Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 12, 2009, 1:53 am
Kennedy famously reminded South America in 1961 that, "in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside." I happen to think that this lesson is one which ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 12, 2009, 1:39 am
Let's remember that regime change is illegal and then consider Blair's latest statement: Speaking on BBC One's Fern Britton Meets programme, Mr Blair was asked whether he would still hav...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 11, 2009, 4:32 am
More proof that Palin supporters share her ignorance of what the Bush doctrine actually was. The Bush doctrine had nothing to do with the notion of unilateralism or of defending one's nation. It...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 11, 2009, 2:22 am
Watch as the insane Bachmann refuses to decry Jon Voight's comment that Obama's "only success in his one-year term as president is taking America apart, piece by piece. Could it be he has had ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 11, 2009, 1:59 am
Britain is about to mark imported food from the West Bank to distinguish between food produced by the Palestinians and food produced on illegal Israeli settlements. Until now, food has been simply la...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 11, 2009, 1:22 am
Obama turned up at Oslo yesterday to collect his Nobel peace prize, setting off the expected cacophony of hate from the usual right wing quarters: In honor of President Barack Obama’s acceptance of...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 9, 2009, 2:28 am
Mike Huckabee thinks that "big tent" conservatism will destroy the Republican party. HUCKABEE: One of the things that concerns me is that in the United States there’s a real talk of “maybe we need...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 9, 2009, 1:25 am
I found myself screaming at the TV last night as I listened to the utter bollocks John Scarlett had to say to the Chilcot inquiry. I am pleased this morning that Simon Jenkins appears to have shared ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 8, 2009, 2:23 am
Those pesky Democrats are harassing poor Lieberman again, and all because he puts his own views before those who elected him. When will the electorate finally realise that, once they have elected him...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 8, 2009, 1:56 am
Since the Obama administration pointed out that Fox News has ceased to be a news organisation at all, it seems that everyone is noticing. Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the networ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 8, 2009, 1:16 am
I am sure we all remember the story of Romell Broom: A death row inmate has been given a week’s reprieve after executioners were unable to find a vein to administer a lethal injection. Convicted ki...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 6, 2009, 3:11 am
It's refreshing to hear a Republican abandon the general right wing madness on this subject and accept what scientists are actually saying on this subject. Tags: climate change, California, Arnold...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 6, 2009, 2:57 am
The Republicans who voted against the Al Franken rape amendment are furious... with Al Franken. Franken passed an amendment that was attached to a defense bill that would withhold government contracts...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 6, 2009, 1:54 am
David Cameron has come out fighting the only way he can after Gordon Brown stated that Tory tax policies were "dreamed up on the playing fields of Eton." Cameron has immediately declared that Brown is...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 5, 2009, 2:57 am
Glenn Greenwald highlights a scary change which has taken place in US society since 9-11. Ronald Reagan, May 20, 1988, transmitting the Convention Against Torture to the Senate for ratification: ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 5, 2009, 2:33 am
Elizabeth Warren sums up the bailout of the banks beautifully. We bailed out those at the top and left the middle class to fend for themselves. While the middle class has been caught in an economic vi...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 5, 2009, 2:12 am
I spoke yesterday about the ludicrous steps the police are taking over here to question people who photograph public buildings under terrorism laws. Now, it appears, the public backlash is causing th...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 5, 2009, 1:45 am
Gordon Brown has condemned Saudi Arabian and American Republican sceptics of climate change as being "flat Earth" cynics. Sceptics in the UK and the US have moved to capitalise on a series of hacked...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 3, 2009, 4:59 pm
They're not bankers, they're wankers. Royal Bank of Scotland directors are threatening to resign unless they are allowed to pay out million pound bonuses. City Minister Lord Myners has stated...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 3, 2009, 2:08 am
This is how ridiculous anti-terror laws are becoming in the United Kingdom. Several photographers have complained that the police have approached them after they have take perfectly innocuous pictures...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 2, 2009, 1:37 pm
Listen to these two tossers bloviating. O'Reilly is upset that Obama didn't "define evil" or "get emotional". He complains that Obama is almost too intellectual. He is actually making the argu...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 2, 2009, 1:27 am
I said yesterday that I thought Ahmadinejad was being foolish to hold on to the British yachtsmen, and the latest reports appear to suggest that he has come to his senses. Five British yachtsmen who ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 2, 2009, 12:31 am
He always argued during his election campaign that the real battle the US should be engaging in was in Afghanistan rather than Iraq, so I suppose I am not surprised that Obama has announced the troop ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Dec 1, 2009, 4:51 pm
I've seen this coming for a while now, but it's a further indication of just how alienating the American right wing currently are. Now, Charles Johnson, the man behind Little Green Footballs, ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 30, 2009, 1:33 am
Anytime I watch American punditry I am always struck by how selling out the left in order to please the centre - which in reality is actually the centre right - is always favoured by the pundits. The...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 30, 2009, 12:53 am
The role of the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, in the Iraq war has always intrigued me. At first he states that the war - without a second UN resolution - would be illegal, only to dramatically cha...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 30, 2009, 12:32 am
A new Senate report has found that Donald Rumsfeld failed to capture or kill Osama bin Laden when he was trapped at Tora Bora and that this failure has left the US more vulnerable to terrorism. The r...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 29, 2009, 1:42 am
The alternative universe that is Fox News: PERINO: And we had a terrorist attack on our country. And we should call it what it is. Because we need to face up to it so that we can prevent it from happ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 29, 2009, 1:12 am
I agree with every word of Brad Friedman's summation of Fox News: It must be stated over and over again: the Fox News Channel is not a news channel. It's a Republican party propaganda channe...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 29, 2009, 12:22 am
Gaby Wood, writing in today's Observer, sums up the mood of the American right - and especially it's current spokesperson, Glenn Beck, perfectly - when he describes "The Paranoid Style in Amer...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 28, 2009, 1:19 am
Astonishing. Despite the fact that she left office without even completing her term, Mike Huckabee still finds Sarah Palin's “executive experience” preferable to that of Barack Obama. This is...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 28, 2009, 12:58 am
They really are a classy bunch these tea party people.... A group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family and suggested that the couple fabricated their tragic story....
