- February 25, 2009
- Old Turk hits an Old Problem
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom, Life
- Tagged with: address, Afghan, BBC, British, business, communication, creation, denial, English, Europe, existence, house, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Massacre, nation, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, parliament, problem, Scotland, SEIN, speech, state, Texas, Turkey, Wales, Welsh, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, World
The problem, in fact, is older than Turkey, older than the 20th century creations of Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc. The problem is the continual denial of the Kurds, and ancient people with their own language. They’ve survived in the same area despite the incursions and massacres of Alexander the Great, The Mongols, The Murghals, [...]
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- November 14, 2008
- Waldo Jeffers is in the News
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- Life
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Inmate escapes German jail in box Paralleling a personal comment I made last week to Stuart, this week in Germany, a prisoner made a post-haste dash for freedom. I think he must’ve been listening to The Velvet Underground’s “The Gift” In the monolgued song, voiced by Cale in his Welsh accent, poor little man Waldo Jeffers has [...]
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- October 22, 2008
- We Now Have A Fantastic Opportunity to be Free from Foreign Energy Ties!
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- Environment, Freedom, Technology
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It’s True! Record profits at Gazprom as it forms Opec-style gas cartel The news that yesterday,… (new bad guy?) Russia (aka Putin Inc), Iran (axis of evil?) and (our friend?) Qatar have decided to collude together like OPEC to drive up gas prices (sorry, control the market in a uniform way beneficial to suppliers and [...]
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- August 31, 2008
- Musical Ties to a Racial Graveyard
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- Art, Buddhism
- Tagged with: advert, Apocalyptica, Buddhist, Classic, courage, Daishonin, Europe, Genetic, gloom, heart, Helden, Hero, Humour, jollity, Karma, Lindemann, Music, Nichiren, power, SGI, Till Lindemann, Times, Welsh, Western, WND, YouTube
It must be ties of karma from the distant past that have destined you to become my disciple at a time like this. – Nichiren Daishonin, The Heritage of The Ultimate Law of Life, WND1, p217 Or the Inter-Connectedness of all things Like ALL people in Western Europe, I’m a racial mongrel. And I observe [...]
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- June 21, 2008
- What Price Freedom and Justice?
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- Freedom
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Introduction When there’s a war on in one’s country, say WW2 in the Europe, the people unite against the common enemy and accept that some will die so that the war is won and the next generation can continue. If you lived in the UK, the consensus was that you’d be fighting for “freedom” and [...]
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- June 4, 2008
- Healthcare – Incompetent Hypocrites in Charge
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- Health
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The latest “news” in healthcare is (see this BBC item): Firms ‘to run failing NHS trusts’ Now where have I heard this before? I know! Let’s check (see this BBC item) here in April 2002! What we have is Alan Milburn saying exactly the same thing… The whole point of it is that they reckon [...]
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- March 4, 2008
- Bush’s Double Standards in Texas, Pakistan and Afghanistan
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- Freedom
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I’ve just seen a news article today about a man who’s been locked in a jail for about 30 years and no-one knew where he was! He belongs to the world’s largest democracy, India, and has been jailed in Pakistan since 1973! This is the same Pakistan that George Bush has decided is a friend [...]
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- February 11, 2008
- Fuel Costs Red Herrings
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- Environment, Freedom
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Introduction There’s a lot in the news about the terrible cost of road fuel. See here for example. The truth is that the whole system is shite and people, by their very actions PROVE that they can afford fuel AT ANY COST. Here’s how (from my trip experience). Yesterday I came back from Northumberland, a [...]
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