had had the right idea when he made the joke "If it moves, tax it. If it still moves, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it." (There were a lot of backroom deals going on in those days, lax enforcement and greatly reduced fines).

Zac Goldsmith the Conservative candidate for Richmond Park.

The audio file is for non-commercial use Creative Commons

Articles:
Brian Tokar: Monsanto a Checkered History

BullShit: A documentary film about Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva

Sarah Newstead of The Richmond and Twickenham Times has a glowing report on Zac

Max Keiser’s article about the Coca-Cola boycott in The Ecoloist

Washington Post: Zac is reported saying he wanted to force the price of Coke stock down

D. Murali: Fluid state of water battles

The Torygraph: Article about Steve Hilton

Newsweek: Steve Hilton and David Cameron

Watch Coke’s stock price go down

Coca-Cola, Human Rights and Child Labour

David Cameron’s corporate blurb

Audrey Beckford: Article about Taki the drug smuggler, liar, fascist sympathizer and close friend of Zac Goldsmith

Taki writes about his venture with Zac Goldsmith

Links:
The case against Coke

Killer coke

Karmabanque Radio

Karmabanque

The Boycott Coca-Cola Experience

coca-cola

Addendum:
Who Fitzdares Wins right?

High Society: Begum Nawazish Ali and his Violence Against Women

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:39:00 +0800

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Edited transcript:
There’s a syndicated article that’s been doing the rounds recently by Salman Masood about a phenomenon that promises to be a global sensation!
The article is about a bisexual TV TV star that is world famous in Pakistan called Ali Saleem who, as a drag queen, has developed a character called Begum Nawazish Ali.

In some parts of the Muslim world gay men, mukhannathun, are generally accepted, because god created them, so, they have no blame or shame, unless they perform what is termed “illicit acts”.

Ali Saleem alias Begum Nawazish also provides a “port in a storm” for young single heterosexual males in Pakistan, in fact “The Begum” has openly boasted that he had received unprotected anal sex with no less than 20 servants one evening at a truck stop near “The Marina Club” in Karachi after which he then performed fellatio on each and every one of them.

On New Years Eve at the “The Black and White ball” in Lahore Begum Nawazish beat up his Blonde English socialite girlfriend in front of everybody in what must been a prolonged and violent assault as someone later commented that “ he is not the feminist he would have us all believe” as the same blonde woman was spotted at KHI with a bandaged hand and a severely bruised face.

If you have a view about violence against women you could express your opinion on the Gagan Grewal show which is a BBC Asia Network programme; Begum Nawazish contributes to the show every Tuesday at 19:00 hrs GMT, listeners can call in, email and post messages on the show’s website.

Addendum:
MSNBC singing from the same hymn-sheet as The New York Times and announcing the “scoop” of “The Begum’s” political ambitions, which is further proof, if any were needed, that she’s chronically on “the devil’s dandruff”.

Mogodon Moments: Hellen hath no fury than a woman scorned!

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Sun, 7 Jan 2007 20:03:00 +0800

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This is how Sunday Times trumped-up hack Nicholas Hellen might look if he was a medieval courtier.

Biffin Bridge Notice Board:
The text of Nicholas Hellen’s blackmail to Zoë Margolis aka Abby Lee Girl With a One Track Mind;

Nick Hellen’s pathetic scoop, lifting the veil on Abby Lee;

Susan Mernit’ Blog: Sex blogger outed by a yellow journalist plots revenge;

Big stick Small carrot: A Free Press;

Bill Peschel: Don’t piss off a Brit;

Madam Arcati;

Berbacia Clemons (featured singer in the Mogodon Moment);

Snaps of Sir Michael Peat and his son Charlie at some do on the "rubber chicken" circuit;

Sunday Times Editor John Witherow’s wiki stub.

Contact details:
Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times Nicholas Hellen can be on: 020 7 782 5000 (if you are drunk and dialling outside UK the prefix is 4420) ask for Lord Percy, he’s currently on holiday but will be back at his desk on Tuesday 9 January.

He can also be contacted by email on: nicholas.hellen@sunday-times.co.uk

Addendum:
The Madame Arcati article about “Mr Hell” in full.

Biffin-Bridge Advertiser: Christmas TV

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:19:00 +0800

There is no God, Jesus was human, 2,000 years of murder and lies, long live the inquisition!

Robert Beckford’s programmes are fascinating, they give excellent material for those of us who want a new kind of religion.

rogueclassicism gives views and links about Robert Beckford’s Channel 4 programme “The Secret Family of Jesus”

The Daily Hate Mail’s review on “The Secret family of Jesus” (don’t waste your time posting comments about Jesus’ teachings on greed and injustice or the superior rights of global corporations as comments are monitored).

Robert Beckford’s wiki entry.

download locations: seeding for Jesus.

