Clare's Lair

Friday, April 05, 2002

How is Frank?


Hooray! Frank is to be freed!

David says: "He will be confined to one room for a couple of weeks and then house bound for another couple of week. If all is well then he is allowed into the garden!"

Many congratulations Frank!!! I have been collecting some extra pictures of Frank, so to celebrate his escape I will put them up in a Freedom Gallery next week.





Posted by Clare at 12:05 PM [+]
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Heh heh. This isn't true but anyway:

WEBLOG wannabe 2002 weblog award awarded to Clares Lair in the category of Best Looking Weblogger

Aw. Aren't they nice? You have to run the mouse over the text to find out what the award is; i'll play with the html tomorrow.
... It's best looking weblogger though :)
Posted by Clare at 6:19 PM [+]
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crime watching
week 41: april 6th - 12th
Written for Payback by Clare-Marie White.
NB Schedules may be subject to change - especially to make way for coverage surrounding the Queen Mother's funeral on Wednesday. It's worth checking a daily paper or www.radiotimes.com for up-to-date listings.

television programmes
classics, "Must See TV"
None this week.

programmes worth watching out for, which don't make it to MSTV status
Tuesday April 9th, 23.20, BBC2 Bodypackers
Documentary tracking Jamaican mother Aldine Gayle's life in a Kent jail, where she is serving a seven year sentence for cocaine smuggling.
Director: Waheed Khan Producer: Lara Akeju

criminal justice programmes
Sunday April 7th, 23.20, C5 Arrest and Trial

Monday April 8th, 19.30, BBC1 Undercover Cops: 4x4 Reports
Four viewpoints of undercover operations investigated.

Tuesday April 9th, 21.00, BBC1 Shops, Robbers and Videotapes
Focussing on tactics to reduce London street crime.
Producers: Becky Clarke and Lance Williams

Tuesday April 9th, 22.00, C4 Undercover Cops
Undercover policemen are the new forensic pathologists this week. This
documentary traces the history of Scotland Yard's SO10 division.
Director: Edmund Coulthard Producer: Susan Jones

Tuesday April 9th, 20.00, C5 Love You to Death
Your last chance to see a Crime of Passion.
Director: Eric Hawthorn Producer: Karen Rona

Wednesday April 10th, 03.05, ITV Judge Judy

Thursday April 11th, 21.00, C4 Lost Girls: the Missing Stories of the West Murders
This looks at the victims of Fred West as well as revealing the amount of missing
people in Britain.

Friday April 12th, 19.30, C4 Unreported Britain
Talking to victims of crime.
Director: Charlotte Metcalf

social issues documentaries
Monday April 8th, 22.35, C4 Wasted
Looking at Stacey, a 24 year-old heroin addict.

real life documentaries/'docusoaps'.
Tuesday April 9th, 11.55, C4 The Real Bridget Jones
TV cameras stalk WPC Bridget Jones of Hertfordshire to see whether she's
exactly the same as the fictional one.

crime dramas/serials
Saturday April 6th, 11.30, C4 The Fugitive

Saturday April 6th, 21.00, BBC1 Murder in Mind

Saturday April 6th, 21.00, C5 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
[Repeated Monday 8th, 22.45]
Related website: www.cbs.com/primetime/csi

Saturday April 6th, 21.55, C5 Law and Order
[Repeated Sunday 7th, 23.20]
Related website: www.studiosusa.com/laworder

Sunday April 7th, 20.00, ITV Heartbeat

Sunday April 7th, 19.05, C5 Martial Law

Weekdays, 14.40, BBC1 Diagnosis Murder

Weekdays, 11.00, C5 TJ Hooker

Monday April 8th, 20.30, BBC1 The Inspector Linley Mysteries

Monday April 8th, 21.00, ITV The Cry
Sarah Lancashire stars as a woman convinced that her friend's baby is being
abused following the stillbirth of her own child.

Tuesday April 9th, 07.40, C4 Hang Time
Teen drama, featuring street crime.

