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Sterling Morrison, 1980:

"Maybe I'm trapped by certain beliefs, but in the early '60s, on
college campuses, you went one of two ways. Either you were a very
sensitive young person, who cared about air pollution and civil
rights and anti-Vietnam or you were a very unsensitive young person,
who didn't care about civil rights because all the blacks he knew
were playing in his band or in his audience. I was a very unsensitive
young person and played very unsensitive, uncaring music. Which is
Wham, Bam, Pow! Let's Rock Out! What I expected my audience to do was
tear the house down, beat me up, whatever. Lou and I came from the
identical environment of Long Island rock 'n' roll bars, where you
can drink anything at 18, everybody had phony proof at 16; I was a
night crawler in high school and played some of the sleaziest bars.
You can't quite imagine them in Texas - people didn't carry guns,
that's the only difference. In the '60s I had King Hatreds. I was a
biker type and hung around with nasty black people and nasty white
people and black rock 'n' roll music. On the other hand, you had very
sensitive and responsible young people suddenly attuned to certain
cosmic questions that beckon us all, and expressing these concerns
through acoustic guitars and lilting harmonies and pale melodies. I
hate these people."

CLUED IN BY M. WATT!

"Swedish band Soundtrack of our Lives brings their groove driven rock to Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15 a.m.  After 10 years and three full length albums, Soundtrack is finally bringing the magic of their third release, Behind The Music¸ to the States. Hear a live broadcast of this breakthrough band first on KCRW."

"Alright now, I wanna talk to you all about this song, the name of this song is
Dominance and Submission. Now along about this time every night I like to get
down with a little Dominance and Submission, tell you all about it. Now,
Dominance and Submission, why that can mean a lot of things in your life. Some
of them bother me, some of them bother you. I’ll tell you about two of ‘em here
tonight. Only because this is so close to my heart and I’m sure it’s close to
yours too. Tonight I want to talk to you about getting high a little bit.
[cheers] Now, from what I understand, all my friends here, all 14-15,000 of you
people here tonight, get a little hassled on the way in. Maybe somebody’s taken
away something from you that you paid some good money for just to get high for
the show. [bass blast] Now that’s not so unusual considering how close to
Washington DC this place is. I wanna ask you a question, you tell me if this is
true: You ever wonder why the price of good Colombian keeps getting higher all
the time? [cheers] I’ll tell you why, here’s the answer, it’s very simple: it
has to do with all those people who work there in those big buildings in
Washington DC. Some of you people, you might think there’s nothing you can do
about it but you’re wrong, there’s plenty you can do about it, I’ll tell you
what. You know, here we are in Maryland playing a little rock n roll for you
people, you don’t want to... In the whole world, there’s no place better to play
rock n roll in than the United States of America. [cheers] We played everywhere.
Without a doubt, I will tell you. We’ve been to Scandinavia, we’ve been to
Germany, we’ve been to Spain, we’ve been all over Europe. United States of
America is the greatest country in the whole world. [cheers] And I’ll tell you
why. I’ll tell you why. That’s because this is a true democracy. This is where
the majority of the people say what’s happening. Why, do you know how much power
you really have? Half the population in the United States is under the age of 25
years old. [cheers] All you have to do, you have to let the people down there in
DC, you have to let em know the way you feel. So I got an idea, why just about
two more weeks, we got Mr. Carter coming down here to live. Maybe after the
concert tonight you’ll go home, get out a paper. And a pen. You write a letter
[inaud] Georgia, you say ‘Dear Mr. Carter, Me and my friends, Mr. Carter, me and
my friends are sick and tired of getting hassled. [cheers] A matter of fact, Mr.
Carter, a matter of fact, me and my friends, we wanna get high and we don’t want
to go to jail for it.’[bass blast] Yeah, right on! Whoo. Yeah! Yeah! Just
remember I’m talking to you tonight right here all about Dominance and
Submission. I’ll tell you one more thing while I’m thinking about it. Here’s
another one that bothers me, something you can put right there in that letter.
I’ll tell you, this bothers me almost as much as all those repressive drug laws.
I’ll tell you what it is. I AM SICK AND TIRED--I AM SICK AND TIRED, EVERYBODY!
OF THE 55 MILE PER HOUR SPEED LIMIT! [cheers, bass blast] I mean I want to get
my motor running! I mean, uh, what’s the point of having a hog sitting in the
garage and it can’t go over 55?!? [cheers, bass blast] Yeah! Alright, Dominance
and Submission! Don’t forget now, now we’re gonna sing it, we gonna sing it,
let’s get a groove on!..."

