tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37276322011-04-21T18:06:38.056ZManifold ideas and thoughts noted down. Sex. UFOs. Space Aliens. Scotsmen. Irishmen. Englishmen. Van Gogh. The Cameron Highlanders. The Portuguese. The Sri Lankans. And of course the Gauls.Vinodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15011791478925914315noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3727632.post-1161530152643092132006-10-22T14:54:00.000Z2006-10-22T15:24:09.980Z

Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters a retired U.S. Army intelligence officer and New York Post pundit advocates the hyper-balkanisation of the Middle East: ‘A just alignment in the region would leave Iraq's three Sunni-majority provinces as a truncated state that might eventually choose to unify with a Syria that loses its littoral to a Mediterranean-oriented Greater Lebanon: Phoenicia reborn. The

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2003:According to the architect of "Shock and Awe", military strategist Harlan Ullman, the plan would rely on an extensive array of precision-guided weapons. "We want them to quit, not to fight," Ullman said, "so that you have this simultaneous effect - rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima - not taking days or weeks but minutes." The main objective was not just to disable Iraq's fighting

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"Lt Gen Richards, who says British forces have been involved in some of the fiercest fighting since Korea, has now decided to withdraw from outlying positions, which will be taken over by the Afghan forces. It is a decision that some have questioned... An officer who has served in Helmand said... "We did not expect the ferocity of the engagements. We also expected the Taliban to carry out hit and

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The costs in military dead so far for Petrolica and its allies in Arbusto's adventure in Iraq are given by Iraq Coalition Casualty Count as (upto 31st August):The number of dead Iraqi lascoreens employed as policemen and army troops is not quite so accurate. However, they are given as:Up to Dec 2004....1,300After Jan 2005.....4,016Total...................5,316Here in graphical form is the '

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The history of the Light Infantry (LI) goes back to the colonial war in North America (the 'French and Indian War') that preceded and then ran concurrently with the 'Seven Years War'. Groups of skilled North American skirmishers were recruited to fight the French colonists and their Native American allies.Napoleon later used such skirmishers in front of his own main lines and the British Army

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Dates: 21st - 23rd SeptemberPlace: Albert Square, Manchester There are only three weeks to go until the Military Families Peace Camp to highlight the MFAW campaign and the TIME TO GO demonstration at the Labour conference in Manchester on 23rd September * The Camp is open to all those who want to show their support for the MFAW campaign to get the troops home. * Please publicise the Peace

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In an article in today’s Observer, the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, David Cameron has made common cause with the Cryptocommunist Islamofascist terrorist Nelson Mandela, whom he calls 'one of the greatest men alive'. The policy decisions his Party made with respect to relations with the ANC and sanctions on South Africa he describes as ‘mistakes’ and writes 'that there is so much to

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Galloway wipes the floor with Sky NewsreaderSky News broadcast an interview with George Galloway, MP for Bethnel Green on 6th August. The exchange between Galloway and the Sky Newsreader, regarding the war in Lebanon is both entertaining and revealing. Here is how it began:Sky Newsreader: Joining me now is a man who’s not known for sitting on the fence. He passionately opposed the invasion of

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Cyber-Organism RNE-800-101 SACRAMENTO, 25 Aug 2006. (UPI) – California’s Black & More-Egg Corporation has settled a court case by a British woman who claimed that the Corporation’s RNE-Series model 800-101 killer cybernetic organism groped her after she interviewed him on television. Lawyers for Black & More-Egg and for Anna Richardson, a former television host, told the Los Angeles Times that

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POPULAR DEL NORTE NAVAL STATION, Virgenia State, Petrolica — The Petrolican Navy announced on Wednesday that the amphibious assault ship P.S. Avispa is set to begin a sudden, unscheduled deployment to Lebanese waters. Nearly 1,300 sailors — including Avispa’s crew, a Helicopter Mine Countermeasure Squadron detachment, and Assault Craft Units— will leave Popular del Norte Naval Station as early

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Dan Halutz, the Rav Aluf (‘supremo’) of Tzahal, the armed wing of the Zionist movement, has for the first time publicly admitted to failings in its conflict with Hizbollah. In a letter to grassroots fighters, he said it had exposed shortcomings in the group's logistics, operations and command. There would be a thorough and honest investigation, he said. Tzahal lost 116 gunmen. It killed about

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Jorge 'Bring Em On' Arbusto explains a point to the press Reuters news agency reports on 23rd August that the President of Petrolica, Jorge Dubia Arbusto has telephoned President ‘Al Mush’ Pervez and thanked him for Bananistan’s help in foiling a conspiracy to blow up airliners over the Atlantic. On 10th August the Police announced they had arrested over 20 people and foiled this plot to blow

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Evzones of the Royal Hellenic Regiment of Nova Scotia posted in Kandahar prepare to dance the Hasaposerviko and frighten off the Taliban, à la Carry on up the Khyber.Photo © RP McDonaldFor those who haven't actually seen the film Carry on up the Khyber, vide http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062782/.Just for the record, these photos are actually from the Halifax Citadel and not from Kandahar at

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Canadian shock troops preparing to defend Kandahar against Taliban irregularsPhoto © J Blum Nelofer Pazira, the journalist who starred in the film 'Kandahar', reports in the Independent of 21 August 2006 that in the eponymous metropolis: ‘there is no war, no shooting, no rockets. At least not yet, although the Taliban wave is re-conquering Afghanistan, and fighting is spreading through

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BBC and Agencies, Saturday, 19 August 2006 Tzahal, the Zionist armed wing has admitted that it carried out an overnight raid inside Lebanon in the Bekaa Valley. Tzahal's fresh attack in Lebanon came five days after a UN-brokered ceasefire ended the month-long conflict and hours after UN chief Kofi Annan warned of a 'fragile' situation on the ground. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora

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Ross St, Sydney.

