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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to complain about it.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Put out less flags
For the last month or so, I've been in Northern Ireland, driving around to the four corners of our occupied six counties / our wee country (delete according to tradition). It is a weird place in a lot of ways, and it has something in common – for the outsider – with the USA. This post is about my own impressions. And, as far as I can see, generally, guns are not the issue that they are in the American interior – a few of the people who actually do have them insist that they don't. Capital punishment doesn't come up as much, but the day-to-day needle – the chauvinistic little subtexts – around identity are absolutely everywhere.
As an outsider to the place, it's hard to know whether there are factors that you aren't aware of, or if you have the benefit of the kind of insight that detachment brings – are you able to cut through the centuries of unresolved grievances, yesbuttery and the demagoguery that plagues a divided society. A few days in the place, and you can be very quickly – and falsely - convinced that you are a prince of reasonableness and perspective in a cage of bigots.
Yet – again – like the USA, you can arrive in a town that is bedecked with quite horrible sectarian imagery, only to be treated with warmth and civility that I've not found anywhere else on these islands. And the illusion that this is a highly bigoted society gives way to something much more complicated. In my time there, I've met anti-agreement unionists and rejectionist republicans whose reasonableness and logic I found hard to fault.
Of course, the flags – mostly loyalist ones nowadays (there seems to have been a concerted attempt to decommission Nationalist murals and flags) - are hoisted and maintained by a small group of people. They are by no means representative of the estates that they fly over.
As the troubles recede, the variety of voices on the radio becomes more pronounced. Radio phone-ins often feature Catholics from West Belfast (for example) calling in to explain and identify with unionist concerns, and to call for more flexibility from other Catholics / nationalists. And vice versa.
Unionist politicians – privately – are sometimes embarrassed by the ubiquitous Union Flags, though in my time there, I've never heard any DUP or UUP politician put much energy into demanding their removal. And when the murals are painted over, they are often replaced by a surrogate for Loyalist chauvinism. In other cases, the naked viciousness is still pronounced – I saw one that was very similar to this in a small town on the north coast a few days ago.
In Belfast, UFF gables are painted over with commemorations that are still not neutral. There can be no corner of Europe that venerates its dead from the Great War in the way that the people of Newtownards Road and Sandy Row do. I was there last November, flying out from Stansted passing hundreds of people who were – like myself – wearing a poppy.
In Belfast, however, you either don't wear a poppy, or you WEAR A POPPY. And not just one, but a dozen of the things – all shapes and sizes. Along with enamel poppy badges. And regimental badges, if you have one. Or even three or four.
There seems to me to be very little by way of a Nationalist equivalent. In the last month driving to almost every town in the North, I've seen a few fading signs commemorating the hunger-strikers or some ancient Republican luminaries. I've seen two Tricolours and one Starry Plough. A couple of trips into West Belfast, driving along the Falls Road increases the count a little, but even then, not massively. And that's it.
There is, however, the usual noisy colourful flag-and-bunting display showing GAA (Gaelic games) colours. In the Republic, if you go to County Mayo on a year that they are destined for at least a semi-final, everywhere is bedecked in the Red and Green of the county. Absolutely everywhere – to a degree that really surprises visitors.
This is clearly and obviously done in innocence. It annoys no-one apart from the rare Mayo aesthete and it is almost impossible to see it as a provocation there – mainly because there is almost no-one (apart from a small army of Polish builders) that don't come from a tradition that played Gaelic games at school.
Similarly Tyrone - or more accurately, parts of Tyrone, have been absolutely covered in the county's red and white flags and bunting. And one suspects that those parts that are covered in flags are even more comprehensively covered than Mayo is. It's impossible to actually pin down, but I sensed that the sheer density of flags and bunting in some Tyrone towns and villages was – at least in part – a 'fuck-you' to neighbours who are a bit free with their Union Jacks.
Yet, then again, Tyrone has had an utterly fantastic year – winning the Major and Minor football finals. Perhaps it is entirely innocent?
Whatever. The needle is never far from the surface. And while the excitement in Tyrone was at fever pitch a few weeks ago, someone demanded that a smallish Tyrone flag was removed from a car in Strabane to comply with the 'neutral workplaces' rule. Nationalist politicians hopped up and down complaining (quite reasonably in my view) that this was an abuse of rules that were designed to deal with provocative and chauvinistic paraphernalia in workplaces. Unionists replied that Catholics had only got what was coming to them, and that some stupid objections had been raised to 'British' objects in workplaces in the past had set a precedent.
Northern Ireland appears to have a society that will always find ways to sneak in surrogates for national flags, and will always find ways to confound attempts to stifle this low-level sectarian needle. The nationalist objection to the flag-in-the-car-park-removal was somewhat undermined by the row that was caused by the flying of a Union flag-themed London 2012 flag in Craigavon earlier in the summer.
Again, one wonders where anyone would find the energy to object to it. On the other hand, one wonders where Craigavon's councillors went to find a version of the Olympic flag that is so calculated to annoy Nationalists.
So what to conclude from all of this? Well, I'm a blow-in. Sometimes things look more simple to outsiders than they do to those who confront the problems day-to-day. Even Derby looks quite nice from the air, so anything I say here is observation rather than confident assertion. But it seems to me that this perpetual needle is poisonous and it could be easily resisted.
It's all pervading. It is a massive piece of misdirection by politicians who aren't able to get their act together to finish the normalisation of politics – particularly at the moment. It's like the 'oh look! A polar bear!' manoeuvre. Whenever an awkward question is asked, someone pops up with some imagined grievance or some other bit of insensitive banter. You can almost touch the desperation of politicians who haven't a clue about how to deal with any other question than 'was it themmuns that did if first?'.
