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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   Cultural news from Airstrip One, or should that be the 51st State?   
      
   Surrealism does not mean wacky entertainment.   
      
   Big Brother does not mean 'reality TV'. (Whatever would that be anyway?)   
      
   Room 101 does not mean celebrities saying what they dislike.   
      
   Ever get the feeling the rulers employ professional propagandists?   
      
   And I don't just mean 30 years ago when they thought of getting   
   Morecambe and Wise to play outside Stormont.   
      
   Christopher Meyer's book - an effort to take the sting out of Craig   
   Murray's, or out of anything to do with the Downing Street documents?   
      
   Russia 'quintuples' the price of gas to the Ukraine, and 'cuts off the   
   supply' - you'd think it was an act of war, rather than an attempt to   
   impose market prices à la IMF.   
      
   Jeremy Paxman is not the enemy of the cabinet.   
      
   The BBC is not 'independent' of the (permanent) government.   
      
   'Culture' minister's husband denies money-laundering with Berlusconi.   
      
   'Aid' does not mean helping the exploited - however many pictures you   
   see of aging pop stars feeding hungry babies.   
      
   Meanwhile, all the wankers continue to cry 'tinfoil hat' at anyone who   
   doesn't accept the schizo lies; anyone who's sane enough to suss that   
   the western rulers use propaganda; anyone who thinks Coca-Cola isn't the   
   'real thing'.   
      
   And I understand the gambling, drugs, and money-lending sectors are   
   thriving in the UK...   
      
   Are successful lies more pervasive in the UK than in other countries, or   
   is it just me?   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)