Tuesday April 9th, 22.00, BBC2 Porridge

Wednesday April 10th, 00.20, C5 La Femme Nikita

Wednesday April 10th, 21.00, C4 ER
A pensioner-killer is on the loose.

Wednesday April 10th, 23.35, C4 Ally McBeal

Thursday April 11th, 20.00, ITV The Bill
Director: Mike Adams Producer: Baz Taylor
Related website: www.thebill.com

Thursday April 11th, 21.00, ITV Bad Girls
Roisin loses a visit from her children when tests reveal her to be a drug-user.
Director: Craig Lines Producer: Claire Phillips
Related website: www.badgirls.co.uk - with factsheets from the CCJS.

Friday April 12th, 20.30, ITV Inspector Morse
Director: John Madden Producer: David Lascelles

Other programmes of interest
Tuesday April 9th, 20.00, C4 The Tower
Producer: Richard Bond

clare's personal choice of the week
Monday April 6th and Wednesday 10th, 19.00, C5
Wildlife Uncovered: UK
This sounds like it should be a crime programme and fits in with the genre that dramatises nature with titles such as Killer Rivers and Undercover Carps. These two feature such dangerous creatures as the moth, the woodpecker and the hawker dragonfly indulging in their fiendish ways.

criminal justice story lines in the main soaps during march/april
Emmerdale - Watch out this week (April 11th) for Marc’s homecoming and tagging after his spell in a young offenders' jail, but of course his release is fraught with uncertainty. Scott gets involved in some illegal business.
Brookside, as ever, has plenty of policemen on the beat and they are keeping an eye on Jimmy, who has lost the fight against manic depression, and Anthony, who finally snaps back at his bullies. Meanwhile, Ron is released from prison and must cope with the tumultuous events outside.
Eastenders, on the other hand, never have any policemen round when they might need them and the cast continue their wild ways with abandon; especially nasty old Janine whose drugs and prostitute storyline continues. Melanie Owen is jailed, accused of laundering money. Meanwhile, Phil and Sonia are both seeking legal advice in the hope of getting their respective children back.
In Coronation Street, Curly is arrested by his wife at a crèche sit-in – never a help to dinner table conversation.
Related websites:
www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders
www.corrie.net
www.brookside.com
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers

radio programmes
must hear radio
None this week.

criminal justice programmes
Sunday April 7th, 20.30, Radio 4 Law in Action
Looking at blasphemy on Sunday’s repeat.
Producer: Simon Coates

Sunday April 7th, 17.00, BBCR4 Blood Feuds
Gang warfare: repeated from last week.
Producer: Emma Rippon

Wednesday April 10th, 11.00, Radio 4 In Safe Hands
Following Nottingham's Child Protection Unit.

social issues documentaries
Tuesday April 9th, 20.00, Radio 4 Here for a Month, Here for a Day
Actor Paul Barber looks at what has changed since he was fostered forty years
ago.
Producer: Miles Warde

crime dramas/serials
Monday April 8th, 14.15, Radio 4 Afternoon Play: Existence
A robbery goes strange for a petty criminal.

other programmes of interest
Friday April 12th, 16.30, Radio 4 The Message
Jenni Murray and guests engage in conversation about current media trends.
Producer: Kevin Mousley
Related website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/themessage.


crime writing in the TV guides
None this week.

daily listings
NB As schedules may be subject to change, it's worth checking a daily paper or www.radiotimes.com for up-to-date listings.

