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Posts with keyword 'politics'
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I keep meaning to do a post about Arabs, but found that I've been working on enough games to talk about that rather …
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The BBC has released a new section onto their website called Democracy Live. It is an extension of BBC Parliament, …
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"New York Times says murdering civilians is "logical""
Posted by Acebloke on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 06:00PM
http:// www.nytimes.com/ 2009/01/14/ opinion/ 14friedman.html?_r= 1
"Israel’s counterstrategy was to use its Air Force to …
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Fascists were ran out of town by locals and Unite Against Fascism supporters today, where the "Stop the Islamisation of …
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"Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Courts to be tried as Children"
Posted by Acebloke on Friday, September 04, 2009 05:57PM
For the first time, Palestinian Children will be tried under a separate Israeli Military court to that of adults. Over …
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Ironically, one of the "most influential men in the world" was stopped in a US airport, supposedly over his surname …
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"Wargames update, Zetris 2 + Moving Mountains Uploaded, plus politics"
Posted by Acebloke on Saturday, June 06, 2009 07:10PM
First off, I updated Wargames
http:// www.byond.com/games/ Acebloke/ Wargames
You'd better read this, because its …
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Fascists have come second place in the European Election vote in the Netherlands.
Geert Wilders "Party of Freedom" …
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"British National Party Predicts 6 Billion migrants to UK by 2021"
Posted by Acebloke on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 05:25PM
The British National Party released an article, containing a graph of expected increase in the UK. This graph is …
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http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ world/ middle_east/ 7952603.stm
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"Yisrael Beitenu to lead Foreign, Internal, Infrastructure and Immigration Ministries"
Posted by Acebloke on Monday, March 16, 2009 05:16PM
Yisrael Beitenu, the Israeli party that believes all Israeli-Arab politicians be executed, Arab prisoners to be …
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So you might have heard about the issue of some Muslims protesting against the Armed Forces coming back to the UK, and …
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Emulating what I've done in previous times for UK elections*, I will attempt to capture as much data that is possible …
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Gunna attemp to keep on top of it as best as I can for antibafflegab, been updating the ballot access maps and tables …
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http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ world/europe/ 7665319.stm
A Nazi is a Nazi.
Its hard not to say good riddance. The only …
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"Will Texas not have a Republican and Democratic candidate on the ballot this November?"
Posted by Acebloke on Saturday, September 20, 2008 02:38AM
An interesting topic has been spewing for the last month. That is, the two main US parties failed to file their …
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A minister in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered a Kinshasa jail to release a dozen goats, which he said were …
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In the Independent the other day, it had a plan from the US to ensure supremacy in Iraq, replicating the deal that Iraq …
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A cameraman working for Reuters, the French media organisation, was killed by a tank shell after arriving to the scene …
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"Israel "should wipe out Gaza Neigbourhoods" in response to rockets"
Posted by Acebloke on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:47PM
As Islamic Jihad continue to take advantage of the rift between Hamas and Fatah by firing rockets into Israeli towns, …
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"Israel's attorney general says no policemen will be prosecuted over the killing of 13 Arab Israeli protesters in 2000 …
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Might remember me posting about the inclusion of Anti-Arab party, Yisrael Beitenu, joining the Governing Coalition in …
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Quick post before I fall asleep, this picture has been creeping me out all day. It is however, a masterful work by the …
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Vincent Cable was Liberal Democrat leader for about two months. He was acting as leader from his deputy position while …
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A new report (http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ world/ middle_east/ 7136068.stm) suggests that Anti-Arab discrimination is on …
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..Despite myself being extremely interested in military affairs and soldiers rights, supportive of both the wars in …
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"Israeli Interior Minister calls for reform"
Posted by Acebloke on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 03:13PM
Israel mulls citizenship changes
The Israeli Interior Minister has called for reforms in regard to who is allowed …
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http:// english.aljazeera. net/NR/exeres/ 1 44F367A-5709-458E- A1DF-9112E7B059BD. htm
Israel is going to take more …
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http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ uk_politics/ 7031803.stm
There will not be an election this year, supposedly, as Gordon …
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"I wonder how those pictures got on there!"
Posted by Acebloke on Thursday, October 04, 2007 01:51PM
This is hilarious, I doubt some news agencies and reporters were as nice as the BBC was!
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"Polish Parties campaign in United Kingdom"
Posted by Acebloke on Sunday, September 30, 2007 02:32PM
Polish migrants in the United Kingdom have become so numerous, that Polish political parties have been campaigning for …
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"Ex Parish councillor forced to divorse son of Osama"
Posted by Acebloke on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 09:29AM
http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ england/ merseyside/ 7003047.stm
Jane Felix-Browne, an ex-parish councillor in the UK …
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Blackwater, the private security force, essentially one of the many modern day mercenary groups that have profited in …
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But just not here.
By convention time, I of course mean, UK Party Political Conventions.
