Delta Day.

by rant rant rant rant rant iosaf Fri May 28, 2004 00:07

The USA, that goliath which joined Europe in fighting Fascism from 1941 to 1945, though it's active land campaign we must remember was only dated from 1944 to 1945 has asserted it won't give a "depart date" from Iraq.

Mr Boucher the US spokesperson on this one told whoever bothered to listen that "one can not arbitrarily place a date for the end of the international mandate".

Check that out!
Mr Boucher, who is a representative to the US Congress for Virginia has supported the UN plan for Cyprus, lauded Abu Mazen on Israel and interestingly lobbied the €U for Turkish accesion, is now calling the US/UK illegal occupation of Iraq _"an international mandate"_ and being listened to.

How they slipped that upon us.


And the French in the form of Chirac whilst spending a visit in Guatemala have agreed with the Chinese that the "you shallt leave" date is
Janvier 2005. (my 34º birthday = I will have cake) Meanwhile the Germans, who have not (have we heard?) turned into Huns in their dealings with the Pole, Latt, Estonian and Lithiunian or Slovak or Czech to the East, in the form of Schroeder whilst spending a visit in Mexico have utterly butterly agreed, kisses all round.

For the benefit of those some 300,000,000 north americans who don't yet live on our Continent where the Empire began and is centered in oh so many myriad languages,

(in alpha-betical order)
France is about the size of Colorado.
Germany is about the size of Montana.
Guatamala is slightly smaller than Tennessee.
Iraq is about the size of Idaho.
Israel is about the size of Lake Michigan or Vancouver island or Sardinia.
Ireland is slightly larger than West Virginia where the CIA come from.
Ipsiphi is about one quarter the weight of Michael Moore but the same height as Chomsky.
Mexico is about 3 times the size of Texas with which it holds certain problems.

the Empire will not reform
It will destroy itself.
we must alone afford it
a wee bit of space
& ne'er forget to render
onto it, exactly what it wants.
If not in the way it thought it
asked.

by do do do do do do do pencil sharpen do do do toner change do - do do do do do cup of coffee do do do do smoke a cig do do do do do do do do do mc dowell do do do D Fri May 28, 2004 14:53

Dear Mike,
we have never met, but we share many things in common as you know. I as you might not know, regularly write prisoners of conscience little postcards.
Here's yours.

You're a terrible puritan. If you go through with all these ideas of yours, health problems, social problems and that section of the Irish community already at odds with your qualified reserve the law and jurisprudence will be sorely agreviated.
Make your noises, fly your kites, do your "do".
But think about the consequences of some of your prohibitions in terms which are not only judicial.
You're looking very well in the photos of late.
You're not really a concubine of Satan, nor is the Mammy Harney, but you are slowly going that way.
I hope this doesn't indicate that we will be sharing the odd postcard till I figure which way that is :-)
Meanwhile isn't it quite thought provoking how much money your state would pay for an exile's papers that not even his flesh & blood would want you display, referring of course to the blogging of Brother Joyce?

yours etc.,

Iosaf MacDiarmada the ipsiphi


Postscript-
Minister I'm going to call you "mikey" from now on. It's more simian. I don't think the readers appreciate the "mike who lived upstairs in the young ones' analogy" anymore, and _we all know_ you're not a mick.

by :-) Fri May 28, 2004 15:00

Senator. do your do too.
would you not retire now and let some other flamboyent periodist post ackroyd aesthete take the seat?
droit de dodododododododo.
(explanatory note - the Joyce sillyness, that is the annual Joyce sillyness has started in ireland.)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=64827&condense_comments=false#comment74350
i reckon it's why he left & didn't go back.

by iosaf Fri May 28, 2004 18:40

I'm drunk. spent two hours intensive doing south america narcotraffic chit chat and developing new strategies for making people happy and helping them feed their kids sort of stuff during which i was plyed with beer.
no puritan me.

ok so the news that pinochet is open for "doing" makes us smile.
Smile on. This is important news that causes both left and right to smile. But only after a statutes of political limitation has been passed, as in he couldn't be got before. But times they are a changing....
We may likewise some day see such an alliance of Conservative European lawyers and Left South American Groups get Bush, Thatcher the whole damned lot.


