Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 14, 2010, 7:08 am
Many of you will have noticed the absence of posts on the Osterley Times. It is with regret that I have to tell you that Kel, the man behind the Osterley Times, died suddenly on 28 October 2010. Kel was many things. A Labour man. A working-class hero. A socialist. All labels that could be applied to...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 26, 2010, 3:30 am
Michael Steele makes the pathetic claim that the Republicans - The Party of No - did not attempt to obstruct the Obama administration, and that they really, really, wanted to co-operate with the regime. Is there anyone, anywhere, dumb enough to swallow that argument? Yeah, sure Micheal. That's why ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 26, 2010, 3:17 am
Beck has claimed that he will never endorse any candidate. On November 30, 2009, Beck claimed: "I just gave an interview just the other day, where people said 'so you're going to be endorsing candidates?' I said not over -- not on -- over my dead body will I be endorsing candidates." Since then, ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 26, 2010, 2:40 am
We learned yesterday of the US ignoring Iraqis torturing Iraqis, and today The Guardian have managed to unearth British army training methods which appear to be in direct breach of the Geneva Conventions. Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators they should aim to pr...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 25, 2010, 3:07 am
David Brooks is going to great lengths to say that anonymous financing is not a big deal. DAVID BROOKS: I think it’s tremendously corrupting in Washington. The question is does it affect the electorate? And I guess-- does it affect voters? A couple things. First, it’s important to remember the o...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 25, 2010, 2:45 am
It really does seem as if the Tea Party movement could tear the Republican Party apart. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee today broadened the assault on the Republican Party establishment — and former Bush adviser Karl Rove in particular — levied recently by Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, blast...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 25, 2010, 1:59 am
Until now, we had thought that the recent Wikileaks revelations had told us that the US ignored evidence of Iraqis torturing Iraqis, but it seems it was rather worse than that. It now transpires that US forces handed over detainees to Iraqi units which they knew would torture them. The 400,000 fiel...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 24, 2010, 3:16 am
It's always a treat to listen to Bill Maher on a Sunday morning. He's very funny. Tags: Bill Maher, Tea party protests
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 24, 2010, 2:32 am
London boroughs are booking bed and breakfast lodgings in Hastings, Reading and Luton as London prepares to see some 82,000 families forced to leave the city because of George Osborne's changes to housing benefit. London is about to see an exodus of the poor from the city. The controversy follows c...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 24, 2010, 2:02 am
Nick Clegg has told Desert Island Discs that he had to search his conscience when making the cuts in benefits which have caused so much outrage here in Britain. Speaking about the cuts, he said: "I have spent every day of this process, pretty well every minute of this process, asking myself wheth...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 23, 2010, 1:16 pm
Sarah Palin tweets: “NPR defends First Amendment Right, but will fire u if u exercise it. Juan Williams: u got taste of Left’s hypocrisy, they screwed up firing you.”First of all, it's not a First Amendment issue, it's an employer issue. And, talking of hypocrisy, isn't what Palin is complaini...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 23, 2010, 2:51 am
Rachel Maddow takes apart the right wing claim that Juan Williams has had his First Amendment Rights violated because he was fired for comments he made about Muslims. MADDOW: Let’s be clear here. This is not a First Amendment issue. … The First Amendment does not guarantee you a paid job as a ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 23, 2010, 2:03 am
The Daily Mail are expressing their horror at the wage deal being offered by Manchester United to Wayne Rooney. In an article entitled, "A Victory for Greed", they lament: Rooney, who will celebrate his 25th birthday tomorrow with a party at his £4.5million home, apologised to fans for the ugly s...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 23, 2010, 1:01 am
Wikileaks has released a further 400,000 secret US army field reports detailing that the US turned it's back on evidence of torture carried out by the Iraqi forces. It's yet another grim indictment of the Bush regime's callous attitude to the subject of war crimes and the blasé manner in which it i...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 22, 2010, 6:02 am
It's funny to watch Fox News complaining of others attempting to interfere with free speech and "silence conservatives". Oh, how quickly they squeal when anyone mounts a defence against their barrage of lies. Tags: Fox News, Hannity, Soros
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 22, 2010, 5:44 am
I know emotions run high when it comes to the subject of football, and I have made my own feelings regarding what Wayne Rooney is proposing perfectly clear. But I simply don't agree with this: While Rooney was pondering the fall-out from several hours of high-level talks at Old Trafford, a 40-stro...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 22, 2010, 2:58 am
