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Fisk: No wonder the UN can’t find volunteers

I don’t entirely agree with Fisk here — the Europeans are to differing degrees complicit by omission and commission too — but always find his pieces worthwhile  Europeans are sick … Continue reading

20 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

UN receives troop offers

Taipei Times Saturday, 19 Aug 2006, Page 6 ‘SHOW IS ON THE ROAD’: In the quest to build a peace force in Lebanon, many countries are stepping up, and Italy … Continue reading

19 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Al Kyder’s Virgin on the ridiculous

Sydney Morning Herald 18 August 2006 Al Kyder’s boarding pass. Using names that could be genuine such as Al Kyder and Terry Wrist is hardly going to spark a global … Continue reading

18 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Surprise, surprise: contrive terror, then roll back fundamental civil liberties

Every airport traveller ‘will be fingerprinted’ BY GERRI PEEV POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT Airport biometric procedures to be extended after alleged terror plot Six out of ten believe government is not exaggerating … Continue reading

18 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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