tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39614158206612230512024-03-04T20:02:19.111-08:00What is your opinion on that particular type of fruit? Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-27971928709144736412016-07-23T21:07:00.000-07:002016-07-24T02:14:27.708-07:00The price of prejudice: The holistic nature of hate. I shall arrange my footing: the following is not in the name of justification; I am not making excuses for the actions of terrorists. Nor is it religious apology. I am not a supporter of the Abrahamic faiths, any of them. I don't like the legacy of homophobia and misogyny that spills from the old testament, I don't believe in flying horses, bisected moons or unicorns. Searching for, or providing, reasons for actions is not the same as excusing them. <br />
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Fundamentalism is a problem, and is frequently referred to as the soul cause of grotesque behaviour: look at the word for a moment. It means, when applied to Christians, Jews, Muslims or any of the multitude of faiths, that they follow the fundamental elements of the religion. Moderates skim over elements of the religion that have been disproved and are now unacceptable due to being ridiculous, cruel or both. Fundamentalism, from which ever faith, is merely a sprouting twig from the main stem of its host religion.<br />
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Abrahamic faith has been in a major influence upon the western world in one form or another for well over millennium. If it could sweepingly lift up an arm, gesturing at the years gone by, to proudly announce: "Look at the peace it has brought" then I might be more open to persuasion than I am of of it being of some intrinsic benefit. However, fundamentalism, indeed religion, however frequently at fault, is not the root nor solitary cause of contemporary terrorist attacks.<br />
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The attacks in Europe have been portrayed in a false manner, everyone knows that history is written by the victors, but contemporary information is also biased in a myriad of differing ways. From the portrayal of the same information, carefully selected information and completely invented information; actual facts belong in neither the left nor right wing category, in fact neither do most people. Despite what we are led to believe people are intelligent and are aware that black and white answers are over simplified.<br />
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Using the fox news report from July 15th to comment on the Nice massacre is an example, the headline ran: "This is war. It is aimed at the west. And we must fight back." It portrays the west as just sitting, having picnics and skipping through the surf, when all of a sudden there was an attack on our way of life out of nowhere: It is monumentally naive to think that this was the case.<br />
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In every conflict propaganda is key to the argument and the stance of the populace; in conflicts in which it was not controlled In Vietnam, for example, the peoples opinion quickly turned against the conflict and consequently the state. No western country has made the same mistake since. Journalists have been carefully guided and controlled during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and politicians that stood against the conflict were derided before it started despite a strong public opinion that shared the same view. <br />
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It is easy to formulate propaganda against terrorists, in the digital age it is one of their tools and we help them with this without pause. However it is also easy to provide propaganda against the west and we also help to provide it: Barack Obama is the fourth consecutive president to order the bombing of Iraq. The same country, with allied assistance, has bombed 12 Muslim majority countries since 1980. (I am not including Kosovo and Kuwait in this list as the circumstances of those incidents are more complex.) I am not putting this information forward to say that the west deserves these terrorist attacks, just to make it clear if a newspaper from a differing nation to Fox news wrote: "This is a war. it is a war on Islam. We must fight back." they would have a good supply of data to back up that argument.<br />
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When it comes to the killing of innocents it simply isn't religious fundamentalists that have achieved the big numbers. Admittedly the two leaders most fervent in regard to their faiths: Bush Junior and Tony Blair, were responsible for the unprovoked wars that led to the destabilization of the countries which are now the key source of the problem. I am not putting this forward to compare "good" and "bad": I am putting them together as these actions are a direct cause for the state of affairs that exists today.<br />
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In 2007 the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, warned of repercussions due to the high level of civilian deaths caused by allied operations. The key question is: why wouldn't there be any? As in Iraq: if you are the cause of 100,000 deaths and are unable, or in fact, unwilling to provide a valid explanation for these actions what consequence would you expect? After the attacks on a Paris nightclub Britain was very quick to bomb Syria in what seemed more like random retaliation than strategy. When someone attacks your home country, not mentioning your country has attacked others, or pretending that the two events are unconnected, is either imbecilic or deliberate misdirection.<br />
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The bombing of Baghdad was incredible: it was a capital city with a population of over five million people; there was no way that were going to be no, or even a low, amount of civilian casualties. Do the people of Iraq know that we did if for no valid reason other than the privatization of the countries resources? Even the censorship of western papers couldn't keep the horror of what we had done down to a minimum. We know how we view the perpetrators of bombings in London and Paris and other peoples view of the people that bombed their cities isn't any different. I know the victims of the bombings in the west were innocent; the victims of our western bombs were innocent too.<br />
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Do the people of Afghanistan know that we chased an individual pointlessly through their country for a decade before finding him in a different one and labeling the operation a success? Despite the fact that British and American troops are still there today and the country is in ruins. We took away their schools, their hospitals, their friends and their relations. Imagine it was your country, imagine you were eight years old ten years ago. These children from 2003, they haven't met you or I, they have never seen a kind or gentle westerner. They have only seen Englishmen high above dropping bombs or driving by in armored vehicles with weapons pointed, at them and at their loved ones. Many have seen death first hand, our country has made it unlikely that they wouldn't have done.<br />
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We had a war on drugs and the drug problem increased exponentially; was anyone optimistic about the war on terror from the start? Terror is not an enemy it is a strategy. We certainly encouraged it among the french and other occupied countries during world war two and the Germans definitely called it terrorism.<br />
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There are other elements: The refugee crisis not least among them. The idea that we can "solve" the largest displacement of human beings since world war two by closing the borders of the UK is a nonsense that cannot be upheld with any level of in-depth consideration.<br />
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Since this this war on a concept began more than a million people have died in Iraq alone, more than a million. This does not include those among the three million displaced by the conflict who faced unimaginable hardship and died as a result of that. More than two hundred thousand innocent people have been killed in Afghanistan since the invasion began. These people, like those in Europe, had nothing to do with the war on terror, or 911, and were in no way a threat to our freedom or philosophy. The people that survived a bombing in one country are just as angry as the ones that survived in another.<br />
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We have created a generation of millennials, very different to the ones from Chiswick and Croydon, and they are misinformed, understandably angry and above all traumatized, traumatized by experiences that we, as western adults would be immediately given therapy to recover from if we experienced. This, if anything, is a conflict born of greed and malice.<br />
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It can be simplified: The innocents of the west are being killed because the innocents of the east were killed, and the people that caused it are rich.<br />
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The numbers still roll in, over one hundred innocent people killed by allied bombing in Syria in a week. There will be survivors, there will be children among them. Will there be people in ten years time wondering what the cause of radicalization might be? As Leaders today declare terrorism a "sickness" without voicing the consideration that the events in the Middle East are remotely connected to the horrific events that are now taking place in Europe.<br />
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I have met some of the children of this war: mute, wide eyed and rocking. Flinching at sudden movements and noises, the bombs that fell around them still loud in their heads. I promise, without kindness now there will be anger later on.<br />
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I am not suggesting for a moment that contemporary violence can be stopped by kindness, that is as naive as thinking that terrorist acts are based on faith alone. Future acts of violence are a very different matter, as can be seen by the obvious, yet ignored, cause of our present suffering.<br /><br />We must feed the refugees that we have caused. We must stop the killing and save the children lost in the horror we have created. Otherwise we condemn future generations to the same anger and retribution that we face today. Not only to save ourselves, but because what the western countries have done is a crime against humanity. <br /><br />I don't believe in flying horses, bisected moons or unicorns. But I do believe in the holistic effects of a negative long term foreign policy and I do believe in people. In the same way that there is no dark, only an absence of light: there is no such thing as evil, only an absence of kindness.<br /><br />In the arsenal of war kindness is not regarded as key, but in this surreal war of our own making, unless you wish the next decade to look as horrific and disappointing as the one that you are in, it is the only weapon we can wield that can strike the only enemy there is. And we have it. We have it in abundance.Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-971346335337656922016-07-09T01:43:00.000-07:002016-07-11T18:36:47.025-07:00If the Somme could sigh: Chilcot and the repetition of history.<div dir="ltr">
The hundredth anniversary of the battle of the Somme still provokes a strong emotive response from the British public, this includes myself. The sadness and the futility echo with us, the knowledge that streets of wives, mothers and children all lost their husbands, sons and fathers in a single day. </div>
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We know now that the young men who walked across the fields did not do so for their own freedom: It was for the empire of others. Most men were short from bad diet, the German soldiors had the vote where their English counterparts, predominantly, did not. They had left tedious or dangerous work and, once they had joined up, reported having the best food they could remember eating. There was no threat to Britain, and most had no freedom to speak of to defend if there had of been. <br />
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This year the anniversary fell awfully close to the release of the Chilcot report: a review of a contemporary conflict that begs reflection on our progress. A century since the whistles blew in flanders, what was our modern motivation and was it any less questionable than that of the past?</div>
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It was not the first time the English had fought on the Somme: Agincourt still raises pariotic rhetoric through the medium of Shakespeare, and Waterloo, which ended a long and bitter war against the french. It can't be denied that both of these were empirical battles. Nor was 2003 the first time British boots went to Iraq, far from it.</div>
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Iraq itself was formed by the British, lumped together from three Ottoman provinces once oil was discovered in Mosad. The already disgruntled populace, denied the freedom and independence it was promised for fighting with the British in WW1, was placed under direct British control. What were now Iraqis, although quite probably not to themselves, saw this as an invasion. In 1920 they revolted and were brutally reminded who ran the country. Gas was used on the insurgents of the day. </div>
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In 1941 it appeared as thought the British were busy; allies against the British were also, apparently, in abundance. None the less the support from the Germans was minimal and another rebellion was quickly quashed by British soldiors, all of whom were experienced and battle hardened. Iraq had been independent since 1932, but this was in name only and no real changes took place for the populace. It is important to remember why this took place: if the oil had not been there then neither would the British. </div>
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In 1914 German soldiors were not slaughtering babies on Church doorsteps, in 1990 Iraqs troops were not massacring babies in Kuwait hospitals nonetheless, on both occasions, this is what the allied countries were informed. Nayirah, the daughter of the Kuwait ambassador pretended she wasn't and said she had witnessed these atrocities take place. It is safe to assume the enthusiastic allied leaders knew this, but the enemies of empire killing babies is a historically tried and tested method of encouraging the unwilling to fight. The testimony of the girl received massive exposure at the time: rather notably and for obvious reasons it rarely gets a mention now. In the context of false reasons of fighting iraq it does seem awfully relevant, even if it was an earlier war it proves how happy those that desire war are willing to lie to achieve it.</div>
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We continued to bomb and threaten Iraq between 1991 and 2003, occasionally firing tomahawk missiles to enforce the dubious peace and no fly zone created at the culmination of desert storm. This was just a Conflict of air defense systems but it was still very noticeable to the Iraqis, if not to the western media.</div>
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The Chilcot enquiry is supossed to explain why we started the 5th Anglo Iraq war: once again the reasons were false. Atrocities were used as propaganda once more: the genocide of the Kurdish population was frequently referenced. Although the allies were clearly not overly influenced by it: firstly it took place in the eighties, when Saddam Hussain was regarded as an ally and we didn't seem to mind at the time. Secondly the chemical weapons used were of western manufacture and sold to Iraq to be used against Iran, which they were. This one of the reasons Iran is deeply suspicious of the west to this day. We know the other reasons, we know they weren't true. </div>
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What we know of both wars, in 1914 and in 2003: a great deal of money was made and both were the direct cause of future conflicts. The profiteering of WW1 gets less of a mention than a lot of its other aspects, because it still relevant. companies such as vicars and citroen, among others, were caught up in a perpetual arms race. The french were very aware of this as their revolt of 1917 suggests, the revolt was supported by the song adieu la vie (goodbye to life). The topic of the song is that the rich men at home should do the fighting as it was they that want war. A german soldior wrote the words: "we have to fight only for the purse of others, anything else they keep telling us is rubbish." It was observed, cynically but accurately by soldiors on all sides, that the war could not continue without the support of the newspapers. All sides were reassured by celebrities and politicians that God was on their side. </div>
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Britain and America are still huge arms dealers, but that is just one aspect of the industry: Haliburton made at least 1.7 billion from building prisoner of war camps and army bases. (Remember Dick Cheney was the vice president of this company at one point). Before Iraq was "freed" the oil was nationalised and closed to outside interests, now ExxonMobil, shell and BP all operate there. America troops were told on more than two separate occasions, but in this case, once by Woodrow Wilson and once by George Bush that they were going to "make the world safe for democracy". On no occasion has it been the truth: As observed, Germany at this point had a much more equal democracy than Britain.</div>
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The war to end all wars was the direct cause of its sequal: The loss of land, the collapse of the German economy and destruction of its infrastructure, this led to the hyperinflation of the weirmar and a political void. French general Ferdinand Foch said of the treaty of versaille: "This is not peace, but a twenty year armistice." The destruction of iraqs infrastructure and the political void that was left is the exact reason we are fighting the 5th Anglo Iraq war against Isis. Nothing breeds a dictatorship like desperation and nothing breeds radicalisation like decades of bombing and poverty. </div>
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There is no need to draw unnecessary comparisons or conclusions: we have a long history of going to war for reasons other than those that we are told, the actual reasons are often the same for differing wars. As another example we know for a fact that the bay of Tonkin incident that started the vietnam war was a lie: I don't want to list examples of this from the past, I would like an example suggesting it has stopped.</div>
