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Many people should be fired for this
Feb. 15th, 2003 01:14 amI'm upset at this atrocity. Wonderful ally, no?
Feb. 15th, 2003
From Salon:
Oscar snub fans North Korea-U.S. tension
Was the Academy blind to the cinematic splendor and dialectical imperative of "Gypsum Mine #425"?
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By Bruce McCall
Feb. 15, 2003 | North Korea and the United States are edging closer to a showdown this weekend after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to nominate a single North Korean entry for Oscar consideration in any category.
The Democratic People's Republic had already started warming up its nuclear reactors in January, after being shut out of this year's prestigious Golden Globe awards and similarly snubbed at the Sundance Film Festival. It is now anybody's guess as to what steps the famously thin-skinned Asian state might take in response to this latest rebuff.
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Oscar snub fans North Korea-U.S. tension
Was the Academy blind to the cinematic splendor and dialectical imperative of "Gypsum Mine #425"?
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By Bruce McCall
Feb. 15, 2003 | North Korea and the United States are edging closer to a showdown this weekend after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to nominate a single North Korean entry for Oscar consideration in any category.
The Democratic People's Republic had already started warming up its nuclear reactors in January, after being shut out of this year's prestigious Golden Globe awards and similarly snubbed at the Sundance Film Festival. It is now anybody's guess as to what steps the famously thin-skinned Asian state might take in response to this latest rebuff.
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Émile Nelligan, "Sentimental Winter"
Feb. 15th, 2003 07:07 pmFar windows! Limpid eyes whose looks I drain
Unsoiled by any gaze of commoner.
With Norway ice the fields like mental are;
May Winter chill warm up our hearts again.
Like troops mourning the wrecks of Theban war,
Let us, my pet, treat our rancours tenderly
And, scorning life with its songs of sophistry,
Let good Death lead us down to Hades' door.
You will visit us like an icy spectre;
We shall not be old, but weary of life's faults.
Come, Death, take uis on such an afternoon.
Languid on the divan, lulled by her guitar,
Whose dreamy motifs and whose muffled tune
Keep time to our ennui on the hellward waltz!
- from The Complete Poems of Émile Nelligan, edited and translated by Fred Cogswell, (Montréal: Harvest House, 1983), p 26.
Unsoiled by any gaze of commoner.
With Norway ice the fields like mental are;
May Winter chill warm up our hearts again.
Like troops mourning the wrecks of Theban war,
Let us, my pet, treat our rancours tenderly
And, scorning life with its songs of sophistry,
Let good Death lead us down to Hades' door.
You will visit us like an icy spectre;
We shall not be old, but weary of life's faults.
Come, Death, take uis on such an afternoon.
Languid on the divan, lulled by her guitar,
Whose dreamy motifs and whose muffled tune
Keep time to our ennui on the hellward waltz!
- from The Complete Poems of Émile Nelligan, edited and translated by Fred Cogswell, (Montréal: Harvest House, 1983), p 26.
THE IRAQI CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE MARSH ARABS: ECOCIDE AS GENOCIDE
Professor Joseph W. Dellapenna
Villanova University School of Law
JURIST Guest Columnist
Readers might recall seeing the movie “Three Kings” a few years back. It was one of the few films made about the Gulf War. Basically a remake of the equally improbable World War II movie “Kelly’s Gold,” it is about a group of American soldiers who attempt to steal a stock of gold supposedly belonging to Saddam Hussein, but find themselves caught up in rescuing a large number of hapless Iraqis who had foolishly responded to President Bush’s call for Iraqis to rise up and overthrow Saddam. Most viewers of the film probably did ask themselves who were these Iraqis, for the movie did not tell us much about them. They really were only props for the American heroes. Given the location in the south of Iraq and their flight into Iran at the end of the movie, they probably were Marsh Arabs - even though no marshes at all were in sight on the screen.
Who Are the Marsh Arabs?
While Saddam’s persecution of political enemies is notorious, many people have not much attention to just who these enemies are. Persons who are particularly attentive to the situation in Iraq would have heard of Kurds in the north, or of Shiite Arabs generally. Others might have thought of “enemies” only as a generic term with no specific content. Neither group was likely to have heard of the “Marsh Arabs” of southern Iraq who have been one of Saddam’s main targets. The Marsh Arabs constitute a society of 500,000 or more people who have lived in and around an enormous freshwater wetland ecosystem for thousands of years. Since the Gulf War, the Marsh Arabs have suffered the total destruction of their economy, their culture, their habitat and their way of life.
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Professor Joseph W. Dellapenna
Villanova University School of Law
JURIST Guest Columnist
Readers might recall seeing the movie “Three Kings” a few years back. It was one of the few films made about the Gulf War. Basically a remake of the equally improbable World War II movie “Kelly’s Gold,” it is about a group of American soldiers who attempt to steal a stock of gold supposedly belonging to Saddam Hussein, but find themselves caught up in rescuing a large number of hapless Iraqis who had foolishly responded to President Bush’s call for Iraqis to rise up and overthrow Saddam. Most viewers of the film probably did ask themselves who were these Iraqis, for the movie did not tell us much about them. They really were only props for the American heroes. Given the location in the south of Iraq and their flight into Iran at the end of the movie, they probably were Marsh Arabs - even though no marshes at all were in sight on the screen.
Who Are the Marsh Arabs?
While Saddam’s persecution of political enemies is notorious, many people have not much attention to just who these enemies are. Persons who are particularly attentive to the situation in Iraq would have heard of Kurds in the north, or of Shiite Arabs generally. Others might have thought of “enemies” only as a generic term with no specific content. Neither group was likely to have heard of the “Marsh Arabs” of southern Iraq who have been one of Saddam’s main targets. The Marsh Arabs constitute a society of 500,000 or more people who have lived in and around an enormous freshwater wetland ecosystem for thousands of years. Since the Gulf War, the Marsh Arabs have suffered the total destruction of their economy, their culture, their habitat and their way of life.
( Read more... )