The media in Northern Ireland don't help either. Don't even get me started on The Newsletter. But public service broadcasters offer a different kind of problem. BBC Radio Ulster have the most insufferably demagogic chat-show host in the morning in Stephen Nolan, and at lunchtime, there is a phone-in that is hosted by someone who is so smug and insufferable that I can't bear to remember his name. When the flag-in-the-car-park crisis a few weeks ago was in full flow, they managed to dedicate a huge amount of time, getting different spokesmen on and inviting callers to chip in. Almost every caller that offered a particularly polarising view suffixed it with '...and one other thing .... er .... don't you think you're going a bit overboard on this story?'
The host excuses himself by saying that this is what people want to talk about, and does so in a way that convinces you that he has no clue about how the news media can lead or follow an agenda.
And finally, you can spot just how inadequate a politican is by the frequency with which they use the word 'community'. Now, I've posted on the notion of 'community leaders' before, and if you've been here before, you'll know my line on this.
But it needs restating. If ever there is a place that needs a thorough-going democratic renewal, it's Northern Ireland. It needs a different sort of people to go into politics. There is no simpler way of saying this, because – unlike the rest of the UK – the political class are badly failing the people that they are supposed to represent.
The people of Northern Ireland, as far as I can see, need to recognise that as long as politicians are twittering on about flags, they are failing as representatives. It is that black-and-white. Sure, there is a political dynamic that results in politicians competing for the approval of an assertive noisy outgroup, but I don't think that - even from a cynical point of view - this is even good politics when you get down to it.
Demanding an end to the needle and a moratorium on discussion about symbols seems to me to be something that a noisy cross-section of Northern Ireland could campaign for.
As an outsider, I don't know why such a campaign doesn't really exist.
8 comments:
- Crushed said...
It will never happen.
The problem is, that you have two sides that at heart just don't even know the hymn sheet the other side sings from.
Yes, it looks like everythings normal really, just the extremists.
But have you noticed that it is the extremes in six counbties politics that are magnetic?
There isn't a solution. Both traditions dream of different things. and there's no real middle ground.
Sadly, a lasting solution will only come with demographics.
The day the north wakes up and finds it finally DOES have a Catholic majority.
- 9:22 pm
- Paulie said...
Annoyingly, Crushed, it's even less simple than that.
A majority of catholics does not go anywhere near to equalling a nationalist majority:
- 11:32 pm
- Paulie said...
Sorry, you can't see all of that url can you? Here it is as a proper grown up link instead.
- 11:37 pm
"there is a phone-in that is hosted by someone who is so smug and insufferable that I can't bear to remember his name."
David Dunseith. And, yes, listening to that show will almost certainly ruin your day.
Newton Emerson one time referred to "the sort of people who have Talkback on speed-dial"
- 12:39 pm
'Fewer' flags.
- 3:43 pm
- Paulie said...
It probably wasn't a very good joke, but the poor grammar was intentional.
- 3:10 pm
In my box of file cards of titles for artworks as yet unmade is one that says "Put out less flags". But it always bugged me as a)it is gramatically incorrect b)it only works as a reference as it is. The other day in the London underground I saw a sign that said "If there are less escalators operating it's because we're saving electricity." Yuk, yuk and triple yuk.
- 7:40 pm
- will said...
- 5:41 pm


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1/7/2002 8:00
Enemy Lines
Producer: Margaret Parker
Researcher: Mara Blazic
Hello. I'm Caroline Jones. Tonight's program centres on a war story with a unique twist. Warren Cowan was an Australian pilot flying Hudson bombers against the Japanese during the Second World War, and he would have remained in obscurity but for the efforts of the Japanese air ace who fought against him. Saburo Sakai never forgot the heroism of his unknown Australian opponent. He was determined to win recognition for Warren Cowan and the events of 1942 in the skies over New Guinea.
BOB PIPER, former RAAF historian: What Warren and his crew did that day in their combat against the Japanese Zeros will probably go down in the annals of flying history as one of the most amazing feats that has ever occurred in a Hudson bomber.
HENRY SAKAIDA, Sakai's biographer: The Zero pilots, they just did not expect Cowan to fight back. I mean, they thought he was a sure kill. They were going to gang up on this one lone bomber and they were going to shoot it down. And so when Cowan became the attacker, that's when they just went to pieces. It was totally unexpected. It was a very audacious thing for this guy to do.
All they could talk about for the next few weeks was the tenacious Australian Hudson pilot. Everyone talked about it. "Watch out for these Aussies, these Hudson pilots - they'll turn on you. Very dangerous, and they've got plenty of guts." Nine to one, the guy wouldn't quit.
BETTY SHILLABEER, Warren's widow: And it was about six o'clock and the doorbell rang, and the young lad, he just handed me a telegram, and I kind of... you kind of knew something was wrong. Oh, of course, I howled my eyes out. I think it said, "Missing, believed killed." But there's always that hope, you know. "Missing, didn't return from flight..." I can't honestly remember. I didn't keep it. I should have. I didn't keep it. I didn't want anything to do with it. We didn't even know what happened. It's just surmising, nobody knew. My main worry was that he was taken by the Japanese and been cruelly treated.
BLAIR COWAN, Warren's son: I didn't have a lot of images of my father, except from photographs. For example, I haven't got a feeling of whether he was a good father or a kind person or anything. There's no... I have no conception of that, because he died when I was one.
LIBBY BUCHANAN, Warren's daughter: My earliest memories, there was Mum and my brother and myself, and my father was killed in the war before I was born. We were interested in... in hearing about what had happened, but of course, Mum didn't know anything. At one stage we had some of his uniforms. We used to dress up in it and things like that. Uncle Jim used to tell us about some of the exploits they got up to and some of the funny things that they did when they were boys together.
JIM COWAN, Warren's brother: My mother was the one that encouraged us to take up flying because she loved flying so much. So she really turned the Cowan boys into a flying family.