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Before the battle of the Somme Field marshal sir Douglas Haig stated at the start of a speech "The nation must be taught to bear losses." It did learn, and after half a million iraqi civilians died, I assume they learned too. But we didn't need to learn, why should we have to? The lies made the world unstable, both at the beginning of the 20th century and the start of the 21st. Ruining the lives of millions of people globally on both occasions. </div>
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The emporers may have changed their clothes a little, but many of the lies remain the same. Whenever we are informed there is an enemy we should look closely at the person saying it, just to make sure it isn't them. Through education, spotting deceit through our knowledge of history, through kindness and forgiveness, may we find the peace for our children that we have failed to find for ourselves.</div>
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Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-33947431611726000622016-06-11T00:42:00.003-07:002016-06-11T01:19:51.570-07:00Sunshine and suicide: the tale of two journeys.Saturday the 7th of May, it is about 34 degrees, slow spinning dark teak fans move the warm air above me and my cold bottle of Bintang beer. Writing in a notebook, bits of a book I am composing on the topic of teaching in indonesia. I am in Kota Toa, old town in indonesian, which long before was Dutch colonial Java. The restaurant is everything that pretends to be awesome about colonialism if anything was. Outside the wide white boulevard is loomed over by the columned and green shuttered buildings, now museums that reflect upon the turbulent history of the island as the heat and light of the equator reflect off of the marble. <br />
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Six months ago I planned a journey, seems longer and at the same time no time at all. I have been living here four months, one thing is obvious, both to the people at home and those I have met since: I love it here. <br />
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One secret, an actual one, I have told no one until now, it was not the only journey I planned. <br />
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I was looking at jobs overseas whilst I looked at the train line website for uk travel: I intended to go to Swansea, get a bus to Gower, from there like many before, I intended to jump onto the rocks of the Welsh coast and to be washed away by the Irish sea. I am aware that it seems an over statement, but I had no doubt that once there it would be automatic. Once walking to the train station it would flow naturally until it's conclusion. I was occasionally concerned catching the train to work, just in case I got on a different train.<br />
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What is now a year ago; I lost my home, my job and the love of my life departed in what felt at the time like a car crash. If you have been in a car crash you will know that it appears to happen slowly, so you become a horrified spectator enabling you to watch something you know full well is going to hurt but have no capacity to intervene in the cause of. There was no anger at this point, just a numb emotional nihilism and acceptance of a turgid and joyless reality. <br />
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I love the coffee here on the island of Java, for reasons that are self explanatory. The food here is nothing like I had tried, the local Wartegs and the people that feed me have welcomed me, often as an odd sort of furry pet, but still happily accepted me as a part of their everyday lives. <br />
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In the morning I leave for work, mothers have carried heavy double gas hobs onto the street and fry a breakfast of tofu, children play with match box cars and marbles on the uneven stone that their mothers sit upon and wave at me as I walk up the narrow road in the shimmering heat of the morning. <br />
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Only a few months ago I had sat in a box room in Reading surrounded by my remaining possesions, stacked up as they were, higher than the edge of the bed and filling the remainder of the room. Perched on the edge of the bed I had cried. The tangled wires of my stereo system sticking from bags of books, the possesions I had once thought important, now just a pile of bin liners and badly labelled boxes.<br />
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I had worked with abusive and abused youths for a long time, but the abuse I received at work and was well accustomed to struck home in a way like never before; the students I had worked with for so long began to hit a nerve. "I'll kill you fucking cunt. I fucked your fucking mum you pedo." Made me cross. I had lost perspective on their motivation for saying it along with my professional ability. "Fucking waste man".<br />
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For some reason music, all music, made me angry. As though any expressed emotion on the part of others just encouraged a false, nonexistent idea of hope or happiness that I found physically revolting. <br />
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I went to Gower with my ex girlfriend once, I made a mental note to send her a message, one that said using Gower wasn't a message or statement to or about her. It wasn't. It is just a very convenient cliff that I knew of and could use without anyone being traumatised by my remains. These things seemed very important to me, even though nothing else was. <br />
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I was trying to find reason, tried to focus on positives, change my perspective but a dull weight in my stomach joined by a sense of hopelessness caused a slouch in my demeanour, I would grind my teeth and think of the cliff face several times each day. I would leave my bag on the bench at the top with a note, I thought, I wasn't keen on the idea of the Facebook goodbye. <br />
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The summer of 2015 arrived and I went to the refugee camps in Calais, I hoped to teach there and write an accompanying article. I have written enough about that experience and I returned to England to work in a demoted capacity as winter began. I was aware that the buses only ran to Gower in the summer months, so I elected to get a taxi. It would be an expensive journey, but it wasn't as if money was going to be a problem for the rest of the month. <br />
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I know meeting with those fleeing war, those who lost their homes and even loved ones, who continued to struggle should have put me in my place. Should have made me realise how lucky I am, but depression isn't logical, it cannot be defeated by rational cogitation alone. It takes more. <br />
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I was aware that the people I lived with would have to clear out my room, this would be an awfully unpleasant task.<br />
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This problem solved itself as I spoke of work overseas and sold and gave away most of my things. All of my friends thought they knew where I was going, everyday I fought to prove them right. I lost all self confidence, I began to shake when alone in cafes. I felt scrutinised and obvious. The repeat of each day made me furious to have started it when I knew I should have made the choice yesterday not to. I looked at the train timetable for Wales at work and felt furious at nothing. <br />
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Frequently I couldn't face my friends; unable, even at a new years party among people I had known for ten years, I could not convince myself that I was welcome. More and more I growled as I walked, becoming frustrated at people I loved for nothing more than being present. <br />
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It was time to catch a train. I caught the right train, in the end. If it had not been for the kindness of others I am certain it would not have been the case. I wasn't running away, I wasn't searching for anything, just using the freedom the previous months had taught me I have.<br />
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Men in the uk between the ages of twenty and fortynine are more likely to die from suicide than any other cause. One thing they shared: there was a time, for all of them, when they would never had thought it would end that way. They do not all suffer from depression, they cannot all suffer from a long term mental illness. <br />
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At times events are turbulent and the expectation is that you cope: in truth there are times when you cannot. The fact that you cannot causes a new contortion of anger at ones self. Your feelings of bitterness are doubled as you blame circumstance for the state of affairs and you for your failure. Death is not sought, merely escape. <br />
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Aeschylus wrote: in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair against our will, comes wisdom, through the awful grace of God. <br />
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This, in part, is the straw that we must clutch: when all is all is lost the fear of loss is gone along with it. This, in it's way, is a form of courage and one we did not previously have. It may all seem horrendously meaningless, but this is a boon to ambition: is failure not as meaningless? There is food you have not tasted, joys you have not felt and the vast unpredictability of life is now completely yours. <br />
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The Sun newspaper is struggling in the U.K right now, the reason for this is a history of corruption and lies, along with supporting false statements by corrupt police officers. While Newscorp carefully avoid the topic of this in Britain they successfully spread hate overseas. <br />
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He advocates a boycott of Target for its policy on transgender toilet use, but most important is the link to the AFA. The Fox news website and The American family association are linked as associates anyway, but today the group were referenced as: "one of the most prominent and respected family advocacy groups in the nation,". <br />
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The AFA published an article on gay and transgender rights today too, try and read this just once:<br />
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"You see, the homosexual movement gained traction when it was able to get the psychological and academic communities to first reclassify homosexuality from a deviant behaviour to merely an orientation. The next push was to get medical data supporting the theory that one is born homosexual. Once that was accomplished (inconclusively so, not unlike evolution), the goal was to obtain minority status and claims for special status, as in a persecuted class of people deserving of special treatment, or “civil rights.” ".<br />
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"Not unlike evolution." The enlightened Lonnie Poindexter there writing for this "prominent and respected group." He goes on to add: "As an African-American male and a Christian, I am appalled and highly offended that my ethnicity is being lumped in with something that God’s Word says is wrong," Don't be, would be my advice, another group having civil rights doesn't make them black. That is the stupidest statement I have ever written and there really is some truly stiff competition. <br />
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I reiterate, both these articles are from today. <br />
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I am not comparing this to the Hillsborough debacle, but illustrating that Newscorp is an international, old, and ongoing problem. <br />
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Rupert Murdoch, the grandfather of this nest of weasels, met with Thatcher eight times between 1988 and 89, the Hillsborough disaster was in April 1989. Rupert met Tony Blair 30 times in two years (97 - 99) and admitted bartering for buying out the UK media from David Cameron over dinner (BskyB bid, Leveson inquiry.) We should remember the present links of the prime minister to Newscorp, do me favour, Google it if you have forgotten. <br />
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I always wonder what the motivation was for the Sun headline so soon after the Hillsborough disaster, it really seems as though there was an emergency meeting to see how it could be gotten away with. And they did get away with it. The police, the politicians, the paper. People calm down a lot if you give them over two decades. <br />
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The Hillsborough argument has had time to come out in the wash, and we are truly blessed that the Internet exists at this point to remind ourselves what David Cameron and Boris Johnson had to say about it before it was brought into the light.<br />
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Context: when Rupert Murdoch was asked why he was opposed to leaving the EU: "Easy. When I go to Downing Street they do what I say, when I go to Brussels they take no notice." <br />
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You don't need Sky TV, we have the Internet, and you certainly don't need the Sun and the Times. Until we don't buy anything under the Newscorp umbrella or vote for the half-arsed politicians it promotes we will be victims. <br />
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I apologise for formatting and things: this is the first blog I have written on a tiny tablet, which I had to write in a bar in Jakarta so I had access to the Internet. Have a wonderful day.<br />
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Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-43864287263481024652016-04-03T00:59:00.001-07:002016-04-07T04:34:03.388-07:00Sexuality, Faith & pronouns: Doughnuts and diabetes.I was in a cafe with a Christian couple and a Muslim, this is not a strange state of affairs in Jakarta nor had we just walked into a bar. I had been posed a question: "How can you agree with gay marriage?" I had laughed originally but the looks of intensity I had been given implied that I was supposed to answer.<br />
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"If a man meets a woman, you don't know them." I gestured to an empty space in the room. "They're over there. They fall in love, get married and things. Has it got anything to do with you?"<br />
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"Do you eat pork?" I asked the Christian.<br />
"Of course." I pointed at the Muslim.<br />
"That is against his religion."<br />
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"Yes. His, hers, theirs. Not yours."<br />
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No anger poured from either, a consensual nodding from the lady and thinking faces from the blokes. We are all still friends, we all had dinner and spoke about other stuff: Why I don't like football, favourite Indonesian and western foods, the myriad of reasons why I'm single, why I should be married and, well, stuff.<br />
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Religion seems to struggle with personal and possessive pronouns: His, hers, theirs and mine. If you feel that others should behave in accordance with your religion then surely you should behave in accordance with that of everyone else's: Don't work Saturday or Sunday because someone else doesn't. Don't eat pork, and moving outside the Abrahamic sphere, why not, don't eat beef either. You might suggest that this makes no sense and you'd be right.<br />
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Tolerate doesn't seem the verb for the job either, it seems rather presumptuous to assume that you are in the position to simply put up with the behaviour of another when it doesn't actually affect you in the slightest.<br />
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Strange looks are common and after the first week or so you stop checking if you have something on your face, people are just interested in what you are doing there at all. As you walk down the street there are waves and greetings of "hello Mr", especially from children, who tend to speak English better than the older populace. The reason for this is the quality of education here, although certainly not without it's faults, has improved massively over the last twenty years.<br />
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The food in the capital can not be overrated; the city gathers people from all of the islands of Indonesia and their habits, culture and food with them. There are no breakfast, lunch and evening meal foods, you just eat what you like when you like; from satay, soto, nasi padung and warteg (pronounced vartek) all is wonderful. I assure you I could devote an entire blog to this at some point. <br />
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One thing that has to be expected if you come here is that the standard of living is surprisingly low for the majority of the population; corrugated shacks and slums surround the occasional affluent mansion and there is no border between them.<br />
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There is a huge difference here between rich and poor and affluence is happily advertised. Jakarta is not centralised although there has been several attempts to alter this; this means that the poverty is not concealed like it is in many western cities. Children of a very low age sell packets of tissues and coffee on the street late into the night and carry umbrellas for the rich for a few yards and a fraction of a rupiah.<br />
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There is no clean water here, the river sits and bubbles, ominously green with unmonitored industrial and domestic waste, nothing lives in it and the only movement is the multitude of insects skimming at the pungent surface. The rubbish here is removed by hand pulled wooden carts, some collect elements of it in backpacks manufactured from old plastic barrels as they can form a meager living from selling it.<br />
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It is clear to an outsider that there is a problem here with caste; there is no social mobility here at all. I have asked several people, including a class of twelfth year students; what are the chances of someone here who works on the bins going to university? The response was uniformly given with a furrowed brow at the ridiculousness of the question. None. Of course none.<br />
