2006

Kieran “Crooked Timber” Healy batters a prediction that U.S. religious conservatives are fated to outbreed the effete eurodhimmisexofascist coastals into the middle of next week. Well. It’s an interesting thought, as many point out in the comments, that (even hypothetically) the funders of creationist themeparks might succeed through Darwinism. It’s also the basis, I think,…

Via Blairwatch, a thrilling oration from minister of state Kim Howells. “People describe Iraq as a mess, but it is a mess that can’t launch an attack now on Iran; a mess that won’t be able to march into Kuwait; it’s a mess that can’t develop nuclear weapons. So yes it’s a mess but it’s…

After yesterday’s revelations, more news from Kenya about those Armenian Russians from Dubai. The East African Standard, having survived the government’s censorblitz, reports that, indeed, the two men of mystery didn’t arrive by air as they said, but drove to their press conference at Jomo Kenyatta airport in a government car.. The Standard learnt from…

Cole: Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr announced that a plot had been foiled to place hundreds of Sunni Arab troops actually loyal to the insurgency in position at the Green Zone and then to have them rush embassy offices and take diplomatic hostages. TYR, 25/02/06: Those tanks the Iraqi minister of defence is threatening to…

It’s that blog awards time again. The Bloggies are up, and does anyone else feel they are just a bit dull? The winners are: Best Blog Application: Blogger.Best Asian Blog: Tokyo GirlBest ANZAC Blog: LoobyluBest Middle Eastern Blog: Baghdad BurningBest European Blog: My Boyfriend is a TwatBest UK/Irish Blog: Girl with a One-Track MindBest Latin…

Ultra-dodgy securico CusterBattles’s rampant Iraq corruption seems finally to have caught up with them to the tune of $10 million.

NMS Communications chap Brough Turner has an interesting set of photos up on installing a base station in Nigeria. With a VSAT satellite terminal for the backhaul and solar panels, it’s a complete drop-in infrastructure…

After the Kenyan censorblitz crisis, a curious story from the Nairobi Nation via AllAfrica.com. Apparently some poor chap turned up, bleeding, near a house occupied by mysterious white foreigners regularly visited by vehicles with GK- plates (i.e. Government of Kenya). Sez he’s been bitten by a dog. Locals say he’s dusting crops where there ain’t…

A long, grim report from the New York Times on Iraq – tortured corpses littering the streets, ethnic cleansing, 11-year-old gunboys building roadblocks, teenage checkpoints, lynchings, the full Lebanese monty. But this is really bizarre: Across town in a busy shopping area in western Baghdad, a 15-minute gun battle broke out between security guards, more…

I’ve decided to bring forward the next Monday Stranded Giant Container Ship post because there has been an unforeseen development – M/V APL Panama is afloat! Cargolaw: March 10 2006 — SHE FLOATS !!!!! M/V APL Panama — beached since Christmas Day 2005 — floated away from the Mexican beach at 4:41 a.m. March 10!!!…