BETTY SHILLABEER: They always talked about planes, you know how boys do. I never liked planes. I'd go if it's necessary. I'd much rather go by car.
BOB PIPER: Saburo Sakai was a well-known Japanese ace during World War II who flew Zeros in the south-west Pacific. The fact that a book had been published on him, called 'Samurai', and contained dates, provided a lot of clues as to mysteries that had occurred during World War II.
HENRY SAKAIDA: Mr Saburo Sakai told me that he had over 200 individual dogfights in World War II. I first met Saburo Sakai in 1971. I decided, well this is such great thing, maybe I'll write a book about Mr Sakai. And he actually encouraged me. He said, "Yeah, Henry, why don't you write a book, and I'll help you as much as I can". So that's what happened.
One of the first things I asked him was, your combat with the Australian pilot - why was that so memorable? And he told me that, well, it was memorable because it was so lopsided. It was nine to one. It was one Australian Hudson bomber versus nine Zeros.
LIBBY BUCHANAN: About 15 years ago, a lot of information sort of came forward that we hadn't really any knowledge about. We knew that the plane had crashed and that they were missing for three years.
BETTY SHILLABEER: I had no idea what he was doing, because they weren't allowed to tell you. I just knew he was in New Guinea, probably, and, you know, you're very optimistic when you're young. I never dreamt he wouldn't come back.
LIBBY BUCHANAN: When Sakai wrote his book and it was translated into English, one of the war historians in America had a discussion with him, and while he was talking to him, Sakai said, I would really like to know who that Australian crew was that I described in my book.
HENRY SAKAIDA: At that time, he did not know the full story of who these men were. Did not know what unit or anything like that - their names, their background.
LIBBY BUCHANAN, Warren's daughter: So he followed that up and then it sort of became almost a snowball effect, where Henry Sakaida in America was contacting Bob Piper in Australia and David Vincent in Adelaide, who had more information.
DAVID VINCENT, Aviation historian: From Sakai's account it was clear there was only the one aircraft lost on that day, and from my research it was clear that there was only one squadron operating in the area at that time. And it was about 15 years ago, as we were comparing notes, that we all came to the same conclusion as to how the... Cowan had been lost in the flight in New Guinea in his Hudson.
BETTY SHILLABEER: When Sakai... when he brought out his autobiography, it was released in America. It was the funniest feeling, you know. Opening that book, which I got from my brother-in-law in America, and seeing Warren's photo there, I couldn't believe it. It was weird, you know. It... it was strange. I didn't like it much. It... it was a shock, you know, to see it there. Funny way... funny how things happen. And I thought I'd got over it all and I didn't want to start it up again.
HENRY SAKAIDA: It was very important for Mr Sakai to have the people know, the Australian people, the next of kin, know what a great hero Cowan was, because he was very impressed, and he told me, you know, they have a right to know that he did this, that he shouldn't, um... Missing in action - no-one knew what happened to him - and that was bother... bothersome to him. He said, "Now that we know, get the story out."
BLAIR COWAN: We got a letter which indicated that the Hudson that my father was flying with a crew of four people had been shot down by a particular Japanese air ace. That came as a bit of a shock to us. It was almost something we couldn't really believe - that... after all that time, something had come to light.
BETTY SHILLABEER, Warren's widow: I suppose when I met Warren I would have been 22. We got engaged about June-July 1940. It was when war broke out. Everyone was more or less getting married earlier than they thought they would. And then Warren was called up to go to Parafield for training, in the air force, of course.
I was in Adelaide, in town, this plane came right over low, over at North Terrace, and I got home and he rang up and said, "Did you see me come over?" I said, "You didn't!" - I wouldn't know one plane from another - I said, "You didn't!" He said, "Yes, I came down a bit low. I thought I'd let you know I was coming in."
Sakai's Memoir
"On July 22, in a group of nine Zeros, we flew a wide circle in what appeared to be an otherwise empty sky."
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SAKAI: Japan had this huge plan. If Port Moresby was easy to take, we were to press on to Townsville in Australia.
HENRY SAKAIDA: When the Japanese began landing troops and supplies on Buna, and it was a very important operation so his air group, they were ordered to provide air cover. And so they sent up nine Zero fighters.
BOB PIPER, former RAAF historian: They were lazily circling over the Buna area and there was an overcast at 7,000ft above them. And all of a sudden, a series of bombs began exploding below them.
HENRY SAKAIDA: Mr Sakai looked down and he saw black, greasy smoke billowing from the beaches and mass pandemonium. And he thought: "What happened?" I mean, he didn't see any enemy airplanes, and he was just totally confused. In the horizon, he saw a tiny speck, and so they raced after this tiny speck and as he neared, he identified it as a Lockheed Hudson, a twin-engine bomber.
He thought it was going to be a very easy kill, so he manoeuvred in to shoot it down, and just as he got to the firing distance, he opened up with his guns, hoping to make the enemy bomber turn, and he got the surprise of his life, because the Hudson, just very rapidly, a very sharp U-turn and just came straight at him with all guns blazing.
"Every forward firing gun in the Hudson opened up in a withering barrage."
HENRY SAKAIDA: And then he just manoeuvred the Zero right out of the way to escape the line of fire. And after that, all hell broke loose. It was every man for himself.
SAKAI: We were being attacked. I felt, gosh, this is going to be some fight.
HENRY SAKAIDA: Sakai had trained his pilots to be very disciplined fighter pilots, but everything that he had taught his subordinates just went out the window. Just totally went out the window. There was mass confusion in the dogfight and there was several times when they almost collided.
Our Zeros scattered widely, rolling or diving in the different directions. Nothing like this had ever happened before.
BOB PIPER: As pilots, we don't know today how Warren managed to spin a Hudson on its wingtip like that. We can only surmise that perhaps he practised the technique earlier of pulling the power off on one engine, applying full power on the other, and pivoting it like a pirouette to turn it as sharply and as steeply as he could on the wingtip.
