Tash Quotes

2003-03-05T19:01:00.000Z

Tony Benn

"I've never said this before: non-violent resistance to the government will show they cannot claim to do this in our name. We should stop the buses, stop the trains, stop the schools"

Tony Benn 2003

2003-02-13T23:30:00.000Z

Hermann Goering on War

“Why of course the people don’t want war...But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship ...
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Hermann Goering, Nuremberg, 1946

2003-02-07T14:46:00.000Z

Eisenhower on peace

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments.
Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

2003-01-17T14:29:00.000Z

Levellers - A true sentiment

"Hang the man and flog the woman
Who stole the goose from off the common
But let the greater criminal loose
who stole the common from the goose."

Levellers

2003-01-01T12:14:00.000Z

Thought I would start the New Year with a quote, to get us going .......

Advice from Monty Python, on life

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Life of Brian - Monty Python
Eric Idle

2002-10-18T15:26:00.000Z

The Observer - Drugs Uncovered Series:

Money Problems:
"Wendy buys a gram of coke for £60.
She splits it into four equal piles.
Later, she sells each wrap to her 'friends' for £20 each.
How much does she make from the deal?"

Relating fractions to division:
"Peter invites two friends over to snort some speed.
He chops the powder into eight lines.
Each of them snorts two lines each.
They each get ______ of the speed.
How can Peter split what's left so everybody gets
one more line?"

Observer ad, for series:
Drugs and the under14's

2002-10-18T10:24:00.000Z

"In the terror trap" - What are we doing?

A couple of quotes from Timothy Garton Ash article in the Guardian this thursday...... "In the terror trap" Think it very informative, and I commend it to you.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,813115,00.html

"We've given up far to many freedoms
in order to be free".

John le Carre
[a last epiphany of spymaster George Smiley]

&

"To make this choice is to accept a risk: more liberty, less security. But the balance in this case is clear.
Erring on the other side, we would sacrifice too much liberty for too little added security.

Put it like this: I would rather take a one in 10,000 chance of being blown up by a terrorist than a one in 10 chance of having my emails read by a spook".

Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday October 17, 2002
Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,813115,00.html

2002-09-18T15:23:00.000Z

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter De Vries

2002-09-18T15:22:00.000Z

This is the current email 'suffix', from Undercurrents

silly man!

Paulo
Undercurrents Alternative News

16b Cherwell st
Oxford OX4 1BG
http://www.undercurrents.org
Tel +44 (0) 1865 203661
Mob 07973 298359

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2002-09-18T11:13:00.000Z

Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

Edward Whymper, "Scrambles amongst the Alps"

2002-09-16T20:33:00.000Z

"I'm not against the police;
I'm just afraid of them"

Alfred Hitchcock

2002-09-10T18:55:00.000Z

The Gettysburg Address to be 're-addressed'

This is the eve of the attacks on America on the the 11th September last year.

I understand that President Bush will give a speech and will be reading The Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln delivered this in the field, on November 19 1863' during the American Civil War.

Speaking as a 'part-time' Anarchist [they wont let me be a full time one!] I feel this is fitting.

I would like to remind you of its content:

2002-09-10T18:46:00.000Z

The Gettysburg Address

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Delivered at Gettysburg Field
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States
Nov. 19, 1863

2002-09-10T09:54:00.000Z

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject."

Winston Churchill

2002-09-06T00:11:00.000Z

On a chain of beautiful deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following people are stranded:

Two Italian men and one Italian woman
Two French men and one French woman
Two German men and one German woman
Two Greek men and one Greek woman
Two English men and one English woman
Two Bulgarian men and one Bulgarian woman
Two Japanese men and one Japanese woman
Two Chinese men and one Chinese woman
Two Irish men and one Irish woman
Two American men and one American woman
One month later, on these absolutely stunning deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following things have occurred:

One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman.

The two French men and the French woman are living happily together in a menage a trois.

The two German men have a strict weekly schedule of alternating visits with the German woman.

The two Greek men are sleeping with each other and the Greek woman is cleaning and cooking for them.

The two English men are waiting for someone to introduce them to the English woman.

The two Bulgarian men took one look at the Bulgarian woman and started swimming to another island.

The two Japanese have faxed Tokyo and are waiting for instructions.

The two Chinese men have set up a pharmacy/liquor store/restaurant/laundry, and have gotten the woman pregnant in order to supply employees for their store.

The two Irish men divided the island into North and South and set up a distillery. They do not remember if sex is in the picture because it gets somewhat foggy after a few liters of coconut whiskey. However, they're satisfied because the English aren't having any fun.

The two American men are contemplating suicide, because the American woman will not shut up and complains relentlessly about her body, the true nature of feminism, what the sun is doing to her skin, how she can do anything they can do, the necessity of fulfillment, the equal division of household chores, how sand and palm trees make her look fat, how her last boyfriend respected her opinion and treated her nicer than they do, and how her relationship with her mother is the root cause of all her problems, and why didn't they bring a goddamn cell phone so they could call 911 and get them all rescued off this godforsaken deserted island in the middle of friggin' nowhere so she can get her nails done and go shopping...

