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Wednesday September 22, 2004 19:29

by iosaf mac d. the ipsiphi and merrovinginvanjan.

same place as usual in the spatial continuum - Barcelona - Catalonia "few nanometres south now actually"

Bush & Zapatero address The United Nations. Aznar gets a degree. and the Earth moves.

Yesterday President Bush (the 2nd) of the USA addressed the United Nations general assembly appealing for support in Iraq, insisting the invasion was legitimate and ruling out a military withdrawl - "we must win".

Shortly afterwards President Zapatero of Spain addressed the same general assembly of the UN appealing for a high level "alliance of civilisations" to stem the spread of terrorism and commit to the full development of true democratic values.

Not far away, only two hours drive through Boston and up to Washington's hinterland, Aznar, (ex president of Spain) addressed the academic staff of Georgetown University (who have recently awarded him a teaching qualification). In a speech entitled 7 theories on terrorism, Aznar attributed the March 11th bombing of Madrid to "Al Andaluz" rather than Iraq. "Al Andaluz" was the arabic name for the iberian peninsula and the etymological root of Andalucia, the last part of the peninsula to be ruled by an Islamic dynastic empire. Aznar in 2002 (readers might recall) sent the spanish military to retake an island (Laia in arabic) (Perejil in Spanish) (Parsley in English) from morrocan policeman who had (armed with a Morrocan flag) occupied the uninhabitated bird reserve 200 metres north of the Morrocan coast.
So Aznar knows all about Al Andaluz, which he maintains is the real cause of AlQda action in Spain. He reiterated his belief that the USA homeland will suffer an AlQda attack before the Presidential elections.

And in completely unrelated news, yesterday at 42º19'N and 2º26'E in the Catalan Pyrennes an earthquake measuring 4.1 on the richter scale occured at 17h48, being the strongest quake felt in this part of Europe for almost ten years. Felt as far away as Barcelona (where it registered 3.0 on the richter) to the south and Perpignan (in France) to the north. Animals were reported to very be startled at the epicentre, with damage to windows and houses reported.
[I know people from there and by chance they are in BCN a few days and had left their many cats behind, and are understandably anxious to return and comfort them and pick up bits of roof and stuff that might have been lost]
Curiously in Barcelona the municipal police force (Guardia Urbana) noted 553 calls between 17h30 and 18h30 in contrast to the usual 50 or 90. Most of these calls being along the lines of "my sofa just moved - was it Al Qda?".

Catalonia was the first country of the Iberian Peninsula to liberate itself from the Islamic Empire which founded Al Andaluz, in an era long before either the crusades ("the proper ones") ["with all the neccesary characters agreeing on the really important stuff"] and the most recent one of President Bush's so called neo-conservative ideology which in "street talk" reduces to -

"bomb 'em - buy 'em- they'll choose liberty"

The minister of the interior of the Catalan Generalitat Montserrat Turó today is touring the region inspecting damage and promising compensation and forward thinking proactive solutions.

.:.

Today's links are all to very well read or watched mainstream comercial and right wing news sites.

Earthquake-
http://www.informativos.telecinco.es/dn_15449.htm

Zapatero's alliance of civilisations at UN-
http://www.lasemanaquevivimos.com/noticias/noticia.php3?cod=5586

Aznar's "spains problem with Islam began in the 8th century"
http://iblnews.com/news/noticia.php3?id=115962

You may easily learn what Bush said by paying close attention to the Irish Independent or RTE.

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Kofi Anan Secretary General of the UN has today approved the ZP "alliance of civilisation" proposals

by iosaf blaa blaa blaa - (((sure no-one pays attention. go set up a thinktank and no-one pays attention)))

Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:53

As a key mechanism in the combat of emergent forms of imitative terrorism which use extremist islamic fundamentalist beliefs to recruit, fund, plan and execute attacks on civilians.

At its most basic, the "alliance of civilisation" proposals, which have been knocking around a long time mean:-

Who are you?
Where do you live?
What do you believe?
Do you have any special eating requirements?
Do you need infrastructure development aid?
Do you need assistance with good governance?
Do you need someone to explain where you stand on the girl on girl thing?
How do you feel about your holy books being subject to abuse?
Any thoughts on the Guantanamo thing?
Any thoughts on the illegal invasion of Iraq by the USA and UK? = speak up. we're listening, a lot of us agree with you.
Was your independence deal a bit sour?
Why is that partition of your lands on religious grounds fifty years later sees base issues unchanged, and a climate of extremism and desperation?
What do you young people do?
What's your version of apocylapse?
Don't you agree bush is a plonker?
= relax he'll go.
Have you realised that at your most rightwing you have natural allies in the west, you know the "girl on girl" and "eggy" thing?
= have a chat with them, go okupy their churches.
Have you realised that at your most leftwing you have natural allies in the west?
= have a chat with them, they'll help you okupy a church.