SAKAI: I caught a glimpse of Lieutenant Sasi. His jaw hung open in astonishment at the audacity of the enemy pilot.
BOB PIPER: All the time he had to keep that aircraft twisting, turning, climbing, descending, and indeed, Sakai, in his book, describes that he was doing just that and creating as much confusion against the enemy fighters as he possibly could.
SAKAI: All of us failed to score a single hit. The bomber rolled and soared up and down in violent manoeuvres, with top gunner firing steadily at our planes.
HENRY SAKAIDA: The dogfight lasted over 10 minutes, which, in fighter pilots' terms, it's like eternity. 10 minutes of just full-bore dog fighting. They could never keep their gun sights on the bomber long enough to hit it.
BOB PIPER: You've also got to remember that these sort of manoeuvres are very, very tiring on a pilot and require a lot of concentration, and that 10 minutes that Warren fought would have seemed like 10 hours to him. As he turned the controls and pushed the rudders I imagine that he was absolutely exhausted and that his strength was running out even though he had a co-pilot with him.
JIM COWAN, Warren's brother: He would have said, "To hell with you. I'm going to really get stuck in here." He'd stick his nose into any sort of a fight, not for the love of the fight, so much, as how dare you do this to me?
DAVID VINCENT, aviation historian: I really get this vision of Warren Cowan and his whole crew being galvanised to try and save their lives. But with a twin-engine bomber, it has some limitations as to what you can do with it. In the account by Sakai he did remarkable things with aeroplanes that just can't be... can't be really imagined how that could have happened, but he did it somehow.
HENRY SAKAIDA: Their Zeros would have been like these real high-performance sports cars, you know, and the Hudson would have been something like a large truck. The sports car could just turn rings around the truck. Well, the Zeros could turn rings around the Hudson. And the Zero had about 80 miles per hour more speed than the Hudson, so there's no way that Cowan could have outrun the Japanese. So he decided to just stand and fight and he did a miraculous job.
BETTY SHILLABEER: I thought, why did he have to turn back and chase them? But then he would have been taken anyway. They were after them, so... I don't think they ever would have got out of it.
SAKAI: I saw the gunner throw his hands up and collapse. Without the interfering stream of bullets from the turret, I closed in to 20 yards and held the gun trigger down, aiming for the right wing. Seconds later, flames streamed out and spread to the left wing.
HENRY SAKAIDA, Sakai's biographer: I asked Mr Sakai, well, what was your feeling at that time when this was happening? And he said, well, at that moment, when the airplane caught on fire, and it was going down, then that's when he knew, okay, they didn't have a chance. The combat was over, they were going to die.
So he was watching them intensely and was muttering under his breath. He was saying, "Come on, come on, come on." And I asked him, Well, what did you mean by that? And he said, well, it's like he was hoping that they didn't have to die, that they were such heroes that it was just sad to see them die like that. But then at the same time he knew they were the enemy and so... he felt sympathy for them. You know, they had put up a good fight, now they were going to die, and there was nothing he could do, there was nothing THEY could do.
JIM COWAN: I didn't know that Warren had been shot down that day. In fact, it was quite some time before any of us knew, because he was posted missing, believed killed, but he was never confirmed until the end of the war when they found his plane.
HENRY SAKAIDA: After the Cowan combat, the Zeros landed back at base and it caused quite a consternation. The Zero pilots failed in their mission and Sakai told me that a bulletin was issued to other air groups in the area stating that, you can't take these Aussies very lightly. Their fighter pilots are great, but watch out for the Hudson pilots because even when outnumbered, vastly outnumbered, they'll turn against you and they will fight you. And so after that the Zero pilots were very, very careful when they came upon Hudsons, you know.
You know, Sakai, when I talked to him about the enemy Hudson pilot's flying abilities, he said, "That guy was a master! I mean, he just took his bomber and he flew it like a fighter!" And he'd never seen that done. He said the guy was a tremendous pilot, a tremendous pilot, he knew exactly what he was doing, and if I were to tell Mr Sakai today that the guy was a novice pilot, he would probably shake his head in wonder. That's amazing.
LIBBY BUCHANAN: When I saw the video of the crash site for the first time, then I began to think more about the events of what had actually happened. It made me feel... I wonder what he would have been thinking of as he was doing it, and those sorts of things. I guess you would feel proud that someone had done something very brave.
BLAIR COWAN: It was a culmination of a lot of time passing, and now having this information after all that time that... it sort of hits you a bit.
HENRY SAKAIDA: If Saburo Sakai were to meet Cowan's next of kin, he would tell them what a great hero he was. In his business seminars to large corporations in Japan, he would frequently mention Warren Cowan and that dogfight on 22 July, 1942. You know, nine against one. And he would actually mention Cowan and cite his bravery.
Letter from Sakai
"I have encountered many brave pilots in my life but Warren F. Cowan stands alone. Even though he was an enemy..."
LIBBY BUCHANAN: He wrote to Mum and said that Warren had been very brave and that he felt that it was something that she should know about and he then petitioned the Australian Government for a posthumous award.
Letter from Sakai
" ... I recommend that pilot officer Warren F. Cowan be posthumously awarded your country's highest military decoration.
LIBBY BUCHANAN: We were told that it wasn't possible, that it would just open up a... a Pandora's box, and that everyone would want to get a medal.
HENRY SAKAIDA: And when Mr Sakai asked me some time later, well, what's going on? Is Cowan going to get his medal? I told him, No. The Australian Government is totally lackadaisical. They don't care.
He was kind of saddened by that. He said, "that's not right". I asked him, well, would you be willing to write a personal citation for Cowan and his crew? And he said, "Absolutely, because if they're not going to recognise him for his valour, then I will very gladly write a citation in Japanese and present it to the next of kin". And he was working on that when... when he passed away.