we have the best indication yet that multi-polarism is the declared wish for globalised development. The 3rd summit between the €U and it's cultural trade and geopolitical partners in South and Central America has said as much this afternoon.
Now that's not exactly cake for everyone yet, but it signals that we must start working on "Nice Cop Europe" coz our influence will lessen come June 30. the EU looking southward also made in the last 24 hours grumbling noises about Nigeria, which really isn't enough. We have to send more digital cameras and computers to Nigeria to make it relevant to our politicians careers.
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3222,36-366695,0.html

UN security stuff:-
read it in French, ok? Let the Brit Huns and YAnkeeDixies read it in english. You could read it in German, or Chinese as well.
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3210,36-366589,0.html
Delta Boy Bush is being told by as many different sections of world community, that we don't have adjectives suitable to describe such a bandwagon anymore. He truly has been my favourite US president, the easiest to oppose, it is worth noting that monarchial systems have turned to constitutional parliamentary systems so often, because of the simple rule of breeding:-
"Just coz you're an alpha don't mean you get an alpha baby."
This is worth considering when you try and stop the slum-dwellers of Dublin breeding Minister. Let's look @ Bush. Daddy Bush is an alpha, no doubt about it. But the son? Effin delta and no doubt about that. The British Hun royal family can hide such mediocrity, the Bush Dynasty can't. And the world of alphas dont want to be led by a delta anymore. I hope they are. I'm loving it.
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3210,36-366589,0.html

oh and Sharon has gone to the Knesset, (he is an alpha) to ask them to vote (again) on leaving Gaza. He promised his party if he lost the last vote which he did, that he would shelve the plan. Let's make this clear.
He hasn't shelved the plan.
He has gone back for a 2nd vote.
There are lots of alphas in his party too.
http://libe.com/page.php?Article=210023

James Joyce is still xerox-able and I'm sure he'd love it, the thought of his private youthful notes being kept private as he had wished, and the readers only getting the bits of his soul he wanted to lay bare. He wasn't an alpha. He was quite sublimely above all that.
Xerox his work. Paste in on the walls. He is your writer, not theirs'.

by .:. Fraternité .:. €@=$%. Wed Jun 02, 2004 00:11

a selection may be viewed at http://www.stratecomm.net/~fritz/gallery/mem04

NYC is about to launch it's own hispanic "el independiente" an answer to the very succesful IMC print project which has been freely available to NYCers for the last two years.

And NYC indymedia is launching a radio station!

These will offer NYCers independent news and anti War stuff in spanish.
the only other anti-War newspaper is owned by Swedish Media magnate "metro" which each day issues 300,000 free copie to subway users. It's a commercial concern.

Unfortuantely most of the USA is as far from NYC physically, legally, psyhcologically and spiritually, as "Dublin is from Boston".

by iosaf - archiving. Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:45

No delegation for either Spain or Ireland attended the D Day celebrations. Naturally you would think both De Valera's Eire and Franco's España were in a state of neutral emergency in 1944 a moral detachment which meant neither got Marshall funding for a while after the war ended.
But as we know, Irishmen and Spanishmen did fight in WW2 and played "their part".
Well the Spanish involvement is to be marked in Paris this August 24th, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of that city.
And I thought I'd tell you about it, because it's interesting.

at 21h22 the first Allied people to enter Paris, were a unit of Spanish Republicans, called "la Neuve" (the new). Isn't that interesting?
I had always imagined the day as that of De Gaulle with his legions of free French, but it turns out the LeClerc tank battalion which entered the city first that day, was led by a bunch of Spanish Republicans themselves veterans of the Civil War.

Their names were :-
Granell, Campos, Bernal, Fábregas, Royo, Pujol, Domínguez.

They were forgotten, airbrushed indeed, let us not forget their comrades in the Maquis (the French resistance of whom Samuel Beckett was an intelligence operative) were the last to offer armed resistance to Franco when they invaded (/liberated) the Aran Valley in the Pyrennes at the end of the war. But now thanks to the efforts on one Evelyn Mesquida, a correspondent with the Parisian magazine "Tiempo" (I presume it's a spanish community publication) the French authorities are to mark their debt to these men by renaming a square in Paris this August.
article:-
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=5&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=126858&idseccio_PK=7&h=040617
letter:-
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=5&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=126813&idseccio_PK=5&h=040617

by Dusty - None Tue Jul 27, 2004 05:26 wwwww None

Are all you people in here crazy? Do any of you make sense? I feel like Alice meeting the Cheshire Cat. You are all mad here.