We're all Americans Now!
Gee whizz Tony Blair. This is rilly Coo-al. We're all Amuricans now. We gat coo-al coke (all varieties), McDanalds, we gat you, Mr President in yer Whide House in Downing Steet. We gat our own war - alongside our brothers from across the pond with the Iraquanians out thur in the Mid East. We gat drive thru's, we gat smoothies, we gat mega power cuts, sorry...outages, jest like in Noo Yoik - coo-al. We gat diners, we gat crap tv from Murdoch, we gat gunfights on our steets - jest like the folks in LA, we gat automobile sireens like in the States. We gat Arnie Swartzenegger, J-Lo, we gat all dat crap. We don't know where anywhere outside of our own territory is anymo' jest like Yanks. We don't need the poncy Europeans with their consciences and their stoopid Euros. We gat shrinks, SUVs, 4wheel drives. Gee, some of us even gat condos in Florida. Thanks Mr President, Tony, guy, man, far-out, motherfucker badda-bing. We gat sick-bags too... (man).
Saturday, August 30, 2003
Thursday, August 28, 2003
The International Criminal Court
It is clear to see why the US Administration will not accept the International Criminal Court where those charged with war crimes can be tried. One just has to consider Henry Kissinger and his illegal invasion of Cambodia, where more civilians were killed than even that following the bombing of Japan (and that's another reason) and his complicity with the bombing of Timor by Indonesia. This is only the tip of the iceberg. The US will apparently accept the Court if US citizens are exempted....er right.
Who are the terrorists?
It is clear to see why the US Administration will not accept the International Criminal Court where those charged with war crimes can be tried. One just has to consider Henry Kissinger and his illegal invasion of Cambodia, where more civilians were killed than even that following the bombing of Japan (and that's another reason) and his complicity with the bombing of Timor by Indonesia. This is only the tip of the iceberg. The US will apparently accept the Court if US citizens are exempted....er right.
Who are the terrorists?
Saturday, August 23, 2003
More thoughts on Doublespeak
It is clear what Tony Blair meant by New Labour was in fact New Conservative and what their election anthem It Can Only Get Better (by D-ream) meant was, It Can Only Get Worse, and to take it a step further: When Ma Blair decided to call him Tony Blair, what she meant was Tory Blair . For there is little doubt that this party, this cabal based in Downing Steet run along presidential lines is as right-wing as anything concocted by the Major Bufton Tuftons and the white thrash Essex boys and gels of the Official Tory party.
Two examples of their laissez faire dogma will strike UK residents, this holiday weekend.
Their creation, The Office of Telecommunications - OFTEL has introduced "competition" into the Directory Equiries service. So instead of simply dialling 192 and being charged 40 pence to use the service, from today the public will have to chose between 16 services beginning each beginning with 118 ... followed by 3 further digits. The 192 service was run by BT, the new "services" will no doubt be run by pillars of the Institute of Directors, who will be either Lord this or Lady that, employing sweatshop call-centre workers in Mumbai, India on £1,250 per annum. Meanwhile research has shown that the cost of the new services to consumers is likely to increase by at least 30%.. More for mobiles/cellphones. Note too that the call will be charged on a time basis. Bear in mind that some of the new entrants have inadequate databases and funding and you can see in whose interests this farago will be run. Hint: It's not the consumer. So much for the Gordon Brown clamp down on Rip-off Britain
The other example is public transport. Blair's other creation the not for profit Network Rail formerly the non-profit making (but dividend paying and fat-cat over-remunerating) Railtrack has virtually closed down the railways for the holiday to make the railways a safe means of transport. This will put 30% more private vehicles on the roads - a situation which will make the normal gridlock seem like Silverstone on Grand Prix day. This has virtually killed the chance of the ordinary family getting away for the weekend. Won't affect Blair though, newly refreshed after his Summer Holiday at "Sir" Cliff Richard's villa in Barbados. [Cool Britannia!]
Now you, the reader might think that the person who writes this is a card-carrying member of a socialist party. I am not a member of a political party, never have been. I am a democratically-minded person who voted for Labour in the 1997 election and was delighted when they trounced the pathetic Tories. I did not vote for Labour in 2002. I feel terribly let down by this government. The final insult was the way Blair took Britain, (against the wishes of the British electorate, by lieing to that electorate and Parliament) into the illegal invasion of Iraq with the fascistic US neo-conservatives and hand Bush carte blanche to engage in any form of totalitarianism in the name of the deeply flawed logic of The War on Terror and extracting vengence for the unspeakable tragedies of Sept 11, 2001 to bolster a poorly informed US public. New Labour's gross incompetance at home, their adoption of discredited neo-conservative ideology means they should give Blair his walking papers.The consequences of outrageous adventure into Iraq are too terrible to contemplate.
