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blacky
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posted August 04, 2002 12:54     Profile for blacky   Email blacky     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Do anyone know Noam Chomsky?
here a recent interview of him about his latest book 9-11

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K
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posted August 04, 2002 14:51     Profile for K   Email K     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I agree that the U.S. is also a Terrorist State. The evidence is all around.

It is unfortunate that Innocent Americans and Foreigners must suffer for the Crimes of the Government.

I agree with probably 90% of what he said in that Interview, however. When it comes to Israel...there are points i disagree on.
I am a supporter of the Innocent Peoples on both sides. There is too much bloodshed.

That is all i have to say on the matter because we all have our own very STRONG beliefs when it comes to this touchy issue.

I just dont want this to turn into a RAGE topic here.
This Forum is like a quiet little area of PEACE in a world where every type of Business, Industry, Government and Religion...is Fucked Up!

Well....it is Peacefull most of the time here.

Cheers and Safety to all VOIVOD Fans!


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schroeder
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posted August 04, 2002 18:29     Profile for schroeder   Email schroeder     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I started reading the interview from the link you posted and desided I better get to work before I really screw up my head with his theories. I'll have to return latter and read the complete interview. His books look interesting but I'm not sure I want to start getting paranoid and second guessing everything because of conspiracy theories.

Blacky, you already have be thinking about that entire moon landing hoax from the other topic you posted!!!

Did you ever read (or see the movie) CAPRICORN ONE (James Brolin, OJ Simpson) written by Ron Goulart about faking the NASA mission ...cool book and flick!!!


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ruiner
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posted August 05, 2002 02:21     Profile for ruiner   Email ruiner     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Mezcalhead:
Chomsky said we should have sat around and let a bunch of Afgan insurgents get rid of the Taliban. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That is so stupid and naive.

The civilian population hated the Taliban. They were not just "insurgents", they are real, living, breathing people - who happened to live with a shitty government and a past stained with constant civil war and foreign intervention. I believe the American's once rose up to get rid of the British...it can happen if the people want it enough.

I don't want to get into a shit fight...this ain't the forum for this.

Noam Chomsky is EXTREMELY well regarded in every Western country bar America (for obvious reasons). He is required reading here in Australia for anyone studying Media or Communications at University. Check out "Maunfacturing Dissent" if you can get hold of a copy. I also recommend any work by John Pilger.


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Mezcalhead
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posted August 05, 2002 07:11     Profile for Mezcalhead   Email Mezcalhead     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Ruiner, I remember your comments from the old forum. Very intelligent and insightful. So no, I definitely do not want a shit fight with you or anyone else. I respect you people too much for that. All I know about Chomsky is what I have read from the interview. And the guy irked me(that was the point eh, Blacky?).
The point I was making there was that at the time America was hot for a battle. We were not going to sit around and send the CIA in to help the natives wipe out the Taliban. That would have taken twenty years. IF IT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED AT ALL. Even Chomsky concedes the operation might have ended in failure. After 9-11, we wanted blood. Taliban's blood. And we got them. This was an extremely dicey situation.
So what do you think of Christopher Hitchens and the quotes I posted? I know he is a heretic for the left. But just such a damn good one you can't ignore him.

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Emlyn K Helicopter
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posted August 05, 2002 08:18     Profile for Emlyn K Helicopter   Email Emlyn K Helicopter     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
"After 9-11, we wanted blood. Taliban's blood. And we got them."

I love the "we"!


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manipulator
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posted August 05, 2002 10:20     Profile for manipulator   Email manipulator     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
ah, the very interesting topic of "lies"

to this day, the american general public still stand by this 888 pages + xxix book called "The official warren commission report on the assassination of president jonh f. kennedy" published by doubleday in 1964.

"First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth"
j.f.k. may 25th 1961

" "Three cheers for the Moon!" roared the Gun Club, with one voice. "
Jules Verne, from the earth to the moon,1865

now, instead of focusing on photograpic anomalies and shadow inconsitancies; read up on the van allen belt, micrometeorites, solar flares and other small details of the sort. be sure to also check out the NEOproject for a good laugh

with current tech, they have got about 5% of 1km objects tracked.

reality ? wich level ?

don't get me started on mars !

"[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system." -Governor George W. Bush, Jr.


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K
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posted August 05, 2002 10:25     Profile for K   Email K     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Oh, good-grief!

See what you started, Blacky?

Now all the Americans & Brits are upset!

I have an interresting Observation.
The U.S. has never been at WAR with anything larger than the State of TEXAS!
Think about it!

