who is who ?im Wahlkampf fragt Peter Lustig auf Indymedia (14.09.2005)
"Berlin. Um zu zeigen wie austauschbar Parteien und Köpfe in der Politik sind, haben sich ein paar Spaßvögel in Berlin aufgemacht und die Logos der Wahlplakate ausgetauscht Wahlplakate gemacht."
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contributor - am Mittwoch, 14. September 2005, 22:20 - Rubrik: Wahlquark
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Pie-Faced
By Gersh Kuntzman
Newsweek, April 25, 2005
Why throwing a pie at someone who deserves it is one of the most celebrated traditions in our so-called culture.
April 18 - The schedule of lecturers on college campuses around the country has begun reading like the police blotter: Conservative author Ann Coulter—hit by a pie tossed by two attackers last year. Conservative editor William Kristol—hit by an ice cream pie at a Quaker college in Indiana in March. Really conservative guy Pat Buchanan hit by salad dressing two days later. Liberal-turned-conservative author David Horowitz—hit by a chocolate cream pie a few days after that.
It’s disgusting, isn’t it? The salad dressing, I mean. Everyone knows that salad dressing is simply not an effective medium for expressing dissent. But pie on the other hand…
The last few days have seen the predictable lament that the pie-throwers represent the worst thing about democracy—people so inarticulate that the only way they can counter such toxic thinkers as Coulter is to seize the moral low ground by trying to curtail their free speech.
It’s disgusting, isn’t it? The salad dressing, I mean. Everyone knows that salad dressing is simply not an effective medium for expressing dissent. But pie on the other hand…
The last few days have seen the predictable lament that the pie-throwers represent the worst thing about democracy—people so inarticulate that the only way they can counter such toxic thinkers as Coulter is to seize the moral low ground by trying to curtail their free speech.
That is far too simple an argument. Throwing a pie at someone who deserves it is one of the most celebrated traditions in our so-called culture. History tells us that the ancient Egyptians invented the pie—a mix of honey and nuts in a pastry filling. Still, there is no recorded case of an ancient Egyptian throwing one at another ancient Egyptian (although you’re not going to tell me that Rameses didn’t deserve it!).
As such, the tradition lay dormant for millennia—until it became institutionalized in the great slapstick films of the silent film era. Mack Sennett may have started it, but the art reached its apotheosis in Laurel & Hardy’s 1927 short film, "Battle of the Century." Four thousand pies were harmed in the making of that movie. Encouraged by Laurel & Hardy’s success, pie-throwing remained a mainstay of slapstick through the Marx Brothers, Three Stooges, Jerry Lewis and Soupy Sales eras, and even survived being overused by TV sit-com legend Garry Marshall. "It’s the essence of slapstick—the guy who needs to have his dignity deflated gets hit with a pie," said Tom Raymond, also known as "Rainbow," a clown from Central Wisconsin ("I’m no expert. I’m just a clown").
Go on ....
By Gersh Kuntzman
Newsweek, April 25, 2005
Why throwing a pie at someone who deserves it is one of the most celebrated traditions in our so-called culture.
April 18 - The schedule of lecturers on college campuses around the country has begun reading like the police blotter: Conservative author Ann Coulter—hit by a pie tossed by two attackers last year. Conservative editor William Kristol—hit by an ice cream pie at a Quaker college in Indiana in March. Really conservative guy Pat Buchanan hit by salad dressing two days later. Liberal-turned-conservative author David Horowitz—hit by a chocolate cream pie a few days after that.
It’s disgusting, isn’t it? The salad dressing, I mean. Everyone knows that salad dressing is simply not an effective medium for expressing dissent. But pie on the other hand…
The last few days have seen the predictable lament that the pie-throwers represent the worst thing about democracy—people so inarticulate that the only way they can counter such toxic thinkers as Coulter is to seize the moral low ground by trying to curtail their free speech.