I strongly recommend that persons interested in New Labour should re-read Animal Farm by George Orwell, persons interested in world domination should read 1984 by George Orwell, persons who want to know where Britain should be going, should read The World We Are In (2003) by Len Hutton and everybody should read anything they can get their hands on by John Pilger
It is clear what Tony Blair meant by New Labour was in fact New Conservative and what their election anthem It Can Only Get Better (by D-ream) meant was, It Can Only Get Worse, and to take it a step further: When Ma Blair decided to call him Tony Blair, what she meant was Tory Blair . For there is little doubt that this party, this cabal based in Downing Steet run along presidential lines is as right-wing as anything concocted by the Major Bufton Tuftons and the white thrash Essex boys and gels of the Official Tory party.
Two examples of their laissez faire dogma will strike UK residents, this holiday weekend.
Their creation, The Office of Telecommunications - OFTEL has introduced "competition" into the Directory Equiries service. So instead of simply dialling 192 and being charged 40 pence to use the service, from today the public will have to chose between 16 services beginning each beginning with 118 ... followed by 3 further digits. The 192 service was run by BT, the new "services" will no doubt be run by pillars of the Institute of Directors, who will be either Lord this or Lady that, employing sweatshop call-centre workers in Mumbai, India on £1,250 per annum. Meanwhile research has shown that the cost of the new services to consumers is likely to increase by at least 30%.. More for mobiles/cellphones. Note too that the call will be charged on a time basis. Bear in mind that some of the new entrants have inadequate databases and funding and you can see in whose interests this farago will be run. Hint: It's not the consumer. So much for the Gordon Brown clamp down on Rip-off Britain
The other example is public transport. Blair's other creation the not for profit Network Rail formerly the non-profit making (but dividend paying and fat-cat over-remunerating) Railtrack has virtually closed down the railways for the holiday to make the railways a safe means of transport. This will put 30% more private vehicles on the roads - a situation which will make the normal gridlock seem like Silverstone on Grand Prix day. This has virtually killed the chance of the ordinary family getting away for the weekend. Won't affect Blair though, newly refreshed after his Summer Holiday at "Sir" Cliff Richard's villa in Barbados. [Cool Britannia!]
Now you, the reader might think that the person who writes this is a card-carrying member of a socialist party. I am not a member of a political party, never have been. I am a democratically-minded person who voted for Labour in the 1997 election and was delighted when they trounced the pathetic Tories. I did not vote for Labour in 2002. I feel terribly let down by this government. The final insult was the way Blair took Britain, (against the wishes of the British electorate, by lieing to that electorate and Parliament) into the illegal invasion of Iraq with the fascistic US neo-conservatives and hand Bush carte blanche to engage in any form of totalitarianism in the name of the deeply flawed logic of The War on Terror and extracting vengence for the unspeakable tragedies of Sept 11, 2001 to bolster a poorly informed US public. New Labour's gross incompetance at home, their adoption of discredited neo-conservative ideology means they should give Blair his walking papers.The consequences of outrageous adventure into Iraq are too terrible to contemplate.
I strongly recommend that persons interested in New Labour should re-read Animal Farm by George Orwell, persons interested in world domination should read 1984 by George Orwell, persons who want to know where Britain should be going, should read The World We Are In (2003) by Len Hutton and everybody should read anything they can get their hands on by John Pilger
Friday, August 08, 2003
Orwellian Doublespeak now order of the day
I heard an interesting item on the BBC news bulletin this morning.
"The Americans are considering developing mini-nukes (that is, small nuclear bombs) to blow up bunkers that may contain al-Quaeda weapons of mass destruction."
What?
The question arises: Who presents the greater danger to world peace today?
I humbly submit that the present regime in the US presents a much greater danger than a gang of ultras in the in the Middle East. The Americans will set a precedent by resorting to the horror of nuclear weapons and opening the floodgates. This is a scenario that is too frightening to contemplate.
I heard an interesting item on the BBC news bulletin this morning.
"The Americans are considering developing mini-nukes (that is, small nuclear bombs) to blow up bunkers that may contain al-Quaeda weapons of mass destruction."
What?
The question arises: Who presents the greater danger to world peace today?
I humbly submit that the present regime in the US presents a much greater danger than a gang of ultras in the in the Middle East. The Americans will set a precedent by resorting to the horror of nuclear weapons and opening the floodgates. This is a scenario that is too frightening to contemplate.
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
Desist from Stereotyping
I suppose we all stereotype people. It's a kind of short-cut, a lazy way to get us through life... keep us out of trouble.
Big muscular guys with skin-head hairstyles, tattoos from neck to ankle, Doc Martin boots - we will tend to give them a wide berth at 2 am on a Sunday morning. Yet such people may be the most gentle of souls. It's just that for safety's sake we will not give them the benefit of the doubt.
