Monday - June 01, 2009

GM: the takeover begins

What was that bit about “controlling the means of production”?

General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday as part of a plan under which the government will pump another $30 billion into the company with the aim of re-creating the troubled automaker.

GM’s bankruptcy filing is the fourth-largest in U.S. history and the largest for an industrial company. The company said it has $172.81 billion in debt and $82.29 billion in assets.

Under the plan, GM would eventually have 50 percent fewer liabilities and far fewer product lines. The $30 billion government infusion is on top of about $20 billion in taxpayer money GM already has received in the form of low-interest loans.

Senior administration officials, who declined to speak for attribution, said the U.S. government will be a “passive” investor but will oversee operations at the new GM because “the taxpayer will want us to.”

Not one of President Obama’s senior economic advisers could or would venture a guess as to when taxpayers would see a return on their massive and White House-engineered investment.

“We’re not here to predict,” a senior official said when asked about any timeline for taxpayer payback.

The White House was more certain about GM’s future access to the taxpayer till—it’s over.

“One never says never, but this is it in terms of support for GM,” a senior official said.

GM will follow a similar course taken by Chrysler LLC, which filed for Chapter 11 protection in April and hopes to emerge from its government-sponsored bankruptcy this week.

The plan is for the federal government to take a 60 percent ownership stake in the new GM. The Canadian government would take a 12.5 percent stake, with the United Auto Workers getting a 17.5 percent stake and unsecured bondholders receiving 10 percent. Existing GM shareholders are expected to be wiped out.

One of the 5 greatest companies the world has ever seen, run into the ground by poor management, greed, excessive government regulation and unionism. And the tens of millions of investors ... get nothing. With the government(s) now owning absolute controlling interest in the corporation.

“We’re not here to predict” how long it will take for the gov to turn the company around and start paying back some of that nearly infinite amount of taxpayer investment. Yeah? Well I will. It’s called the Twelfth of Never. As in : No Business Run By The Government Will EVER SHOW A PROFIT, EVER.

I fully expect Ocommie to come up with a new law REQUIRING all citizens to purchase their next vehicle from either branch of Government Motors. Which will put Ford out of business pretty soon.

Now, let’s add to the bullshit. Let’s add another dozen sheep to the amount of wool being pulled over the citizen’s eyes. You want to know how CNN is covering this story? Like this:

How’s that for effective misdirection? Oh sure, in t h e o r y it’s correct, because of that whole “government of the people, by the people” thing. But the reality is that you, me, and everyone else will not have as much as a whisper’s worth of input.

This is an outrageous act of Socialism. Communism. Fascism. The label doesn’t really matter. It’s the government taking over business and dictating terms. It’s a total loss of freedom, a death knell rung on the golden bell of Capitalism, a usurpation of everything that America is supposed to stand for. Better for GM and Chrysler to go out of business.

And what does the Communist Newspeak Network see it? They are GLEEFUL. It’s Pop The Champagne Time over there. Here’s the link.

Note how the article has not one but TWO sidebar links to “GM’s junk heap” which list a dozen or so less than classic vehicles the company has made over the years. Like the “unsafe at any speed” Corvair, which had balance issues when the owners removed the front fender weights, and the Vega, which sold by the millions when America wanted a cheap little car that got good mpg [and let’s ignore the underlying theory of assembly line sabotage because this was one of the first American cars built with lots of robotized automation], and the Aztek, which was an odd looking but actually highly practical crossover vehicle. All of these vehicles were attempts to open up new market areas for GM. They were all about risk taking, which is what Capitalism is all about. Sure, in the long run they may not have all been the best ideas. That’s what “risk” means: sometimes you don’t get it right.

Notice that there are also two links to the other sidebar on “GM’s declining market share”. Yes, GM has lost market share for ages now. How much of that was due to the media I wonder?

PS - the price of gas is soaring, as if you didn’t already know that. Almost 20 cents in 2 weeks. Expect it to get worse, far worse. $3.50/gal by August. This cycle will continue until the new Obamamobile hits the market, with it’s 3 cylinder 40hp engine and a top speed of 48mph, which will get you around just fine on the 5 gallons of gas per week you are rationed for.

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   Saturday - May 30, 2009

Oh This Really Hurts

Even Russia seems to think the USA is now a failed Marxist State under Obammunism.

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

Go and read the rest. Man, it really hurts when even PRAVDA gets it right.

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   Tuesday - May 19, 2009

Leopards do not change their spots.  And once Red, well those spots don’t change much either.

OK this might not have much to do with Reds as in Communist. Exactly.
But the old attitudes and way of thinking seem to have changed little.  This is really bizarre.

If I read this correctly, the Russian state is saying that it will be against their new law to question the role of the USSR in parts of Europe after WW2.
Russia didn’t invade or occupy eastern Europe.  They object to the use of the word ‘occupy’ and will punish those who think in those terms.
Well, isn’t my business and I doubt it would have any impact on my personal life.  But the USSR DID in fact occupy Eastern Europe and the record is very clear.

The new law could also be used to bar Western historians who accuse the Red Army of carrying out atrocities during its advance on Berlin or point out that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were once allies under the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

But here. Read this for yourself. If nothing else it’s good for a chuckle.  I guess this makes me persona non grada too.

Russia threatens to bar Europeans who deny Red Army ‘liberated’ them.

Eastern Europeans who believe their countries were occupied by the Soviet Union after the Second World War could soon be barred from Russia under new proposals given official weight by the Kremlin.

By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow
Published: 4:29PM BST 19 May 2009

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, created a commission of 28 legislators and senior intelligence officers which will identify foreign “revisionists” who “disparage the international prestige of the Russian Federation”.

The move, condemned as “Orwellian” by its critics, comes shortly before the Russian parliament is expected to pass controversial legislation outlawing the “rehabilitation of Nazism”.

The bill has attracted criticism because of its definition of Nazi rehabilitation, with those who “belittle” the Soviet Union’s role in the war or criticise it in any way being regarded as equally culpable as those who glorify Hitler.

Those found to contravene the new law, which Russia insists is little different from Germany’s Holocaust-denial legislation, face up to five years in prison.

Foreign countries whose officials who the commission rules to be guilty of the new crimes will face sanction as well. The bill gives Russia the authority to expel ambassadors or sever diplomatic relations with offending nations and to impose full transport and communications blockades on them.