It’s disgusting, isn’t it? The salad dressing, I mean. Everyone knows that salad dressing is simply not an effective medium for expressing dissent. But pie on the other hand…
The last few days have seen the predictable lament that the pie-throwers represent the worst thing about democracy—people so inarticulate that the only way they can counter such toxic thinkers as Coulter is to seize the moral low ground by trying to curtail their free speech.
That is far too simple an argument. Throwing a pie at someone who deserves it is one of the most celebrated traditions in our so-called culture. History tells us that the ancient Egyptians invented the pie—a mix of honey and nuts in a pastry filling. Still, there is no recorded case of an ancient Egyptian throwing one at another ancient Egyptian (although you’re not going to tell me that Rameses didn’t deserve it!).
As such, the tradition lay dormant for millennia—until it became institutionalized in the great slapstick films of the silent film era. Mack Sennett may have started it, but the art reached its apotheosis in Laurel & Hardy’s 1927 short film, "Battle of the Century." Four thousand pies were harmed in the making of that movie. Encouraged by Laurel & Hardy’s success, pie-throwing remained a mainstay of slapstick through the Marx Brothers, Three Stooges, Jerry Lewis and Soupy Sales eras, and even survived being overused by TV sit-com legend Garry Marshall. "It’s the essence of slapstick—the guy who needs to have his dignity deflated gets hit with a pie," said Tom Raymond, also known as "Rainbow," a clown from Central Wisconsin ("I’m no expert. I’m just a clown").
Go on ....
kg2u - am Mittwoch, 14. September 2005, 18:52 - Rubrik: Torten - Pies - Tarts
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Report from The Biotic Baking Brigade .....coming soon to a pie-o-region near you" (June 12, 2005):
Activists from the Anarchist Federation Praga (Warsaw) pied the Vice President, Andrzej Urbanski, in response to the city's homophobic actions and statements and banning of the gay pride parade for the second year in a row.
The President of the city, Lech Kaczynski, is a raging homophobe who openly says that we will not promote homosexualism and such sick social deviance by allowing a gay march to take place in Warsaw. Officially, he tries to find many pretexts not to allow these marches which had, before his reign, taken place in this city without incident. Last year he banned the gay parade and was pied with a nice vegan berry creation upon which he started yelling about faggots and threatening our friends. He pretended to even by hurt by the pieing, wore a neck brace for a few days and took off of work.
This year, Kaczynski started up again. At one point, he started to get in a little trouble, which he doesn't really need being he's the forerunner presidential candidate. So he sent in his vice-president to take over and make up some more pretexts for not allowing the parade. In amazing streams of creativity, he even came up with the pretexts that parades cannot be held unless the organizers pay the city money to reroute all the buses. When a lesbian activist from Lambda pointed out that other protests didn't pay this fee, the vice-president called her a liar. In a few interviews and TV, Urbanski spun homophobia and bullshit and pissed people off.
The organizers of the gay parade decided not to obey the ban and about 2500 people showed up, despite heavy counterprotests. There was some violence organized by the youth branch of League of
Polish Families who even paid for hooligans to come to Warsaw from Krakow. Lots of eggs flew, there were some small scuffles and, unfortunately, two women were hospitalized when fascists threw bricks into the crowd.
In all, about 20 applications for counter-demonstrations were made and the city legalized a few. The Law and Justice (Guilianiist) Party (Kaczynski's) wanted to make one too but officially stated that they were too afraid of anarchists and leftists to go out in public.
At the end of the march, a very strange thing happened; the head of the security services and the vice president appeared and stood in the middle of a small group of anarchists. Most people didn't recognize them but a few did. The pie action, which was totally unplanned, happened in an amazing way. One person actually went up to the vice president, asked him if he'd be standing there long and then in that case they were going to get a pie and pie him. (It was totally surreal because even if the vice president couldn't recognize the anarchists, the security chief knows everybody.) I suppose that the anarchists probably couldn't even believe that they'd return after finding the cake to find the guy still standing there, but there he was, so he got pied with a cream pie. The second pastry, a large doughnut, never made its target as the anti-terrorists woke up and two people were arrested.