saturday april 6th
11.30 C4 The Fugitive
21.00 BBC1 Murder in Mind
21.00 C5 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
21.55 C5 Law and Order

sunday april 7th
17.00 BBCR4 Blood Feuds
19.05 C5 Martial Law
20.30 BBCR4 Law in Action
20.00 ITV Heartbeat
22.50 C5 Arrest and Trial
23.20 C5 Law and Order


monday april 8th
11.00 C5 TJ Hooker
14.15 BBCR4 Afternoon Play: Existence
14.40 BBC1 Diagnosis Murder
19.00 C5 Wildlife Uncovered
19.30 BBC1 Undercover Cops: 4x4 Reports
20.30 BBC1 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
21.00 ITV The Cry
22.35 C4 Wasted
22.45 C5 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

tuesday april 9th
07.40 C4 Hang Time
11.00 C5 TJ Hooker
11.55 C4 The Real Bridget Jones
14.40 BBC1 Diagnosis Murder
20.00 C4 The Tower
20.00 C5 Love You to Death
20.00 BBCR4 Here for a Month, Here for a Day
21.00 BBC1 Shops, Robbers and Videotape
22.00 BBC2 Porridge
22.00 C4 Undercover Cops
23.20 BBC2 Bodypackers

wednesday april 10th
00.20 C5 La Femme Nikita
03.05 ITV Judge Judy
11.00 C5 TJ Hooker
11.00 BBCR4 In Safe Hands
14.40 BBC1 Diagnosis Murder
19.00 C5 Wildlife Uncovered
21.00 C4 ER
23.35 C4 Ally McBeal

thursday april 11th
11.00 C5 TJ Hooker
14.40 BBC1 Diagnosis Murder
20.00 ITV The Bill
21.00 ITV Bad Girls
21.00 C4 Lost Girls


friday april 12th
11.00 C5 TJ Hooker
14.40 BBC1 Diagnosis Murder
16.30 BBCR4 The Message
19.30 C4 Unreported Britain
20.30 ITV Inspector Morse



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Forwards are hateful. But this one is funny; and those are OK. This is from Mark.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM:
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM:
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public buys your bull.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times
the milk.
You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows. Both are mad.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.

A HINDU CORPORATION
You have two cows. You worship them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.

A WELSH CORPORATION
You have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.


Posted by Clare at 4:52 PM [+]
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How is Frank?

Frank may be freed very soon! He has just got back from the vet and we await news...
Posted by Clare at 4:47 PM [+]
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I'm not addicted to these tests, Riaz said I should do this one:

	You are Kermit! Though you're technically the star, you're pretty mellow and don't mind letting others share the spotlight. You are also something of a dreamer.
Take the What Muppet Are You? Quiz!

Posted by Clare at 4:19 PM [+]
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I can't get my Bloglet subscription service to work. Any advice?
Posted by Clare at 10:51 PM [+]
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The news is terrible at the moment. Nothing is happening in Britain except the Queen Mother, who remains dead, sad as this is; and in the world there seems to be only the situation in Israel which gets worse and worse. Someone MUST sort it out, who will it be?
So are there any other stories happening? Perhaps a cheerful one... something in America? You guys must be up by now enjoying Monday? Let me know...
Posted by Clare at 11:24 PM [+]
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In an unexpected consequence of posting my work for Payback here, Google has started referring to the Lair for TV listing searches. So, if you're looking for details of UK TV programmes, scroll down :)
Posted by Clare at 7:19 PM [+]
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Below is an article by my friend Alex Higgins: an interview with two relatives of a September 11 victim. He would appreciate feedback: you can e-mail him at fallible_but_means_well@yahoo.co.uk
Posted by Clare at 6:52 PM [+]
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Charlotte’s Daddy
A true story about September 11th and the Afghan war
by Alex Higgins

The world did change on September 11th. The atrocities in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania provided an extraordinary opportunity, quickly taken up, for the harshest and most repressive sections of our societies to push unpopular demands and point to Ground Zero in Manhattan for their justification. The US based non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Watch, issued a briefing describing how governments across the world from Russia to Zimbabwe, from Australia to Israel, invoke those killed on that day to justify anything from jailing journalists (Zimbabwe), sending tanks into refugee camps (Israel), torturing dissidents (Egypt), invading Chechnya (Russia), leaving refugees out at sea (Australia) and just about anything else you could think of.

