Wednesday, August 30, 2006

EUSTON MANIFESTO DARFUR MEETING AND SADDAM'S SOUTH PARK HELL

Busy busy busy.

First, a little reminder about next week's Euston Manifesto Group Darfur meeting:
Next Tuesday 5th September 2006
7:00pm
Kings College London

Tickets available from euston.tickets@gmail.com.

Speakers:Linda Melvern, Lord Clive Soley, representative from the Aegis Trust
Chair: Phillip Spencer

Speakers

Linda Melvern

Linda is the author of A People Betrayed. The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide and Conspiracy to Murder The Rwandan Genocide. She is also a journalist.

Lord Clive Soley

Clive is an advocate of intervention and reform of the UN. He blogs as Lord of the Blog.

Speaker from the Aegis Trust

The Aegis Trust is an NGO which calls for a duty to protect against genocide.
Chair

The meeting will be chaired by Phillip Spencer. Phil teaches at Kingston University and is a founder signatory of the Euston Manifesto.

Should be a winner.

Secondly, this little gem, courtesy of Hugo Rifkind:
The film version of South Park was originally banned in Iraq, largely because it portrayed Saddam Hussein, the then President, as the homosexual lover of Satan. At the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, its creators, said that marines guarding the ex-dictator made him watch the film repeatedly. Did he laugh?
First commenter to post a link to a blog or article screaming "Torture!" wins a Blue Peter badge or some such.

posted by Dan @ 4:27 pm