Aldermarston: Apparently, Aldermarston is currently being blockaded by protesters opposed to plans to expand the Atomic Weapons Establishment. There's a report on Indymedia.

Labels: aldermartson, nuclear, protest

 
Compare and Contrast
Republican Jon Kyl, talking about plans to subpoena the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over the sackings of the eight attorneys:

"It is a bad precedent to be subpoenaing the attorney general," he said, "I think it's clear that some people would view it purely as a political exercise."


Republican Jon Kyl, talking about his support for the impeachement of Bill Clinton:

"What is striking about this case is the President's persistent, sustained, carefully calculated, deliberate and callous manipulation of the judicial process for over a year...

An acquittal in this case will make it much harder to deal properly with similar conduct in the future. We will be hard pressed to perpetuate a double standard, so the lowest common denominator of conduct will be established as the permissible norm. And this cannot help but weaken the ability of courts to enforce truth-telling and prevent obstruction of justice. "

Labels: albert gonzalzes, bill clinton, jon kyl, republicans, US

 
Have your say
Since The Sun never approves my responses, for some reason, here's my response to the story about how six-figure sailor Faye Turney "blasted" the Iranian president:


Forgive me for worrying about facts... but was it Ahmadinejad's "brutal underlings stripped her to her knickers, threw her in a freezing cell and made her believe she would be killed" - or was that a local group working on their own initative?

That Ahmadinejad wasn't involved with the actual seizure of the sailors might explain why he didn't seem to know much about what happened to them while they were being held, don't you think?

If he'd personally ordered the capture, he presumably wouldn't have made mistakes on camera about what had happened to them.

By the way - can't find anything in the Sun about Sky News' role in the capture - that Iranian sources say that Skt's reports on Channel 5 had led them to believe HMS Cornwall was spying. Wonder why?

Labels: faye turney, iran, navy, rupert murdoch, sky news, the sun