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Thursday May 06, 2004 19:42 by iosaf

Naturally will follow Ireland's trouncing of Surrey (the wombles) in the Cricket this fine day.
And Ireland's cricketeers and fans of the slow quick quick slow game of delight are preparing.
Next years 8º International Cricket Council (ICC) Trophy will be hosted by Ireland. The press will naturally organise the pre-game panic, with stories about wombles, and muppets and anarchists coming to spoil the bowling and batting.
But don't be put off.
It will be great.
hip hip hur RA!
the event will be held with lots of matches on both side of the border (created by wombles in 1922 to hamper socialist unity in Britain) in both Dublin and Belfast.
12 of the 89 member nations will be playing.
Ireland (who will win)
the Wombles (who will cheat, and curse and engage in all beastly ungentlemanly behaviour probably drenching the pavilions in lager with hosepipes if they don't get their way)... [which they won't]
all the other countries with good cricketers the wombles have infiltrated over the last 800 years.
These include Canada, (whom we are boycotting for beating the seal pups to death and sending us back Daithi who is useless out of the pav.)
Australia (whom we are boycotting for moving the call centres and computer companies over there from the celtic tiger)
New Zealand (whom we are boycotting for hosting the Lord of the Rings)
France (whom we will help come second)
Switzerland (whom though not normally considered an elite cricketing nation have decided to finally honour thier 1327 commitment to John Baliol de Valance to field at least three outmen and do the cakes at half time)
Iceland (björk is a great cricket fan) and is wetting herself at the historic victory in Clontarf, ancient property of the Knights Templar, this lovely Thursday.
Scotland (the jock has put nothing on their website about our great and indisputable victory, you just wait the bonny day will come when we sort ye out and all!)
and a few other countries.
Spain is not sending a cricket team, but some of the best examples of the game I have yet seen for free, or without sneaking into a friend's flat overlooking a ground, has been in the Raval quarter of Barcelona.
Where amidst the speculation that poses as regeneration, and amongst the african sisters that sell themselves so cheaply, and the so great bars, and spaces, and restaurants, and hard drug dealers behind the cop shop, and streets with such mythical names, the Pakistanis play Cricket.
& they play it well.
If the Pakistanis of the Raval were Wombles, or tried for a national team, they'd cream Ireland.
Even the ireland who finally meets the Beckett.
An Ireland that today knocked those cursed Surrey Wombles out at 262 with 10 balls to spare.
I like that, I'll repeat it :- "balls to spare".
This is the first time our National Cricket side, which Beckett played for has beaten a county side of Womble Cricket since 1997.
We have never (to my knowledge) beaten Surrey.
Celebrate on the streets tonight!
Balls to Spare!
Meanwhile, news from Coca Cola the mega corp everyone loves to hate, and whom I shall someday entrust with great responsibilities to prove what a top ten corp must be able to prove, and has "in the spirit of Shakleton" sent a team of executives to Antartica to test their skills. (I told you about that in a Sunday papers or one of the other days of the week can't remember).
Anyway, Mr Daft the current CEO is being replaced by an Irish Man!
http://unison.ie/breakingnews/index.php3?ca=35&si=54960
Great eh?
Big Rosy Patriotic Glow There ¿eh?
Watch out you Wombles!
(those few of you who have not already capitulated to our superior technology, indymedia system, cricket, sense of humour, cryptography, ministry of truth and blogging skills.)
it is only 24 hours since I declared war on the social assemblies of England and their representatives in Ireland the British Thugs who think to turn water cannon on my little babies.
And you're trounced!
Reclaim Ireland!
If any Womble wishes to surrender, just make the journey to the border "YOUR BORDER" where we'll take your posters off you, and do our best to make you fine cricketers, sober, clean, hard-working, rational, civilised, and trustworthy just like us.
Don't worry you will be treated well, we Irish treat our prisoners with Honour.
:-)
it'll all be over by christmas.
I'm not sure I need to come back to Howth after all, you're doing grand.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Ireland has excelled herself.
her new stamp to mark the EU unity thing,
has turned the division of Ireland to unity,
and ignored Cyprus completely replacing it with an enlarged Crete.
it's is now day 3 since the clear superiority of our sillyness, psychogeography and bowlers was proven over the Heathen Womble Foe (many of whom will now be disappointed stamp collecters).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cyprus/story/0,11551,1211925,00.html
Don't listen to those British Propagandists, An Post.
I luv you.
Great Work Done!
now increase the interest rates on your savings accounts for the elderly and poor.
Um, am i missing some deeper meaning? What ON EARTH are you krazy kats on about? I'm so confused, i need a lie down...
