I'm Up.

A little later the usual but that's by design. Judging by the tone of this years G8 by the time it ends I think there's going to be more fallout then a Japanese power station on a bad day. So I apologise if I'm the one forcing these items onto the agenda.

The Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) are claiming that Yemen is on the brink of civil war. It's not. This is just the GCC causing trouble. In the code Yemen is Britain and either I or the Queen are the illegitimate head of state that needs to stand down. I guess that makes the real question; who thought it was a good idea to wake up the GCC?

Elsewhere America is circulating this website http://www.mathaba.net/news/libya/ which is claiming to be representing ordinary Libyans who want the NATO bombing to stop and Qaddafi to stay. Sadly it's fake created by the Americans. On one level it is being circulated to increase the pressure on Qaddafi by creating the belief that he is now getting desperate and could step down at any moment. As this is both untrue and highly unlikely to work the second purpose is to promote discussion over Britain's use of the Internet to disseminate so called "black propaganda" in order to deceive the UNSC into passing resolution 1973(2011). So despite what they're saying in public in private the Americans are using the G8 to lobby for greater controls on the Internet.

Also Britain is trying to further inflame the situation. Today (27/5/11) the British Appeal Court has ruled that Sharon Shoesmith who was the head of children's services in Haringey during the Baby P scandal was unfairly dismissed from her job and will have to be compensated. Although the details of the Baby P case should be burned into the memories of anyone who had the misfortune of hearing them I wouldn't get too excited about today's news. Part of the reason why the British state systematically abused, tortured and ultimately killed a 17 month old infant was to force Ms Shoesmith out of her job and destroy her reputation because of a long running feud between them.