BETTY SHILLABEER: I can't believe that someone like... an ace like Sakai should... could be bothered wanting to know who the pilot was. I mean, there must have been so many. When you see how many people he has shot down, ah... I couldn't stand him first, when I got the letter. I thought, "Ohh!" But then I thought, he's doing his job, isn't he? We're doing our job, so...
I was very taken aback at the time, and I didn't know if I wanted to be - not happy about it - be interested or not, but I'm glad I've kept all the letters. I've given them to Libby to fix up. Glad they've tidied this up.
LIBBY BUCHANAN, Warren's daughter: When I was in my 20s, I was at a girlfriend's place, and she was one of these people that did the ouija board, and she was calling up spirits. And anyhow, it came up and it spelt out 'Warren'. We said, "What do you want to say?" And he spelt out, "Tell Betty I love her." He said, "I love you", and I said, "But you've never seen me." And he said, "Yes, I have, in my dreams." And I'm there going... 'Bawl, sob'. I told Mum after... afterwards, you know, some months later, but we've never talked about it since.
BETTY SHILLABEER: Libby said to me one day, it would be rather nice just to have a little plaque somewhere, maybe at the war cemetery. Something, just a little thing. For me, it doesn't matter. I remember him as he was. I don't want any... don't necessarily have to have anything like that. I just look at Blair and Libby - I've got mine, I've got my memories.
BLAIR COWAN: Funnily enough, I still get a bit emotional about it, even though the process is now probably 10 years old. It's a story come home to rest, I think.
JIM COWAN: The story of a great airman who deserved every single bit of praise that he could get. To achieve what he achieved in that time, through an extraordinarily brave effort, all hail. All hail.
Killed with Warren Cowan were pilot officer D.R Taylor and sergeants R.B. Polack and L.E. Sheard.
Danna Vale, Veterans Affairs minister says while the crew died bravely serving their nation, the End of War list closed in 1945.
The minister said "there was no avenue to consider posthumous awards after the closure". Both the RSL and the Air Force Association agreed with this policy.


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The North Korean Government last night announced it would snub an Asia-Pacific security summit to be attended by US Secretary of State Colin Powell next week in Cambodia. The ASEAN Regional Forum is one of the few international bodies of which the reclusive communist state is a member, and has in the past provided an opportunity for top-level talks between Pyongyang and Washington.
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You, being a card-carrying member of the American elite—" Carville asserts before I interrupt him with a sarcastic "thank you.
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The yen firmed across the board as a few large purchases of the Japanese currency made a splash on a day with low liquidity and few participants, with most markets closed for Easter holidays.
The euro started the new quarter with a whimper, slipping 0.2 per cent to $US1.2791, just above a four-month low of $US1.2750 hit last Wednesday. The common currency has slid steadily since February, when it hit a 14-month high of $US1.3711.
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Borrowing costs in Slovenia, seen by economists as one of the next potential candidates for a euro zone bailout, jumped over 100 basis points in the wake of the Cyprus bailout, while Italian borrowing costs reached their highest since November at a five-year bond auction last week.
Appetite for Italian debt has been hurt by the deadlock in the country's politics since inconclusive elections a month ago, reinforcing the common currency's weakness.
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March 30th - Gay Bykers on Acid
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March 29
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March 28
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March 27
Other Mind-Fucking Drugs La-La Suite life of Zack and Cody So I Just Smacked Him One Gypsy Land, Paris Talk:Sarah Palin is a loser Yugoslav Wars (video game Kaitlyn Senior I hate you all Sixties West Florence High School ASAAD Day Davi haber
Microwave ovens- since been ICU'd by RAHB Sarah Palin is a loser Asshole.
March 26
Fucking Bastard
Bunch of author requests:
User:Luvvy/Sandbox/Midgård User talk:Luvvy/Sandbox/Midgård User:Luvvy/Sandbox/Art Nouveau User:Luvvy/Sandbox/A Lover's Complaint User:Luvvy/Sandbox/Mensa User talk:Luvvy/Sandbox/Mensa ---- Luverly - (Contribs) (Talk) Grammar Nazi, Mum , BFF & NotM, CUN , GMP . - 22:33, 26 Mar Image:8589097907a10038736940l.jpg - personal pic, about to be used in vanity edit of article Dolph Ziggler ‡ Jake Bruess Hannibal Lector Gefühllosigkeit Talk:Form R-99PFO/Section A - Unnecessary redirect. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Phil cork One tree hill Kathy Kinney Robin Rhys Jones Doyouloveme.com Tyler Jacobs Mats Sundin Zurgenburger -- fails UN:CM, overabundance of Chuck Norris Go Eat Shit Fuckers
March 25
Murali Hizbullah Uncyclopedia:Pius XI High School Militant homosexualists Biscuits and gravy Stick men William Jacobus Goooooooooooooooooooogle Virginia Commonwealth University - vanity school page. Deleted once, recreated. The Lost Boys Book shelves Hickadilly Hill Beverly hills chihuahua - Recreated crap. Soccer cunt Anthony randolph Benjamin dralle Stephen Reid Alum Rock Jeff Poplawski
