Damn the Tapes, It’s Time to Sing the Chorus “We Won’t…
The News Review:
- Damn the Tapes, It’s Time to Sing the Chorus “We Won’t…
- Leslie Phillips, CBE
- Talent pool keeps Kings cool
- Encore – Pakistan Terror Central
- Need for pluralist Ireland raised with the Vatican
Damn the Tapes, It’s Time to Sing the Chorus “We Won’t…
OpEdNews – Dec 29, 2007
But again, this is the same woman who lent her ear to Brian Michael Jenkins from the Rand Corporation who identifies as a counter-terrorism expert. Jenkins suggested that there needed to be a center for studying violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. So she came up with this nifty bill called the Violent Radicalization and Home Grown Terrorism Prevention Act which passed in the House and is sitting in the Senate. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) highlights the precariously broad definitions of what constitutes as a violent radical group or home grown terrorist group in this bill on its website. Imagine if reactionaries started targeting war protesters and those who engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience. The CCR website quotes Jenkins from his book “In their international campaign, the jihadists will seek common grounds with leftist, anti-American, and anti-globalization forces, who will in turn see, in radical Islam, comrades against a mutual foe. ” Harmon sees the destruction of these tapes as a constitutional crisis, yet can’t see that this bill lends itself to the possible detention and torture of innocent people here.
Leslie Phillips, CBE
Guardian Unlimited – Dec 29, 2007
uk Leslie Phillips is the archetypal upper-crust cad of British cinema; the suave, moustachioed mainstay of home-grown comedy, perpetually on hand with a seductive “Hello” or a sleazy “Ding-Dong”. Born to a working-class London family, he learned his trade on the post-war theatre scene, playing in what he would later describe as “the murkiest, rat-infested old playhouses and music-halls in the north of England”. He found fame in the Doctor movies of the 1950s (inheriting the lead role from Dirk Bogarde) and was a regular in the early Carry On films.
Talent pool keeps Kings cool
NEWS.com.au – Dec 29, 2007
"You go out, throw three punches, touch the next guy and there should be no drop-off. "
Perhaps nobody sacrificed more than Victor, a springy 206cm forward who hoped to capture the attention of an NBA team, likely with eye-popping stats. Plus, he’d played previously in Korea, a league that lacks elite home-grown talent and therefore treats import players "like royalty", he said, and "pays them lots of money". Games often turn into one-on-one contests between the best import on each side. So why depart that starring role? Because Victor wanted a higher level of basketball. But now, after 12 games with the Kings, he’s averaging 17.
Encore – Pakistan Terror Central
CNN International – Dec 29, 2007
GENERAL AHSAN AZHAR HAYAT, PAKISTAN ARMY: That’s right. ROBERTSON: To learn more, I head to Pakistan’s tribal border area. The general in charge here, tells me the Taliban he targets are home-grown Pakistani, not Afghan Taliban. And it’s costing his soldiers dearly. Hundreds have been killed. HAYAT: At night, they report somebody’s on the road. And later on, they were just blasted off from the remote control and all that.
Need for pluralist Ireland raised with the Vatican
Irish Times – Dec 29, 2007
One file records the exchanges at the Vatican in March betweenArchbishop Casaroli and the outgoing foreign minister, GarretFitzGerald, who alerted the Vatican that a united Ireland wouldneed to be a more pluralist Ireland and that some review of thehierarchy’s attitude to Church-State relations might be required. “We all had a certain ambivalence in this matter,” he said. On some occasions the hierarchy spoke as if “we should holdfirmly to those elements and aspects of the State” which derivedfrom partition and which had left the Republic “overwhelminglyCatholic”; although the bishops also say they would be willing “toaccept appropriate adjustments when and if unity is achieved”. FitzGerald had a difficulty with this approach as it was”difficult to say to the Protestant population that certain thingswhich could not be accepted now would somehow become tolerable” ifIreland were to be united. All of this could be an obstacle to the reconciliation which alldesired and it was important “to find a way through thisproblem”… Mason added: “I am politician enough to appreciate that it is noeasy matter for you, in your domestic ‘constituency’, to swingopinion away from the traditional support of the more extremepartisans in Northern Ireland, and to replace the myth of patriotsfighting for independence with the truth of criminals killing andmaiming senselessly in a situation where their actions have littlepolitical point. ” Britain’s aim was full devolution of executive and legislativepowers but there would be no “dramatic initiative”. The “most fruitful ideas are those that are seen to be’home-grown’”. Mason had no interest in erecting “a sham”. In themeantime he believed that direct rule would prove “effective,positive and impartial”. John Bowman© 2007 The Irish Times.