If you have a TV or basically live anywhere that isn’t under a rock, you will have heard about Iraqi journalist Muntader Al Zaida having managed to throw his shoes at American President, George Bush during a recent press conference. Let’s relive that moment, maybe even several times if you enjoy it as much as I do:

So of course this event has just reiterated just how much the reality of the invasion and American aggression in general is not reflected in mainstream news coverage. If the TV world of events bore any resemblance to reality then Al Zaida’s actions would hardly be surprising.

An interesting thing to note, is that in 99% of reporting on this you will find this sentence: “In Iraqi culture, throwing your shoes at somebody is widely regarded as a sign of contempt”. In case you found his actions a bit ambiguous, you see. I mean gosh, I hope his idea about throwing dirty things at people doesn’t catch on in the white/right parts of the world… like America. That would be a horrible way for “Iraqi” culture to infect us.

One more thing that I think is very worth noting (and something that has barely been mentioned), is that last year Al Zaida was kidnapped, beaten, questioned and then subsequently released two days later. The identity of his attackers has never been established.

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This video is quite shocking, if only for revealing the extent of things.

The speakers are John Howard, then PM of Australia, and Stephen Harper, now PM of Canada. As you can see, within 2 days of each other, they give identical speeches to their respective parliaments, both calling for their countries to join the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Let it be known that any coincidence theorists commenting on this post shall be hereby laughed at – and maybe also detained indefinitely in our secret prisons – for propounding their silly views. (Incidentally, synchronicity theorists will not be laughed at, although I think in this case, the conspiracists have it).

Here’s your daily dose of propaganda, kids: Dangerous and depraved: paedophiles unite with terrorists online. This is one of the worst examples of Rupert Murdoch’s ‘journalism’ I’ve seen – I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Yes, two of the best excuses for the erosion of civil liberties are now apparently colluding online to ‘exchange operational secrets’. It’s now even been discovered (by an unnamed and unbiased ‘anti-terror source’) that terrorists and paedophiles are psychologically similar. They’re both ‘obsessive’, ‘paranoid’ (surely they should be paranoid?) and – this is the best one - they spend a lot of time ‘going to the mosque or going off to internet cafés’. That’s an actual quote, I’m afraid.

Never trust an ‘anti-terror source’ with your psychological well-being.

Not only are the terrorists and paedophiles in league with one another, apparently they’re often one and the same. The article proudly declares that ‘The link might have remained unknown but for the case of a Muslim preacher from the East End of London [Abdul Makim Khalisadar]‘. Right. Except that they then admit that Khalisadar was never convicted of anything relating to terrorism or paedophilia. (He was a convicted rapist though, so hey, they’re all the same right?) All through the article ‘terror suspects’ are treated as if equatable with convicted terrorists.

We then get the incredible claim that terrorists actually communicate through child porn. Yes, Al-Qaeda have decided to encode pornographic images of children, possibly the most illegal, graphic and conspicuous medium thinkable, with secret messages as a mode of ‘clandestine communication’. I’m not making this up (although I suspect the Times is).

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