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anti-war March #31
The end of my anti-war March. We may not know the real reason for the war for decades. It will become obscured in the fog of history. But I assume that the US will achieve its primary aim and fend off the euro, ensure a stable source of oil for itself, help to support Israel…
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anti-war March, #29
Pre-emptive News – the news reporting technique that has been used by several newspapers in reporting the war. Take the following stories: Two British soldiers being executed by Saddam’s forces The reports of a civilian uprising in Basra The discovery of a huge chemical weapons plant The biggest tank battle since the second world war…
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anti-war March, #28
In saturdays mornings Guardian ‘Weekend’ magazine : “Spectre orange – Nearly 30 years after the Vietnam war, a chemical weapon used by US troops is still exacting a hideous toll on each new generation.” It is accompanied by some awful pictures of horrifically deformed children. The photos are not on the web site. Bush and…
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anti-war March, #26
From surgenet.org: A knower of truth does what is called for, then stops He uses his strength but does not force things fully choose to do what you must do ….this is to live without forcing to overcome without conquering. –Lao Tzu I checked my site messages yesterday and Ben Poole had left a particularly…
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anti war March #er um…
How do I miss such obvious double standards? The Guardian today points out that the US have scant regard for international law and yet when captured US servicemen are shown on TV they start quoting the Geneva Convention? Hmmm. Why am I surprised? I think I’ve recovered from the weekends party – I’m still trying…
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anti war March #24
The other day I said that the war was about securing oil for future generations. That was before I found a rather interesting line of reasoning that argues that the motives are more about an economic conflict between the US and Europe. It’s a long article. So, in a nutshell, it is related to a…
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anti-war March, #23
oh jeez, I dunno – ‘make tea, nor war’…. Where the hell did last night go? We had a wee gathering here. I remember chatting to some friends at about 9pm. Next time I looked at my watch it was 5:30am. Now I can remember only sporadic episodes of my dignified, witty and charming repartee.
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anti-war March, #18
48 hours to war? If the war goes ahead, perhaps for the first time more people in the west will realise that so much of our wealth comes at the price of others suffering. This war is about a reliable source of oil for the next few generations, not about a despot in Baghdad. The…
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anti-war March, #17
The puppet in this imaginative protest in Wellington NZ is none other than the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. He is seen by his detractors to be kissing President Bush’s arse.
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anti-war March, #16
Mahatma Gandhi said: “The science of war leads one to dictatorship pure and simple. The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy”. I’ve been thinking about what our democracy really means in the light of so many democratic processes being ignored because they are inconvenient to the means of our political leaders.…