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Al Jazeera's sins, it would seem to us, are as follows. First, it has been Osama bin Laden's propaganda outlet, taking delivery of his videotapes and broadcasting them. Second (and this is the one that has raised ire most recently), it has shown footage of the bodies of two dead British servicemen, and of captured troops paraded by the Iraqis. Third, it shows far more harrowing pictures of civilian casualties than western outlets are prepared to run, and fourth (a sum total of the first three) it is therefore peddling Iraqi propaganda. Which is also the accusation currently being levelled at many Western journalists, including recently-ex NBC staffer Peter Arnett, and the Independent's Robert Fisk, recently described as a "Saddamite buffoon" in the Telegraph. Essentially Al Jazeera's 'Iraqi propaganda' activities are no greater (perhaps even rather less) than those of many liberal media outlets. In the UK many of these have also been criticised by the government, but they have not been the subject of major hacking attacks, nor have hosting and services companies declined to do business with them. We should also clarify something regarding the footage of the prisoners and the dead servicemen; military spokesmen to the contrary, reproducing such images is not a breach of the Geneva Convention. The Geneva Convention is directed at governments, and does not cover news organisations. Al Jazeera has arguably broadcast images of the Iraqi Government breaching the Geneva Convention, but that is not the same thing. To get this into perspective, note that one of the most striking pictures from the Vietnam war was of a South Vietnamese officer shooting a prisoner - do we argue that this should not have been published? If Al Jazeera had footage of an Iraqi shooting a British prisoner, should that be broadcast? The other way around? Are our standards today different from those of the 60s, or do the criteria differ depending on the nationalities of the participants and/or the audience? The answers are not straightforward, nor should they be. In deciding whether or not to report a story and how to report it news organisations have to take into account the motivation of the people they're covering, standards of taste and decency and likely impact on people involved, such as friends and family.[...] The Register

SECRETARY POWELL: Europeans, especially Germans, should recognize the American record, our history. Our history is not one of getting involved in conflicts just for the sake of it. We get involved in conflicts because there are major issues at stake that have to be resolved, unfortunately, by force of arms. But when you look at our history for the last sixty years, every time we found ourselves in this position, we did not just get up and walk away. We did everything we could to put in place a better system, a better society, than that which we had to go in and fight. And we will do it again this time. In Kuwait, we fought to save a Muslim people that had been invaded by another Muslim people, Iraq, and we gave Kuwait back to its -- QUESTION: Rulers? SECRETARY POWELL: -- rightful rulers. Its rightful rulers. Are you defending what Iraq did by invading Kuwait. QUESTION: No. SECRETARY POWELL: But the way you just posed that question, they were the rulers. The people of Kuwait were happy with their rulers. Iraq said we don�t care, we�re invading. We restored Kuwait to its rulers - its rightful rulers � and let them find their transition into a democratic form of government, as their people choose. We went to Kosovo, another very controversial war, in order to save Muslims, in order to protect Muslims. And we went to Afghanistan in order to deal with the terrorist threat that had caused such destruction in the Untied States on 9/11. And what have we done? Have we decided to make Afghanistan an American colony? No. We spent a huge amount of money and we are putting our young men and women on the line, every day, to put in place a form of government that was decided upon by the Afghan people. And we are helping them to rebuild and reconstruct their society. That pattern is the American pattern. We�re very proud of it. It�s been repeated many times over, and it will be repeated again in Iraq. QUESTION: From you and from your colleague, Secretary Rumsfeld, came very strong warnings the last couple of days, vis-�-vis Iran and Syria, not to interfere, stay out of Iraq and stop their business of dealing with terrorists and the Iraqi regime. Are they the next ones on the list for -- SECRETARY POWELL: No, there is no list. There is this common perception in Europe that there is this list of enemies and we are going to go down one-by-one and invade them all in some predetermined order. This is not the case. The President is not looking for places to go invade. The President has made it clear that he has many ways of dealing with regimes that, we believe, are not following international standards. So, sometimes political actions are appropriate, economic actions, use of our intelligence assets. Sometimes military force is appropriate. But we are not looking for wars to get into. It�s fascinating that we are now trying in a multilateral setting to deal with the problem of North Korea and here we are criticized for not acting bilaterally or doing something directly. And so we have many tools available to us but it does not mean the United States has constantly looking for places to go to war. But is there something wrong with telling a nation such as Syria, or a nation such as Iran, that we know they are developing weapons of mass destruction, that we have evidence against Iran with respect to nuclear weapons. And these are nations that we know � we know, everyone knows � they are supporting terrorist activities. Is it inappropriate for us to call this to their attention and tell these nations they should stop engaging in these kinds of activities? Or should we just put our hands over our eyes and pretend they are not doing such things and not hold them to any kind of account? I think we should speak out when we find nations that are supporting terrorist activities. [...] US Department of State

