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Guess Who Re-Started the War in Vietnam?

(See explication below)





British Officers (in 1945) making sure their Japanese Allies have good weapons to fight Commos and other Baddies...

Yes! The British and the French made an agreement in about 1945 to occupy each others' former colonies and the British went into Vietnam -where the Vietnamese Liberation Army had defeated the Japanese without any outside help - the Japanese had been put into jails by the Vietnamese. But the British fought their way in - then meeting stiff resistance form the Vietnamese people - decided to free the Japanese soldiers - supply them with guns - and send then into the jungle to fight the Vietnamese. Ultimately the Vietnamese won again but in the meantime there was enough time for the French or reinvade -but after another 10 years they were completely defeated at Dien Bien Phu. The U.S. - rejecting Vietnam's calls for elections - then started bombing the place without declaring war (as they always -quite rightly and wisely - do as you never know with these foreigners! Declaring war can be dodgy!).

Of course they did this as it was necessary to burn and or kill women men and children etc and to accelerate the cause of democracy. As above (next post) of course it is explained why they had to rape women and kill people at the My Lai massacre site...

For complex but similar reasons the US now help everyone by putting people in chains men on an island in Cuba or by wiping out entire villages in Afghanistan. The British Army are also involved in helping there ( and even the NZ army is killing people there with great gusto - thank God for Phil Goff!! Saviour of the West from Arabs and Terrorists!) in their heroic and glorious status as in they were in Vietnam so long ago.

Bombs Away!

More bombs were dropped on Vietnam week by week that were dropped during the whole of WWll

But let us stand at dawn and remember our brave ANZAC soldiers (from NZ and Australia) and soldiers from the US -this picture shows the immense courage and dedication of the military men to freedom and the right to a decent Western way of life...

The Brave Struggle for Freedom Must Never End

Liberation through Burning!

(Beautiful vistas of the Vietnam War)

The Heroic US Infantry in Action!!

Brave US men fight the deadly enemy who could lurk anywhere - here they are seen spreading the great news of "democracy" and freedom" and the wonders of Capitalism
to a clearly evil and godless people... Iraq and Afghanistan - here we come!!



Love and Good will from the US Skies - Whoopie and Hoorah and Hallelooloo for the American Way!























Napalm -dropped on children and others in Vietnam and also in the First Gulf War on Iraqi soldiers who had already surrendered and is probably is still being used by the US and the British etc in Iraq and Afghanistan. It burns and cannot be removed - it sticks and burns...

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"Human kind cannot bear too much reality." T. S. Eliot Burnt Norton

TRANSGRESSION

Giovanni Intra 1968 - 2002

...........................................UNTITLED 1995 - 1996

"Everyone who makes work has to live out the boundary of their own fantasy, it's an undeniable condition of practice. I do live the work, but in my own terms. There are aspects of my life where I do participate in areas which may be regarded as transgressive. But really, what is
transgression.?... "


I deduced that the artist, a young man of 34: possibly gay, and possibly a Catholic New Zealander of Italian derivation, and also likely to have been of quite wide learning; particularly in the classics, had committed suicide -by the date and age of the artist - and the "plinyism", the mirror or inverted Ns etc - and his references to "transgression" in accompanying notes .

We all transgress.

I was also attracted to the black and the white and the (more or less) rectangular shapes - the open layout.





'Plinyism' -the Elder Pliny threw himself into Mt Etna. [THIS IS WRONG - PLINY THE ELDER DID RESEARCH INTO MANY THINGS INCLUDING NATURAL HISTORY MINING AND WAS FASCINATED BY THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS IN 79 AD AND DIED WHILE OBSERVING IT AND ALSO ATTEMPING TO RESCUE SOME FRIENDS. "PLINEAN" IS USED BY VULCANOLGOISTS TODAY TO REFER TO VIOLANT VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. WHAT THE ARTIST HERE MEANS BY PLINYISM IS THUS A MYSTERY] This artist I knew nothing of when I visited the Auckland Art Gallery a month ago or so - note also the "Russian" or "cyrilic" N (mirror -as perhaps via Alice in Wonderland...









Mother and son.




My grandson - fascinated by the beautiful flamingos. His father is German.







Trimaran by the Panmure Wharf, where the Yacht Club is - and various Rowing Clubs







Things transform.





Maungarei from the eastern slope. The basin can be seen in the background.


