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Nobel Prizes…. so much fun.

This year’s Nobel prize for Lit goes to: Imre Kert?sz, a Hungarian.

You may now proceed to the nearest bookstore and buy his books… you cant bet theyre on display. No but all commercialization aside… his books should be quite wonderful. Those Swedes know how to choose’em.

So now is a good time to predict the Nobel Peace Prize winner. So let’s see… it has to be someone that has made huge contributions towards establishing peace in some region….. so.. where has a conflict ended? Not many places… Angola.. but that wasn’t a nice ending.. they killed the rebel leader. Kosovo? Maybe. There have been lots of negotiations between Ethopia-Eritrea…. Sudan civil war factions…. hmm.

The bicyclemark peace prize for this year goes to: Jimmy Carter… for his Cuba visit. Save the criticisms… he deserves one of these peace prizes.

Otherwise…. this year world leaders have been quite war-like and typically two-faced… so they deserve no prizes.

And now for the bicyclemark war prize… for the leader who has killed the most people this year: Ladies and Gentlemen…. we have a tie! The prize will be shared… the three winners are Vladimir Putin for his performance in “Flatten Chechnya”, George W. Bush for his production of “Execute, Bomb, and Pollute till you Drop” and of course Arial Sharon for his thrilling performance in “West Bank Go Boom”

Honorable mentions: Joseph Kabilla… for being his father’s son. Laurent Gbagbo.. for turning a nice country into a hell-hole. Jiang Zhemin… for being his usual charming self. Pervez Musharaff for wearing the same uniform during his 3 years of coup, and Prince Whatever of S. Arabia… for chopping off peoples hands.

whew… tough selection… better luck next year.

Congratulations to all winners.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/international/middleeast/06MISS.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

That link is to a stupid yet true article. Israel now has a “missle defense system” which beyond its hollywood name.. simply means they got a system of radars and missles and hope that if something gets launched their way they might stop it. But calling it missle defense makes it sound so efficient and safe. BULLSHIT!

It gets worse. All this… it gets worse. Its manufactured by military contractors in the US and Israel… with the US fitting most of the bill. What this means is… not only have they built this… but they want to sell more $$$ This New York Times article ats more like a marketing strategy by saying “Israel becomes the first country to have a national missle defense” As if to say “THERE WILL BE OTHERS” SO much for proactive, investigative and critical journalism….

So obviously the best way to sell these boys…. is to have war. So… one more huge push for war in the middle east… HOW ELSE CAN WE TEST DRIVE OUR MISSILES.

Once again.. this brings shame the entire human race… because these are, somehow, human doing these awful and idiotic things.

Whenever there is a crisis in Europe – BAM Here comes the US and Europe with troops, and equipment, money, and newscrews. You never hear the end of it. They even stay and police the country while in the Hague they hold a war crimes tribunal to find out who is guilty and who is not. Its a real example of 21st century international intervention – when you see a horrible situation, go in, and stabalize it.

This is also an example of first world racism.

When thousands upon thousands in Rwanda were being butchered, the UN sent a little plane filled with bureaucrats, who left as quickly is they came. When Palestinians and Jews kill each other and the entire region is one giant war crime, they never think to send their troops, equipment, money, …. maybe the newscrews. When Cote D’Ivoire…. formerly the French Club Med of the 80’s, is about to break into civil war… again… no troops no intervention…. coincidence? Nah… just good ol’fashion racism. (OH, sorry… France sent some legionaires into the country to “evacuate the French citizens”… how kind of them to not interrupt the civil war that their multinational companies benefit from.

Tony Blair. Who is this clown? PM you say? Does anyone listen to him? The BBC. oh.

He’s like a parrot at times “Iraq… Weapons… war… Iraq.. weapons… US… war”

Following the Bush hijacking of the American elections, it was thought that perhaps Blair wouldn’t be so warm towards someone who gained power through quite controversal circumstances, and who according to political party, is quite different within the political spectrum.

MAN WAS THAT LONG AGO! Turns out… he spends more time in bed with W than Laura does. George Michael was definately on to something.

Hey Mohammed VI won the elections in Morocco. The alliance maintained power. Classic… a socialist/nationalist/center right coalition, everyone is certainly represented. Right? Dad would have been proud. Now the king can get back to driving sports cars and dating supermodels while the country runs on autopilot.

When you can’t talk about something because others tell you its not right. That’s where fascism begins. The US government is breeding fascism, and it’s taking root.

If you’re offended already, then you’re a victim of that very fascistic system, because autoomatically you think such a thing shouldn’t be discussed. But if it were truely democractic and open-minded, then we would able to sit and compare the US, or the US government to any point in history ever.

An inaccurate quote, “He is using the pretext of war to distract his citizens from the bad situation on the domestic front, Hitler used the same strategy.” This is roughly what the German Minister of Justice said. I WOULD AND WILL REPEAT THIS STATEMENT. The problem is not the statement. The problem is that it can’t be made, because forces on both sides of the Atlantic will say, like Canoleeza Rice, “How can you compare Hitler in the same sentence as the President of the United States.” Apparently at Georgetown, Rice never learned about academic or historical analysis. She only learned how to be patriotic and talk about things that make everyone feel safe. The pres of the united states is just a man. Matter of fact, he’s a very low quality man when it comes to knowledge, public speaking, and solving conflicts. Regardless, there is no reason why comparisons can’t be made between the strategies of Bush, Hitler, Geroge Washington, Stalin, Mother Teresa, Mao TseTung or Ghandi. They were all people and they had certain strategies in their lives, just as the pres does. Anyone who says, “You can’t say that” and proceeds to threaten or censor you, as the American Government has, is fascist and furthermore, a danger to free-thinking and democracy everywhere. Because, when it comes down to it, thats what it was supposed to be all about… open and diverse debate amongst citizens.

THE SITUATION IN RAMALLAH in THE WEST BANK is SHAMEFUL!!! Whats more, the worlds attention has shifted to MTV or Iraq phoney-war, so few take notice as an elected autonomous government, THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, has been attacked in their own headquarters (again) by the ISraeli Defense Force. (ironic title) The pretense: There was a suicide bombing in Israel.

Blaming Yassir Arafat everytime theres a suicide bombing, is the equivalent of the WHITE HOUSE being attacked everytime an American commits an act of murder. IT MQKES NO SENSE, AND HAS NO LEGAL GROUNDS! Its also terroristic and a violation of human rights.

Meanwhile the government of Ivory Coast claims to have killed the leader of the military coup last year. Hooray for democracy and human rights. My dear Ivory Coast… my deepest sympathies.

Its raining in Belguim.