The legislation is thought to be primarily aimed at states like Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which maintain they were occupied rather than liberated by the Soviet Union. Sergei Shoigu, a senior cabinet minister who initiated the legislation, has already said it could be used to ban senior Estonian officials.

A Russian MP yesterday said that the Baltic states deserved “to suffer punishment” for holding such views.

The new law could also be used to bar Western historians who accuse the Red Army of carrying out atrocities during its advance on Berlin or point out that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were once allies under the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

Seen as a way of teaching recalcitrant former Soviet states respect, the legislation has won almost universal backing in the Russian parliament.

But opposition politicians, who have no representation in parliament, have attacked the bill, saying it effectively reintroduces state ideology for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union.

“The creation of this commission allows the state to impose its own idea of political will and ideology,” said Vladimir Ryzhkov, a former Duma deputy who was forced out of parliament in 2007 by a law banning independent MPs.

“The former KGB will once again decide what is anti-Soviet and what is not.”

Mr Ryzhkov said that the new legislation was also part of a continuing rehabilitation of Stalin as it will effectively outlaw criticism of many of the former Soviet dictator’s policies.

An officially sanctioned history text book, introduced into schools two years ago, presented Stalin as a great leader while glossing over his repression of millions of Soviet citizens.

TELEGRAPH

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   Thursday - April 23, 2009

Obama intelligence official says interrogation provided ‘high value information’.

So then, just what is the savior of the world up to with his looney tune release of top CIA documents?

I don’t think I need to post the entire article.  In fact, you can read it in papers at home no doubt.
What I want to post instead is this other bit that appeared this morning.
Naturally there’s one part that sticks out ....

President Barack Obama’s top intelligence official sent a memo to his staff saying “high value information” was obtained during interrogations using controversial techniques.

TOBY HARNDEN in WASHINGTON

Last Updated: 12:51AM BST 23 Apr 2009

Adml Blair’s original note to his staff last Thursday said “high value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaeda organisation that was attacking this country”.

The memo is an embarrassment for Mr Obama because the conclusion reached by Adml Blair, who oversees the CIA and 15 other US intelligence agencies or departments, undermines a central plank of the White House argument – that the harsh techniques did not work.

Personally, I thought the article was of interest, especially as O’s own man claims info gotten from terror scum was valid.

Now for another bit of news from Mr. Harnden, in Washington.

Q&A: Barack Obama and the CIA ‘torture’ memos
What was the purpose of the memos?

By Toby Harnden in Washington
Last Updated: 6:19PM BST 22 Apr 2009

The four memos, written by Justice Department officials Jay Bybee, John Yoo and Steven Bradbury in 2002 and 2005, describe the harsh interrogation techniques that they judged to be legal and available for use by the CIA against al-Qaeda suspects.

What were the methods?

They included depriving prisoners of sleep for up to 11 straight days, keeping them in a dark, cramped box, placing them in “stress positions” and putting insects into the box to exploit their fears. The most controversial method is “water-boarding” - a type of simulated drowning, used since the Spanish Inquistions and prosecuted by the US as a Japanese war crime after the Second World War.

Were these methods torture?

Most now judge that they were, particularly when used in combination for extended periods. Some former Bush administration officials maintain, however, that the arguments in the memos were essentially correct because the prisoners suffered no long-term damage. The methods have not been authorised since 2005.

Were they effective?

Opinion is sharply divided. Former CIA chief Michael Hayden maintains they were, as does Vice President Dick Cheney. Even Mr Obama’s own intelligence chief, Admiral Dennis Blair, says that “high value information” was given up. Critics, however, say that prisoners will say anything when tortured and information is therefore unreliable as well as morally tainted.

Why did Mr Obama release the memos?

He was responding to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, though he could have resisted. The White House said that most of the details had been leaked anyway and that making the memos public was a way of getting all the information out and “moving on”.

Could this backfire on Mr Obama?

Yes. The issue shows no signs of going away and congressional investigations could turn into a political circus. CIA operatives say that the saga has torpedoed morale and will lead to spies avoiding taking risks for fear of prosecution - thereby making America more vulnerable to another terrorist attack.

AMERICA VULNERABLE

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   Wednesday - April 22, 2009

OH THEY’LL LOVE HIM IN EUROPE.  Barack Obama: Bush officials could be prosecuted.

That’s the headline people.  But then I guess you already know.

Question ... if things work out here and we can sell this place in say a year.  Will I have a country to come home to?
Will I want to?

This is really getting scary and I don’t mind tellin’ ya I’m worried more now then I was after the election.  I knew things weren’t gonna go our way.
We all expected that.  But man oh man this is really the start of some very bad news.  Sure hope I have it bass ackwards and am shown to be wrong.
But how can I be unless that line about bowing to the left is wrong.  And come on, how many of us believe that the line is not correct?
Oh damn.  “bowing to the left.”

Enjoy the read.  Comrades.

Barack Obama: Bush officials could be prosecuted over ‘torture’ documents
US President Barack Obama has bowed to pressure from the Left by opening the door to Bush administration officials being prosecuted for approving alleged torture by CIA interrogators.

By Toby Harnden in Washington
Last Updated: 12:20PM BST 22 Apr 2009

IN A DRAMATIC SHIFT by a White House that on Monday had brushed aside questions about the issue by insisting the American president was “focused on looking forward”, Mr Obama indicated that officials could be called to account for the US losing its “moral bearings”.

Last week, Mr Obama made public four memos written by officials in President George W. Bush’s administration that contained explicit details of the CIA’s methods of extracting information from al-Qaeda suspects between 2002 and 2005.

On Sunday, Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s chief of staff, told ABC News that “those who devised policy ... should not be prosecuted”.

But Mr Obama on Tuesday drew a sharp distinction between CIA interrogators who believed they were acting legally and the officials who had approved the advice.

“For those who carried out some of these operations within the four corners of legal opinions or guidance that had been provided from the White House, I do not think it’s appropriate for them to be prosecuted,” he said.

“With respect to those who formulated those legal decisions, I would say that that is going to be more of a decision for the Attorney General within the parameters of various laws, and I don’t want to prejudge that. I think that there are a host of very complicated issues involved there.”

