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Males even urinate against trees while doing handstandsGosh. On an entirely unrelated note, don't overlook the Fun And Interactive Poll™ if you haven't voted already and can be bothered.
...the Holocaust Myth, defended by an allegedly homicidal gas chamber you cannot question, despite hard evidence contrary the proclamation of its certain existence. ... Without their MADE UP AND NOT SIMPLY MISUSED "Holocaust" they [Israeli jews] are nothing but more "White" European Colonialists to be spit upon and shot! ...Hmmm. Not only that, but he's co-editor of something called the Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network for which he writes truly hateful pseudo-poetry about "Jewish Bremer" and people being burned to death by a mob. Or, as he puts it in his own unique style:
that was really great,What a truly revolting little turd of a man.
the way you killed and mutilated those stupid pieces of garbage!
StampYourFoot.orgPiss-up-in-a-brewery moment: "We're looking for endorsers to help us organize this event." Huh? How difficult can it possibly be to organise? Just tell people to go to the inauguration ceremony and turn their back when that president guy starts speaking. Voila - job done.
HoldYourBreathUntilYouTurnPurple.org
PutYourFingersInYourEarsAndGoLaLaLaImNotListening.org
ScreamAndScreamAndScreamUntilYoureSick.org
... apparently lived his last years suffering intense abdominal pains. Fear of being discovered made him chew the ends of his moustache, resulting in a ball of hair blocking his intestines.Heh.
It's not even the tiniest fraction of justice. Still, let the memory abide of him chewing the ends of his moustache - of a ball of hair blocking his intestines.And hopefully a nagging internal monologue... "What's the matter, Joseph? Gnawing your moustache because you're scared of someone coming and spiriting you away like your friend Mr Eichmann, are you? You may think they're 'Jude Untermensch', Joseph, but I can't help noticing you're the one who's so scared he's taken to eating his own facial hair."
The applicant appeared to have completely misunderstood the patent system, and had not actually invented anything.Not actually inventing anything doesn't seem to have stopped anyone before.
Dear Friends,Hmmm. While the New York Times may be stifling her voice I think the Guardian might be prepared to give her a regular column of her own. After all, they publish A L Kennedy.
Again, I thank you for all your support and your efforts to help spread the word about voting fraud and media blackout. At present, I think the major effort should focus on disseminating information by word of mouth. To that end, I have created a flyer text that has been very effective [That must be because of the overwhelming use of block capitals and reliance on the exclamation mark for punctuation - always the key to effectiveness]. I use ads from the bigpath.com site (also listed on the flyer). I have included the text of that flyer below--please understand that I think this should be priority number one [Gotcha. Priority one]. If you make copies of that flyer in 5X8 size, you can unobstrusively, nonconfrontationally, and easily pass them out as you go about your daily routine. Don't argue with people: if they don't want to hear it, move on--there are enough inquiring minds who want to know [Also, "many inquiring minds" want to know more about NASA faking those so-called "moon landings"]. Take them to Kinkos, Starbucks, Walgreens, Public and University Libraries, Blockbuster, grocery store, gas stations, post office--wherever you have to go anyway, just have them readily accessible to pull out of your pocket. (I've been doing this for DAYS now!) [Run, run, it's crazy obsessed leaflet woman!]
However, the campaign to get my letter to the Times continues, as I think it should. At this point, they will try to weasle out of it on technicalities [Like "It's a ludicrously overlong rant"] (i.e., the story it responds to is dated [Good point: it's a ludicrously overlong and dated rant], they do not publish "open letters", it's too long [You reckon?], etc.). To these "technicalities" I say: Hogwash. This letter is "fit to print." [I feel the "ludicrously overlong rant" angle is being ignored] One of their other technicalities: author's full name and address must be on the letter (of course, they have rec'd this info from me 1,000 times over [Oh deary me... visions of NYT letters dept snowed under]). Even as an oped piece, they demand "exclusive" rights. Well, sorry folks but it was opednews who first printed it and the NYT will have to live with that [That's right, sister: dictate strong terms to the newspaper which is inexplicably refusing to publish you!]. They will not be allowed to print it w/o giving credit where credit is due [Yes, be careful they don't steal your story and claim the credit for themselves]. (Pls. Note, Rob has since posted a "clean" version of the piece).