JEDDAH, 9 April 2003 � Now it�s obvious that the Iraqis aren�t going to put up a credible fight, and it�s equally clear that as a result the world has changed into pretty much what the Americans wanted it to be. The pride the Arabs felt in the initial stages of the invasion, before those legendary �pockets of resistance� halting the advance of the world�s only superpower were revealed as a myth, has been replaced by immense shame and humiliation. The images of US soldiers taking a picnic in the heart of Baghdad will haunt the Arab psyche for generations to come.[...] Everyone has betrayed everyone. America led the way, abandoning its Jeffersonian democratic foundations in favor of crude economic exploitation and colonial expansion. The Arabs quickly followed suit, abandoning their brothers. Britain turned its back on Europe, while Europe chose lip-service over action when push came to shove. Saddam long ago betrayed his people and so the Iraqi people, in turn, predictably betrayed him. Less predictable, but equally devastating, was the passive betrayal of the Republican Guard. They betrayed their honor and dignity, which we are supposed to believe are the most important things to any Arab man, let alone an Arab fighter.[...] Arab News Led to believe by whom? This is part of your problem, your ego centric insane and stupid belief system, that none of you actually believe in, that you shoult about day after day in public while in private you surf for pr0n and guzzle whiskey. The truth is you are all dishonest loosers, and you will all be OWNED. At least afterwards you can get drunk and read Hustler without getting thrown into jail...uh oh wait a minute, thats not true, 'cause in the already own0rzd gulf states woemen are KILLED for driving, there is no booze and no "democrazy". Looks like you are going to be D0UBLE 0WN3D; you get occupied by foreign powers and then dont get any of the bennies, just like the Saudies and Kuwaities; both OWNED and still under the polar opposite of democrazy! YOU IDIOTS! Morality, in a word, has been thrown out the window. The only hope now is that the US will somehow be kept in check by those ordinary Americans who, like the vast majority of the world�s people, feel betrayed and abused by what the Bush �regime� has done � all the more so for being carried out under their very noses. Now you really are showing what an unmitigated idiot you are. There has never been a generation of Americans as stupid as this one. 50% of them think Saddam Hussein was behind 911. WAKE UP you dingbat!

Political dissent at the marines' mission persisted in Baghdad as evening fell yesterday. "Bush is a rich bully. The US has no legal right to be here. Probably Saddam would have sold chemical weapons to somebody someday and then the US would have been right to invade, but now this is the first free democratic country ever to occupy another without good reason," said a heavily armed man standing by the roadside. He was a lance-corporal in the US marines.[...] The Guardian

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Did you know that Iraq actually converted to the Euro for the sale of its oil? It was an act of war!!!!! O...M...G... This is the REAL reason why UK would not join the Euro! It has nothing to do with soverignty; its all to do with US/UK Anglo Saxon solidarity!!!!! Chavez of Venezuela was bartering directly for products with its oil (Venez is the number 4 producer of oil) no doubt he is next to go to Euro as the oil currency for Venez oil. Currency is the key weapon of WW4. There was a programme on BBC4 tonight about the 48hr Chavez coup; if you get a chance to see it, you must. It shows the blueprint of how CIA / Private media manipulates TV to control states and engineer regime change.

The Unstated US Goal of Preserving Dollar Hegemony Over the Global Oil Market

Dominance of Middle Eastern oil will mean in effect maintaining dollar hegemony over the world oil economy. Given its present strategies, the US is constrained to demand no less. As I explain in this extract from my book, Drugs, Oil, and War, the present value of the US dollar, unjustified on purely economic grounds, is maintained by political arrangements, one of the chief of which is to ensure that all OPEC oil purchases will continue to be denominated in US dollars. (This commitment of OPEC to dollar oil sales was secured in the 1970s by a secret agreement between the US and Saudi Arabia, before the two countries began to drift apart over Israel and other issues.) The chief reason why dollars are more than pieces of green paper is that countries all over the world need them for purchases, principally of oil. This requires them in addition to maintain dollar reserves to protect their own currency; and these reserves, when invested, help maintain the current high levels of the US securities markets. As Henry Liu has written vividly in the online Asian Times (4/11/02), "World trade is now a game in which the US produces dollars and the rest of the world produces things that dollars can buy. The world's interlinked economies no longer trade to capture a comparative advantage; they compete in exports to capture needed dollars to service dollar-denominated foreign debts and to accumulate dollar reserves to sustain the exchange value of their domestic currencies. To prevent speculative and manipulative attacks on their currencies, the world's central banks must acquire and hold dollar reserves in corresponding amounts to their currencies in circulation. The higher the market pressure to devalue a particular currency, the more dollar reserves its central bank must hold. This creates a built-in support for a strong dollar that in turn forces the world's central banks to acquire and hold more dollar reserves, making it stronger. This phenomenon is known as dollar hegemony, which is created by the geopolitically constructed peculiarity that critical commodities, most notably oil, are denominated in dollars. Everyone accepts dollars because dollars can buy oil. The recycling of petro-dollars is the price the US has extracted from oil-producing countries for US tolerance of the oil-exporting cartel since 1973. [...] As the United States made preparations for war with Iraq, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, on 2/6/03, again denied to US journalists that the projected war had "anything to do with oil." <1> He echoed Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld, who on 11/14/02 told CBS News that "It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil." Speaking to British MPs, Prime Minister Tony Blair was just as explicit: "Let me deal with the conspiracy theory idea that this is somehow to do with oil. There is no way whatever if oil were the issue that it would not be infinitely simpler to cut a deal with Saddam...." (London Times 1/15/03) [...] For once, they were not lying...sort of: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/iraq.html

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ezekiel198: what a fag fivesideagon: uh, no. This is a pretty archetypal argument between a brain dead racist piece of pig flesh and someone who "has the lights on". These arguments are pointless, and have been going on for generations. What we need to do is argue once for the permanent removal of the ability of governments in the west (the USA) to wage war. Once this is ability is removed, the brain dead can continue to listen to monopoly music, watch MTV and run windoze without any fear from us, or anyone in another country because their STICK will have been removed from them. Forever.