Mr Obama’s dramatic u-turn raises the prospect of the three men who wrote the memos - Jay Bybee, a former assistant attorney general who is now a federal judge, and his deputies John Yoo and Steven Bradbury - and others facing congressional investigations and even criminal charges.

The president has faced an uproar from former CIA chiefs and deep concern from current operatives but also a fierce reaction from Left-wing groups and Democrats on Capitol Hill determined to pursue the authors of the memos and other senior Bush officials.

Mr Obama visited the CIA on Monday in an attempt to placate the agency. But there was no sign of the anger on the Left subsiding as as it emerged that the highly controversial technique of “water-boarding”, a type of simulated drowning, had been used 266 times on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, two senior al-Qaeda prisoners.

Mr Obama’s abandonment of his previous position that the US should “move forward” and put the “dark and painful chapter in our history” behind it came after he was urged by Democrat senatorsSenator Dianne Feinstein of California, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, urged him not to rule out prosecutions.

On Monday night, Dick Cheney, the former vice-president, told Fox News it was “disturbing” that Mr Obama’s administration had released some documents “but they didn’t put out the memos that showed the success of the effort”.

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   Monday - March 30, 2009

CHINA’S WORLDWIDE WEB OF CYBER-SPIES.

China in the news big time with regard to cyber thingy.  To be exact, worries over China’s hi-tech spy network.

Just for the heck of it I went to Google looking for info and “Sink Me” as the man said in that old movie, darn if I didn’t find reporting on this subject as far back as 2001.  And it goes further back then that but I just stayed in that one year of 2001. I don’t really know if I should be worried or not.  At my age I doubt I’ll see any results of bad news this day anyway. What? Me Worry?

So then, here was the headline on page 13 of today’s paper.

EXPOSED:  CHINA’S WORLDWIDE WEB OF CYBER-SPIES.

But I couldn’t find the exact story under that headline online.  Typical Telegraph. But I did find a BBC article that was close but NOT exactly the same as what I saw in the Telegraph.  Damn sorry bout that too because the Telegraph seemed to have a more complete story.  The journalist there (Telegraph) is Malcolm Moore if you want to hunt further.

Major cyber spy network uncovered

So anyway .... here’s the deal.
The Telegraph says that a “vast” cyber network code named GhostNet has penetrated 103 countries and infects at minimum a dozen new PCs every week.

They say that GhostNet has been designed to infiltrate sensitive ministries and embassies across the world. This part of a result of a ten month investigation carried out by a Canadian group.  Apparently some people are far more concerned then I am but they’re far younger then I am. 
Here’s what the BBC has to say.

Major cyber spy network uncovered

An electronic spy network, based mainly in China, has infiltrated computers from government offices around the world, Canadian researchers say.
They said the network had infiltrated 1,295 computers in 103 countries.
They included computers belonging to foreign ministries and embassies and those linked with the Dalai Lama - Tibet’s spiritual leader.
There is no conclusive evidence China’s government was behind it, researchers say. Beijing also denied involvement.

The report, Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, comes after a 10-month investigation by the Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which comprises researchers from Ottawa-based think tank SecDev Group and the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies.
They were acting on a request from the Tibetan spiritual leader’s office to check whether the computers of his Tibetan exile network had been infiltrated.
Researchers found that ministries of foreign affairs of Iran, Bangladesh, Latvia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Barbados and Bhutan appear to had been targeted.
Hacked systems were also discovered in the embassies of countries including India, South Korea, Indonesia, Romania, Cyprus, Thailand, Germany and Pakistan.

Analysts say the attacks are in effect industrial espionage, with hackers showing an interest in the activities of lawmakers and major companies.
Compromised
The researchers said hackers were apparently able to take control of computers belonging to several foreign ministries and embassies across the world using malicious software, or malware.
“We uncovered real-time evidence of malware that had penetrated Tibetan computer systems, extracting sensitive documents from the private office of the Dalai Lama,” investigator Greg Walton was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying.

They say they believe the system, which they called GhostNet, was focused on governments in Asia.
By installing malware on compromised computers, hackers were able to take control of them to send and receive classified data.
In this case, the software also gave hackers the ability to use audio and video recording devices to monitor the rooms the computers were in. But investigators said they did not know whether or not this element had been used.

According to the New York Times, the spying operation is the largest to have been uncovered in terms of the number of countries affected.
In an abstract for a second report released on Sunday by two Cambridge University researchers - entitled The Snooping Dragon: Social Malware Surveillance of the Tibetan Movement - investigators said while such attacks were not new, these particularly stood out for their ability to collect “actionable intelligence for use by the police and security services of a repressive state, with potentially fatal consequences for those exposed”.
CORRECTION: The BBC News website mistakenly gave the impression in an earlier version of this story that the IWM produced the “Snooping Dragon” report. We wish to stress that this report is entirely separate from the “Tracking GhostNet” report.

BBC NEWS

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   Saturday - March 28, 2009

Spanish court considers trying former US officials .

AP

Have to thank Joe over at Vilmar’s site for this. And am including Joe’s comments at the bottom.
Nobody could have said it better.
H/T Joe

Spanish court considers trying former US officials over Guantanamo torture

Spanish court considers trying former US officials
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 9:27a.m.

A Spanish court has agreed to consider whether to open a criminal case against six former Bush Administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for the use of torture at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a lawyer with detailed knowledge of the case.

The case was brought by human rights lawyers before leading anti-terror judge Baltazar Garzon, who agreed to send it on to prosecutors to decide whether it had merit.

Gonzalo Boye, one of the lawyers who brought the charges, told Spain’s Cadena Ser radio he expected the National Court to take the case forward. He called them “very serious crimes.”

Another lawyer with detailed knowledge of the case told The Associated Press that Garzon’s decision to consider the charges was “a significant first step.”

AP

Joe has said:

Normally, I would laugh this off as a masturbatory action of a second-rate, half-assed nation’s attempt at relevance on the world stage, but, given the tendencies of the quasi-Marxist wannabe dictator DICKHEAD that 52% of American voters chose to name as president of the United States, who knows?

Still, I would think that, regardless of what TQFU may try, the only way those so named in this “legal action” could ever stand “trial” in a modern-day Spanish Inquisition would be to set foot outside US soil.

