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Monday, February 20, 2006
WELL DONE, WE'VE BOMBED OURSELVES: How goes the war on terror? It turns out that not only was the bombing of Baghdad using depleted uranium an inhuman act which will cause suffering for Iraqis, but it's also going to cause suffering for the British and Europeans too - University of Liverpool research has found that the shelling has boosted radiation across the continent:
Mr Busby's report found higher levels were recorded at the five sites nine days after the start of the Iraq conflict on March 19, 2003.
It says that weather conditions at the time recorded a northbound airflow from Iraq which also resulted in substantial deposits of sand from the Sahara Desert being dumped on British soil.
Mr Busby, who is a founding member of the Green Audit environmental group, says the findings are proof that uranium from munitions was carried to Britain by wind currents.
He believes official claims that the uranium is not harmful are misleading.
Mr Busby said: "The point is that it is radioactive.
"If you contaminate enough people, even at a low risk then clearly it is going to have an effect on them.
"It is contrary to human rights to contaminate whole populations with a substance that could potentially harm their health."
There is, at least, something poetic about the idea of Tony Blair and his family breathing in radioactive dust he was happy to have dumped on Iraqi families.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
MONEY WELL SPENT: The quality of life for everyone in the US is so great, the nation feels it can spare fifty million dollars to pump out propaganda broadcasts to Iran.
Oddly, that's just a little under the proposed cuts in central funding to the US Public Broadcasting network.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
POISON IN THE AIR:
We can't help wondering what set off a detector in the Capitol Building this morning - presumably, the sensor for nerve gas was just picking up the increasing levels of poison floating about in the air.
A latest example: Capitol Hill staff have been removing embarassing but accurate material from Wikipedia:
Senator Coleman's office has confirmed that staff there had made a number of changes to his online record.
Where he was described as a "liberal" back in college, this was changed to "activist".
Among other changes, staff also deleted a reference to Mr Coleman voting with President Bush 98% of the time in 2003, despite running as a moderate the year before.
Wikipedia said staffers of Senator Tom Harkin had removed a paragraph relating to Mr Harkin's having falsely claimed to have flown combat missions over North Vietnam, and his subsequent recantation.
A handful of miscellaneous vandalism edits had been made to some senators' articles, it said.
One example was the entry for Republican Senator Tom Coburn, of Oklahoma, who it was falsely alleged had been voted "most annoying senator".
Bush editing block
Senator Coleman's chief of staff, Erich Mische, said editing was done to correct inaccuracies and delete information that was not reflective of the politician.
Inaccuracies is one thing - correcting Wikipedia is a fine thing to do. But it's not his staff's place to decide what is and isn't reflective of his public stance. If he wants a "rah-rah-rah, I'm great" website, let him pay for one.