OK. No Ganj, dreams come back. I had two the same over two days in that half awake time in the morning. I was couriering on a bicycle, but not in London. In one dream it was outside Poole bus station down where I come from. The other one I'm not sure. Anyway I was delivering a puppy somewhere and I lost it. I was looking round for it panicking and then i woke up. The second day I had this dream, rather than feeling strange all day I deliberately closed my eyes and visualised walking round the corner and finding the dog and then cycling off happy. It completely changed my perspective.
I had a discussion last night with a Spanish girl who was saying things like acupuncture are all in the mind. If you believe in them they work. I tried to give her my "I don't believe in belief. It'll either work or it won't." line but I don't think she really understood. She doesn't get English that well and talks like Speedy Gonzalez. Maybe I ought to start believing good shit for myself just in case.
March 31, 2006
March 30, 2006
JumpinJesusMaryanalltheSaints
Courtesy of Anna again... PART 5 of SOUTHPARK!!!!! The saddest episode ever. The Southpark guys reaction to loosing Chef to Scientology...
FUCKING CAPITALIST BASTARDS
via The ScrutinatorNoam Chomsky: One of the premiere anti-capitalists and anti-militarists in academia today, Chomsky, a self-described "anarchist-socialist," has been paid millions by the Pentagon—which he once called "the most hideous institution on this earth"—over the last 40 years, as well as various corporations, which he has described as "just as totalitarian as Bolshevism and fascism." When asked by Schweizer about his seeming contradiction, Chomsky responded (via email), "I think we should be responsible for what we do, not for the bureaucratic queston of who stamps the paycheck." Chomsky then went on to rationalize his wealth achieved via Pentagon contacts by stating that anyone who uses the Internet, which was created the U.S. military, is guilty of working for the Pentagon. Though he has lectured that other university professors should ween themselves of Pentagon funding in the form of grants and scholarships, he has yet to do so himself.
Chomsky's public condemnations of capitalism, which he calls a "grotesque catastrophe," are similarly contradicted by his private lifestyle. Mr. Chomsky lives in an $850,000 house and has a $1.2 million vacation home, both in Massachusetts. A critic of the "massive use of tax havens to shift the burden to the general population and away from the rich," he has called tax rebates "equivalent to a welfare payment," yet has set up trusts in his children's and tax attorney's names in order to avoid future payment of inheritance taxes. His loathing of copyrights and patents has also not stopped him from copyrighting his lectures, speeches and articles over the years (which can be downloaded—for a fee—off the Internet). After speaking at a benefit sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Democratic Left where Chomsky stated, "A democracy requires a free, independent and inquiring media," a reporter named Deborah Bolling was told that she would have to pay $35 to interview him. Perhaps most damning is his impressive stock portfolio, which includes shares in oil companies, military contractors and pharmaceuticals.
HAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are fucking barking mate!
cheers to Simon for directing me to the Big Blog company for this one...
Barking moonbat
noun. Someone on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be.
(coined by Perry de Havilland)
Usage:"Definition of a 'barking moonbat': someone who sacrifices sanity for the sake of consistency"
-Adriana Cronin
Although the term (often rendered simply as 'Moonbat') is very popular with conservative and libertarian bloggers who appropriately use it to describe the Chomskyite Left, it was always intended as a much more ecumenical epithet and has been correctly used to describe certain paleo-conservative and paleo-libertarians views. (also see 'idiotarian').
Note: Contrary to some speculation and entries on Wikipedia, Perry de Havilland has stated it was was not originally a play on the last name of George Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian, as he was using the term long before he met or had even heard of Mr. Monbiot.
Barking moonbat
noun. Someone on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be.
(coined by Perry de Havilland)
Usage:"Definition of a 'barking moonbat': someone who sacrifices sanity for the sake of consistency"
-Adriana Cronin
Although the term (often rendered simply as 'Moonbat') is very popular with conservative and libertarian bloggers who appropriately use it to describe the Chomskyite Left, it was always intended as a much more ecumenical epithet and has been correctly used to describe certain paleo-conservative and paleo-libertarians views. (also see 'idiotarian').
Note: Contrary to some speculation and entries on Wikipedia, Perry de Havilland has stated it was was not originally a play on the last name of George Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian, as he was using the term long before he met or had even heard of Mr. Monbiot.
March 29, 2006
Check our ad on Gumtree.