That said, I hope Spain gets another terrorist attack for its troubles in pandering to the goat-fellating followers of the death cult known as islam.

And to help expedite that scenario, I propose the CIA take all remaining “detainees” from Gitmo, dump them off a ship onto a few rafts just inside Spanish territorial waters, and, if they are fortunate enough to be picked-up by whatever the Spanish may have that calls itself a navy these days, the Spanish can deal with them.

Stupid fucks.

KICKIN’ AND SCREAMIN’

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   Tuesday - March 24, 2009

Israel ‘used child as human shield’ during Gaza conflict.  Yeah, sure they did. Says Who?

OH RIGHT.  A WOMAN WITH A LARGE RED DOT ON HER HEAD AND A FACE LIKE A YOUNGER GADAFI.

A human rights mouthpiece with a name nobody can pronounce.  I gonna listen to her? 

Sorry Charlie ..... I really find it impossible to believe some people. Especially when they look like this and MOST ESPECIALLY when they’re a part of the useless hand wringing anti-Israel left wing libtard bunch of bastards called, The UN.  Gak!

I am not posting her photo because she is too gruesome and anyway I don’t want to frighten anyone.
But if you wanna scare youself okay.  Here’s a link

The beastie apparently isn’t familiar with collateral damage.  Kinda happens in military actions.  Often regrettable but can’t always be avoided.
Anyway, where do these pompous jerks get off sticking their hairy noses into a sovereign states business.

I guess I’m so damn anti un I’d find it pretty hard to find anything to like about em. I just wish they’d go away!

Maybe after the next world conflagration, if there is another , the world will be rid of that body.  Hmmmm. Body? UN body?  Yeah. Has a ring to it.

Israel ‘used child as human shield’ during Gaza conflict
Israel violated a range of human rights during its invasion of Gaza, including using a child as a human shield, the United Nations said yesterday.

By Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: 7:36AM GMT 24 Mar 2009

The claims were included in reports to the UN Human Rights Council which also called for an urgent end to Israeli restrictions on humanitarian supplies to Gaza and a full international investigation into the conflict.

They came just days after Israeli soldiers admitted shooting and killing unarmed Palestinian civilians during the invasion between Dec 27 and Jan 17.

“Civilian targets, particularly homes and their occupants, appear to have taken the brunt of the attacks, but schools and medical facilities have also been hit,” said one report by Radhika Coomaraswamy, the U N Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.

The Sri Lankan human rights lawyer visited the region in early February. She cited a long series of incidents to back her charges.

In one, she said, Israeli soldiers shot a father after ordering him out of his house and then opened fire into the room where the rest of the family was sheltering, wounding the mother and three brothers and killing a fourth.

In another, on January 15, at Tal al Hawa south-west of Gaza City, Israeli soldiers forced an 11-year-old boy to walk in front of them for several hours as they moved through the town, even after they had been shot at.

Israel criticised the report. Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Aharon Leshno Yar, said it “wilfully ignores and downplays the terrorist and other threats we face.”

Last week an Israeli infantry squad leader told local media of an incident in which a sniper mistakenly shot a Palestinian woman and her two children.

Offensive T-shirts by Israeli soldiers that depict scenes of violence against Palestinians

Late addition to this post.  The T-shirts are being worn not by soldiers but expressly for the newspaper that printed the photos.
It is true that they have been worn by Israeli soldiers, but so what?  First, one pix shows a kid with looks like a rifle. I think.  The woman may be pregnant but so what?  What’s that in her hand?  Hey, I have no problem with the shirts or their message.

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   Sunday - March 22, 2009

Will They Never Learn?

Officials are looking into claims that Chinese-made drywall installed in some Florida homes is emitting smelly, corrosive gases and ruining household systems such as air conditioners, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says.

The Florida Health Department, which is investigating whether the drywall poses any health risks, said it has received more than 140 homeowner complaints. And class-action lawsuits allege defective drywall has caused problems in at least three states—Florida, Louisiana and Alabama—while some attorneys involved claim such drywall may have been used in tens of thousands of U.S. homes.

Homeowners’ lawsuits contend the drywall has caused them to suffer health problems such as headaches and sore throats and face huge repair expenses.

The drywall is alleged to have high levels of sulfur and, according to homeowners’ complaints, the sulfur-based gases smell of rotten eggs and corrode piping and wiring, causing electronics and appliances to fail.

“It’s economically devastating, and it’s emotionally devastating,” said Florida attorney Ervin A. Gonzalez, who filed one of the lawsuits. It would cost a third of an affected home’s value to fix the dwelling, Gonzalez said.

“The interior has to be gutted, the homeowners have to continue paying mortgages, and they have to pay for a [temporary] place to live,” Gonzalez said.

The CPSC has been investigating claims in Florida for more than a month, according to commission spokesman Joe Martyak. He would not confirm whether CPSC is checking other states or reveal how many cases it is probing.

The Florida complaints generally involve homes built or renovated in 2005 and 2006, when a building boom and post-hurricane reconstruction caused a U.S. drywall shortage that spurred builders to turn to imports, Martyak said.

The allegations come after a number of recent safety problems with other Chinese exports, ranging from toys to pet food.

“The breadth of this thing is a lot bigger than people think,” said Chaikin of the Parker Waichman Alonso law firm in Bonita Springs. Chaikin said the problem is perhaps more easily recognizable in Florida because humidity exacerbates it.

Drywall is two layers of cardboard with a layer of gypsum between them. It is a wonderfully “green” product. The cardboard is made from recycled newspaper. The gypsum can either be mined, collected as a by-product of other chemical manufacturing processes, or even scraped from the air scrubbers in the smokestacks of coal fired power plants.

Where does it come from naturally? Huge amounts in the US and Canada. Lots of it in Europe. Some in Pakistan and Iran and Indonesia. None in China.

Ok, so what is gypsum? Gypsum is the same stuff as classroom chalk. It’s the same stuff as alabaster. Gypsum is very closely related to the burnt lime used in concrete. Heck, gypsum is used in concrete. Specifically,

Gypsum is the more common name for a mineral compound called calcium sulphate dihydroxide, or sulphate of lime. Gypsum is generally found underground near deposits of limestone or other minerals formed by evaporation. One of the most common forms of raw gypsum is a pure white crystal called alabaster.
...
Because the calcium and sulphur molecules in gypsum are chemically bound to water, gypsum is routinely heated in order to remove 50% to 75% of its original moisture. The resulting powder is considered burnt gypsum, although its white or translucent color does not change. Burnt gypsum is valued for its ability to solidify almost immediately after introduction to water.
...
Gypsum is naturally resistant to fire and heat, which helps it form a barrier between combustible wooden frames and the room itself.