Flog a dead blog:
memorylanemick: In Defence of Faiths

suggested mantra

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:21:00 +0800

suggested mantra
Originally uploaded by Boycott Coke.

Painting by fairtradetrousers

Oh the privations of giving up Coca-Cola!
Convincing people about the logic of boycotting Coca-Cola can be frustrating as the impression many give, as well as ad hominem arguments, is that it is too much of a burden to be bothered with.
This is a quote from Max Keiser of Karmabanque
“We the people have the power to take coke's stock down to zero. And we the people are the shepherd of the global economy, not the corporations. We don't want corporations being our shepherd for obvious reasons; they're not in the humanity business. At the moment; the corporations seem to think that they can do anything they want with impunity this is a very unhealthy situation as I see it because the these corporations are extremely narrow in their focus and tend to destroy things like the environment without thinking twice about it...
Is coke OK, is coke not OK? This is not the question. The question is, are we going to stand and start pushing back and reasserting ourselves as the rightful architects of our destiny in this globalized world are we going to let narrowly focused, non-accountable, dubious product pushing monopolists undermine our freedoms? Coke is vulnerable, let's take it down and reassert our dominion in this world.”

A selection of blogs that boycott:
Madge Weinstein’s Yeast Radio
The Gay Expat
October the first is too late
Jason Gooljar Click Wars?
uglymunky An article by a man who was there, protesting outside the Coke bottling plant in Columbia, so he should know.
Anti MNC forum The Ghandian Socialist party with international updates and news.
Welcome to Pottersville It’s a wonderful blog! Scroll down to the piece about Deval Patrick the Coke Counsel.
Ógra Shinn Féin Coverage of an International football rules match in Ireland against a visiting Australian team where Coca-Cola was shown the red card.
bakebrain More coverage of that Anti Coca-Cola match in Ireland with commentary of the game and match results!
till dawn The cartoonist who just doesn’t like Coke!
amysuelovesyou Gives you 12 reasons not to drink Coca-Cola.
La Torre di Babele Says “Coca-Cola, no grazie!” This blog says “prego.”
ジョエル Scroll down and see “link of the day.”
antikriegsblog Cola-Cola tötet, great image linking the boycott of Coca-Cola with the anti-war movement.
cat8181 Does she know about karmabanque?
the void Johnny gives the message pure and simple.

Flog a dead blog:
Coke Fiend Danny Baker and links about “the real thing”

Lieberman for Liebensraum

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Sun, 3 Dec 2006 03:54:00 +0800

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Ehud Olmert

The Russians have arrived in the holy land and they are making their presence felt. Nancy Pelosi extends the hand of friendship to the most valued friends of the United States.

Articles:

Dems Rebut Carter on Israeli 'Apartheid'

Interview with Dr Ilan Pappe

AIPAC celebrating before the bill has passed

Track the bill S.1554 through congress

Israel developing anti-militant "bionic hornet"

One State or Two? Rashid Khalidi & Ali Abunimah on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

An interesting article about ISCAR

The Ethnic Cleansing Party Outpaces Likud

A Jewish Hitler? The rise of Avigdor Lieberman

Tourism and gambling in Eilat

Israeli settlers campaigning against the destruction of Wadi Fuqeen

Main Sources:

Max and Stacy

As'ad AbuKhalil

Mosaic: daily TV news programs produced by national broadcasters throughout the Middle East

Join The Boycott Coke Experience and make a difference

Flog a dead blog:

It's chutzpah week

Addendum:

Israel acting as middlemen for US arms deals to Saddam Hussein’s regime during Iran-Contra

Open letter to Hillary Rotten Clinton from Howard Horowitz and Andrew Courtney about Avigdor

COX News: The Uzbek Dictator, his Daughter, Rendition flights and Coca-Cola

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:51:00 +0800

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A Picture of President Karimov’s Daughter Gulnara Karimova aka the pop star Googoosha

Downtown Taskent is full of UK Embassy staff with no interest in the country or it’s people and US intelligence agencies making up stories out of Uzbek intelligence dross extracted from torture.

Colin Powell signed off the certification that said that Uzbekistan was making progress towards human rights.

Colin Powell was lying.

Links:

Craig Murray: The Uzbekistan blog!

Craig Murray: The Dangers of Friendly Dictatorships

CorpWatch: Coca-Cola accused over Uzbek venture

Gulnara Karimova’s Wiki entry

The Roberts Report: President Islom Karimov’s daughter Gulnara (aka Googoosha)

Karmabanque: Boycott Coca-Cola

Googoosha on YouTube (adult entertainment)

Addendum:
Plane spotting

Craig Murray’s confidential documents page!

Interlude: Fairtradetrousers

lf459-10@yahoo.co.uk (straightchris) — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:44:00 +0800

There will now be a brief interlude programmes will follow shortly…