Competent jamming drummer wanted for loud growling psychedelic grungy experi-punk with a hint of funk. We have rehersal space + kit. Bring your sticks and your bong.
I might have to have a day off from my anti-ganj sainthood for the auditions. day 21 by the way... beyond this is fairly much uncharted territory.
Competent jamming drummer wanted for loud growling psychedelic grungy experi-punk with a hint of funk. We have rehersal space + kit. Bring your sticks and your bong.
I might have to have a day off from my anti-ganj sainthood for the auditions. day 21 by the way... beyond this is fairly much uncharted territory.
NEW STARTS & NEW CHALLENGES
Wednesday’s total Solar Eclipse opens the gate to crisis, decision, and opportunity.
This is an Aries New Moon, and we are challenged now to participate in the better world which is sprouting out of the darkness. We are empowered now to begin brand new creative projects.
For details, see daykeeperjournal
... this is not a new path for the United States. However, the tempo has stepped up in a multitude of ways, and its impact increases at a constantly accelerating rate. The current Administration, with its ruthless and blatant expression, makes obvious this destructive path.
As more and more people wake up, the nation is coming to a new awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of the United States. The current Administration does us the favor of making very obvious some of what is not working. This is necessary before we can create positive change.
(via Fraser)
Bloody hippies.
Wednesday’s total Solar Eclipse opens the gate to crisis, decision, and opportunity.
This is an Aries New Moon, and we are challenged now to participate in the better world which is sprouting out of the darkness. We are empowered now to begin brand new creative projects.
For details, see daykeeperjournal
... this is not a new path for the United States. However, the tempo has stepped up in a multitude of ways, and its impact increases at a constantly accelerating rate. The current Administration, with its ruthless and blatant expression, makes obvious this destructive path.
As more and more people wake up, the nation is coming to a new awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of the United States. The current Administration does us the favor of making very obvious some of what is not working. This is necessary before we can create positive change.
(via Fraser)
Bloody hippies.
More Venezuela
Chomsky indicated that the majority of U.S. citizens receive little or no information on the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution, led by the Venezuelan Hugo Chavez Frías, "because the media only emphasise the bad and ignore the positive."
...also said that the United States, in accordance with the foreign policy of President Bush, "thinks it has the privilege to declare any person or country a terrorist."
And under that precept the US armed forces "should bomb Washington, because when the US government protects Luis Posada Carrile and rejects the extradition application from Venezuela for him they protect one of the most renowned terrorists in the continent."
This guy was one of the people I didn't heckle on the Peace march.
Jill the liberal hater from Southpark over in Sparkleland linked to this very interesting article about Sweden. Sweden? Thats Omegaprojektetlånd. Bill X?
Jill the liberal hater from Southpark over in Sparkleland linked to this very interesting article about Sweden. Sweden? Thats Omegaprojektetlånd. Bill X?
SNOW HONOUR
Loan rangers
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Tonight we get a whiff of what passes for the supposed 'new
transparency' in British politics as the Electoral Commission blows the whistle on
Labour and Tory parties alike. They've asked the parties a bunch of
questions about the millions of pounds they've had in the form of loans,
and whether the terms of those secret loans should be made no longer
secret to see whether they fell foul of the rules.
But the Commission is severely unimpressed by the response of the
parties who have failed to answer the questions, and have instead merely
stated that everything about the loans is above board.
Indeed, so wound up is the Commission by the parties that, in effect,
it's tonight saying that without being given proper detailed answers
it's simply not inclined to believe the parties, and is now threatening to
force the parties under law to cough up the information it wants.
Another aspect of the 'new transparency' is that neither of the parties
will agree to be interviewed tonight.
And all of this is aside from the allegations and suspicions that both
parties have been selling honours. Police are also investigating
whether government contracts had some relationship to honours and loans.
Different stench, same part of the forest.
should bring back McCarthy for this one no?
sign up for snowmails.
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Tonight we get a whiff of what passes for the supposed 'new
transparency' in British politics as the Electoral Commission blows the whistle on
Labour and Tory parties alike. They've asked the parties a bunch of
questions about the millions of pounds they've had in the form of loans,
and whether the terms of those secret loans should be made no longer
secret to see whether they fell foul of the rules.
But the Commission is severely unimpressed by the response of the
parties who have failed to answer the questions, and have instead merely
stated that everything about the loans is above board.