In the United States and Britain, much the same cynicism took hold as the drift towards another Middle Eastern war took hold. Reduced social welfare, vastly increasing military expenditure, repressive legislation, the harassment of refugees, internment without trial, racist violence and talk of indefinite war with the Third World – all pursued with vigour and all the rage and fervour that the atrocities in September permitted. And amid the grief of those affected, and the hysteria sought by politicians and the press, many quiet voices of dissent initially felt quite isolated and helpless.

Small audiences in London a few weeks ago had the opportunity and privilege to hear two very different dissenters when Ryan Amundson and Kelly Campbell came over from the United States to talk about the small peace group they had helped set up in the aftermath of September 11th. While in England they gave interviews on the radio and argued against the war in Afghanistan with journalists – and they did so with unique credibility. Ryan’s brother and Kelly’s brother-in-law, Craig Scott Amundson, was killed on September 11th in the Pentagon, aged 29. He left behind a wife, Amber, a son, Elliot, and a daughter Charlotte, aged 2.

At the Quaker meeting house on Euston Road and in the even smaller Kingsley Hall, tucked away in an estate in the East End, they gave their story.

After the horrific images from the World Trade Center had made it to the TV screens across the United States, Craig rang up Amber to tell her not to worry for him – he was probably in the safest building in the world. She never heard from him again. Kelly first heard of the day’s events when she got a call telling her to switch on the TV and watch the news. Ryan described how the news of his brother’s death affected him – he suddenly felt a "very close connection to other people in the world ... that are suffering under war and violence". The numbers of those killed in the world’s conflicts – he cited the hundreds of thousands of children killed in the last 12 years by the US and British embargo on Iraq as an example – "weren’t just statistics any more".

Meeting others bereaved by the New York and Washington massacres, he found people stunned by shock and grief. Contrary to many assumptions, he did not hear any talk of revenge. No talk of smoking people out of holes or the like. The first he heard of that was when families were addressed by a Congressman. The Congressman started talking vaguely and "getting ‘them’" and the various unpleasant things he had in mind for ‘them’, without specifying who ‘them’ referred to. Ryan began to have serious concerns about the direction in which events were heading. It was "very uncomfortable to hear someone talking about killing people after our loved ones had died violently. It seemed important to speak out against this ... I didn’t want to see any more victims of September 11th ... (but instead) fundamental changes in a world where things like this can happen ... the present reliance on military force doesn’t include that and in fact, rejects it ... we wanted these things discussed". While rejecting war, Ryan insisted that he wanted to see those responsible for his brother’s murder brought to justice, preferably before an International Tribunal. He noted that months of bombing Afghanistan had not brought the prospect of legal justice any closer, that the surviving perpetrators and their whereabouts remain as much a mystery today as they did on September 12th and that he does not accept that he feels more secure as a consequence.

Craig’s memorial service was held on October 7th. But the opportunity to remember his brother was disrupted by the news that the USAF had begun bombing Afghanistan – "the day of my brother’s memorial service the bombing started, which made it harder". He later joined an anti-war protest in New York with Craig’s wife Amber and other bereaved families under the banner, ‘Our Grief is not a Cry for War’.

Ryan and Kelly’s personal tragedy helped them to face the vitriol usually reserved for the peace movement. On one occasion, pro-war protesters took down their banners and walked away after hearing the story of September 11th victims who opposed the war and tried to explain their point of view. Ryan responded to abuse from a passing car by walking up to it coolly and trying to give a flower to its occupants. Almost with success in fact, though the traffic lights changed before the occupants were persuaded. Their status as victims does not make them immune however – one widow who spoke out against the war was recognised by a group of women on a train who proceeded to torment her and tell her that her husband would disapprove of her efforts for peace, that she had betrayed him.

The peace group set up by and for September 11th victims, ‘Peaceful Tomorrows’ (an excerpt from a quote of Martin Luther-King’s) has only just got started, but so far Ryan says, they "really haven’t heard anything negative … only … words of support". Voices for peace are, predictably, accused of lacking patriotism, but it is a view of patriotism that Ryan challenges - "I don’t think patriotism means accepting the actions of your leaders (but) caring about the principles of democracy and caring about the people of your country."

