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Today jenny and I ventured off to the city to see ‘the yes men’.
It is out on dvd in the states now I think but has just hit our shores in the cinema. We saw it at Dendy quays.

Well it was quite a good film. It follows Two fellas and their mates as they pose to be employees and spokesmen of the World Trade Organisation. They have a spoof website that looks similar to the WTO website and sometimes people mistake it for the real thing and these guys find themselves invited to conventions and conferences around the world to be the key note speakers. They manage to be obscenely satirical of the WTO and its practices but often the audiences don’t see the joke and think they are legitimate.
The downside of the film for me was an interview with Michael Moore, it just wasn’t needed and I’m a bit over Michael moore he has only one trick and he has milked it for all its worth I wouldn’t be upset if he disappeared of the silver screen for the next 40,000,000 years.
The film was fun and a bit enlightening, very clever boys indeed. Was made with what looks like an extremely low budget but it did the trick. It would be nice if it got a run in mainstream cinema but it probably wont. So I suggest you take the trek out to a dendy cinema and go see tis film.
I give it 6/7

Thanks to my buddy sam, An appraisal of Mobile Fone biscuits has been spotted in the newspaper
Oh they are the bestest biscuits. And if you are a smart shopper you can pick a pack up for just 99 cents.

jenny and I are going to go buy some now

Today i slept in thenwent over to jennys house.
Tonight i went to the AFL with Debbie and Jenny, the swans one!

Then after the swans we went over to fox studios to a big warehouse clearence sale thing. It was in a huge marquee. I bought 3 CD’s.

Dont Worry everyone, through the powers of media the Australian people have just been informed that Alexander Downer’s daughter is safe.
She is in London but is safe.

Still no news coming in on terrorist attacks in Isreal, Iraq or the rest of the middle east. Some specualtion that attacks have been going on for decades in these places. But Alexander Downer’s daughter is safe. Thats the main thing

Well here we are again.
Terrorism has re-entered our screens and minds due to the explosions in London. Terrorism really isn’t helpful so I have written a statement to all the terrorists out there.

Dear Terrorists,
Please stop killing people.

Sincerely,
Howie

It really is quite horrific the wrath that is left from such attacks and it sucks that our world is like this. Why cant we make poverty history, why cant we all be buddies, why cant we all just get along, why cant we stop making weapons and explosives.

Well I send my condolences to all those affected by this incident and hope and pray that the fatality rate is low and that this sort of thing can stop.

It will be interesting to see the follow up from this mornings explosions, I really hope it doesn’t lead to more wars and invasions.

We are in the paper, well not david. And only ryan was quoted in the article. But still a bit of fun.
Page 11 in the daily telegraph today.

This afternoon I got a phone call from Ben asking if I would like to talk to the daily telegraph about “make poverty history” especially in regard to giving young people a role in campaigning and stuff. And how they can be involved.
Myself, jemma, ryan david and libby all got interviewed and then we went down to willow park and got lots and lots of photos taken.
It was fun the photographer put ryan in the front of all the photos and the rest of us in the background. I think its because he is better looking than me and david.
Anyway it will be in tomorrows daily telegraph.

this is an ariel shot of my hood. the place we like to know as Westifeld Hornsby.

this google earth thing is really cool, satalite photos of almost the whole globe. I reccomend downloading the google program.

since i have started using the face wash that gets rid of pimples i have had 3 large cheesey pimples.
I had no cheesey pimples before i started on this stuff.

Home again home again.
I love it when the flight to or from Tasmania inst a direct flight. The good thing about flying with Virgin blue to Launceston is that you some times end up having to get a connecting flight in Melbourne. Meaning two play trips so more take offs and more landings.
We had a direct flight down but a connecting Melbourne flight on the way home.

I love airports and flying and all that. In the car on the way home from the airport jenny and I were working out how many planes each of us had been on in our lives.
I’m at 45
then we worked out how many countries we have been too (we included stops where you don’t leave the airport). I have been to 13 Including Australia.

twas really good to see joshy graduate from his course, been a big 6 months for him so it was a privilege to be able to go down and support him.

just watched the live 8 program that channel 9 put together. It was good to see bits of the concerts around the world. But a little too much Richard Wilkins for my liking.
Be good to watch more, I’m sure foxtel will be playing often over the next few years

well, here we are in tasmania.

good to see joshy and other random buddies.

so, looking forward to coming home am i?

Well here I am at Sydney Airport off to Tasmania.

And i know what you are thinking you aare thinking, how typical he fixes his template gets comments back and then dissapears for 2 weeks.

Well think again people I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon.

On a side note i think i have turned into a metrosexual.
I am now using a foaming face wash for men.

Next think you know i’ll be wearing pink shirts like scott and shopping at supre.

Today is one of those days that will go down in history.

There are two ways this day can be recorded in history.

Option One
On this day the 1st of July 2005 the 8 richest nations in the world got together in Edinburgh, Scotland. They discussed money and power and the subject of dropping world debt, in giving more money to overseas aid and helping rebuild the globe that these rich 8 nations destroyed. They will discuss doing something about the 1 Billion people around the developing world who live in slums because these 8 nations do nothing.
They will discuss the future of this planet. But Alas greed and power is more important than ‘loving our neighbour’. It is their own fault they are poor. The UN development goals are unachievable.

Option Two
On this day the 1st of July 2005 the 8 richest nations in the world got together in Edinburgh, Scotland. They discussed money and power and the subject of dropping world debt, in giving more money to overseas aid and helping rebuild the globe that these rich 8 nations destroyed. They will discuss doing something about the 1 Billion people around the developing world who live in slums because these 8 nations do nothing.
They will discuss the future of this planet. And yes due to an overwhelming global response to make poverty history. The UN development Goals are achievable and we can work together to ensure that by 2015 the number of nations and people living in poverty is halved. The women have equality right throughout the globe. That the spread of disease such as HIV / Aids is eradicated. That every child on the face of this planet has an opportunity to be educated in a school. That all humans have access to safe drinkable water and sanitation. Today is a day that changed the world forever, at last we can work together to ensure that Poverty Really is History.

Peoples we can help, We have a voice. And if like me you want to see poverty history lets make sure we make today option two.
Wear a white band, Wear a white shirt, encourage your friends to do the same. Head down to a rally to support the Development Goals. Let the meeting in Scotland see this global response to poverty and let them see that we want equality.
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