Nine Muslims, including three children and eight US citizens, were ordered off a domestic flight on an Airtran flight bound from Washington to Orlando, after a misunderstanding over a conversation about airline safety....Kashif Irfan, 34, said his younger brother Atif and his brother's wife were discussing the safest place to sit on the plane, when they were overheard by two young girls who told a flight attendant."My brother and his wife were discussing some aspect of airport security," he told the Post. "The only thing my brother said was, 'Wow, the jets are right next to my window."
...Kashif Irfan, 34, said his younger brother Atif and his brother's wife were discussing the safest place to sit on the plane, when they were overheard by two young girls who told a flight attendant.
"My brother and his wife were discussing some aspect of airport security," he told the Post. "The only thing my brother said was, 'Wow, the jets are right next to my window."
Wishful thinking for 2009 - John Pilger
The good news for the new year is as follows January: Tony Blair is arrested at Heathrow Airport as he returns from yet another foreign speaking engagement (receipts since leaving office: £12m). He is flown to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes for his part in the illegal, unprovoked attack on a defenceless country, Iraq, justified by proven lies, and for the subsequent physical, social and cultural destruction of that country, causing the death of up to a million people. According to the Nuremberg Tribunal, this is the "paramount war crime". The prosecution tells Blair's defence team it will not accept a plea of "sincerely believing". Cherie Blair, a close collaborator who has compared her husband with Winston Churchill, is cautioned. ....
January: Tony Blair is arrested at Heathrow Airport as he returns from yet another foreign speaking engagement (receipts since leaving office: £12m). He is flown to The Hague to stand trial for war crimes for his part in the illegal, unprovoked attack on a defenceless country, Iraq, justified by proven lies, and for the subsequent physical, social and cultural destruction of that country, causing the death of up to a million people. According to the Nuremberg Tribunal, this is the "paramount war crime". The prosecution tells Blair's defence team it will not accept a plea of "sincerely believing". Cherie Blair, a close collaborator who has compared her husband with Winston Churchill, is cautioned. ....
Every month´s good news would be a great start, except for September. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
New Statesman - Wishful thinking for 2009
November: Gordon Brown is kidnapped, hooded and forced to listen repeatedly to his 2007 speech to bankers at a Mansion House banquet: "What you as the City of London have achieved for financial services, we as a government now aspire to achieve for the whole economy."
All these grown men playing their boys' games. .... President Roosevelt, confronted in the 1930s with similar players, called them "banksters". ..... Capitalism is the theory that the worst people, acting from their worst motives, will somehow produce the most good.
Long, but thought provoking. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
