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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on March 23, 2025, 04:51:06 AM »

[‘p.ST’ Cuthbert as ‘patron(-non-)saint’) as truly ‘progressive’ (pseudo?) ‘saint’ of truly ‘modern’ & ‘progressive’ NEUTRAL uk§gb€(AND)IRE(=‘anger’?!) ...Land/nation ...]    

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on March 23, 2025, 04:28:59 AM »

Contrary to ‘sir’(sic<IllyU.k>$tarmer - aka a ‘stupid militaristic “bastard’) uk’s future was in ‘neutrality’ ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Stopping Yesterday's Wars Today and Tomorrow ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on February 14, 2025, 12:25:39 PM »

p.ps ... on the 'essential importance' of 'alternative voices' ... ['sir'] Fred Hoyle was 'wrong' about TheBigBangTheory ... he rejected 'it' ... but his SteadyState alternative was a vital counter-point ... stimulating discussion/debate .. and ... out of 'it' came important discoveries about 'cosmic al'co.'my' ... x ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Stopping Yesterday's Wars Today and Tomorrow ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on February 14, 2025, 12:15:46 PM »

... 'mind' the 'gaps' ... when you leave a 'void' ... spammers and other 'junk' merchants ... will fill/phil it with 'any old[e] b'shit'  ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Stopping Yesterday's Wars Today and Tomorrow ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on February 14, 2025, 12:11:27 PM »

[... & the 'masses' can always be easily [enough] 'distracted' any-way ... via ... Britney Spears (sp?) ... Metallica ... &/or ... The Smiths ... & other 'aspects' of 'ad-mass culture' ...]

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Stopping Yesterday's Wars Today and Tomorrow ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on February 14, 2025, 12:04:10 PM »

The 'subliminal message' was/is/will be: ... don't waste your time  with mass political movements, because that is a 'waste of time' ... and effort ... and even when you have huge numbers on your 'side' ... it will make 'no difference' to the 'power elites (sic)' ... 'they' will just do what 'they' want to do anyway ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Stopping Yesterday's Wars Today and Tomorrow ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on February 14, 2025, 11:56:43 AM »

... again .. X'ing out, by a.i.'. or what[so]ever does not 'negate "truths"' ... 

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Stopping Yesterday's Wars Today and Tomorrow ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on February 14, 2025, 11:50:40 AM »

Consider, how the Stop the War march[es] of February 15th, 2003. have been turned by mainstream media into 'exemplar' of the 'futility' of 'mass political action' ...


A million-plus people marched against the [then] impending invasion of Iraq in 2003 ... but ... what 'difference' did it make? it make[d] 'none' ... 'they' went ahead with the war plans anyway ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Stopping Yesterday's Wars Today and Tomorrow ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on February 14, 2025, 11:36:55 AM »

Chomsky [etc. e.g. Marcuse, 'One Dimensional Man' ...] ... on how so much of 'western' culture is 'about' making people feel 'powerless' & 'futile' ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Stopping Yesterday's Wars Today and Tomorrow ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on February 13, 2025, 01:54:23 PM »

['& ... what difference does 'it' make?' ... The Smiths, etc ...]
 
 
Inmates of G.Bay, and other places, were blasted with Brit.knee.Spears, Metal.i.ka. and other elements of 'trashy 'western' culture sounds ... during a 'softening up' process ...
in a 'cynical' attempt to make them seem 'futile' & 'power-less' ... ie, 'dominated' by 'trashy' u.s. ' culture' ...