****TERRORIST**** update

1. Omar al-Bayoumi identified as the prime aider and abetter of the 9/11-is-a-joke suicide pilots. However, the US won't let the world see the 28 pages of classified drivel they've compiled on him. Nevertheless, flights to Saudi are cancelled.
2. Born and bred Notting Hillbilly Anthony Perry Jensen sucked in by local west London Moroccans and that inspired him to get involved in the Salafist Casablanca bombings. Or not.
3. Israel continues to fail to release decent numbers of Palestinian prisoners, because of course they are all seen as TERRORISTS when any rudimentary reading of geopolitical affairs would tell you that the intifada is a RESISTANCE
4. Any Iraq troublemakers immediately branded as TERRORISTS when any rudimentary reading of geopolitical affairs would tell you that their struggle against an illegal, non-UN-authorised occupation is a RESISTANCE. The US says it's all foreign insurgents stirring up trouble, like Iraqis don't have enough grievances.
5. Smiling Indonesian Bali bomber Amrozi bin Nurhasyim condemned to firing squad is Cheshire Cat. His absurd smiling does Islamist movement no favours…
6. Australians given a chance to get their own back on brown people by sending a load of peacekeepers to Solomon Islands
7. Real IRA Chief Michael McKevitt gets large sentence from Dublin. Over the border, Loyalist drug and warlords allowed to continue their various rackets, as Rangers won the treble this year
8. Guantanamo Bay fails to get chokey football team together as too many limbs have been smashed beyond repair by US interrogators, but UK looks like getting its terrorists out
9. US wants large Indian presence in 'Iraq reconstruction' so that likely Hindu-Muslim tensions offer further reason for clamping down on Arabs.
10. Afghanistan said to be recovering well from decades of civil war, even though Kabul is the only area under 'control', the warlords still rule, the Taleban are coming back and OBL, Al-Zuwayhiri, etc, are all still alive. And a bomb went off in a bus recently in Helmand province.
(Sept) 11. Aaron Barschak hits headlines with his Windsor invasion/terror spoof, then is roundly derided at the Edinburgh Fundamentalist Fringe

for more on this check Whore Cull issue 4, the last of our poorly-photocopied black and white journals and out late August/early September. Check your local record shops or email whorecull@cinestatic.com for copies.
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UK transport policy: an overview

Taking in the highways, railways and waterways of this anal fistula of a country, certain correspondents have reported back that it's expensive, unreliable and insulting. What is the real solution provided by the government (as opposed to the much-vaunted 10-Year Transport Plan launched by the Prescott replica)? Build more roads and airports.

The very fact that John Prescott was given the transport portfolio should have alerted us all to the fact that the Blairlite cabal was always listening to the road, oil and car lobbies. A convenient old Labour totem could be trusted to offer entirely predictable policies that would send ministers scuttling back into the safe arms of the relevant lobbies – the guys who really have the interests of the travelling public at heart, as long as they're crammed in an apocryphal extension of personal space.

Railtrick (£17 a share at one point, due to absolutely no discernible improvement in any aspect of their work) shareholders had to be compensated for playing the stock market/currency bookies and losing because the government's public spending/auction agenda relied heavily on the execrable PFI. Balls. They were always going to be given a pay-out, despite the teeth-meltingly irritating bleats to the contrary by bye bye Byers, because public transport cannot be allowed to be cheap, integrated, reliable and efficient because that does not comply to the 'anglo-saxon' model of capitalism (as opposed to the European model, because, of course, the Anglo Saxons are itinerant thieves). Super "TIMBER!" the 11th (11/9/01) has confirmed that the UK economy cannot afford to offer its people decent transport or any real geographical sense of place.

Social mobility is dead – welcome to the new world of ID 'n' currency controlled travel. No more nudging behind strangers (in work hours) or mates (any other time) to get through the Tube barriers and occasionally inspected routes; because there could be drug-dealing, AIDS-carrying, Moslem, asylum seekers stealing our privilege to pay artificially inflated prices for unreliable, underfunded, privately-ran modes of transport. All completely hyper-ventilated links but you get the picture of corporate coalescence, don't you? Of course not. Sponsored/socialised cyni-silence is the order of the day.

Get into your cars, fill 'er up and scream into the central reservation you brain-dead shit eaters.
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