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Some time ago someone (Mikkel?) posted links to Current 93 mp3s and I am having trouble finding them in the archive. Can anyone help with that? I heard a song called "The Seahorse Rears to Oblivian" on the radio last night and it seems to only come from obscure releases. I would love to get a copy...

** ** US Troops Fight Palestinian Volunteers In E Baghdad-MSNBC NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The strongest resistance to U.S. troops in the eastern half of Baghdad is coming from foreign fighters, including a few hundred members of the Palestine Liberation Army, MSNBC reported Tuesday, citing reporting by one of its reporters embedded with the U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force. MSNBC cited Israeli sources as saying some of the foreigners were probably recruited in Lebanon and then sent to Baghdad via Syria. There are members of the Palestinian Liberation Organization among them, and some may be members of Hezbollah, MSNBC said. -By Steven C. Higgins, Dow Jones Newswires; 1-201-938-4378; hbsglobaldesk@ dowjones.com

We will add your distinctiveness to our own: The Borg world simply kill Bush because he is neither distinct or of any value.

What they say � "The prospect facing the people of Iraq should serve as sufficient warning that in future we too might have others descend on us, guns in hand to force-feed us [with democracy]" - South African president Thabo Mbeki Like I said.... The Guardian

You could write a Perl script to do it (if you knew Perl) and it would take you only a few hours.

The racists at The Mirror rear their ugly heads: "Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf (crazy name - crazy guy!)" There is nothing crazy about his name, and dont say its "crazy" just because you are too pig-ignorant to be able to pronounce it. There is also nothing "crazy" about the name of The Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him. Millions upon Millions of males world wide carry that name you filthy dog. "...By Kevin O'Sullivan" There are all kinds of things that a racist could say about your name, and when they do, no doubt you become hysterical on your moral high horse. If this piece was meant to be funny, it was not, and you are a fuckng racist LOOSER! And I use the plural of racists because the sub editors and editors let this racist write that garbage, and then printed it. The deeply flawed "The Mirror" Newspaper

The following sections will help you understand and use different types of punctuation more effectively in your writing. This chapter begins with the comma, the punctuation mark which usually causes writers the most trouble, before turning to other types of punctuation.[...] www.uottawa.ca All punctuation marks are �signals� from the writer to the reader. Proper punctuation enables the reading of a document to be smoother, and the understanding of its content easier, than if incorrect punctuation is used. Some sentences may be punctuated in more than one way. In some instances, a punctuation mark may or may not be used, at the writer�s discretion.[...] Ted's Punctuation Guide

"First they came for the Communists - so I said nothing. They they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat - so I did nothing...And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew - so I did little. Then when they came for me, there was no one left who could stand up for me." -Pastor Niem�ller as quoted in Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn Now, superimpose this on the Arab states. Iran is next. Syria after. Jordan. One by one they will all be "owned" by the USA, and they will have no one but themselvs to blame. They will all deserve it, because they sat back and watched one of their neighbors being torn to shreds by jackals while they ate falafel.

Ahem: a frenzy of images; the money of the axis of evil, and the axis of weasles (ancient) and the axis of the soon-to-be-the-enemy. And some "dudes we already stomped".

This: img src="http://url.to.your.jpg" border ="0" is how you do that.

URBAN WARFARE FOR PROTESTERS

by Wm. Steven Humphrey Take a Tip from Our Boys in Iraq, and Make Your Next Protest Count! You're doing it all wrong. There's a reason why your daily protests have failed to invigorate the anti-war movement. You have no leadership. You have no direction. Every protest is virtually the same: Start out at Terry Schrunk Plaza. Yell for awhile, try to take City Hall. Get distracted from City Hall, walk down the street to the bridge. Bridge is blocked, go to another bridge. Bridge is blocked. Sit down. Get bored. Disperse. Wonder why no one is listening to you. Rinse, repeat. You look like zombies afflicted with attention deficit disorder. It's time to come up with a plan and stop this senseless and annoying lollygagging about town. Everyone's getting bored with it, and you're losing support. Say what you want about the U.S. war machine, they'll never be accused of lollygagging. That's why if you want to stop the enemy, you need to think like the enemy. The U.S. military is successful because they have a clear objective and spend time thinking of ways to obtain that objective. And just like the thousands of troops in Iraq, peace protesters have enough hippie power to create a "shock and awe" campaign in Portland that will captivate the nation--and all it takes is a little military-style planning. Portland Mercury

This is what you have to carry around with you if you have peanut allergy. You have 5 mins to inject yourself after accidental ingestion. "When eating outside the home, people allergic to peanuts and nuts must always be extremely cautious and should not hesitate to ask specific and detailed questions about the preparation and ingredients of foods they are planning to eat. Peanut and nut products may be encountered at any meal--in breakfast cereals, trail mixes, chili and spaghetti sauces, gravies, oriental cooking (including egg rolls), pastries, sweets, ice creams, desserts, and as garnishes for almost any food. Simply removing peanuts and nuts from a dish does not remove the contaminating protein. In addition, foods may be contaminated with peanut protein from "pressed or extruded" peanut oils, or oils or utensils used to cook foods containing peanuts. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for patients dining in restaurants to react to a food that they were assured by a waiter did not contain peanuts or nuts. If there is any doubt about a food's ingredients, peanut and nut allergic individuals must not eat it. So much for Chinese food! Also, I think I may have blogged it before, but there was a case where a man who was not allergic to nuts, recieved a liver transplant from someone who was allergic to nuts, and this allergy was transferred to the transplant recipient! If only youth could be transplanted along with organs....heh.

and the lack of effective treatment Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization is showing good results for a wide range of allergies. It is massively expensive, but you can get it on the NHS. It consists of a series of painful injections of allergens under the skin. What I dont understand is why all of a sudden so many people have just started to be born with nut allergies. There must be some environmental trigger that has started this; if we can track it down, then we can reverse this trend for the next generation.

