The US Armed Forces are stretched to breaking point. Not only are they fighting two wars, and losing soldiers left and right, but they are under pressure to expand their numbers to meet Government directives for more more more military. It appears they have been trying their best with ad campaigns, but even girls in uniform aren't attracting enough home grown squaddies.

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Remember the FBI sting where they sent free tickets for a basketball game to the home addresses of known bail jumpers. 100's filed in unaware. Moments before the "game" the agents revealed themselves and everyone was placed under arrest. Perhaps a similar tactic should have been employed with the NGO with pro-Pedophilia links - the one that was recently given official UN approval.

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Son of Thatcher, outgoing British PM, Tony Blair, extended his trip to Cairo with a lightening strike, er trip, to Baghdad. Putting on hold discussions about his retirement plans - pyramid sales and camel jockeying - Blair met the Iraqi president for talks on withdrawal of British troops from that decimated experiment. As usual, he was all smiles, but was that because he suddenly realised the irony of the Iraqi leader's name, Jalal Talabani? Blair masks for all!

We have some shares in a company that was just bought out from under our nose. They specialise in restaurant hygiene testing, and do some anti-biological warfare work on the side. An obvious business mix, don't you think! Ashram has a quote that explains the importance of their work

Nasty smells are the latest newcomers in the weaponry of biological warfare. Top scientists have been quoted as saying "There's a crop of badduns out there." Apparently agent 112 has the potency of 1000 curry farts, while agent 7BTR makes rancid socks smell like Febreeze (comparatively).

We dealt with Sad man Hussein, and Mad mother Osama, and finally it is time for the third player in the Middle East crisis, the Bad Dad.

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After watching another horrendous display of pseudo journalism from Geraldo Rivera, we got to thinking about another terror - the war on terror, and three of the main players.

Terror star 1 is Sad, aka Saddam Hussein, the soon-to-be-swinging sixty-something ex-Iraqi leader. This monster of the marshes will probably end his life as he began,...

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We end an insincere line of contemplative white space dedicated to Sad Saddam...and move on to the second part of the trilogy.

Mad, aka Osama bin Laden, has continued to taunt his foes. But is OBL alive or dead? Did this playboy monster really have the foresight to prepare years' worth of audio and video content from his cave?

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The BBC are returning the focus back on the troubled region of Darfur province in the west of Sudan. They are good at doing that, and should in fact propose one of their own journalists to handle the impossibly complex problems there. Yes, one Michael Buerk is worth a dozen bumbling Secretaries and Peace-Keeping diplomats sweating in fear
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Not trying to be funny, but most Western governments aren't stupid. Their leaders perhaps aren't always the brightest button in the box, especially about foreign affairs, but the people behind them are a bit more switched on. The men in black know the repercussions of competing in a global market. It takes a wealth-creating machine of Read more...