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How people can so easily be taken by so-called honors has always puzzled me. The press regularly touts Pulitzers, for instance, but why? Joseph Pulitzer was not interested in truthful journalism. After purchasing the New York World, he changed it to focus on human-interest stories, scandal, and sensationalism. Excellent journalism was never a priority of his, and the prizes reflect it. So does the mainstream press which is yellower than ever in both the conventional journalistic sense and the colloquial sense of cowardly.
Even worse, however, are the Nobels. Alfred Nobel established the prizes in his will after having been called a "merchant of death" by a French newspaper. Although mostly remembered today as the inventor of dynamite, Nobel was mainly an arms manufacturer. Apparently he established the prizes to assuage his guilt, which is reminiscent of the Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity on his deathbed in hopes of escaping eternal punishment for his many horrid deeds.
And the prizes have not been distinguished. Nobels are political prizes. They are almost always given to those committed to Western civilization and Capitalism. When given to non-westerners, the recipients are always those who are critical of the non-western civilizations they live or lived in. From the Nobel Committee's point of view, nothing is prize worthy that isn't Western.
Most of the economics prizes have gone to conventional American economists, and look at the mess they have gotten the world-wide economy in. And the Peace Prize recipients are a study in themselves. Arafat, Peres, Rabin, Wiesel, Sadat, Begin, Kissinger, Chamberlain all received it. If you survey the complete list of ninety recipients, you will not even recognize most of the names. If anything distinguishes these people, it is their failure to produce peace. In fact Alfred Nobel didn't even call it a peace prize: "the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses [emphasis mine]." The attainment of peace is not one of the criteria. Mother Teresa received the prize; she had nothing whatsoever to do with war and peace.
So now Obama has gotten the prize. Big deal! Why was it awarded to him? Because he, like all Western diplomats, talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. He talks change but implements none. He appointed people with deep ties to the banking industry to the treasury who then bailed out the bankers and protected their bonuses. When the treasury bailed out the auto industry, it reduced the wages and benefits of workers. He reappointed a Bush holdover to Secretary of Defense (read perpetual war) and is in the process of expanding the war in Afghanistan and extending it into Pakistan. He continues America's unqualified support for Israel which is the main destabilizing circumstance in the Middle East. His healthcare reform has turned into an insurance industry, medical provider, and pharmaceutical company income enhancement bill. He is a protector of the economic status quo and a hegemonist—a true child of a decadent civilization, exactly what the Nobel Committee looks for. The deadly arms manufacturer would be highly pleased.
10 stages and now it's done. Coffee maker spoils the effect but what can ya do? :-)
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Dixie currently feels:
Neutral
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Blog #95
Coursework, iSketch & Backgrounds
Lmao, I've been in a relationship with Shelly for a week now. :)
I haven't seen her since Saturday - she's going to come and see me tomorrow.
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I had such a fucking funny dream last night.
I dreamt my mam was eating a pufferfish sandwich - basically a pufferfish in a bun.
A wholemeal bun (which is probably why I was asking her if we had buns in today then demanding why when she said no) - and she was nomming on it until it slipped out from the bread.
Then it proceeded to BOUNCE AROUND THE ROOM LIKE A BALL.
I woke up pissing myself laughing, I swear to God.
David was amused when I told him and mam after I'd gone downstairs.
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Today was another say of wasting half the day in bed.
Then I got up, ate cheesy hotdogs and played Guitar Hero: World Tour for about 5 hours.
I'm addicted to playing my Saria's Song.
I've uploaded it to GHTunes.
I had a browse through them - there's 3 others, so including my own - there's 4 Saria's Songs.
In my own personal opinion - mine is the 2nd best.
The best one is by some gadge called The Polar Bear Tree - his, or hers - has a proper mint drum beat. Really similar to the actual song. I didn't have the drum sheet music, nor do I have a great musical ear, so I just made up my own drum beat.
The other two Saria's Songs are shitty electronic versions, and they're both PROPER out of tune.
Out of tune to the point where it hurts your brain to listen to them.
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I've actually got 3/4 of my coursework finished now.
Shock fucking horror, I know.
My first piece and my first commentary are totally done now.
The commentary is a pile of fucking bollocks, however.
I found a way to do it - turn on VICARIOUS at proper high volume and block out the thoughts surrounding you.
I actually wrote Regenbogen-Streifen to Vicarious too... And some Blackmore's Night songs. Ivory Tower was one of them, I believe.
I can write so well if I listen to the bands in my INSPIRATIONAL BANDS list.
(See the older blog, knob. :P)
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I spent the rest of the night on the phone to Shelly and playing on iSketch with Adam.
Oh, good times.
iSketch is something Adam and I haven't played for a long time.
Rofl, the great times we've had in KELLY'S MAM.
Adam: "OMG AYSHEA, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!"
Kelly_Green: "What's a Miraan?"
Adam: "OMG AYSHEA, STOP DRAWING YOSHI."
Ayshea: "BUM THRILLS!"
Dixie: "She cracked the ice? LMFAO, IS SHE FAT?!"
Every time we play, something legendary happens.
Today's highlights were Adam having a fit over "HOW THE FUCK DO YOU DRAW 'ACADEMY'?!", my hilarious drawing of cows in a field...
One of the words I got to draw was "TAILOR", so I wrote "LOL, SHE EATS POO." - a reference to Taylor - so Adam got it straight away.
He told me to print screen this:
I had to draw "SMILE" - so I drew a big scary Foxon-esque gadge in yellow.
Yellow is a HAPPY COLOUR.
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Before I went to bed, I had a faff on Photoshop and I made this white paint splatter background for my blog.
I would have had it as the background for the blog as well, not just the page - but there's a really ugly joining line where the plugins stop and the page background starts.
So I just have the empty black space there now.
*Sad Face*
Never mind! Turns our my corsett is 100% polyester and can only be dyed using special dyes and if I can't find any in town I can't do it. There's not enough time to have it shipped. Oh well... I liked the white too!
OK guys! Like I said, it's that time again and I need some opinions. Should I dye that white corset Yellow??? I can't decide. Here's what it would look like yellow. Help... I have to do it soon if i'm gonna get it finished in time. What do you guys think?
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