FROM CNN:

Iceberg B-22 is visible in a satellite photo modified to highlight the berg.

New giant iceberg adrift near Antarctica
March 19, 2002 Posted: 11:54 AM EST (1654 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new iceberg -- one roughly twice the size of the state of Rhode Island -- is adrift in the icy waters off Antarctica, the National Ice Center says.
    The iceberg -- designated B-22 --broke off from the Thwaites Ice Tongue, a peninsula of ice and snow extending from the mainland of Antarctica into the Amundsen Sea, in the region of Antarctica closest to the mid-Pacific Ocean.
    The new iceberg is about 53 miles long and about 40 miles wide. It is currently located at 74.56 south latitude and 107.55 west longitude.
    It is designated B-22 because it is the 22nd iceberg researchers are tracking in the Amundsen/Eastern Ross Sea (designated Quadrant "B" by the National Ice Center).
    The National Ice Center does ice analysis for the military and the private sector. It is operated by the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Researchers have noticed an unusually high number of icebergs calved from Antarctica in recent years, prompting some observers to speculate on a possible connection to global warming..."
 

FROM OUR GOVERNMENT'S NATIONAL ICE CENTER:
Iceberg B-22 Calves Off Thwaites Ice Tongue

March 15, 2002, Washington D.C.-- The National Ice Center (NIC) confirms an iceberg newly calved from the Thwaites Ice Tongue (Figures 1 & 2). The Thwaites Ice Tongue is a large sheet of glacial ice and snow extending from the Antarctic mainland into the southern Amundsen Sea. This new iceberg is named B-22 and is currently located at 74.56S/ 107.55W. Iceberg B-22, roughly 46NM long and 35NM wide, covers an area of approximately 2,120 square statute miles. National Snow and Ice Data Center scientist Dr. Ted Scambos notified NIC of a large crack in the Thwaites Tongue discovered by Jennifer Bohlander (also of NSIDC) using MODIS data from February 10th, 2001. The crack was found to have significantly widened in MODIS data from March 8, 2001. Analyst Judy Shaffier, of the National Ice Center, confirmed the calving of Iceberg B22 using the satellite images shown above from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's (DMSP) Operational Line Scan (OLS) Visible sensor (Figure 1) and NOAA's AVHRR sensor (Figure 2), both dated March 11, 2001.
    Iceberg names are derived from the Antarctic quadrant in which they were originally sighted. The quadrants are divided counter-clockwise in the following manner:
A = 0-90W (Bellinghausen/Weddell Sea)
B = 90W-180 (Amundsen/Eastern Ross Sea)
C = 180-90E (Western Ross Sea/Wilkesland)
D = 90E-0 (Amery/Eastern Weddell Sea).
    When an iceberg is first sighted, NIC documents its point of origin. The letter of the quadrant, along with a sequential number is assigned to the iceberg. For example, B-22 is sequentially the 22nd iceberg tracked by the NIC in Antarctica between 90-180 (Quadrant B).
    The National Ice Center is a tri-agency operational center represented by the United States Navy (Department of Defense); the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Department of Commerce); and the United States Coast Guard (Department of Transportation). The National Ice Center mission is to provide world-wide operational ice analyses for the armed forces of the United States and allied nations, U.S. government agencies, and the private sector.

In the brand new issue of MOJO, the one with Elvis on the cover:

"Photographer Anton Corbijn places a conference call with old pals
Bono and Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, to jaw about the Pope, painting,
fish, mud and skeletons."

Sunday March 17, 2002
The Observer

Six months that changed a year
Introducing an absolute atrocity special by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris

9/11: The planes strike - as Martin Amis memorably describes them - 'sleeking in
like harsh metal ducklings'.
    Tony Blair publicly drains every drop of blood from his wife to help the injured
of New York.
    Taking his time, George W. Bush formulates a measured response - which turns out
to be the most expensive bollocking ever unleashed against shepherds.
    But are we starting to forget?
    Figures show that even as the second tower fell, people were switching off their
televisions, complaining they'd seen it all before.
    Today in these pages, we help you make up your own mind about the absolute
necessity of fighting the ongoing war that is Operation Improving Bloodbath.