If you are still determined to help me get this oped piece in there, here's what I think we can do. It's snail-mail/hardcopy time, email is pointless, they aren't reading it [They won't read your e-mail but you think they will read your hardcopy?]: Print a hardcopy and send it by regular mail to the NYT. (You can add my full name and address to the hardcopy: Dr. Lilian Friedberg, [Rest of address and phone number deleted by me. Call me Mr Ethical]). You can also add your own comments. I will be doing the same. [Because of course they will react well to being deluged with many copies of a letter they've already rejected]
Thank you again, [Don't mention it.]
Yours sincerely,
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Heather Tomlinson says that banning animal experiments in the UK would only mean the industry moving to countries such as China and Singapore, where animal welfare is not taken seriously (If mice could talk, November 20). Would she advocate weakening the UK's child protection laws, among the strictest in the world, because the same cannot be said for Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, etc.This is a baffling letter which has either suffered unfortunate editing prior to publication or betrays incredible mental confusion on the writer's part. As the first sentence points out, Heather Tomlinson's article argued that a ban on animal experiments in the UK would only displace the experiments to countries with lower welfare standards. But the second sentence, rather than replying to the point Tomlinson made, produces a farcical analogy with child welfare and implies Tomlinson advocates weakening British animal welfare laws: which she very clearly did not do.
Galloway contends that the documents [on which the Telegraph articles were based] are fake...This seems odd, because a week ago the Guardian's Chris Tryhorn told us:
The authenticity of the documents on which the Telegraph articles were based is not being contested.Damn you, Guardian, now I'm confused!
The high number of nuclear material shipments in France lead the authorities and nuclear businesses to cut back as much as possible on the basic safety measures which should go with such a shipment. In Germany, these shipments are subject to more stringent safety measures (numbers of policemen, track surveillance, speed of the convoy...)Hmmm. Here's a basic railway safety measure which could be followed and ensures 100% safety: don't lie down on railway tracks. If you do lie down on the track and get run over by a train, please don't whinge about how it's the train's fault for going too fast or the police's fault for not stopping you getting onto the track. That just makes you look stupid. More here:
Environmental campaigners say that the death of Sebastien Briat, 21, who had chained himself to the railway track in front of a train carrying 12 containers of radioactive waste, illustrated the dangers of this kind of transportation. ...Errrr, surely it illustrates the dangers of chaining yourself to the railway track? Dangers it may illustrate of trains loaded with nuclear fuel being derailed or damaged by obstacles on the track are perhaps best reduced by fitting the locomotive with some kind of large bulldozer blade or snowplough device.
Critics of the national ID cards scheme who suggest that it would threaten our privacy should be reassured that under the proposed scheme only very basic personal details such as name, address, date and place of birth will be held. Alongside this will be 'biometric' information such as the imprint of a finger or scan of an iris, which establish unique personal identity. ... The National Identity Register will hold only the information that is needed to demonstrate identity and it certainly will not hold information such as medical or tax records. ...Weasel words. The National Identity Register will not hold medical, tax, employment and other state-held records but it allows all those records to be pulled together and cross-referenced.
For the 85 per cent of UK households who hold at least one store loyalty card, a far greater and growing database of personal information will already be held by private industry. Store loyalty cards keep continuously updated details such as the size of a person's household, whether they're employed or not [huh?] and the ages of their children [what on Earth's he going on about?], besides what they like to eat, where and how often they shop and even what brand of toothpaste they use. If you do hold a store loyalty card – and the odds are that you do – you have already consented to all this information being repeatedly shared with other companies without any requirement to ask again for your approval.Errr, David, people choose to voluntarily sign up for store loyalty cards and in return they receive juicy discounts on their shopping. Some people feel the trade-off of purchasing anonomity vs discounts is worth it, others do not. Either way they are free to choose whether to get the loyalty card and whether to use it for particular purchases.