Indeed, so wound up is the Commission by the parties that, in effect,
it's tonight saying that without being given proper detailed answers
it's simply not inclined to believe the parties, and is now threatening to
force the parties under law to cough up the information it wants.
Another aspect of the 'new transparency' is that neither of the parties
will agree to be interviewed tonight.
And all of this is aside from the allegations and suspicions that both
parties have been selling honours. Police are also investigating
whether government contracts had some relationship to honours and loans.
Different stench, same part of the forest.
should bring back McCarthy for this one no?
sign up for snowmails.
GOOD LUCK
Just watched Clooneys "Good night and Good Luck". Fantastic. Watch it.
It starts with Edward R Murrows speech at the RTNDA Convention in Chicago, October 15, 1958.
We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
Fantastic. Read it.
March 28, 2006
An Unusual Jew
As an Israeli Jew who sees how the Occupation has eroded the moral foundations of my society and, indeed, my entire people, and as a resident of Israel-Palestine who knows that my fate is intricately intertwined with that of the Palestinians, I pray that such an end will come sooner rather than later. As a member of civil society, I realize that the Palestinians have only one staunch ally: us, the people. Governments will not pursue peace and justice without our prodding. If the Palestinians remain steadfast and resist, it is our duty to actively support their fight for freedom and justice. Otherwise – to hell with us.
via Not the Country Club
I don't know what I think about the Palestine/Israel situation. I can see that if I was a Palestinian with land and a history on that land going back generations, I would probably resent people arriving from Russia and such places to take over that land with the backing of arms and money from US tax payers. If that situation went on and all attempts at solutions went against me, that would radicalize me. Especially if I was kept inside refugee camps with no hope of a future. But what to do?
As a gesture, bombing buses works against Palestinians in western minds, no doubt about it. But I can see that it probably works for "the cause" in the minds of Muslims in the Middle East who are themselves under the heel of oppressive forces they don't like. A central issue for this "West vs Islam" to spin round and round and round...
When I meet Israeli people I empathise with their european-ness. Their culture is similar to mine. I would not think to argue whether "the homeland" is theirs, or which part of it is. I don't know. I'm trying to think of estabished patterns of behaviour throughout history relating to "terrorism" "freedom-fighting" and armed insurgencies which can be looked at empirically across the board, whether it is ETA, the IRA, the PLO, Hagana,the AWB or whatever.
One thing. All this fighting over homeland I can't relate to. I think I am a vagrant.
Interpretation
Bloody hard to play the guitar without a smoke. Its like "What are these wires under my fingers?" The acupuncturist has put seeds in my ear to press on.
I just watched Munich. Good film. The end was a bit annoying. Artistic licence meant we got to see the leader of the assasins boning his missus interspersed with the "images he couldn't get out of his head" of the Israeli atheletes being killed. I don't know what the Republican take is on this film. It fairly much humanises everyone involved in the story. The artistic licence annoyed me in the same way some are annoyed about how reporters "translate" the story of war for the viewer.
Its dramatised by people who don't know what its like to do these things to "feed" to people who don't know what its like to do these things. Every time he's thinking about "the horror" on his way to climaxing with his misses she closes his eyes. Great image. Sex and death. The love of a good woman closing your eyes to the horror. Wonderful screenwriting, and an annoying load of bollocks at the same time if you catch my drift.
Screenwriters are profesionally annoying anyway no? Artistic licence. I know that if I was Alan Moore and some pissy director did to my story what it sounds like they have done to V for Vendetta I'd be tempted to turn terrorist and hunt them down. Know what I mean? If you're going to make V for Vendetta, make fucking V for Vendetta. Why would any Hollywood twat think they could rewrite it to be as good as the original?
It seemed to me the two more absolute extremes were anarchy and fascism. This was one of the things I objected to in the recent film, where it seems to be, from the script that I read, sort of recasting it as current American neo-conservatism vs. current American liberalism. There wasn't a mention of anarchy as far as I could see. The fascism had been completely defanged. I mean, I think that any references to racial purity had been excised, whereas actually, fascists are quite big on racial purity.