Inside: Highlights of our award-winning coverage:

Polly Toynbee: My 14 months undercover in an al-Qaeda training camp

Peregrine Worsthorne: How I parachuted with the Marines into Kabul and found a
bearded Polly Toynbee shouting anti-American obscenities

Robert Fisk: How I smashed my own face in shouting 'Don't help me, I deserve
this' in front of thousands of bewildered refugees

Christopher Hitchens: How to drink Kabul dry in 72 hours and still keep your
forelock fetchingly draped over your forehead

Decca Aitkenhead: How I got spazzed off my baps on Afghan Spangles to the sounds
of DJ Smack Poppy's bangin' US Barrage

Arthur Smith: How I missed the plane

Piers Morgan: How I became the new Hugh Cudlipp by digging up James Cameron and
Malcolm Muggeridge and sitting their corpses behind desks at the Mirror

Julie Burchill: How I liberated Kandahar with the news that Tony Parsons is a
bastard

Also...

The resurgence of Kenneth Branagh since 11 September: pure
coincidence?

------------------------

Terror's march backwards

September

11th: The attacks change forever the British convention for placing the day
before the month in dates.

12th: Washington informs Tony Blair of attack on US.

13th: The immediate aftermath of the attacks generates fear and paranoia across
America. Angry shoppers beat up a woman who's put a towel on her head to dry her
hair, while people whose faces look like aeroplanes are subject to 24-hour
curfew. Citizens for whom this is 'a bad time' include Tiara Ryzst, Tray
Njinkampps, Mo Jardine, Moss Lamb, the Twain-Towers family, and Will and Tray
d'Senta.

14th: Airlines report no one willing to fly. Bush insists this is a sign of
defiance and commissions Hollywood to make films in which being scared to go on
an aeroplane is an act of bravery. Filming immediately commences on an Arnold
Schwarzenegger movie called Absolute Refusal about a businessman who cannot face
boarding a plane but heroically makes a meeting in Cairo by crossing the
Atlantic on a pedalo.

16th: Speculation about US retaliation grows. Expert opinion is divided over
whether the 'medievalist' regime of Afghanistan should be bombed back to the
Stone Age or forward into the twenty-first century. The prevailing Hawk argument
runs: 'There's a big stone at the back of the Stone Age and we'll bomb them so
hard back into that, they'll bounce all the way forward to 2002.'

19th: The pop singer Michael Jackson is refused permission to lie down and sing
songs from his new album into the World Trade Centre rubble. Jackson is reported
to have been a 'nuisance presence' at Ground Zero - foisting cheaply embroidered
MJ handkerchiefs on to grieving relatives and incessantly moondancing into the
paths of rescue workers.

21st: Tony Blair declares that Britain must share in America's pain as Education
Secretary Estelle Morris announces plans for children to drop French and instead
spend two hours a day chewing gum. And as a mark of respect, all future Prom
concerts will feature orchestras using baseball bats instead of bows.

26th: Bush cheers American nation by launching Operation Death Unto Allah.
Concern from coalition partners that this might constitute some sort of gaffe.
27th: There are delays in sending American special forces to Afghanistan when
the entire air force refuse to fly in a plane.

30th: Twelve days after the collapse of the World Trade Centre, amazed rescue
workers uncover an entire office floor that is still doing business. Despite
falling 890 feet and being buried under 12,000 tons of rubble, all workers at
Leeman Sachs Trading Inc are unharmed. They have remained at their desks since
the bank's Tokyo HQ saw television pictures of the burning towers, called them
up and ordered them to keep working. 'We were still sitting at our desks when we
landed in the rubble,' said one dealer. 'I actually completed three transactions
on the way down.' In fact trading at the buried floor has been so good since 11
September, the bank may sue the New York Fire Dept for digging them out.

October

3rd: While donations pour into New York, a suppressed report reveals that a huge
benefit concert held last month for victims of the Pentagon attack raised just
$21. The show, featuring REM, Bon Jovi, Beck and the Rolling Stones, took place
in a purpose-built, 50,000-seat arena on the Pentagon lawn but despite
saturation advertising only attracted 74 fans. Sources say that the Pentagon
attack, already notorious as 'a TV dud', is now badly in need of a relaunch.

4th: The US public is still so sensitive to images of New York that Woody Allen
is forced to remake Manhattan shot for shot but with all views of the city taken
out. Furious that the new version, Quebec, will lack resonance, the director
comforts himself by giving the part of Diane Keaton to eight 17-year-old girls.