Saddam is drawing us in

by Mark Gery With all the contradictory info on the war, there are three facts that cannot be denied. 1. The Iraqis had months before the conflict to blow up all the bridges over the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and to mine the main highways of Iraq. The fact that they did not do this (even after the conflict started) means the present U.S. drive to Baghdad was desired by Saddam. 2. The average April temp. in Baghdad is 85 degrees. 95 in May and an intolerable 105 in June. (110 in July). Average temperatures well remain above 90 degrees until October. Troops and vehicles will require vast quantities of clean water to maintain effective operation. 3. April through September is also the period of the Shamal - desert winds that often cover much of the area in sandstorms. Starting in June the Shamal�s get hotter and can generate sandstorms that last up to 40 days. Because our tracked vehicles and troops have been disturbing the top layers of Iraq�s terrain, there will be more loose soil than normal, adding additional thickness to the air-borne sand. The effects of all this? Grounding of helicopters, severe limits on jet aircraft effectiveness and an inability to see more than a hundred yards on the ground. Air filters are clogged by dust, guns start to jam, radio transmission becomes impaired and sand gets into practically every nook and cranny of man and machine. Prediction for the war: Saddam and the Special Republican Guard will probably lay low in Baghdad and elsewhere and let the Fedayeen and other paramilitary units harass us as we try to move about the city. (We have yet to secure even one major city in Iraq). They have already discarded their combat uniforms and apparently dispersed into several locales. At some point, when temps. near 100 and the the sandstorms begin again, thousands of Iraqi troops now in hiding will strike in mass at a few choke points in our supply lines, which extend all the way into Kuwait. They may even still blow the bridges over the rivers. Our forces will become isolated from each other, and within a few weeks will be out of water, food, and gasoline. Vehicles and men will have to come into Iraqi cities for clean water, and again be subject to commando attack. In short, weather and logistics will win the war for Saddam. At the end of it all most of his army (which we have seen less than one-third of) will not even have to be used as well as his air force and helicopter units. Thousands of US troops may end up as prisoners of war, desperate for relief from heat, thirst, and in need of fuel for their vehicles. Hundreds of American vehicles will likely be confiscated. This scenario is very possible. Even likely.[...] media monitors

Why do we aid and abet the lies and propaganda of this filthy war? [...] Another enjoyable lie was the American assertion that the anti-chemical weapons suits issued to Iraqi soldiers �proved� that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqis neatly replied that the equipment was standard issue but that since US and British forces carried the same equipment, they too must be in possession of forbidden weapons. The Iraqi lie � that the country remains united under a beloved leader � is hardly questioned in press conferences held by the Iraqi vice president. Unity may be the one element Iraq will never possess under American occupiers. But its existence under Saddam has been imposed through terror. Then there�s the famous �war in Iraq� slogan which the British and American media like to promote. But this is an invasion, not a mere war.[...] And isn�t it turning into an occupation rather than a �liberation�? Shouldn�t we be remembering in our reports that this whole invasion lacks legitimacy? Sure, the Americans claim they needed no more than the original UN Security Council Resolution 1441 to go to war. But if that�s the case, why did Britain and the US vainly seek a second resolution? I can�t help thinking that readers and viewers realize the mendacity of all this sleight of hand, and that we journalists go on insulting these same readers and viewers by thinking we can con them. Thus we go on talking about an �air campaign� � as if the Luftwaffe was taking off from Cap Gris Nez to bomb London � when not a single Iraqi aircraft has left the ground. So it�s �coalition forces�, a war not an invasion, liberation rather than occupation, and the taking of cities that are �secured� rather than �captured� and, when captured, are insecure.[...] Arab News

Poetic I say.

In December 1999, President Clinton signed a law that makes it a federal felony to possess "a depiction of animal cruelty" with the intent to distribute across state lines -- such as on the Internet. During a floor debate, Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.) claimed that "sick criminals are taking advantage of the loopholes in the local law and the lack of federal law on animal cruelty videos." Wired

What if Fox News were around during other historical events?

Fark!

Korea Image Poisioning begins:

Korea's 'lucky' triplets seized 30mar03 ALL triplets in North Korea are being forcibly removed from parents after their birth and dumped in bleak orphanages. The policy is carried out on the orders of Stalinist dictator Kim Jong-il, who has an irrational belief that a triplet could one day topple his regime. The number three is thought to be auspicious in North Korea and triplets are revered. It is believed they are likely to rise to positions of power, which accounts for Kim's insistence that they are all raised in state-run orphanages, where their development can be controlled. Officially, the policy was introduced to help poverty-stricken parents in a country where hunger is widespread. But aid agencies and diplomats have dismissed this: triplets born to high-ranking officials are also seized. "There is no doubt that the policy is compulsory and universal," a veteran Western diplomat told London's Daily Telegraph newspaper.[...] heraldsun news This story is particularly potent and resonates vividly for the crusading "Christians" of the west; the tenth miracle that killed all first born Egyptians caused Pharaoh to release the Hebrews, now, we have a man that is sequestering all triplets, because of an "irrational" belief. Need I point out that thinking the tenth miracle is rational and that The Dear Leader's believing a triplet is a threat to him is irrational is a DOUBLE STANDARD? No, of course I need not!