2002-08-24T19:11:00.000Z

Further to Muphy's Law:

OTools Law which states "Murphy was an optomist".

2002-08-18T19:04:00.000Z

Politics is not a bad profession.
If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

2002-08-04T10:39:00.000Z

Why Video Activism?

Video Activism deters police violence.

Video Activism helps to document what occurs at actions, for legal follow-up purposes.

Video Activism doesn't water-down, or alter the message of the people.

Video Activism gives the people themselves opportunities to voice their own concerns as cameras are getting cheaper and editing technology is becoming more available.

Video Activism enhances the capabality of the internet for spreading information accross borders by adding nontext content. Still images captured from video, downloadable audio and streaming video files can be made instantly available to interested people on the other side of the planet.

Video Activism is a big feature of the growing world of independent media. More and more concerned citizens, all over the world, are making their own media and by-passing the corporate-owned press with their own stories and their unique visions of a better world.

http://whisperedmedia.org/

2002-07-29T20:37:00.000Z

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoyes several times the same good things for the first time."

Friedrich Nietzche

2002-07-22T20:58:00.000Z

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't
like them myself.
They're pretty bad.
I grieve over them on long winter evenings."

Humphry Boggart - The Big Sleep (1946)

2002-07-21T22:37:00.000Z

"A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free. "

Kahlil Gibran 1913

2002-07-19T22:04:00.000Z

"You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

Eric Hoffer - American social philosopher. (1902 - 1983)

2002-07-18T23:39:00.000Z

"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult."

Fran Lebowitz

2002-07-18T23:38:00.000Z

"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."

Alan Turing

2002-07-18T23:37:00.000Z

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler

2002-07-18T23:36:00.000Z

"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."

Lady Bird Johnson

2002-07-18T23:34:00.000Z

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

Winston Churchill

2002-07-12T22:34:00.000Z

"My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia."

Dame Edna Everage

2002-07-06T22:55:00.000Z

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Bob Dylan

2002-07-04T23:17:00.000Z

The Manchester Rambler

Ewan Mac Coll

I've been over the Snowdon, I've slept upon Crowden
I've camped by the Wain Stones as well
I've sunbathed on Kinder, been burnt to a cinder
And many more things I can tell
My rucksack has oft been my pillow
The heather has oft been my bed
And sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead
Chorus: I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way
I get all my pleasure the hard moorland way
I may be a wage slave on Monday
But I am a free man on Sunday

The day was just ending as I was descending
By Grindsbrook, just by Upper Tor
When a voice cried, Eh you, in the way keepers do
He'd the worst face that ever I saw
The things that he said were unpleasant
In the teeth of his fury I said
Sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead
Chorus
He called me a louse and said, Think of the grouse
Well I thought but I still couldn't see
Why old Kinder Scout and the moors round about
Couldn't take both the poor grouse and me
He said, All this land is my master's
At that I stood shaking my head
No man has the right to all mountains
Any more than the deep ocean bed
Chorus
I once courted a maid, a spot-welder by trade
She was fair as the rowan in bloom
And the blue of her eye matched the June moorland sky
And I wooed her from April to June
On the day that we should have been married
I went for a ramble instead
For sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead
Chorus
So I walk where I will over mountain and hill
And I lie where the bracken is deep
I belong to the mountains, the clear-running fountains
Where the grey rocks rise rugged and steep
I've seen the white hare in the gulley
And the curlew fly high over head
And sooner than part from the mountains
I think I would rather be dead
Chorus

Ewan Mac Coll

2002-07-04T23:16:00.002Z

"When a piece of bread is dropped
it will land butter-side down"

Sod's Law

2002-07-04T23:16:00.001Z

"What can go wrong will go wrong".

Murphy's Law

2002-07-04T23:16:00.000Z

"Be the change you want to see in the world"

Gandhi

2002-07-04T23:15:00.002Z

"They piss on us and the press says its raining"

Argentinian Graffiti

2002-07-04T23:15:00.001Z

"Half of advertising is a waste.
The problem is we don't know which half"

Lord Lever

2002-07-04T23:15:00.000Z

“US foreign policy can be defined as follows:
‘Kiss my arse or I’ll kick
your head in.’”

Harold Pinter

2002-07-04T23:14:00.002Z

I love this bus

"I love this bus
That I call my home
I dig this coach
That allows me to roam
My little space
That can take me any place
My sanctuary
No matter where I be
And when I know she's ready to go
And a time to travel's dawning
Reaching, to start her heart
She turns, she breathes, she fires, she vibrates gently
We move into the morning
Wondering whence we do depart
Knowing that there's nothing wrong with where I am
Some folk simply do not understand."

A Traveller

2002-07-04T23:14:00.001Z

"The main thing that has separated people from their utopia is that their utopia is based on lies, the same lies as the very things that have kept them from the truth".
"Whilst men are staring up to heaven looking to their future, their birthright is being stolen all around them".

Gerrard Winstanley

2002-07-04T23:14:00.000Z

On Creationism …….