The popularity of camera phones has made it much easier to take illicit photos without permission. In a statement, PI called on mobile phone manufacturers to counter what it described as a "growing problem".Something must be done. Consequences too serious to mention if something not done.
Privacy International is calling on mobile phone manufacturers to agree on an international standard that requires a default flash whenever a picture is taken. This initiative, says the organisation, will at a stroke end many of the privacy invasions that occur.Errr, right. Firstly, wouldn't a mandatory flash just be really really annoying in all those cases where people aren't being secretly photographed by perverts? Secondly, if someone wants to take a picture covertly won't they just cover the flash with their thumb or stick a piece of thick black sticky tape over it?
"The misuse of phone cameras is becoming a real threat to privacy ... Unless action is taken immediately there is a risk that social intimacy will disappear within a decade" said Privacy International's Director Simon Davies.I am confident the forecasted disappearance of public displays of affection within a decade is solidly based on hard facts revealed by serious research which PI just chose not to reveal in order to keep the press release to a manageable length. It would be ridiculous to think that the claim is an unfounded piece of alarmism plucked out of thin air.
"Phone companies have a legal and a moral responsibility to fix these problems"They do? I'd never realised. Given the ready availability of fully-fledged cameras which are about as small as phones and can take much higher quality pictures I'm unclear why PI are singling out phones for special attention.
The appearance of Eastman's cameras [from 1888] was so sudden and so pervasive that the reaction in some quarters was fear. A figure called the "camera fiend" began to appear at beach resorts, prowling the premises until he could catch female bathers unawares. ... The "Hartford Courant" sounded the alarm as well, declaring that "the sedate citizen can't indulge in any hilariousness without the risk of being caught in the act and having his photograph passed around among his Sunday School children."Sadly, public hilariousness disappeared entirely by 1900 and was never seen again.
The authenticity of the documents on which the Telegraph articles were based is not being contested.Great: suing for defamation, but not actually contesting any of the data on which the story was based. It's also an interesting change from a year or so ago, when the litigious member for Glasgow Kelvin was swearing blind the Telegraph papers were crude forgeries which had been planted to smear him:
This attack is part of a smear campaign, against those who stood against the illegal and bloody war on Iraq and against its occupation by foreign forces.In the old days this would have been settled in a gentlemanly fashion, via an early morning duel in Hyde Park between George and the Telegraph editor.
As I am out of the country, writing a book about Iraq, I have not seen the so-called "documents" the Telegraph - a highly partisan source - claims to have access to.
... Without having seen the Telegraph's documents, from the way they have been described to me I can state that they bear all the hallmarks of having been either forged or doctored and are designed to discredit those who stood against the war...
Korean film shows were held by a company in Indonesia and in Studenec, the Czech Republic, on October 31 and on November 3 to mark the 13th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army. "Wishes to Hold the Fatherly Leader in Higher Esteem" and other Korean films were shown there.Catchy title!
After watching a film, the director of the above-said company said he was deeply impressed by the fact that Kim Jong Il has worked heart and soul to eternally glorify the exploits of President Kim Il Sung.Sounds as if the film could be like that brain-washing one from The Ipcress File, all swirly patterns and a hypnotic voice droning "You... will... revere... Kim Jong Il... follow... him... ardently...".
The film show helped him clearly realize why the Korean people revere and follow their leader so ardently, he noted.
Some odds and ends...
They looked round with keen interest the production processes equipped with modern facilities, being briefed on the fact that servicemen of the Korean People's Army built the modern duck farm in a short span of time ...Then they wrote in the visitors' book and left. Everyone seems to have had a very enjoyable day out.