No more fun

Drunken prank closes New York bridge Reuters Mar. 28, 2003 11:35 AM NEW YORK - Three men climbed on a New York bridge in a drunken prank on Friday, shutting the bridge, sparking an anti-terrorism response and sending the dollar down in morning trading, officials said. Police said they arrested three men in their 30s, who were caught by a police officer in the morning rush-hour after they were spotted climbing the cables of the Williamsburg Bridge that links Manhattan and Brooklyn across the East River. Anti-terrorism teams, including helicopters, radiation detection units and bomb squads -- on high alert since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and stepped up since the U.S.-led war on Iraq started last Thursday -- converged on the area. But police said the incident was not terrorism-related and nothing suspicious was found. Police also searched all of the city's bridges and tunnels as a precaution, officials said. New York Police Department Deputy Chief Bruce Smolka told reporters that the men ''had been drinking all night'' and looked ''scruffy.'' One of the men told the arresting officer he had climbed the bridge once before and wanted to do it again with two friends, Smolka said. The prank closed the bridge for more than two hours and snarled traffic on the Manhattan side along the main FDR Drive that sweeps alongside the East River. In recent weeks in the build-up to the Iraq war, calls about suspicious packages and other false alarms have risen sharply in New York, a city jittery about the war and from the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center, killing nearly 2,800 people. www.azcentral.com This is the most important change in America's life; no more sponetenaiety, no more fun, total, paralyzing paranoia, and for what?

Is there ANYONE on this planet that doesnt think that this is part of an ongoing conspiracy?: THE original blueprints for a device that could have revolutionised the motor car have been discovered in the secret compartment of a tool box. A carburettor that would allow a car to travel 200 miles on a gallon of fuel caused oil stocks to crash when it was announced by its Canadian inventor Charles Nelson Pogue in the 1930s. But the carburettor was never produced and, mysteriously, Pogue went overnight from impoverished inventor to the manager of a successful factory making oil filters for the motor industry. Ever since, suspicion has lingered that oil companies and car manufacturers colluded to bury Pogue�s invention. [...] The Times

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"This confirmed all of our suspicions that the Iranians are not our friends and not for peace in the region. They are in fact for a piece of the region," Washington Times UPI

America dissapears an Intel employee: http://www.freemikehawash.org/

Aljazeera English Maybe this time they will keep it online.

A colossal squid has been caught in Antarctic waters, the first example of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni retrieved virtually intact from the surface of the ocean. "All we knew prior to this specimen coming through was that this animal lived in the abyssal environment down in Antarctica," New Zealand squid expert and senior research fellow at Auckland University of Technology, Dr Steve O'Shea, told BBC News Online. "Now we know that it is moving right through the water column, right up to the very surface and it grows to a spectacular size." Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni was first identified in 1925 after two arms were recovered from a sperm whale's stomach. BBC Some things the BBC can do right!

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It is a sound which has echoed down the centuries but which has not been heard here for 15 years - the wailing call to prayer. On Friday however, at 0430 (0130 GMT), in the minutes before the desert dawn, the voice of the Imam rang out. What Saddam's Baath party had forbidden, the British Army had restored.[...] BBC This is a total lie. The Baath party has not "banned the call to prayer" anyone with an internet connection can watch IraqTV and see the call to prayer blasted out every day. You have to do better than THAT BBC lie machine!

What (if anything) are you looking for behind the lines? In this case, if it was shot by IraqTV then we can say that its probable that they didnt stumbple upon him. That logical conclusion is "reading between the lines". We are looking (or should be looking) for the true facts behind footage and imagery, so that we can separate propaganda from fact.

�Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.� �Alexander Haig, U.S. Sec. of State, June 12, 1982 http://warresisters.org/wtr.htm http://www.nwtrcc.org

Iraqui TV is back on air, in its original form, broadcast quailty. They just showed the "President in the street" footage again. If the original footage was shot by Iraqui TV, then its possible that the President was inside the car as it approached the site of the filming. This would explain how they "just found him in the street", which is unlikely. When I saw the raw footage uplinked, the fact that it was a spanish speaking man that was uplinking it made it appear that it had not been shot by Iraqui TV. The news never says who shoots footage, which is a bad thing® when you are trying to read behind the lines.

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US formalises billion dollar debt write-off to Pakistan

Reuters Washington, April 5: Pakistan and the United States signed a formal agreement on Saturday to write off a US $1.0 billion debt owed by Islamabad to Washington. Washington decided to cancel Pakistan's $1.0 billion debt soon after President Pervez Musharraf threw his weight behind the US-led war on terror in neighbouring Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. "Today's signing represents a promise kept and another milestone in our expanding relationship," Nancy Powell, US Ambassador to Pakistan, told reporters after the signing. http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=20286

Men arrested for �All Your Base� prank

By Holly Doyle News 3 Reporter April 4, 2003 - 8:37AM STURGIS (NEWS 3) - An April Fools joke has seven young men in Sturgis explaining a punchline that the police say was no laughing matter. They put up signs that read "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US, YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME." It's a phrase, interpreted, that comes from a 1989 Japanese video game. It grew into an Internet cult with many web sites and even a music video devoted to it. The young men, ranging in ages from 17 to 20, found it and thought it was funny. The video shows the words "ALL YOUR BASE" on everything, including businesses. They explain they were just doing the same thing hoping to get a laugh out of people when they saw the phrase everywhere. "We thought it was funny. I thought everybody else would think it was funny too," explains J. P. Wolf, one of the men who taped up the signs. "It wasn't meant to be anything harmful," adds friend Kyle Woodward. "It was just a joke. We wanted to make people laugh and that was it. We didn't have any clue it was going to come out something like this." Several residents were offended by the signs, which had yellow ribbons drawn on the bottom of them. At least 10 soldiers fighting in the war are from Sturgis. The men say that was "poor judgment" and meant no offense to military families. [...] wwmt.com

Iraqui TV is still on the air, but without the ITV logo. After a song about President Sadam Housein, the tape stopped, and then was rewound, live on the air. The audio is overloaded. The colours are desaturated. It cuts out to a black screen and starts buzzing loudly. The sound drops out...

