Been having some random thoughts recently, and someone was requested I wrote something again…so here goes, what’s on my mind? Well as you can see from the pictures, I’ve been browsing some Palestine groups on Flickr and there are plenty of striking images – almost like contrasts between good and bad. What’s funny is that the “Good” and the “Bad” can be heavily inverted by the media. My question is this – couldn’t it just be simple? Lets not go into the details of the conflict, we’ve done that already. Just look at the pictures...

Peace I was looking at some streetart on flickr when I spotted this rather interesting piece. It immediately struck me as something from the artist Banksy, and it depicts a ‘teddy’ bear with a Molotov cocktail in attacking position. If you look at the full wall you will actually see that it is aiming at three British riot police, with the caption ‘The Mild Mild West’. There are many different conclusions you can draw from this, and really that is what makes real art. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, and the real artists are those who depict that. Probably...

Ever watch the film ‘Enemy of the State’? Almost 450,000 requests were made to monitor people’s telephone calls, e-mails and post by secret agencies and other authorised bodies in just over a year, the spying watchdog said yesterday. » Times Article Should you be scared? Well yeah, if your brown, Muslim or Brazilian looking I’d watch my back. That’s not actually a joke, you see people often rant about the so-called monitoring that people are subject to, and honestly, we usually ignore it. When it comes to your community then you realise that perhaps its time to start...

Watch it and worry. Read the comments for an interesting analysis!

Author: Moazzam Begg assisted by Victoria Brittain Publisher: Free Press (27 Feb 2006) My Rating: 5/5 Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim’s Journey to Guantanamo and Back   Review When I was in Year 10 in January 2005 I did a presentation to my English class on the indefinite detention of potentially innocent human beings in Gunatanamo Bay. Handing out some of the few pictures actually available from the media and articles describing the horrific events that took place in Guantanamo to the class showed some interest, in particular a cutting from a newspaper highlighting the release of...

No – it doesn’t, but believe me thats what the media would twist this into (especially if words like Islam, Abdul or Osama were involved). Honestly if this happened to me I would probably be in Guantanamo. Read the story about how a world of warcraft geek got a taste of being a Muslim on an Aeroplane here! – Thanks Tibault.

Blah, I might as well post again seeing as I’ve got nothing else to do Saturday night…   Lebanon George Galloway hit the nail on the head. The media is preposterous, in the way it presents its news, its questions and its bias views (hey that rhymes). People are finally realising that not everything Sky News tells them is true, but more importantly, the truth is being slowly revealed (note slowly). Honestly the picture looks so clear from this side, sometimes it seems weird that people could look at some situations in a different light altogether (i.e. Israel is the victim in every...

For those of you who haven’t watched Galloway ripping the hell out of a Sky News reporter about the situation in Lebanon, I’ve uploaded it to YSE. We should be eternally thankful that there is at least one known politician out there defending the truth whilst the rest of them sit and support the propagandist media defending the real terrorists in this world.