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Sometimes the answer raised in pitch at the end, putting it into an inquiry of why I would ask at all. On occasion, with friends, I told them that that is what happened to me; I used to work the bins and I went to university. They were impressed that I lived in a country where that was possible, but it occurred to me, just recently; if I went home now I wouldn't.<br />
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I do not see myself as an ex-pat; this a term invented by white people to differentiate between themselves and what foreigners are doing. If you have moved to a foreign country you are a migrant; as you would presumably be if you had moved from Jakarta to Birmingham.<br />
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One habit that remains with me, as it was on cold mornings in Berkshire, before the traditional British commute on the apparently random Reading Waterloo line or the delightful bus to Bracknell, was to sip my black coffee and go through the news of the morning from a variety of perspectives. This usually includes The Independent, Guardian, Huffington post, daily mail, AFA, Fox and the spoof-like racism of The Express.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Immigrant INVASION. FOREIGN worker<br />STEALS job.</u></td></tr>
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All history students know that all sources are deliberately or inadvertently biased, so sometimes one must estimate the truth nestling among the human discrepancies. Contemporary media certainly forces us to do this in the present, presumably somewhere between the tits and the capital letter racism are the remains of reality. <br />
<br />
Far away from me, not even peeping over the horizon, a tiny island seems to be regressing. A disenfranchised populace has no say in the direction of the country as a facade of a democracy is run by a by a ruling elite.<br />
<br />
The news is completely distracted by the resignation of someone who was in no way qualified and no one wanted to be in charge of work and pensions in the first place. No depth needed on this; but for those who have tried to claim benefits can you imagine saying that you had quit because you disagreed with your boss or disliked someone you worked with? You would be sneered at. Who do you think you are? It is not your place to make judgments. And you know what? You are not in a position to make judgments and your position is your caste.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The removal of a tentacle doesn't kill Medusa, you have to<br />hold a mirror up to the whole monster.</u></td></tr>
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From the bombing of Syria and it's inevitable international repercussions, newly formed contracts for doctors, zero hour contracts for everyone and the repeated and completely politically motivated delay of the Chilcot inquiry. It doesn't matter where you stand and no-one asked you.<br />
<br />
Now the complete overhaul of the education system "announced by ministers". Announced. Sorry teachers, parents and members of the populace: Not your place. <br />
<br />
Academies function in this way: The lack of pay scale results in teachers getting paid apparently randomly differing wages and are discouraged from discussing them with other members of staff. As there are no long term contracts you could be asked to interview for your own job every July to review whether you return in September.<br />
<br />
This discourages anyone disagreeing with management however badly the school might be run. Altruistic motivation in a profession can only take you so far. The mental breaking point of teaching in the UK is by far far enough without it being made pointless by incompetent managers with misguided concepts of their own importance. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A vacant eyed lawyer who has never<br />worked in a school is in charge of education.</u></td></tr>
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No one will want to teach. So why do it? A teacher is no use to a Tory: an educated populace looking between the tits for the truth is their nemesis and they know it.<br />
<br />
Caste does not exist: it is in the minds only of those who believe they are in the upper one. We are not serfs born to carry on the tasks of those who preceded us. It doesn't matter what your stance is, it doesn't matter if our political ideologies differ if none have the right or ability apply them. Caste is a global issue, but in a race to the bottom the UK is winning. <br />
<br />
It may take a while to take back what has been stolen, perhaps it's slipped too far this time, but it is the same thieves as before and we leave the door wide open to them again and again.<br />
<br />
As for me? England looks like a nice place to visit, but I'm not sure I'd like to live there.Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-14340561521197304012015-09-29T13:01:00.000-07:002015-09-29T13:45:16.032-07:00Priorities and permanence: The lost lives of war. A great deal has changed in the eyes of the world since I <a href="http://thisissuprisinglythenews.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/welcome-to-jungle-lost-people-of.html">visited Calais</a> a mere month ago: One thing that is noticeable is the amount of cameras that are present now; before I saw only a couple of journalists in the week that I was there, now every fifty yards I was able to see the fluffy end of a microphone boom amongst earnest, animated faces.<br />
<br />
This, in turn, has helped: I saw four rental vans from the U.K with open rear doors handing out donated toiletries, clothing and food, even a minibus belonging to a primary school was parked near the entrance, driven to Calais on good intentions and empathy.<br />
<br />
The overpass that stood as a gate to the Jungle no longer does so; tents now sprawl from underneath it and out into what was the approaching road. The reasons being that more refugees have arrived and land within the camp has been lost to water. On arriving I sought out the art tent, in which I had previously found it so easy to talk to people, but it seems to have been moved or shut as the area it was in is now rancid and waterlogged.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the left is where the Art Tent used to be.</td></tr>
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I circumnavigated the camp, past what was a large expanse of sand that was now two hundred yards of water, leaving only a narrow path that two people could not simultaneously pass. As I bore right it became apparent that the whole map of the Jungle had altered in my absence; where there previously paths there were now ramshackle gatherings of shacks, where there were dwellings and open ground are now large pools of stagnant water.<br />
<br />
The camp is certainly more inhospitable than before, even some of the road wide thoroughfares are now unnavigable despite the day being a warm one. A sea breeze thankfully relieving the smell that settled over the camp during the still hot summer. <br />
<br />
I was walking towards the church and the books in the Jungle tent, a small library that had a dozen books and a leaky roof on my last visit. It was locked up and looked very similar to before, perhaps there are more books inside now, but whether added permanence to the site is positive is a question which nags at the back of my mind, not quite identified at this point.<br />
<br />
There is a throng of people by the church, a huge pile of battered footwear is piled neatly at the door. The church has grown in my absence; a large canvas wall surrounds it and murals adorn the outside wall. Within the makeshift walls of the churchyard a large grill is set up, people sit around on the floor eating rice dishes from polystyrene takeaway cartons. As I line up to take a photograph of one of the new paintings a man sits down on the floor to my right holding his food; he kisses the yellow tray and then taps it gently with his forehead, repeating the process three times before opening the lid. Even as an Atheist I am made thoughtful by how grateful people can be no matter how little they have.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Time spent: by someone with nowhere else to go.</td></tr>
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I leave the makeshift gates of the church, opposite this there are two people building a platform on wooden stilts, the idea being to move their dwelling on to it to avoid the rising water that will quickly follow the first days of autumn. This, along with elaborate decorations on the church, seem to indicate that many people here see no end to their state of affairs.<br />
<br />
I was doubtful there would be anyone at the school, but set off in that direction, moving to the edges of what was the path to navigate numerous litter strewn pools. In the middle of a dry section stood a small girl looking disconsolately down at a brimming bucket of water. I asked her if she wanted help and she stood straighter and nodded, examining my face. We both held the handle and bumped gracelessly along as I asked where she was going. She pointed with her free hand at a group of buildings not far in the distance. <br />
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She was an eleven year old from Eritrea, and had been in the Jungle for two weeks. I asked what she thought of the place, she managed a shrug. "It is safe." She conceded eventually. "It is the only place I know that is safe." Her perspective on the world was a dark one and I reeled slightly from it, although I can see why to her it is a valid one. Her father had fled with her to avoid conscription or imprisonment, a choice with no positive option. He is the sole guardian, her mother, like many women, never had the chance to leave Eritrea.<br />
<br />
I tried to shake off the melancholy feeling that follows me whenever I walk around the Jungle; it had been emphasised by the last meeting and is not helpful. I stomped toward the school once more along what had in August, been a path. There was a hut in front of me, two men sat outside it in the gentle afternoon sun and heating an open can of beans on a small fire. They waved me to a halt as I passed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where an eleven year old girl lives with her father: An hour <br />
from the British Library. </td></tr>
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"You can not get through that way." He pointed to a path back to the wider road. "You have to go that way." There were large white words painted on the door of their canvas shack: Kamal smile please. "Why are you going there anyway? There is nothing<br />
good over there."<br />
<br />
He was smiling as he spoke. The other man pointed to where I had walked from.<br />
"There is nothing good over there either." They both laughed and the nearest slapped me on the back. They were both Syrians and had been on the camp for nearly two months, both now in their early twenties they had fled the civil war in their teens. I asked about the words that filled the door. "Do you know who Kamal is?" The first speaker smiled mischievously and I shook my head. "I am." He said, poking himself in the chest. "After three weeks here my brother painted it, he was bored of me being sad."<br />
<br />
"Did it help?" I asked, Kamal shrugged and produced a half smile, curling his bottom lip under his upper at the silliness of the conversation.<br />
<br />
"Sometimes it is the small things." There was a sadness still in his eyes, but he seemed determined not to let it show. I sat with them for a while, they occasionally poked at the can of beans with a fork as we chatted and asked me to write down the link to my first article for them. "When you are famous we can say we met you." Kamal's eyes smiled with his mouth this time. We shook hands once more and I wandered off towards the school. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHIoqnc-8VRBteZ19P7G8RGhKcaQ23USUnJ87U19m6ocpZpHrpNsBI7m71pNj7DGimGj9xm9FnrWMUIu6CBBJ1ZlYZ0XCE9V79q81kbGqg30ECGP2R8RKHQ3HuzGCly4bqPGCsChk0Wak/s1600/20150921_112706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHIoqnc-8VRBteZ19P7G8RGhKcaQ23USUnJ87U19m6ocpZpHrpNsBI7m71pNj7DGimGj9xm9FnrWMUIu6CBBJ1ZlYZ0XCE9V79q81kbGqg30ECGP2R8RKHQ3HuzGCly4bqPGCsChk0Wak/s320/20150921_112706.jpg" width="180" /></a>The school was closed but surrounded by people nonetheless, I continued past as everyone looked busy and focused around cameras without me getting involved. A high metal fence stood on my right and the entirety of the camp on my left as I navigated pools of water and passing bicycles. There were more signs and decorations than my first visit, as people tried to make things more like a home in the face of the circumstances.<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ART-in-the-Jungle-850051061756082/timeline/"><br /></a>
From the art of the jungle (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ART-in-the-Jungle-850051061756082/timeline/">Look it up on Facebook</a>) to the poems and the paintings, the planned stilted housing and the assistance of everyday people, the entire situation has altered from refugee to migrant and from crisis to permanence.<br />
<br />
We are unable to repair the political situation in Eritrea, I cannot see a way to make peace in the Sudan, there is certainly nothing that can be done for Syria, especially if we continue to bomb it. These are not practical solutions for a separate symptom. Spend all winter on the coast of Dover in a shelter you have manufactured from waste wood and canvas, then picture your children perpetually living there.<br />
<br />
Everyone wants to go home, somewhere one feels safe, a place to retreat to. For some children and young people the Jungle is the safest place they have ever been; as a result it has become their home. This is their time, their memories, their childhood and in this case not providing is as bad as taking away.Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-79285160433472522492015-08-29T04:31:00.000-07:002019-06-17T01:30:28.663-07:00Welcome to the Jungle: The lost people of the Western world. <div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />
Before I begin I will arrange my footing slightly; hopefully making the stance of words slightly harder to push over. I do not believe in an open door policy on immigration in the U.K, there are sixty four million people here and it is not a large land mass; from a basic perspective it is matter of space and resources.</div>
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<br />
When I first walked into the Jungle I was concerned that I would be of interest, which was foolish and it quickly turned out that quite the opposite was true. It was very infrequent that anyone paid any attention to me at all, if I did make eye contact with anyone I received a bonjour or a small wave.<br />
<br />
The smell of the air is physically oppressive and begins a mile from the overpass that acts as gate to the camp, long before the beer kegs of the depot and the dog training centre; the atmosphere clings to the roof of the mouth in a thin coating and makes it uncomfortable. <br />
<br />
Although it is quite easy to get lost in the camp, it has a rough circular outside route which is webbed through inwardly, with interweaving paths through brambles that lead to smaller circular encampments made up of differing nationalities and ethnicities. The road around the outside is just mud trampled firm in the heat, but retaining water from the night’s rain in deep holes. The road is clear of the detritus that otherwise covers the ground, where it is in large piles and scattered so it is nearly always underfoot elsewhere.<br />
<br />
I realised that I was approaching the tall canvas church, which I had already done, so I headed towards a fenced organised looking area. I saw the hospital, which consists of two tents; next to this there was a white canvas labelled the Art Tent. When I ducked inside four young men sat drawing and colouring, another, who looked in his early twenties, was strumming a guitar in the corner. <br />
<br />
A young lady in a white waistcoat with a medical logo on the side of it greeted me, and invited me to sit. I sat at the rickety camping tables and began to draw low quality cartoon animals; I was informed that there were three doctors and they could not be there all the time. The lady I was talking to was a therapist, a great deal of the people that arrive are traumatised. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmI6OpPTY9-a0iAH2WsO-hVxcDEnsqkS5yIYfGDuGfNoJ-lqKtMEg4zQtkrOdxDQ7LpPFo7wGjipJ_kwcIhvMlvEBXEi-AUAdbz9LeHMBrWmYTOs6mIDhJsotq1OWTmQi-uELmdqWvp4/s1600/church.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmI6OpPTY9-a0iAH2WsO-hVxcDEnsqkS5yIYfGDuGfNoJ-lqKtMEg4zQtkrOdxDQ7LpPFo7wGjipJ_kwcIhvMlvEBXEi-AUAdbz9LeHMBrWmYTOs6mIDhJsotq1OWTmQi-uELmdqWvp4/s320/church.jpg" /></a>She asked me, not unkindly, what I was doing on the site: I explained that I wanted to teach some English but I was interested in writing an article, I was told where the school was and that it was run by volunteers. <br />
<br />
“You will be the next Van Gogh.” Said the tall man next to me, patting me on the shoulder. “Everyone knows these are green.” He added as he began to colour in the walrus. A bearded man stuck his head through the flap and asked to see the doctor, he was pointed to the next tent which was the triage section. <br />
<br />
The guitar did not seem to be frustrating the man trying to play it, but he had been patiently trying to tune it since I had arrived. He occasionally squinted down the length of the neck. He asked me to play, and mostly through luck, I was able to tune the chipped old acoustic. I taught him some chords and he, on his part, listened attentively as we passed the guitar between us, although he never smiled. He fetched a crayon and marked out chord diagrams of what I had shown him. After about an hour I excused myself to find the school; he whispered thank you without looking up.<br />
<br />
Outside the tent there stood the man who had asked about the hospital, his brow was furrowed and his hand was on his hip as he looked at the tents. I said bonjour in such a way that he asked me if I was English. I said yes and asked him how things were, he told me he wanted to see a doctor, as he was sick. “They cannot see too many people in a day, they are good, there just aren’t many of them. “You work in England? I said I worked in a school and he nodded. “I am a mechanic, is there much work in England?<br />
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“Not really no.” I told him. “A couple of hundred at least apply for each new job vacancy.” He rolled his eyes. <br />
<br />