The primary component of drywall is the mineral gypsum. It is a light-density rock found in plentiful deposits worldwide. Each molecule of gypsum (or dihydrous calcium sulfate) is composed of two molecules of water (H20) and one of calcium sulfate (CaSO4). By weight the compound is 21% water, but by volume it is nearly 50% water.

Before mixing the gypsum with water, it has to be calcined, which is a roasting process that drives off extra oxygen. It’s the same process that is used to turn limestone into lime (aka burnt lime) which is the basis for concrete.

So the stuff has sulpher in it, big deal. We mine the stuff, millions of tons of it a year. But you can create it in the lab too, by the very simple act of mixing sulphuric acid and chalk. This creates lots of carbonic acid fumes, but the solid stuff left over is gypsum. If you are a smart chemist, you condense that gas and mix it with more crushed lime, and that produces chalk. It’s easy to see that sulpher dioxide (SO₂) could get into the mix, either because the raw gypsum used is poor quality, or the chemical reaction was poorly controlled, or the wrong kind of acid used.

So my guess is that the Chinese drywall was made with typical communist piss-poor quality control. IE, none at all. Any old shit thrown into a cardboard sandwich. And they probably got the cardboard from the shipping boxes that they used for nuclear waste. All kidding aside, it’s not worth the risk, even with such a basic product as drywall. Burnt rock paste between two slices of tree pulp. And they screwed that up too.

Buy American.

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   Saturday - March 21, 2009

KUDOS CANADA!!  BRAVO! George Galloway banned from Canada on grounds of national security

About a week ago I posted a story re. this commie (he says he is) politician here in UK, who was bringing relief aid of some kind to Pals after the Israeli shelling over there.
His convoy was stoned in Egypt if you recall. 
Anyway ... he is a traitor to this country in the eyes of many here.  He openly supports muzzie extremists and in the past has invited them to speak at gatherings in London when he was mayor.  That’s the background.

He sure isn’t a favorite of Lyndon and Chris and that’s for sure.  So anyway, I caught this early today and by now you folks back home may already know.  But I HAVE to post this bit of jolly good news anyway.

CANADA SAYS DROP DEAD TO GALLOWAY!

Well okay.  Canadians have better manners then I do and I very much doubt they’d say that publicly even if they thought it. That’s cause they are more mature then I are.

I haven’t a clue yet exactly how I’m gonna go about this, but I’ve been thinking of coming up with some sort of extra thing other then Moonbat award for folks like Galloway. Really.  I’ve been thinking maybe, a rat patch, or a weasel badge.  Or should that be reversed?  Rat Badge and Weasel Patch?  No, Weasel Badge or Rat Patch have a ring to it.  Or ....

Does anyone have any other ideas? I won’t want to use it every day and not necessarily for dumb people.  For example, much as we dislike Galloway it can’t be said the man is stupid.  He is cunning, he is literate, he has shown he’s smart even if we believe he says or does stupid things.
So then, an award for smart ppl who do or support really stupid or useless and distasteful things.  Sheehan for example would NOT qualify cause she really is that STUPID!

‘Infandous*’ George Galloway banned from Canada on grounds of national security (*look it up)

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 8:34 PM on 20th March 2009

George Galloway has been barred from Canada on national security grounds.

The outspoken MP, who opposes the war in Afghanistan where Canadian troops are deployed, was due to make a speech in Toronto on March 30.

But a spokesman for immigration minister Jason Kenney said Mr Galloway was viewed as a supporter of the radical Palestinian group Hamas, which is banned in Canada.

The Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, who is on a North American speaking tour, vowed to use all means at his disposal to challenge the ‘outrageous’ ban.

He called the move a ‘desperate election ploy’ by a Conservative government.

But a spokesman for Canada’s immigration minister Jason Kenney insisted the decision, taken by border security officials, would not be overturned for an ‘infandous* street-corner Cromwell’ (*’infandous: too odious to be expressed or mentioned).
This Hamas photo shows the head of the Hamas government Ismail Haniyeh, right, embracing George Galloway during their meeting in Gaza City on March 10 this year

The head of the Hamas government Ismail Haniyeh, embraced George Galloway during their meeting in Gaza City on March 10 this year

Mr Galloway was due to give a speech in Toronto on March 30 but has been deemed ‘inadmissible’ to Canada under section 34(1) of the country’s immigration act.

Mr Kenney’s spokesman Alykhan Velshi said the act was designed to protect Canadians from people who fund, support or engage in terrorism.

The minister has the right to issue special exemption permits but will not do so in Mr Galloway’s case.

Mr Velshi said: ‘We’re going to uphold the law, not give special treatment to this infandous street-corner Cromwell who actually brags about giving ‘financial support’ to Hamas, a terrorist organisation banned in Canada.

‘I’m sure Galloway has a large Rolodex of friends in regimes elsewhere in the world willing to roll out the red carpet for him. Canada, however, won’t be one of them.’

Mr Galloway, 54, MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, is consulting organisers of his north American speaking tour and exploring whether legal action can be taken to overturn the ban.

Mr Galloway, an opponent of the war in Afghanistan where Canadian troops are deployed as part of international forces, lamented the ‘idiotic’ ruling as ‘irrational, inexplicable and an affront to Canada’s good name’.

And the Scot also said being refused entry to Canada was like being told to stay away from the family home.

Mr Galloway said: ‘This is a very sad day for the Canada we have known and loved - a bastion of the freedoms that supporters of the occupation of Afghanistan claim to be defending.

‘This has further vindicated the anti-war movement’s contention that unjust wars abroad will end up consuming the very liberties that make us who we are.

‘This may be a rather desperate election ploy by a conservative government reaching the end of the line, or by a minister who has not cottoned on to the fact that the George Bush era is over.

‘All right-thinking Canadians, whether they agree with me over the wisdom of sending troops to Afghanistan or not, will oppose this outrageous decision.