TUC (Trade Unions …
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http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ world/ middle_east/ 6977400.stm
Israel is set to take more Palestinian land in another …
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"Pro-Russian Ukrainians take steps to block opposition"
Posted by Acebloke on Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:48PM
Ukraine has seen, since the last Parliamentary elections a big chasm in its political system. While the "Orange …
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http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ uk/ 6962071.stm
Sadly its not even much of a disappointment any more but just a fact of …
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Amnesty International has voted after a meeting in Mexico to confirm they will back Abortion cases when it involves …
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Yep, he's finally made his move. In the last 24 hours, he has announced that he is preparing to change the …
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I don't often watch "Newsnight", the weekday politics program on BBC2, but I did tonight.
Its main topics were …
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"Why People shouldn't be so Glad about the Turkish Election"
Posted by Acebloke on Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:34PM
First, lets go back to 2002. This not only brought a one party Government (ie: not a coalition) for the first time in …
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Rather sad, but I updated Minesweeper so its sort of playable (although still sort of crappy.
Also, the two …
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3 Presidents will be voted for today, as well as two by-elections in the UK. India is expected to see its first female …
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""Without the Holocaust, we could have had Jordan, too""
Posted by Acebloke on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 04:29AM
"Newly-installed Israeli President Shimon Peres on Tuesday said that if six million Jews had not been wiped out in the …
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" If Iran Were America (And We Were Iran): A Timeline"
Posted by Acebloke on Friday, July 06, 2007 11:12AM
Someone has done an interesting flip of Iran/US power struggle to present the history of the two countries, as if it …
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"Press TV joins the overloaded group, but fails"
Posted by Acebloke on Monday, July 02, 2007 02:22AM
You may, or probably not know that Press TV, an Iranian media group (government owned) has started up a 24 hour english …
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The US, the least respondent country in the world to Green politics, is now coming out that they are going to "lead the …
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From Reporters without Borders:
Reporters Without Borders today condemned Israeli army raids yesterday on five …
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Exploder Tournament hasn't happened, and I still haven't got round to updating Wargames. I guess I need a proper break …
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"St George's Day (+predictions on French Presidential)"
Posted by Acebloke on Monday, April 23, 2007 02:53AM
Yep, there's nothing like celebrating Englishness than celebrating a Turkish/Palestinian guy killing a dragon miles and …
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Its the French Presidential first round today. Nicholas Sarkozy, the right-wing candidate of the ruling party is in the …
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"Pound Sterling hits $2 mark for first time in 15 years"
Posted by Acebloke on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 03:00AM
The strength of the Pound continues to rise, hitting $2 for the first time since 1992. It has been hovering, and likely …
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This came up on the MPACUK public forum, its about a new EU report that came out on Terrorism within the Union in 2006 …
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http://www.un.org/ News/briefings/docs/ 2006/ 060403_mines.doc. htm
Today is Mine Awareness Day.
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As a pro-Iraq war Lefty Muslim, I do get annoyed now and then by the swarms of people who get on the anti-war …
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The United Kingdom becomes the first major country to ban Cluster Bombs, which have often led to hundreds of civilian …
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Due to bad weather and crap modem software. I'm probably not going to host again till Monday. The 4 day game was more …
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"Ministry of Defence spends £40k on Playstations"
Posted by Acebloke on Friday, March 16, 2007 03:04PM
Nearly £300,000 has been spent in three years on televisions and games consoles for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, …
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I'm not picking on Israel or anything, in fact, Israeli officials seem to have a lot more fun than everyone else.
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Forgot to post up final results:
DUP: 36 (4 ministerial positions not counting first minister)
SF: 28 (3 …
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Of course, being a STV system, counting takes ages and so its in its second day. It currently stands at:
DUP: 25
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Its election time in the UK, this time in Northern Ireland tomorrow, while others are going on in may.
The NI …
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A US expert on Russian Intelligence becomes the next piece of the puzzle in the Litvinenko ordeal when he was shot …
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Liberal and left wing groups are broken up in one of the rare "authorised" opposition marches. This is not appearing on …
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There's this hilarious topic about this guy who gets time for funding Hamas years back, and the usual responses by some …
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UK was a surprise, we use them reasonably regularly ourselves and did in Iraq. Still, its good news that at least some …
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"Israeli newspapers have printed photos of Defence Minister Amir Peretz trying to watch military manoeuvres through …
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"1987's SDP/Liberal Alliance Political broadcast"
Posted by Acebloke on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:25AM
Its interesting to see how things change through the years, this is the SDP(Labour break away party when it was seen as …
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EU has condemned 14 member states, including the UK and Germany for ignoring or allowing the United States to take our …
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It seems like Israel has no real interest in sticking to the peace treaty, as they cross the border with bulldozers and …
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"US releases footage of their attack on British Convoy"
Posted by Acebloke on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 07:28AM
Those of us who keep up with military matters on this side of the pond were glad to see that the United States decided …
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The first relates to Israel's illegal use of cluster bombs (the "penalty" for using them when they did before was a ban …
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This is just a forward to the blog I'm currently sharing with my good friend Mark Elliott who is a Australian Catholic, …
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The Sunday Times, a UK newspaper, is suggesting that Israel is preparing for a possible nuclear strike on Iran.
