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Osama Bin Laden has all but admitted responsibility for the GWB attack in a grainy video partially released by the FBI On the tape, Bin Laden can be heard boasting to colleagues that “…We have thousands more pretzels willing to die..” Security forces worldwide have been put on high alert for a new wave of terror which could include Banzai Bagels and Kamikaze Canolies January 15th, 2002 | Comments are closed
 How appropriate that, with the end of January almost upon us, and so many are struggling to complete their tax returns, we get a little lift from the EU Commission who have hinted that they may relieve of this onerous duty. Instead, it is suggested that, in future, we simply remit our hard-earned direct to Brussels What I like is the assertion that this new idea appears in a confidential letter sent by EU Commissioner, Michaele Schreyer, to her fellow EU Commissioners. Yes, the letter was so confidential that it has been splashed all over the front page of the EU Observer. As if we have been treated to a tantalising glimpse of the goings-on behind the Chocolate Curtain Nothing of the sort. This is an administrative trick. The decision by the EU to tax direct has already been made and this little pantomime is to test public and media response. The European equivalent of running it up the flagpole and seeing if anybody salutes (or balks) But what matter really? Balk away. Its on the cards regardless January 14th, 2002 | Comments are closed
I’ve had it on my mind recently to check out the website of Amnesty International. I do recall clearly that, when I was a student, it was an organisation so esteemed that it was generally held to be the very highest arbiter of human affairs among anybody who was anybody. Why, the mere utterance of its name was sufficient to bring on paroxysms of crippling guilt and po-faced righteousness in equal measure So I moseyed along to their website to see what they had to say for themselves these days, and guess what I found? Well, according to Amnesty the way to ‘Stop the Terror’ is to abolish the trade in small arms. They’d be better off trying to stop the proliferation of the word sustainable which pops up all over their website like a plague Now, in fairness to them, they do highlight the fact that small arms are used by tyrannical governments, guerillas and criminals to bully and kill innocent civilians but what they speciously fail to realise is that abolishing the means of self-defence is not the way to discourage them Oh and there’s a lot of other guff about the diamond trade being (shock, horror) unregulated and a general lamentation about the slow progress of World Government under the strict auspices of the UN (which they clearly worship). In short it is more or less everything that can be expected from your average post-modernist left-wing lobby group Of course, there is nothing wrong, indeed there is everything right, with campaigning against government abuse and torture of citizens but there is a great deal wrong with their promotion of ‘entitlements’ as ‘rights’ and with their underlying assumption that all human life can be preserved and sustained by writing lots of noble things on lots of bits of paper and entrusting their stewardship to diverse grand-sounding conventions and bureaucracies. Some people don’t quite get it. These guys don’t get it at all Far from being a ‘Candle in the Darkness’, Amnesty International is just another one of those organisations that know everything about human rights and nothing at all about human liberties January 14th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Behind the headlines, underneath the debate, hidden by the cheery faces of the elite and occluded by the gleaming fabric of the towering glass monuments in Strasbourg, something darker stirs in Europe again according to this report from UPI Those of us who ever bothered to read the small print knew from the get-go that far from being “a great coming together of the European peoples…yadda yadda yadda..” that the whole project was nothing more than an exercise in cynical bribery and vote massaging Nothing new here, of course. Politicians are what they are and, as my Grandmother used to say, from a pig expect a grunt. No, what is new is the sheer scale of this. Most politicians aim to buy a constituency; really ambitious ones aim for a whole country. But these guys are shooting for a whole continent!! I’m surprised that the Greeks have joined in. They, of all people, should know a thing or two about hubris and, perhaps if they had stopped to think for a moment they would have realised that if this thing breaks it will break very, very badly They say that time is a slow but fair judge; fair, but not always merciful January 13th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Just when we were about to celebrate finally pulling the plug on Noam Chomsky the world seems to conspire to throw him a lifeline. I am talking about the apparent collapse of the US energy corporation Enron