‘On a personal note - for a Scotsman to be barred from Canada is like being told to stay away from the family home.

‘This is not something I’m prepared to accept.’

Mr Galloway was due to speak at a public forum entitled Resisting war from Gaza to Kandahar, hosted by Toronto Coalition to Stop the War later this month.

The Respect party MP was also set to address a second public forum in Mississauga, just south of Toronto, on March 31.

His proposed visit prompted the Jewish Defence League of Canada to write an open letter to the country’s government urging it to do ‘everything possible to keep this hater away’.

In 2006, Mr Galloway was refused entry to Egypt on the grounds of national security after he travelled to the country to give evidence at a ‘mock trial’ of former prime minister Tony Blair and ex-US president George W Bush.

He was held overnight in a police cell before the authorities changed their minds and allowed him in, and he later received a personal apology from the country’s president.

A spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada confirmed that Mr Galloway had been deemed inadmissible on national security grounds and would not be allowed into the country.

He said the decision had been taken by border security officials ‘based on a number of factors’ in accordance with section 34(1) of the country’s immigration act.

The act states: ‘A permanent resident or a foreign national is inadmissible on security grounds for:

‘(a) engaging in an act of espionage or an act of subversion against a democratic government, institution or process as they are understood in Canada;

‘(b) engaging in or instigating the subversion by force of any government;

‘(c) engaging in terrorism;

‘(d) being a danger to the security of Canada;

‘(e) engaging in acts of violence that would or might endanger the lives or safety of persons in Canada; or

‘(f) being a member of an organisation that there are reasonable grounds to believe engages, has engaged or will engage in acts referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).’

Immigration minister Jason Kenney has the right to exempt people from the act if it is felt that their presence would not be ‘detrimental to the national interest’.

But the spokesman said Mr Kenney would ‘decline to exercise that discretion’ in Mr Galloway’s case.

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Hang on a minute. I think a rat badge for Cindy would be perfect. Yeah, like her face on a rat body. Galloway on a weasel. Hmmm. Thinking.
Feedback ppl.

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   Monday - March 09, 2009

Aid convoy stoned by irate Egyptians.  Ha. Good.  It’s that Commie Galloway Guy .. read.

Just so you folks know who don’t know and now ya will.

This Galloway buffoon (I call him that but he isn’t really totally stupid) is a true blue Anti-American so and so , and so I haven’t any problems reading that he may be having a problem here and there.  Wish they’d keep him where he is.

I don’t think he’s still a member of Parliament.  Lyndon?  Did he lose his seat?  Doesn’t read that way.  I thought he was out. 

Anyway, he is pretty shrewd but then so were Hitler and Stalin and Mao.  But this Galloway is slicker by far you can bet your butt on that.

Here’s something from The Clue Batting Cage that will give you some idea.

H/T philmon.blogspot.com

Thursday, August 04, 2005
The Gall of George Gallway

BBC News reports that Incessant Terror Apologist George Gallway ("Respect" party, UK) is praising Iraq “martyrs”.

Some in the British Government are trying to downplay any influence the man has, presumably over Islamist militants. But they miss the point.

He says:

“It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are defending all the people of the world against American hegemony.”

And that isn’t all this guy says.  Again, from the same source as above:

“These poor Iraqis - ragged people, with their sandals, with their Kalashnikovs, with the lightest and most basic of weapons - are writing the names of their cities and towns in the stars, with 145 military operations every day, which has made the country ungovernable.

“We don’t know who they are, we don’t know their names, we never saw their faces, they don’t put up photographs of their martyrs, we don’t know the names of their leaders.”

Now then, this is just part of what the blog had to say and by all means use that link above for more.

Clearly openly and drippingly romanticising the Baathist and Islamist resistance and dismissing the other 20 million or so Iraqis who want nothing to do with Ba’athists or Islamist extremists. This is clearly a recruitment speech. Gallway is a mouthpiece for the Islamists. He is working for them. He is a traitor.

So you can see why I’m so nit picky and pleased when things don’t go exactly as this guy would like.  Whatever causes him agro, I’m all for it.

George Galloway convoy stoned by irate Egyptians
A British aid convoy led by George Galloway, the east London MP, that was carrying relief supplies for Gaza, was pelted with stones and vandalised in the Egyptian town El-Arish late on Sunday, an organiser said.

by Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: 9:22AM GMT 09 Mar 2009

The convoy, which set out from London last month carrying relief supplies valued at £1 million ($1.4 million), was in El-Arish, a border staging post about 28 miles from the Rafah passage to Gaza.

“It’s an absolute disgrace,” said the organiser of the aid shipment, Yvonne Ridley. “The power was cut. During cover of darkness members of our convoy were attacked with stones.

“Vandals also wrote dirty words and anti-Hamas slogans,” she said. “Several people in the convoy were injured in the attack.”

A security official said that during a power cut, which is a frequent occurrence in the town, children had pelted the convoy with stones.

The convoy is expected to head to Rafah but its future movement is tied up in a dispute between organisers and Egyptian officials, who had welcomed the activists, over the inclusion of non-medical aid in the convoy.

Egyptian officials have said they would allow medical relief through the Rafah passage but non-medical goods such as food would have to pass through Israel’s crossings with the Palestinian enclave.

“George Galloway is still in negotiations,” Ridley said. “What we have agreed to do is to separate the medical aid from the non-medical aid. The non-medical will go into Gaza via the Egyptian Red Crescent.”

Ten Libyan trucks carrying medicine were allowed to transfer their aid to Gaza on Sunday, a border official said.

Egypt opened the Rafah crossing to aid and Palestinian wounded during Israel’s 22-day war in Gaza in December and January, which killed 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, but has since closed it to aid.

It is not the first time the shipment has attracted controversy. Three men arrested by counter-terrorism police last month were allegedly planning to leave Britain as part of the convoy to Gaza.

A spokesman said police had not contacted the organisors in relation to the arrests.

TELEGRAPH

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WOO-HOO … I THINK THE NORTH KOREANS MIGHT BE A TAD UPSET WITH US.

Gee, Maybe we should just apologize since we’re busy in other places.
No wait. Before we do anything or try and respond, we should check first with Europe to see what they say.  Maybe they’ll be able to help since they like us now. ?  Hmmm. Maybe they only like Barry.  Maybe we could just send him? Hey. I like that. Lets send Barry over there to talk with them.

