David Wenham in LOTRPt2

I was reading an article concerning this actor in the paper today. And I was re-reading his filmography and remembered that his first really big release, he convincingly played this truly menacing, horrifying and brutal psychopath, called Brett Sprague, in a film called The Boys. So after seeing him in Lord of the Rings Pt 2, you may wish to rent this video, to see a different character he played.

The film was based on a stage play of the same name and he reprised the role in the film. It was based very loosely on a real life murderous group of brothers who raped, murdered and tortured a girl I think in the ’80s. They all got life thank god. It was truly menacing and chilling performance.

Another of his films which was really good but did not get so big a release was Paul Cox’s Molokai:The Story of Father Damien where he played the role of the Belgian priest, who set up a mission and hospital for suffers of leprosy at Molokai, in the Hawaiian Islands in the 19th Century. It followed his struggles to force the colonial government at the time to provide some sort of help and assistance to the poor people quarantined on Molokai. They actually filmed it at the actual site with descendents of the original people who lived there.

The next part of Lord of the Rings is the one movie I am definitely going to see this month. I can hardly wait. Truly magical stuff. I understand Miranda Otto is to play Eowen. She is very well cast in this role as well.

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David Wenham in LOTRPt2

I was reading an article concerning this actor in the paper today. And I was re-reading his filmography and remembered that his first really big release, he convincingly played this truly menacing, horrifying and brutal psychopath, called Brett Sprague, in a film called The Boys. So after seeing him in Lord of the Rings Pt 2, you may wish to rent this video, to see a different character he played.

The film was based on a stage play of the same name and he reprised the role in the film. It was based very loosely on a real life murderous group of brothers who raped, murdered and tortured a girl I think in the ’80s. They all got life thank god. It was truly menacing and chilling performance.

Another of his films which was really good but did not get so big a release was Paul Cox’s Molokai:The Story of Father Damien where he played the role of the Belgian priest, who set up a mission and hospital for suffers of leprosy at Molokai, in the Hawaiian Islands in the 19th Century. It followed his struggles to force the colonial government at the time to provide some sort of help and assistance to the poor people quarantined on Molokai. They actually filmed it at the actual site with descendents of the original people who lived there.

The next part of Lord of the Rings is the one movie I am definitely going to see this month. I can hardly wait. Truly magical stuff. I understand Miranda Otto is to play Eowen. She is very well cast in this role as well.

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New picture. Went from the rose to cuddly things. Have yet to find an image that really appeals.

Maybe something violet? My true aura colour?

What Is Your True Aura Colour?
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Well I do tend to go on and on when I see injustice and lack of compassion. Just don’t start me on about the current Federal Govt’s attitudes to refugees from Afghanistan & Iraq and their all the way with the USA tubthumping.

Any one read the little book called “War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know”? It was written by William Rivers Pitt and is largely based on interviews he conducted with Scott Ritter, Gulf War Veteran, a former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq and a card-carrying Republican to boot. So they can’t claim he is some drippy left-wing peace freak.

Ritter claims Iraq has been effectively disarmed and poses no threat to the West. Those who insist otherwise – such as “team Bush”(a neo-conservative cabal headed by Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perl) – are simply hell bent on a lethally counterproductive endgame.

The Bushites’ game plan is based on several fallacies, according to Ritter: that the Iraqi army will give up without a fight, that the Iraqi people will rise up against Hussein, and that the international community will rally around the US-led forces. They won’t. Rather, “there will be heavy casualties on both sides, a complete destabilisation of the Middle East, and a terrible backlash of terrorist attacks on the US – exactly the kind of Islam V The West that al-Qaeda wants.” He predicts invading Iraq will only increase the likelihood of a terrorist nuclear attack, resulting in a “nice little Armageddon”, to borrow a phrase from Brent Scowcroft.

