Pass it on... This page is the 'sine qua non' of Pinter's Nobel Speech...

[dutchdemocrat]

It took me some time - but I finally figured out how to compress and convert the Real Media stream from Nobel.org into a palatable package.

I have the video up in Flash 8 and downloadable as a WMV file (zipped and unzipped) from here:

http://www.chris-floyd.com/pinter

It's a tribute page of sorts. Please spread the word. It's important that people see this video or read the speech and they are both on this page.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/pinter

Cheers

DD.

[firefox]

1. Nomination #1

This link contains the video of Pinter's speech given for the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature. It also has the text. It is a top shelf link for anyone participating in the reality movement. It is worthy of our best efforts at amplification.

Pinter presents the apogee for those that admire the Power of One. The speech is a big part of Alexander Cockburns piece this weekend at http://counterpunch.org/cockburn12102005.html

I recommend the link and its bookmarking. NWE- Nominated with emphasis.

[Zan_of_Texas]

12. To just read the text ...

To see this story on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1661516,00.html

Art, truth and politics

In his video-taped Nobel acceptance speech, Harold Pinter excoriated a 'brutal, scornful and ruthless' United States. This is the full text of his address

[neweurope]

2. Recommended. Everybody should know what he says - especially the

second half of his speech :)

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[glitch]

3. Link isn't working for me. Is it just me? nt

[dutchdemocrat]

4. It seems there were some network troubles

Somewhere in the Matrix.

Should be okay now.

[glitch]

11. Got it! thank you. K & R. nt

[ClayZ]

5. Brilliant! This speech is a TREASURE!

We watched the other day!
Thank you for making this format available!
I will send it everyone who still accepts email from me.
A couple wing-nut nephews shut me off! :argh:

[enough]

6. Thank you.

[bloom]

7. thanks

I read the speech - but it would be great to hear it also.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Kicked and nominated and thank you Chris. nt.

[dutchdemocrat]

9. I am Chris's webmaster...

But I will thank him too!

:toast:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

10. I will read this text to some "uninformed" righties I happen to be

related to. That should just about push them over the edge... thanks to you too Dutch :)

[IndyOp]

13. Amazing - "Come and See the Blood in the Streets"

Incredible poem by Neruda about bombing of civilians.

Fantastic, amazing, incredible speech. Spans decades of US foreign policy. Truth. Power.

Bush was smart, did not ratify ICC. Blair is available for prosecution in the International Criminal Court - we have his address in case anyone wants to pursue this: #10 Downing Street.

US is now totally frank: Official policy is full-spectrum dominance - control of land, sea, air and space and all attendance sources. 702 military installations in 132 countries with the honorable exception of Sweden, of course. We don't know quite how they got there, but they are there.

Anxiety, uncertainty, and fear that we see growing daily in the US is unlikely to diminish.

Was the dead body dead when found? Who was the dead body? Who was the father or uncle or brother or son of the dead body? Was the dead body naked or dressed for a journey? How well did you know the dead body? Did you wash the dead body? Did you close both it's eyes? Did you kiss the dead body?

Peace. Please God, please people, peace.

[AlamoDemoc]

14. Thank you dutchdemocrat

One of the best speeches I have ever witnessed..Thanks you indeed


:kick: & Nominated

[dutchdemocrat]

15. I added an MP3 Podcast

If anyone has an iPod or uses iPodder.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/loudblog/

[petgoat]

16. Pinter has endorsed the WorldCantWait statement

Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.

Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.

Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.

Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.

Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.

Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.

<snip>

History is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.

The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!

http://www.worldcantwait.net/

[Karenina]

17. Kick!

:kick: