Wouldn’t you love to see him perform this? Can’t you hear the words as you read? Call that humiliation? No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch. Terry Jones, Saturday March 31, 2007, The Guardian And what’s all this about allowing the captives to write letters home saying they are all right? It’s time the Iranians fell into line with the rest of the civilised world: they should allow their captives the privacy…
A must-read article by Terry Jones (of Python fame). Yes, they have “made a killing.” Early this year the Bush administration is to ask Congress to approve an additional $100bn for the onerous task of making life intolerable for the Iraqis. This will bring the total spent on the White House’s current obsession with war to almost $500bn – enough to have given every US citizen $1,600 each. I wonder which the voters would have gone for if given the…
Stop New Pollution and Global Security Threats from Nuclear Waste The US has a serious nuclear waste problem, and like the rest of the world, we have found no solution. Nonetheless, the White House is proposing a giant program to import and reprocess foreign spent fuel. In his current budget, the Bush Administration proposed the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) which would make major changes to U.S. policies regarding the global management of spent nuclear fuel. Under GNEP, “supplier†countries…
Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | A man-made tsunami Thank you once again Terry Jones!!!! Why no fundraisers for the Iraqi dead? “Of course it’s wonderful to see the human race rallying to the aid of disaster victims, but it’s the inconsistency that has me foxed. Nobody is making this sort of fuss about all the people killed in Iraq, and yet it’s a human catastrophe of comparable dimensions.” … “I haven’t seen many TV reporters standing in the…