The Yorkshire Ranter

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!!!…

Doug Farah is reporting that UAE authorities have grounded Irbis Air Company’s planes. No details as yet, but this could be big news. Stay tuned… Well, if you did stay tuned, as well as reports from the UAE that Irbis aircraft have been seized, you will be pleased to know that the 3C-QRF file has…

Who decides what our honest and trustworthy friends at Secure Computing will allow their clients (or rather, their clients’ subjects and employees) to read? Turns it’s a bloke called Tomo Foote-Lennox. No, that is not a typo. Mr. Foote-Lennox, it seems, is the one who ruled that BoingBoing was “porn” on the basis of that…

It’s almost three years since this blog began, and at last, a cat. Fefe says – hello world.

So there’s this American software firm called Secure Computing, that sells filter proxy software to fun-loving tyrannettes like the rulers of Saudi Arabia so they can keep their citizens from reading any of that awful, awful stuff on the Internet. (At least, those citizens who can’t afford an Inmarsat BGAN terminal.) Turns out their stuff’s…

No.3 official at the CIA under investigation over ties with Brent Wilkes and the Randall Cunningham corruption scandal. Laura Rozen hears from a “source”: And what were the forthcoming contracts for? According to a source, they were to create and run a secret plane network, for whatever needs the CIA has for secret fleets of…

Right, another go to get 3C-QRF seized… Soj is going for the Romanian Ministry of Transport. Post mirrored.. This is the text in Romanian language. If you want to participate, copy this: Domnul Ministru Gheorghe Dobru, Va scriem pentru a va informa cu respect despre existenta aeronavei model BAC-111, cu numarul de inregistrare 3C-QRF, cu…

This is a test. Note – this post was because Blogger/Blogspot had a serious serverfart all afternoon.

Since the night before Christmas, a huge container ship has been hard aground outside the Mexican port of Ensenada. The MV APL Panama, 52,000 tonnes plus an estimated 30,000 tonnes of cargo, drove at speed into a beach after the captain unwisely dispensed with the services of a harbour pilot. She is estimated to be…