Posts by Ian Dalziel
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the American Acronym Offensive continues:
The War Against Drugs - has become twaddle,
The War Against Terror - is just f**ked......while America remains the largest consumer
of, and panderer to, both...
but don't worry. China has their number... -
Barred from Stratford...
Mesure for Mesure
originally written as The Merry Wives of Stepford
As You Like IT
changed, after legal problems, from iMacbeth
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Give Pease a chance...
The last production was Hamlet, set in a emerging fascist state.
what about that famous Shakespearean midsummer road play pastiche Hamlet and Louise with Brad Pitt as Bottom...
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google eyed...
what has happened to Google Image Search?
it looks like rubbish...
I hope they don't think it's an improvement
makes my head hurt looking at it......progress
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King Dick's largesse...
But does it make up for him being such a dick?
but it's only S-capist literature...
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Hear from someone on the ground in Gaza...
Constantine Dabbagh, Executive Secretary of the Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees in Gaza is speaking :
in Wellington, 5:15 - 6:30pm at St John's in the City Church hall, cnr Willis and Dixon Streets on Thursday, 12 August.
(poster: here )And in Christchurch at Knox Church lounge,
12:30 - 1:30pm, 28 Bealey Ave on Friday 13 August.
(poster: here )He is a Palestinian Christian deeply immersed in meeting the needs of all Palestinians and striving for a non-violent future where Palestinians control their own land.
CWS is helping present these talks. -
Comic find saves house...
Superman to the rescue...
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Bloody Lennonists...
..always throwing A Spaniard in the Works!
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The Great Game continues...That smug patronising aggressiveness towards anyone who dare question received truth. It's not conducive to anything but ugly slanging.
what George said - But Russell I feel you were unfair to Christiaan (who, I'm assuming neither you nor Craig know much about either...) I don't think Craig helped in not maklng it get personal with his:
You don't have to, Christiaan, but London's rather unhallowed ground for that kind of moral callousness. Plenty of people out there who would regard any Londoner shredded by a car bomb as asking for everything they get by living in the heart of an "imperial" power.
which sure looks like a back-handed ill-wishing to me (and similar intemperate & inflammatory statements triggered me withdrawing from the PA System for a while last year) so I would understand Christiaan's response in kind...
- and then you weigh in with:And to be fair, Christiaan, they probably don't give a shit about what some smug middle-class white lefty in London thinks either.
Although I'd guess they'd do you the favour of refraining from wishing you dead. Given that they don't actually know anything about you, and all.
and then...
Christiaan, do you possess the ability to see other people as anything other than a cypher for your own ever-so-certain politics? You know nothing about Craig and unless you can improve your attitude I'd rather you didn't come here.all a bit heavy-handed and an, er, immoderate slagging off for a Moderator to my eyes - but that's just my opinion, and I guess we all have them, that's why we're here, right?
Better the demonym you know...
Afghan would appear to be the first choice
though Afghani and Afghanistani are also used
- according to the Wiki-cliques...Half-baked wars and too many cooks...
Afghan and Anzac biscuits - both are covered in war-nuts now it seems -
The battle for Hearts and Minds is well over
- the more hearts and minds they terminate "accidentally"...
...using Drones and Daisy Cutters instead of Cookie Cutters was always gonna go pear-shaped.Penta-going, going, gone!
Surely if we were interested in getting communications, health and education to deprived people, the coalition's billions of dollars could have been more effectively spent.
The planners and spenders are much the same people for Afghanistan as for Iraq
and as has been revealed recently the Pentagon can't account for the bulk of earmarked reconstruction funds...According to an audit by the U.S. Special Investigator for Iraq Reconstruction, the Defense Department is unable to account fully for more than 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil money tapped for rebuilding. Of that amount, the Pentagon is totally lost about what happened to $2.6 billion.
just a continuation of the MIC's* laxity in this area - does anyone remember Donald Rumsfeld's Sept 10, 2001 announcement that the Pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion!
"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.
*MIC = Military Industrial Complex
not Men In Chambray - though that does have a certain resonance...The US and their undeclared wars...
But I think it's glib to demand an immediate exit and not consider the consequences.
just like the earlier Afghanistan/Pakistan tinkering by renowned "Geo Strategist" and Obama booster Zbigniew Brzezinski intent on giving the Russians a lesson - funding the Mujahideen (Operation Cyclone) during the Carter administration, then pretty much abandoning them ...
In the interview, he is also quoted as saying "What is most important to the history of the world? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?" When the interviewer questioned him about Islamic fundamentalism representing a world menace, Brzezinski says, "Nonsense!"
Glib ? yes! historic consequences indeed...
Here come the Cavalry... Calvary? Cavillers?
Luckily those friendly Rockefeller Foundation folk have been sorting the future out for us - that link's a snippet of four possible scenarios for the near future... enjoy!
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Nein to Non presents Sigman Fraud...
... basically he's a smack addict, right?
pushing his own brand of guilt-edged Victorian Esteem-punk...and I was amused by this Family First press release:
Come to School Ball – Have Sex
Family First Media Release 29 July 10
Family First NZ is shocked that a Bay of Plenty high school handed out complementary condoms to every student when they purchased their ball tickets.My bolding - English as a second language anyone or just twisting and spinning by inference...?
They also note that (recent Media 7 guest) Pam Corkery is connected to a proposed brothel for women ...
Their homepage doesn't seem to mention their own Forum on this Friday though... weird marketing...