THE HANDSTAND

MARCH 2003

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.THE EDITOR'S LEADERS IN SO MANY NEWSPAPERS ARE WELL SUMMED UP BY OUR FRIEND, DR. HASAN ISMAIL



The cartoon above exactly depicts the editorials of so many papers. The dismal certitude that war is inevitable infects every journalist, however many newspapers I take up. It is the use of words that betray them. None have learned that a subtle betrayal of outrage could pass their editors stringent eyeballs - despite the fact that cartoon leaders reveal the intensity of their outrage nearly every day.

Of those who march in their thousands I wonder how many among them have tried out any boycott remedies as was done so successfully in reference to Apartheid in South Africa?Here is an idea from Philip Hollsworth, Australia:.

For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest oil companies (Shell and BP)  If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach
literally millions of BP petrol buyers.

I am sending this note to a number of people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers!

If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 3 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I
had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.

If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.
ACTION!!! Buy your petrol at Caltex, Mobil, Matilda or whatever, but bypass BP and Shell.

Unease haunts the first page turn of the early morning reader; more and more efforts to read between the lines infer that the Zionists have their fingers in every diplomatic move in the Middle East and in every variety of international response.For an example,who has been notably missing from the Anti-War lists of protest ?? - the Jordanians. For months now any kind of protest mooted against Israel military programmes in Palestine have been severely repressed. An exile from Iraq in England Chalabi, now promoted to lead Iraq to democracy, is from a family who are tied up with Banking in Jordan(the Petra Bank) - and who are Jordan Bankers in league with in Palestine ??- Zionists. The Palestinians may not bank any money in banks other than those registered in Jordan and Israel.

But first, what about the Guardian and the Observer newspapers?? They are so afraid of condeming the possibility of war that one may look for a reason...... what could that reason be other than the fear that the English, who have been disenchanted in droves by New Labour, will dislodge Blair and the incompetent Ministers who share his adulation of an upper status class of rich people.... And who might the English then vote for ?? An interesting wicket player for every ball bowled against Israel exposed within the Observer, to everyone's surprise, is the famous Nick Cohen. Well ofcourse we need only look a little further within the heirarchy of English Newspapers and their so-called "disenchantment" with New Labour and you find that English people are scarcely applauded for the Peace Marches or those elsewhere ( the number in the crowd in Dublin estimated as over 80,000 by the Guarda was stated to be 40.000 in the Observer!)
and no attention is drawn to the illegality of bombing in Iraq that is already undertaken by USA and England in the "no fly on you" zones in Iraq.This has been now accelerated and can only be described as a war that has already started although the invaders, Americans and English. have not yet set foot in the country - except ofcourse their Secret Service men . Who has been sent from England? Brigadier Gordon Kerr.He is someone who may yet be facing prosecution for colluding with the Loyalist paramilitaries, protestants, who are never asked to reveal their weapons or declare an end to their marauding which includes such violence and murder as we have recently seen among themselves.Kerr has been sent to head spying activities in the Middle East and yet another promotion for a man who thinks nothing of running murderers and con-men as agents. The success of his defilement of trust and security has recently been forwarded for attention and prosecution by Sir John Stevens,Police Commissioner to the DPP
J.Braddell, editor.

Cartoons by Dr.Hasan Ismail hasan@caricature-hasan.com
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PLEASE NOTE: Many pages now have a background logo that takes a few moments to come up, so that, for instance, a text apparently invisible can then be read. I have done this because although I send out each page with customised colours carefully chosen, I found out to my horror that some machines taken in only a limited colour registration and lurid reds and yellows etc appear. I regret this as I believe colour always has its part to play in our apprehensions - but now I will have to find suitable background material! j.braddell, editor