They so seem a bit touchy here but I wonder if they’re bluffing.

What?  Me Worry?

btw ... Are you folks back home getting this story this way? 

North Korea threatens full scale war if rocket is intercepted
North Korea says it will wage war on America, Japan and South Korea if any attempt is made to intercept the launch of a rocket it claims is intended to put a satellite into space.

By Richard Spencer in Beijing
Last Updated: 7:13AM GMT 09 Mar 2009

It has also cut off its border and telephone links with the South in protest at military exercises by American and South Korean troops which began on Monday.

Plans for a launch were first picked up by satellite imagery, with foreign intelligence agencies saying it was a test of a long-range Taepodong-2 missile with the capacity to hit parts of the United States.

The United States said it would shoot down the missile if it headed towards its territory. Japan has suggested it might try to intercept any launch, even if the payload is a communications satellite as claimed by Pyongyang.

“If the enemies recklessly opt for intercepting our satellite, our revolutionary armed forces will launch without hesitation a just retaliatory strike operation,” the general staff of the North Korean army said in a statement on state media. It singled out the United States, Japan and South Korea as targets.

“Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war,” it said.

The North has put its army on full alert in the face of the annual spring military joint exercises begun today by the South Koreans and Americans.

It shut the border point which allows South Koreans to visit a special industrial zone in the city of Kaesong which is funded and run by South Korean companies. The South said 726 people had been turned back.

“It is nonsensical to maintain a normal communications channel at a time when the South Korean puppets are getting frantic with the above-said war exercises, levelling guns at fellow countrymen in league with foreign forces,” the North said.

Last week it also said it could not guarantee the safety of civilian aircraft which approached North Korean airspace during the exercises, causing airlines to adjust their routes.

This threat in particular is beyond the standard fare of North Korean rhetoric. It comes after six months of political uncertainty in relations between North Korea and the West, which had been improving slightly in the wake of a deal supposed to bring an end to its nuclear weapons programme.

Most western analysts linked the uncertainty to the stroke believed to have been suffered by the North’s leader, Kim Jong-il, last August.

This weekend he emerged to cast his ballot in elections for the country’s official parliament, in which he was a candidate.

Voting was expected to be unanimous. Only one candidate’s name appeared on each ballot, and while it was theoretically possible to cross that candidate’s name off, electors had to do so in a special booth, making clear they were dissenters.

The main focus of interest during these elections was rumours that Kim’s youngest son, Kim Jong-woon, would stand.

There is as yet no clear sign of a succession to the leadership. If the rumours were confirmed, Jong-woon would be the only one of the three sons to have been appointed to any official position, a clear sign that he was being marked out.

But as yet no names of candidates other than Kim senior have been given to the outside world.

N.KOREA

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   Tuesday - February 24, 2009

AN AFFRONT TO THE WORLD?  OH WELL IF IT’S IN THE TIMES ……

I wasn’t gonna boot again tonight. But damn, there was the Times on the table and I just had to open it.

I got PO’d over their editorial re. Guantanamo.  What is it with these folks here.

These schmucks are worried about due process.  Yes I understand it could happen to any of us given the right circumstances. But come on damn it.
This guy’s story just isn’t an ordinary everyday thing.  Sure, we all try sneaking into countries, we all end up by mistake in Afganland. Where oh btw, there’s a war of some kind going on.

I’m just pissed at the continued hue and cry about Gitmo like it’s anyone’s business but ours.

Here’s what I mean. No reason you guys shouldn’t see it.

Due Process
Guantánamo Bay was an affront to the world. Its inmates must now find justice outside. But that does not mean making Binyam Mohamed a hero.

I really don’t much care about any “affront” my country may have caused the world, comrade editor. Frankly, our security arrangements are not the business of some pinko editor in London mounting his moral soapbox. 
I’m more worried about losing my country the same way the Brits have lost theirs. Won’t happen quite as fast in my country though, cause we have guns and the willingness to use em.
An affront to the world?  The whole world?  Africa? So.America? Somalia??? RUSSIA?  Hey mr. editor, screw the world and you too.

The US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay was a grotesque betrayal of justice. But its story does not end with the US President’s decision to close the camp. It is only the beginning of difficult decisions for other countries about how to treat returning inmates. The arrival at RAF Northolt yesterday of Binyam Mohamed, the first prisoner released since President Obama took office, poses real dilemmas for the British Government.

Like many former detainees, Mr Mohamed’s history is complicated. An Ethiopian by birth, he spent seven years in Britain before heading to Afghanistan, where he allegedly attended a paramilitary training camp, and then to Pakistan, where he was arrested by Pakistani security forces in 2002 on suspicion of terrorism. He has spent the last seven years in some of the most horrific jails in the world. He claims to have endured both extraordinary rendition and torture, orchestrated by the US and allegedly abetted by UK intelligence services.

These are serious charges, which must be taken seriously. The fact is that in seven years, Mr Mohamed was never tried. He was initially accused by the US of involvement with al-Qaeda, but charges against him were dropped some months ago. He has also, almost certainly, suffered torture. The Attorney-General has rightly opened an investigation into whether there was criminal wrongdoing by M15, which supposedly interrogated Mr Mohamed in Pakistan.

Whatever his reasons for travelling to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mr Mohamed has been treated outrageously. It was essential that he be released, and right that the British Government pushed the CIA to make documents available to his defence counsel to facilitate that release. There is no justification for him to be put in prison now, or to be kept under a control order which would restrict his movements.

(I couldn’t resist sticking this toon in here.

Yet the wrongs that Mr Mohamed has suffered do not mean that the British Government can put aside all questions of national security. It would be foolish to do so, not least given the Pentagon’s claim that 61 former Guantánamo inmates have “returned to jihad”. Mr Mohamed is not a British citizen. The decision to welcome him here, and presumably to fund his housing and medical treatment, seems to be partly motivated by a desire to help to speed the closure of Guantánamo, and partly because Britain was his official place of residence when he was arrested. (His residency expired while he was in prison).

