The Marseilles Handshake
Here's what's going on in the world:
- Israel has invaded Lebanon
- North Korea is test firing missles and Japan wants to hit them with a pre-emptive strike
- Over 100 people have been killed in Iraq in the last few days
- There are terrorist bombings in Mumbai
- The Bush Administration now claims that they are going to (finally) respect the Geneva Conventions
Here's all we care about:
- Zinedine Zidane
In case you've been living in a cave for the last couple of weeks, Zidane (nicknamed Zizou) is/was the captain and star of the French national soccer team and is an absolute beast. Watching him play can be a totally transporting experience. He can do things with the ball that are just remarkable. It's gorgeous. He is widely spoken of as the greatest soccer player of his generation. He is the child of Algerian immigrants and grew up in the pjs of Marseille, which is pretty fucking roughneck. That's as hard core as it gets in France, and believe it or not, it gets pretty hardcore in France (see: riots earlier this year). He is known for his humility and grace.
So in the second overtime of the World Cup final on Sunday, which was Zidane's final match before retiring, he had a couple of words with the Italian Marco Materazzi (who can be clearly seen tweaking his nipple which is just weird) and then, seemingly without warning, Zizou dropped his shoulders and gave Materazzi a huge head-butt to the chest. Materazzi fell to the ground and Zidane was sent off from the match, which France proceeded to lose on penalty kicks.
I'm sure the video is up on youtube or google - look it up. It's amazing. Notice how Zizou jumps back with his fists raised and looks ready to keep fighting if Materazzi didn't go down. He is keeping it more real than anyone has ever kept it.
Worldwide reaction was swift and enormous. A billion people watched it live. If you check google news right now, there are 4,000-odd stories about this (compared to 1,300 for the Mumbai bombings). You can't even find an article about Italy and the fact that they won the damn thing.
So that's the background.
The obvious question is WHAT THE HELL DID MATERAZZI SAY? Lip readers have been hired, investigations begun, the world sits on the edge of it's seat. In a few minutes (8:00 PM in France) he is set to do an interview to tell what happened.
On Sunday I thought, Zidane would not have done that if it wasn't something incredibly serious. Some reports suggest that he was called a filthy terrorist, or possible the son of a terrorist whore. So we thought, well, ok. That's a good enough excuse. Matterazzi deserved worse if that's what he said (keep in mind that the very multicultural French soccer team regularly has bananas thrown at it and hostile crowds make monkey noises at the black players - beautiful game, ugly fans).
But now? After more reflection I don't care if Materazzi just said that Zizou had bad breath becuase the head butt was so bad-ass, so above and beyond the call of any normal bounds of bad-assery, that I am madly in love no matter what.
- Israel has invaded Lebanon
- North Korea is test firing missles and Japan wants to hit them with a pre-emptive strike
- Over 100 people have been killed in Iraq in the last few days
- There are terrorist bombings in Mumbai
- The Bush Administration now claims that they are going to (finally) respect the Geneva Conventions
Here's all we care about:
- Zinedine Zidane
In case you've been living in a cave for the last couple of weeks, Zidane (nicknamed Zizou) is/was the captain and star of the French national soccer team and is an absolute beast. Watching him play can be a totally transporting experience. He can do things with the ball that are just remarkable. It's gorgeous. He is widely spoken of as the greatest soccer player of his generation. He is the child of Algerian immigrants and grew up in the pjs of Marseille, which is pretty fucking roughneck. That's as hard core as it gets in France, and believe it or not, it gets pretty hardcore in France (see: riots earlier this year). He is known for his humility and grace.
So in the second overtime of the World Cup final on Sunday, which was Zidane's final match before retiring, he had a couple of words with the Italian Marco Materazzi (who can be clearly seen tweaking his nipple which is just weird) and then, seemingly without warning, Zizou dropped his shoulders and gave Materazzi a huge head-butt to the chest. Materazzi fell to the ground and Zidane was sent off from the match, which France proceeded to lose on penalty kicks.
I'm sure the video is up on youtube or google - look it up. It's amazing. Notice how Zizou jumps back with his fists raised and looks ready to keep fighting if Materazzi didn't go down. He is keeping it more real than anyone has ever kept it.
Worldwide reaction was swift and enormous. A billion people watched it live. If you check google news right now, there are 4,000-odd stories about this (compared to 1,300 for the Mumbai bombings). You can't even find an article about Italy and the fact that they won the damn thing.
So that's the background.
The obvious question is WHAT THE HELL DID MATERAZZI SAY? Lip readers have been hired, investigations begun, the world sits on the edge of it's seat. In a few minutes (8:00 PM in France) he is set to do an interview to tell what happened.
On Sunday I thought, Zidane would not have done that if it wasn't something incredibly serious. Some reports suggest that he was called a filthy terrorist, or possible the son of a terrorist whore. So we thought, well, ok. That's a good enough excuse. Matterazzi deserved worse if that's what he said (keep in mind that the very multicultural French soccer team regularly has bananas thrown at it and hostile crowds make monkey noises at the black players - beautiful game, ugly fans).
But now? After more reflection I don't care if Materazzi just said that Zizou had bad breath becuase the head butt was so bad-ass, so above and beyond the call of any normal bounds of bad-assery, that I am madly in love no matter what.
posted by chiniqua at 1:31 PM
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URGENT!
Even as the administration exploited this Official Story (or "Official Conspiracy Theory") as the pretext to launch new wars long in the making, independent researchers began to accumulate a vast body of evidence suggesting a different narrative for 9/11: that of the Inside Job.
The 9/11 events and the anomalies in the official story raised Unanswered Questions about:
- the unprecedented failure of the US air defense system on the morning of the attacks;
- the AWOL military chain of command during the actual attacks, including the inexplicable behavior of the presidential entourage;
- the seeming impossibility of official claims with regard to Flight 77;
- the evidence that Flight 93 was shot down;
- contradictions and dubious evidence in the official claims about the alleged hijackers and masterminds, and doubts about their real identities;
- signs that the alleged hijackers enjoyed high-level protection against discovery by honest investigators;
- evidence that the alleged hijackers were financed by states allied with US intelligence;
- suspicious and massive international financial trades suggesting foreknowledge of the attacks;
- widespread signs of official foreknowledge and, in fact, advance preparation for the 9/11 attack scenario;
- the long-running links between Islamist fundamentalist terror cells and US covert operations, dating back to CIA support for the anti-Soviet mujahedeen and Osama Bin Ladin himself;
- the demolition-like collapse of the Twin Towers and of a third skyscraper, WTC 7;
- and questions concerning who could have logically expected to derive benefit in the aftermath of a massive attack on the United States.
The suspicions received further confirmation a few weeks after September 11th, with the arrival of anthrax letters targeted only at opposition politicians and media figures, and timed to coincide with the introduction of the USA PATRIOT Act.
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