Have a look at this wonderous piece of broadcast journalism, from Keith Olbermann. We need more people like him.

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Yes, Fox News have done it again. Now, it’s not only A-rabs and liberals you should be keeping an eye on in airports, but pregnant women as well!

The growing use by terrorist groups of women — some disguised as expectant moms — to deliver deadly homicide bombs has prompted the Department of Homeland Security and FBI to issue a rare warning that such attacks could take place on American soil.

The joint security assessment cited recent female homicide bomber attacks in Baghdad — in which two women who appeared to have Down syndrome delivered a deadly explosion that killed 99 — as well as in Sri Lanka, Chechnya, India, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories as reason for the warning.

“Female suicide bombers may have an advantage over their male counterparts in accessing targets,” the analysis cautioned. “The means to conduct a suicide attack vary widely, but a key element in maximizing the lethality of a suicide bombing is the bomber’s ability to get close to the target.”

The assessment also strongly warned that potential female homicide bombers could use “prosthetic devices that mimic the look of a pregnant woman.”

Those pesky women, always with something up their sleeves. So, as a result of two women being severely exploited in Baghdad by terrorists, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have concluded that pregnant women could be a threat. What about women with large chests? Do we see Fox News warning us all to steer clear of these types of women? Of course not, because if we did see such a thing occur, Fox would lose 95% of their target audience. How’s about fat people? Are we all warned to avoid putting our trust in fat people? No, because if we were, Fox would offend 99.9% of their target audience.

Surely both are just as capable of camouflaging bombs and suchlike? Full ‘story’ is available here. This comes shortly after Fox decided to run, on the front page of their site, a story about Muslims trying to censor wikipedia. This was the image they used:

…except I’ve cut off the right hand side of the image, because I haven’t decided yet whether I want to piss off millions of people just to prove that I’ve got the right to free speech. But it strikes me as odd that Fox would run with such a headline, unless they were deliberately trying to incite a story that can only portray Muslims in a bad light, which surely they’d never want to do, especially not with the caucuses going on?!

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Neil Young was recently in the news for two things, the first being that he’s got a new film out. However, the second, and more relevant story is that whilst showcasing his film at the Berlin Film Festival, the political rocker imparted the following message:

“I think that the time when music could change the world is past… I think it would be very naive to think that in this day and age.

“I think the world today is a different place, and that it’s time for science and physics and spirituality to make a difference in this world and to try to save the planet.”

Sad words for a generation who once marched against a war to the sounds of ‘Ohio’, a song written shortly after the Kent State shootings, in which student protestors were gunned down by the national guard. Has Neil Young given up, then?

On the other side of the spectrum, stands, as ever, Noam Chomsky, the most clear-sighted visionary of the actual left. In the Guardian today, Cornelia Parker discusses a sit-down interview she held with Chomsky about apocalypses, both nuclear and environmental, with the focus primarily on the latter. In her own words…

What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don’t need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.

There are other things art can do. It can imagine the unimaginable. I have just read my first novel in more than two years, Cormac McCarthy’s bleak but redemptive The Road, in which the author imagines what the end of the world might look and feel like (McCarthy regularly talks to scientists). Artists can bear witness. We are free radicals in a way that scientists can never be. Humanity may be on the brink of disaster, but this could be an exciting, creative period, with everyone – philosophers, artists, politicians, bus drivers – doing everything they can to avert it. My Chomsky piece is me putting my head above the parapet.

Perhaps Neil Young himself can conclude this article with the most eloquence:

No one song can change the world. But that doesn’t mean its time to stop singing.

Today, critics allegations were confirmed, Heath Ledger is a stiff actor.

They say he is a good actor but Heath Ledger’s last performance was a little hard to swallow.

Accountants from the new Batman movie are in a state of panic today. Reports indicate they have lost a Ledger.

Whats the difference between Neil Armstrong and Heath Ledger?
Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon… Heath Ledger is dead.

Ladies everywhere have finally found out how to pick up heath ledger… with a stretcher.

What does Jack Nicholson’s potrayal of the Joker have that Heath Ledger’s doesn’t.

A chance for a sequel.

What’s the worst thing about Heath Ledger’s death?

He wasn’t black.

Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile Lost it’s wheel and the Joker…died.

Nice to make jokes about the dead.

jeremy beadles lawyer is having difficulty reading his will, apparantly it was written in short hand.

after the autopsy when asked if jeremy beadle had a big manhood or not the coroner replied, “well on one hand he has but on the other hand he hasn’t”

thats a bit harsh. i feel sorry for the guy. life dealt him a shit hand.

Did you know Beadle used to be a boxer?

His right hook had people on the floor regularly.

What is the difference between a porn star and a thalidomide ?

One has a cock like a baby’s arm, the other…