Owens L'ill Slice of the Web » politics http://www.easytarget.me.uk A closed mouth gathers no foot. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:04:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Owens L'ill Slice of the Webhttp://www.easytarget.me.uk/avatars/miracup.pnghttp://www.easytarget.me.uk8076Owens L'ill Slice of the Web - http://www.easytarget.me.uk It all goes in cycles. http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2011/09/2175/ http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2011/09/2175/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:20:28 +0000 Owen http://www.easytarget.me.uk/?p=2175 We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind.

Charlie Chaplin, the superb closing speech from The Great Dictator, 70+ years old and still as relevant today as ever.

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We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind.

Charlie Chaplin, the superb closing speech from The Great Dictator, 70+ years old and still as relevant today as ever.

]]> http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2011/09/2175/feed/ 0 Curious http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2007/07/curious/ http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2007/07/curious/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:31:00 +0000 Owen http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2007/07/curious/ “Today there is no one to correct a lie once it is told. The media, thanks to Republicans, has been concentrated in few hands, and they are not the hands of newsmen. Corporate values rule. If lies sell, sell them. If listeners, viewers, and readers want confirmation of their resentments and beliefs, give it to [...]]]> “Today there is no one to correct a lie once it is told. The media, thanks to Republicans, has been concentrated in few hands, and they are not the hands of newsmen. Corporate values rule. If lies sell, sell them. If listeners, viewers, and readers want confirmation of their resentments and beliefs, give it to them. Objectivity turns listeners off and is a money loser.”
Just what I’ve been thinking too.. Amusingly it’s from someone who is also selling something, a book about modern-day Brownshirts.

]]> http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2007/07/curious/feed/ 0 Tariq Ali; http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2005/02/tariq-ali/ http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2005/02/tariq-ali/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:08:00 +0000 Owen http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2005/02/tariq-ali/ on the subject of Afghan and Iraqi elections: “Create a new elite, give it funds and weaponry to build a new army and let them make the country safe for the corporations.”

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“Create a new elite, give it funds and weaponry to build a new army and let them make the country safe for the corporations.”

]]> http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2005/02/tariq-ali/feed/ 0 One down… http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/12/one-down/ http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/12/one-down/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:11:00 +0000 Owen http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/12/one-down/ Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! Darn..

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]]> http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/12/one-down/feed/ 0 Don´t picket! http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/12/don%c2%b4t-picket/ http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/12/don%c2%b4t-picket/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:31:00 +0000 Owen http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/12/don%c2%b4t-picket/ It will only make things worse...Is it just me? Or is Blunkett really a bigger prat over privacy and the right to protest than the sycophantic tories?

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Is it just me? Or is Blunkett really a bigger prat over privacy and the right to protest than the sycophantic tories?

]]> http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/12/don%c2%b4t-picket/feed/ 0 I agree with this.. http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/i-agree-with-this/ http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/i-agree-with-this/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:03:00 +0000 Owen http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/i-agree-with-this/ Quoted from Slashdot ‘I think the US definition of a terrorist is someone who puts their interests, or the interests of their family or country before those of the US.‘ ok, at least when the neo-conmen are producing the ‘definition’.

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]]> http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/i-agree-with-this/feed/ 0 Lets all Pray for Dubya http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/lets-all-pray-for-dubya/ http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/lets-all-pray-for-dubya/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:16:00 +0000 Owen http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/lets-all-pray-for-dubya/ ‘Dear God:

Wassup? How’s it hanging? Yeah, I know it’s been a long time since we talked. This probably stems from my belief that you do not exist. Anyway, the reason why I’m calling you is because last night, President Bush said that he could feel it every time we prayed for him, and since [...]]]> ‘Dear God:

Wassup? How’s it hanging? Yeah, I know it’s been a long time since we talked. This probably stems from my belief that you do not exist. Anyway, the reason why I’m calling you is because last night, President Bush said that he could feel it every time we prayed for him, and since he apparently doesn’t listen to anyone but you, Lord, I thought you might pass this along to him.

Please kill George Bush. I hate him so much. I think he is a giant dick and I want terrible things to happen to him. I’m not really big on the specifics of how he dies, but if you could at least arrange it so that the authorities find his dead body on top of an underage black male prostitute surrounded by a mountain of cocaine and child pornography, that would really be super-awesome. And maybe you could have some media people there when the police find the body, so they can take pictures and stuff. That’d be fucking GREAT. Am I allowed to say “fuck” in a prayer? Shit, I just said it again. Ah, well.

Anyway, that’s my prayer, Lord. Please, please, please kill Dubya. And Dick Cheney. And everyone else in the Bush Administration. Maybe they can all commit mass suicide together or something. I don’t know. You’re the one with all the ideas. You come up with something. I need more coffee.

Smooches and Huggles, anniesj’

Which promptly earned the author a visit from the American Secret Service.. Sigh.

]]> http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/lets-all-pray-for-dubya/feed/ 0 How to wind up the Neo Conservatives? http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/how-to-wind-up-the-neo-conservatives/ http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/how-to-wind-up-the-neo-conservatives/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:39:00 +0000 Owen http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/how-to-wind-up-the-neo-conservatives/ I think Canada has found a good way.. Relax drug laws

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]]> http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/11/how-to-wind-up-the-neo-conservatives/feed/ 0 Noam Chomsky http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/04/279/ http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/04/279/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:49:00 +0000 Owen http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/04/279/ Has a Weblog, quite an interesting one too.. I don’t always agree with him but it’s nice to see thoughtful, rather than fanatical, US Politicians/Thinkers

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]]> http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/04/279/feed/ 0 Bush the Homophobe http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/02/270/ http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/02/270/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:13:00 +0000 Owen http://www.easytarget.me.uk/2004/02/270/ What a charming little bigot he is. John O’Farrell’s comment in todays Guardian has this rather nice little take on it:“This is clearly such a major political issue that it urgently requires a change in the American constitution. Now the famous document will read: “All men are created equal … but when we say men [...]]]> What a charming little bigot he is. John O’Farrell’s comment in todays Guardian has this rather nice little take on it:
“This is clearly such a major political issue that it urgently requires a change in the American constitution. Now the famous document will read: “All men are created equal … but when we say men we mean real men, who like a beer and a ball game and leering at cheerleaders, not the effeminate faggoty types who jog through Central Park in tiny silver shorts, not that I was looking at their butts, obviously.” It will be the first constitutional amendment to be scrawled in green ink.“. Amen.

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