Way OT: Sky News

Hello Friends--

Note: I chose not to name the subject- "Lebanese/Hizbollah -Israel & News
Media coverage" in an effort to _not_ help flame the thread. If you could
keep it that way it would be great.

I got this link today on a skynews interview on Lebanse/Hizbollah's war
against Israel.Its an interview of an amzingly aritculate British
MP-Galloway.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-galloway_060806,00.html
 

Just wanted to know some of your thoughts on this interview and the
subject of the interview.Iam particularly interested in knowing how right
is Galloway-chillingly or hardly? It is amazing to see the conviction in
his voice and its puzzling how the words come out tumbling like it were
always destined to. It was so powerful and easy, that I almost want to buy
every word of his. Should I?

Thanks for taking precious time to comment on this vexing topic.

--Bhooshan

>
>Hello Friends--
..

On googling for some background on George Halloway,I found lot of
interesting stuff, including his own website(georgehalloway.com). Iam
begining to get a better feel of where he comes and what his biases are a
trifle better now.But thats not to say I was any less impressed with that
interview still.

Here are 3 webpages of interest on him:

1] The US Senate Interview Transcript:

Transcript:

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0517-35.htm

Video:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8866.htm

2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway#Pakistani_activities

3] http://www.georgegalloway.com/

--Bhooshan

bhooshaniyer wrote:
> 
> Hello Friends--
> 
> Note: I chose not to name the subject- "Lebanese/Hizbollah -Israel & News
> Media coverage" in an effort to _not_ help flame the thread. If you could
> keep it that way it would be great.


Please keep this out of this newsgroup.

I have spent more than enough time arguming this issue elsewhere.

Erik
-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
  Erik de Castro Lopo
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
"So if you were to say 'Microsoft,' I'd say 'Where? Let me grab me my 
stake and crucifix!'." -- Bridget Kulakauskas

I believe galloway was implicated as essentially being on Saddam's payroll
pre-invasion and as such I'd very much doubt anyththing he had to say about
anything.

-Clark

"bhooshaniyer" <bhooshaniyer@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:qM2dnfF739YZrErZnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>
> Hello Friends--
>
> Note: I chose not to name the subject- "Lebanese/Hizbollah -Israel & News
> Media coverage" in an effort to _not_ help flame the thread. If you could
> keep it that way it would be great.
>
> I got this link today on a skynews interview on Lebanse/Hizbollah's war
> against Israel.Its an interview of an amzingly aritculate British
> MP-Galloway.
>
>
http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-galloway_060806,00.html
>
>
> Just wanted to know some of your thoughts on this interview and the
> subject of the interview.Iam particularly interested in knowing how right
> is Galloway-chillingly or hardly? It is amazing to see the conviction in
> his voice and its puzzling how the words come out tumbling like it were
> always destined to. It was so powerful and easy, that I almost want to buy
> every word of his. Should I?
>
> Thanks for taking precious time to comment on this vexing topic.
>
> --Bhooshan

>I believe galloway was implicated as essentially being on Saddam's
payroll
>pre-invasion and as such I'd very much doubt anyththing he had to say
about
>anything.
>
>-Clark


I dont know about that.He definitely seems to have been on Pakistan's
payroll .

--Bhooshan

http://www.greatestjeneration.com/archives/001225.php

"bhooshaniyer" <bhooshaniyer@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:NKmdnXfBgfofI3PZnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@giganews.com...
> >I believe galloway was implicated as essentially being on Saddam's
> payroll
> >pre-invasion and as such I'd very much doubt anyththing he had to say
> about
> >anything.
> >
> >-Clark
>
>
> I dont know about that.He definitely seems to have been on Pakistan's
> payroll .
>
> --Bhooshan

Things have moved on in the last 3 years...
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1694421,00.html
"Anonymous" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:IDCHg.8118$n%.2198@tornado.southeast.rr.com...
> http://www.greatestjeneration.com/archives/001225.php
>
> "bhooshaniyer" <bhooshaniyer@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:NKmdnXfBgfofI3PZnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@giganews.com...
> > >I believe galloway was implicated as essentially being on Saddam's
> > payroll
> > >pre-invasion and as such I'd very much doubt anyththing he had to say
> > about
> > >anything.
> > >
> > >-Clark
> >
> >
> > I dont know about that.He definitely seems to have been on Pakistan's
> > payroll .
> >
> > --Bhooshan
>
>

As I read it, no challenge was made to the Iraqi papers, just that the
newspaper was overzealous in its reporting. I wonder the result if the same
standard were applied to Dan Rather reporting Bush's NG service.

At any rate, if folks want to take advice on geopolitics from a Big Brother
contest, have at it.


"Symon" <symon_brewer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:44ef2a1e$1_2@x-privat.org...
> Things have moved on in the last 3 years...
> http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1694421,00.html
> "Anonymous" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:IDCHg.8118$n%.2198@tornado.southeast.rr.com...
> > http://www.greatestjeneration.com/archives/001225.php
> >
> > "bhooshaniyer" <bhooshaniyer@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:NKmdnXfBgfofI3PZnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@giganews.com...
> > > >I believe galloway was implicated as essentially being on Saddam's
> > > payroll
> > > >pre-invasion and as such I'd very much doubt anyththing he had to say
> > > about
> > > >anything.
> > > >
> > > >-Clark
> > >
> > >
> > > I dont know about that.He definitely seems to have been on Pakistan's
> > > payroll .
> > >
> > > --Bhooshan
> >
> >
>
>

"Anonymous" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ASHHg.2946$ty5.789@tornado.southeast.rr.com...
> As I read it, no challenge was made to the Iraqi papers, just that the
> newspaper was overzealous in its reporting. I wonder the result if the
same
> standard were applied to Dan Rather reporting Bush's NG service.
>
I think I read it a little differently from you. I read that the courts
ruled that the Daily Telegraph libelled George 'Gorgeous' Galloway by
reporting the contents of the Iraqi papers and then _saying_they_were_true_.
Merely repoting the contents in a neutral way would not have been libelous.
So, the high court and the appeal court judgements mean there was no
evidence presented to them to prove in the balance of probabilities that the
papers were true. It seems that the only money Galloway made from
oil-for-food was by suing people who said he made money from oil-for-food!
>
> At any rate, if folks want to take advice on geopolitics from a Big
Brother
> contest, have at it.
>
Fair point!
Syms.

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> As I read it, no challenge was made to the Iraqi papers, just that the
> newspaper was overzealous in its reporting. I wonder the result if the same
> standard were applied to Dan Rather reporting Bush's NG service.
> 
> At any rate, if folks want to take advice on geopolitics from a Big Brother
> contest, have at it.

My analysis of the Galloway interview:

    http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/Politics/galloway.html

Erik
-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
  Erik de Castro Lopo
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the
day they start making vacuum cleaners." -- Ernst Jan Plugge