who, like just about every other major US corporation I should imagine, sought political influence by contributing to the Republican Party election campaign. Nothing new about this of course and it would come as a considerable surprise if the Enron suits didn’t shovel a fistful of dollars at a few Democrats just to hedge their bets But you can already hear the rush of adrenalin in leftist veins at the prospect of tarring George Bush with the brush of financial scandal. The Brussels Broadcasting Corporation can barely conceal its glee as they report that Bush is in big trouble! Real big trouble! He’s deeply implicated. He’s trying to distance himself but the questions won’t go away. This is worse than Whitewater. Much worse! Will Bush survive??!! But that’s nothing. The best is yet to come as the demented Chomskyites and disgruntled Democrats (or do I repeat myself?) start building their coalition for a major offensive. Expect lots of this kind of thing all over cyberspace:
Yawn January 11th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Of all the memes in all the countries in all the world, Blairism is the one that is catching on as this article in the Spectator reminds us. They are also quite right to foresee a similar prohibition in Britain should even one little poppet get his or her fingers barbecued next Guy Fawkes Night (and we know, we just know that at least one of them will) The Safety Nazis have been crusading to ban fireworks for years and, in a country whose prime (perhaps only) preoccupation is safety, it is only a matter of time before they succeed. So, in future, we’re all going to have to spend Guy Fawkes Night gathering around the central heating and letting off some party poppers (until they ban those as well) Pessimistic? Moi? January 11th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Euroslavia? THE FEARFUL BALKAN INTERMEZZO By Tomislav Sunic The former Balkan drama is a textbook example of how petty nationalism, once on the loose, can lead to surreal crimes. The past wars amidst similar European peoples, in what was once known as Yugoslavia, have sealed national romance The indictments of Balkan ethnic cleansers by the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague are in full swing and their legal proviso is designed to further strengthen the tenants of the supranational New World Order, including its itinerant semi-kangaroo courts. The results of the past wars in the Balkans seem to have strengthened and already cemented the mandatory multicultural, i.e. The consequences of the Balkan disarray should not be mistaken for its causes. The safest way to explain away the former Yugoslav conflicts is by putting most of the blame on the former Serb president Slobodan Milosevic, some of the blame The Yugoslav multiethnic experiment demonstrated twice in this century that it could not last. In 1941, the first Yugoslavia broke up, with Croats and Slovenes flocking to their ancestral central-European neighbor Germany. Serbs continued to toy partly with the Allies and partly with the Axis. In 1991, Croats and Slovenes again bailed out of the predominantly Serb-oriented communist Yugoslavia. The lesson that follows is that if the forced unity fails twice, there is no reason to believe in the viability of a third reunion. Divorce sounds preferable to a bad marriage. Yet, the demise of the Yugoslav experiment in 1991 could never be fully shrugged away by the European Union and the apostles of the New World Order. The multiethnic ex-Yugoslavia had for decades squared away with liberal and communist pseudo-academic role models of multiculturalism. In addition, Yugoslavia was a blueprint for the budding and nebulous Soviet-inspired European Union. It had provided intellectual fodder for the disabused leftist intelligentsia all over Europe, which is today converting to the more successful Ex-Yugoslavia went up in sky-high flames in 1991 and could neither be forgiven nor forgotten by the advocates of New World Order. Hence now, a new need has arisen, espoused by left-leaning EU officials and their New York plutocratic acolytes to create a new multi-ethnic laboratory in the state of Bosnia-Hercegovina and in the NATO protectorate of the Kosovo. In fact, the present artificial statelets of Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Kosovo are basically designed and militarily upheld in an effort to demonstrate another third multicultural experiment –which should be used again some day as still more educational homework for ‹peaceful ethnic groups living side by side and happily ever after.” Recent developments though, in the Albanian populated Kosovo, the fractured Macedonia, as well as the ongoing turmoil in the Croatian parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina, all point to the impossibility of such dangerous global endeavors. Most of the blame must be attributed to the Versailles treaty architects of 1919. Little did they understand the ethnic intricacies of the region, let alone foresee the consequences of their New World Order