AGGRESSION

The October drill will simulate simultaneous rocket fire from Syria and Iran

If what is left of the WASP establishment wants to do something effective in the culture wars, they will have to understand just who the enemy is.  In order to understand this, they will have to go back well beyond the 1960s. In fact, they will have to go back beyond the 18th century: to be precise, 1800 years before that, right back to the opening shot in the culture wars.

The US military has invaded Central Africa to steal its oil, and the invasion force grows bigger every day. The propaganda used to justify this is hilarious.

Why is there so much fighting in Homs, Syria?

Answer: OIL.

Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people's resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s Colonial Office film about the Chagos islanders, a tiny creole nation living midway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean. The camera panned across thriving villages, a church, a school, a hospital, set in a phenomenon of natural beauty and peace. Lisette remembers the producer saying to her and her teenage friends, "Keep smiling girls!"

THE LAWS OF [JINSA] KINGS

The obligation to destroy the seven nations living in the Land of Canaan

The prohibition against allowing any one of them to remain alive

The obligation to destroy the descendents of Amalek

The obligation to remember what Amalek did

More fine work from the Video Rebel on our fundamental problem.

Libyan TV claims that the terrorists have killed Gaddafi in Sirte, and will take his body to a "secret location," in the same way that no pictures were ever released of the supposed second killing of Osama bin Laden.

C’est acquis. Il n’y aura pas de nouvel État palestinien. Mais le déclin de l’influence et du pouvoir de nuisance de l’Entité israélienne semblent irréversiblement amorcés.

Child detention figures

7,000 [Figure corrected, with apologies for earlier production error.] The estimated number of Palestinian children detained and prosecuted in Israeli military courts since 2000, shows a report by Defence for Children International Palestine (DCIP).

87 The percentage of children subjected to some form of physical violence while in custody. About 91 per cent are also believed to be blindfolded at some point during their detention.

12 The minimum age of criminal responsibility, as stipulated in the Military Order 1651.

62 The percentage of children arrested between 12am and 5am.

NATO massacred 85 civilian villagers, including 33 children, during air strikes Monday night near the frontline city of Zlitan. Government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said NATO bombed seven isolated farmhouses around 11p.m., wiping out 20 rural families so the rebels CONTRAS could penetrate the city.

What's going on behind the media lies.