It normally takes the Institute of Fiscal Studies longer than twenty four hours to work out whether or not a budget has been progressive or regressive, but, in the case of George Osborne's latest offering, no such time was necessary. Osborne, backed by Nick Clegg, has made the ridiculous claim that ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 21, 2010, 9:21 am
Rush Limbaugh has attacked a George Soros donation to Media Matters as "foreign money" being used in American politics. "You want to talk a little foreign money in politics? George Soros has admitted to donating $1 million to Media Matters for America."I know Soros has a foreign sounding name, Rus...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 21, 2010, 3:20 am
Wayne Rooney's statement, which is about as odious a thing as I have ever read, should see his career at Old Trafford brought to a shuddering close. In it, he implies that his decision to consider moving to Manchester City is not simply a financial one but, rather, brought about by his fears that th...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 21, 2010, 1:48 am
I know it's just me, but I found it quite sickening to watch Nick Clegg pat George Osborne's back as he sat down having announced his brutal spending cuts. Osborne was as smarmy and self pleased as he always is, as clear a product of the upper end of Britain's class system as one is ever likely to s...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 20, 2010, 3:47 am
I came across this this morning. It's one of the greatest examples of the kind of cognitive dissonance routinely practised by the American right wing. Craig T. Nelson: We are a capitalistic society. Okay, I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They are not going to bail me out. I have ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 20, 2010, 3:09 am
Need any more proof of how dangerous Glenn Beck is? We already know that Byron Williams got into a shoot out with the Californian police on his way to, "start a revolution by travelling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU" after hearing Beck repeate...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 20, 2010, 2:26 am
Nick Clegg has lost his bloody marbles. Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Mini-ster, yesterday tried to calm jitters among Liberal Democrat MPs about the impact of the cuts – not least on the party's own electoral fortunes. He said: "The spending review provides the best evidence yet of why we are ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 20, 2010, 1:53 am
Sir Alex Ferguson is claiming to be puzzled as to why Wayne Rooney would contemplate leaving one of the most successful football clubs in the world, especially when that club had treated him so very well. Alex Ferguson looked down at his notes, leaned forward in his chair and, grim-faced, stared o...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 20, 2010, 12:57 am
Today, we finally learn what Osborne is actually going to do. For months they have been hinting at it, telling us to brace ourselves, and now, finally, Osborne is going to reveal just what it is that he is proposing. There are hints of what is to come: Average budget reductions of 25% to most White...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 19, 2010, 8:34 am
I said yesterday that I suspected the business leaders who had written to The Telegraph insisting that Osborne must stick to his guns regarding the Tory planned cuts would turn out to be Tory supporters. Today's Independent: The 35 businessmen warned against delaying cuts in a letter to the Cons...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 19, 2010, 6:23 am
Here is Kilmeade's non apology. KILMEADE: On the show on Friday, I was talking about Bill O’Reilly appearance on the View and I said this: “Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims.” Well, I misspoke. I don’t believe all terrorists are Muslims. I’m sorry about that...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 19, 2010, 3:06 am
O'Reilly decides to double down on his claims regarding Muslims and now states, "There's no question there is a Muslim problem in the world". He seems determined, as do many right wingers, to view all Muslims as somehow responsible for the behaviour of an extremist few and labels anyone who...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 16, 2010, 3:29 am
Tides CEO and founder Drummond Pike has asked advertisers to stop using Fox News to sell their products because of the link between Glenn Beck and the recent intention of Byron Williams to gun down members of the Tides organisation. Pike wrote: In total, prior to the attempted rampage, Beck had atta...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 16, 2010, 3:00 am
Rupert Murdoch, facing questions from shareholders concerning the phone hacking allegations at the News of The World, has stuck firmly to the company line. Speaking for the first time since the Guardian revealed that News Corp's UK subsidiary had paid more than £1m in out-of-court settlements...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 16, 2010, 2:16 am
I never thought I'd find myself in agreement with Eric Pickles, but, on this occasion, I do. The government is urging councils across the country to stop giving hundreds of thousands of pounds in tax breaks to the Church of Scientology. The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, said a majorit...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 15, 2010, 2:18 am
Rupert Murdoch, whilst accepting an award from the Anti-Defamation League for his support of Israel said that there is a "soft war" being waged against Israel, and condemned "the left" as the purveyors of a "new anti-Semitism." “This is the soft war that seeks to isolate Israel by delegitimizing ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 15, 2010, 1:51 am