On the high bandwidth webcam from Baghdad, about 15,mins ago, a spanish mans voice gave a report, and then, about 5 minutes later, he fed some footage from a camera into the webfeed. The footage was taken out of a moving car in the city, showing the usual dusty buildings, then, all of a sudden, the back of a man, in Baath uniform. It was Saddam Husein, in the middle of the street, in the middle of the day. Almost immediately, a crowd, most of them civilians and all of them armed, started to gather around him, shaking his hand and then kissing it with a salute to follow. It appeared that the President was checking out the damage to the city and the camera crew suddenly, and accidentaly caught him in the street. The crowd grew large, blocking traffic, all of them chanting the chant of Saddam. No doubt, this footage will surface on the news shortly, accompanied by the usual disclaimers "Arabs shot it so it cant be real", "its either him or one of his doubles". You know the score. Now there is an Italian woman on the line....

Check out the 9 video feeds on one webpage: http://www.webcamsue.demon.nl/

Speaking of covers of songs: The Bad Plus is a jazz trio that does some amazing covers of popular songs including Smeels Like Teen Spirit, Heart of Glass and Aphex Twin's Flim. The pianist is Ethan Iverson who is really out control. Well worth a listen. You can catch snippets of all of those songs at their website. Plus you can listen to the entirety of Smells Like Teen Spirit from an NPR show. The solos he finds in the crevices of that simple melody are wonderful.

This show by Ken is a classic: 16 October 2002 | I Will Always Love You | See the playlist | Hear the show

They just raised $600,000 in their annual fund raiser. This is how radio should be done. The diversity is extraordinary, DJs can do whatever they like. There is a late night "talk show" that has regular phone callers...it is priceless. They just ad lib for hours and hours, its hilarious, wonderful. Two wise "old" dudes from London did something like this, spontaneously, after performing an extremely intense improvised radio noise work. It was the last show of the day; the station was to go off air at the end of the programme. The engineer who allowed this spontaneous talk fest to explode onto the airwaves was fired. Thats the difference between a station that can raise $600,000 in two weeks from its loyal listeners world wide (all foreigners listening online). And a starving for money and attention station without direction or vigor.

"We will commit a non-conventional act on them, not necessarily military. We will do something that will be a great example for these mercenaries. "I send my condolences for now, and I'll tell them exactly how many will be killed today and tomorrow," he added.[...] In a speech broadcast on Iraqi television today, President Saddam called on the people of Baghdad and predicted victory over US and British troops. "Hit them with force, resist them, oh people of Baghdad, whenever they advance upon your city, and remain true to your principles, your faith and your honour," the Iraqi president, who was dressed in military uniform, said. "You beloved ones, the people of Baghdad and the people of Iraq, the vanguard of victory, with the will of God you will be victorious, and by the will of God they will be defeated and damned," he said.[...] The Guardian

I can't even believe the sounds I am hearing from WFMU right now. 40-odd Italian longshoremen singing unaccompanied from a "wine-soaked bar" recorded by Alan Lomax in 1954. It is otherworldly. The song was called La Partenza. I don't even know what to do with myself after hearing that...

------------------------------------------------------------------------ You have received this message from the "FIPR Alert" mailing list run by the Foundation for Information Policy Research http://www.fipr.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ So much for free speech... Might be an opportunity for Freenet to get a lot of new clients... Akamai ends Al-Jazeera server support By Sandeep Junnarkar Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 4, 2003, 7:20 AM PT -- First came the crushing traffic and the hack attacks. Now Al-Jazeera has lost Web server support for its troubled Internet news efforts. -- Akamai Technologies, which provided Web server services to the Arabic news network, has abruptly cancelled its contract after working only briefly with the organization. Akamai has over 13,000 servers worldwide that store data on behalf of clients. "Akamai worked briefly this week with Al-Jazeera to understand the issues they are having distributing their Web sites. We ultimately decided not to continue a customer relationship with Al-Jazeera, and we are not going to be providing them our services," according to a statement released by Akamai. The company declined to elaborate on the reasons... http://news.com.com/2100-1035-995525.html?tag=fd_top The reason for this is may be that one of the founders of Akami was killed on board one of the 911 airplanes.

Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed... in 42 days

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 03/04/2003 at 12:12 GMT This year marks the 100th anniversary of George Orwell's birth, and the writer who best explained the power of language on politics would be amazed what can be done with the Internet. On February 17 a front page news analysis in the New York Times bylined by Patrick Tyler described the global anti-war protests as the emergence of "the second superpower". Tyler wrote: "...the huge anti-war demonstrations around the world this weekend are reminders that there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion." This potent phrase spread rapidly. Anti-war campaigners, peace groups and NGOs took to describing the global popular protest as "the second superpower" [Greenpeace release]. And in less than a month, the phrase was being used by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. [Financial Times - reg req'd]. And a week ago, a Google search for the phrase would have shown the vigorous propagation of this 'meme'. [...] The Register

I heard Coldplay's beautiful "Clocks" for the first time a week ago. Today, I heard it again, and, OMG its a Joy Division song (Temptation, Ceremony, Regret, mixed with some modern U2 eno production). Jeez Louize: People who have never heard vinyl, vag haired groups making 10million out of rehashed Joy Division songs, A pre emptive war wholesale military colonization of Arab countries, a stolen American presidency, Macs not sucking...$your_observation.... Can I wake up now?

