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Mayor Livingstone v. Finegold and The Evening Standard

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

Mayor Livingstone v. Finegold and The Evening Standard

Irrational elements within the press are fond of maligning Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London. Livingstone has many flaws, among them political opportunism, but he tends towards progressive causes. He has made very many enemies with his courageous environmental policy, and his support for the Palestinian cause.

The favourite tactic of anti-Palestinians is to label those who disagree with them as ‘anti-Semites’, i.e. racists who hate Jewish people. We have personal experience of this. Mayor Livingstone has too. (more…)

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The Bennish affair — transcript

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

Jay Bennish is a social studies, American history and political geography teacher at Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado.

In February 2006, a student, Sean Allen, recorded one of Bennish’s lectures on his iPod, to back up his notes (or so he claimed). Allen took to the media his objections regarding Bennish’s class, and this developed into a national story in the USA. (more…)

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Re:Livingstone renews anti-Jewish slurs

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

In response to ‘Livingstone affirms anti-Semitic remarks’
by International Christian Assembly Jerusalem, 23/3/2006

Also in response to ‘Livingstone renews anti-Jewish slurs’
by George Conger, Jerusalem Post, 23/3/2006.

These two articles, and similar ones in various publications, explain how the Mayor of London got annoyed at the poor performance of contractors hired to build London’s Olympic City, complaining that the Reuben Brothers were the ‘main impediment’ to the successful completion of the project and that the taxpayer might have to ‘pick up the bill of £600m to £700m’ because of their actions.

Venting his frustration with the contractors, he said that they should go back to Iran (they are of Iranian descent) if they refused to accept the Mayor’s planning régime for the Olympic City. (more…)

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Why right-wingers wanted to invade Iraq

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Next time someone tries to make some humanitarian case for the invasion of Iraq, point out that some people are more honest about the reasons for the invasion.

A disgusting example of right-wing depravity.

See http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff/311226 for such merchandise.

See http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2635 for an example of a loony right-winger who is actually angry at Arabs for controlling the ‘Western oil’ under their feet.

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