This is to introduce Rose (who is a BABE)'s new blog, londonalive.blogspot.com
Rose also promotes art events around the theme of "Human Awareness" but I've lost the link to the site...
cheers Jo- Neo Dogma Non or in English NO NEW DOGMA
Rose also promotes art events around the theme of "Human Awareness" but I've lost the link to the site...
cheers Jo- Neo Dogma Non or in English NO NEW DOGMA
No Right to Fair Trial
“War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts,” he says on a tape of the talk reviewed by NEWSWEEK. “Give me a break.” Challenged by one audience member about whether the Gitmo detainees don’t have protections under the Geneva or human-rights conventions, Scalia shot back: “If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and they were shooting at my son and I’m not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full jury trial. I mean it’s crazy.” Scalia was apparently referring to his son Matthew, who served with the U.S. Army in Iraq.
March 27, 2006
This is a Channel 4 news report questioning whether Hugo Chavez is getting distubingly authoritarian. This is a story of someone in Cuba on hunger strike over access to the internet (via Rightwingsparkle)
FUCKING IMMIGRANTS part 4
Fucking immigrants 1.
Fucking immigrants 2.
Fucking immigrants 3.
Immigration seems to be an issue now in the states as well as over here in the UK. I always used to argue that British people of the "they come over 'ere, steal our wimin" variety should be deported somewhere hot where things are more relaxed for a compulsory two year stretch. I thought it would be of benefit to them. They may not like it at first but they'd thank you later maybe. As far as I am concerned immigration is the history of humanity since year dot.
I found this.
Americans of hispanic descent are also sick of having their names drug through the mud by lawbreakers who, like barnacles, attempt to attach themselves in the eyes of society to these good people. Josue Sierra at Latino Issues blog expressed those concerns when he wrote the other day, “I am a son of immigrants. My parents are Cuban. But I am an American, born in the United States, and sworn loyal to my country. It is days like these that make life harder for people like me.”
Here is the take on the subject in Sparkleland.
This is a view from an influential Hispanic.
What do you reckon?
Fucking immigrants 2.
Fucking immigrants 3.
Immigration seems to be an issue now in the states as well as over here in the UK. I always used to argue that British people of the "they come over 'ere, steal our wimin" variety should be deported somewhere hot where things are more relaxed for a compulsory two year stretch. I thought it would be of benefit to them. They may not like it at first but they'd thank you later maybe. As far as I am concerned immigration is the history of humanity since year dot.
I found this.
Americans of hispanic descent are also sick of having their names drug through the mud by lawbreakers who, like barnacles, attempt to attach themselves in the eyes of society to these good people. Josue Sierra at Latino Issues blog expressed those concerns when he wrote the other day, “I am a son of immigrants. My parents are Cuban. But I am an American, born in the United States, and sworn loyal to my country. It is days like these that make life harder for people like me.”
Here is the take on the subject in Sparkleland.
This is a view from an influential Hispanic.
What do you reckon?
BLOGBLOGBLOGBLOG
OK, introducing a few new thought churners I've come across and linked to.
Firstly rap, Funkmonks is the best rap blog I've come across. God (or whichever deity you prefer) bless NEXT BLOG> The mixes are a bit complicated to download but they are there and they are great.
I've somehow ended up on Samantha Burns links. (Thanks) I think I found her through TTLB a while back. Not sure. Anyway she's a playful primate, a concept I am all for, and she featured a little in my contributions to Sparkles hilarious debate about sexy Republicans as she was the only one I could find.
Mark Sprengel has an interesting rightwing blog which I also came across through Sparkleland. He didn't feature in my contribution to the hilarious debate about sexy Republicans but is another interesting insight into the US Republican mindset for me to ponder.
Lastly Child Without an Eye is one of those random, spontaneous things I would call "pure blogs". Thoughts pictures and poems projected into the randomness courtesy of blogger. Happy blogging everyone.
Firstly rap, Funkmonks is the best rap blog I've come across. God (or whichever deity you prefer) bless NEXT BLOG> The mixes are a bit complicated to download but they are there and they are great.
I've somehow ended up on Samantha Burns links. (Thanks) I think I found her through TTLB a while back. Not sure. Anyway she's a playful primate, a concept I am all for, and she featured a little in my contributions to Sparkles hilarious debate about sexy Republicans as she was the only one I could find.
Mark Sprengel has an interesting rightwing blog which I also came across through Sparkleland. He didn't feature in my contribution to the hilarious debate about sexy Republicans but is another interesting insight into the US Republican mindset for me to ponder.
Lastly Child Without an Eye is one of those random, spontaneous things I would call "pure blogs". Thoughts pictures and poems projected into the randomness courtesy of blogger. Happy blogging everyone.
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