For some the Iraqis want to wipe each other off the face of the planet. And guess what? They can't even effectively put Hussein on trail (he or his lawyers are constantly walking out and/or boycotting the proceedings, and the lawywers are getting bumped off by the militias that roam the streets).
The decades, nay centuries, of simmering violence continues unchecked each and every day all over Iraq. And the American soldiers are probably sick to death of the bullshit that the towelheads keep perpetrating on themselves and the G.I. Joes. There's been a few cases in the news recently where American soldiers who "gone buck wild" and either raped and murdered or just plain murdered Iraqi so-called citizens... it's hard to really gauge how morally wrong this activity is, because historically occupying armies usually have the run of the place where ever they've conquered. Rampant fucking by soldiers, pillaging but grunts, and cover-up murders are par for the course.
I don't condone that kind of activity, but you can't be surprised by it. Especially after Abu Gahrib; as far as I'm concerned that was only the tip of the iceberg. We all forget that this is country where Hussein's malignant kids ran about and fucked with people with impunity. So there's a lot of shit that is kept quite and we're not ever going to hear about it...
I'm sure that there is a good 80% of Iraqis who just want this shit to go away -- by shit I mean the infidels who are perverting the teachings of Islam and twisting to their aggressive asshole beliefs... I heard this story the other day how Shi'ites can into a majority Sunni enclave, set up phony check points and started hemming people up for immediate execution. This went on unchecked for about three hours -- three fucking hours!!! How many people are just going to get wholesale slaughtered like that? Don't the militias realizes that everybody in
The absurdist counterpoint is, with all these people getting killed the country is better off because the division of scarce resources will have less claimants once Haliburton and the others have raped the natural resources, and then set-up a puppet economy. Under the guise the democracy leads to free markets, which leads to people buying US goods & services... well, mainly services as we don't make a damn with two tugs of dead dogs dick in the US anymore (auto industry is a joke; companies like GM lose money and every single fucking car! every car! they only make money on SUVs, which are atrocious because they demand some much gasoline to fuel, and spew so much additional CO2 in the air).
I was reading somewhere that a retired general estimated that Prescott Bush's Grandson's war on so-called terror is the single most harmful foreign policy act in the history of the country, and the near future -- only thing that potential be worse is dropping a nuke somewhere and then getting a nuke relaliation through a van-bomb in someplace like DC or LA.
I hyped up this webcomic a few entires ago called The Shooting War, it's a great look at G.I.Joe still kicking it around Baghdad in 2011, and yeah, we're still gonna be there that long. The iraqi government has no ability to control the various factions that are tearing the country apart.
Why didn't the people in the War Cabinet understand that nation building in a place with such a strong history of Ethnic hatred wasn't gonna work? Didn't they see how Yugoslavia erupted? That was the most recent case of ethnic groups not getting along, but being forced to live under the same aegis for far too long. Apparently bin Laden fucking around in that war, too. Unfortunately, the killings between Sunni and Shi'ites is very much akin to the Ethnic Cleansing that went on in the Balkins, yet no one seems to make the broader connection... I wonder why?
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
MOVIE REVIEW: WAIST DEEP
Vondie Curtis-Hall unleashed his urban update of a Bonnie & Clyde story (that outlaw pair gets much props in the hip-hopized urban community) WAIST DEEP a couple of weeks ago. I saw it opening weekend, and am only now getting around to writig about it, 'cause I was talking about this high school film noir called BRICK last night.
Curiously my new favorite actress Meagan Goode is the female lead in WAIST DEEP is also in BRICK.
Besides having a killa body, and some of the most beautiful lips taht have ever been on screen -- she has the ACTING goods! That role in BRICK as a white-bred Black girl in Orange County is 1000 miles away from the 'Round the Way girl from South Central who had never seen the Sunset Strip before.
Only thing is Hollywood doesn't tend to give roles to smoking hot young Black actresses (they usually have one ethnic girl getting the roles, and currently that's Jessica Alba).
The thing about Meagan is that as striking as she is, she doesn't distract from the movie -- in fact, she draws you in even more. Now that's the kind of charisma that 90% of the successful female actresses don't have. Take some like Catherine Zeta-Jones, pretty, real fucking pretty, but her beauty gets in the way and I have YET to see her do a strong performance (except for Ocean's 12 which didn't live up though).
I don't know what she's up to next, but I can't wait. I wonder if Hollywood will annoint her the Next It Black Girl, as Halle has kind of fallen off with her choices...
Curiously my new favorite actress Meagan Goode is the female lead in WAIST DEEP is also in BRICK.
Besides having a killa body, and some of the most beautiful lips taht have ever been on screen -- she has the ACTING goods! That role in BRICK as a white-bred Black girl in Orange County is 1000 miles away from the 'Round the Way girl from South Central who had never seen the Sunset Strip before.
Only thing is Hollywood doesn't tend to give roles to smoking hot young Black actresses (they usually have one ethnic girl getting the roles, and currently that's Jessica Alba).
The thing about Meagan is that as striking as she is, she doesn't distract from the movie -- in fact, she draws you in even more. Now that's the kind of charisma that 90% of the successful female actresses don't have. Take some like Catherine Zeta-Jones, pretty, real fucking pretty, but her beauty gets in the way and I have YET to see her do a strong performance (except for Ocean's 12 which didn't live up though).
