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Pokeren en friese les van Fc Meppel 7 tijdens het trainingskamp in Bakkeveen Author: FcMeppel7 Keywords: commercials fcmeppel7 pokeren voetbal friese les Added: November 19, 2007
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We stay alive for each other
And so terrorism, if one can call it that without getting too histrionic, has struck again, as we all knew it would, and hoped it wouldn't. It's like death itself really; we know it's coming, we know that there is very little we can do to stop it, but most of us would dearly like to. It's such an unfortunate fact of today's world that we can't afford to ignore the threat that hangs over us like a swarm of bees, just above your head, buzzing to remind you that it's there, and then periodically moving in for a strike. The first time Bali was bombed, it touched many Australians I think because a lot of us have been there (personally, I haven't), and also because it is so alarmingly close to Australia, and there is such a connection between the two places. Thankfully, if it's not too gauche to say this, there were far fewer people involved this time, and the death and destruction has touched us all a little less. But the fact remains that we know about this place: I had a conversation with my parents the other day (who went there for their 20th wedding anniversary) when Dad said"We went to that restaurant on Jimbarin Bay, you know. It was lovely, and the people there were so nice and friendly." There was a pregnant pause. So the main question remains, what can we do? I left London on the 6th of July to get the train across to Paris. Had I decided to leave on the next day, I would have been caught up in the aftermath of the 7/7 Terrorist attacks. I caught the tube from Paddington to Waterloo, and it never once crossed my mind that it might be unsafe. Less than two months later, I caught the tube on the same line, the same route, and it's hard to ignore the new feeling that sits somewhere in your midriff. You try not to get hysterical about it, but there's no point in pretending that you don't feel differently about it now. But you can't just not use the Tube, you can't say you won't go to London anymore, because it might be unsafe. You just have to grin and bear it, and remember that in 99.99999% of cases, you're going to be fine. But that's what we don't like, isn't it. That 0.00001% of a chance that we might not be getting the 5.25 express to Theale back in the evening, because by then everything could have changed. In a way, it feels like a sort of surrender, not doing what you want to do because one day not so long ago people like you lost their lives in the same place. It was surreal, admittedly to catch the train through Russell Square station, where the greatest damage was done, but it was also a sort of acknowledgement that it was still possible to do it how you wanted. Most people don't realise, or want to realise, that the Tube has been targeted before, that there have been attacks before, and they just passed out of the public memory. But in late August, when I was there last, London was a ghost town. The Tube was deserted, but so was the City. And that is one of the saddest things about the whole goddamn mess we've created for ourselves. So do we go to Bali again? Do we go back to a place where foreigners have been targeted twice in the last four years? Eventually we will. But while the shroud of death still lies over Bali, I doubt many people will return. You can't give in to terrorism, they say, and yes, you can't, but you also don't want to put your own life in any more danger that it already is. At the back of your mind you know it could happen anywhere, but then again, why increase the chances? On the route I catch to London from School, there have been two fatal crashes in the past six years, including the horrible Paddington crash. But then again, I don't have that at the front of my mind when I'm on that train. But that alone has killed more people in London that all the terrorist attacks of last century and this one combined. It is a significant fact to me that on the cover of the playscript I bought forTalking to Terrorists- an excellent play I hope to stage in the near future about the real life situation with terrorism - there is a sort of montage of pictures of the London Underground. And this was published in April, a full three months before it all went horribly pear-shaped there. So maybe people were pretty certain it was going to happen, they just didn't want to talk about it. Just like you're pretty certain that your grandfather is going to die before you, but you don't talk about that one either. Yes, the next time something gets attacked it could be the Sydney Buses. So do we avoid them. It could equally be the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Do we buy tickets for that? It could equally be the London Underground again. But what if I need to get from Paddington to the Royal Opera House? Or it could be Bali again. There is almost no way of knowing where it is going to come from, when it's going to happen or indeed who the perpetrators are going to be. We can't blame religion, race or political situation, that would be just as silly as blaming sexuality, socio-economic standing or intelligence for where terrorism springs from. It comes from repression, it comes from a simmering feeling of being hard done by, and we can't whitewash the causes as being nasty Muslims, dirty Arabs or the bloody Irish. We don't like talking about it, because it's an admission of mortality, and an admission that we are not in control of our own lives. But then again, we never have been. As it's said inTalking to Terrorists:"What if I found the one white guy who preached death to all Muslims, and decided that's what all white men thought?" ------------Listening to: David Gray,"This Year's Love" (quite clearly spending too much time with K House girls)Next film to watch:Chinatown(film society for this week)
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Israele, svolta storica: parte il servizio civile al posto del servizio di leva
Il governo israeliano ha deciso di istituire per la prima volta un servizio civile nel quale impiegare i giovani che per varie ragioni sono esonerati dal servizio militare di leva obbligatorio. La decisione è stata votata all'unanimità nel corso della seduta domenicale del governo, sulla base del rapporto di una apposita commissione che per mesi ha studiato il progetto.