Now I tend to stereotype tv presenters, especially those who may appear in the "family slot" like 5-8 pm at the week-end. I do not watch much tv, but I avoid this segment as Tony Blair avoids his constituency's rubber chicken darts nights.
One such presenter is David Dickensen, the camp (though, apparently straight - not that it matters) presenter of some antique show that crops up around this time. The guy, is not in the first flush of youth (note, ageism on my part , though I have long since been expelled from the 18-30 travel club for failure to know about the 60's - I was there...) He has this amazing tan that any Costa residing Brit would kill for, and he can jabber on about Chippendale furniture till Thomas Adam fireplaces go up in smoke.
So this bloke has a unfailing talent to send me to sleep after less than 3 minutes "viewing". I might add that I deeply resent antiques. They get in the way of all the stuff we should be designing today for today - instead of sitting around this old crap, that class-conscious Brits feel they need to clutter up their physical space - Is it any wonder they cannot cope with the 21st Century. I say physical space... I am not a phillistine. I enjoy history, dead poets, writers, objects d'art. It's just the physical space. It's so damn finite.
Anyway, looks like I got this Dickensian Dickensen geyser totally wrong. Asked in an interview what living person he most admired...(I was expecting, in my prejudice, the toxic Margaret Thatcher, or the pretzel-choking, Bush Jnr.) He only says John Pilger... John Blooddy Pilger. Are my ears playing tricks?... only the bravest, most admirable Australian, that ever struck the keys of a Remington typwriter. The ballsiest journalist living today. (I'm not Australian, by the way).
John Pilger has said recently
"The conscious nature of Tony Blair's lies and distortions over Iraq is now clear. Collectors will have their favourites. Mine is his statement in Parliament on 29th January that "we do know of links between al-Quaeda and Iraq". As the Intelligence agencies have repeatedly confirmed, there were no links and Blair would have known this. Looking back this lie sought to justify his statement, in October 2001, that there would be a "wider war" against Iraq only if there was "absolute evidence" of his complicity in 11 September. Of course there was no evidence and Blair would have known this too......"
Thank you John Pliger, and thank you Mr Dickensen.
I suppose we all stereotype people. It's a kind of short-cut, a lazy way to get us through life... keep us out of trouble.
Big muscular guys with skin-head hairstyles, tattoos from neck to ankle, Doc Martin boots - we will tend to give them a wide berth at 2 am on a Sunday morning. Yet such people may be the most gentle of souls. It's just that for safety's sake we will not give them the benefit of the doubt.
Now I tend to stereotype tv presenters, especially those who may appear in the "family slot" like 5-8 pm at the week-end. I do not watch much tv, but I avoid this segment as Tony Blair avoids his constituency's rubber chicken darts nights.
One such presenter is David Dickensen, the camp (though, apparently straight - not that it matters) presenter of some antique show that crops up around this time. The guy, is not in the first flush of youth (note, ageism on my part , though I have long since been expelled from the 18-30 travel club for failure to know about the 60's - I was there...) He has this amazing tan that any Costa residing Brit would kill for, and he can jabber on about Chippendale furniture till Thomas Adam fireplaces go up in smoke.
So this bloke has a unfailing talent to send me to sleep after less than 3 minutes "viewing". I might add that I deeply resent antiques. They get in the way of all the stuff we should be designing today for today - instead of sitting around this old crap, that class-conscious Brits feel they need to clutter up their physical space - Is it any wonder they cannot cope with the 21st Century. I say physical space... I am not a phillistine. I enjoy history, dead poets, writers, objects d'art. It's just the physical space. It's so damn finite.
Anyway, looks like I got this Dickensian Dickensen geyser totally wrong. Asked in an interview what living person he most admired...(I was expecting, in my prejudice, the toxic Margaret Thatcher, or the pretzel-choking, Bush Jnr.) He only says John Pilger... John Blooddy Pilger. Are my ears playing tricks?... only the bravest, most admirable Australian, that ever struck the keys of a Remington typwriter. The ballsiest journalist living today. (I'm not Australian, by the way).
John Pilger has said recently
"The conscious nature of Tony Blair's lies and distortions over Iraq is now clear. Collectors will have their favourites. Mine is his statement in Parliament on 29th January that "we do know of links between al-Quaeda and Iraq". As the Intelligence agencies have repeatedly confirmed, there were no links and Blair would have known this. Looking back this lie sought to justify his statement, in October 2001, that there would be a "wider war" against Iraq only if there was "absolute evidence" of his complicity in 11 September. Of course there was no evidence and Blair would have known this too......"
Thank you John Pliger, and thank you Mr Dickensen.
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