I don't know what she's up to next, but I can't wait. I wonder if Hollywood will annoint her the Next It Black Girl, as Halle has kind of fallen off with her choices...
World Cup Antics -- Zidane's Headbutt
I saw a lot of the World Cup this year, something I hadn't really paid attention to in the past. But football/soccer has been on the come up
There have been many,. many stories in the news about the serious allegations of racism that spew forth from the mouths of Germans toward non-Europeans. But it's also true that the Italians can be held responsible for racist antics. It's a known fact that Italians have trouble with North Africans for several reasons (Mussolini couldn't whup on in them in the 30s was the last time the Italians tried to flex), but mainly because there is genetic unproven claim that reason why the Italians and certain Spanish are darker skinned is because of North African conquests throughout the ages.
Now what does all this have to do with the World Cup and Zidane's headbutting? It's simple, the Italian DID make a nasty comment about Zidane's Algerian heritage.
Zidane's agent Alain Migliaccio told BBC Five Live, "He told me Materazzi said something very serious to him but he wouldn't tell me what." Sources in France say it is believed Materazzi insulted Zidane's family.
Materazzi himself has not spoken publicly about the incident except to deny a claim by Paris-based anti-racism group SOS Racism, made on Monday, that he had called Zidane "the son of a terrorist whore". Criminal Expert Lip Readers from two different sources have verified this.
I don't know about you? But thems fighting words. The history of Algerians in France is tainted with terrorism allegations and activity. Algeria had to revolt quite substantially to get France's colonial yoke thrown off -- and that was as recently as the late 1950s.
"It is absolutely not true, I did not call him a terrorist. I'm ignorant. I don't even know what the word means," the Italian news agency Ansa quoted Materazzi as saying after the Italian team returned to Rome.
Now if you analyize Materazzi's statement you know he's lying out of his ass. He's claiming he's ignorant and doesn't know what the word terrorist means??! Uh, he's been alive and present over the past 5 years in particular, and he's definitely of age to have grown up in the '70s in Italy when it was racked by 5th Columnist terrorist activities. I bet Materazzi knows that the Red Brigades were terrorists.
Now granted Zidane shouldn't have reacted that way, but I'm sure many of his family and friends have been fucked with by the French for terrorist suspicions, and that's something that is more than a touchy subject. Because you can call someone a nigger or a monkey all you want, it's not necessarily that accurate. However, if you insult someone's heritage in a time when that heritage is under so much pressure ACROSS THE GLOBE, you're going to get a reaction that would no doubt seem inappropriate.
Racism and xenophobia will plague the world for the rest of its days, as it always has. It's stupid to think racism and bigotry can be stamped out like it is an science fiction novel (as you notice, niggas and spics typically don't exist in sci-fi, or in perfunctory roles).
There have been many,. many stories in the news about the serious allegations of racism that spew forth from the mouths of Germans toward non-Europeans. But it's also true that the Italians can be held responsible for racist antics. It's a known fact that Italians have trouble with North Africans for several reasons (Mussolini couldn't whup on in them in the 30s was the last time the Italians tried to flex), but mainly because there is genetic unproven claim that reason why the Italians and certain Spanish are darker skinned is because of North African conquests throughout the ages.
Now what does all this have to do with the World Cup and Zidane's headbutting? It's simple, the Italian DID make a nasty comment about Zidane's Algerian heritage.
Zidane's agent Alain Migliaccio told BBC Five Live, "He told me Materazzi said something very serious to him but he wouldn't tell me what." Sources in France say it is believed Materazzi insulted Zidane's family.
Materazzi himself has not spoken publicly about the incident except to deny a claim by Paris-based anti-racism group SOS Racism, made on Monday, that he had called Zidane "the son of a terrorist whore". Criminal Expert Lip Readers from two different sources have verified this.
I don't know about you? But thems fighting words. The history of Algerians in France is tainted with terrorism allegations and activity. Algeria had to revolt quite substantially to get France's colonial yoke thrown off -- and that was as recently as the late 1950s.
"It is absolutely not true, I did not call him a terrorist. I'm ignorant. I don't even know what the word means," the Italian news agency Ansa quoted Materazzi as saying after the Italian team returned to Rome.
Now if you analyize Materazzi's statement you know he's lying out of his ass. He's claiming he's ignorant and doesn't know what the word terrorist means??! Uh, he's been alive and present over the past 5 years in particular, and he's definitely of age to have grown up in the '70s in Italy when it was racked by 5th Columnist terrorist activities. I bet Materazzi knows that the Red Brigades were terrorists.
Now granted Zidane shouldn't have reacted that way, but I'm sure many of his family and friends have been fucked with by the French for terrorist suspicions, and that's something that is more than a touchy subject. Because you can call someone a nigger or a monkey all you want, it's not necessarily that accurate. However, if you insult someone's heritage in a time when that heritage is under so much pressure ACROSS THE GLOBE, you're going to get a reaction that would no doubt seem inappropriate.
Racism and xenophobia will plague the world for the rest of its days, as it always has. It's stupid to think racism and bigotry can be stamped out like it is an science fiction novel (as you notice, niggas and spics typically don't exist in sci-fi, or in perfunctory roles).
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