What is England like?” He asked without enthusiasm. I shrugged. <br />
<br />
“Good and bad, I guess. You want to go there?” <br />
<br />
“Not really.” He shrugged expansively. “Would it be better than here?” He gestured at the jungle with an outstretched arm. <br />
<br />
“Probably not.” I was forced to answer. He clapped me on the back and held out his hand. <br />
<br />
“Atifibrahim.” He said. After the introductions he told me that he was from the Sudan. “When the politics went wrong I was arrested as I had opposed the government, some of my friends disappeared and bad things happened to their families. “Bad things.” He repeated as he grimaced into the distance. “We had to leave.”He shrugged a gesture of glum acceptance. “What would happen if I went to England? Would I be allowed to work?” I shook my head.<br />
<br />
“You would be kept in detention.” <br />
“How long for?” <br />
“Until they review your case.” <br />
“And that takes a long time.” He stated.”It takes a long time here too. Would I be with my family?” <br />
“Probably not.” I turned my face away as he raised up his palms and his eyes filled up quickly. “Mainly the children are separated.” <br />
“Then what do I do?" This was clearly news to him, he was genuinely upset. <br />
“Germany seems to be letting the most people in.” I said, stuck for words. He patted me on the back gently.<br />
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"We all dream.” He said. “All I want is peace for me and my family. He looked over the camp in the distance. “I think that winter will be bad.” I spoke to Atifibrahim a few times over the next couple of days, after a couple of days he allowed me to take his picture and after three days later was able to see a doctor. <br />
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The school was about twenty by thirty feet inside; mismatched desks filled it from edge to edge, apart from the small aisle down the centre, which was occupied by a narrow tree trunk that supported the centre of the roof. <br />
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The room was full of students with their elbows down so that they could write in such close proximity to each other. A petite woman at the front taught French in a motivated fashion. I waited until the end of the lesson and spoke to the teacher; she gave me the name of someone to speak to about teaching English but I would have to return the following day.<br />
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I walked around the orbiting path, past the church again and then the tents that act as cafes and shops; cooked chicken stood exposed in the sun amongst the cans of Sprite and bags of potatoes. I headed back to the art tent; I was going to leave the camp for the day and thought it best to say goodbye. The young man was still practicing guitar and I made a positive comment; he shrugged without looking up.<br />
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The end of the tent was curtained off, a friendly bearded man stood in there chopping onions. The rest was taken up with tables and chairs made from pallets. I asked for a coffee; I was told it was Arabic coffee and given a circled finger and thumb signal of recommendation. I sat at a table and a tea pot and a shot glass were brought to me. <br />
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A lady with red rimmed eyes was sat at the other table; She asked me for cigarette, where I came from and what I did, then told me everyone calls her Baby because her brothers are all older than her. <br />
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“I don’t normally smoke. But in the circumstances.” She laughed a little and made a gesture at the sky. “You like England?” I shrugged. “I liked Ethiopia. But there are problems there.” The coffee was thick and soup like. “I was a lawyer, and thought if I protested about the killing of women then there would be a change.” She shrugged and and shook her head. “Some of my friends that just turned up at the protest started to get sent to prison, some for five years. Maybe it would have been better to stay.” She watched the rain silently pour into the already waterlogged ground of the camp. I asked her if her family were there. “My husband is in Libya, it was very bad there when I left, I was pregnant so he made me go when I could. Even without him. Sometimes I think he might still be alive.” She looked at the ground for a while.<br />
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“Do you have trouble raising the baby here?” <br />
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“I lost the baby when I was arrested Paris.” She apologised as her shoulders shook slightly. “I have hope because god knows that I am strong.” Her words sped up. “I had a drink some days ago, and was angry because I was weak. God will forgive me if I am strong. I don't know if my husband is alive or dead. There is always hope, but I am lost in the Jungle like everyone else. Baby let me write down what she said and really didn’t care if I took her picture or not. <br />
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I headed back to the school and was informed by the woman that I was told to talk to, to talk to the other one, as no-one seemed to be in charge. I agreed politely to return the next day as I was a little exasperated but determined to teach if I could. I was receiving more waves, hellos and friendly shouts of Englishman than I had before as people got used to seeing me around for a little more. <br />
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There were very young teenagers hunched around the small tables in the art tent; I drew cartoon landscapes for the others to colour in. I explained to the therapist that I might not be able to teach as I might not have time to organise it. She told me just teach then and there; to the people that were present at the time. I managed to teach my name is and I am from, before a queue started to form outside and they went to see what it was for. Despite the pouring rain a long line had formed: It was for socks and books of the gospel. <br />
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Lots of people had retreated under shelter so I went back to the café. Baby was still there, crying quietly. I sat at the only other table, which was also occupied by two boys. They spoke to me about England and asked if the schools were good. They asked if they would be allowed to go to school there, they told me that they had not been to school for a long time. They both looked like they had already been crying. <br />
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Michael claimed to be 21, which I would have questioned as a barman, his brother, Sian, to my left was 16. I didn’t know whether brother meant being from the same country, someone one trusts or being actually related, but I had learned within the camp that it made little difference. Sian sat staring at the floor, if I did make eye contact with him he quickly looked away again. <br />
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“Why are the English government so cruel?” Michael's voice became louder and he began to cry. “Can I sit on a train in Germany like a human being? Without anyone hitting me?” We cannot go back to Syria, me and my brother cannot go back to Syria, they are still fighting. Me and my brother know that most of our family are dead.” He paused, looked at his brother, who looked at the floor. “We want to go to school and people hit us and spray us." He paused. "I want to sit on a train.” He repeated. “Why do all these things happen?” He genuinely seemed to be asking me. He just sat looking at me; making me wish I had an answer. “You must have hope.” I offered feebly. His whole body slumped and he looked exasperated and at me as though I was mad.<br />
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“Where is there hope? Every country should have human rights, where are they?” He sat and looked stunned for a moment. “Where am I?” His face did not expect an answer. They both stood and I asked where they were going. <br />
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“To the train station.” I asked them not to get hurt; there didn’t seem a great deal else that I could do. They hadn’t wanted me to take a picture of their faces, but dismissed me taking one as they walked up the track. I looked for them each day at the camp, but never found them again. I doubt very much they made it to the U.K. <br />
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The following day was incredibly hot and Calais proper had some impressively armoured police swaggering around it; I didn’t pay them more than a passing thought as I headed to the camp.<br />
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It was about midday: I was talking with a Syrian who laughed and shrugged as he told me he did not know if he was 21 or 22; Ahmed Kino told me he was hoping to stay in France.<br />
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“I have sent off the paperwork.” He did not look overly optimistic. I asked him how he felt about migrants being told to go home. “My home is a hole in the ground, it is gone, and still they fight over it.” He smiled a little and shrugged, even trying to find the humour in this. <br />
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“The papers are supposed to take three months aren’t they?” I was curious as I received varying reports, Ahmed looked at me as though I very naive.<br />
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“There are many people that have been here longer than that.” He looked at me quizzically: “A whole universe and I am not allowed in some of it. Are these places special? Why are they special?” He looked around the camp distractedly. “I worry though.” He looked at me again. “Sometimes, when people are poor you see the animal in them.” <br />
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There was a chattering, near the gate, more quick and active than the normal background atmosphere of the camp. There was a shout from the direction of the underpass and Ahmed and I went to look. The police were on the road of the overpass and on the road to the left leading up to it. There were more in the distance. Ahmed headed back to the camp. <br />
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“This won’t help.” He said. “It won’t help me.” He put his hand on my shoulder briefly before heading back into the camp. <br />
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Some people were walking up the embankment and blocking the overhead road; I went around the embankment, so was behind a thin line of police who were stood before an equally thin line of protesters. Behind me were many vans with plenty more. A chant of “We are not animals” was clearly audible from where I was. <br />
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The number of protesters swelled until there were between thirty and forty, including some of the aid workers that I had previously been speaking to. It escalated and calmed down very quickly; I noticed that people were jumping the fence sliding back down the embankment. <br />
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Riot police had approached from the other side sandwiching the thin line of protesters between the authorities, despite the fact that the protesters had not tried to move. A plume of tear gas arose on the right hand side of the road and caught me on the left hand side of the face. I slid into the foliage down the slight incline of the embankment and out of the way. <br />
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I went back to the entrance, people were chanting, but none made any further move to occupy the road. Among those having their faces wiped and being told to close their eyes I saw the sixty year old white woman who had made the sharing sign. I spoke to a 41 year old wedding planner from London called Liz; her face was red and I asked if she had been gassed. She hadn’t. <br />
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“When the police hit the refugees protected me. I feel quite humble. I wasn’t expecting the police to do that.” She looked very distressed. “Everybody deserves to be happy and safe.” She began to cry again. <br />
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I wandered back into the camp and two people from the Sudan asked me what was going on: They were not the only ones. I explained over and over again too many faces that an English minister was inspecting security in the camp but not the camp itself. Most shrugged; I saw none join the protest as a result. Many people were fixing tents and queuing for the hospital as though nothing was happening. The protest remained in the gateway and out of the way for the rest of the day. Thirty to forty people had protested out of a possible three thousand. They had been kept out of the public eye both physically and by being ignored by the media. Despite the poverty, none had shown the animal in them. <br />
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On my last day in the camp I had a beer in the café tent and looked for Michael and Sian, but without hope and to no avail. I was walking up past the church and was thinking about leaving for the last time. I heard my name called and I turned.<br />
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“You taught me guitar the other day. You remember?” <br />
“Of course. Have you practiced?”<br />
“The owner took it away. Sorry I did not speak much, some days I am sadder than others.” <br />
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“Like everyone.” I shrugged. “Are you trying to get to England?” He shook his head. “I have applied for paperwork In France and I never wanted to come here.” I asked how that had happened. “I left Darfur after our car was shot and we crashed, I broke my leg, but we were very lucky. We were not rich, but I had work as a vet, we had food and we were safe. I lived better than this in my country, but they killed my friend and said that they would kill me. So I went to Khartoum, the people of Khartoum don’t like the people of Darfur, in the same way that people of other countries don’t like foreigners. <br />
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The police beat me and burned my arms with cigarettes, they told me they knew where I slept and if they saw me they would kill me.” He shrugged. “I had to leave there too. Italy would not help me, nor Greece. You have to move on.” He looked at the floor for a while. “I wish these things had never happened.” He looked as though he might cry. I asked him how he felt about English politicians not trusting the people of the Jungle.<br />
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“David Cameron needs to ask himself if there are bad people in the jungle why did they not stay and be bad in Syria, Darfur or Afghanistan, or Iraq? There are plenty of opportunities to be bad people in these places. There is very little that can be done here, good or bad.” He shrugged and looked as though he might cry. I said goodbye to Rashid, he firmly shook my hand and I left the Jungle. <br />
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I said at the beginning that I didn’t agree with open door immigration, but that has nothing to do with what is happening in the Jungle. When these people fled Eritrea, the Sudan, Darfur, Syria and Iraq they were refugees and worthy of help. Now they are near our borders, they are migrants and worthy of nothing but contempt.<br />
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There are children without enough food, clothing and completely missing their education along with adults who are willing to work, from backgrounds that many English people would struggle to empathise with. They are deep in filth, despondency and an hour from London.<br />
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From the protest that most people in the camp didn’t know of and that most people in the U.K never will. As we examine the firmness of the fences and the ferocity of the dogs we force mere children to take risks that we would not wish upon ourselves.<br />
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If there is to be pride in your nation, it is to be taken only in the behaviour of the inhabitants themselves; there is no reason not to be proud of your forebears, the actions of your grandmother and father in times of difficulty. The question is only this: would they, and will your grandchildren, be proud of us?<br />
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As I button up my shirt and go to work on Monday, I will look at my reflection in the window of the bus as it ponders through suburban Wokingham. As the rainy season approaches what is normal for others simply should not be. If we do nothing but ignore the suffering of the innocents, whatever reason we give, we are the lost people of the western world.</div>
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Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-87913127679751739722014-04-08T03:50:00.000-07:002015-09-06T03:13:33.015-07:00History and mindless cock-waving; never the twain shall meet... <br />
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Schools continue to teach what seem like completely random
and sudden occurrences that have no basis; this provides some people with a
slightly askew perspective. Attacks on the U.K are a shining example of this;
if you are in school then the Vikings, the Spanish Armada and the Normans all
attacked simply on the basis that they are a bunch of pricks. As if the Vikings
just went waaarrrg at some point, sailed over here and started twatting people
on a whim, the Spanish were just here because good and evil are real and the
Spanish are not to be trusted, not in anyway due to the cult of Protestantism
intrinsically clashing with the cult of Catholicism.</div>
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The Independent article by Patrick Cockburn is definitely a
victim of this mode of thought; <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-vikings-were-feared-for-a-reason-9241032.html" target="_blank">http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-vikings-were-feared-for-a-reason-9241032.html</a> the article is under the impression that raids were what
Vikings did as part of their basic existence. The concept of the Vikings being
directly comparable to the SS is one point made in this article that I don’t
think has not been made before; I would suggest that there is a reason for
this, in fact there might be more than one. </div>
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This is an example of isolationist history; taking
historical events and placing them without past, cause or future, this has been
used in recent months on The Great War which was portrayed as a clear battle of
good and evil that lacked any real origin other than the misdeeds of the cruel.