Bush Snr was in the Saudis' pockets, then in 2000 Bush stole the election with his brother's help in Florida before sitting with children and a story book for a few minutes on Sept 11 instead of rushing from the room and somehow making everybody safe. After Sept 11, Bush stole Americans' freedoms with the 'Patriot' act and went to war with Iraq so that EVIL HALLIBURTON could plunder the country.Let's see how sucessful Michael's project has been. In an election with an unusually high voter turnout:
...seven days from now there will be no more to be found anywhere, at any price. Good Luck in your bidding...
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Don't give up on us - even if Bush is elected, we will not be silent. It may be the Sixties all over again, only with more PhDs and law degrees leading the opposition.That sounds like fun. John Moore Of Bournemouth thinks it wiser to talk to the mutinous colonies as one would to a stupid child:
America is an adolescent nation, as yet unable to see the follies of its imperialistic hubris. Mature nations have moved on, wisdom is only able to shake its head disapprovingly, for fear of violence, in the face of a teenager who has the power of a man but the mentality of a child."Neo-conservative manipulated paranoia" (ie: actually mentioning that you're at war) is also denounced. Paul Walter of Newbury has written to both the Independent and the Guardian to ask about support groups for those sufferering from Bush victory depression syndrome. Sarah O'Malley of Maine (who assures us she is "thoughtful") feels disenfranchised despite having her vote counted and is astonished that "so many stupid people out there" could have made a different decision.
Republican senator George Vionovich holds his seat, beating Democrat Eric Fingerhut.Eric Fingerhut?
Judge Henley Graves believes it's a rat, but others think it could be a squirrel or a raccoon.It is not clear at this time whether the lurking presence of an unidentified clawed creature will give an advantage to John Kerry or George Bush.
..."To take a risk in a poem is not to write a big sweary outburst about how crap the war in Iraq is, even if you are the world's greatest living playwright. Because anyone can do that."Cue grumbling that Paterson will stifle new talent, is intent on limiting what a poem can be, and has the small-minded position of opposing anti-war poems for their simplicity. Paterson didn't attack Harold Pinter's poetry in general, which may or may not have merit. He didn't attack anti-war poetry, whether elaborate or simple. What he said is that a "big sweary outburst" ain't poetry. Consider Pinter's classic Februrary 2003 poem titled "Democracy":
There's no escape.And who can forget the nuances and cadence of his "American Football":
The big pricks are out.
They'll fuck everything in sight.
Watch your back.
Hallelujah!Feel the literary talent!
It works.
We blew the shit out of them.
We blew the shit right back up their own ass
And out their fucking ears.
It works.
We blew the shit out of them.
They suffocated in their own shit!
Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord for all good things.
We blew them into fucking shit.
They are eating it.
Praise the Lord for all good things.
We blew their balls into shards of dust,
Into shards of fucking dust.
We did it.
Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.
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I wonder how close the links are between Bush's team and Al Jazeera? [Oh yes, Al-Jazeera and the Bush administration are well known best friends] Could it be that the TV station has had the tape for some time but Bush's team has good contacts with them and has persuaded them to withhold its release until just before the election to scare the undecided voters into the Bush camp? [In a word: "No"]Eric's term "conspiracy theory-riddled bollocks" describes it quite well.
Paddy Briggs, UK
Any one who believes that this is authentic needs to grease their brain cells. Bush's administration has clearly masterminded this tape. Osama must have access to plastic surgery in the hills to do away with his wrinkles. As "security" is the only word that Bush can talk...he's now got his cowboys to get a tape made where even his apparent enemy, Osama says the same.. in the last weekend before elections! Wake up America! Makes me think what tape Blair will come up with in the weekend before May's elections! [Grease your brain cells! Exclamation marks!]
