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2009-06-16T12:35:00.002+02:00

Mina vagante

2009-05-29T10:58:00.001+02:00

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Describing Israeli policies in terms of apartheid

2009-05-17T22:16:00.003+02:00

Blogs Haitham:
Int'l study: Israeli control in occupied territories 'is a breach of the prohibition of apartheid'

/../ the following international report concluding that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories "has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid" /../

What follows are some of the highlights of the Executive Summary, but first a few observations. Describing Israel or Israeli policies in terms of apartheid has become more common in recent times, but has also provoked a strong backlash. It is interesting to note, therefore, that this study is a measured assessment written by legal experts on the specific ways in which Israel's policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) can be considered to be 'colonialism' and/or 'apartheid', as defined by international law. It is not, quite clearly and openly, saying Israel=South Africa.

The new report was carried out by the Middle East Project of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa.

The Middle East Project is: an independent two year project of the HSRC to conduct analysis of Middle East politics relevant to South African foreign policy./../ [link]

Without cocaine, western GDPs would collapse

2009-05-03T16:56:00.005+02:00

In the absence of cocaine, the GDPs of many western countries would collapse totally. The organised crime syndicates invest hundreds of billions of Euro of cocaine revenues each year into real estate, shares and companies. Cocaine is a driving force for the economy, but equally the economy is a driving force for cocaine. The cash crisis has had no effect on the Mafia groups, who are now able to go on a global shopping spree at bargain-basement prices thanks to the current financial crisis. He who controls the capital controls society. But who controls the controller of the capital? Financial systems and terrorism expert Loretta Napoleoni appeared alongside me as speaker at the European Parliament in Brussels on the first of April this year.

Text of the address

Financial Fools' Day

Il Patriot Act and money laundering

The alliance between the Columbian drug traffickers and the "ndrangheta"

A gang of delinquents

[original article at Grillo's blog]

We [Don't] Torture, or: Why Men Have Nipples?

2009-04-22T10:22:00.000+02:00

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

M - Th 11p / 10c

We Don't Torture

thedailyshow.com

Daily Show
Full Episodes

Economic Crisis

Political Humor

Thinking, rethinking: Italy

2009-04-19T10:09:00.003+02:00

"Liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 29, 1938

Italy's mediapolitical democrature

2009-04-02T09:15:00.003+02:00

Imagine a country that's ruled by imagination...

Sunny

2009-03-15T21:24:00.001+01:00

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Concerning President Al Bashir of Sudan

2009-03-04T12:50:00.002+01:00

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Updated information on the press conference of 4 March 2009 on the decision of Pre-Trial Chamber I concerning President Al Bashir of Sudan

ICC-CPI-20090303-MA36

After the press conference, which will be hosted by the Registrar of the Court, Ms Silvana Arbia, and the ICC Spokesperson, Ms Laurence Blairon, the Prosecutor, Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, will also make a short statement in English and take some questions.

It should be noted that the press conference will be broadcast live on the Court’s website. Please use the following links:

Live streaming of the Al Bashir press conference
English | Français

Finally, NOS Eurovision will provide a video link for the live broadcast of the press conference via satellite to Europe, Middle East, and North, Latin America and Africa.

Please find the frequency details below:

Date: 04.03.09
Time: 12:45 – 14:30 gmt

Route 1: Europe
Uplink: HOL-220 The Hague
Satellite: W1 F2 CH G+: 14069.497 X pol / 12569.497 Y pol (line up with Eutelsat CSC)
Parameters: 625 pal, 6.1113, ¾.
Audios: 1: English, 2: French and 3: Arabic.

Route 2: Middle East
Downlink: Satlink Israel for a transport stream turn to:
Satellite: Asiasat 2 txp 7A ch2: 6120.500 X / 3895.500 Y
Parameters: 625 pal, 6.1113, ¾.
Audios: 1: English, 2: French and 3: Arabic.

Route 3: North America
Downlink: Globecast UK >> convert to NTSC fibre via Paris to Globecast NY for uplink to:
Satellite: Galaxy 3C (C) /21 FULL d/l: 4120 X pol (analogue 36 mhz)
Parameters: 525 ntsc, 3 x analogue audios 6.2, 6.8 and 5.8.
Audios: 1: English, 2: French and 3: Arabic.