I feel an immense ecstasy when I see such beautiful flowers -these are wild flowers on Maungarei. There was Pa here and around on the surrounding fertile volcanic land Maori cultivated kumara and they also gathered shell fish (middens are visible on the Mountain).

There have been a number of cases in the news of Maori and others involved in terrible child abuse -this is an ongoing problem in NZ -not confined to Maori and Pacific Islanders -but percentage wise they ""do"most crime etc - especially the "visible" crime.... there are complex reasons why many Maori are tormented, careless of others, or even themselves, high drug users, even very paranoid and often very corrupt. Probably prior to the degenerating influence of European colonisation Maori were more adjusted to what is quite a harsh environment. Where I live signs of degeneracy and demoralisation and examples of vandalism and of all kinds of crime and vandalism are everywhere - there is a general uncaring attitude the by Polynesians -but this is to generalise - as there are also many good people here. The tragedy began with colonialisation -but perhaps we - all of us -Maori, Pakeha, whatever race or ilk -perhaps we are all potentially fucked in the head. Unfortunately too many Polynesians and Maori are of a "low moral quality"... despite the Islanders' obsession with bible bashing... But humans and life are complex.

And crime and 'degeneracy' exists of course amongst people of whatever class or economic status or ethnicity. The problem is perhaps in the "deep structures" and the history -the alienation talked about by Marx; and this applies to my own culture (English parents, NZ born).

Nor have the Police shown much compassion either, or any real will to assist -with their treatment of Maori and their very uncaring attitude - nor did the Clark Government - with raids on Maori in the Tuhoe areas - and the attempt to steal more land from Maori via the act to grab more Maori land and seashore and sea bed rights - that is their attempt to circumvent or violate the Treaty and their lack of action for Maori or immigrants...








Kotuku - a sea bird. A bird. Another look at this mysterious and beautiful thing.


The Kotuku is a native bird associated with the Panmure lagoon - which isn't far from where Maori had a Pa (Mokoia - destroyed in the musket wars (around the 1820s) by Hongi Hika after he went to England and studied warfare methods, particularly Roman and other as the guest of George (one of the Georges!) - he had a suit of mail and built siege towers and slaughtered all (or most of) the Maori at Mokoia ... esp. as they didn't have as any muskets.

Canoes or waka were built at the lagoon. The Kotuku is often seen, as are kingfishers, shags, gulls, oyster catchers, ducks and other birds who dive for fish - the ones I'm thinking of kind of bring their wings close together and almost drop like the sleek Stukka German dive bombers into Poland in 1939 after Hitler dressed Poles in German uniforms, had them shot, took photos of them dead, blamed the Poles on terrorist acts (as Bush blamed terroism on the 9/11 fiasco) -and sent them on their heroic, glorious, and fateful missions - urging them, as true warriors of the Reich, to "Show no pity."

But aircraft are as beautiful as are birds. The picture is not as clear as I would like and I do have an SLR but it is not digital so I will one day perhaps get a much more versatile camera (or use the Pentax and get the films digitized)- with a better depth of field, different lense angles, and variable apertures and shutter speeds and perhaps with a greater pixellation capacity etc



Home architectured in "tudoresque" style at the Panmure Basin - this "basin" was created by a violent volcanic eruption about 9000 years ago and we saw geologists investigating (with drills)
rock samples. They subsequently established that a second eruption had occurred...
Japanese and Chinese and other tourists climb Mt Wellington and peer into the crator -half expecting (e'en half hoping?) it to re-erupt. Such is sublime the power of nature.

The deathly and merciless ferocity of nature... Mr's Smith's nieghbour Grace is in the local historical society.

My mate Brian Mace used to "lead" us kids in the 50s...we used to play endless games, go the "flicks", and Brina would invent games all the time ... Robbing orchards (the mainly European people round here all had them in those days) or sneaking inside peoples' houses were two ... Life was eternal when I was young.




"Shell and Gnome garden" in GI as discussed below.








The people here -while -or because they are - European and well to do - are a decent,moral kind people with standards - and they keep their houses well and have great gardens and self respect.
However the shell and gnome house (above a bit) is a a garden kept by Pacific Island people in Glenn Innes showing that people can achieve beauty regardless of class or income or race etc
Today the Pacific people working on their garden said a kind hello to us.





Close up of lilacs by the beautiful houses fronting the Panmure Basin

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