Bush is on holiday at his ranch in Crawford, Texas - again. This time he's taking a month off from playing Cowboys and Indians around the world but he hasn't holstered the gun.

The ranch is where he met Blair in April 2002 and they took the decision to send a lot of young British and American men and women and a hundred-thousand Iraqis - mostly women and children - to their deaths. Hundreds are still dying daily from the lies they used to fix the facts to fit a murderous policy.

A brave and strong, an ordinary, average American mother has set up camp outside the ranch. Cindy Sheehan's son, Casey, was killed in Iraq on 04.04.04. and she wants Bush to meet her and answer a simple question, "Why did Casey die in Iraq?"

In 1991 a B-52G is lost over the Indian Ocean after an operation against Iraq. Before ditching, the B-52G jettisons 3 nuclear tipped SRAM's. The weapons grade uranium is retrieved from Somalia's continental shelf by an arms dealer who sells it to the 'Theocratic Fascist Mullahs' in Iran.

3 sentences to precis an Alexander Cockburn article in Counterpunch.

In 1973 Israel lose a plane carrying a nuclear bomb over the Golan. 30 years later an arms dealer from Damascus finds it and sells the plutonium to a 'Nazi Terrorist Conspiracy' that is trying to create a war between the US and Russia. The 'Nazi Terrorist Conspiracy' blows up Baltimore with a nuclear bomb made from the plutonium found in the Israeli bomb. The CIA save the day in the nick of time by stopping an all out nuclear war between USA and Russia.

4 sentences to precis the Tom Clancy novel and film 'The Sum of All Fears'.

Q. When is a conspiracy a conspiracy?

A. When the Establishment says it is.

'Conspiracy to commit (you name it) with persons unknown', has been the charge of preference by the Establishment when perceiving threats to the interests of the status quo because a) conspiracy does not require an actual crime - its a 'thought crime', b) hearsay evidence is admissible, c) the intimidatory nature of the unlimited penalty.

In 1972 there were a series of successful strikes across Britain. The miners won a national strike for increased wages for the first time in their history by using 'flying pickets'. The London dock workers successfully won the release from prison of 5 of their shop stewards with help from 250,000 non-dock workers coming out in support throughout Britain.

We are fond of our euphemisms. 'Shoot to kill' has been used in the media instead of execution or assassination throughout the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland. It is being revived now.

"I heard a lot of shouting, 'get down, get out'. I saw a chap run on to the train, an Asian guy. He was running so fast he sort of tripped. He was being pursued by three guys. They were plain-clothes policemen. One had a black handgun. As he went down, two dropped on to him to hold him down. The other one fired; I heard five shots. I can't tell where they shot him - he was surrounded - possibly to the head.........As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a cornered fox. He looked absolutely petrified."

(Words of Mark Whitby, eye-witness to the police execution of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Underground Station in The Independent 23.07.05)

Jean Charles de Menezes's family and friends must be horrified, find incomprehensible that which has befallen him while working in Britain. To them I offer my sincerest condolences. The Brazilian community living in London are now probably wondering about their safety. The vibrancy and colour they have brought and added to the polyphonic mix of London will now be subdued. Not for long I hope.

I think I'm starting to annoy some bloggers by the tone of their postings. The in your face piss-taking for being a 'johnny-come-lately' behind on the times when commenting on conspiracy.

So I think I should explain what I've been doing for the last 4 years.

In March 2001 I went into debt to capitalise a sole-trader photography business. 2 months later I discovered that I had multiple sclerosis. I learnt this from an interview with JK Rowling in the Guardian during MS week. Her mothers symptoms fitted me to a tee. (It took 18 months to get a confirmation through the NHS). Not surprisingly, I had to find some income other than just from photography to stave off bankruptcy. The first job was as a courier van driver in London. I was doing this when the destruction of the Twin Towers convulsed the world.

Q. When is a conspiracy not a conspiracy?

A. When it is the Establishment.

Since before setting up this blog I've spent long hours trawling the net. Surfing is a misnomer. It is to fast a word. To surf, to skim the surface playing, you chance more likely than not to miss the richness, the diversity, complexity and the unbelievable weirdness that permeates the net, especially the blogosphere. Not that there's anything wrong with playing but I've needed to trawl, to haul and sift, in trying to find some intellectual stimulation and depth. At times its been tedious and occasionally downright depressing sitting here sieving through the dross to find a nugget that can lift the spirits.

Some sites I've found shine brilliant. Visually stimulating, exciting to the eye and over-flowing with good writing, full of wit, clear and precise. If they meet this criteria (I know it is demanding) and be broadly in sync with my world view - humanist and internationalist and not afraid to use the word class - then they are revisited regularly and linked to. It is not as many as I would like.

I bought The Guardian again this morning, as I have done for the last 30 years. It will probably be the last time. The lead article in G2 is what has made me come to this.

John Lanchester, a name I hope I never see in print again, has a two page spread about the road that runs from Hampstead High Street to The Strand. It's name changes along the route many times. There is a point where it becomes known as Tavistock Square. Of the bombs that exploded across London on 07.07.05, the only one above ground was on the bus in Tavistock Square.

Not once in the article is any mention made of the significance of Tavistock Square as a site dedicated to the ideals of non-violence and peace. There is a statue of Ghandi and tributes to the victims of Hiroshima and prisoners of conscience in the Square (see previous post). Since the outrage of the bombing the Guardian has only carried four lines, on it's letters page, of this crucial information. It's not as if this is top secret information.