Tag Archives: Tsunami

Ye Aulde Memoir

Another old piece. These stories are distorted by romanticized memory, at times, and others likely remember them differently. I by no means intend to insult any of the real persons that lived through this stuff with a cavalier treatment of … Continue reading

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First they came for the Communists, but we don’t like Communists…

First they came for the Communists,? and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, ?and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews,? … Continue reading

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How to make an entire country disappear

They did it to Haiti… and now, Japan. They’re still there, see… my sentence structure is starting to really fall apart but push, push, push on I must. They’ve been disappeared into the Friday News Cycle Memory Hole. Even though, … Continue reading

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Who decided Ghurkas make good peacekeepers?

So the Haitian cholera outbreak is being investigated by the U.N. and the suspect so far is a Nepalese “peacekeeping” base with sewage issues, in a blunt and literal sense. This is the device they’re most famous for perfecting and … Continue reading

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Robert Fisk and the language of power, danger words: Competing Narratives

Celebrated reporter -and verb- Robert Fisk had harsh words, “danger words” he called them, for host Al-Jazeera where he gave an address about the language of power which has infected newsman and reader alike. Beware your unambiguous acceptance of empty … Continue reading

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Simon Wiesenthal Center makes best case against Israel colonial legitimacy

Give Israel credit for answering their critics head on, but that is the Zionist hubris. Simon Wiesenthal is propagating the latest Hasbara crib sheet to counter the ten most threatening lies about Israel. We couldn’t have summarized the arguments better … Continue reading

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“It’s God’s Punishment on the U.S. and Chile for State-sponsored Terrorism”

Why not? The Reich Wing tried it with Katrina, with Haiti, Sumatra… Hell (literally) Our Phriend Pastor Phred Phelps even said it of 9/11. Speaking of course of the Very recent earthquake in Chile and the resulting tsunami which may … Continue reading

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Rush is right. Make him pay for Haiti.

Reading 538’s excellent qualified defense of Pat Robertson‘s accusation that Haiti really had made a pact with the devil, I am prompted to weigh in behind Rush Limbaugh’s hypocritical rant that the American public has already paid enough for Haiti’s … Continue reading

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I wonder if we could trade Dobson and Phelps for this guy?

Of course, we’d have to throw in a little cash… Pseudo-Religious Bozoes of this caliber don’t come cheap. The guy’s a Minister as in: Government Official in Indonesia, and says the disasters there were caused by “immorality”. Kind of like … Continue reading

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Businessmen gone WILD!

Worldwide the business community has gone wild as they try to resurrect the declining capitalist world economy by simply throwing trillions of government dollars at themselves to ‘stimulate’ the return of their profit making. EU, China, US unleash global assault … Continue reading

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El Paso County resists blue trend how?

Two articles caught my eye in this morning’s Gazette, and I’d like to thank the editors for putting them side by side. The first lauded El Paso County’s strong Republican push-back to the Obama landslide, the other illuminated Clerk and … Continue reading

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Morning after pill for election 2008

If the McCain-Palin ticket survives Tsunami Obama, to reconstitute a GOP win or draw in the late hours of election eve, several options are availing themselves for the American people’s political baptism. In the event of a need for an … Continue reading

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Pope says, ‘Piss in the jar, Please.’

New scientific ‘advances’ are being made by God these days! The Pope has just ordered that all priest applicants must now pass psycho-illogical profiling tests! The BBC reports that wannabe Priests to face ‘sex drive tests’ What next? Peeing in … Continue reading

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Death spiral economy

The fascist business model in full view, unapologetic. Unaccountable. The Democrats have no intention of changing it. They have to protect their major donors. Obama is fully backed by Wall Street capitalists. He talks the talk of reform but he … Continue reading

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Fed makes emergency donation…

In terms of a rate slash, on a Sunday evening. Because it’s Monday in the asian markets and now the London and Zurich and Paris and Berlin markets… In six hours the markets on Wall Street are going to open, … Continue reading

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The Propaganda Tsunamis

The second electoral tsunami wave is due to hit the American population today and unless you take intellectual cover from it, you are likely to drown in total shit. I’m talking about New Hamshire, its coverage, and what passes as … Continue reading

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The Spears sisters genetic tree stump

Dumbshell Britney Spears’ little sister is having a baby. The clan are mega millionaires, why shouldn’t they decide what they please? Clearly they’ve already decided a premature preteen nose job is fine, even if your face is going to outgrow … Continue reading

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Meltdown times

We are living in the time of a universal meltdown unlike any ever experienced by any human society ever before. We have military meltdown, economic meltdown, energy supply meltdown, climate meltdown, intellectual meltdown, moral meltdown, the meltdown of our world … Continue reading

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Mincing Words with Nature’s Matriarch

I learned about Sudden Wetland Dieback yesterday. What’s that? The salt marshlands of America’s east coast are turning inexplicably to muddy wastelands and scientists have developed a euphemism for the occasion. The nomenclature reminds me of another unnatural phenomena that’s … Continue reading

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The price of militarism on the militarists

What is the price of militarism on the militarists themselves? In the case of Pat Tillman it was death instead of wealth, yet others live and still pay a price. In ‘Torturers Toll‘, another Tony other than myself tells the … Continue reading

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That silence you hear is Al Gore, Slick Willie, and Jimmy Carter on Iraq

Al is worried about Global Warming, Slick has not so recently been busy alongside George Senior with Tsunami relief, and Jimmy’s been re-writing the history he was part of and using bad words (no, not SCOTUM). All noble efforts without … Continue reading

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Time Magazine and You

I just chanced to see the cover of Time magazine at a check-out stand. I’d read about their dubious Person of the Year end-run: it was us, I mean, you. The cover was as I had read about it online, … Continue reading

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