Jamie Brum, London
These tapes always seem to come out at very suspicious times. I wouldn't be surprised if our present regime isn't behind this to stir up more fear. I think if it has any effect on the election it would be among the undecided voters. But I can't see how anyone couldn't see through this rather transparent attempt by this administration to influence the election.
Lori Faison, USA
Perhaps I'm being too cynical but something just doesn't ring true about this tape. The quality is too good compared with previous tapes. The timing is very interesting, I had predicted that something would happen this week [He'd predicted that "something would happen this week". Safe bet. Something happens most weeks]. Producing OBL in person would be too obvious ... is this the next best thing ... is it really him? Who has most to gain from this tape? It's all too much of a coincidence and is too slick for my liking
Paul, Milton Keynes
Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample surveyScientific studies are usually reviewed before being published. This study has not been reviewed - at least I don't think I can have been if survey work was still going on in September.
Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert Burnham
Summary
Background. In March, 2003, military forces, mainly from the USA and the UK, invaded Iraq. We did a survey to compare mortality during the period of 14·6 months before the invasion with the 17·8 months after it.
Methods A cluster sample survey was undertaken throughout Iraq during September, 2004. 33 clusters of 30 households each were interviewed about household composition, births, and deaths since January, 2002. In those households reporting deaths, the date, cause, and circumstances of violent deaths were recorded. We assessed the relative risk of death associated with the 2003 invasion and occupation by comparing mortality in the 17·8 months after the invasion with the 14·6-month period preceding it.
Findings The risk of death was estimated to be 2·5-fold (95% CI 1·6-4·2) higher after the invasion when compared with the preinvasion period. Two-thirds of all violent deaths were reported in one cluster in the city of Falluja. If we exclude the Falluja data, the risk of death is 1·5-fold (1·1-2·3) higher after the invasion. We estimate that 98000 more deaths than expected (8000-194000) happened after the invasion outside of Falluja and far more if the outlier Falluja cluster is included. The major causes of death before the invasion were myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accidents, and other chronic disorders whereas after the invasion violence was the primary cause of death. Violent deaths were widespread, reported in 15 of 33 clusters, and were mainly attributed to coalition forces. Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children. The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher (95% CI 8·1-419) than in the period before the war.
Interpretation Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths. We have shown that collection of public-health information is possible even during periods of extreme violence. Our results need further verification and should lead to changes to reduce non-combatant deaths from air strikes.
... on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the publication of leader Kim Jong Il's famous work "Answers to Questions Raised by the General Director of Granma, the Organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba."Famous!
Today's torturers deserve our respect, whether they're innovative freelancers like "Crazy Mike" and Jonathan Idema, or following more conventional chains of command like "Chip" Frederick ...Ah yes, "Chip" Frederick: who so rigorously followed the chain of command that he's just been promoted and decorated. Oh no, my mistake, he's been jailed for 8 years. And look: Jonathan Idema's also been chucked in the slammer. Because they did Bad Things which we recognise are Bad Things for which they Must Be Punished, Ms Kennedy.
A Jumbo Jet carrying more than 350 people from London came close to crashing near Hong Kong after the pilots failed to realise that the autopilot was disconnected. The aircraft flew uncontrolled for three minutes, veering almost 180 degrees off course toward mountains and coming within seconds of a catastrophic stall. No one in the four-person crew took any intervening action because they believed the Boeing 747-400 was being directed by the autopilot. ... Worried air traffic controllers issued urgent instructions to bring the jet back on course. But this had no immediate effect, as the crew - still under the impression that the autopilot was working - were not attempting to fly manually and simply keyed the navigation commands into the lifeless machine. ...Hmmm.
Terence Blacker (Opinion, 15 October) bemoans name-calling while describing animal rights activists as bullying, emotional, heartless, cold, hateful, violent, sobbing, psychologically dysfunctional, eccentric, fanatical, cruel, fundamentalist nutters.Well, Xavier, I'd say the emotional, heartless, cold, hateful, psychologically dysfunctional, eccentric, fanatical, cruel, fundamentalist sobbing nutters aren't interested in dialogue - preferring to use bullying and violence instead.