Route 4: Latin America
Globecast UK uplink to:
Satellite: IS9 txp 24C slot A: d/l: 4146.500 X pol
Parameters: 525 ntsc, 6.1113, ¾.
Audios: 1: English, 2: French and 3:Arabic.

Route 5: Africa
Globecast UK to turn to W1 F2 CHG+ >> IS904 txp 38 ch 1A – 6386.500 LHCP / 4161.5000 RHCP
Parameters: 625 pal, 6.1113, ¾.
Audios: 1: English, 2: French and 3: Arabic.
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Matebkiche

2009-03-02T17:05:00.000+01:00

Beware of the banksters!

2009-02-20T15:44:00.002+01:00

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Global Rage at Bankers' Bonus Excesses

By SPIEGEL Staff

Banks around the world may have made huge losses and be reliant on state bailouts to survive, but they're still paying out huge bonuses to their top staff. The popular outcry against the greed is growing -- but few bankers are willing to go without the cash.

Investment banker Stefan Jentzsch was far away, recovering from the exertions of the previous year on a yacht somewhere in the Caribbean, when the banks almost collapsed -- and his world fell apart. -- /snap/ [link]

Mad as Hell

2009-02-19T08:42:00.002+01:00

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中川財務相、Ｇ７会見で迷言泥酔

2009-02-16T13:31:00.001+01:00

Fellini's Roma - Catholic Church Fashion Show

2009-02-12T19:45:00.000+01:00

Statue of Liberty, reinterpreted

2009-01-22T08:54:00.002+01:00

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No comment.

2009-01-20T11:57:00.003+01:00

Along with the crooks and spooks.

2009-01-15T23:22:00.009+01:00

"this Gaza-stuff sucks, is it?!"

It does. It does. It does!

War 2.0, Propaganda 2.0 or Public Diplomacy 2.0:

2009-01-07T15:18:00.004+01:00

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The Role of Internet and Mobile in Israel’s Gaza Strip Bombing

On December 27 2008, Israel launched a series of air strikes, known as Operation Cast Lead, against targets in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 400 Palestinians and injuring more than 2200 over the week (Wikipedia/ NowPublic/ Mahalo/ Global Voices/ CrisisWire).

The Israel-friendly Help Us Win blog (Facebook/ Twitter) says that “the war is not only on the ground - but also in the international media” and encourages Israel’s supporters to “tell Israel’s side of the story” and “ensure that the international coverage of the Campaign Against Hamas is balanced”.

In fact, the Israel propaganda machinery is in full flow to ensure that everyone gets to hear Israel’s side of the story. The Israel Defense Force has a blog and a YouTube channel, the Israel consulate in New York held a press conference on Twitter and summarized the discussion on their Israel Politik blog, and the Likud prime ministerial candidate Benjamin Netanyahu is active on both Twitter and YouTube. -- /snap/

Read the rest at: Gauravonomics Blog

Shoe shortages...

2009-01-04T11:04:00.001+01:00

Peace was never achieved by bloody murder

2009-01-03T12:24:00.001+01:00

Bangladesh elections!

2008-12-29T09:33:00.003+01:00

Follow the live elections blogging at Unheard Voice

Call for a cultural boycott of Israel

2008-12-28T10:39:00.006+01:00

/../ in a letter in the Guardian, the 94, including the renowned author John Berger; UK musicians and song-writers Brian Eno and Leon Rosselson; filmmakers Sophie Fiennes, Elia Suleiman and Haim Bresheeth; documentary maker Jenny Morgan; singer Reem Kelani; writers Arundhati Roy, Ahdaf Soueif, and Eduardo Galeano, call on their colleagues:

"not to visit, exhibit or perform in Israel."