"Rational thought proportions belief to evidence. To believe that there are sparrows in the garden is rational because the publicly available and checkable evidence is powerful, repeatedly accessible, undeniable, and conclusive. To believe that there are fairies at the bottom of the garden is irrational, not least if it is based on the testimony of one flaky member of the family who got the idea from an old book. This sums up the comparison between science and creationism in a nutshell."

AC Grayling

2002-07-04T23:13:00.000Z

"This message is made of 100% recycled electrons.
No new atoms were destroyed in making this message".

An e-mail suffix

2002-07-04T23:12:00.000Z

Spike Milligan 1919 - 2002

Some of Spike Milligan’s most memorable one-liners:

“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.”

“Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.”

“How long was I in the Army? Five foot eleven.”

“I can speak Esperanto like a native.”

“I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe’s singing until somebody told me that it wasn’t a joke.”

In a fax to Harry Secombe he said: “I hope you go before me because I don’t want you singing at my funeral.”

Spike’s most memorable quip, which came after he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement gong at the British Comedy Awards in 1994.
Devoted fan The Prince of Wales wrote to congratulate Milligan and the letter was read out to the assembled worthies, allowing Milligan to famously comment:

“Oh, the little grovelling bastard.”

Shortly after this incident, which amused the Royal household, Spike sent Prince Charles a fax saying:

“I suppose a knighthood’s out of the question now.”
He was wrong.

"The boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had fled.
Twit!

About heaven he said: “I’d like to go there. But if Jeffrey Archer is there I want to go to Lewisham.”

On Prince Philip: “He was fucking lucky to marry the Queen. He had nothing when he met her. His arse was hanging out of his trousers.”

“I watch American comedies and they are as funny as a baby with cancer.”

“A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.”

“I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.”

“When I look back, the fondest memory I have is not really of the Goons. It is of a girl called Julia with enormous breasts.”

“I have the body of an 18-year-old. I keep it in the fridge.”

“Is there anything worn under the kilt?
No, it’s all in perfect working order.”

“It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.”

On his Army career:
“Then came the war. North Africa, promoted in the field (they wouldn’t let me indoors).
Mentioned in dispatches: nothing positive. Just mentioned.”

“Money couldn’t buy friends,
but you get a better class of enemy.”
“Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”

On receiving an honorary CBE in 1992:
“I can’t see the sense in it really. It makes me a Commander of the British Empire. They might as well make me a Commander of Milton Keynes — at least that exists.”

“My father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.”

“And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, and the earth brought forth grass and the Rastafarians smoked it.”

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.”

“I suppose basically I am very talented but I am not personally aware of that.”

“I don’t like women in positions of power because they make all the wrong bloody decisions.”

“And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.”

“Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?”

"A man can't have everything.
I mean, where would he put it?"

2002-07-04T23:10:00.000Z

"A hero is a man who does what he can."

Roman Rollard

2002-07-04T23:09:00.002Z

"Each of the world's current conflicts needs just two individuals, leaders on opposing sides, to stand up, meet talk, keep clearly in view some image - a child blinded or limbless because of bombing, say; and to agree a fixed determination not to us large-scale murder as a way of managing difference.

On that basis, real hope can enter the picture. This is of course an extremely hard thing to achieve; but it is why such individuals, if they were to appear, would be very great heroes indeed"

A.C. Grayling

2002-07-04T23:09:00.001Z

On Heroism

"My hero is he who wins praise without bloodshed."

Martial

2002-07-04T23:09:00.000Z

"That was 'Under my Thumb' from the Rolling Stones. As requested by the Fingerprint Department of Surrey Police.

Hope you enjoyed it guys ……. "

Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2. Feb 2002

2002-07-04T23:08:00.004Z

"No government today can take for granted the existence of an unarmed civilian population or the degree of public order long familiar in large parts of Europe.

No government today is in a position to overlook or eliminate internal armed minorities"

Eric Hobsbawn

2002-07-04T23:08:00.003Z

"All is change; all yields its place and goes".

Euripides

2002-07-04T23:08:00.002Z

"Nothing is permanent but change".

Heraclitus

2002-07-04T23:08:00.001Z

"Man is the only animal whose nudity offends his companions"

Montaigne

2002-07-04T23:08:00.000Z

" War is capitalism,
with the gloves off."

Tom Stoppard

2002-07-04T23:04:00.003Z

I AM A ROCK

"Don't talk of love;
I've heard the word before,
It's sleeping in my memory;
And I won't disturb the slumber
Of feelings that have died.
If I never loved, I never would have cried.
I am a rock, I am an island."

Simon and Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence

2002-07-04T23:04:00.002Z

"Most rock journalism is:
people who can't write
interviewing people who can't talk
for people who can't read"

Frank Zappa

2002-07-04T23:04:00.001Z

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can."

Danny Kaye

2002-07-04T23:04:00.000Z

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Mark Twain

2002-07-04T23:03:00.003Z

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

Phyllis Diller

2002-07-04T23:03:00.002Z

"A laugh is a smile that bursts."

Mary H. Waldrip

2002-07-04T23:03:00.001Z

"The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing?"

Ellie Katz

2002-07-04T23:03:00.000Z

"The world always looks brighter from behind a smile."

