Artist Under House Arrest for Defecating on the Israeli Flag

Shit instead of blood from Yael Alon on Vimeo.

Natalie Cohen Vaxberg nails flags to the floor in the right way.

Dr Karla Turner Ph.D - Military Connections To Alien Abductions

Dr Karla Turner's testimony is lucid, comprehensive, super intelligent and gutsy in that down to earth way I admire very much and find time and again with U.S. women from the southern states. 

She paid for those qualities with her life. 

The military really don't like it when someone clever, witty and articulate starts to nail their game bit by bloody psychopathic bit. Generally speaking when discussing the hidden alien connections to the military the stories are an obscenity to humanity with negative  psychologies working closely together on agendas that have only contempt for the rest of us.

You should honour Dr Karla Turner's memory with at least an attempt to hear her findings out. She mentions that she did her American Studies Master degree at Nottingham University and says the English take on her country was a whole lot different than the one she was raised with.

Not that I trust either country as far as I could throw them. My flag is in the trash where it belongs.

Finger Pointing

We're all good at it aren't we. You only need to go on the BBS and IRC to see the screaming, shouting and finger pointing going on. I guess it all comes down to binary thinking. Stuff like 'Four legs good two, legs bad' which is from an allegorical tale called Animal Farm, that intelligent people from around the world should have access to read (that and Down and out in Paris and London). I can appreciate some of my Chinese American friends who were raised with pluralism of opinion and free access to any countries' media including China, feel that the picture below and doing the rounds on the net, is the sort of managed message that makes them feel uncomfortable.

One sent this to me: "In the streets of the March 14th event, the government is using these signs to promote 'unity' again in the country by saying, "Tibetans and Han Chinese are daughters of one mother. Our mother is called China."

Here is the poster with that slogan on being posted in Lhasa and on the Net


I couldn't help looking at it in a simple semiotics kind of way. Why is it illustration? Are those national costumes? Is there room for only one flag on the poster? Is there even a flag for Tibet? I did a quick search to find out and this is what I found?


It's quite distinct isn't it?

The British are famously reluctant to haul out a flag and wave it because we've seen how symbolism gets people fired up in the wrong way in tense situations. Nazi Germany springs to mind, and particularly memories of the ugliest people gathering round symbolism as if it were worth more than life itself which it most certainly isn't.

Just for reference here is Hong Kong's flag which is unquestionably part of China and has returned back to the fold under the good guidance of Chris Patten who was vilified at the time by Beijing as "sinner for a thousand generations" and is now broadly welcomed by the PRC as having managed a tricky job quite even handedly.


I wrote back here that what happened in 1949 is history and the riots on March 14 2008 were news. Separating history from news is important for constructive dialogue because the news in this instance was that the ethnic Tibetans rioted in Lhasa and attacked the ethnic Han Chinese. If we're going to be brutally honest, history discussions aren't embraced in China because pluralism of opinion isn't accepted, in much the same way that discussion of the Rape of Nanking isn't debated in Japan or Extraordinary Renditon, the loss of Habeas Corpus and the ugly stain of Guantanemo Bay for the 'Enemy Combatants/Bin Laden Clique that the Neo Conservatives and their unholy alliance with the Christian Fundamentalists have to smash and crush isn't accepted.

Look at that finger pointing in one direction and notice the other three pointing back at you.