(((this will get its own article, but since it was first metioned here I thought to put the comment)))
http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/onu_alianza_civilizaciones_403001.htm

thats coz it was translated into english

by drunk. wine. champagne. cava. beer. - grape and grain merro-vin-.gin,.van,.jan

Sat Dec 25, 2004 01:09

and not left in the post "unburnt" troy.
where mercenaries didnt get contracted.
where indeed achilles didnt get the opportunity to
prove whether his meritocritous heel was worth
putting a well placed arrow through.
and to think he had it be known thereafter
that his mammy brought him to styX
to keep him safe.
have none of it.
have none of it.
have none of it.
the styx belongs to someone else always...
cassini has "reached" saturn.
can you imagine that...
http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1359&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
we aren't responsible for the comments you know.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@can't make 'em go backwards........................................................

sure where would that bring 'em?
stone age?
dinosaurs?
age of brass monkeys?
typewriters?
detention?
damned to the theatre?
square peg?
prison?
poverty?
penury?
ostracisation?
drugs?

a stable?
a squat?
insecurity?
a pension?
a mortgage?
a jet aircraft that lands and takes and flies and goes?

¿do you have blonde hair?

troll.
did you notice how the moment the "eye" "died"
the troll had had enough = basta = dosta = sásta
and went home?
there aint no Troy to burn.

i like the velvet unerground!
thank you USA for giving us @ least that.
-
If I could be anything in the world that flew
I would be a bat and come swooping after you
And if the last time you were here things were a bit askew
Well you know what happens after dark
When rattlesnakes lose their skins and their hearts
And all the missionaries lose their bark
Oh, all the trees are calling after you
And all the venom snipers after you
Are all the mountains bolder after you?

If I could be anyone of the things in this world that bite
Instead of an ocelot on a leash, I'd rather be a kite
And be tied to the end of your string
And flying in the air, babe, at night
Cause ou know what they say about honey bears
When you shave off all their baby hair
You have a hairy minded pink bare bear

And all the balls are rolling out for you
And stones are all erupting out for you
And all the cheap bloodsuckers are flying after you

Yesterday, Daisy Mae and Biff were grooving on the street
And just like in a movie, her hands became her feet
Her belly button was her mouth
Wich meant she tasted what she'd speak

But the funny thing is what happened to her nose
It grew until it reached all of her toes
Now when people say her feet they mean her nose

And curtains laced with diamonds dear for you
And all the Roman Noblemen for you
And kingdom's Christian Soldiers dear for you
And melting ice cap mountain tops for you
And knights in flamming silver robes for you
And bats that with a kiss turn prince for you
Swoop, Swoop
oh baby,
Rock Rock
Swoop, Swoop,
Rock, Rock

The Velvets .....

by Andy Wharhol

Thu Sep 23, 2004 18:03

Doesn't read as well as it sounds does it :(

all the Roman noblemen for you!

by velvet underground - Campaign to stop Andorran underground nuclear weapon testing.

Thu Sep 23, 2004 17:56

eh... those co-ordinates would be a bit wrong, could be more like 42º38' N and 2º2'E.
information from the seismologists now point to several different quakes occuring over a period of a week and varying in intensity at a depth of ten kilometres under the mountains which are 2.7km high at that point.
The epicentre is indeed somewhere close to the Valle de Nuria (named after the saintess of fertility a popular tourist site with skiing facilities and a high mountain chain-railway) , and between the medieval towns of Olot and Ripoll.

If I could be anything in the world that flew
I would be a bat and come swooping after you
And if the last time you were here things were a bit askew
Well you know what happens after dark
When rattlesnakes lose their skins and their hearts
And all the missionaries lose their bark
Oh, all the trees are calling after you
And all the venom snipers after you
Are all the mountains bolder after you?

If I could be anyone of the things in this world that bite
Instead of an ocelot on a leash, I'd rather be a kite
And be tied to the end of your string
And flying in the air, babe, at night
Cause ou know what they say about honey bears
When you shave off all their baby hair
You have a hairy minded pink bare bear

And all the balls are rolling out for you
And stones are all erupting out for you
And all the cheap bloodsuckers are flying after you

Yesterday, Daisy Mae and Biff were grooving on the street
And just like in a movie, her hands became her feet
Her belly button was her mouth
Wich meant she tasted what she'd speak

But the funny thing is what happened to her nose
It grew until it reached all of her toes
Now when people say her feet they mean her nose

And curtains laced with diamonds dear for you
And all the Roman Noblemen for you
And kingdom's Christian Soldiers dear for you
And melting ice cap mountain tops for you
And knights in flamming silver robes for you
And bats that with a kiss turn prince for you
Swoop, Swoop
oh baby,
Rock Rock
Swoop, Swoop,
Rock, Rock

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