Kelly and Ryan don’t claim to represent all the victims of September 11th, but they are trying to honour their memory and win it back from the war-mongers who have claimed the memories of those killed for their own. George Bush jr used one example of personal heroism from the World Trade Center – a man who waited with his disabled friend for help but was killed – in his speeches, but was stopped when a relative of that particular hero protested. The misuse of the memory of the dead by the illegitimate President irked Kelly – "I mean, how dare he!" Too many of the official memorial services, in England as well, have not been for the commemoration of the dead so much as the celebration of the institutions of state and the prejudices with which they disguise their actions – "it wasn’t really a memorial", as Ryan pointed out.
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Kelly continued the story – she and a few other relatives of victims had toyed with the improbable idea of visiting Afghanistan for themselves. In the United States, the families of victims from the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the hijacked planes had received, and still receive, as Kelly could testify, huge quantities of cards, gifts and letters from throughout the country and across the world. It was "amazing", Ryan would later add – "so much support and compassion from the government and the entire world". Grateful to live in a country with that level of support available, Kelly realised that the Afghan victims of the war, having endured what she described as "their September 11th" since last October, would have nothing like such concern and compassion shown them.

Afghanistan’s tragedy long predates last October. In 1979, the Russians invaded the country to uphold a friendly regime and prevent an Islamist victory along its Central Asian border. The Russian invasion took the lives of as many as a million people over the next ten years and obliterated the country – destruction in which the US government played no small role. The creation of a massive proxy army of as many 100,000 Islamist militants, from which the Taliban and al-Qaeda emerged, was the CIA’s largest and most expensive covert operation in its history, costing over $3.2 billion dollars. US intelligence sought the cruellest and most fanatical Islamists it could find in the whole of the Middle East and provided the heavy armaments they needed to fight the Russians effectively. The predictable result of this was to prolong the Soviet occupation and to provoke the Russians into bloodier attacks against the civilian population – the Carter administration’s CIA director, Stansfield Turner, gave the prospect of a higher death toll some thought: "I decided I could live with that", he said. And so he did.

While reporting on Russia’s Afghan war, the outstanding British Middle Eastern correspondent Robert Fisk reported that the US and British proxies in Afghanistan had attacked a school where girls and boys were educated alongside each other, destroying it and beheading the headmistress, one of many such episodes. He was chided by the Foreign Office for his report and told in future to refer to the mujahedin warriors as freedom fighters.

The sort of freedom they were fighting for became evident after Russia’s withdrawal in 1989 and the mujahedin triumph in 1992. Kabul was captured by the forces of the CIA's favourite warlord, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, which proceeded to destroy the city, killing 25,000 of its inhabitants in a single week. The West’s proxies fell at each other’s throats and tore the country apart in what human rights organisation described as the darkest moment in Afghanistan’s history. This period of massacre, torture and rape lasted until 1996. Attempting to bring the country under control, the US government’s regional allies, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, created a new force, the Taliban, based on an extraordinarily repressive and violent interpretation of Islam. The Taliban rapidly conquered most of the country, and such was the war-weariness of the people of Kabul that they welcomed the Taliban as they drove out the mujahedin who had terrorised them for so long. The war carried on as the Taliban attempted to assert their bloody rule.

Then, in October last year, came the latest stage of the war with an aerial bombardment that drove most of the inhabitants from Afghanistan’s cities into the cold, hard, mine-covered wilderness and killed, so far, some 4 – 5,000 civilians at a conservative estimate, while destroying much of the remaining public infrastructure. And sweeping to power to replace the collapsing and unloved Taliban were the Northern Alliance – a collection of the warlords who had terrorised Afghanistan in the past, now armed and with new uniforms, courtesy of… the United States and Russia, acting in concert this time to draw more blood from a country they have tormented for decades.

