It was quite amusing to watch all of the artificial fuss about the colour revolution in Ukraine last year. None of it really mattered.
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As we wind down to the end of 2005 and to the beginning of 2006, there is a lot to reflect on. What brought down the Third Reich were too many fronts open at the same time. Basically I am suffering from the same malaise which brought down the Third Reich.
Leave a CommentEnough to slow one down and prevent the taking of vigorous exercise, but not enough to lay one down flat in bed. But in line with general technological fatigue, I stopped checking email for all of three days.
Leave a CommentSitting in our Western societies with our cafés and police and cars, it is hard to imagine what it is like to be really oppressed. One paragraph from Janina Sulkowska-Gladun’s Memoirs really knocke It’s so true that a well-fed person cannot understand the starving one.
1 CommentThe other day I was wondering about the mechanisms of mass murder, particularly of soldiers. Why and how is it that men can be made to dig their own graves or why it is they would go along with their own destruction?
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Here are some photos from Weichnachstklänge im Märchenland – 24 December 2005 – Quantum Album Release Party…. Much more relaxed than the Sunday Chai in Flex the next night on the 25th.
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Here is a photoset from the Saturday night goatrance party at the WUK in Vienna. The party was Finstere Zeiten.
Leave a CommentThis story Salon.com | The Ted Koppel I knew: Ted was at that time the State Department correspondent for ABC News, and I decided to call him for lunch to talk about the six-month trip to Indochina I had just returned from — particularly the new evidence I had amassed that the ongoing Kissinger-led bombing in Cambodia was continuing to murder civilians…. I still remember the friendliness and warmth of Ted’s jovial greeting when I called him up for lunch, and my awe as I entered the beautiful State Department restaurant, filled with important domestic and international dignitaries.After 15 minutes or so of pleasantries and reminiscences, I brought up the flattering book on Kissinger that had just been published by the brothers Marvin and Bernard Kalb, who worked for NBC and CBS News respectively.
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