It is therefore right and proper for the Government to have set some conditions in return. Mr Mohamed has accepted that he must report regularly to the authorities, and that he will be kept under surveillance. If he turns out to pose no threat to this country, he should have nothing to fear, and Britain can feel proud of helping America to try to cleanse its reputation. But his immigration status must be linked to his behaviour. Mr Mohamed has been admitted to the UK on a “temporary” basis. If he gives any cause for alarm, the Government should lose no time in returning him to Ethiopia.

Mr Mohamed is challenging the legality of his detention, which is clearly a matter for the US Government. His lawyers have also served suit in the UK, demanding that the Government release US intelligence documents it holds. But that must be a decision for the US authorities, not the UK ones. The Foreign Secretary is right to warn that for Britain to reveal another country’s intelligence would damage trust between intelligence services. The stain of Guantánamo can only be eased if its detainees are now given due process. But justice does not require that Britain should undermine its own national security. Mr Mohamed’s fate now lies in his own hands.

TIMES ED.

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   Friday - February 20, 2009

Under this rule, even Osama Bin Laden is British.  (A BMEWS MUST READ. REALLY!)

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN is a columnist with The Daily Mail here in England.

I think he’s perhaps one of the best, most logical and clear thinking conservative writers around. 
I really admire and appreciate good word smiths.  Even if one happens to be on the left.  But I’m especially happy when the best are found in the conservative camp. 

There is a very serious problem this country faces, and the left wing powers that be along with the european weenies of the eu are helping to make it worse.  But here.  I’ll let Mr. Littlejohn tell you about it.  Even an American not living here has to wonder about what this country is doing to itself.
Maybe the people here didn’t realize exactly what they were getting themselves into when they voted Labour in 1997.  But they should have.
But then, Blair was a damn good salesman and the thing he sold the very best was .... Blair. 

It’s my personal belief that the Labour party is destroying this country.  Even scarier is I am not certain the Tories can save it even if they win the next election.
Stay Tuned.

Under this rule, even Osama Bin Laden is British

Last updated at 8:27 AM on 20th February 2009

Some years ago, in the wake of the Afghan hijack fiasco at Stansted, I invented a spoof game show called ‘Asylum!’

Anyone could play, provided they had no links to Britain. International terrorists were especially welcome.

All you had to do to win was find your way here and remember the magic word ‘asylum’. Prizes included a council house, lavish benefits and lashings of Legal Aid.

It was supposed to be a joke but, as always, was based on fact. I can remember writing that none of the hijackers would be deported and they’d all end up living here permanently, courtesy of the mug British taxpayer.

That’s exactly what happened. The Afghans took their place among a motley crew of foreign undesirables granted refuge in Britain. Top of the list was Abu Qatada, described as Osama Bin Laden’s European ambassador.

He’s been shacked up in West London since 1993, when he arrived from his native Jordan on a false passport. Since then he’s cost us £50,000 a year in benefit payments and more than £1.5million in lawyers’ fees.

After 9/11, the Government woke up to the enemy within. Tony Blair announced that ‘the game has changed’. No longer would we play host to Islamist headbangers, dedicated to our destruction.

Britain’s reputation as a soft touch was over. The preachers of hate were to be rounded up and kicked out, we were promised.

Blair knew perfectly well that was never going to happen, thanks to Labour’s embrace of the European ‘yuman rites’ act, which he once called his proudest achievement in politics.

And despite a raft of grandstanding ‘ anti-terror’ measures, Qatada is still here, along with a roll call of psychopaths from across the globe.

This week, after a drawn-out legal battle, the Law Lords ruled finally that Qatada could be returned to Jordan, where he has been convicted in absentia of terrorism offences.

But that won’t happen any time soon, either. The appeals process isn’t exhausted by any means, and will drag on for years, fuelled by a bottomless well of Legal Aid.

To add insult to injury, a panel of European judges has awarded Qatada £2,500 in damages for the brief period he spent in Belmarsh prison after 9/11.

Another ten foreign terror suspects held at the same time also received payouts ranging from £1,500 to £3,400 each.

‘YA’ KNOW, I SOMETIMES WONDER WHY I’M HIDING IN THIS SMELLY CAVE WHEN I COULD BE CLAIMING MY HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UK.’

They include a variety of north Africans with links to Al Qaeda and other terror groups. Most, like Qatada, entered on false passports. They should have been deported instantly.

Even after they were jailed as a threat to national security, they were all free to leave the country voluntarily at any time. They chose to remain in prison and fight expulsion through the courts. Eventually, they were released under ‘control orders’.

And until Britain repeals the pernicious ‘yuman rites’ act, here they’ll stay, indefinitely.

The ‘rights’ of foreign terrorists will continue to trump the rights of law-abiding British citizens, who will be forced to carry on picking up the bill for their expensive lawyers and welfare benefits.

We’re not even allowed ‘for legal reasons’ to know the names of eight of the men we have been ordered to pay compensation. So who should we make out the cheque to, then? There is no end to this lunacy. Binyam Mohammed is an Ethiopian citizen who was granted leave to live in Britain. In 2001, he decided he’d rather live in Afghanistan.

Shortly after 9/11, he was arrested at Karachi airport carrying a false passport, trying to board a plane for London. He ended up at Guantanamo Bay and claims to have been tortured.

Britain is now moving heaven and earth to bring him ‘home’. Yet he hasn’t lived here for eight years and left of his own free will. By no stretch of the imagination is he a British ‘resident’, let alone a British citizen.

We’ve got enough problems with foreign terrorists, not to mention home-grown headbangers, without working ourselves into a lather over the fate of an Ethiopian who was resident in Afghanistan when he was arrested in Pakistan.

In the case of Binyam Mohammed, what we’re looking at is extraordinary rendition in reverse. Instead of flying terror suspects abroad to be tortured, we’re flying them here to be pampered.

Taken to its logical conclusion, the definition of British ‘resident’ should apply to Osama Bin Laden. After all, he lived in London for a few years before moving to Afghanistan. Maybe we should offer to bring him ‘home’, too.

And if Bin Laden was discovered living above a kebab shop in Finsbury Park, he’d be granted indefinite leave to stay, showered with benefits and given access to the best ‘yuman rites’ lawyers taxpayers’ money could buy.

If we can’t even deport Abu Qatada, because he wouldn’t face a fair trial, what chance would we stand with Bin Laden?

Welcome to London, twinned with the Hotel California. You can check in any time you like - but you can never leave.

LITTLEJOHN

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