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Damn, it was looking like they were gunna last, but it seems like the US broke them.
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[BEGIN TRANSMISSION]
2 more years till I can legally stand for election.
Cough
Ack
Heart
Attack
Dying
Call
999
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http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ world/ asia-pacific/ 6202553.stm
So the Philippines's can stick up for themselves when US …
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Reuters: http:// www.alertnet.org/ thenews/ newsdesk/ L19393323.htm
Pro-Israel: …
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http:// www.haaretz.com/ hasen/spages/ 801449.html
American-Israeli woman gets beaten on bus because she refused to go …
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http:// english.aljazeera. net/NR/exeres/ 5 7E17F90-F717-45AF- B56E-87235A4BD8B6. htm
Saddam did the same thing in 2002, but …
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Arbiter, a good friend of mine from Australia, conscripted me to join him on doing a political blog together. We're …
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Terrorism works both ways, not only were the IRA bad, but those that decided to take the law into their own hands on …
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Ok, so lets take a tour around the middle east shall we? In alphabetical order:
Edit note: It'll be interesting if …
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http:// english.aljazeera. net/NR/exeres/ 1 A32EA5C-7462-4EA0- B642-9363F23A9E79. htm
If the US can't condemn an attack on …
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Ok, I've been delaying this post for awhile. I want to cover several issues at once, politics, gaming, and life.
First …
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"Pentagon openly admits expanding its propaganda machine"
Posted by Acebloke on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:02AM
While the BBC is planning to propaganda-ise Iran by releasing a new TV station and expand British influence in the …
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The acceptance of a far right racist Israeli party, that is anti-arab, so far that its anti Jewish arab, into the …
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http:// news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ middle_east/ 6075106.stm
http:// news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ middle_east/ 6075408.stm
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Theres one really annoying thing from being political: Knowing your full right and some dumbass trying to prove it …
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While updating my election and government resource website, I came across this:
http:// bensguide.gpo.gov/
It is …
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Bah, I really dont like my mind, I aint able to consentrate on much when its focused on politics. My girlfriend has …
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Nobody can see really basic things in the world at large. Does anyone have common sense any more ? For some reason, I …
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Current Work:
Lately I have been working on:
Law of the Board
Wargames
Wargames 2
Environment
Things I need to do:
Environment - Get back into the fray
Slide-o-Snake - Needs final polishing, 3+4 player, tidy help guide.
Law of the Board - Need to add check and update.
2008 todo
HUB Game status:
(by level of my satisfaction)
Outdated
Battlestar Arcade: 28%*
Battleverse: 30%#
Communism: 32%*
Communism2: 94%~
Countdown: 62%~
Deal or no Deal: 40%
DSC: 40%*
DSC Revamp: 50%@
Election: 4%#
Environment: 58%@
Exodus: 56%
Exploder: 94%~
Geekdash: 68%~
Geekdash2: 50%~
Geekdash3: 62%
Hostile Takeover: 48%
Idle Warrior 2006: 46%
Jaivana: 30%
Joshtan1: 50%
Law of the Board: 52%
Minesweeper: 60%
Pixel It: 36%*
Pokee: 42%
Quest: 46%~
Quest2: 56~
Quest3: 32%
Reaction: 44%
Retro Space Battle: 78%
Slide-o-Snake: 100%~
Space Commander: 40%
Wargames: 62%
Wargames: 62%
Zetris: 84%~
* Defunct, dead
~ technically finished
# Unreleased
@ Host only
Law of the Board
Wargames
Wargames 2
Environment
Things I need to do:
Environment - Get back into the fray
Slide-o-Snake - Needs final polishing, 3+4 player, tidy help guide.
Law of the Board - Need to add check and update.
2008 todo
HUB Game status:
(by level of my satisfaction)
Outdated
Battlestar Arcade: 28%*
Battleverse: 30%#
Communism: 32%*
Communism2: 94%~
Countdown: 62%~
Deal or no Deal: 40%
DSC: 40%*
DSC Revamp: 50%@
Election: 4%#
Environment: 58%@
Exodus: 56%
Exploder: 94%~
Geekdash: 68%~
Geekdash2: 50%~
Geekdash3: 62%
Hostile Takeover: 48%
Idle Warrior 2006: 46%
Jaivana: 30%
Joshtan1: 50%
Law of the Board: 52%
Minesweeper: 60%
Pixel It: 36%*
Pokee: 42%
Quest: 46%~
Quest2: 56~
Quest3: 32%
Reaction: 44%
Retro Space Battle: 78%
Slide-o-Snake: 100%~
Space Commander: 40%
Wargames: 62%
Wargames: 62%
Zetris: 84%~
* Defunct, dead
~ technically finished
# Unreleased
@ Host only
My hosted files
People I stalk
My Medals
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