6th: American Airlines launches a controversial emergency campaign to persuade
Americans to fly again. Posters put up in every major American city show a
fearful businessman reading a newspaper over the words 'Get the hell out while
you can! Australia from $120.'

7th: Bush announces the start of Operation Bomb Islamics. He tells the US that
coalition members agree this title is not offensive to 'good Muslims'. This is
confirmed in a hastily written episode of The West Wing in which a good Muslim
is played by Jeff Goldblum.

8th: World shown new US weaponry including the XMB0181 foaming missile designed
to flush out enemy hiding in caves. The device, known as the 'Condeleezza
Cappuccino', is designed to deliver a sarcastic sprinkling of cocoa powder on
the routed enemy.

9th: US bombs hit a Red Cross emergency centre on the outskirts of Kabul, but
the Pentagon refuses to apologise, blaming the Red Cross logo for 'looking like
the crosshairs on a viewfinder'. Spokesman Paul Wolfowitz says: 'I'd ask this
clearly self-loathing organisation to change its suicidal insignia before they
kill us all.' The Red Cross complies immediately and changes its logo to a blue
baseball hat.

16th: Less than two weeks into the bombing campaign, the US admits its new range
of smart weapons may be too intelligent. Sources say the $7m Supersophic
missiles have a range of only 50 metres because less than a second after launch
the onboard computer has worked out that violence only leads to more violence
and that all war is futile. Realising there's no point any more, the weapon
either deliberately crashes itself into a beautiful woman or flies back home to
America to spend the rest of its days buzzing round a farm. The Pentagon orders
that, from now on, missiles must be 'no more intelligent than a steelworker'.

18th: Rising concern over humanitarian crisis in Afganistan. Henry Belt,
renowned as the most mordant scurgist in Fleet Street, produces a cartoon which
is said to have made Alistair Campbell 'weep like a bereaved child'.

19th: Blair announces support for the US intention to bomb during Ramadan but
confirms that out of respect for Islam, all food parcels dropped during this
period will be empty.

20th: The Pentagon denies reports of civilian casualties and adds that even if
there were some, they couldn't be shown in case they 'died in shapes that could
be code'.

24th: Bush announces: 'It may take another 98 years to find bin Laden unless
we've got him already.' In a TV address, standing next to a large veiled object,
the President continues: 'For security reasons I cannot reveal whether this
titanium steel canister does or does not contain the terror atrocity, Mr bin
Laden. But I give the American people my word: bin Laden has definitely been or
will be captured. I have ordered that this box be placed, with its contents
either full or empty, at the foot of the Lincoln memorial, and opened in 2099.
In the meantime, I would ask you to remember that any future video statements by
Mr bin Laden could well have been recorded before we put him in this
containment. Unless he isn't in there.'
26th: Anthrax scare in Britain - BBC advises staff

TO: ALL USERS SUBJECT: SECURITY

This email is being issued to all staff.

Be alert about your handling your mail, particularly if it:

· is mailed from a foreign country

· has protruding wires

· is lopsided or uneven

· has a strange odour· has discolourations, oily stains or crystallisation on
the wrapper · is unexpected
· appears to contain powder or other unusual contents

· is covered in bin Laden's piss or something that smells like it

· has a couple of miniature AK47's sticking out of it and the muffled sound of
jibbering muslim midgets· the envelope keeps spinning and pointing to Mecca when
you put it on a table · the envelope bears a stamp advising you not to read the
letter so much as lick it all over and eat it
· the letter inside claims that the white matter in the envelope is 'the first
instalment of some free salt you've won' or 'some sugar for your morning
coffee'.

NB: If you are unsure about your regular postal consignment of cocaine (or speed
if you are black and a cleaner) the BBC will for a limited period only, check
the powder for anthrobacillus. We regret we cannot be legally responsible for
any errors in this analysis and staff will be required to sign a waiver. In the
event of a long queue for this service, priority will be given to those whose
drugs are supplied by Cocaine Direct or similar who ensure the coca harvesters
are part of a profit sharing initiative based on end user purchase receipts.