This is only a brief summary of what the book outlines. It goes into Iraq & the US’s historical relationships and the grievous errors made by the US in foreign policy when dealing with both Iran and Iraq, as well as other Middle Eastern countries, based on the desire to maintain regular and cheap oil supplies for the US Market. And perhaps explains the contempt some Middle Eastern people must have for the US and the UK based on the interference in their countries and their rank hypocrisy. An example of this is the instance which is brought up all the time by Bush when talking about weapons of mass destruction , the chemical weapons attacks on Kurds within Iraq. Iraq did not achieve it’s capability to wage chemical warfare without help from the US, in supplying some of the raw materials and the knowhow to manufacture them. They were if not actively encouraged, at least the US turned a blind eye when they killed thousands of Iranian fighters with chemical weapons. And as the Kurds were seen as a threat to Saddam’s regime, (which was a most favoured client regime of the US at the time due to his efforts agains the Iranians), the US looked the other way when he gassed thousands of Iraqi Kurds. The very crime Bush cites as one of the chief reasons to invade Iraq.

See I told you. I’ll just get off my soapbox now.

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Yeah, we know.

New picture. Went from the rose to cuddly things. Have yet to find an image that really appeals.

Maybe something violet? My true aura colour?

What Is Your True Aura Colour?
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Well I do tend to go on and on when I see injustice and lack of compassion. Just don’t start me on about the current Federal Govt’s attitudes to refugees from Afghanistan & Iraq and their all the way with the USA tubthumping.

Any one read the little book called “War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know”? It was written by William Rivers Pitt and is largely based on interviews he conducted with Scott Ritter, Gulf War Veteran, a former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq and a card-carrying Republican to boot. So they can’t claim he is some drippy left-wing peace freak.

Ritter claims Iraq has been effectively disarmed and poses no threat to the West. Those who insist otherwise – such as “team Bush”(a neo-conservative cabal headed by Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perl) – are simply hell bent on a lethally counterproductive endgame.

The Bushites’ game plan is based on several fallacies, according to Ritter: that the Iraqi army will give up without a fight, that the Iraqi people will rise up against Hussein, and that the international community will rally around the US-led forces. They won’t. Rather, “there will be heavy casualties on both sides, a complete destabilisation of the Middle East, and a terrible backlash of terrorist attacks on the US – exactly the kind of Islam V The West that al-Qaeda wants.” He predicts invading Iraq will only increase the likelihood of a terrorist nuclear attack, resulting in a “nice little Armageddon”, to borrow a phrase from Brent Scowcroft.

This is only a brief summary of what the book outlines. It goes into Iraq & the US’s historical relationships and the grievous errors made by the US in foreign policy when dealing with both Iran and Iraq, as well as other Middle Eastern countries, based on the desire to maintain regular and cheap oil supplies for the US Market. And perhaps explains the contempt some Middle Eastern people must have for the US and the UK based on the interference in their countries and their rank hypocrisy. An example of this is the instance which is brought up all the time by Bush when talking about weapons of mass destruction , the chemical weapons attacks on Kurds within Iraq. Iraq did not achieve it’s capability to wage chemical warfare without help from the US, in supplying some of the raw materials and the knowhow to manufacture them. They were if not actively encouraged, at least the US turned a blind eye when they killed thousands of Iranian fighters with chemical weapons. And as the Kurds were seen as a threat to Saddam’s regime, (which was a most favoured client regime of the US at the time due to his efforts agains the Iranians), the US looked the other way when he gassed thousands of Iraqi Kurds. The very crime Bush cites as one of the chief reasons to invade Iraq.

See I told you. I’ll just get off my soapbox now.

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What herb are you?
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Well this one at least seems right?

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What herb are you?
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Well this one at least seems right?

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Are we too predictably the same in our responses LDR?

Which Lord of the Rings:FOTR scene should you be in?
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Are we too predictably the same in our responses LDR?

Which Lord of the Rings:FOTR scene should you be in?
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Where Did Your Soul Originate?
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Well every one’s doing one, so I thought I would as well. Lemming behaviour alert required here!

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Where Did Your Soul Originate?
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Well every one’s doing one, so I thought I would as well. Lemming behaviour alert required here!

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