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Mike tells it…

July 13th, 2004 | Category: Politics

Like it bloody well is!

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A worthy cause for sure…

July 13th, 2004 | Category: Anti-Semitism/Jewery, Politics

This excellent idea comes via Silent Running.

Within the next 48 hours, Jews and non-Jews worldwide will be sending email messages to the United Nations, the EU Parliament and the EU Court of Justice with the identical message that appears below.

Please take a quick moment to copy the message below and paste it into a new email that should be sent to the email addresses listed below:

ecu@un.org – United Nations

civis@europarl.eu.int – EU Parliament

info@curia.eu.int – EU Court of Justice

Message:

Subject: The building of the Israeli security fence

To Whom It May Concern:

When Israel builds a fence to keep out terrorists, the UN and EU are up in arms because it makes it difficult for terrorists to kill more Jews.

When terrorists shoot (point blank!) an 8-month-pregnant Jewish woman and her 4 little girls, there is absolute silence from your organizations.

The security fence is a temporary and nonviolent way to reduce terrorism. The fence is a proportional response to the ongoing Palestinian Campaign of terror. When the terrorism stops, the fence can be taken down.

The route of the fence was designed to save the lives of innocent people. Israel has the right and the duty to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks.

Since the erection of the security fence there has been a 90% decrease in the number of attacks against Israelis-from an average of 26 attacks per year before the fence to three attacks after the fence was built.

The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that areas of the fence must be adjusted in order to relieve Palestinian hardship. Unlike any othercountry in the region, Israel has an independent judiciary. Israel, a democracy committed to the rule of law, will comply with the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision.

The security fence is not a wall, as the court states. The majority of the fence is constructed of barb wire-8.5 kilometers of the fence consists of concrete slabs, in order to prevent sniper fire.

There are many disputed security fences around the world-India has constructed a fence in the contested area of Kashmir, and Saudi Arabia has constructed a barrier in an undefined area along the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border-yet only Israel’s security fence has prompted an International Court of Justice ruling. See this website: (www.washingtoninstitute.org/distribution/PCE465.doc)

Israel is willing to make painful sacrifices for peace. Israel has made peace with Jordan and Egypt, and gave up the entire Sinai-land larger than the current state of Israel.

If you think your indifference goes unnoticed, count the number of messages you will receive world-wide in the next 48 to 72 hours on this subject.

Respectfully,

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G.o.D. reflects

July 13th, 2004 | Category: Growing Old Disgracefully, Politics

Of course I would not have been around for Saturday’s fun (and thank god(s) I was) if it hadn’t been for the fact G.o.D. is on a brief break from recording. Well, I say break, but John seems to have used the time without me around to mix our demo at least three more times. He is becoming quite the producer is our John. Anyone who can produce as good stuff as he is in a very small home studio has quite a bit of talent. Of course, as he produces better and better mixes of the music he feels a bit bummed that the record company does not have our “latest”. We, the band, are in that awful waiting period to hear what the record company thinks of it all. Of course my week is all out of wack because I am not trotting off to Wimbledon twice a week. Barring calamities, we are set to resume recording tomorrow, hopefully demoing them for the album. Meanwhile, Mike and I are trying to co-ordinate his visiting these shores to lend us his guitar chops. He continually has nice things to say about our music, for which I have to thank him profusely.

Mike was not the only person with a kind word for me this week. Trollboy had this to say about Andrew Ian Dodge… the mythos author.

In all seriousness… I got alot of compliments re: you at origins!!

Of course he also said he wants another story…

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Antipodean antics

As any of you, our loyal readers, will know I am normally loath to write about myself on this blog less it turn into a “journal” blog. I have been writing about my latest project (besides my last novel being published in the autumn) in the form of G.o.D. However, the events of last weekend force me to share with you the sheer idiocy some of the antipodeans who come to London. Below you will find a photo of the bonfire they had roaring away right next to our building.

What amazed me was the sheer lack of common sense shown by these people. As I had a mate over, I did a bit of a rain-dance to put it out. To our amazement (ok, mine, he wasn’t surprised at all) it started belting down right after I finished the dance. To add to the effect, we got some lightning as well. The rain forced them inside, so we were no longer being asphyxiated by the fumes. You would think this would have meant they would have turned their music down…but it didn’t. Partly due to the fire and the noise, we decided to call our local noise/nuisance boys to get them to calm down a bit. Between the call and their arrival Oz & South Africa’s finest had re-lit the damn thing. The noise boys were absolutely shocked to see the back room in my flat glowing from a fire right below it. These two nice blokes did their job and shut the party down.

But a bizarre evening had one more surprise in store for me.

Once the gentlemen had left, I was yelled at by a French man who said: “you are a coward… you had to send two of your agents!” I was unable to hear the rest of his rant as my friend and I were laughing too hard to hear any more. His words were heavily accented, so I did not manage to hear if he called them zionist or not. Besides the idiotic rant, what was most amusing is that this bloke sounded just like John Cleese’s Frenchman in Holy Grail.

For the next few hours until 5am-ish we had to deal with a pissed off South African playing his guitar (badly) loud enough to annoy all his neighbours.

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For The Ladies

July 13th, 2004 | Category: Politics

With all the strife and trouble in the world, it’s no small comfort that we all—men and women; Christian and Muslim; Jew and animist; capitalist and Communist; black and white and brown—that we can all come together and agree:

that this is the butt-ugliest prom dress ever.

Plenty more where that came from.

the blog québécois

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Show me the money!

July 13th, 2004 | Category: Politics

Oh Lord, the BBCs at it again.

Seems some bright spark decided to send out identical CVs to companies, under British and foreign names and, surprise surprise, the foreigners got fewer replies. Jeez, now theres a surprise.

A lazy White employee can be sacked, a lazy minority employee can sue. In our new Socialist workers paradice the boss can enjoy the unique pleasure of being blackmailed into settling out of court, or face humiliation and poverty in court.

True to form, a procession of Left wing thinkers, academics, writers and race campaigners (race baiters?) came on air to demand more legislation, more quotas, more law suits. More more more! Understandably, no red horned businessman sullied good Liberal BBC studios with their filthy capitalist views.

Its not institutional British racism that prevents ethnic people from having their calls returned, just fear, dread and the desire to avoid blackmail.

Under Socialism businessmen are afraid, and for good reason. Perhaps reasonable then, that Briton’s share of European investment has fallen from 25% to 9% in just 7 short years of Labour rule.

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