Clicky the clock - The ICU tag was wrongly removed. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 12:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC)I readded it. It's got until 1 April. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 16:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC) Chris betteridge UnNews:Kangaroos escape in France, surrenders Super Jesus Superjesus Cumberland Allegany County Black Cat Twins Charlie the unicorn Snowblindness in cats James Bradshaw Deep Grue SCUBA-Hunting Emmitt Papadametrio Shoop da woop again Londinium Star tribe - Y'know, this won't improve any. Donney - Long cyberbulling/vanity. 4000-something thingamajigs. Play Magic: The Gathering Godzilla vs. Nietzsche Droidz - Wha? I'm confused... Nicktoons - This isn't gonna improve Ladymead Community School Jesus jones Bella swan
March 24
Home on the Range (movie) - Recreated once again. —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 23:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC) A Donney - Seem to be cyberbullying. Web design An article that is just one big link to a completely unrelated article
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March 23
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March 22
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March 21
Mystery Machine Patriot bible university
From the PavilionDownload Now Heart burn Template:Card games - Pointless template Sieni UnNews:Luke Hedin eats join pie UnNews:Taylor Rousey Category:D-Jumper - Unused Queso Chihuahua Image:IdahoPotatoz.jpg Image:Idahoeflag2000.jpg
March 20
Editing User:GlobalTourniquet/Gratitouille Don't ask me what happened (somehow the word "Editing" got into the name(?) --Globaltourniquet - (was TPLN) 02:05, 21 March 2009 (UTC) Articles that don't exist User:Luvvy/UnHoly Army Of Catholic Schoolgirls/Sorority No need for these two anymore... -- Luverly - (Contribs) (Talk) Grammar Nazi, Mum , BFF & NotM, CUN , GMP . - 23:08, 20 Mar User:Luvvy/UnHoly Army Of Catholic Schoolgirls No need for these two anymore... -- Luverly - (Contribs) (Talk) Grammar Nazi, Mum , BFF & NotM, CUN , GMP . - 23:08, 20 Mar But... but... army... of schoolgirls!? —Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 23:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC) Jeff Anderson Steven Mr. Croskey Wrong Brothers Wall street crash of 1929 Category:Pages with many categories - Pointless Category:People murdered by Yagami Light - Pointless Sieni
Image:Bukkake to figure.jpgOrphaned and, well, gross. -OptyC Sucks! CUN15:30, 20 Mar No it isn't, you sissy. It was in an appropriate context in an article it suited... *sigh* -- Luverly - (Contribs) (Talk) Grammar Nazi, Mum , BFF & NotM, CUN , GMP . - 16:19, 20 Mar Yeah - when you said shock, I was expecting much worse. That's justified in context, dude. --UU - natter 16:28, Mar 20 Narniaa The alliance of douchebagian nations US invasion of Mexico UnNews:Woolworths to chage name to Worthsless Apparatus Mana Crazy Swerving Asian Articles that don't exist Image:1.jpg XXX, not safe for work same pic as below, needs rollback Talk:RuneScape Bots: Left over from redirect.
March 19
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March 18
Noobz in Port User:RabbiTechno/Real ale - author request Aleksandar Stankovic Image:Howarth 1940s Weekend - 006.jpg Centralia Date Movie 4 No page Selena Gomez - Just no. Ben Hayward Talk:Runescape Bots
March 17
A Victorian Gentleman's Guide to the Trivialties of Courtship - Author blanked. Aqualad User talk:188.8.131.52 Korgoth of Barbaria Image:Idahoeflag.jpg Goa Tse Brokemonphobia BrokeBackMountain Gippsland Resident Good
Muslime IslimeI touch Myself at night Soulja Boy Uncyclopedia talk:Pee Review/UnBooks:Caffeine Cold Turkey (mid-write review) Max Clifford Willand David lam Microsoft Sam Date movie Sam cullen - Blanked by author User talk:A.4. - Welcome to serial vandal Idaho aka Niggerland Talk:Idaho aka Niggerland Talk:NiggerNiggerNiggerNiggerNigger NiggerNiggerNiggerNiggerNigger
March 16
Nano machines MrN9000 Is A Stupid Nigger Who Sucks My Cock Talk:MrN9000 Is A Stupid Nigger Who Sucks My Cock Yo Gabba Gabba Zina Badawi Talk:MrN9000 Is A Stupid Nigger User talk:H.I. This Is Sparta - Benjamin Button Korma Talk:Indianapolis
IndianapolisMrN Fork you! 08:47, Mar 16
March 15
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Wisbech - cyberbullyingNa. MrN Fork you! 22:03, Mar 15 Victor Vance Image:FuhQ.jpg Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa User:Flutter/Zeldæ User talk:18.104.22.168 Abi Titmuss British Helsinki Human Rights Group - Spork UnNews:Öhhh UnNews:Öhh Sad Mac Peoplewatching RickRoll Image:Mayoisgay.jpg Bye bye kitty David's mother - All these 'David' pages and Level 3 Sex Offender are cyberbullying created by same author David's aunt David Mayo's father David's uncle David's father Level 3 sex offender John Frusciante David Boian Epitheton Epitheta (Disambiguation) Live (band) Bbv4l everything by this guy
March 14
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March 14
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March 13
Stacey Chapuka Alastair Campbell Chineham User:GlobalTourniquet/Serj Tankian Lyric School User:22.214.171.124 User:Mnbvcxz/Avril user requests Mnb'z User:Mnbvcxz/Blank User:Mnbvcxz/Female User:Mnbvcxz/Samuel L. Vacuum User:Mnbvcxz/tem User:Mnbvcxz/template Game:Zork/heaven/west/west Frankie becerra Candy corn - True, but not funny. Vince Offer - He's notable, but... Not like this. Spouse User talk:Animation/The Mighty Beep! Shelley clarke D'Bibirs (album) - appears to be a non-comedic c+p of an article already deleted from Wikipedia. Adam Lowe - cyberbullying/vanity Oil Change Man Halo marines So cash - I like this:(--Sycamore (Talk) 10:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC) - me too – (ooh!) (aah!) ...·º•ø®@» LEG CUN GUN DUN 16:23, 13 March 2009 (UTC) St thomas more school crewe List of heterosexual Uncyclopedia admins - Contradiction in terms Teh best wiki EVAR Tammies Game:Death Row/Hyrule Game:Death Row/west1
March 12
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March 11
Lil wayne Joshua Gooding Fleble Saaf London Jackson Browne Monkey disease Zula UnBooks:Talking... Ford Escort Oli Sykes ∑