US diplomats have been "allowed to leave" (evacuated) from China over SARS fears.

...never heard music reproduced from vinyl....told you this would happen in my infamous 1992 essay. This man is habituated to the sound of digital; for him that IS the sound of recorded music. Astonishing how quickly this has happened... Was it inevitable?

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe." www.evworld.com

"Sir, let those laugh that win," Barry Lyndon

While Baghdad airport comes under attack, Iraqui TV is STILL transmitting.

better photos:

Tim Hawkinson's Uberorgan [...]The room directly in front of the entrance, is the voice of the harpy, drawing the viewer in. The score is written out on giant strips of vellum, like the paper in a player piano. The dashes painted on the vellum are the musical notes and each dab is rolled over a photosensitive machine, reading the notes. This is where art becomes an engineer�s wet dream. Spooling over numerous rolling pins, a continuous length of about 200 feet of velum is encrypted with an aural medley. Derivations of classical music (Swan Lake), church hymns and improvisational patterns of sound are not at all obvious to even an attentive ear. The places where the black dashes pass over the 4ft-wide roll of velum physically block the beams emitted from twelve light- switches. A correlating note is sent to a reed- assembly station. This then forces air through a resonator. The �computer� and amplifier contain a number of filters, key shifters and scale inverters, randomly reshaping the �sheet music�. The flow of air is then routed to one of the many bulbous bagpipes. Each bagpipe is hooked up to an air valve that fills the air- impregnated tubes with pitch. The �Uberorgan� finally belches out through 20ft telescoping horns wrapped in a reflective material.[...]

Utterly Priceless: http://www.pleatsplease.com/ and for sheer beauty and genius: http://www.isseymiyake.com/

AT made me do it!

I changed my hosts file to the one that remember.mine.nu provided and it is totally amazing. A dreaded page like hotmail which is usually filled with annoying flashing images and useless text pleading for my attention is now a tame, empty space with only the mail functions I visit for. No more banner ads! And yes, WFMU is one of the top reasons for musical living. I tune in at my house all the time, and it continuously beams onto my computer at work while I'm here (virtually nulling the 15 gigs of mp3s/OGGs I meticulously collected). Their programming is unfuckwithable (with the notable exception of pre-twentieth century composer-based musics) and they constantly throw sounds out there that make me gasp out loud (I wonder what my cubicle-mates must think). Nothing felt better than to give them a chunk of money during their recent pledge drive...

Yaaaa! Look at this awesome interface to google and amazon showing related sites! HT HT HT....

386 DX is Russian musician Alexei Shulgin who peforms with his 386 DX / 4Mb RAM / EGA / 40 Mb HD and Synchronized text-to-speech and midi synthesis. He does covers like Smells Like Teen Spirit, Enter Sandman and Purple Haze which you can listen to on his site. He also does these street performances where just the computer is present: A Press Release from his site: For Immediate Release Contact: 323-644-1762 (US), 011-52 (6) 6789571 (cell phone, Mexico) borderconcert@easylife.org http://www.easylife.org/386dx Alexei Shulgin and his 386 DX Cyberpunk band will perform at the US/Mexican border on Saturday December 18, 1999 at 6:00 PM. The internationally renowned artist from Russia was invited to perform at Tijuana Media Center, Cinematik (http://cinematik.com). Due to strict American visa constraints and complicated immigration bureaucracy, the only way for his performance to reach Mexico is through a crack in the fence at the border. At 6:00 PM this Saturday evening, all are invited to join Shulgin and his 386 DX Cyberpunk band perform across the border. The band consists of a single old computer which sings rock'n'roll hits and features a multimedia light show extravaganza. Come to the border to witness the start of a new era in which computers are replacing humans at all levels, with or without borders. Shulgin will perform on the manicured lawn of Border Fields State Park, in the company of the uniformed gun-slinging men and women of the US Border Patrol, who will likely be patrolling the area for illegal Mexican immigrants. It is expected that the Patrol will execute a synchronous "ballet" for Shulgin's music by driving their distinctive white and green vehicles in the Tijuana river floodplain behind the artist. Since borders have become more permeable for products and less passable for people, Shulgin's computer is allowed to travel freely between Mexico and the USA without a visa, but Shulgin must remain behind the chain-link fence that separates his hosting country, the land of equal opportunity, from Mexico. This Saturday evening Shulgin's 386 DX computer will be in Mexico. Assistants will hand Shulgin his keyboard (and the occasional taco) through a crack in the fence. All are welcome to attend in either the USA at Border Fields State Park or in Mexico at Las Playas de Tijuana (at El Saro, where the Pacific Ocean and the border meet). To get to Border Fields State Park on the US side, take Dairy Mart road (second of last exit on I-5) west until you arrive at the beach. In Mexico, take the Ensenada Highway west along the fence, get off at Las Playas, drive west to the beach, and then north to the fence.

Well good in London now If you are in london, come see me.

