I just saw a girl,
"The instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace."
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(Obama - receiving the Nobel peace prize)
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"When we're talking about war, what we're really talking about is peace."
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(Bush - justifying the first 'surge' - Obama's is greater, despite being elected on a promise of 'change'.)
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More from Obama's peace prize acceptance speech:
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'Obama affirmed that "no Holy War can ever be a just war. For if you truly believe that you are carrying out divine will, then there is no need for restraint." Then shortly afterward stated
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"Let us reach for the world that ought to be - that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls."
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An adversary's invocation of the divine is false, heretical, sacrilegious;
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16503
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
I keep a cheap Russian pocket watch in my top drawer -
she kept herself there, unwound,
a 1917 replica, from a
- A lunar sunset walk across a coastal stubbled field,
the windmill still, the marsh reeds rustle,
the salt sea air rumbles and thrums -
A battleship on her flip-up cover lid,
a Commie call to prayer -
"All power to the Soviets!"
stamped on a red flag - but the red paint's gone,
thumbed, rubbed away, pocketed too quick
I found her the other day and wound her,
and now she ticks these silent years undone.
Remembered Home Alone Tone - hid away
the long ten weeks of our long work-stay,
self-deserted,
he'd phone, not speak, to his empty UK home
just to hear the ringing bell,
to loosen the dust from his hall handset -
the distant sea whispering from her shell
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He's blind, in a way, plays the guitar upside down, and sings like a goddam angel:
Nanking
An Einsatzgruppe D member about to shoot a Jew kneeling at a mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, in 1942. The photograph is inscribed: The last Jew in Vinnitsa.
"Rather than viewing the wars of the past decade - against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq - and the concomitant expansion of U.S. and NATO military presence inside all three countries and in several others on their peripheries as an unrelated series of events, the trend must be seen for what it is: A consistent and calculated strategy of employing each successive war zone as a launching pad for new aggression.
"Sachiko sensed that much of her sister's love for Osaka was in fact love for the house, and, for all her amusement at these old-fashioned ways, she felt a twinge of pain herself - she would no longer be able to go back to the old family house. She had often enough joined Yukiko and Taeko in complaining about it - surely there was no darker and more unhygienic house in the world, and they could not understand what made her sister live there, and they felt thoroughly depressed after three days there, and so on - and yet a deep undefinable sorrow came over Sachiko at the news. To lose the Osaka house would be to lose her very roots".
From The Makioka Sisters, by Junichiro Tanizaki.
and good luck visit the Yashima tasaburo badger from all over Japan."
Touched down yesterday from my mountain home
Went to an unusual concert the other day, that included among other things 'Land of Hope and Glory' in Japanese.
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