In an statement made to the press, the anarchists call on pie-throwers of the world to great Kaczynski and his people whereever they might go with such sweet success.
We also are happy that friends held solidarity demos with the gay parade at Polish embassies in different countries.
Homophobia, discrimination and repression - your days are numbered!
Activists from the Anarchist Federation Praga (Warsaw) pied the Vice President, Andrzej Urbanski, in response to the city's homophobic actions and statements and banning of the gay pride parade for the second year in a row.
The President of the city, Lech Kaczynski, is a raging homophobe who openly says that we will not promote homosexualism and such sick social deviance by allowing a gay march to take place in Warsaw. Officially, he tries to find many pretexts not to allow these marches which had, before his reign, taken place in this city without incident. Last year he banned the gay parade and was pied with a nice vegan berry creation upon which he started yelling about faggots and threatening our friends. He pretended to even by hurt by the pieing, wore a neck brace for a few days and took off of work.
This year, Kaczynski started up again. At one point, he started to get in a little trouble, which he doesn't really need being he's the forerunner presidential candidate. So he sent in his vice-president to take over and make up some more pretexts for not allowing the parade. In amazing streams of creativity, he even came up with the pretexts that parades cannot be held unless the organizers pay the city money to reroute all the buses. When a lesbian activist from Lambda pointed out that other protests didn't pay this fee, the vice-president called her a liar. In a few interviews and TV, Urbanski spun homophobia and bullshit and pissed people off.
The organizers of the gay parade decided not to obey the ban and about 2500 people showed up, despite heavy counterprotests. There was some violence organized by the youth branch of League of
Polish Families who even paid for hooligans to come to Warsaw from Krakow. Lots of eggs flew, there were some small scuffles and, unfortunately, two women were hospitalized when fascists threw bricks into the crowd.
In all, about 20 applications for counter-demonstrations were made and the city legalized a few. The Law and Justice (Guilianiist) Party (Kaczynski's) wanted to make one too but officially stated that they were too afraid of anarchists and leftists to go out in public.
At the end of the march, a very strange thing happened; the head of the security services and the vice president appeared and stood in the middle of a small group of anarchists. Most people didn't recognize them but a few did. The pie action, which was totally unplanned, happened in an amazing way. One person actually went up to the vice president, asked him if he'd be standing there long and then in that case they were going to get a pie and pie him. (It was totally surreal because even if the vice president couldn't recognize the anarchists, the security chief knows everybody.) I suppose that the anarchists probably couldn't even believe that they'd return after finding the cake to find the guy still standing there, but there he was, so he got pied with a cream pie. The second pastry, a large doughnut, never made its target as the anti-terrorists woke up and two people were arrested.
In an statement made to the press, the anarchists call on pie-throwers of the world to great Kaczynski and his people whereever they might go with such sweet success.
We also are happy that friends held solidarity demos with the gay parade at Polish embassies in different countries.
Homophobia, discrimination and repression - your days are numbered!
kg2u - am Mittwoch, 14. September 2005, 18:36 - Rubrik: Torten - Pies - Tarts
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Daily Mail Online (12.09. 2005)
Broadcaster and columnist Jeremy Clarkson's big has ended in humiliation after a protester hit him in the face with a custard pie at a degree ceremony.
From Indymedia.uk
The outspoken Top Gear presenter was at Oxford Brookes University to collect an honorary degree in recognition of his "passion for engineering", highlighted by his championing Isambard Brunel in the Great Britons BBC television series.
But the decision has proved to be controversial, and protesters, including members of Oxford's Green Party, assembled outside the presentation dressed in Clarkson's trademark tight jeans and wigs.
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* Report: Clarkson, Palin and a spot of road rage
Despite stringent security cordons and a massive police presence that outnumbered the handful of protesters waving banners that read On Yer Bike Clarkson at the gates, a woman managed to gain access to a media call after the degree ceremony.
She dashed out in front of the television cameras and, as Mr Clarkson posed in his cap and gown, removed what appeared to be a custard pie from a wrapped-up Guardian newspaper and hit him full in the face.
