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Month: March 2003

  • The priority here is clear: Oil comes before people: Andrew Buncombe

    Andrew Buncombe writes some interesting stuff in the Independent today. He notes how quickly teams were sent in to qwell the oil fires from sabotaged Iraqi wells. Importantly of the firefighter he notes: Furthermore, Washington had clearly been planning for this months ago. Mr Flak, dressed in red overalls and a white hard-hat, said his…

  • Raw, devastating realities that expose the truth about Basra: Robert Fisk

    Robert Fisk writes about the images of war – and double standards in the West. With regard to Basra and its apparent fall: It is also proof that Basra – reportedly “captured” and “secured” by British troops last week – is indeed under the control of Saddam Hussein’s forces. Despite claims by British officers that…

  • Riding alone into the sunset: William Pfaff

    William Pfaff has a good piece in the Herald Tribune today. It seems that the neo-conservatives in the US are already celebrating the victory of US forces in Iraq. The American Enterprise Institute sounds like a strange organisation. One official is quoted as saying “an epochal war…Iraq may turn out to be a war to…

  • Red Hat Linux

    Karlin writes in the Guardian on the trials and tribulations of installing RedHat Linux.

  • AlJazeera tells the truth about war: Faisal Bodi

    Faisal Bodi, a senior editor for aljazeera.net writes in the Guardian today. He criticises the Western media for not reporting on important stories, and being blatantly biased in their reporting. He also mentions some stories that I indeed have not heard over the first week of the war. Only hours before the Basra non-event, one…

  • New photos

    I have posted some digital pictures taken in Kyoto, Japan. They are quite high resolution – take a look here.

  • Well LiveLine have been busy

    Well LiveLine have been busy with other issues of late – but the issue of Charles J. may be taken up next week. My uncle may be on then.

  • Secret plans for North Korea

    Nicholas Kristof writes about Pentagon plans for bombing Korea. The figures he give make interesting reading, especially if you compare them to the cake-walk that Iraq is likely to be. The North has 13,000 artillery pieces and could fire some 400,000 shells in the first hour of an attack, many with sarin and anthrax, on…

  • On corrupt politicians and the media

    An Irish Senator, Shane Ross, wrote a quite staggering article in the Irish Sunday Indepedent last Sunday, 23 March. I was incensed after reading it. Senator Ross indicates, by implication in his argument, that it ok to evade tax, and basically to rob banks. It forms a part of an argument about Ireland’s former leader…

  • Apologies

    Sorry I haven’t blogged today – had a few things to do. Will be blogging tomorrow about Ireland’s ‘Great Man’ – Charles J. Haughey.