Cigarette Lighter of Mass Destruction

This video shows life in Iraq before the US invasion. It was filmed two weeks before "Shock and Awe" - Iraq street scenes.

What has been done to Iraq was done in the name of all of us in the English-speaking world. We voted for the perpetrators; we have allowed them to continue their destructive bullying actions. We sit self-satisfied on our greedy arses and watch it happening, careful not to strain our brains in questioning the truth of it all. Lazy, ignorant, careless shams of civilized people we are.

"look up at the sky"

A comment seen on the Google Video page, Loose Change 2nd Edition Recut.

Anonymous
12-Jan-2007

notice nobody looks around anymore, everyone has there heads down,,,,,,,,,,in the wild when animals dont look around and check there environemnt they are devoured

we need to get positive individual and smart and start looking around again look up at the sky for example.

'Pick up another ukulele!'

There's a useful expression with a nice bit of philosophy in it in this interview of Peter O'Toole by Gaby Wood in last Sunday's Observer:

"Reminiscing about his mentor, the renegade actor-film-maker Kenneth Griffith who died just six months ago, O'Toole tells me about an episode that cemented their friendship. In the mid-1950s, Griffith and O'Toole shared a dressing room in Manchester with George Formby. Formby, they found, kept two ukuleles, tuned to different keys, and they asked him if one was a spare. 'No,' said Formby, 'I find it very difficult to change key, so I don't bother. I just pick up another ukulele.' The phrase became a favourite - whenever anything would go wrong, they'd say: 'pick up another ukulele!' and roar with laughter, as if that were the solution to every problem in life. Even now, wheezing with pleasure in the telling, O'Toole gives the impression that his survival instinct is so strong he won't ever really disappear; he'll just shift into another key."

George Formby plays When I'm Cleaning Windows. (It sold over a million copies, in the days of wind-up gramophones.)

More George Formby songs and film clips at MySpace.

Bio of George Formby.