Anonymous

2002-07-04T23:02:00.002Z

"A great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do. "

Walter Bagehot

2002-07-04T23:02:00.001Z

"A playful attitude is best. "

Dr. Harold Bloomfield

2002-07-04T23:02:00.000Z

"We do not stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing."

Anonymous

2002-07-04T23:00:00.000Z

The Lark Ascending:

Romance for Violin and Orchestra
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

This meditative piece was written in 1914. With the onset of the Great War, Vaughan Williams was soon to enlist as an orderly in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and composition and premières were on hold for the duration.
The piece takes its name from the title of a poem by George Meredith and the following quotation heads the score:-

The Lark Ascending

He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound,
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup whistle, slur and shake.

For singing till his heaven fills,
'Tis love of earth that he instils,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which overflows
To lift us with him as he goes.

Till lost on his aerial rings
In light, and the fancy sings.

George Meredith (1828-1909)

The composer left no programme note to accompany his work,
but it is not difficult to allow one's mind to
wander when listening to or writing about the music.
It is redolent of the English countryside,
especially the wide open hills of
Vaughan Williams' native Cotswold landscape.

2002-07-04T22:59:00.003Z

"One regret, dear world,
That I am determined not to have
When I am lying on my deathbed
Is that I did not kiss you enough."

Hafiz, 1319-1389
Persian Poet

2002-07-04T22:59:00.002Z

He who knows not, and knows he knows not, is a child.
Teach him.

He who knows not, and knows not he knows not, is a fool.
Avoid him.

He who knows, and knows not he knows, is asleep.
Wake him.

He who knows, and knows he knows, is wise.
Listen to him.

Persian proverb

2002-07-04T22:59:00.001Z

Lord of the Rings

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and
in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

J.R.R Tolkien

2002-07-04T22:59:00.000Z

This is to be posted at the end of a statement in evidence.

"This statement, is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that, if it tendered in evidence, I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated in it anything which I know to be false or do not believe to be true."

2002-07-04T22:58:00.001Z

"It is easy to fly into a passion.
Anyone can do that;
but to be angry
with the right person,
to the right extent,
at the right time,
in the right way,
with the right aim;
that is not easy"

Aristotle

2002-07-04T22:58:00.000Z

On Anger:

"Angry men are blind and foolish,
For reason at such times takes flight, and in her absence anger plunders all the riches of the intellect".

Aretino

2002-07-04T22:57:00.001Z

“Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience.

Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to
violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring”

Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950

2002-07-04T22:57:00.000Z

"There is no old age for a man's anger;
only death.

Sophocles (c. 496-406 BC)

2002-07-04T22:56:00.001Z

Amazing Grace

Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)
That sav'd a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev'd;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ'd!

Thro' many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promis'd good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease;
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call'd me here below,
Will be forever mine.

Originally by John Newton
Composed probably between 1760 and 1770

2002-07-04T22:56:00.000Z

Extract from Guardian Article re: al-Jazeera TV

........................ The channel’s Afghan outpost is not a plush studio but a small, ramshackle building where visiting dignitaries have to be filmed outside or, more likely, on the roof.

The rudimentary conditions occasionally produce moments of tragi-comedy. One of these came on Sunday night while Mohammed Halimi, one of the staff of the Taliban foreign minister, was being interviewed - live - on the roof.

“While Halimi was speaking we heard a big noise, like a bomb,” Kicham said.
“Suddenly we had no picture and no sound at all. After about five minutes, the sound came back and Allouni reported that a bomb had fallen nearby. “I’m sorry,” he told the studio in Doha,
“but the cameraman has disappeared and I’ve no idea where he is.” The cameraman, it turned out, had fallen off the roof.

“FORTUNATELY, IT’S NOT A HIGH BUILDING,” Kicham said. “So he climbed back and finished the interview.”

(I mean, Bloody heck!)

In the five years of its existence, al-Jazeera has become the most-watched satellite channel in the Arab world and has infuriated every government from Libya to Kuwait - both of which once threatened to pull out their ambassadors from Qatar in protest. ..........................

Brian Whitaker
reports on how al-Jazeera cornered the conflict.
Tuesday October 9, 2001
The Guardian
http://media.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,7541,566045,00.html

2002-07-04T22:55:00.000Z

A further rant, from Tash

Personally, I come from a free festivals and travelling background. New Age Travellers etc.
A number of sayings have helped guide my life over time. Like....

Bring what you expect to find?
If no you, who?
If not now, when?
If not here, where?

In sum, this means self-reliance. It means gigs are ALWAYS better, when people attending don’t just attend , but are a main part of the act. It is obvious to all those there, when this magic happens.

This is actually where I came in. 1972 Windsor, Stonehenge etc..... These were my motives then and remain so now.
Of course the authorities have difficulty with a system that means they are not in sole charge, hence all the law and violence since the Beanfield etc......
Over time, I have been involved I raising awareness about the law changes and their implications to us all.

 Public Order Act 1986
 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
 Noise Act
 Barry Legg MP: Places of Entertainments (Increased Penalty) Act
 Security Services Act

And now all the Acts that have been going through parliament - with the words
“conduct by a large number of persons in pursuit of a common purpose” being a new definition of serious crime!!!