The most untrustworthy US regime since Dixie, has twisted every political and cultural issue for almost 4 years now. Amidst laments at increased terrorist activity in th world, US hegomany has been copperfastened, and interests served even in the sphere of influence of the project of European Unity.
Supposedly centred on a group called "neo-cons" who use G.W. Bush as figurehead, this group of politicians, backers, militarists, and others with very unsavoury historical links have started two wars, mishandled the security of the Western Alliance, and become unarguably up to their filthy necks in a power grab that has put us all at risk. They have continued and dilineated a policy which analists can now trace back over a generation, to concentrate global power in the USA and selected satelites.
No corner of the world has been left untouched.
All this has been done on the back of a propaganda campaign that makes Goebbels look like a Rathmines Tech College first year journalist student (the type that drop out by christmas).
The threat to the normal level of security and peace (which means you turn the tap, water comes out, you walk out on the street at night, there's a light, you go to hospital, there's drugs there, you wake up the next day and most people aren't coughing their way to slow msyerious death) in our European and American Homeland is now _so_ serious, that only a psychological campaign of European defense on a par with the psy-op of continuing the "NeoCon Regime" will stop us all going around the bend and into perdition.
You are all being daily fed a diet of Lies, Propaganda, and Counter Propaganda.
The sole function of which is to maintain the "neo-Cons" in power in the White House.
This doesn't mean keep "Bush" in power, it means keep that _interest group_ in power.
examples:-
First week of war, pretty Texan soldier is kidnapped and tortured by Saddam, then rescued by the CIA and Marines. Photo all over the world. She goes back to ticker tape parade in her local town, and just before she gets there, the NeoCons admit it was faked.
Doesn't matter, her locals still need a hero, she gets her special service medal and tickertape parade and TIME article, despite only having taken part in a PsyOp.
verdict = FAKE
Every five weeks since the Sept 11.
Ossama issues a tape or article calling for more of the same which always occurs within five days of a terrorist attack on either a religious institution, or statement against _European_ Foreign Policy.
verdict = CONVENIENT
A soldier called "England", by virtue of being a woman becomes the face and name in the papers accused of torture in Iraq commited by US troops, she is now confined to a military police barracks in Fort Brag.
verdict = SHOCKING
A soldier called "C", in Britain now weekly issues information on torture by British soldiers in Iraq.
the lies do no only treat on the "war/wars" between Israel and Kashmir. They treat upon the value of commodities as well.
example:-
We're scared! Chicken's off the menu now.
result :- quick killing on Beef.
or
We're scared! Beef's off the menu now.
result :- quick killing on Chicken.
It's designed to make you hate Bush more.
It's designed to make Bush's treatment of Rumsfeld seem sincere.
It's designed to keep a U.S. military presence in the middle East for the next 15 years.
It's designed to keep the European Union contained within the central Mediterranean, and out of the planned Israeli extended commerce zone, which in 15 years would stretch from Cyprus to Khabul.
It's designed to re-legitamise the US system in your head, if Kerry wins the next election.
So, what's left of the intelligent types who haven't yet gone completely mad, are now completely comitted to _sillyness_.
To the post 1984 program.
to the post Brave New World Program.
We believe that European Culture which has survived the horrors of the XX century and yet been it's product, has educated minds that are still capable of discerning between what is likely to be true, and what is very likely to be untrue. What is relevant to their life and what is not.
Only by discrediting the "information source" and using one of the signs of "higher intelligence" (humour and wit) do we hope to undo the _brain-wash_ program that has messed up everyone's head (left - right - liberal - conservative - commie - warmonger and pacifist).
Also by increasing the role of humour, we will draw a line between those who use the internet and social assemblies and are the focus of very serious global "guilt-mongering" and are innocent, [YOU!] and those who use these systems and _our freedoms_ to "plan and make attacks on the West".
The difference between a crusty/hipp/trotty/anarko "rebel" and a very well funded very fanatical suicide bomber terrorist, is
"a sense of humour".
Equally the difference between an angry, leftwing, young practising muslim with very legitimate reasons to hate the US and it's European allies and a potential recruit to one of the now myriad terrorist organisations is "a sense of humour".
There is nothing wrong with hating the US or Europe, especially if you live in the one billion islamic zone. And the jokes, and cartoons and stories bear this out. They're cool. But for every hundred thousand jokes born from resentment, one humourless dour sod, will get armed (by whom?) get trained (by whom?) and get shipped out of poverty and sent bim bam into your local newspaper in a very bloody way (by whom?).
the difference between your friend and your enemy then may be a sense of humour.
