Friday, February 7, 2003
Interesting Use of Language
I'm intrigued and appalled by the use (and misuse) of language in the proaganda lead-up to an Iraqi war. Rather than try to explain it, I thought I'd show you instead. Thanks to Washington Post for the article... by Karen DeYoung, Washington Post Staff Writer (with my comments in bold). Friday,...
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As It Descends Into Farce....
Tony Blair has apologised to the Commons this afternoon for not fully disclosing / realising (not sure which) that part of the vital report he released on the Iraqi situation some weeks back was copied directly from the disertaion of a student. The section in question related to Iraq's intelligence...
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Thursday, February 6, 2003
ANSWER Press Release
"The only thing that Secretary of State Colin Powell proved in his speech at the U.N. today was that the Bush Administration is hell-bent on launching a new war on Iraq,"said Richard Becker, a member of the National Steering Committee of the International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)...
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In Answer to "A Bit One-Sided
I appreciate your long and thoughtful Comment, Vroom, and feel it justifies an equally thoughtful answer. I did wonder if this belongs also in Comments but, on reflection, thought it raised issues important enough to be aired in a full blog, for all to see. Firstly, I can’t quite see the point of...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Still Gotta Laugh....a Bit
Credit: Russmo
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So What To DO?? (2)
I promised I'd keep you updated as other methods and channels came to me. This form of protest arrived by email this morning and is appealing for it's gentle yet powerful message. There is a grassroots campaign underway to protest against the war in Iraq in a simple but potentially powerful way....
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Monday, February 3, 2003
So What To DO??
I’ve very reasonably been asked, in Comments, what an individual can now DO about this fast-developing crisis. So I’ve collected at least some resources together – I expect this to be an on-going effort, so this is definitely not a definitive list – and all I would ask is that you use at least one...
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Saturday, February 1, 2003
Mali - A Short Life
As you sit comfortably in front of your computer and read this piece, there's a little girl playing happily in a desert village. The village is old - perhaps a thousand years or more it's stood on the edge of the oasis, depending on the fresh water for the survival and livelihood of all the...
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Let's Add Some Meat to All That...
Scott Ritter, who led the previous weapons inspection team in the 1990's (read a profile here) states categorically that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Why? Because he and his team destroyed them all, and the means of production. Since then, there's been heavy satellite...
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I Must Be Living in a Parallel Universe!
I mean, is it just me? Am I completely alone in not buying ANY of the current "news" themes? Am I the ONLY one that firmly believes he's being lied to, consistently and systematically? Take the whole Iraqi scenario, albeit a fairly sizeable one. Now y'see, in my world, when the man who led the last...
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