November

3rd: US on maximum alert as the FBI announces 'credible' intelligence suggesting
al-Qaeda are planning to trample thousands of Americans to death under rampaging
hippos. Bureau chiefs believe a build-up of four million mother hippos could be
hidden north of the Canadian border and say a mother hippopotamus will charge at
anything that comes between it and its calf. The alert follows the recent
discovery of a baby hippo in a White House cupboard. Meanwhile, seven young
hippos are said to have walked into a Chicago department store yesterday while
an eighth was mysteriously presented as a gift to the actor Ben Affleck.
Hardware shops in most states report they've now run out of anti-hippo suits.

7th: Described as 'ill-conceived', a Broadway production in which New York
firemen perform The Vagina Monologues closes after just three days.

12th: New figures reveal that the number of people who perished in the attacks
on 11 September may be as low as three. Counsellors are on standby to help New
Yorkers deal with the trauma of being more upset than they needed to be.
Pressure mounts on Mayor Giuliani - already criticised for his insistence that
Ground Zero be kept shrouded in smoke - after the dust cleared briefly last week
to reveal that the South Tower was still standing. Psychologists say original
estimates of 6,000 were probably much larger due to 'all kinds of shit'.

18th: US confidently announces the 'further complete death' of Osama bin Laden.
Defence chiefs credit the new Fairhunter talking missile which pays local Afghan
shepherds to report the location of enemy forces. If leads turn out to be false,
Fairhunter returns to the shepherd and blows him up.

21st Success of 9/11 attacks giving al-Qaeda acute 'second album' difficulty.
FBI sources say the poor quality of follow-up activities reveals al-Qaeda's
dreadful fear that they will never top the impact of the 11 September
atrocities. In a recent attack described as 'a shoddy and lame retread', one man
attempted to crash 100,000 paper darts into Chicago's Sears Tower. He was
arrested without a struggle after throwing just seven darts through the fire
escape window of a nearby office block. Similar plots in Washington and Los
Angeles were also foiled although a visiting Egyptian did successfully hurl a
lobster at Jimmy Connors.

23rd: Western capitals are disrupted by a wave of hoaxers claiming to have sent
anthrax through the post. The police report particular difficulties with people
claiming to be hoaxers who turn out not to be hoaxers at all. Says an angry NYPD
spokesman: 'False hoaxers are blocking the lines so the real hoaxers can't get
through... How can we catch genuine hoaxers if false hoaxers prevent them from
making their hoax in the first place?'
26th: Tony Blair triumphantly announces his UK delegation has persuaded the UN
Afghan Conference that the broadcaster John Peel should be the new leader of
Afghanistan. Says the Foreign Office: 'John will appeal both to the conservative
Pashtun south - who prefer men to wear beards - as well as to the northern
tribes who like music.' Blair says The Americans give their approval after he
told them Peel is 'the British Tom Hanks'. Peel will be required to repair
Afghanistan's shattered infrastructure, restore relations with Iran and
Uzbekistan, unify the volatile stand-off between rival factions in the
south-west, and continue with his Radio 4 series Home Truths on Saturday
mornings, against his will if necessary. On the BBC's Newsnight, the US
ambassador allows Jack Straw to confirm the news and then announces that Hamid
Karzai has been installed in Kabul.

December

1st: An email print-out dated 10 September and signed by Jo Moore is discovered
in a house in Kandahar. It reads: 'Need to bury story about local councillors'
expenses... Fly two airliners into World Trade Centre?'

2nd: Media sources suggest the number of Afghan civilians killed in US bombing
raids is 1,800. The Pentagon protests that, with the correct counting methods,
the figure is actually 29. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says: 'If you just
find a head, that's not a whole person. To increase the death toll by one,
you're talking seven or eight heads at least.' Experts on US network Fox news
explain that Islamic numbers are smaller than they look and agree that 'in their
tradition, 120 usually means five'.

4th: Defence Department announces that a bearded US missile has been captured
and imprisoned near the Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif. The missile, which
disappeared last March, told CIA interrogators it wanted to 'blow up women and
gays and kites'.

5th: Bin Laden seen 'dead on a dead horse on top of a dead hill that had been
absolutely blown up with bombs', confirms Afghan villager pleased to see he has
given the right answer.

