October 2005
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Thu 27 Oct 2005
This is an awesome, funny, stupid, great opinionated blog called “Something Awful”. The new Civ IV release notes are incredible
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Thu 27 Oct 2005
A mixed review of Robert Fisk’s new book {The Great War for Civilisation}. Needless to say where he criticises Fisk he’s just wrong! As Media Lens show quite neatly in their latest piece, “polemical” is one of those words used by the mainstream (which is to say the apologists for, and defenders of, power), for those who raise voices in opposition
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Thu 27 Oct 2005
Good to see Australia nicely down the table here. And, this is before the new state-terror laws go through the parliament. As far as I’m concerned, this is the final straw for this worthles bullshit non-democracy. Anyone who votes for these laws or supports them in any way deserves to be tried for crimes against humanity, and preferably offered a goodly period in the slammers that they are so keen to put anyone who thinks freely into.
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Thu 27 Oct 2005
It’s useful to remember that the 2000 dead US troops are only the tip of the iceburg on the invading side. There are all the thousands of injured, most of whom are too injured to return to the front, and at least in past wars, would have been ably and generously supported by “a grateful nation”. Of course the current junta isn’t grateful at all. These soldiers are just cannon fodder to be used and then forgotten, and if they complain, to be defamed and taken to court, and of course, forget about any monetary inducements offered to get them into the military. As likely as not they will be underpaid or not paid at all
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Thu 27 Oct 2005
It’s interesting, because Robert Fisk (who’s book was published in Australia yesterday, but which, at least in bookshops I frequent, is unavailable, due to being “stuck on the docks”) swears there will be no civil war, and I think that’s probably true. But, if the US want to create a civil war and report it as such, then for all intents and purposes, it will be civil war, regardless of any facts on the ground. After all, so much of the way the US does everything these days is PR-opaganda and nothing but. Another way that they hide not only from others but from themselves how weak their position in the world is
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Thu 27 Oct 2005
I’m guessing they’ve picked Syria because it’s an easier nut to crack than Iran - a lot weaker and no real threat to anyone except Lebanon. And, the result will be obvious - oil prices will explode, the US will be closer to economic and political collapse, the insurgency in Iraq will become even more wild and insane, not to mention in Afghanistan. The comparison to make is with Adolf Hitler in 1940 - controlling a huge swathe of Europe, at peace with the USSR, not at war with the US and not threatened by the UK. Quite stable and doable, but Hitler was too delusional for his own good. So now, these idiots in the US just can’t help themselves. They are in both a much stronger position than Hitler, and in a much weaker position. At some point, not only will impeachment (or even execution for treason) not save the US, nothing will. They are close to that point where the ability of any future US regime to repair the damage to their country, even with a complete turnaround, will be impossible. At some point in the not too distant future, even their survival as a coherent country will become an issue, let alone as any kind of superpower/hyperpower
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TomPaine.com - Syria: The Next Iraq
October 24, 2005
Thu 27 Oct 2005
Absolutely right. Completely spot on. Tom’s Dispatch is one of the crowning glories of the Blog world
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Mon 24 Oct 2005
A previous Zizek piece in response to the French ‘non’ to the EU constitution, and the idea of choice. His thinking on the idea of choice as metachoice recalls Lyotard’s Differend
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Mon 24 Oct 2005
Zizek on New Orleans with some zany comments from people who, in not getting what Zizek is saying simply support his arguments. It’s funny because this is about the most clear, untheory-laden thing I’ve ever read of his
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Mon 24 Oct 2005
Good piece on Finkelstein and the increasingly bizarre Dershowitz who goes to increasing lengths to kill any possible intelligent, reasoned debate on the crimes of Israel
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The Real Case for Israel — In These Times
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