Uncyclopedia:VFH/ChernobylTin Man The Peoples Republic of ChinaNot Working No Income No Money Broke User talk:220.127.116.11 - IP createdRoyal hospital school so original to call a headmaster a dictator... --Psychoparten 15:22, 11 March 2009 (UTC) JetRed - Hasn't been edited for quite some time now. Isn't worth the construction template. Take a closer look Socky - it was a redirect to userspace - the author moved it. List it up here as a redirect so the mainspace redirect can be deleted, for future reference. UU Area 52 - Aliens! -Sockpuppet of an unregistered user 14:03, 11 March 2009 (UTC) Harry Potter Syndrome (nerds) Sidhu Spongeob Squarepants Medics Ambulance Company Husseyism Quoticide complaint Joy of Sex Murwood elementary school Cowboy Troy
March 10
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March 9
The dark ones Chris Crocker
Talk:Bill CosbyWhat's the problem? Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 03:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC) We drink ritalin Battle of the Pearly Gates Talk:Rise against Rise against Steve russell The secret garden Frieza Dimantina Jenkins Gnome Theory MacBean land Ragman205 Donkey Fool Category:1533 in law - Unused Aleksander Ingvald Bjerke Pastor Sloppy Joe Will daniels World War XX Shitney Spears Skinless Bankstown Tabouli makes us strong Captin Falcon Creeping plant cultivated for its edible fruit which has white crisp flesh Steve Garrad
March 8
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March 7
Template:Moved looks like the author wants it deleted Home on the Range (film)
Shrek, Talk:Shrek Shrek (film) needs to be moved to Shrek, the talk page shows the info: "Can someone please move Shrek (film) to Shrek? Then delete this talk page. Thanks! Tinkywinkyisgay 01:25, 21 October 2008 (UTC)" Also, Talk:Shrek should be deleted because it was moved, but then blanked. P.S. This same thing was happening with Barney the dinosaur, but this article died because it sucked so bad. lol. Accont101 21:27, 7 March 2009 (UTC)Image:Zula2.jpg Rape City Abstract - There's an author request on the talk page. -Sockpuppet of an unregistered user 18:00, 7 March 2009 (UTC) Quarter Pounder NPC Image:Ee.JPG - Unused Image:Ssssssccccccccccccccc.JPG - Unused
March 6
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March 5
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March 3
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March 2
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (Team Release)- In front of the third straight sell-out crowd to start the season, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos blew out the Tennessee Smokies 5-0 in a rain-shortened game Saturday evening at Pensacola Bayfront Stadium in Pensacola, Fla. The Blue Wahoos' (2-1) pitching staff was spectacular giving up just two hits to the Smokies (1-2). RHP Robert Stephenson dazzled in his 2014 debut striking out a career-high 11 batters. Even though the game was shortened to seven innings by rain, many of the fans stuck around to watch the post-game fireworks presented by Pepsi and Marcus Pointe Baptist Church.
Cincinnati Reds' RHP Jonathan Broxton started for the Wahoos for the second straight night throwing one scoreless inning. Stephenson, the Reds' top prospect, came on in relief and struck out 11 batters in just five innings of work. Stephenson's 11 strikeouts were a career high and he tied J.C. Sulbaran for the second most in club history.
RHP Daniel Renken pitched a scoreless top half of the seventh before the umpires decided to call the game due to steady rain that had been falling since the second inning.
Shortstop Devin Lohman hit the Wahoos' first home run of the season, a two-run shot in the 6th inning that gave them a 5-0 lead. First baseman Steve Selsky and second baseman Rey Navarro had back-to-back RBI singles in the fourth to give the Wahoos a 3-0 lead.
Chicago Cubs rehabber RHP Jake Arrieta pitched three innings during his rehab start giving up 1 R/0ER while striking out three. Arrieta was saddled with the loss despite giving up just one unearned run. RHP Corey Black pitched 2 innings giving up five hits and the two-run home run to Lohman.
Centerfielder Rubi Silva and catcher Charles Cutler were the only Smokies to register a hit in the contest.
The Wahoos will throw RHP Jon Moscot Sunday at 4:00 p.m. RHP Ivan Pineyro is scheduled to pitch for the Smokies.


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Walkabout Free Tour
What's all about?
Stroll through more than 500 years of history from the times of Vlad the Impaler aka Dracula to the "golden era" of communism and the '89 Revolution and unravel the stories of old and new Bucharest.
Explore the fascinating mixed architecture and hidden attractions while our guides fill you in with the tips and tricks of living in Bucharest (B&B, entertainment, nightlife, culture).
Top Highlights
Stavropoleos Convent
Ruins of Vlad's Citadel
Manuc's Inn
Palace of Parliament
Revolution Spots
Victory Blvd.
Starting Time
English: Daily at 10.30 & 18.00 sun, rain or snow 🙂
Spanish: Weekends at 18.00
Around 2h.
The tour is free. Donations are appreciated.
For whom?
Independent travellers or small size groups.*
* For organized groups larger than 10, please contact us prior of joining the tour for sharing our private tours policy. Otherwise, our guides have the freedom of refusing your participation.
Meeting Point
Unirii Square Park, in front of the Clock (next to the fountains). Look for our distinctive orange outfit. Check map below 😉


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Tara Reid Tweeted Her Honeymoon Photos
GOD, enough with the camel toes. That thing looks like it could really use a break
A break is not going to help that thing. That poon is broken like a pane of glass surrounded by a horde of retards with hammers.
That's funny, the damage doesn't look as bad from out here
pinko commie haterz – you'd all give the left half of your body to here that american pie moan in real life.