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Let us stride fourth and cast off these trousers of naivety
and be gently caressed by the warm summer wind of knowledge; people act and
react to environment and circumstance, so what were the circumstances of the
Vikings? </div>
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Who was in the U.K at the time? The Anglo Saxons, an icon of
Englishness that crawled from the ocean onto <st1:place w:st="on">Brighton</st1:place>
pier as a long distant ancestor of the millipede they were not; like everybody
else here they came from somewhere else, in fact the same as everybody
everywhere they came from somewhere else. People were from somewhere else
before the imaginary lines that indicated where they were actually from had
been imagined.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">English people: Always been here mate, always. </td></tr>
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<o:p> </o:p>This of course does provide us with a comparison between the
SS and the Vikings; they were both the owners of legs. </div>
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The occurrences around a certain people depend upon the
people around them and their actions; the Christian Francs were on the move,
and had attacked areas of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>
and <st1:place w:st="on">Scandinavia</st1:place>; this is why Vikings had a
great number of boats, because everyone else had lots of boats. Take into
account the method used was a form of raid and the raiders pillaged. There was
a Christian raid on Friesland, north-west <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region>
in 734 ad; where as the Viking raid on <st1:place w:st="on">Lindisfarne</st1:place>
was in 793 ad, this provides a context for behaviour and a history for the occurrences.
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In 768 Charlemagne took his position as the Francish king;
he proved to be very pious and less than patient when others were not quite so
fervent, this meant that the expansion of the empire brought compulsory
Christianity. This was demonstrated in the massacre of Verden, near contemporary
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bremen</st1:place></st1:state>; 4500
people were forcibly baptized and, once the holy water had rolled off their
purified heads, the heads were removed. Saxon refuges fled to nearby <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Denmark</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the
Vikings were aware of the massacres and rapes that were taking place during
what had become a guerilla war.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlemagne: Proper shifty. </td></tr>
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King Widukind of Saxony visited the Danes for moral and, he
hoped, practicable assistance; this was news in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Norway</st1:country-region> as once an area was absorbed
into the Franco Empire all power was taken from the resident leaders and
Charlemagne applied new laws, leaders and faith. The threat of abolishment
spread across Europe and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region>
allied with <st1:place w:st="on">Norway</st1:place>;
it was not feasible that one of the two countries could separately succeed in
defeating the Franco army.</div>
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Another alliance formed in 793; that between the Christian
Francs and the English, in 793, which rings a bell as it was the same year as
the raid on <st1:place w:st="on">Lindisfarne</st1:place>. What was <st1:place w:st="on">Lindisfarne</st1:place> after all? Not simply a Christian structure,
but a Franco Christian structure. </div>
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The eleven monks that were killed was an atrocity, but
compared to the four thousand five hundred at Verden and the associated power
grab in Saxony it was minuscule; and the previous massacres had given the
Vikings a good idea what Christian conquerors had the capacity to be like. </div>
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I now refer directly to the essay by Patrick Cockburn:
Before I refer to what it contains I shall refer to what it does not, any
history of history or to use another term, context. The fact that the Vikings
attacked due to being violent and, for want of a better word, rapey, is puerile
and mindless. The fact that they killed monks because they were barbarians and
this is simply what barbarians are prone to doing is as foolish as labeling the
outbreak of The Great War was the result of Germans doing what Germans do.</div>
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I shall now refer to
what is in Patrick Cockburn’s essay in regard to Viking atrocities: <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.5pt;">The pro-Viking lobby
claim this is exaggerated stuff and there is no proof of such Viking
atrocities. But the absence of evidence is scarcely surprising. The invaders,
themselves illiterate, were so destructive that almost no writings survive from
the conquered Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What exactly is the pro Viking lobby? I doubt very much they
have meetings or a news letter; This echoes more of the corralling of
contradictory opinions into one subconscious happy place where disagreeing parties
have a set agenda and one conspicuous eyebrow. </div>
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More worryingly, the idea the lack of evidence indicating in
no way indicates the lack of occurrence. The Saxon refuges spread the word of atrocity
quickly enough through <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Norway</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
despite, as Mr. Cockburn maliciously points out, the populace being illiterate.
The lack of evidence does not mean the necessary lack of occurrence, but it
most certainly does not mean the opposite. It sounds like some sort of anti
Viking lobbying, which would exist for no reason whatsoever.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWnP1roNYTXvfRQhOPDh69PQd6Gk21NJv69PNLzG5T7v70ngMJaWICBzlaMi9NNdDpMKnzAU4dqeew_gwTllTMI_rodq0HTzjpJdDGEGNwY_DvBjYpHkBxwASrLhJ0KUuohjO4w7hHzI/s1600/700px-Europe-1500ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWnP1roNYTXvfRQhOPDh69PQd6Gk21NJv69PNLzG5T7v70ngMJaWICBzlaMi9NNdDpMKnzAU4dqeew_gwTllTMI_rodq0HTzjpJdDGEGNwY_DvBjYpHkBxwASrLhJ0KUuohjO4w7hHzI/s1600/700px-Europe-1500ad.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Magical sky picture: If England and Germany are the holy Roman Empire<br />
then you can see why others would be nervous. </td></tr>
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Unless of course one of the institutions of the time were
still in existence and felt that Christians should not be seen to be behaving
in a barbaric fashion. </div>
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Historical isolationism is a wobbly misleading strut of unnecessary
contemporary patriotism; the idea that we were fighting a just war is absurd in
the era of conquest within which the Viking raids took place. </div>
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The direct comparison between the Vikings and the SS is a
peculiar one that is not in anyway substantiated; especially if you one looks
closely at the comparisons of religious genocide; if one were to make a
comparison between the SS and one of the involved parties of the Viking raids
whom would it be between?</div>
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There are some comparisons between the time periods; Charlemagne
was reimaged under the Third Reich as a German hero. </div>
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In closing; the idea that the Scandinavians should apologies
for the behaviour of the Vikings, which was over 1300 years ago, is bizarre. It
certainly wasn't any contemporary residents of <st1:place w:st="on">Norway</st1:place> that killed any monks. </div>
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I am very certain that there are far more recent events that
need to be apologized for, preferably ones of which the perpetrators, victims, or both are still alive and there is in fact some evidence of wrongdoing.</div>
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History should be taught as what it is; a series of connected and motivated actions by people as capable of conceptual thought as any modern day resident; history is very prone to the biased elements of its own sources, but without context it is open to contemporary bias and can easily be used as mindless cock-waving patriotism that it very rarely genuinely supports.</div>
Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-68463416993398645272014-01-03T09:26:00.000-08:002015-09-06T04:53:03.220-07:00In response to Mr. Gove.<div class="MsoNormal">
Michael Gove has stated that we need to learn about the history of the Great War in the right way; but from the perspective of whom? </div>
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<o:p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532923/Michael-Gove-blasts-Blackadder-myths-First-World-War-spread-television-sit-coms-left-wing-academics.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532923/Michael-Gove-blasts-Blackadder-myths-First-World-War-spread-television-sit-coms-left-wing-academics.html</a></o:p></div>
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The idea that Britain before the Great War was an icon of
liberty is a bizarre one, only someone without any level of rationality and the
tiniest concept of the history of the country could possibly entertain it. </div>
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If you observe the traditional version that the war began
due to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which was a catalyst and is reasonable place to start, but once a modicum of thought has been applied to it,
it was clearly not the sole reason for global conflict. </div>
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Control of the Middle East played a large part; the new
warships both <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region> were
building in a race against each other were in great need of oil. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region> desired a train line into what is now
modern day <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>
and the British would not allow such a project. </div>
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The tensions between key members of the house of Saxa Coberg
were also key to the conflict; Is Michael Gove under the impression that the
people ruling <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region> and
the people ruling <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region>
were actually differing families? That
the British were good and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>
bad? This puerile thought process does not apply to any historical conflict; if
reviewing the battle of <st1:city w:st="on">Hastings</st1:city>
one does not say that the noble king Harold was cruelly defeated by William the
bastard. This is because we are fully aware with the benefit of hindsight that
they only fighting over power, with elements of ego, and were both Scandinavian
anyway. </div>
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Gove refers to the ‘ruthless social Darwinism of the German
elite’ who, as previously mentioned, are the same family as the German elite;
what with Kaiser Wilhelm being the grandson son of queen Victoria, the first
cousin of King George and the second cousin of Tsar Nicholas who was
temporarily in charge of Russia. This in itself disables the goodies and
baddies argument, but it is not the only indication that this was not the case.
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You do not need to study history or Machiavellian thought to
know that empires generally are not good at fighting for truth, liberty and
honor, but none the less quite good at fighting; the 19<sup>th</sup> century
was just as war-some as any other period. We were still fighting the French at
the start of it, which ended with the largest ever turnout of British troops at
that point, they fought on the <st1:place w:st="on">Somme</st1:place>. We moved
on to fight the Russians in the <st1:place w:st="on">Crimea</st1:place>, which
was a notably murderous affair even for a war. We fought the Boer because of a
shitload of gold, simultaneously inventing the concentration camp and
committing genocide. A young Winston Churchill was a war reporter there at the
time.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzzR6LuNCdpSLLsezsGF7wZbeSdsQNaXTffVRKZbizWcE-xAs65aY4krFeVHCs_O2S1y_4gODwH8xnowo4hQfyC9T4_-En-etAMTRVWk029wdxwsY2UNXEJ5xqLJpQJ6Xf4UuA4y2Dt0/s1600/young+churchill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVzzR6LuNCdpSLLsezsGF7wZbeSdsQNaXTffVRKZbizWcE-xAs65aY4krFeVHCs_O2S1y_4gODwH8xnowo4hQfyC9T4_-En-etAMTRVWk029wdxwsY2UNXEJ5xqLJpQJ6Xf4UuA4y2Dt0/s1600/young+churchill.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Churchill: A firm believer in<br />
Eugenics, which is what Gove<br />
is accusing the Germans of. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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The late 1800’s saw the British invade <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region>,
only it was not called an invasion, we were freeing the people and we were there
to install a friendly government. The motive behind this was because Russia might try and invade <st1:country-region w:st="on">India through it</st1:country-region>,
which would be rude as it clearly belonged to us. The British lost
a lot of men and failed completely due to an insurgency of anti British troops
and a memorial was put up in <st1:city w:st="on">Reading</st1:city>.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p>The chances of all these wars being just, or indeed noble,
are very slim, in fact in a historical context we know that they were not. The chance
that they all led up to a great war which was just does not follow logic or
common sense. Gove actually said something clever recently; that history is not
taught in a way that allows for a comprehension of consecutive events, which is
a problem, because that is what it is. One fucking thing after another was a
particularly good answer to the question; what is history? But as any one who
is allowed to go to the shops by them-self is fully aware; one fucking thing
happens because of the fucking thing that happened before it.</div>
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Gove puts forward the
idea that the well informed populace went on to defend King and country, and
attack his cousin; they were committed to defending the western liberal order.