With the new definition of serious crime, that enable the use of some ‘heavier’ police departments to be applied against us. And will be the end of all the RTS and similar gigs.
Shame eh?

Now, in ‘rave mode’, I have spent time with the Velvet Revolution and All Systems gigs, I had written ‘Sound Advice’ and the 'Right to Party’ - to try and raise these matters in peoples minds.
Well, we have lost each of the matters I’m on about here. Whoever you vote for, the government gets in!

What I am absolutely positive about though, is that people involved in the scene,
DID NOT DO ENOUGH ABOUT ANY OF IT AS IT HAPPENED AND NOW IS STILL GOING ON.

People have to realise that self-interest and their own immediate happiness ( hedonism?), is not enough to make a festival, party rave, traveller site, gathering.
Important, but not enough.
Some folks on reading this will have been too young, to have had any objection to these changes as they have happened over recent years. But many others of you will have been.

The way parties are now organised, between those trying to conform with some pretty onerous conditions, (ie half to 2/3 of a ticket price to ‘self-police’ and pay for your own public order management and drug search.!) and those involved with the ‘free’ end of things but at continued ‘personal’ rather than ‘sheared’ risks.

This division is of course orchestrated by the other side.

This old hippy / raver? Is now of the opinion that folk have now got the party they deserve. Discuss........
Love

Tash
Wed 19/07/00

2002-07-04T22:53:00.001Z

"It takes a couple to have a child.
But, it takes a whole village to raise a Child.

African Proverb

2002-07-04T22:53:00.000Z

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

John Lennon

2002-07-04T22:52:00.002Z

"He shall mark our goings,
question whence we came,
Sets his guards about us, as in Freedom's Name.
He shall peep and mutter,
and night shall bring Watchers 'neath our window,
lest we mock the King."

Rudyard Kipling

2002-07-04T22:52:00.001Z

The Old Issue

Rudyard Kipling

Ancient and unteachable,
Abide abide the Trumpets!
Once again the Trumpets, for the shuddering ground-swell brings Clamour over ocean of the harsh, pursuing Trumpets
Trumpets of the Vanguard that have sworn no truce with Kings!

All we have of freedom, all we use or know
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
Ancient Right unnoticed as the breath we draw
Leave to live by no man's leave, underneath the Law
Land and torn and tumult, steel and grey-goose wing,
Wrenched it, inch and ell and all, slowly from the King.

Till our fathers 'stablished, after bloody years,
How our King is one with us, first among his peers.
So they bought us freedom not at little cost
Wherefore must we watch the King, lest our gain be lost.
Over all things certain, this is sure indeed,
Suffer not the old King: for we know the breed.
Give no ear to bondsmen bidding us endure,
Whining "He is weak and far;" crying "Time shall cure."
(Time himself is witness, till the battle joins,
Deeper strikes the rottenness in the people's loins.)
Give no heed to bondsmen masking war with peace,

Suffer not the old King here or overseas.
They that beg us barter wait his yielding mood
Pledge the years we hold in trust pawn our brother's blood
Howso' great their clamour, whatso'er their claim,
Suffer not the old King under any name!
He shall mark our goings, question whence we came,
Set his guards about us, as in Freedom's name.
He shall take a tribute; toll of all our ware;

He shall change our gold for arms, arms we may not bear.
He shall break his Judges if they cross his word;
He shall rule above the Law calling on the Lord.

He shall peep and mutter;
and the night shall bring Watchers 'neath our windows, less we mock the King
Hate and all divisions; hosts of hurrying spies;
Money poured in secret; carrion breeding flies.
Strangers of his counsel, hirelings of his pay,
These shall deal our Justice: sell deny delay.
We shall drink dishonour, we shall eat abuse,
For the Land we look to for the Tongue we use.
We shall take our station, dirt beneath his feet,
while his hired captains jeer us in the street.
Cruel in the shadow, crafty in the sun,
Far beyond his borders shall his teachings run.
Sloven, sullen, savage, secret, uncontrolled,
Laying on a new land evil of the old
Long-forgotten bondage, dwarfing heart and brain
All our fathers died to loose he shall bind again.
Here is naught at venture, random or untrue
Swings the wheel full-circle, brims the cup anew.
Here is naught unproven, here is nothing hid:
Step for step and word for word so the old Kings did!
Step by step and word by word: who is ruled may read.
Suffer not the old Kings: for we know the breed
All the right they promise all the wrong they bring.
Stewards of the Judgement, suffer not this King!

Rudyard Kipling
This was written October 9, 1899,
and concerned the Boer War:
the conquest of a people in the name of human rights and justice.
On War and Civil Rights.

2002-07-04T22:52:00.000Z

"Hi, I’ve just stumbled across your website whilst looking for a friends sound system one...and boy am I pleased that I did stumble across it !!! I can’t believe it...you have all the photo’s of all the things that have meant something to me on my journey.

I was born in ‘76, and when i was 6/7 years old my mum was part of the womans peace movement...so my first protests and big gatherings were at Greenham common. She was arrested for dancing on a missile, and put in Holloway for three weeks. But i was too young to think of taking photo’s and my mum too busy.

