einar moos

Avon means etymogically speaking, river. We don’t know where it came from. Fontainebleau is named after a source of clear water, but nobody so far has proven that it actually existed.

34 million years ago, this was an ocean. Then came the rising of the ground, the ice ages, the mamoths, the first people. They were just like us. They liked the place. The rocks, the sand. 70 plus meters today still. They came like us on the train and settled next to the park.

Once you are there, you better know where to take shelter; in the park there is little shelter when hail rain storms come down. You better follow the trail of French literature, and enter the hotel that once housed Racine, according to their flier.

at least some people get it…

This approach risks reaping a different whirlwind in anti-Muslim attacks, physical and verbal. It also creates the climate in which Brazilians allegedly wearing coats on a hot day can become targets for a shoot-to-kill policy imported from Israel.

“Iraq” is shorthand for describing the problem. As well as the occupation of Iraq, it encompasses the faltering occupation of Afghanistan, the misery of the Palestinians, Guantánamo Bay and the carefully photographed torture at Abu Ghraib and Camp Breadbasket.

by Andrew Murray

In Memory of Jean Charles de Menezes

I can just hear the sentiments

racing through that cop’s heart

(do cops actually have hearts?)

as he pumped seven bullets

into an innocent man’s head:

“Take this, you Muslim bastard!?

And this – bang!

And this – bang!

And this – bang!

And this – bang!

And this – bang!

And this – bang!

Except he turned out to be Brazilian.

Oh well, win some, lose some.

And I doubt there’s a shortage

of electricians in London.

Seven slugs? At pointblank range?

How dead did you want him?

There are lessons to be learned:

Never wear a coat in summer,

you might only end up colder.

Running late for a train?

Miss it and catch another;

yesterday’s ride could prove your last.

Forget about taking a lunch to work,

especially in a briefcase or backpack;

choke at a nearby greasy spoon instead,

unless you don’t mind never eating again.

If you’re being chased by strange men

and are afraid they want to mug you,

stop in your tracks and let them go for it;

better beat up & robbed than safely dead.

Or maybe skip going out of doors altogether;

stay home, quietly starve, and watch on TV

all the lovely ways good people say bye-byes.

Meanwhile, you can trust me on this one:

There are more bombings to come.

And if the West and its lackeys

fail to quickly change their tunes,

very soon you’ll be hearing me say

not merely that we asked for it

but that we fucking well deserve it!

EDDIE WOODS

Gold in the most difficult lane: a technically perfect performance – 400m crawl.She's still young and go even further. Laure Manaudou is the fastest French swimmer!