6th: Sheaves of terrorist plans found in Kabul reveal that al-Qaeda terrorists
were behind a string of atrocities including the Heisel stadium disaster in
1986. A Biro drawing of a squashed football with a brick on top of it shows how
the Muslim extremists planned every detail of the horrifying crush of spectators
- believed at the time to be the work of hooligans. The documents are just part
of a huge cache of terror tools shown to blindfolded Western reporters. One
describes how he also 'felt a system of levers which control all major volcanoes
and tectonic faultlines on earth'. A White House spokesman said: 'We have no
reason to doubt that these apocalyptic savages conceived their children to
recordings of passengers screaming in the Lockerbie air crash.' The discoveries
come just days after looters offered a Wall St Journal reporter 'a tidal wave in
a suitcase' big enough to destroy the entire US eastern seaboard.

8th: Blair triumphantly announces that the soothing voice of Fergal Keane is now
being broadcast 24 hours a day from refugee camp loudspeakers.

9th: An outcry in Harpenden when a branch of the al-Qaeda network opens a shop
in the town's high street. The store sells dirty nuclear devices and videos of
clerics demonstrating how to make soup out of women. Home Secretary David
Blunkett confesses: 'Our draconian anti-terrorism legislation doesn't cover
actual shops.'

22nd: Man arrested with network of caves in shoe. Taken to the Nevada desert and
told to stand still while his shoes are attacked with thermobaric bombs.

23rd: US strategists now admit bin Laden is still at large claiming he is
'probably a lot smaller than we thought... and may be only six inches tall'.

29th: Shock scientific survey proves that America really did have it coming. The
results of a new study show that at the time of the 11 September attacks,
America was unequivocally asking for it. American researchers at the highly
respected Massachusetts Institute of Technology who collated the DNA profiles,
conversational attitudes and facial disposition of more than 8,000 Americans are
said to be 'devastated' by the results. Test supervisor Bill Porman said: 'I'm
sorry to say but spend any time with these people and you start to think, sure,
I'd do it, they're absolutely fucking insufferable.' Security Chief John
Ashcroft is said to be demanding that, from now on, objective scientific
research be classified as an act of terrorism.
January

3rd: There are calls for immediate review of UK airport security after two
journalists from the Daily Mail board a British Airways 737 jet at Manchester
airport with two knives and a fork concealed in their hand luggage. The
reporters force their way into the cockpit, overpower the pilot, take control of
the plane, and crash it into a tall building, killing over 2,000 people and
injuring hundreds more. An incandescent editorial by Mail editor Paul Dacre
describes airport security standards as 'inexcusably laxative'. This latest
exposure recalls events last September, when Mohamed Atta of the Daily Express,
along with a colleague from the Evening Standard, crashed two jets into the
World Trade Centre in New York, greatly embarrassing security officers in the
US.

4th: A chaotic war of recrimination breaks out between the CIA and MI5 when it
is disclosed that Osama bin Laden attended a waxwork sitting at London's Madame
Tussaud's on 1 September. A Tussaud's spokesman says: 'He was extremely polite
and bought all the ladies tea. We just assumed someone would pop in and arrest
him when we'd finished.' It is believed that bin Laden returned for follow-up
sittings on 4 December and shortly after Christmas.

17th: State of the Nation address: Bush declares that countries with which
America has 'unfinished business' constitute a 'spindle of atrocity'. These
include Libya, Vietnam, Japan, Colin Powell, Germany and the northern
anti-slavery states of the US.

24th: There is worldwide outrage that prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay in
Cuba are regularly being dropped out of aircraft over 5,000 feet above the
ground. Tony Blair is later reassured by Donald Rumsfeld's guarantee that
jettisoned British prisoners will be allowed to fight over a parachute. Downing
Street remains tight-lipped over the restriction of parachute diameter to two
inches but sources say Geoff Hoon is persuaded that larger chutes would allow
prisoners to strangle themselves. The US practice of nailing detainees to their
seats during transportation from Afghanistan is justified as a precaution
'against them building a terrorist training camp in the aircraft toilet'
although they are criticised for classifying prisoners as 'hazardous
invertebrate vermin', a term not recognised under the Geneva Convention. The Red
Cross will monitor conditions at Camp X-ray for three months and then publish a
report 'under no circumstances whatsoever'.

February

9th: WTC legal fall-out. A New York banker whose car was hit by a man jumping
out of the burning north tower is suing the dead man's estate because he failed
to curl up into a neat ball to minimise the damage. The city of New York is to
sue firms occupying the upper 38 storeys of both towers because as they crashed
earthwards, they added hugely to the numbers of people on the lower floors, thus
'momentarily breaking fire regulations'.

