My latest cooking creation.. Japanese finger food delicacies. I've never acheived anything quite like this before, but boy was it a lot of work !
Inari with mushroom and cucumber, and salmon/egg sushi pieces.Just ask the Zimbabwean refugees broadcasting opposition radio, via the only free non-government Zimbabwean media outlet, Radio SW. Under Mugabe's police state, the only way they can broadcast such material is from the suburbs of northern London. Johann Hari has a fascinating article on the subject:
Radio SW Africa was founded by Gerry Jackson, a smart-suited white woman who had been one of Harare’s most popular radio DJs – until she crossed Mugabe’s unspoken line. On the day of the first food riots in 1997 – when the starving population began to rebel – Gerry did something you just don’t do in Zimbabwe: she opened the phone-lines to ordinary people, so they could explain what was happening. Until that moment, the radio had been a means for the government to talk to the people, not the other way round. Panicked, pitiful people called in, appealing for help – and Gerry was kicked off air for “insubordination.” She tried to set up an independent radio station, only for it to be smashed up by goons on its sixth day on air.....
This city is scattered with Radio SW Africas. The main Saudi Arabian opposition station broadcasts from a semi in Fulham. The Falun Gong dissidents broadcast to China from PackhamYou've gotta salute these people. Escaping torture and imprisonment in totalitarian states is one acheivement. But once they reach the free world, they remain the only voice of truth and freedom for the oppressed people back home.
Now I'm just waiting for the thousands of protestors throughout the world to boycotts Syrian products and burns down Syrian embasses...The state-run Syrian daily al-Thawra lately hinted that Israel developed the bird flu virus to harm the genes of its Arab neighbors.An article published by the newspaper argues that Israel spread the virus in the Far East to mislead the world.The newspaper backed its suspicions by citing a 1998 report in the Sunday Times that Israel is developing a biological "ethnic bomb" that would kill Arabs and not Jews.According to the Times, Israeli scientists are trying to identify genes characteristic to Arabs and then develop viruses that attack these genes. The newspaper said the program is being carried out at the Institute for Biological Research in Nes Tsiona near Tel Aviv.
French supermarket chain Carrefour have decided to boycott Danish goods and appease the violent mobs. The French sure have a long history of covering their asses and retreating.
Freedom of speech is unarguably one of the most important liberties in any society. When governments decide to outsource their authority to multinational bodies like the European Union,(or even worse the U.N) people's freedoms will eventually be disregarded as every aspect of life is regulated and controlled by power-hungry bureaucrats working for a centralised authority. Looks like Europe will soon have their freedom of speech curtailed in much the same way we Victorians have experienced under Steve Bracks ridiculous anti-blasphemy laws.
In an interview with Britain’s Daily Telegraph, EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said the charter would encourage the media to show “prudence” when covering religion.
“The press will give the Muslim world the message: We are aware of the consequences of exercising the right of free expression,” he told the newspaper. “We can and we are ready to self-regulate that right.”
When genocidal, mass-murdering terrorist groups have been shunned by world leaders and had their funding cut by European diplomats, where else can they turn to ? Good old anti-Western Vladimir Putin.
Speaking through a Spanish interpreter, Putin said: “We haven’t considered Hamas a terrorist organization. Today we must recognize that Hamas has reached power in Palestine as a result of legitimate elections and we must respect the choice of the Palestinian people.”Thanks a lot Vladimir.
Keep it real man.That's my ridiculous sounding headline of the day, and unfortunately, it isn't made up.
The trouble erupted late on Tuesday when copies of the Muslim holy book were found lying in a drain in the Bhatta chowk area on the fringes of the sprawling city.
“The news of the desecration of the Koran spread quickly in the neighbourhood and within no time some three to four thousand people took to the streets shouting slogans against the desecration,” Abbas said.
Look at the URL below and tell me the SMH are unbiased. The content of the article is different to what the URL suggests, but you can just picture lots of SMH journos salivating and drooling over the prospect of John Howard resigning:
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