And in went Kelly, to see the results and do what she could with other bereaved companions. They were there to collect the stories of the people who had been on the receiving end of the strategies of the great powers. Such as a 6-year-old boy who had witnessed a bombing raid and had refused to talk or walk ever since. Unable to cope with his experience, he had reverted to babyish behaviour. Kelly observed similar behaviour in a brother and sister, aged 10 and 9 respectively, who would not talk or look people in the eye. The girl dribbled frequently and both had trouble sleeping at night – their dreams are disturbed by nightmares, causing them to wet their beds. The foreign powers and factions that have tyrannised the country have left nothing in the form mental healthcare provision.

Near houses that were "literally piles of rubble", Kelly met a 25-year-old mother who had lost an eye, seven family members, her mother and her house. She was left grieving and homeless, with no job, no money and no food for her son. Then there was the painter who had lost his leg, could no longer work, and had no money to send his sister to school as he had planned. And another mother who had lost her house and five of her children. Seeking the help of an English speaker she dictated a letter to the US embassy in Kabul, in which she said that she believed that the death of her children was unintentional and that she had respect for the United States but that she had no place to live and could the US government please compensate her? She took the letter to the embassy and was sent away, told that "we don’t accept beggars at the US embassy". The US government has handed out large and unknown sums of money as bribes to Taliban members and payments for the various narcotics-trafficking warlords that are its Afghan allies, but turns away mothers made homeless through its own actions. The bombing of Afghanistan costs approximately $30 million dollars a day. Kelly later took the trouble of taking that letter back to the embassy herself.

Recalling the trip, which received considerable press coverage, Kelly remembered and compared the stories of two children. She recounted the story of an Afghan boy who saw his friend go over to pick up something small and yellow on the ground – unknown to his friend it was one of the small bomblets from a cluster bomb, sprayed over the Afghan plains by the USAF. The boy shouted to his friend, "NO! DON’T TOUCH IT!" But too late. He "watched his friend explode and die."

And walking her 2-year-old niece, Charlotte through a little nature trail where her Dad had often taken her before, Kelly had wondered what Charlotte remembered of her Dad, Craig. Charlotte had been inundated with cards and gifts at the funeral so much that it must have seemed like a birthday, and did not really seem to understand what was going on all around her. Kelly stopped and asked Charlotte whether she had been on the nature trail before. Charlotte looked down and replied, "a plane crashed in Daddy’s work and Daddy couldn’t get out." Charlotte captured the tragedy better than the entire output of political speeches and media analysis.

Kelly told her audience about the awful prospect of explaining to Charlotte some day about the Afghan boy cut to shreds in a military campaign launched by others on behalf of her Dad, finally adding that it is "so horrible that we live in a world where children have these stories. Let’s put all the politics aside. What really matters is human beings and taking care of each other."

For more information about Ryan Amundson or Kelly Campbell and their new organisation ‘Peaceful Tomorrows’, you can visit their website, www.peacefultomorrows.org which also provides contact addresses. More articles and information can be found at the excellent www.zmag.org.




Posted by Clare at 6:50 PM [+]
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Trying to add some sounds to the Lair with two favourite radio stations from Cyber Radio. Don't know if it'll work though...
... nope, didn't work. But this page has some good stations on.
Posted by Clare at 5:27 PM [+]
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New Admirable Blog

This site is nicely designed and run by a very well read girl called Alexandra G. Lots to look at.


Posted by Clare at 5:26 PM [+]
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Top 5 stories in today's Observer

Blair's U-turn on Iraq
Blair has decided to take a cautious approach towards Iraq because of the likelihood of party splits and massive opposition to attack.

The life of the Queen Mother
An interesting look at all the eras Elizabeth saw.

How Naomi Cambell brought it on herself
The press are like snakes: leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.

Garry Flitcroft's own goal
Apparently the crowds in the terraces were chanting 'Does your Missus know you're here' at yesterday's match (which Blackburn lost).

Tribute to Billy Wilder
Another long life, and the director of some of Hollywood's best films.


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