AK, now that you are on broadband, you must, MUST "tune" into http://www.wfmu.org Yyou can keep the radio streaming whilst doing everything you like...dont bother with the 32k stream....

If you want to report science properly, dont waste time on negative, condecending, reports and articles, simply do it right in the first place. Take a look at this: "New measurements from the Hubble space telescope hint that space is smooth - not grainy, as has been claimed. Scientists have peered at distant stars and galaxies, and seen a pin-sharp picture. This, they say, is at odds with the quantum physics prediction that space, time and gravity are split into pieces at the smallest scale, like the pixels of a photograph. "The theoreticians are very worried," says Richard Lieu of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. "There could be quite a bit of missing physics to be found." This sort of dumb and innacurate waffle is the worst kind of science writing. Dr David Whitehouse of the BBC is another regular offender in this respect. And dont give me the bullshit about making science "understandable". Some science really is difficult to understand, and there is nothing to be done about it, except learn. It would be better not to "report" science at all, than waste space with this garbage; better still, why not simply reprint the original work, or link to it so we can bypass the trash.

"Be very afraid"

Oh dear. Without even clicking on the link, I KNEW what the tone of the "Bad Science" page would read like; more religious twaddle from self deluded control addicts out to stab us with their vile ideas, jab us with their vile potions, force feed us their frankenstein food and then chide us like children for not taking it with a smile. I qoute from the article: "Science, you see, is the optimum belief system" "First, of course, we shall take on duff reporting: ill-informed, credulous journalists, taking their favourite loonies far too seriously, or misrepresenting good science, for the sake of a headline. They are the first against the wall." "Next we'll move on the quacks: the creationists, the new-age healers, the fad diets. They're sad and they're lonely. I know that. But still they must learn." "And finally, let us not forget the strays, the good scientists who have passed to the dark side. Was it those shares in that drug company, or the lust for fame and glory? Bad scientists, your days are numbered." If this was meant to be funny, it failed miserably. Science is used as a pretext to control the lives of billions of people on this planet, to make money for corporations, practice social engineering and of course perfect the evils of war. This high priest that the Guardian has hired is there only to ridicule everything that is not approved cult dogma. We have seen it all before, with the brain dead Skeptics, and quite frankly, its a bore. The Guardian is, after all, just a newspaper written by journalists sometimes they get it completely wrong (like the double page spread story about the Firemans Union boss having an "expensive" curry) and sometimes they get it wrong on a large scale, and this is just what they are about to do. And by the way, Dr Goldacre, we are already afraid, of you and your egomaniac ilk. PS how appropriate that this "man" asks people to turn in others to his inquisition; as was done by his ancestors routing out witchcraft....hey, if it aint broke, dont fix it!

Iraqi TV just went off the air again!

US draws up secret plan to impose regime on Iraq

Brian Whitaker and Luke Harding in Sulaimaniya Tuesday April 1, 2003 A disagreement has broken out at a senior level within the Bush administration over a new government that the US is secretly planning in Kuwait to rule Iraq in the immediate aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Under the plan, the government will consist of 23 ministries, each headed by an American. Every ministry will also have four Iraqi advisers appointed by the Americans, the Guardian has learned.[...] Decisions on the government's composition appear to be entirely in US hands, particularly those of Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defence. This has annoyed Gen Garner, who is officially in charge but who, according to sources close to the planning of the government has had to accept a number of controversial Iraqis in advisory roles.[...] The Guardian

AJN has suspended its reporting from Iraq, because the Iraqi govt has thrown out two of its journalists. hmmmmmm

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"You don't see a universe that is blurred," he said. "If you take any Hubble Space Telescope Deep Field image you see sharp images, which is enough to tell us that the light has not been distorted or perturbed by fluctuations in space-time from the source to the observer."[...] uh oh... Space.com

Percodan? No, I prefer

Top General Denounces Internal Dissent on Iraq [...]General Myers also reprimanded members of the news media for analyzing, criticizing and reporting anonymous dissent on a secret war plan they had never seen, although Mr. Rumsfeld cut him off with a playful reminder about constitutional protections and a free press.[...]

Pir8s of AOL HAAARRRRRRR!

Yes, since you are now running a REAL operating system! You need to find and edit your hosts file; here is a tutorial on how to do it. Probally your best bet is to wait for Alex or Clegso to tell you how to do this, since they are actually running OSX and not just talking about it!

The 21^st Century

A billboard featuring the poster for the new film 'What A Girl Wants' is pictured at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California April 1, 2003 featuring actress Amanda Bynes (news) giving a 'V or peace sign.' Sensitive to the controversial war against Iraq (news - web sites), studio executives announced April 1 that they have changed an advertisement for the film that features the 16 year-old star flashing a peace sign and instead have her placing her hand on her hip. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

"Bechtel, the engineering giant that employed the likes of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of State George Schultz and former CIA Director William Casey before they took their government posts, gave $1.3 million in individual, PAC and soft money contributions between 1999 and 2002. As it prepares its bid for the postwar project, Bechtel is facing allegations that it contributed to Iraq's military buildup nearly two decades ago. The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that a German journalist uncovered a document prepared for the United Nations by Iraq that says Bechtel was among 24 U.S. companies that supplied the country with weapons during the '80s." Postwar Profits and updates Every single bit of it makes me ill. How can people be this way? How can they be so one-sided, to think that their way of being is so correct, that they will smash and shatter people, and then profit? There is plenty for everyone, why can't they see?

December 31, 2003, dear Dav. Can't resist babies ...

Pang

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