He is furious about the very limited cruelty inflicted by the desecration of a grave, yet is dismissive of concerns regarding the vast, systematic cruelty inflicted on millions of animals in the name of human welfare.
He complains about the impossibility of dialogue, yet indiscriminately lumps animal welfare activists together into a homogeneous group of menacing, ecologically reckless, and downright stupid people. Who is making dialogue impossible?
Friend (you don't mind me calling you "friend", do you?)Obviously that's just a working draft.
You have the chance to do British cinema a great favour. Today our films are regarded as dull, and "British film industry" is synonymous with "loss making relic of a once great enterprise". Because of your work, and that of some others, British films are seen as some of the most tediously preachy on Earth.
You make dull, depressing, grey films about people carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders and having screaming arguments over the kitchen table about whose fault it is that Tracy got pregnant or Wayne got arrested. These might impress judges at film festivals and other directors who only ever make dull, depressing, grey films but they're terrible to watch: practically enough to make people run screaming from the cinema. That's why Hollywood, which makes films people want to watch, dominates. You, thanks to your unusually influential position, can make a difference.
People go to the cinema primarily to be entertained, and sometimes to be informed. So start making films which are entertaining, or documentaries about interesting topics. Entertainment doesn't need a huge budget for stunt men, special effects and crazy set pieces with stuff like car chases and exploding helicopters (though that helps). Maybe start by adding some jokes, songs and a catchy dance number or two. It won't hurt to use some actors who are, if not actively beautiful, at least don't look like they've been hit in the face with a shovel and have terminal depression.
... "Things got out of control. We were invaded by the Socialist Workers party," said Mary Fee, spokeswoman for the Solidarity village, an "autonomous space" at the hall hoping to set up an alternative currency for participants. ...Radical anticapitalism activists had great fun unfurling banners and disrupting meetings by, errr, other radical anticapitalism activists. Don't laugh: I am sure any resemblance to the Judean People's Front, People's Front Of Judea or Judean Popular People's Front is entirely coincidental.
The south Korean authorities should discontinue their flunkeyist and treacherous action following the U.S. arms buildup under the pretext of "reduction" of the U.S. forces.Flunkeyist and treacherous - that's about as bad as it can get.
He specified tasks to be fulfilled by the farm in its management and operation including the work to spruce up the farm and bring the production there to a high level as early as possible. After going round the farm he set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines in increasing the production of meat and eggs. ...You really couldn't make this sort of thing up. Now I half expect to hear that the glossy hardback Kim Jong-Il's World of Waterfowl is available from all good book shops.
... I was soon interrupted, however, by a black-clad member of the Mahdi army: he wanted to talk to my translator about my fashion choices. The situation quickly got serious - another Mahdi soldier grabbed my translator and shoved him against a wall, injuring his back. Meanwhile, an Iraqi friend called to say she was trapped inside the Green Zone and couldn't leave: she had forgotten a headscarf and was afraid of running into a Mahdi patrol. ...Hmmmm. Obviously what she meant to write, before the censors' pens stifled her, was:
... I was soon interrupted by a CIA agent pretending to be a member of Al-Sadr's Fashion Police in a crudely transparent attempt to make Al-Sadr seem unreasonable, rather than the jolly nice chap he is. The situation quickly got more serious when another black-clad man - probably a US Marine - tried to discredit Al-Sadr's movement by assaulting my translator. When I tried to calm things down by offering to sell these supposed militiamen a copy of my book they blew their cover by calling me a "mad witch" - something no true Muslim would ever do. Then an Iraqi friend called to say she had been kidnapped by American soldiers who had stolen her headscarf and were holding her in the Green Zone. ...