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Fri 18 Aug 2006 BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Routers) - Israeli militants killed two Palestinian soldiers after a standoff near the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday, Palestinian witnesses and Tzahal, the armed wing of the Zionist movement said. An Israeli spokeswoman for Tzahal admitted that two Palestinian soldiers were shot and killed when they resisted a kidnapping attempt

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Links:Ven SomaA reaction is setting in throughout the world to contemporary Western hegemonism. It can be seen in the concept of the modern Jihad among the Muslim nations and in the Hindutva crusade in India. Is it now spreading to other peoples and faiths?

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Europe is undergoing a heatwave. Fires in Portugal. Also in Canada.Dubya thinks that there is no global warming.

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Dubya's desperation and megalomania could lead to massively fatal miscalculations.By Kim Evan-morePanmungjong News WeeklyOne of the tougher reviews for the new Kim Jong-il movie, Die Another Day, came from an official-sounding organisation, located in Washington, USA, called the 'New American Century'.The film, the villain of which is a Fundamentalist US President who develops a doomsday weapon

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By NADL AL EWIS Baghdad (Ohio) Times and Picayune30th March 2003Senior officials of the Iraqi Government said that they were collecting evidence of war crimes including the apparent execution of Iraqi civilians. The evidence will be used to prosecute Americans after the war in international tribunals, they said. The officials also said that they were planning more trials that would hold American

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British News Release - George S BootlickusBAGHDAD, 28 February — The British Defence Ministry today released a proposed list of 24 crimes to be used by tribunals conducting trials for adversaries captured in the campaign against terrorism and held by the military.The document, which is titled "Crimes (excluding US and Allied) for Trials by Military Commission" includes attacks on civilians, the

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Ghulian Al Borqer in BaghdadSaturday 4 January 2003President Saddam Hussein yesterday readied Iraqi troops for "crucial hours" ahead in the crisis over Iraq, denouncing George Bush for showing contempt for the UN as the Pentagon ordered the dispatch of thousands of marines to the Gulf.Dressed in an olive military jacket, the president made his most combative speech on the USA to date, dismissing

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By Daoud El SanqerMANCHESTER, N.H., 5 Oct — President Bush today argued for rapid, pre-emptive action against Israel, saying that Ariel Sharon "has a horrible history" of striking without warning. "We cannot ignore history," Mr. Bush said in the armoury in this sleepy New England town. "We must not ignore reality. We must do everything we can to disarm this man before he hurts one single American

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By Sir Poul Asimov (Decd)The Top Nation on the planet Idli was Ainosu. Now, Aybud Shrub was chosen Diktor by the Conglomerate of Larenim, of which the Seven Virgins were the chiefs. It came to pass that the Seven Virgins wanted to take Thel fluid from Natsiribat to Natlum (in Dhnih) by way of Inzagh. The rulers of Inzagh were the dreaded Baliset, who were allied to Nidho the One-eyed. So Aybud

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By WL Hoban, c 1935Yer head, yer een, yer mou, yer lugs,Tale me yer nane o’ Scoatlan’s dogsYou cam frae somwhar oot abroadWhar miners do naught but fish fer codHollow-ground razorsHammersmith broadwayQueen VictoriaVery good man.

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‘It serves them right’ a taxi driver told me on the day after 9/11, in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, while expressing sorrow at the tragedy. When Colombo Airport was attacked in July 2001, the US Government advised its citizens to stay away from here. The attack on the WTC proved that targets in the USA were as prone to terrorist attacks as Sri Lanka’s. However, his grim satisfaction at justice

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By Sun Wu GungWashington, 26th Aug. - The Jiang Zemin administration has listed an obscure Democratic group fighting Republican rule in America as a terrorist organization, a visiting senior Chinese official disclosed here tonight.The step pleased Washington, which is anxious to portray its crackdown on restive Americans in the USA as part of the global campaign against terrorism, and it might

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By EID MUBARAK President Bush's policy of ousting Ariel Sharon creates an extraordinary standard of strategic and moral clarity. Millions in the Middle East, including many Israelis, are praying that the in-depth, genuine - and so typically American - public debate that is developing before our eyes about Israel will not dilute this clarity.On a practical level, the whole debate can be reduced to

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On hearing that Bonnybridge is the UFO Capital of the worldApologies to Woody GuthrieMony a month ha' cam and ganeSince I've tandered frae my hameIn thase highland braesWhar I wa' bornMony a page o' my life ha' turnitMony lessons I have learnitAn' I feel like in thase braesWhar I belangCHORUS:Wa' doon yonder in the alien nationDriving on the motorway reservationIn the highland braes whar I wa'

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Bovevagh, Northern Ireland, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The amazing thing about a group of Irishmen hunting for landmines in a rebel-held area may not be that they wear Wellington boots and use crude rakes, but that only two of them have died.The de-miners, working for a humanitarian group run by the Irish Republican Army (IRA), have been toiling for the past two years in Derry in Northern Ireland to

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