Month January 2003

UN orders Wonka to submit to chocolate factory inspections “Responding to pressure from the international community, the U.N. ordered enigmatic candy maker William “Willy” Wonka to submit to chocolate-factory inspections Monday. “For years, Wonka has hidden the ominous doings of…

Bush’s mouthpiece gets aggro Blair: North Korea is next. “Tony Blair today pledged that after dealing with Iraq, the UN would confront North Korea about its nuclear weapons programme.” [Guardian Unlimited] And then Iran, and then Syria, and then oh,…

Iraq is an “imminent threat”, says Bush What a laughable comment. To hear the poor man speak, you’d think he was hiding under his bed every night for fear the big bad Iraqis were going to come crashing through the…

Los Angeles County closes major hospitalThe liberal-tilting Board of Supervisors in Los Angeles County voted to close an important hospital. Other major hospitals are threatened too. The reason, the Board says, is that the money to fund them simply isn’t…