projects. What those world-improvers wanted was the creation of an artificial multiethnic entity that could contain Germany’s access to the South and the East. The unhappy subjects of the Although the Western media has handpicked the Serb Slobodan Milosevic as the household demon, his Croat nationalist counterparts do not fare better. A number of high-ranking Croat military officers were hailed as heroes not too long ago, but are now scheduled for The Hague War Crimes Tribunal hearings. The new leftist-liberal governments in Croatia and Serbia pay loud lip service to Brussels bureaucrats, yet appear unable to grasp the trap of the New World Order To counter mass psychosis, which has been a hallmark of the Balkans throughout centuries, all eyes are riveted on the magic wand of the European Union. The official opinion among the new ruling classes in Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia, or Bosnia is that the EU is the rich men’s club that will henceforth dispense enormous wealth to everybody. On top of all this, EU officials have enough of their local nodmen in the Balkans willing to sign any paper in order to implement some feel-good semblance of paper stability. Although the Versailles-sponsored multiethnic Yugoslavia failed, ironically, the Brussels-based Euroslavia, appears now to be the far more dangerous game in town. The tired Balkan masses, in what used to be once communist multicultural Yugoslavia, think that the road to Brussels is the quick way to heavenly bliss. Yet the vaunted European Union may soon face the storms of its own violent I don’t know who Mr.Sunic is. He is described as an ‘author who writes from Europe’ which is not very helpful. I also possess no more than a sketchy knowledge of the recent tragic history of the Balkans and, judging from his name alone, I assume that Mr.Sunic is vastly better equipped than I to speak on these matters. (I am also aware that we have a redoubtable Balkan Blogger in the shape of Natalija Radic) I will say, however, that from the bottom of this particular fishtank, the dark forebodings in the above article do have the ring of prescience about them January 11th, 2002 | Comments are closed
When Tony Blair and New Labour got elected in 1997 the understandable dismay among Conservatives manifested itself as dire warnings that ‘New’ Labour was a glossy sham and it was just ‘Old’ Labour dressed up in electable clothes. Soon, they warned, the public would realise that they had let the wolf back in the door and the days of Trade Union militancy and a crippled economy would return to haunt us again. You just wait and see, they said. Mere sour grapes, said all the pundits. And, thus far, the pundits appear to have been proved right Thus far, but maybe not much further. And it isn’t just transport that looks like grinding to a halt. Post Office unions are ballotting their members on a nationwide strike and mail in North London is already in chaos thanks to a local dispute Those of us who are old enough to have lived in Britain in the 1970’s under ‘Old’ Labour remember only too well what it looked like. It looked a bit like this January 10th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Remember, children, joining the Eurozone is for life not just for Christmas I, for one, would like to applaud Signor Prodi for his candour about the real nature of the Euro-project. Mind you, it would have been more useful had it come before 1st January 2002…oh, but I’m probably just quibbling. Let us all hope that the policy of Glasnost continues and that we shall be treated to yet more spine-tingling and amazing revelations from Europes First Citizen January 10th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Bernard Connolly launches a fierce broadside against the entire EU project in this article in the Irish Times Connolly is a former senior official in the EU Commission so he knows whereof he speaks. His book The Rotten Heart of Europe caused uproar when it was published Of particular resonance is the line: “The euro is a part of the design to extinguish freedom in a European empire”. Spot on, Bernard Ireland has, traditionally, been the most overtly enthusiastic supporter on the EU project but, conversely, upended the whole train last year by voting ‘No’ in a referendum on the Nice Treaty. Looks like Bernard is helping them to see the light. Go, Bernard. January 9th, 2002 | Comments are closed
So it looks like the heads of the other 14 families are looking to make a move against the Capo Di Tutti Cappi If you ask me, Don Berlusconi and his, erm, ‘associates’ should whack out a few of those rat motherf***ers. Give ’em two each behind the ear. Bada boom, bada bing. Capiche? January 9th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Now if only George Bush and his bunch of ‘yee-ha’ cowboys in Washington could only read this Perhaps they would think twice before they go stomping off round the world to try to kill ‘terrorists’ January 8th, 2002 | Comments are closed
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