I went to most of the Glastonbury’s in the eighties as a child, and as we lived in the west-country, all the festi’s there, like Trewargy, Elephant fair and more.

As a teenager I got into things on my own terms instead of being dragged about by my mother. One of the first things i went to was the white goddess festi in Camelford, Cornwall, a spiral tribe experiance...and of course Castlemorton, Lechleid (or however u spell it) etc etc. But again, i didn’t ever take a camara...i guess at the time i didn’t realise that this was a major part of our history, let alone my life.

Luckily by the time that the CJB came in and all the march’s in Trafalgar sq were kicking off, i had hit 17, going on 18, and had realised the importance of a camara, although by the time we got to Claremont rd for the after party, i was probably too meshed to take any photo’s, as i only have them of the march.

Cheers mate for bringing back many, many memeories of my life, it even brought tears to my eyes. Keep up the good work."

Alison Conroy
kennytobe@
Tue 03/04/01 06:12

2002-07-04T22:51:00.001Z

“We are not for names, nor men, nor titles of Government, nor are we for this party nor against the other but we are for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom, that these may be exalted in our nation, and that goodness, righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace and unity with God,
and with one another, that these things may abound.”

Edward Burroughs, 1659
‘Quaker Faith and Practice’

2002-07-04T22:51:00.000Z

"Non Profit, independent video makers,
what does that mean?

Where does the money come from to keep these ‘non profits’ fed and watered, let alone able to make a good enough film that’s worth the effort?

What is the actual average income of a ‘non profit’ activist film maker? How do they live? Surely there must be money involved somewhere. Where does it come from?
Seems to me the term is a red herring. Profit for many small organisations just means sustainabilty at a decent and viable standard".

John Lubran
Moving Vision
Newbridge-on-Wye

2002-07-04T22:50:00.000Z

"Just had a call from BBC Online wanting to use a stock picture on the “Home Truths” website.
But, you guessed it, they had “no budget at all on this one” and could they use it for free, please.
I pointed out that their boss was getting paid, as were they, not forgetting the web-designers, the writer whose piece the pic would illustrate, the web host, even the cleaning lady who comes after they’d gone home. There clearly was a budget.
She said this issue “comes up in meetings” all the time and she understood my argument completely.
She will try to bring it up again, but the bean-counters still insist they ask us. She confirmed that it’s only photographers who get asked to contribute for free.

I’m off to WH Smiths for a copy of the Radio Times, even though I’ve got no budget for it. They won’t mind if I just take a copy, will they?"

Andrew Hasson
Brighton
hasson@
dated 9/11/01 2:58:35

2002-07-04T22:49:00.002Z

On a Photographer, Giving Away Pictures

"Every professional photographer, at one time or another, has received a phone call or letter reading as follows: "Our organization would like to use your photograph in a brochure [or advertisement, or magazine, or audio-visual presentation]. We are a nonprofit organization that has no budget for the purchase of the photograph, and we hope that you will provide the picture without charge." My standard answer is an emphatic "no." I am tired of the exploitation of creative people by nonprofit organizations. You may think this a crass and overly commercial response, but let's consider it for a moment.

What about the person who wrote that letter or made that call? Does that person get paid for his or her job as the editor or art director of the publication? What about the rest of the staff of that nonprofit organization? Do they get paid for their efforts? Does the paper company charge for the paper used: in the brochure or publication? Do the typesetter, color separator, half-tone maker, printer, and binder get paid? The answer is a categorical "yes." So why should the photographer be the one who is asked to contribute the work without compensation?

My position is that if everybody is donating their services, and no one is getting paid for a project that is altruistic and idealistic, then, and only then, should a photographer ever consider donating the reproduction rights to his or her photograph."

Chapnick, H. (1994)
Truth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
P334-335.

2002-07-04T22:49:00.001Z

“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Hermann Goering,
Nazi leader,
at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II

2002-07-04T22:49:00.000Z

"Copyright info is changed to save hassle and cash and more cash. Whoever does it knows full well it is unlawful - they do it because they can. And they’ll get away with it time and time again. Largely because no one knows otherwise most of the time and because the rightful owner doesn’t kick up a stink when they do know about it. The only exception: someone very new to the business accidently highlighting the photographers name in the copyright field. The middle finger has a sudden reflex and right clicks the mouse. In a violent sneeze, the index finger slips onto the delete key. Before realising this unfortunate accident, the operative becomes so distracted at the unusual sight of pigs, dancing majestically in a synchronised aerial performance to the tune of All Around My Hat through the office window, forgets to undo it and, in a lapse of concentration, puts in the company’s name instead. Benefit of doubt on that one, otherwise guilty until proven innocent"

David Hoffman - Photographer

2002-07-04T22:48:00.003Z

“The more corrupt the state,
the more numerous the laws!”

Tacitus (A.D. 55-130)

2002-07-04T22:48:00.002Z

"We are living in very dangerous times in many senses.
The use of armed and specially trained para-military police units to counter protests in the EU will tend to escalate violence not diminish it.
But, more importantly, it is part of a strategy to treat protestors as the same kind of "threat" as terrorists.
This can only lead to a curtailment of the right of free movement and the democratic right to demonstrate."