The volunteers that joined up in 1914 were all around or under five foot tall;
this was due to malnutrition which indicates how the working class lived. Many
joined because there was food and many surviving private letters confirm this
was the case.</div>
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Part of the English literature curriculum goes cross
curricular with history in the tenth or eleventh year of secondary school, this
involves the contemporary poetry of the great war. This clearly demonstrates
the existence of anti war feeling at the time; Wilfred Owen would be a key
example of this. We know that the British authorities kept public opinion and
that of the soldier’s on the front separate for the reason that they were very
similar. King George was concerned that things might go the way of the Romanovs;
he didn’t want what happened to his cousin to happen to him. </div>
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Looking at the battles that have taken place on the <st1:placename w:st="on">Somme</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">River</st1:placetype>;
if a peasant archer at <st1:place w:st="on">Agincourt</st1:place> had not
attended, would victory or loss affect his circumstances at home? It is hard to
see how it would. This can just as easily apply to an infantry man not at <st1:city w:st="on">Waterloo</st1:city> or a Tommy who decided that <st1:city w:st="on">Kitchener</st1:city> probably didn’t need him all that
much. The British troops in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region>
in the 1800’s certainly would have benefitted from not being there, but would victory matter to them if they were not? which
raises the question of the ones still there.</div>
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<o:p> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEnb5OtqzVr8sh3n7d57-sY4PcusR-NuZgqlMnLGlfHnI77QNIlk_61iIo1jA90vJNYs3ZieT8YR4LIAYgbE8knLrA7ikT1XkdEKse8MMg2m0XVVoLfsFjeQvlE_rXZ60R_l4kKdt5hAQ/s1600/waterloo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEnb5OtqzVr8sh3n7d57-sY4PcusR-NuZgqlMnLGlfHnI77QNIlk_61iIo1jA90vJNYs3ZieT8YR4LIAYgbE8knLrA7ikT1XkdEKse8MMg2m0XVVoLfsFjeQvlE_rXZ60R_l4kKdt5hAQ/s1600/waterloo.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waterloo: Another battle of the Somme. </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</o:p></div>
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The assumption that we won being the best possible outcome
is bizarre from a historical standpoint; obviously it may have been as we
cannot predict what may have happened. However the Second World War is direct result of
the first; the treaty of <st1:city w:st="on">Versailles</st1:city> caused the <st1:place w:st="on">Weimar</st1:place> hyper inflation, in
turn leading to poverty and suffering on a massive scale. We lied to the Arabs,
did not return their land as it was also promised to the Jews, causing a major
conflict which is still very active in the present day. After world war two we
divided <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>
and those two countries have fought bloody wars ever since. </div>
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<o:p> </o:p>We are very aware in the 21<sup>st</sup> century that good
people don’t come from one country and bad people another, yet this is the
history that Gove appears to want to us to teach and exactly the kind thing
more commonly believed by the poorer elements of society at the turn of the
twentieth century. It is precisely this false knowledge that makes it so easy to
send them to fight in a war that would not affect them in its absence. It is
the propaganda that allows a person to change their name to <st1:place w:st="on">Windsor</st1:place> and pretend they are not related to
the person they are sending everyone to fight because they have fallen out with
their fucking cousin.</div>
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Taking British students to the Somme and informing them it
is where brave and noble Tommies beat the nasty Germans will benefit no-one.
Michael Gove says he sees patriotism as a virtue, and we know who that is
normally a virtue of, but is he vicious or simply completely unaware of what he
is talking about? </div>
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The concept of history having goodies and baddies has no
place in modern culture or thought; that a grown man in charge of education can
miss the point of learning history by such an extensive margin, while in the
process of telling everyone how he thinks people should learn it is startling. </div>
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The reason we should not teach Gove’s happy flag waving
version of the Great War is because it isn’t true; I think it might be the only
reason we need.</div>
Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-49733811656071421802013-12-24T03:55:00.000-08:002015-09-06T04:54:00.855-07:00Sex, Scientology and God as the history of racism. My girlfriend has her own chair in our flat and there is a
perfectly valid reason for it; she is unclean. I have never sat in the said
chair, my girlfriend and I have lived together for many years and I am certain
that she has sat there by the window, watching the birds at the feeder, while
menstruating. What annoys me is she will continue to innocently read or play
games as though there is nothing wrong with what she is doing; why does she
have no sense of guilt?
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikrhhzL34XAZ5NsGysDVQch6OXP1_u4qeNmuUs1XDbnp7yXZyNDmGJWQ1uegVASDMSNGAd2s28mVLoELB4hvwLTvDfg7fQTyit-4vE-kdJv0Jf24WQ5eLUaPoupQqPp4p8hnGbSCE69g8/s1600/women-sitting-massage-chair-19688574.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikrhhzL34XAZ5NsGysDVQch6OXP1_u4qeNmuUs1XDbnp7yXZyNDmGJWQ1uegVASDMSNGAd2s28mVLoELB4hvwLTvDfg7fQTyit-4vE-kdJv0Jf24WQ5eLUaPoupQqPp4p8hnGbSCE69g8/s320/women-sitting-massage-chair-19688574.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Women having their legs shrink-wrapped: This avoids the<br />
contamination of the air around them.</td></tr>
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The news that Nelson Mandela has passed on has not escaped
anyone; obviously God would be aware of it, but would he be impressed by the
work that the mortal carried out? The entire different races living together
section of the Old Testament is scattered throughout the delightful work, but
nonetheless firmly implanted into its pages and incorporates some of the most
memorable and well loved mass deaths.</div>
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In the U.K this week scientologists have been allowed to
marry in their own mad way bless them; the religion has numerous overpaid and
undereducated members but is widely labeled as a cult. The difference between
cult and religion is a fine and meandering murky soup which is in no way helped
by what the differing variations of what the word actually means. </div>
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The U.K has been having a few disagreements between the various island dwellers on the topic of segregated university lectures for the benefit
of those who, for their own reasons, might not want to sit next to somebody
with a different set of genitals to them. The reasons given for this are religiously motivated;
obviously, this unfortunately means that women will not be seen in a context of
equality, because in any religion connected to the Old Testament, they never
are. </div>
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I am not sure that religious protocol melds particularly
well to all formats of further education; in the study of astrophysics or in
the field of evolutionary science, it might seem slightly amiss to claim
verbally that none of the things that you are studying are true because the
world has a big dome over its flat surface and that nothing evolved. One would
not have to declare verbally that the lecturer was lying as the option not to
sit next to a woman because god said would infer the associated belief that
whatever you were studying were false. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brian Cox concludes his lecture:<br />
'Why women are manky.'</td></tr>
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The segregation of women only exists in the theology because
women are dirty and inferior; this is the reason for gender segregation, this
and no other. The reason not to pander to the beliefs of others is the fact
that some of these beliefs are complete arse: Talking shrubs and animals are in
the children’s section, the degradation of women and the keeping of slaves
should be in the history department. </div>
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Apartheid, now firmly recognized as a bulging sick bag of
human idiocy has its corpulent arse roots clinging vehemently to mouth of the
creator. The concept of Apartheid was drawn up and implemented in <st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region> by
the Dutch reformed church; if one believes in Big Sky Beardface then that would
certainly be the only way to run the place. </div>
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The skywanker indicates clearly at the destruction of <st1:city w:st="on">Babel</st1:city>, when the silly
humans look above their position and try and improve upon themselves, that they
shouldn't. All are scattered and given differing languages because they are
achieving without the assistance of God and he gets all shirty. In Genesis he
observes that: ‘If as one people speaking the same language, they have begun to
do this, nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.’ Presumably he
made these comments in a big booming voice due to his ethereal sky testicles. </div>
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None the less if people achieved then they would be proud of
their own achievements and turn their back on God; so everyone gets a different
language and some theologists believe this how we ended up with separate continents. Theologists
do, geologists however are flipping a coin between that and tectonic plate
movement. </div>
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So we are not to integrate; we did and God flooded the
earth, the only sin for this massive crime, for murdering every air breathing
beast on the land, is that there was the mixing of race on the surface of our
flat planet. Indeed this made it clear to the founders of a new home in the
South of Africa that people should live apart, and not mix the seeds all in one
field. So they didn't and God did not flood <st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region>, so they must have
been right.</div>
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Unfortunately if you have been praying for Nelson Mandela
you probably shouldn't; I don’t think God agrees with him about integration.
Nelson Mandela lived until his mid nineties and didn't drown, so maybe god
isn't real after all.</div>
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In conclusion if there is one; Scientology is a bizarre and
oppressive cult with no basis in reality; the problem is that so are
Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Can we judge Scientology until we judge the
others? Scientologists may as well get married if they want; I for one will not
be influenced by their evil ways; even as we speak I am rubbing a goat’s ovary
onto a dream catcher which is also a powerful defense against interracial
marriage. </div>
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Remember people, use goose fat to lubricate the gimp suit
this season, or it just isn't Christmas. Jesus is the saviour and the safety
word is Jesus. </div>
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Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-765154957718850502013-11-17T09:21:00.000-08:002013-11-17T09:23:39.464-08:00Wogan, wanking and please read the end bit. Otherwise it looks bad. <br />
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Children in need was awful, the images of suffering children
and half arsed dancing soap opera actors performing like dogs on Britain’s got
talent was exactly comparable to being sick to the point when you can vomit no
more and there is nothing left but the vile taste of bile clinging to your
tonsils and making you retch further despite the futility of the abdominal
heaving and the wanting to die. </div>
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I apologise for the lack of punctuation but it all sort of
came out at once. </div>
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These facts aside; there was no attempt to discourage people
from having things in need; which one would imagine would be a far better thing
to promote. There are too many grown ups and far too many of their squealing
offspring. If contraception were more widespread at an earlier stage then Terry
Wogan might not be on the television at all and certainly would not be on for
three solid days like an inconvenient stool. If contraception were more
widespread at an earlier stage then Terry Wogan might not exist at all. Many women
would not be sick every morning and I would not have been sick on Friday night.
Actually I would, but I am unable to honestly suggest that the two things were
connected. </div>
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The compilation of this and the news that Christianity is
apparently on the verge of extinction came as a </div>
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shock. I began to imagine
fleetingly that Warsi had an orifice toggle option as to the origin of her
speech and her settings may be, ever so slightly, awry.<br />
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This is based around the fact that there are 2.13 billion Christians
in the world, roughly, not including the ones that are unsure, which is more
than there are ocelots. Which is a shame. Besides, Christians are only becoming
extinct in ‘some places’; if you are extinct in some places then you are not
extinct, you are merely absent. There are no crayfish in my pockets, and yet
none the less, in the canal twenty yards away they continue to exist.</div>
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<o:p> </o:p>My favorite bit, the tiny little hornet in the jockstrap, is
the statement; ‘There isn’t an intrinsic clash between different faiths....’ I
may have reason to question these sources; the Koran and the Bible, and the
basis of both of them, the Torah, do imply a slight ambivalence towards those
who suffer from a differing form of madness. As we are able to tell by current
affairs, and an unimaginable amount of previous ones.</div>
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Obviously in Kosovo where 200, 000 Muslims were killed by
Christians was over the album ‘Automatic for the people’ by REM; Muslims had
flocked to buy ‘Waking up the neighbours’ by Bryan Adams the year before and
felt it was the best album released in that financial year and that the song ‘Night
swimming’, an </div>
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obvious filler track, was a load of pretentious shit. We all know
the outcome. <br />
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In affiliation with this; <st1:city w:st="on">Palestine</st1:city> is entirely orientated around a
drunken brawl based on the sexuality of Cliff Richard and the crusades was an
argument about jam. </div>
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Three days of television about the suffering of children
without once mentioning the remedy and news that believers in the Old Testament
do, in fact, like each other, and everyone else should help them get on.
Despite the elementary fact that all of these believers are aiming at death as
it is, in fact, a sort of promotion. All Christians, Muslims and Jews are going
somewhere better, in this context genocide can be seen as being helpful and
should be accepted with the good grace with which it was given. </div>
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interaction. </td></tr>
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Until contraception is realized as a solution to the global
problems that we face then the only way we can possibly hope to feed the planet
and maintain a consumable water supply is if these psychotic murdering idiots
continue to murder each other for no apparent reason. We should give them all a
hammer each and herd them into stadiums to get it out of their systems. </div>
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The real problem is that last bit isn’t true; because they
are not going somewhere better, they are merely being killed. All they become
is a dead apes; until we realize this and control the amount of apes that need
feeding then our problems as living apes are far from over. </div>
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<o:p>If you are in danger of conceiving there are numerous helplines that will help you to masturbate. In the long term contraception can be acquired entirely for free from your G.P. Absolutely no religion sees this as a solution. </o:p></div>
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Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-442141882103807352013-10-20T04:35:00.001-07:002013-10-20T04:44:46.314-07:00Porn, popes and a loose grip on reality. <div class="MsoNormal">
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Madness has apparently become infectious; everyone has
caught the whiff in recent weeks apart from the clergy; because they said so
and they should know. Meanwhile in the wave of sexuality that hasn't existed in
every single mammal that has ever lived apparently sweeps over the children of
the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.K.</st1:country-region>
turning them into rampant sex beasts. </div>
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<a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/437543/Religious-people-not-mad-Welby" target="_blank">http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/437543/Religious-people-not-mad-Welby</a></div>
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The archbishop of <st1:place w:st="on">Canterbury</st1:place>
has declared that he, and other people that believe in spiritual things, are in
no way mental. A sign of mental illness is hearing voices in ones head; as a
voice for the ultimate deity one can only assume that Justin Welby can not
only hear voices but presumably he knows who is doing the speaking. </div>
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There is a fair amount of religious people, they seem to be
all over the place at times; statistically, even if one assumes that the
majority of them are sane, there will be a certain remaining demographic that
has a more tenuous grasp of reality. It might be less of a leap if one
believes, for example, that an ethereal being demands the removal of a body
part that he created for the benefit of the owner, to step across the threshold
into the realm of the genuinely crazed. </div>
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People who think they are Jesus might be mad, presumably
they are also religious; it would be going to far, possibly, not only to
declare yourself as Christ but then pointing out that you don’t exist either.