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walk off the set after Bill O'Reilly states that "Muslims killed us on 9/11!" I found what they did embarrassing. Surely they are able to remain in their position and argue with a bigot like O'Reilly? They return after O'Reilly states, "if anyone felt tha...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 15, 2010, 12:59 am
I find this simply unbelievable. Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP. This result comes from The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll, which found that 44 percent of likely voters say the Democra...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 14, 2010, 2:31 am
Ed Miliband's first PMQ was important because he was not elected by the majority of his own parliamentary party, so it was important that yesterday didn't end with a feeling of buyers remorse. And, whilst I could pick holes all day at his stilted delivery, there can be no question that he w...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 14, 2010, 2:18 am
Only "loons" believe what is glaringly obvious, according to O'Reilly. Tags: O'Reilly, Fox News
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 14, 2010, 1:39 am
It really is no wonder that so many of the new breed of Tea Party/Republican candidates avoid being interviewed by anyone other than Fox News. When they are removed from that partisan environment their ignorance becomes almost painful to witness. Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell's ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 13, 2010, 3:40 am
Clinton turns on the Republicans and Fox News and the campaign of anger and hate which they are fomenting. And he puts a heckler down pretty neatly as well. Tags: Clinton, mid terms 2010
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 13, 2010, 2:34 am
David Cameron has already felt the need to apologise for cutting child benefit for some of Britain's richest citizens, and to admit that he had not included this proposal in his manifesto. It's far worse for Vince Cable. Not only did he not mention the doubling of university fees in the Lib...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 12, 2010, 5:33 am
I've spoken before of Glenn Beck's influence on California highway shooter Byron Williams, the man who into a gun battle with the California Highway Patrol. Well, now Williams has spoken, and it's very hard not to come to the conclusion that Glenn Beck validated a lot of this man's...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 12, 2010, 3:03 am
Cameron finds himself in a dilemma. He came to power with the backing of Rupert Murdoch and now many right wing British newspapers have teamed up with papers on the left to call for the coalition to intervene and prevent Murdoch from acquiring a complete takeover of BSkyB, which currently trades as ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 10, 2010, 2:42 am
The Guardian are today writing about links which they have established between The English Defence League, a far-right grouping aimed at combating the "Islamification" of British cities, and the Tea Party movement in the United States. An Observer investigation has established that the EDL has mad...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 10, 2010, 1:59 am
The Tories loathe the idea of universal benefits, which is why Osborne risked outraging his party by abolishing the right to child benefit for the better off citizen in the UK. Now, the Tories plan to attack the principle of universal benefits again, this time by challenging the right of all old ag...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 9, 2010, 3:49 am
Glenn Beck actually agrees that firemen were right to watch a man's house burn down. You can see how O'Reilly now comes across as a voice of reason compared to the insanity of the new extremist right wing of the Republicans which Beck represents. In their world it really is every man for h...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 9, 2010, 3:34 am
It would appear that Sarah Palin is, at the very least, considering how to sell herself for a presidential bid, as she has been reminding the gentle people at Newsmax that Ronald Reagan was once considered too right wing to be elected. Speaking to a group of well-connected Republicans at a private d...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 9, 2010, 3:10 am
President Bush has stated, "I have zero desire to be in the press"... as he releases his autobiography. He then states: "I have written a book. This will come as a shock to some of the elites. They didn't think I could read a book, much less write one," Bush quipped.What is it with the Republ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 8, 2010, 1:45 am
The "fair and balanced" news channel tells voters that they "have a duty" to throw Harry Reid out of office. Tags: Hannity, Harry Reid
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 8, 2010, 12:48 am
I didn't get a chance yesterday to comment on David Cameron's speech to the Conservative party conference. It was a strange affair. He said very little that made any coherent sense, accusing Labour - rather than the private sector - of causing the financial collapse, which left him speaking...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 8, 2010, 12:15 am
In her first TV advert, Christine O'Donnell hoped the voters of Delaware would be tempted to vote for her on the grounds that she was "not a witch." Her second ad is insisting that "I didn't go to Yale", and using what she clearly hopes to be her catchphrase, "I am you": "I didn't go to...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Oct 6, 2010, 12:51 am
Beck repeats the lie that it "would cost nothing" to extend the Bush tax cuts and states that it is "class warfare" to ask that the rich pay roughly the same rate of income tax which they paid under Ronald Reagan. Tags: Beck, tax cuts
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