Tony Bunyan, editor of Statewatch

2002-07-04T22:48:00.001Z

The British Passport Pre-amble

" Her Britannic Majesty's
Secretary of State
Requests and requires
In the Name of Her Majesty
all those whom it may concern
to allow the bearer to pass freely
without let or hindrance,
and to afford the bearer
such assistance and protection
as may be necessary. "

(signed, The Queen. Yea, right!!)

2002-07-04T22:48:00.000Z

"It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and those who agree with us; it is a rarer thing to give it to others who do not agree with us".

FD Roosevelt

2002-07-04T22:47:00.003Z

“Work like you don’t need the money,
love like you’ve never been hurt,
and dance like no one is watching...”

anon

2002-07-04T22:47:00.002Z

“We are a cultural community,
not an ethnic one”.

John – a showman

2002-07-04T22:47:00.001Z

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

*29 have been accused of spousal abuse
*7 have been arrested for fraud
*19 have been accused of writing bad checks
*117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
*3 have done time for assault
*71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
*14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
*8 have been arrested for shoplifting
*21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
*84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Guess which organization this is.
Give up?
Yep, It’s the 535 members of the United States Congress.

A statement of fact!

2002-07-04T22:47:00.000Z

“look... tabloids make things up; but that’s ok... because people who read tabloids deserve to be lied to...”

Jerry Seinfeld –
when being questioned about the extreme claims
that tabloids made about his private life.

2002-07-04T22:46:00.001Z

When in danger or in doubt
- run in circles, scream & shout.

David Hoffman

2002-07-04T22:46:00.000Z

"There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power.
All the rest is meaningless."

Napoleon Bonaparte

2002-07-04T22:44:00.001Z

Freeborn Man Of The Travelling People

I'm a freeborn man of the travelling people
Got no fixed abode, with nomads I am numbered
Country lanes and byways were always my ways
I Never fancied being lumbered

O we knew the woods, all the resting places
And the small birds sang when wintertime was over
Then we'd pack our load and be on the road
They were good old times for the rover

There was open ground where a man could linger
Stay a week or two for time was not your master

Then away you'd jog with your horse and dog
Nice and easy, no need to go faster

Now and then you'd meet up with other travellers Hear the news or else swap family information
At the country fairs, we'd be meeting there
All the people of the travelling nation

All you freeborn men of the travelling people
Every tinker, rolling stone, or gypsy rover
Winds of change are blowing, old ways are going
Your travelling days will soon be over.

Ewan MacColl

2002-07-04T22:44:00.000Z

‘Go Move Shift (The Moving On Song)’

Born in the middle of the afternoon,
In a horsedrawn carriage on the old A5
The big twelve wheeler shook my bed,
You can't stay here the policeman said,
You'd better get born in some place else,
Move along, get along, move along, get along,
Go, Move, Shift.

Born on the common by a building site,
Where the ground was rutted by the trail of wheels,
The local Christian said to me,
You'll lower the price of property,
You'd better get born in some place else,
Move along, get along, move along, get along,
Go, Move, Shift.

Born at potato picking time,
In an old grown tent by a tatie field,
The farmer said the work's all done,
It's time that you was moving on,
You'd better get born in some place else,
Move along, get along, move along, get along,
Go, Move, Shift.

Born at the back of a Hawthorne hedge,
Where the Blackheath frost lay on the ground,
No eastern kings came bearing gifts,
Instead the order came to shift,
You'd better get born in some place else,
Move along, get along, move along, get along,
Go, Move, Shift.

The eastern sky was full of stars,
But one shone brighter than the rest,
The wise men came so stern and strict,
And brought the order to evict.
You'd better get born in some place else,
Move along, get along, move along, get along,
Go, Move, Shift.

Wagon, tent, or trailer born,
Last month, last year or in far off days,
Born here or a thousand miles away,
There's always men nearby who'll say,
You'd better get born in some place else,
Move along, get along, move along, get along,
Go, Move, Shift.

Ewan MacColl
©Stormking Music

2002-07-04T22:43:00.000Z

The UK-based anti-virus outfit Sophos is reporting a new variant of the 'LoveBug' Outlook worm which contains a large amount of hidden text, apparently designed to attract the US National Security Agency's Echelon spy satellite network and overload it.

Below is the full text of the file's comments, as reported by Sophos:

