Murdoch's Man Talks Balls

Irwin Seltzer, Murdoch's consigliare, the man who told Tony to hold a refendum on the EC Constitution has pronounced on the Brown government. Interestingly it was only after Guardian Editor, Peter Preston mentioned David Milliband as a future Chancellor that Irwin trots out to endorse Ed Balls.

So, that's Gordon told.

I think you guys should be

I think you guys should be looking at the Afghan deployment a little bit more. The Afghan war is a failure, according to this report from CSIS sponsored by USAid. Just a snippet (pdf).

Even the Afghan army, on which the future stability of the occupation depends, is unable to retain new recruits. The insurgents are winning over disillusioned soldiers and pay four times the rate of the national army – despite it receiving billions of dollars of US military aid. The army “remains ineffective and held in low esteem”.

Like the American disease,

Like the American disease, only wars that 'we' (not in my name!) are losing are 'bad' wars.

The invasion of Afghanistan was illegal from the outset, and as the slaughter fest unfurled, many more illegal acts followed. When asked what the Afghan people wanted most, they replied "Justice". Yet when the 'killers accomplace' otherwise known as Hamid Karsai was asked if he would meet this demand, he energetically refused.

The struggle by the Afghan people to rid their land of the barbarians who have invaded it to plunder it and use it for plundered resourvce transit, is in fact, a just one. The only dissappointment one experiences on hearing of suicide bombers in Kabul at the bombing of killer and torturer Cheney yesterday, is that on this occasion, they did not succeed.

Ugly Rumours

Ugly Rumours record... going into Top Ten today - BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6401299.stm

Yes, I know its off topic, but I wonder what Gordon Brown will make of this?

Thanks Peacewisher, that's

Thanks Peacewisher, that's good news.

Posted the link to the front

Posted the link to the front page, cheers.

Murdoch is definitely on the

Murdoch is definitely on the move - does he know something we don't?