Or perhaps you do exist; you just aren't the son of God, how did you come back?</div>
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In 2011 Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hemandez declared himself as
Jesus and fired an AK47 at the Whitehouse, the motivation for this is the fact
that Barak Obama is the antichrist. Which is fair enough as far I’m concerned;
religious freedom in a developed country means that people should have the
right to act according to their beliefs and worship in their own special little
way; even if it means rocking back and forth and shouting ‘I hate blacks’ at
the top of their voice. </div>
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To emphasize the sanity that dwells deep in the mind of the
spiritual; here is an article written by a person of sound mind indicating Dungeons
and Dragons causes people to behave irrationally, which is true, usually by
continuing to play it. The problem being it also encourages people to become genuine
sorcerers, which is where the argument might fall down. I, however, think that the problem
of the youth of today training to be mages and wizards and altering reality to
achieve their own evil ends may have been solved for us in advance. </div>
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At this point in the article it becomes apparent that no one
has actually accused the Archbishop of Canterbury of being mad; he is just
shouting ‘I’m not mad and neither are the others’ without any provocation. This
is generally viewed as a bad sign. </div>
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Earlier a leader of an earlier religion observed that
‘society was losing the plot’ altogether and everyone was mad for not being
Jewish. God is going to be very cross with one of these men as they both
believe in very different hats; all being well he will make them fight.</div>
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As madness displays a strong absence amongst the religious
fraternity it is clearly evident in school policy. An astonishing decision to
combat the sexualization of children by telling them about it when they don’t
need to know and aren't interested has taken place. By telling the children
about porn, which they don’t know about, they will then be safe from what they
haven’t seen and as a result not be influenced by it.</div>
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The role of the parents in this is clearly underestimated as
they should be casting a cursory glance on what their responsibility has access
to; the chances of children having access to hardcore pornography in a primary
school seems fairly limited. Or it was, until someone had this frankly stupid
idea.</div>
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There is a hypocritical element; presumably the parents of
these children did become sexualized at some point on the premise that these children
exist at all, unless all the children are Jesus. Perhaps if we can make sure that
no-one becomes sexualized then we would not have to teach the children how to
be a mammal, no-one would pictures on facebook of their wrinkled offspring or
put a pram next to me in a restaurant, the latter being firmly in the top five
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Perhaps the best idea would be if people were only allowed
to breed by Immaculate Conception; we would pay less tax, restaurants would be
quieter and if Jesus did turn up we would know it was him.</div>
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Pope Francis spoke openly on the topic of child safety and
faith on Thursday in an interview with Elrond Lord of Rivendell: ‘I don’t get
why people keep connecting pedophilia and Christianity’, the pontiff stated,
‘Jesus hated bald pussy. Mary Magdalene had a thatch like a Boney M afro and he
was up her inner thigh like a spider monkey. The apostle Paul used to tell an
anecdote in which Jesus set fire to Mary’s pubic hair to see if it said
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Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-79924412651751226752013-10-01T09:20:00.001-07:002013-10-01T09:35:13.160-07:00Elfin trousers. <div>
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Any politician who uses the term ‘brave political decision’
to describe what ever it is the electorate really don’t want him to do but is
going to do anyway is already very aware that he is part off the ruling class.
(Google ‘badger cull’.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24309634" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24309634</a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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The fact that the British public are being encouraged by the
government to marry for their own good is astonishing, he fact that these
people genuinely seem to think that they know what is for the benefit of the
general public is in its own way deeply disturbing; I thought these people were
supposed to organize infrastructure and deal with the bins.</div>
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As a member of this joyful country if you happen to be
married then you will be lucky enough to receive a tax break. What in the name
of Odin’s interstellar trousers have those two things got to do with each other?
You may well ask, and I swear on the cervix of Brittany Spears I have no
cocking idea.</div>
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I don’t want to get married, neither does the person that I
live with and I am sure that there are lots of people like us and plenty more
who have simply not met the right person. There is a good chance that these
people also claim no benefits, no childcare and generally receive nothing from
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David Cameron said:<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;">"I believe in marriage, alongside the birth of my children, my
wedding was the happiest day of my life.” So, he quite likes being married and apparently
feels I should try it which is awfully nice of him. The prime minister added:
"The values of marriage are give and take, support and sacrifice - values
that we need more of in this country." These basic elements of humanity
clearly cannot exist prior to or without the utterance of a few words under a
gazebo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It can cost
less than one hundred pounds to wed; all you need is a couple of down payments
and a roof to carry out the act under, The happy couple will receive two
hundred pounds per anum once joyfully joined, which at least means that there
is a profit, albeit a rather shit one, to be had.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Is it possible
that a deliberate saving could be made by some bad and uncooperative apples
that are not overly phased by the sanctity of this pseudo Christian fart-arsery
in the first place? Is it possible that this will convince people that they may
as well be married as long as it is convenient? If so then it may well add to
an already impressive divorce rate which was at 42% in 2010. (National Office
of Statistics.) This statistic in itself might also imply that the sanctity of
marriage turns out not to be overly sanct. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The prime minister
of the U.K claims to be religious; there is some evidence for this with the
reintroduction of faith schools; which once again allows the legal and state
supported indoctrination and abuse of children. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jeremy Hunt
thought he would help out with this meaningless and bizarrely existent debate;
for what ever reason. One could enquire what the secretary of state for health
has got to do this; while you are doing this why not ponder why the secretary
of state for health believes in homeopathic medicine, which is basically the
same as a minister for transport who believes in levitation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jeremy pointed
out that marriage was ‘special’, which is unhelpful: Although presumably he
believes a relationship can be special outside of wedlock, as proven by his
relationship with News Corp before and during their bid for BskyB in which his
actions were entirely above board. Not to mention the ‘special adviser’, of
whom Hunt had, that in no way provided a ‘back channel of influence’ for News
Corp. If marriage is special and so are advisers do I receive a tax rebate for
having one of the latter? </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Look at his magical face: Elves are real, dream<br />catchers actually catch dreams, homeopathy works<br /> and the British government is in no way trying to <br />improve things by wildly wanking into a handbag <br />instead of doing their actual fucking job.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The concept of
believing homeopathy is in any way functional is not a sound basis for
rationality or government; no wonder Jeremy thinks that marriage is a little
bit magical; he can probably see elves at the foot of his bed weaving fucking
dream-catchers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The only reason
not to continue this is the fact that entire subject is based upon the inane
gibberings of a coalition that should never have existed in the first place. All
that this new development represents is the erasing of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region></st1:place> debacle from the long list of
Cameron shaped mistakes; it is merely an additional grotesque fold on the
corpulent sack of consistently evolving nonsense that is the over-sized seat of
British politics. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-31991780130684712552013-09-15T07:09:00.000-07:002015-01-07T23:41:26.085-08:00Blasphemy is for believers, I can make a pork collage of the prophets if I want. <br />
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Blasphemy is for other people; I cannot commit an impious
act as I do not acknowledge the existence of piety. Other people are more than
welcome to self apply the rules of an imaginary concept based on fuck all if
they so wish; you might not eat pork because you read in a book that God
disapproves; that is like me having a fondness for real ale and fireworks
because Gandalf liked them.</div>
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There is no difference between me placing a stuffed pig on a
stuffed penguin or on the cover of the Quran; there is no religious
significance to either item and neither is sacred. I am quite fond of penguins
but I have no qualms about their contact with the porcine element, although I
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This program by the BBC, entitled teen exorcists,although reasonably impartial and
investigatory, none the less represents a concept of belief and attached actions that it
inspires which makes the blurry lines between religious freedom and what is
acceptable behavior.<br />
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The fact that it
seems acceptable to tell children that demons live in peoples heads; to take
these children to Africa, where there has been a great deal of child abuse
based on the fact that Christianity is at an earlier stage on that continent
than it is in the west. As a result the horrific acts that were carried out in
the Middle Ages in the name of this ridiculous, tainted and foul amalgamation
of apocryphal untruths are being reenacted in the twenty-first century. There
is no excuse for this.</div>
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Mormons are not allowed televisions; the thieving liars that
make up the leadership of the L.D.S are fully aware that if one gains any
knowledge on the actual formation of this warped religion they will shortly
become fully aware that it is a massive pile of shit. All religions have always worked along this same premise.</div>
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The cruelty that is being carried out in the various differing
countries of Africa motivated by religious zeal, which was embarrassing in
medieval Europe, is now being encouraged by lunatics from the west who have to
travel quite far to find someone who willing to believe this fucking nonsense
any longer. The evangelical, fuck witted, self important denial of all logic
makes up everything that is negative about all levels of faith.</div>
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Apologists may point out that you can be a Christian without
the demon, angels and casting out element of the whole thing; in short you
cannot. If anyone has the audacity to tell me that a book is true to the point
that one should live ones entire life by the ethos contained within its
hallowed pages then all of it has to be true. The bit with the demons, the bit
where it is alright to have and to hit slaves, the victims of rape that choose
not to marry their beloved rapist should be hit in the head with rocks until
they are dead and all of the animals in the world fit on a boat.</div>
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Pretending these weird and frankly disgusting ideas are not
part of attending church undermines the religion and deity that is being
worshiped; if you are not willing to live by the full list of these rules then
keep your leaflets far from my face, if you are willing to live life in this
manner then you are a dangerous psychotic with no place in society.</div>
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The assumption that the rules of ones faith apply to
everyone else is part of the assumption that everything belongs to you;
Christians against marriage seem to be firmly under the misapprehension that
Christians invented the concept. This is why it is felt that weddings should
follow the values, using the word in the loosest possible terms, of their
misguided and fictional doctrine. It is very clear that marriage existed, not
just earlier than Jesus was written about one hundred and fifty years after his
death, but clearly before Moses manages to narrate his funeral in the first
person and declare himself as meek. The Greek gods were married to each other
long before Abraham was convinced to stab his only son to death to prove a
point and they weren't real either.</div>
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Teaching children that demons and djinns exist, not to
mention that they need to be fought takes away their childhood and possibly the
rest of their lives. This is not composed to incite any kind of religious
discord or hatred; it is an argument against the damage that religion causes to
innocent individuals; and ends with the question: is it acceptable to hate
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You find as you look around the world that every single bit
of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the
diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or
every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the
world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world.</div>
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Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-52607275412784683782013-09-08T10:25:00.000-07:002013-09-08T10:25:17.272-07:00Mormons, madness, elves and eccentricity. <br />
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The week started off well as I was surrounded by goats, it did begin to slip downhill a little towards midweek as they turned into Mormons. Not that they 'turned into' Mormons, which would have been awesome; more that circumstances changed as time moved on and I seemed to inadvertently exchange one for the other. Not that I would ever swap goats for Mormons.<br />
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I was becoming strained by the self satisfied expressions being worn by this milling herd which was noticed by another Gentile, I was informed that I 'have to respect their religion.'<br />
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A rosy cheeked fourteen year old was attempting to convince me that joy lingered within the tome he clutched; his partner was entirely more shrewd of eye and cynical about the path of questioning I was merrily skipping along, with them, reluctantly, in tow. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mormons: Absolutely love it. </td></tr>
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In 1823 Joseph Smith was visited by the angel Moroni, which was nice of him. The voice of the Lord spake unto Joseph, as he would put it, the luminous figure then told him the whereabouts of a golden book which he was not allowed to retrieve. The book had been there for 1400 years so presumably there was no rush; Joseph dug the book up anyway and God immediately took it away, which is fair enough. Fortunately god said the chosen one could have another chance; as long as he came back every year and then married the woman he fancied, which panned out alright.<br />
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The father of the girl was perturbed as this was around the point that the prophet was done for fraud by the state of New York, not for anything to do with his religious chuntering, but for telling people he could find treasure by reading crystals. Joseph took quite a bit of money in advance for finding treasure, the only down point being that he never found any.<br />
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Emma, the girl that god chose after Joseph realized he fancied her, eventually ran off with the lunatic/con man; this meant he could now have his golden book. The book was written in 'reformed Egyptian' despite not having come from Egypt and being in America; it was very lucky that god provided some 'magic spectacles' that enabled the reader to understand the ancient text. Like the Quran and the Bible, it is for some reason vital that the people of the world have no chance of understanding the message that is being sent specifically to them. <br />
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In more recent years the 'key enemies of Mormonism' have been clearly labelled as 'Feminism and homosexuality'. The people who dwell upon this Earth that have a darker pigment to their complexion are intrinsically evil; the colour was punishment for turning their backs on God. Later in the promised land of America, right next to where Joseph Smith lived thousands of years later, the black people killed all the white people which is why no people of caucasian appearance were there by the time the historical world was able to visit. Next time the white shirted preachers of madness (wearing their special Mormon underwear, I kid you not at all) have the presumption to offer you a conversion; make sure you bring up the subjects of sexism, homophobia and blatant racism.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joseph Smith: Like Jesus only less gay. </td></tr>