'Good shot'
The startled presenter maintained his cool, quipped "good shot" and posed for a few more pictures before beating his retreat.
Mr Clarkson has been criticised for engaging in stunts such as driving a 4x4 through an environmentally-sensitive peat bog in Scotland and inciting people to break the law by hiding mobile phone use while driving.
Speaking shortly before the assault, he defended his record on environmental issues, saying: "I do have a disregard for the environment. I think the world can look after itself and we should enjoy it as best we can."
But while protesters outside denied any involvement in the prank, they said Mr Clarkson was a "dangerous buffoon" who did not deserve any recognition.
Local councillor Elise Benjamin said: "We keep hearing about the damage caused by yob culture and yet he is a yob culture advocate."
Protester Denise Lock said Mr Clarkson "makes a living out of offending people".
"While other universities are rewarding the likes of Nelson Mandela, Brookes is rolling out the carpet for a dangerous buffoon."
Nearly 3,000 people have signed an online petition against Clarkson receiving the honorary degree.
Among comments on the online Petition Site was one from Jackie Sutton in Tehran, saying: "We've only got one planet and anyone who promotes a car-choked and reactionary environment does not deserve an award supposed to honour intelligence."
Another, from Stuart Walker in St Ives, Cornwall, read: "If Top Gear would have its way Oxford's dreaming spires would have been bulldozed for city centre car parks and motorways."
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Broadcaster and columnist Jeremy Clarkson's big has ended in humiliation after a protester hit him in the face with a custard pie at a degree ceremony.
From Indymedia.uk
The outspoken Top Gear presenter was at Oxford Brookes University to collect an honorary degree in recognition of his "passion for engineering", highlighted by his championing Isambard Brunel in the Great Britons BBC television series.
But the decision has proved to be controversial, and protesters, including members of Oxford's Green Party, assembled outside the presentation dressed in Clarkson's trademark tight jeans and wigs.
Look here too...
Skip gossip links to more articles
* Report: Clarkson, Palin and a spot of road rage
Despite stringent security cordons and a massive police presence that outnumbered the handful of protesters waving banners that read On Yer Bike Clarkson at the gates, a woman managed to gain access to a media call after the degree ceremony.
She dashed out in front of the television cameras and, as Mr Clarkson posed in his cap and gown, removed what appeared to be a custard pie from a wrapped-up Guardian newspaper and hit him full in the face.
'Good shot'
The startled presenter maintained his cool, quipped "good shot" and posed for a few more pictures before beating his retreat.
Mr Clarkson has been criticised for engaging in stunts such as driving a 4x4 through an environmentally-sensitive peat bog in Scotland and inciting people to break the law by hiding mobile phone use while driving.
Speaking shortly before the assault, he defended his record on environmental issues, saying: "I do have a disregard for the environment. I think the world can look after itself and we should enjoy it as best we can."
But while protesters outside denied any involvement in the prank, they said Mr Clarkson was a "dangerous buffoon" who did not deserve any recognition.
Local councillor Elise Benjamin said: "We keep hearing about the damage caused by yob culture and yet he is a yob culture advocate."
Protester Denise Lock said Mr Clarkson "makes a living out of offending people".
"While other universities are rewarding the likes of Nelson Mandela, Brookes is rolling out the carpet for a dangerous buffoon."
Nearly 3,000 people have signed an online petition against Clarkson receiving the honorary degree.
Among comments on the online Petition Site was one from Jackie Sutton in Tehran, saying: "We've only got one planet and anyone who promotes a car-choked and reactionary environment does not deserve an award supposed to honour intelligence."
Another, from Stuart Walker in St Ives, Cornwall, read: "If Top Gear would have its way Oxford's dreaming spires would have been bulldozed for city centre car parks and motorways."
Other nice Pictures on Indymedia.uk
MORE GREAT PICTURES HERE
kg2u - am Mittwoch, 14. September 2005, 18:13 - Rubrik: Torten - Pies - Tarts
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