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 28, 2009, 12:45 am
... mentions "terrorism", then they stop believing in the law altogether. Trying terrorists for their crimes is apparently displaying "a pre-9-11 mentality". The correct post 9-11 mentality require...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 27, 2009, 1:22 pm
The Anti Defamation League has stated that Glenn Beck creates "an intersection between the mainstream and the extreme". HUFFINGTON: It is frightening. Well, I would say the fearmonger-in-chief title ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 27, 2009, 12:13 pm
The Chilcot inquiry today heard from Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the UK's ambassador to the UN in 2003, who stated that although he did not think the Iraq war would be proven to be illegal, even he tho...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 26, 2009, 1:35 am
Palin on Canada's health system: “Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.” Yep, because "turning a profit" matte...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 26, 2009, 12:40 am
I feel quite sure that the Chilcot inquiry is going to drive me crazy. We are going to hear lots of things which we already suspected, and the thing that will drive me nuts is that Blair and the peopl...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 15, 2009, 1:39 am
Listen as O'Reilly invites on guests and then simply shouts at them. He's incensed that terrorists are going to be given a trial. It's quite clear that he doesn't believe in the Ameri...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 15, 2009, 1:18 am
We are used to watching fat dorks like Hannity blame poor people for their own poverty, but they usually don't bring race into the equation. I thought they hated all poor people equally. Tags: Ha...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 15, 2009, 12:37 am
The New York Post are reporting that Lou Dobbs was warned in July of this year to drop birther stories about the president, and that Dobbs became incensed by this. "It seems this story is dead because...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 14, 2009, 2:50 am
Beltway logic: It is evident from the length of this deliberative process and from the flood of leaks that have emerged from Kabul and Washington that the perfect course of action does not exist. Give...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 14, 2009, 2:11 am
Why am I not remotely surprised by this? AP have studied Palin's new book and found lies like this all over it: PALIN: Rails against taxpayer-financed bailouts, which she attributes to Obama. She...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 14, 2009, 1:09 am
The inevitable right wing noise machine has kicked into action, decrying Obama for treating KSM and others as "ordinary criminals". I notice that Kruathammer identifies "ordinary criminals" as burglar...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 13, 2009, 9:35 am
This is very good news. Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be sent from Guantanamo Bay to New York for trial in a civilian court, reports say. Citing unnamed government officials, ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 13, 2009, 5:10 am
Obama was due to talk to Netanyahu for 30 minutes, but the meeting actually went on for some 70 minutes. Is Obama telling Netanyahu that Hillary was, perhaps, overly generous to him when she was in Is...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 13, 2009, 12:00 am
Okay. It's official. Mark me down as naive... American business groups are "worried" about laws that prohibit produce which comes from child, slave, and prison labour. Let's say we can get o...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 12, 2009, 11:20 pm
During the tenure of George Bush we were told that we were in Iraq in order to spread freedom and democracy. I don't know if any of us were naive enough to believe that, but I also don't think...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 2, 2009, 8:06 am
Netanyahu's government are relishing their victory over the Obama administration: "There is no question that the United States are our staunchest friends and that Israel's firm stance on i...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 2, 2009, 7:52 am
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy McChrystal is currently being sold as the most brilliant military mind - oh how quickly Petreaus has been forgotten - mostly ...
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Kel posted an article on The Osterley Times - Nov 2, 2009, 5:11 am
The snake speaks: "I'd say to the people who are all of a sudden making the public option -- a government health insurance company -- the litmus test here, they're stopping us from getting som...
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