For those of you subjected to the unfortunate idea of having Tony Blair as first president of the EU you’ll pleased to know the war criminal never came close.
The European Union has its first permanent council president — and its not Tony Blair. Instead, EU leaders have chosen Belgian Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy for the top job. His chief virtues? He’s from a small state actually committed to the European project (unlike the UK), and he’s a consensus politician, rather than a divisive autocrat (unlike Blair). Plus of course he’s not a war criminal — always a bonus when you’re trying to run a state committed to peace and international law.
“Blair in frame to become first EU president, says Glenys Kinnock.”
A war criminal as president of Europe? I think the accompanying comments tell the real story.
No Right Turn on how the UK breaks proportionality and EU voting rules:
I’ve been crunching some numbers on the UK’s European Parliament election results. And despite the system they use supposedly being “proportional”, they show significant disproportionalities.
Groups of people all over the world calling themselves “news organisations,” such as The Times, continue to spread myths about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, such as that he called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” or that he denies the Nazi Holocaust.
In the mean time the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister has been quoted as saying “What Iran is trying to do right now is not far away at all from what Hitler did to the Jewish people just 65 years ago.”
Sorry, what the fuck?
So on one hand you have an oil-rich nation — Iran — that has never attacked another, let alone with nuclear weapons, and has just had its oil-rich neighbour invaded and occupied.
On the other you have a nation that has invaded and occupied Iran’s neighbour and is the only nation in the world to have attacked another with thermonuclear weapons, along with another nuclear-armed quasi-nation — Israel — which can’t stop getting into wars with its neighbours, brutally represses those in its midst who don’t belong to the right race or religion, and openly discusses attacking Iran, along with its partners in the crime the U.S. and a group of European nations, all of whom helped create the racist state in the first place.
If you believe Iran is the belligerent party in all of this and is about to pull an Adolf Hitler on us, then you are a stupid fuck.