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I do not have to respect your religion, or indeed anyone's religion. The big three, and all their appropriated spin off series, are based upon the truth of the Old Testament, the downfall being that it hasn't got any in it. Every day new species are found in the world, on continents never visited until very recent centuries, just collecting all the dragon flies from the surface of the world would be unfeasible today. It would be extraordinarily difficult for a man who had no idea that other countries existed at all. A dubiously accumulated book of apocryphal tales that were roughly hammered together long after the event that advocate slavery, the death of homosexuals and the standard second class citizenship of women is not something I have any obligation to respect or even acknowledge.<br />
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If your idea is obviously false I have no reason to respect it, your assumption of respect is not enough to make it the case. When I was a student in shared accommodation I returned home in the early hours of the morning minus the trousers that I was sure I had been wearing when I left. I have no memory of the incident but reliable sources informed me in retrospect (very much like a religious text) that I stood in a noble fashion in the front room, in front of the television so as to capture my audience. I moved on to loudly declare that Elves were responsible for the entire thing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An Elf in a weirdly seductive pose and a Hitler mustache:<br />The absence of trousers does not necessarily indicate <br />the presence of Elves. No matter what I say.<br /></td></tr>
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My housemates were unconvinced; they observed that I had misplaced my trousers on numerous occasions, there had, on every occasion been an absence of Elves whereas there had never been an absence of whisky. I was apparently offended by this; I denounced my housemates as unbelievers whilst waving a nearly empty whisky bottle at them. I seemed to genuinely believe in something; this in no way meant that it warranted respect from my reluctant disciples. The fact that I firmly believed in something in no way made it less fucking stupid. <br />
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I moved on past the milling Mormons to an evangelist and then on to a stall advocating Islam; they had Qurans in English. I was under the impression that this was not allowed; the word of the Quran is protected by god from corruption. I inquired about this and was told that some Muslims do believe that the book has to be in Arabic. In fact some branches of Islam would be very cross about it indeed. Islam broke into two as soon as Muhammad was cold; whether people should follow the family of the prophet or should another prophet be chosen. This resulted in the Sunni and the Shia and there has not been a moments peace between them since. I feel that God could have been clearer on a couple of points. <br />
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If you are in this position, standing at a religious stall in the main though fair of a town, if you have a line of preachers from the different segments of true belief bellowing over the heretic nearby. I find that if you observe that they all follow the same religion, and then suggest that they 'all have a talk' then the atmosphere cools noticeably. I think in the west we can judge Islam on this point; lets face it, Catholics and Protestants have always got on.<br />
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There are nearly 41,000 denominations of Christianity and numerous Islamic schools, the Jews believe the Old Testament which we can definitely say is not based upon fact in itself. There is no mention of Mary ascending to heaven in any bible and this branch of belief that supports Catholicism is genuinely referred to the assumption. Among the splendid buffet of evidence for the false nature of modern monotheism, the fact that no two groups agree, to the point of foaming anger, on the exact desires of the deity prove that it is a manufactured concept open to the whims, madness and ignorance of the consistently fallible human. <br />
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The joy of conversation has been riddled with bullshit over the previous week; there have been offered statements of fact that distinctly lacking in the fact department. I was discussing the concept of military intervention in Syria and the difficulties involved in actually bombing a chemical weapons plant; one of the key problems is that the chemicals tend to come out. The idea of Exocet missiles hitting installations containing sarin gas without causing collateral damage seems a little far fetched. As we know from recent events, once there is a collection of collateral damage then the collateral that is still moving around and intact starts to get understandably irritated by the amount of damage that there has been and one ends up with a form of insurgency.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minnows: Know more than you because they love the cock. </td></tr>
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The idea of puncturing chemical storage units with a none explosive charge and scattering tungsten rods over a sixty foot area on a day that is not particularly windy seems ambitious; mainly due to the history of friendly fire incidents and general fuck ups that have formed the global image of international relations for the last decade. I felt a hand land gently on my shoulder and heard words spoken through a smile: 'Obviously you are not a mother.' This, in all fairness, is a good point. 'If you were a mother, you would want to invade Syria.' Which I'm not sure is. <br />
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I, for some reason tried to explain the interventions in the late 19th century into Afghanistan, which was not an invasion at the time, but just installing a friendly government. (To protect the route to India which was important at the time) The Arabic world is much more aware of the western intervention through history than we tend to be and it colours their view of the present interactions of the modern western world, as well it should. Also the technological difficulties of bombing such targets is enormous and needs a great deal more thought and planning than an immediate attack would have. Starting an aggressive movement towards a middle eastern target without an exit strategy would be really embarrassing. Like losing your trousers more than once.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Highlander: Lives in your vulva. </td></tr>
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None of this mattered, if you have children you apparently understand the importance of the suffering of children in a greater way than someone who has been more cautious. You immediately understand the history of international relations when the crying starts and you had no compassion up until that point. As soon as the placenta hits the rubber matting you are filled with the knowledge of the universe as though you vagina was in some way highlander.<br />
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I was told that my degree was a much lesser qualification than breeding: My degree took three fucking years, when I was sixteen I got a girl pregnant in a massively shorter period of time. A really short period of time now I think about it. The more children grotesquely spat out into an unwelcoming and overflowing world the better apparently, the wiser the bearer of the magical cervix becomes. Minnows have the capacity to produce thousands of offspring at a time, this in no way indicates that the proud parent should work for the U.N.<br />
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I was more recently informed that 'If you were a parent you would believe in capital punishment, you would understand that some people deserve to die.' I am fairly certain that bit isn't true, there are various parents I know personally that breeding did not have this effect upon. Breeding does not stop you from being a dick, breeding is not, in itself, an achievement.<br />
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I miss the goats. Sometimes it is just nice to know where you stand.<br />
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Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-37853769921864761122013-08-11T03:40:00.000-07:002013-08-11T03:40:49.555-07:00Censorship and sheep’s legs. (Not suitable for children.)<br />
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The lamb leg is a favorite choice of meat for many a Sunday
roast; it is easy to make it tender, although it can be a rather tasteless meat
and as a result can take little effort to make it a truly successful dish. I am
only cooking for two and am only using a half leg but this recipe can be used on
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The censorship laws due to be brought in 2014 will mean
that you have to admit to watching porn and allow consistent monitoring of your browsing if you wish to look at or read any material that is deemed
inappropriate by somebody else. This person will be a member of parliament and
probably will disagree with you on the subject of what is good for you to read,
what is in your personal interest to know and what isn't.</div>
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Take a leek; slice and add chopped onions and good sized
pair of cloves of garlic; fry these until they begin to brown, releasing their
juices. Take the pan off the heat, and while your hot wet vegetables begin to
cool you can be preparing your meat. In front of the hard bone, heading towards
the center of the meat you will find a natural fatty flange. This can easily be
opened using the correct utensil. It is always a good idea to gently push your
fingers in to prepare the hole. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meaty flange: Things not to Google.</td></tr>
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If you want to watch something unseemly then you have to
basically tell someone that you are looking at porn; because children might
watch things that are perfectly suitable for you, and funnily enough, are not
suitable for them) The word unseemly applies to a
great deal of things that I find entertaining: Family Guy, Battlestar
Gallactica, Archer and the History of Britain.</div>
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Put the string on the chopping board, spaced accordingly,
and then splay your meat out on top of it. The leeks and onions will now have cooled
and it is time for stuffing: the oil will lubricate the insertion and don’t
worry about stretching the meaty orifice, as the restraints, once applied, will
make sure everything stays tight enough. </div>
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It would be a more acceptable practice for people to ‘opt
in’ to internet monitoring; that way the opinion of a self proclaimed Christian
would not be guiding what you watch and read. There could be an ‘I do have
children and lack the capacity to operate windows’ option, this would immediately
bar you from reading anything about <st1:place w:st="on">Pompeii</st1:place>,
Julian Assange or fifty shades of grey.</div>
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It is now time to wrap up the joint; this will form a firm
yet yielding meaty mound with oily juices leaking from the opening. Pull the
ends of the string and tie in a simple knot; make sure the restraints are tight
enough to produce taught, bulging rounded embonpoints that are firm to the
touch. With a lubricant of your choice insert the meat into an oven (220
degrees for the first half an hour and then and then an extra half an hour per
900 grams on 160-80 for well done and 20 minutes per 900 grams for medium/rare.)
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You can also take this
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16pt;">The fact that someone who believes that Moses narrated he
own funeral in the first person, while describing himself as meek is summing up
acceptability is not the only risk that the new and bizarre alterations to the
internet will bring. A millionaire with no understanding of reality wishes to
bring to your information freedom the lack of anything 'violent', presumably
whether the violence is carried out by the British government or not. Anything
to do with ‘extremist related content’ which is pretty much anything one
chooses to disagree with strongly. ‘Suicide related websites’ are out, so
presumably so are the Samaritans. ‘Alcohol and smoking’ are taboo; I am fairly
certain that most websites on those topics refer to stopping these practices as
apposed to continuing them, the latter being easy to achieve without a great
deal of research. ‘Web forums’ are not good, although the ones I have read are
in fact about a variety of roasting times for differing meats and it sounds
very much like a ban on the exchange of information. Last but certainly not
least is ‘esoteric material’. Esoteric meaning: ‘</span><span class="partofspeech2" style="line-height: 16pt;"><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">adjective</span></i></span><i style="line-height: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3961415820661223051" name="esoteric__3" style="line-height: 16pt;"></a><span class="definition" style="line-height: 16pt;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">intended for or
likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized
knowledge or interest.’ (<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oxford</st1:place></st1:city>
dictionary.) </span></span></div>
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Most things posted on the internet are aimed at a comparatively small group of people; be they brony, vegan, musician or train-spotter. This makes the final addition to Cameron’s list the most perturbing of all the frankly mental suggestions put forward so far.</div>
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A friend of mine came to visit on Saturday evening: My friend is from a warmer clime than this dubious end of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.K.</st1:country-region></st1:place> and as a result has a differing complexion. The dog went fucking mental. That is all I am saying on the subject. <br />
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Drew wigginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13742085041591595930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961415820661223051.post-76988812471931893572013-05-26T03:57:00.001-07:002013-05-26T03:57:42.779-07:00Xenophobia and meatballs.<br />
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Should we be embarrassed for the state of affairs that we live in? There seems to be an excuse for those that lived in the distant or even recent past as scientific understanding lacked an accurate explanation for things in general. We had great hopes for the year 2000, flying cars and a utopia based on the pursuit of a higher order. Like in Star Trek. When <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> caught fire in September 1666 rampant xenophobia ensured that folk rambled around to find a Jew to hang; it was apparently unlikely to have an accidental fire in a big pile of wood without the interaction of a follower of the old faith. Where as we know now that as that big clumsy scarab pushes the sun across the sky the occasional spark is bound to come off and cause trouble. </div>
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The great fire of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> had an integral background of xenophobia due to recently having attacked the Dutch, consistently fighting the French and the recent reformation of the church; there was a distinct lack of facebook so perhaps folk could lump Catholics and foreigners in to their own vile little pigeon holes because people really did not know any better. Even though a bearded gent who everybody at the time professed to believe in had stood on a hill 1400 years previously and told everyone not to behave in such a frankly gormless fashion; it hadn’t worked and now there were two groups of people who professed to believe in the bearded gent arguing over what he had meant in the first place. But that’s folk for you and there you go.</div>
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I scrabbled at the front door and stumbled out into the street: A bespectacled gentleman with a satchel was passing; I immediately punched him savagely in the face sending him sprawling to the floor. A woman came running from her house, so I made an absence gesture with my fist and told her to get her tits out. The shooting pains subsided, I went back inside and slapped my girlfriend in Case she said anything; lets face facts; she should have been cooking in the first place because she has a vagina and, as a result, this was all her fault.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">I had no idea until I read the Observer that men are responsible for wasting the fertility of women by not having children with them because men are selfish. Put like this it sounds a bit stupid; this is because it is. A third of women, according to this publication, do not have children for this reason; Barbara Ellen feels that it is a larger percentage than this; presumably because the elves in her head sang to her that this was the case. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Despite the unquestionable statistics it raises the question of opposites: How many women are forced to have children because the man is selfish? Barbara seems to be under the impression that women who don’t want children for reasons of their own are an ‘urban myth’, which is frankly more sexist against women than anything I have ever said or done. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I don’t really need to point out to any rational person that if only one person out of the necessary two wants children then that person needs to be with someone who does. What if the man wants children and the female party involved does not? Is she being selfish? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Why are children part of an unquestionable long term plan? If you are part of a couple and you think that you would be good parents and a child would enhance your life and relationship and you can provide for this new being then that seems fair. Thinking that having children is something that you do because it is what you do is an outdated concept that lacks all levels of introspection and philosophy: This planet is running low on a great deal of things and people are not one of them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">As an upper middle class journalist/MP, a large majority of the people that actually exist are going to be different to the people that you have actually met. I have taken everything these two people have said into account: I checked with my partner and asked if I was stopping her from breeding, she assures me that no-one needs to do that. She was very graphic about it. All men have the desire to be stereotypically masculine in the same way that women all like pink shoes and talent shows. My girlfriend watches Top Gear while I’m out because I hate it; I like baking, drawing pictures and big lovely bosoms. I am comfortable with this, and would be, even if I loved the cock. </span></div>
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