20th: US is criticised over 'manipulative' Olympics opening ceremony in which
the entire American team form a human twin towers which is then smashed into by
a flying snowboarder dressed as an Arab and carrying the ribcage of a genuine
New York fireman. As chained al-Qaeda suspects sing 'God Bless America' at
gunpoint, 100,000 doves with weights tied to their ankles are released to
recreate an engulfing mass of white dust and the crowd tearfully applaud for
five hours.

24th: Hosting the film Baftas, Stephen Fry delivers an unspeakably trite and
fucked-up heap of shit urging film makers to 'keep telling stories' in the face
of world events - as if films make any fucking difference to anything, least of
all the advancement of peace, as if in fact they don't more often promote,
through piss like Black Hawk Down, the very surfeit of self-regarding
superiority that makes the American West so unpopular in the first place.
Naturally the audience of actors and industry luvvies spontaneously applaud like
the blinkered, solipsistic, self-congratulating cunts they are.

March

2nd: The World Trade Centre owners announce plans to rebuild the skyscrapers on
exactly the same floorplan as before - but due to the disputed insurance
settlement, the towers will only be three storeys high.
24th: As as tribute to America's pain, President Bush commissions a new book of
the Bible, called The Acts of the Folks. The book comes after Revelations and
describes how Manhattan street vendors gained the kingdom of heaven by giving
firemen free doughnuts. The new scripture also praises the 'ordinary folks' who
turned their babies into flags, made bonfires of beards or stood on hills and
stared angrily eastwards. Speaking at an Easter ceremony in Wisconsin in which a
shaved rabbit is nailed upside down to a cross, the President said: 'Every
Christian on earth will agree this book improves the Bible. Amen.' With these
words the President offered the rabbit a sponge soaked in vinegar, then shot it
in the stomach and called on the local necromancer to 'make it rise on the third
day like the shining rabbit in
heaven'.
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9/11: George Bush's day

O846... At a school in Florida, President George W. Bush is informed of first
World Trade Centre crash and quips: 'Nice to see folks so keen to get to work
early.'

O905... Bush is informed of second WTC crash and this time chuckles: 'Phone New
York air traffic control and tell them - three strikes and you're out!' This
comment fails to capture public mood.

O906... Emergency conference in school office as aides explain appalling gravity
of situation. Through closed doors President is heard screaming: 'Phone Al Gore
and tell him he won.'

0907... He then orders 60 kilos of cocaine and shoots a White House dog for no
reason.

O943... Pentagon attacked.

O944... White House officials attempt to preserve national control and command
structure by slicing off Dick Cheney's head and putting it in a bag of ice
cubes.

Over the next few hours the President is helicoptered to Orlando then airdropped
into Vermont. Seizing a jet pack, he blasts himself into the sea off
Newfoundland where he is collected by speedboat, hammered unconscious,
miniaturised and injected into Laura Bush's foot.

1323-1412... The nation is unaware that it is being governed by a man who is now
smaller than an E.Coli and tumbling around in his wife's aorta.

1542... President retrieved by mosquito from Laura Bush's thigh and allowed to
regain size under morphine during return flight to Washington.

1612... A cleaner enters White House basement to find the President and George
Bush Snr both naked in barrels of crude oil. They are deep in conversation.

1641...Fortified by constant telephone contact with Larry Hagman, a much calmer
Bush chairs war cabinet in Delaware.

2030...Wearing a lucky Iraqi foot given to him by his father on his lapel, Bush
addresses the nation, extends sympathy to the victims and solemnly vows that he
will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed the attacks and
Arabs.

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What they said
An absolute atrocity special by Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris: the
best of those post-9/11 quotes you haven't heard yet.

'We're all dead Americans now'
T. Blair

'Easy, Saladin'
The Pope

'Yessssss!'
First reaction of many British people who subsequently claimed to be appalled

'I have seen nothing to convince me that all these attacks were not the work of
one lone American madman'
John Pilger

'This wouldn't have happened if I'd still been on BBC1'
Noel Edmonds

'Operation Infinite Enemy is not a war against Islam, it's a war against
Muslims'
George Bush

'If you run the twin towers footage backwards, the towers stand up again - we
need to ask why has the footage only ever been run forwards?'
Noam Chomsky

'We are privileged to live in a time when even the world's most TV-hating nation
can make brilliant TV'
Peter Bazalgette

'Hello Yasser'
Jack Straw greets Ariel Sharon

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