2004-03-21
antiwar demonstrations | around the world citizens rallied against the war in Iraq | The focus was in the main a form of global protest against USA president George W Bush, VP Cheney and others in positions of power who pushes and promulgated the current conflagrations in the mid-east nation | Yahoo / Reuters put up a news page with over 270 photos of marches and actions all over the place | Some were quite telling ~ Chicago reminiscent of the 1968 police response; small towns where ordinary looking families marched alongside demonstrators in street theatre costumes; lots of American flags being burned; statements like "Bush killed my son" or the pasting Dubya's face onto a Nazi stormtrooper | Perhaps my favorite was one from Altanta GA where protestors carried a placard pointing out the belief that the USA administration perspective is way out of focus |allegiances
"Businessmen belong to no country, you know, because their country is Capitalism"
Orns Mil
A graduate student from Taiwan talking about Mainland China's efforts to lure people from Taiwan
heard on the Public Radio International program Marketplace 3/20/2004
game dinner | While others demonstrated, I was with folks demonstrating how much they enjoyed our game dinners | I'm a member of a sportsman's club and we hold these fetes four times a year | The dinners are by invitation only, 90 seats per dinner |
- the menu last night:
eider terrine & smoked shad
homemade turkey soup
smoked goose breast (that's the pix to the right)
venison wellington
pheasant cakes, gilfeather turnips and broccoli
chocolate pate