(i am NOT from iraq, and not protecting
iraq/islamic anyway) Stop Violence Pentagon. Why are you testing your
new weapons on iraq? You are trying to protect children from porn but
you are also killing them and other innocent people in iraq... ...and
another thing... why are you using echelon type stupid things to listen
around...?< Hey others, lets fl00d the echelon... .gov @ NSA national
security agency code PGP GPG satellite cia yemen toxin botulinum mi5 mi6
mit kgb .mil mil base64 us defence intelligence agency admiral diplomat
alert! begin pgp message cert HQ password secret information Shamil
Basaev BATF Tactical information broadcasting service netsec DEA Ayman
Al Zawahiri RADINT ETA Fort Meade explosive gun conspiracy primer
detonator initiator unicos al amn al-askari cray arpanet node backdoor
mi-6 mi-5 terrorism SSCI sairi islamic revolution assembly not for
public private korea diplomat wiretap Usame bin Laden DF ZARK SERT VIP
ARC S.E.T set ssl hezbollah hizbullah afiwc compusec M51 phsical
security division MOSSAD DDos denial of sevice don't try to contact me
astel DH breaking machine Xu Yongyue agent agents national
infrastructure air command control facility nm info Lieutenant tactical
defcon mortars rpg7 propellants defensive evasion boobytraps secure
internet rsa uzi buy hrt hk33ke aks-74 galil arm detcord pmk40 silencers
timing devices information security naval yard sao reno jics computer
terrorism NAIA SAPM ASU ECHELON ASTS RSP ISS JDF NAAP RSO encryption
ASWS USDOJ SAMU COSMOS DATTA e99ll bill clinton george bush nash asis
seal team 3 MSEE M.P.R.I top secret mossberg sursat 5926 telint fraud
analyzer b61-7 sbu err SO13 reojdykarna airframe 510 EuroFed Avi shelter
Cryto AG IDP RHL MP5K-SD sniper gign exon shell masuda eada shs NSWF
sabotage nitrate Counter terrorism RCMP CTU CQB CONUS BOP CID thief NCSA
ISACA ASVC spook words flashbangs magnum resta 777 666 MD2 MD4 MDA 747
boing domestic disruption smuggle Z-200 Security Consulting Keyhole NABS
Kilderkin covert video pathfinders oscor merlin ntt sl-1 sr-71 sr71 f117
f-117 cornflower TNT rdx amfo hmtd lead azide styphante ddnp nitrostarch
mines grenades rockets fuses nitrocellulose c4 ambush sniping spoof
sniff sniffing sniffer motorcade assassination jtf-6 psyops privacy

Written By Extirpater and beyin.

2002-07-04T22:42:00.000Z

"THE MOST OFFENSIVE THING ABOUT LITTLE PRICKS LIKE YOU MARK, IS THE FACT THAT YOU CAN SIT BEHIND YOUR LITTLE CORPORATE IDEALS AND YOUR SAD LITTLE LIFE SLAGGING OFF PEOPLE ON YOUR COMPUTER, ABOUT HOW PATHETIC IT IS FOR THEM TO GET OFF THEIR ARSES AND TRY AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE TERRIBLE WRONGS THAT ARE GOING ON THIS WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT PEOPLE ON LOW WAGES WORKING EVERY HOUR GOD GIVES TO TRY AND FEED THEIR FAMILIES AND TRY AND CREATE A SLIGHTLY BETTER LIFE FOR THEMSELVES WHILST UNDER CONSTANT FEAR OF SPEAKING OUT FOR FEAR OF LOSING THEIR SHITTY JOB AND CONDEMMING THEMSELVES TO SCROUNGING FOR FOOD OF RUBBISH TIPS WHILE THERE IS A CONSTANT QUEUE OF OTHER DESPERATE PEOPLE TO TAKE THEIR PLACE, THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO VOICE, SO WHO EXACTLY IS MEANT TO SHOUT OUT AND GET ANGRY ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THESE PEOPLE. YOU SHOULD BE PROUD THAT YOU LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHO'S YOUTH ARE NOT APATHETIC, WHO WOULD RATHER THAT THE DEBTS THESE COUNTRIES OWE OUR BANKS SHOULD BE SPENT ON THEIR OWN INFRUSTRUCTURE, HOSPITALS, SCHOOLS AND MEDICINE AND WHOS PEOPLE GET A DECENT WAGE FOR MAKING PRODUCTS THAT BIG COMPANIES SELL FOR OVER INFLATED PRICES TO LOGO OBSESSED PEOPLE SUCH AS YOURSELF. EVEN RECENTLY IT TRANSPIRED THAT THE CHOCOLATE THAT WE ALL EAT ON MASS IS MADE ON THE BACKS OF CHILDREN SOLD AS SLAVES TO WORK ON THE PLANTATIONS. DOES NONE OF THIS BOTHER YOU EVEN SLIGHTLY?
IF THE ANSWER IS STILL NO YOU SHOULD HANG YOUR HEAD IN FUCKING SHAME AND IF THE ANSWER IS YES THEN GET OFF YOUR NASTY LITTLE BACKSIDE AND START DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

PS THIS IS A NEWSGROUP, ANYBODY CAN READ WHAT IS WRITTEN HERE, IT IS NOT WRITTEN FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KNOW EVERYBODIES LITTLE SECRETS IT IS HERE SO PEOPLE CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH LIKE MINDED PEOPLE, AS YOU ARE NOT LIKE MINDED WHY DONT YOU GO BACK TO YOUR BRITNEY SPEARS NEWSGROUP."

[mayday-monopoly] Digest Number 181
From: "Leona"

2002-07-04T22:40:00.001Z

"Overthrough capitalism and replace it with something nice"

banner at Mayday 2001

2002-07-04T22:40:00.000Z

What do we want?
Dunno!
When do we want it?
NOW!!

Daily Telegraph cartoon, on Mayday 2001