IT has occured to us, in secret powers land, that a sense of humour, is proof of friendship.
WE have not seen any hint of a sense of humour in our enemies. In either their communications or their tactics. So if after 100 days sillyness, everyone you know hasn't had occasion to laugh or grin wryly, then the dour humourless sod, just might be a brainwashed, programmed suicide bomber.
-That still won't help us work out who did the programing of your dour humourless pal.
And unfortuanately there is a long list of those who know how to do such things.
but it might stop them doing something irrational and evil in your locality.
60% of your daily external media is now comprised of propaganda relating to the slow creation of an Israeli centred "new Middle East", serving the energy concerns of the USA and cultural disarticulation of Islam.
THis means that apart from the sports results, the TV pages, the trustworthy local politicans, the crossword and the weather, your newspaper is worthless, faked, sourced in psy-op and depending on your nationality, cultural background and socio-economic class "means very different things to different people".
We are in the century of "rule by Psy-Op".
so we must enter the century of "liberty through Counter-Psy-Op".
Close your eyes now.
Take a deep breath.
relax those shoulders.
now repeat 1000 times:-
" I am an individual "
haiy iosaf!
You mention (on a few occasions) that Beckett played cricket for Ireland - I dont believe he did. Check it out.
He certainly played for his school side in Enniskillen, and possibly at Trinity...but the other claim? nah.
From both Bair and Cronin biographies it is clear that Uncle Sam retained an enduring love of cricket (as well as football and rugby).
Béal-oideas handed down in iardheisceart Tír Chonaill suggests that a crowd of Protestant wee school gasars come to Donegal and played a game of Gaelic football for the crack, and that Sam was among them.
I dont know if any of that is true.
Good luck with the Nobel Prize effort. If you dont win we will all go mad and smash our cocks (even Pamela?)
I reckon someone will have to put in a few more words for me yet though.
:-)
Today's silly "are you a sportsman?" fixtures included Celtic v. Rangers and Man Utd v. Chelsea.
It's D.U.P. day.
It's a very big day for them, because they're now the biggest and loudest unionist party in the Union.
to mark the occasion, unionist and their non-unionist comrades in the union at the Blefast Telegraph, went on strike for better pay and conditions from you know him - Mr. Dr. Judge Independent Media group O'Reilly.
Anyway, Celtic won the match, and accordingly by half-time oranges, Peter Robinson had made the "hard-hitting speech".
Now he did demonstrate the wicked ulster wit, and took the piss out of Trimble to the delight of his followers. So we don't expect him to kamikazee Bush. He's cool for the moment. The Grand Old Duke of Spin, will be doing his stuff for unionism later on tonight, and well we don't think Paisley's going to kamikazee Bush either. It is still not beyond a doubt that everyone up there is not going to kamikazee each other, but one good thing, was the aborteed near kamikazee demonstration of an easy jet [not-so-easy] hijack from Belfast to Liverpool last night.
The other game was Man United against Chelsea. Great.
No-one got a bit dixie thuggish, and the wombles are feeling the first blossoming glow of their new enlightened velvet underground revolution "The Secret Irish Regime Change" and _indeed_ beginning to like it. We are almost at the stage where we will confirm Peter Robinson as the "real" prime minister. But that's a few psy-ops down the road.
Rebaz Ali and Shadman Sophi are two men, (who's surnames and perhaps ethnic background, might prompt you to think they may be kamikazee anti-Bush types) and were indeed last month arrested as suspects of being such, but then released because they weren't [= not a bit of it],
attended the game as guests of the Independent Manchester United Supporters Association, as a show of solidarity.
Seemingly I.M.U.S.A. has an idea how shitty it can be to be the convenient scapegoat, and how it really can spoil the game for everyone.
In "non-sporty land", 21 year old, "not a leaving certificate equivalent qualification to her name", Little Miss Lynndie England, has now been convicted of looking "like a sadistic dyke" and "neither blue eyed or permed to bootcamp" and is confirmed as the new "hate spot prime time" face for the forthcoming weeks.
She is not expected to give interviews from her new home of Fort Brag Texas, or to draw parallels between abuse victims and abuse practioners or use the word "replication" at all, because as her parents and neighbours have confirmed, "she just looks like a sadistic dyke which isn't that unusual, but her real anti-social habit is smoking!!! we are thrilled with the attention". Besides "rep-li-ca-tion" has two more syllables than Uncle Sam allows in such recruits' vocabulary.
Back in Sporty land -
We await Big Ian's speech write-up which probably will be another honestly hilarious as always list of genuine hard hitting community concerns and the sort of propaganda we know where we are with. Like he's believable isn't he?