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Birthday parties are a normal, happy part of childhood, and the gift of a birthday party can provide hope in the unsettled lives of children who are homeless. Volunteers of America-Greater New York launched Brightening Birthdays to bring birthday parties into our family and domestic violence shelters.
Each month, all of the children in a shelter with birthdays that month are treated to a celebration complete with presents, goody bags, pizza and cake.
Corporate partners help out by underwriting costs and providing volunteers, who join in the fun with crafts, face-painting, and party games. Wonderful team-building experiences, the parties are memorable and rewarding. If your organization would like to help brighten these children's birthdays by underwriting the cost of a party and fielding volunteers, please email email@example.com. If you are interested in creating "Birthdays in a Box", which provide all of the fixings for a fun party, learn more here.
Since the inaugural birthday party at Regent Family Residence, hundreds of children and their families have enjoyed parties where volunteers helped them celebrate with crafts, face-painting, presents, pizza, and beautiful desserts donated by Gristedes. Members of the local community can help make these family celebrations a success by volunteering, donating supplies or making a financial contribution. View our Amazon Wishlist to help you shop
Help brighten a birthday today!


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Sirs Patrick Stewart & Ian McKellen Had The Best Friendsgiving Ever
Did you really think Sir Besties Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen would celebrate the American holiday with anyone but each other? Of course not! Here's how I imagine the big day went down, if Sir Ian and Sir Patrick channeled their alter egos, Captain Picard and Gandalf, in a confusing fashion:
Sir Patrick: Sir Ian, you're late!
Sir Ian: A wizard is never late, Sir Patrick. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
Sir Patrick: Well, whatever. Starfleet has issued a direct order to carve this bird!
Sir Ian: Hold out your hand, Sir Patrick. Remember, that wound will never fully heal. The bird will carry it the rest of his life.
Hands Sir Patrick the knife.
Sir Patrick: Well then, let's make sure history never forgets the name … Thanksgiving.
Sir Ian: So be it. (nods head)
Sir Patrick: ENGAGE.
Carves turkey.
Annnnnd SCENE. [Twitter]


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Coffee Enema is a powerful therapy which activates the Glutathione s-transferase free radical fighting system of the body.
I encountered the idea of coffee enema use many years ago, but dismissed it as quackery. However, my interest was piqued by the first account I read while searching for solutions to my own health challenges.
The story took place toward the end of World War II in a German army hospital outpost surrounded by Allied troops. Blocked off, the German medics and nurses ran low on supplies, and had no medication left to alleviate the pain of their injured soldiers.
A common practice prior to surgery is to administer an enema. In one instance, a nurse could not even find water to use for that purpose. As a substitute, the nurse grabbed the only other available liquid - a strong brew of lukewarm coffee to use in place of warm water.
It was discovered that this procedure significantly relieved the soldiers' pain and left them feeling more energetic.
The discovery of the benefits of this therapy is reputed to originate with German scientists in the 1920's. They discovered that the treatment dilated the bile ducts, stimulating an increase in bile secretion.
It is interesting to note that this therapy was an accepted part of medical practice, listed in the prestigious Merck Manual of Medical Information until 1972.
During the time (early 20th century) that Dr. Max Gerson began to utilize them in his cancer therapy program, they were considered a viable therapy.
Dr. Ralph Moss, ph.D., an author of over half-dozen books on cancer, regards coffee enemas as a serious part of alternative medicine.
An oncologist and surgeon at District Hospital in Graz, Austria, did 6 years of clinical trials on cancer patients. In 1990, he reported on scientific evidence that supports their use for detoxification.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services, recently allocated $1.4 million for research on coffee enemas and diet for healing pancreatic cancer.
In recent years, the idea of infusing a caffeine-rich solution into the lower bowel to enhance liver and gallbladder functioning has been the subject of much ridicule and denigration, dismissed by the 'establishment' as sheer quackery.
That could be the highest compliment, as it seems to me that when a natural alternative treatment is REALLY good is when it comes under attack by vested interests.
My intrepid readers
agree wholeheartedly!
For the Most Therapeutic Coffee Enema Experience, only a roast made expressly for that purpose will do!
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Strong retailer attendance at the New York International Gift Fair– the largest since 2009– resulted in solid traffic and sales activity at the summer show, according to George Little Management. NYIGF was held August 18-22 at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and the city's Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 92 & 94.
"Expectations for the summer market not only have been met, but also have been exceeded," said Christian Falkenberg, NYIGF director and GLM vp. "Exhibitors are reporting solid and consistent order writing through the entire show."
The most recent NYIGF was the largest since August 2009, GLM noted, with a total of 545,000 net square feet of exhibit space across the three New York City venues. Total overall NYIGF attendance was calculated at 33,000 and represented retailers from all across the United States as well as 85 other countries. The largest numbers of international visitors hailed from Canada, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Australia and the United Kingdom, GLM said.
Many exhibitors expressed optimism about what NYIGF's turnout could signal for fourth-quarter retail.
"This was a great show for us on many levels. Traffic was up and it's apparent the market is coming back. The quality of buyers was also great. They come, they look, they order… they know what they're doing," said General Gift exhibitor Sion Benchimol of Prestige Identity.
General Gift exhibitor Randy Erlandson of Knock Knock added, "This show has had a great mix of buyers, with both large and small retailers and domestic and international attendees. Orders are up over last year. There is optimism out there for the holiday season. The days of gloom and doom are definitely behind us."
Highlights of this summer's market included the second annual return of the Gourmet Housewares Show at NYIGF. The sold-out division featured 175 companies representing both housewares and tabletop suppliers.
According to Jesse Tawil of Lifetime Brands, "This was our NYIGF debut and it exceeded our expectations by far. We discovered some great new customers from stores not typical for us, including museum stores and design shops. In addition to this new type of customer, we had a great response from our core kitchen customer."