- February 10, 2012
- Block ACTA! Stop ACTA!
- Posted by Strangely
- Art, Freedom, Internet
- Tagged with: Africa, Australia, Austria, Belarus, British, Canada, Chile, China, Christmas, Contact, Copyright, CUBA, cyprus, Czech, Democratic, Economic, Egypt, email, Federation, FIJI, France, Freedom, future, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Guts, India, INDONESIA, Internet, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malta, Nevis, Nigeria, ocean, Pakistan, Panama, PERU, Philippines, Poland, privacy, Protect, Protest, Russian, Somalia, SOPA, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, walk, Western, Zimbabwe
Block ACTA and Stop ACTA! Truly, our freedoms are at stake. While notionally an idea to prevent copyright theft, it’s real purpose opens the floodgates for any undemocratic organisation to walk over our freedoms (such as they are) for which our forefathers slugged their guts out. Read this, then either; walk away (wondering in a [...]
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- May 31, 2010
- Why is There No Juventus Gun Picture from Heysel?
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism
- Tagged with: comment, Corruption, country, disaster, Echo, Economic, Europe, expert, family, game, graph, Guardian, Heysel, Information, Internet, Italy, justice, Karma, Liverpool, mind, money, Nature, Photo, Picture, Police, race, Sport, Stadium, threat, town, tripod, Video, violence, violent, Wikipedia, YouTube
Heysel and Beyond Being justifiably upset by the events at the Heysel Stadium many years ago, the recent comments on a video I made about it … … on the 25th anniversary of the awful event made me recall some TV reporting of what was reputedly to be a Juventus “fan” brandishing a gun on [...]
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- November 15, 2009
- What is the Point of Fine Words?
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Freedom
- Tagged with: Africa, America, anger, bank, BBC, benefit, book, Brave, British, Calley, citizen, Clinton, collapse, Colon, D-Day, Death, decor, defence, DNA, Earth, Economic, eisenhower, Ethics, Express, Facebook, family, Farm, finance, France, Freedom, Germany, Government, graph, Great, Guantanamo, guilt, Head, Health, honour, HOPE, Iraq, Italy, Jill, journalist, justice, Megrahi, mind, nation, Obama, Painting, Photo, Picture, politician, president, prison, public, release, rights, sarkozy, scandal, Security, sense, Sound, speech, state, Swear, Taliban, The West, Torture, trial, United States, Video, Western, Wikipedia, World, WW2
Obama President Obama was elected under the banner of change. Change for the overall health of his nation Change in economics and finance Change of a re-assertion of the higher ideals of his nation expressed in the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Rights. In this last, he even promised this change in his [...]
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- November 4, 2009
- Brave Italians versus Torture
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Freedom
- Tagged with: absence, Afghan, Africa, America, Asia, attack, bank, BBC, bomb, book, Brave, business, Calley, citizen, Clinton, Colon, confidence, Corruption, Court, crisis, Death, decor, defence, DNA, Earth, Egypt, election, Europe, Express, Facebook, family, good, Government, Great, guilt, HOPE, Human, Iraq, Italy, Jill, journalist, judge, justice, laugh, man, Megrahi, Minister, moral, Muslim, Obama, Office, optimism, Pakistan, politician, Politics, president, rights, Sport, street, Taliban, terror, The West, Times, Torture, Transport, trial, USA, Utah, Video, Western, World
CIA Guilty of Torture and Kidnap – Damages of 1.5 Million Euros Amazing news today. An Italian court has bravely taken on the leader of the Western World and convicted 22 CIA agents of kidnap and torture. (see CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap). The man on the left with the wacky beard and hat, [...]
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- March 11, 2009
- This is Why We Needed the Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Environment
- Tagged with: BBC, Buddha, climate, CO2, compensation, Conditions, Doom, Earth, enlightenment, Environment, extinct, failure, fear, Fish, food, Fossil, Fossil Fuel, Fuel, future, graph, grass, Guardian, hell, Human, interconnectedness, Italy, NASA, Nature, ocean, pollution, power, problem, Protect, Relation, Rocket, scientist, state, Telegraph, Wikipedia, World
Fizzy Oceans Spell Doom As an almost instananeous follow up (the interconnectedness of all things?) to my recent disappointment about the launch failure of the OCO satellite, the BBC, Guardian, Telegraph etc have all been reporting some recent climate work from Plymouth. An Italian Bay There’s now so much CO2 being absorbed by the oceans [...]
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- October 26, 2008
- Example of Sustained Spam Comment Attacks on a single WordPress Posting
- Posted by Strangely
- Internet
- Tagged with: address, attack, Buddhism, Buddhist, comment, computer, data, family, Italy, Microsoft, Permalink, realise, referral, Spam, Sustain, Texas, Times, Venezuela, whois, Windows, WordPress
Now I may like to think I’m a literary genius but I am realistic enough to realise I’m not! So what happened was that I got lots of notional referrals sequentially on one post, all trying to comment at the same time! Then after a few minutes the same would happen to another posting – [...]
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- October 5, 2008
- Fuji F30 Comes Back from The Grave
- Posted by Strangely
- Art
- Tagged with: benefit, camera, comment, Digital, Ebay, F30, Finepix, Fuji, good, Italy, money, Optical, Paris, Photo, quality, service, setting, zoom
In an earlier post I mentioned that my camera, a Fuji F30 was broken and anyone could have it, if they asked because I was going to get a new one. Well that all changed. And some people missed out on making money ;-) After some research into the current crop of cameras and doing [...]
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- July 9, 2008
- Chatelus Malvaleix on Google Earth Tour de France Map
- Posted by Strangely
- Cycling, Environment
- Tagged with: advert, Ashington, bike, Cheese, Creuse, Earth, English, Excel, Factory, Fantastic, Firefox, Fish, France, future, Google, industry, Italy, Maps, market, Nature, nazi, Photo, race, Roman, Times, Tour de France, town, water, Weird, Wikipedia, World, zoom
View Larger Map This little French town and various other places about are featured in this year’s (2008) Tour de France bike race. We had many pleasant times in the town a few years ago as well as Genouillac down the road where we had an excellent working person’s lunch in the restaurant there. This [...]
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- August 18, 2007
- Buddhism
- Posted by Strangely
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What’s all this Buddhism then, like? Intro I practice the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin who was a guy living in 13th century Japan. He is what most people nowadays would call a “good guy” although at the time, because he spoke his mind which then annoyed the ruling classes, he spent most of his life [...]
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