Individually...these could fit within the borders of TEXAS:
Germany
Japan
Korea
Viet Nam
Grenada (HA!)
Somalia
Iraq / Kuwait
Afghanistan

(Am i missing anyone?)

See what i mean!?

Funny, huh?


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Mr. Phobia
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posted August 05, 2002 16:50     Profile for Mr. Phobia   Email Mr. Phobia     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
i find this all to be utter bullshit
many words to say nothing at all
i'm talking about the 2 sides presented by noam and the dude mhead posted comments from
i like to spend my time w/ music and you'll notice that uses few words, if any, and usually to say as much as possible
chumsky did say something very useful though
you must see your faults before judging another's
when "9/11" happened, the first thing i thought was "wonder why they're mad?"
i think a lot of other people were thinking: "revenge!"
bottom line: america and like countries are fucking pigs who need to slop up oil and we have a presence in the countries that have it to ensure our glut
they are insanely religious and don't like us traipsing on their "holy grounds"
it all seems insanely primitive to me
i welcome any negative comments towards this post and/or someone setting me straight on the subject because, as i stated, i don't spend time thinking it over, so i may be a tad flawed in my perceptions

interesting posts all ye w/in this thread

i do get kind of irked about the "right wing" or whatever you call rush limbaugh and that o'reilly dude, hence my post, but i'm not looking for a fight, just information

course, i completely hate all politics
more power to K's post


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Mezcalhead
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posted August 05, 2002 17:03     Profile for Mezcalhead   Email Mezcalhead     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Emlyn K Helicopter:
"After 9-11, we wanted blood. Taliban's blood. And we got them."

I love the "we"!


You got me on that one EKH. But I was certainly ready to pick up a rifle after 9-11.


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Mezcalhead
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posted August 05, 2002 17:27     Profile for Mezcalhead   Email Mezcalhead     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Phobia:
i find this all to be utter bullshit
many words to say nothing at all
i'm talking about the 2 sides presented by noam and the dude mhead posted comments from
i like to spend my time w/ music and you'll notice that uses few words, if any, and usually to say as much as possible
chumsky did say something very useful though
you must see your faults before judging another's
when "9/11" happened, the first thing i thought was "wonder why they're mad?"
i think a lot of other people were thinking: "revenge!"
bottom line: america and like countries are fucking pigs who need to slop up oil and we have a presence in the countries that have it to ensure our glut
they are insanely religious and don't like us traipsing on their "holy grounds"
it all seems insanely primitive to me
i welcome any negative comments towards this post and/or someone setting me straight on the subject because, as i stated, i don't spend time thinking it over, so i may be a tad flawed in my perceptions

interesting posts all ye w/in this thread

i do get kind of irked about the "right wing" or whatever you call rush limbaugh and that o'reilly dude, hence my post, but i'm not looking for a fight, just information

course, i completely hate all politics
more power to K's post


Phobia, read this last section of the Hitchen's quote from above:

The figure of six and a half thousand murders in New York is almost the exact equivalent to the total uncovered in the death-pits of Srebrenica. (Even at Srebrenica, the demented General Ratko Mladic agreed to release all the women, all the children, all the old people and all the males above and below military age before ordering his squads to fall to work.) On that occasion, US satellites flew serenely overhead recording the scene, and Milosevic earned himself an invitation to Dayton, Ohio. But in the end, after appalling false starts and delays, it was found that Mr Milosevic was too much. He wasn't just too nasty. He was also too irrational and dangerous. He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Bosnia. It must be said that by this, and by other lies and numberless other atrocities, Milosevic distinguished himself as an enemy of Islam. His national-socialist regime took the line on the towelheads that the Bush Administration is only accused, by fools and knaves, of taking. Yet when a stand was eventually mounted against Milosevic, it was Noam Chomsky and Sam Husseini, among many others, who described the whole business as a bullying persecution of--the Serbs! I have no hesitation in describing this mentality, carefully and without heat, as soft on crime and soft on fascism. No political coalition is possible with such people and, I'm thankful to say, no political coalition with them is now necessary. It no longer matters what they think.}


Basically what he is saying is that when the US started coming after Milosevic, Chommie boy was criticizing the US actions. "The bullying persecution of the Serbs" he called it. This is the insanity I was talking about and why I called him a chump(also has a nice flow-chomsky, chump). So Chommie vocally supports a government(Serbs)who actually carried out(the murders of six thousand Muslims)and then makes this completely bogus claim that Bush wanted to attack the civilian population of Afganistan.

