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Security Services on hunt for "clean-skin" women
If you were in a city centre or on the train over the weekend you might have noticed a much larger police presence than usual. This follows the Home Office announcing the latest bout of the “don’t-be-worried-but-we-should-all-be-scared-shitless-game” with the raising of the government’s terror threat level from “substantial” to “severe”, meaning the government apparently believes [...]
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Islamogeddon cancelled.
Anjem Choudary in happier times Fundamentalist nutjob Anjem Choudary’s bottled it. After a week of hysteria in the British press over a planned Islamist march through Wootton Bassett, he has cancelled the demo – as many already predicted he would do. Choudary previously claimed to be organising a march for Shariah Law in London before [...]
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Iraq whitewash #3456
Who would you want to investigate if the Government had lied about going to war in Iraq? Columbo? CSI? Jonathon Creek? If your answer was 4 Knights of the Realm and a Baroness, congratulations you have won and can now become the Government of the UK. The Government announced earlier this year, at long last [...]
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update!
It’s been a pretty busy week. Here’s a wee update of what’s been happening with SSY and beyond… EDUCATION: Glasgow Uni Tutors Fight for Fair Pay Post Graduate Teaching Assistants at Glasgow University could be set for strike action in their ongoing battle for fair pay and conditions. A series of meetings this week among [...]
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"I'm afraid to say NATO was very, very drunk at the time"
A Nato airstrike in Kunduz is believed to have killed approximately 70 civilians Nato faces fresh and unusual criticism today after it emerged that booze has been banned from its HQ in Afghanistan after its staff were too hungover to give an explanation as to how 70 civilians were killed in an airstrike Nato command [...]
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Megrahi – Lockerbie's scapegoat.
SNP Justice Minister Kenny MacKaskill’s decision to free convicted Lockerbie bomber Al Megrahi on the grounds of compassionate release has unleashed a tornado of criticism upon both himself and the devolved administration. He has been attacked by virtually all other opposition parties, tabloid newspapers, and even the current director of the FBI Robert Mueller who [...]
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Inglourious Basterds.
Review by Jack Ferguson. As a filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has spent his career playing with some of the played out staples of conventional cinema, and trying to make them into something fresh and exciting. Previously he’s done it with gangsters and crime, blaxploitation and martial arts movies. His latest, Inglourious Basterds, is his take on [...]
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Over 200 soldiers dead…
…so the pro-NATO Afghan Government can legalise the rape and starvation of women. “It (the law) allows a man to withhold food from his wife if she refuses his sexual demands; a woman must get her husband’s permission to work; and fathers and grandfathers are given exclusive custody of children.” Stop the lies, they’re not [...]
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Pakistan – biggest threat is the US.
Polling conducted by Al Jazeera finds the US, not the Taliban the biggest threat to Pakistan according to the country’s inhabitants. 59% of Pakistanis named the US as the biggest threat, only 11% named the Taliban. NATO’s war in Afghanistan is frequently crossing the border into Pakistan – or “Afpak” – with indiscriminate air strikes [...]
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