More from Boris Johnson who is a member of the Conservative Party in Britian, a member of Parliament, and editor of the Spectator magazine. When he says, give me the memo about bombing al-Jazeera and I’ll print it, he is quite capable of doing just that.

He also says on his blog and on the Spectator

But if (Dubya’s) remarks were just an innocent piece of cretinism, then why in the name of holy thunder has the British state decreed that anyone printing those remarks will be sent to prison?

We all hope and pray that the American President was engaging in nothing more than neo-con Tourette-style babble about blowing things up. We are quite prepared to believe that the Daily Mirror is wrong. We are ready to accept that the two British civil servants who have leaked the account are either malicious or mistaken. But if there is one thing that would seem to confirm the essential accuracy of the story, it is that the Attorney General has announced that he will prosecute anyone printing the exact facts.

If someone passes me the document within the next few days I will be very happy to publish it in The Spectator, and risk a jail sentence. The public need to judge for themselves. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. If we suppress the truth, we forget what we are fighting for, and in an important respect we become as sick and as bad as our enemies.

PS Federation of Journalists accuses US over killing Al-Jazeera reporter

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that he would consider granting clemency to Crips co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams.

Politically, Schwarzenegger will take massive hits regardless of his choice, so he might as well do what he believes to be right. And at the very least, he’s signalled repeatedly he is considering clemency (which would mean life no parole, not freedom.) BTW, Arnold has unquestionably greatly liberalized the California prison system, aiming it towards rehab, not punishment. See our post on Jeanne Woodford’s talk. She’s Director of the Calif. Dept. of Corrections, was appointed by him, and among other things, is aiming at getting prisoners off alcohol and drugs so they don’t return, something the more neandertal prison guards call "hug-a-thug."

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I’ll go to jail to print the truth about Bush and al-Jazeera

Via Washington Note

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A senior al-Jazeera executive is in the UK to demand publication of a memo in which George Bush allegedly discusses bombing the TV station’s HQ.

Aha, the memo may contain yet even more info damaging to Bush and Blair. This may explain why Blair is threatening prosecution to any paper that prints it.

Labour MP and former defence minister Peter Kilfoyle has tabled a Commons motion calling for it to be made public.

Mr Kilfoyle said he believed that plans for a further assault on Falluja may have been discussed at the meeting, and his motion voices concern at Mr Blair’s failure to restrain the attack, which eventually took place in November last year.

Mr Kilfoyle said: “I am calling for the publication of the record, which we know exists, of a meeting in April 2004 in which George Bush allegedly called for the bombing of the al-Jazeera HQ in Qatar and which also discussed the launch of the assault on Falluja, which I find a very important issue, particularly related to the British attempts at restraint.

The White House continues to pretend the memo doesn’t exist, a clumsy ploy that no one believes. Because, if it doesn’t exist, why is the UK invoking the Official Secrets Act to keep it from being printed?

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This neatly explains something I’ve been thinking about too. Murtha may have been working with the Pentagon in calling to end the war.

Just got to thinking, that if, in fact, John Murtha is as wired into the military as has been reported, then he must’ve known that the military was drawing up plans for a troop reduction. If that’s the case, his sudden announcement for redeployment takes on a whole new set of possible motivations.

Was he out front, trying to create public pressure to support Gen. Casey’s hopes for withdrawal? Acting genuinely in concert with his military contacts to create political ground to help them push their plan?

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However I don’t think the US ruling class will willingly leave Iraq. It’s not like Vietnam where there were no particular resources to plunder. Iraq is different. They want control over the oil and dominance over the region. This has been a goal of US foreign policy for decades regardless of which party was in power. They only way they will leave is if they lose the war. Which of course is precisely what’s happening.

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This is not a parody… Clear Channel, a reactionary right wing radio chain is broadcasting this sickening, inflammatory garbage.

Please join a coalition of community leaders and activists as we protest Clear Channel station KFI 640 AM for its continued blatant racism and bigotry and announce a formal complaint filed with the Federal Communications Commission.

KFI 640 AM hosts John and Ken of the John and Ken Show have designated the hour of 5 p.m. as the “Tookie Must Die/Kill Tookie” hour on KFI 640 AM everday Monday through Friday until and if Williams is executed by the State of California on December 13, 2005.

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Analysis of air bubbles trapped in ice taken from east Antarctica has revealed the stark comparison and the findings will be added to evidence of human interference in the Earth’s climate, which has been collected for next week’s United Nations’ conference on global warming in Montreal, Canada.

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The battle to keep water non-privatized is worldwide. And it’s always large banks, especially The World Bank and their allies, who want to force countries to privatize.

From the Philippines Sun Star

I believe, and so as the majority of water consumers all over the world, that w ater is a human right. This is the reason why water distribution companies is classified as public utilities because government agencies monitor their operations and regulate their rates and charges to consumers.

But the privatization program of international financial institutions like the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is pushing the services sector to corporate hands that are profit driven. So the civil society in Asia-Pacific region are clamoring against privatization of water services and condemns the detrimental impact ADB’s involvements in the water sector.

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