And what they are saying is quite important. Because these people are intellectuals, and governments turn to intellectuals like them for advice on how to create new policy or change old policies. And these policies shape(or misshape) people's lives. So it is very important for us to keep up to date on what the pundits are saying.


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Mezcalhead
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posted August 05, 2002 19:14     Profile for Mezcalhead   Email Mezcalhead     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Yeah, maybe I'll pick up my rifle and fight the Iraqis with Bill. Glad to see we still got to chance to fight. Ha, ha.
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blacky
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posted August 06, 2002 00:47     Profile for blacky   Email blacky     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by King Kula Shaker:

I have an interresting Observation.
The U.S. has never been at WAR with anything larger than the State of TEXAS!
Think about it!

wrong Kula, you forgot Canada and we (note here, I used WE ) did kick your ass...remember!!!

sorry guys for starting this up!
but I must say that I'm enjoying it very much.


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blacky
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posted August 06, 2002 01:02     Profile for blacky   Email blacky     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
where is John Lennon when we need him...
all we need is love...ta.....ta..ta..ta..ta

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manipulator
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posted August 06, 2002 11:17     Profile for manipulator   Email manipulator     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
well, any cigar afficionado will tell you that billy mastered the art of humidification.
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K
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posted August 06, 2002 11:32     Profile for K   Email K     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by blacky:
wrong Kula, you forgot Canada and we (note here, I used WE ) did kick your ass...remember!!!

sorry guys for starting this up!
but I must say that I'm enjoying it very much.


Canada??? We were at War with Canada???
hehehehe!
Actually...I meant WW2 to present Day.

And the OCCUPIED Territories of Germany...were really not that much bigger than TEXAS. (or were they?)


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Imran X
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posted August 06, 2002 12:50     Profile for Imran X   Email Imran X     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by blacky:
where is John Lennon when we need him...
all we need is love...ta.....ta..ta..ta..ta

The only post my simple, uneducated mind agrees with and understands. Things have gotten way too complicated.


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Mr. Phobia
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posted August 06, 2002 17:12     Profile for Mr. Phobia   Email Mr. Phobia     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
thanks for replying, mezcalhead
my post was meant as a "i think solos are a bunch of wanking" for this thread
i think i see the issue, now
chumpsky is accusing the u.s. of world police brutality, right?
my opinion: nutcases come to power and they need to be deposed (power/absolute power/corrupts/absolutely)

but i think this hitchins is reading too much into the "9/11" terrorist's plot, if i'm understanding him right
the trade towers are the tallest thing ever and therefore easy,easy targets and also symbolic
as are the pentagon and white house
i think it was a primitive plan

warning: this post may be the result of an oversimplified point of view


quote:
Something in me was telling all the time: "impossible"

yes, this is a point glenn danzig loves to bring up repeatedly
there will always be war and violence
that is reality
i don't think he's saying if that's a good or bad thing but it is a fact of life

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blacky
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posted August 06, 2002 23:24     Profile for blacky   Email blacky     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
All I can say in regards of Noam Chomsky point of view is that I think he is absolutely right on this: we need a better level of basic morality. To put it simply, we need to grow-up as a civilization.

Anybody read the Atlantic Monthly? There is an interesting article about the WTC disaster. At one point they mention an expert saying that a major contributor in bringing down the tower was not the plane impact nor the kerosene, but that it was ordinary paper feeding the fire which brought the temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees celsius, very interesting, they also say that the kerosene burned through entirely within four minutes. There is also a not surprising revelation about errant firemen, policemen, or construction workers implicated in a widespread pattern of looting that started even before the towers fell, and later office computers were stolen from the Deutsche Bank.
There is a second article in the newest issue of the magazine, can't wait to read it.


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h
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posted August 12, 2002 06:50     Profile for h   Email h     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
It disgusts me that after all this time the human race still hasn't learnt a damn thing.
Apart from the John Lennon thing

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blacky
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posted August 12, 2002 17:03     Profile for blacky   Email blacky     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I don't think people learned much from John Lennon song really...but more of Frank Zappa album "we're only in it for the money" do you think?

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Imran X
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posted August 12, 2002 17:47     Profile for Imran X   Email Imran X     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I dont think anyone will have the influence on people and Music in general the way The Beatles did. I could go on and on about them and even Lennons soslo work but I wont. On a personal note the only other band that has had that much of an impact on me, is of course Voivod. Especially Dimension Hatross. Its mind opening to say the least.
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h
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posted August 13, 2002 05:33     Profile for h   Email h     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I think you hit the nail right on the head there Blacky!
Great quote, hexonxonx! I might have to look into that Beelzebub's Tales a little!

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