The letter comes after the August 2006 statement issued by Palestinian filmmakers, artists, writers, and other cultural workers calling for a cultural boycott of Israel. The statement can be viewed at: http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=315_0_1_0_C

The Berger letter, signed by artists from across Europe, North and South America, as well as Palestinians and Israelis, reads:

“There is a fragile ceasefire in Lebanon, albeit daily violated by Israeli overflights. Meanwhile the day to day brutality of the Israeli army in Gaza and the West Bank continues. Ten Palestinians are killed for every Israeli death /../ [link]

And Haitham Sabbah selected photos "to sum up all that can be said to describe the Israeli massacre in Gaza today"

A rate of nearly 1,000 refugees per day: Darfur

2008-12-26T13:11:00.005+01:00

Darfur Consortium

The situation in Darfur continues to be characterized by ongoing insecurity, numerous and widespread human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law (“the laws of war”) by all the parties to the conflict. Attacks on civilian populations by government forces and government-backed militias continue unabated. Since January 2008, more than 290,000 civilians have been forced to flee. Sudanese armed forces continue to conduct indiscriminate attacks: On November 14–two days after the government announced a ceasefire – rebel sources claimed government forces had bombed Kurbia in North Darfur.

Report: “Rhetoric vs. Reality–the Situation in Darfur”

Climate Man

2008-12-14T11:08:00.005+01:00

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Global Guerillas

The superempowered references are flowing for the man in the UK that shut down an electric power plant single handedly (without a boom):

The £12m defences of the most heavily guarded power station in Britain have been breached by a single person who, under the eyes of CCTV cameras, climbed two three-metre (10ft) razor-wired, electrified security fences, walked into the station and crashed a giant 500MW turbine before leaving a calling card reading "no new coal". He walked out the same way and hopped back over the fence. All power from the coal and oil-powered Kingsnorth station in Kent was halted for four hours...

Mystified Greenpeace activists explain why they FAIL (ego and legacy protest thinking play a big part):

Should "climate man" ever show up, he will be feted for what activists say was the most daring individual action of the year. "We have no idea who he is - but we really want to know. Everybody's asking, 'Where were you on Friday November 28?'." /snap/ [link]

non-western | are you or have you ever been?

2008-12-12T11:22:00.003+01:00


see the online version of 'non-western' from:

http://www.lindawallace.eu

and jump in any order to see all five sections from, for example:

http://www.undergrowth.eu/

or see it from utube

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=machinehunger

'In her video non-western Linda Wallace subtitles her fascinating,
rhythmic montage of Dutch vistas, highways and people with long strings
of numbers. These "facts and figures" describing Dutch society slide
through the images at a fast pace, for instance: the total number of
non-western immigrants in 2050, the percentage of non-westerners in the
biggest cites, and the total numbers of non-western young people.
Wallace knowingly uses bureaucratic "truths" rather than the complex,
contradictory and dynamic daily reality that the statistics hide. What
do these statistics do? The inclination towards statistical
essentialism, where lives become stuck in unambiguous, unalterable and
irreconcilable identities is characteristic of the contemporary public
debate, and bears a striking resemblance to the corners and straight
lines of the Netherlands landscape.'
(Dr Jolle Demmers, Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University)

Campaigners fear Italy G8 trouble

2008-12-06T18:03:00.003+01:00

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BBC World

At a 'DIAZ' pressconference, last Friday in London:

Campaigners have expressed dismay that a policeman acquitted of brutality last month will be in charge of security at next year's G8 summit in Italy.

Franco Gratteri was one of those in charge during the 2001 G8 meeting in Genoa, which was marred by violence.

While he was cleared of related charges, colleagues were convicted.

Mark Covell, who was beaten unconscious by police at Genoa, said he feared police had not learned lessons and violence would flare again next year.

Genoa 2001 became notorious for violent street clashes between anti-globalisation protesters and police, that left many people injured on both sides.

Thirteen police officers were convicted last month in connection with attacks on defenceless demonstrators at the Diaz School in Genoa in 2001. But Mr Gratteri and several other senior commanders were cleared of responsibility by the judge. -- /link/

Airbrushing the 'Coalition of the Willing'

2008-12-04T17:28:00.004+01:00

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Cline Center for Democracy

There are at least five documents taking the form of White House press releases that detail the number and names of countries in the "Coalition of the Willing" that publicly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At one time, all five of these documents were archived on the White House web site.

Today, only three of these five documents can still be accessed in the White House archives. One of the missing lists was removed from the White House web site at some point in late 2004, and the other was removed between late 2005 and early 2006. These two "missing" lists represent earlier and smaller lists of coalition members.

The text of three of these five documents was altered at some point after their initial release, even though in most cases the documents still retained their original release dates and were presented as unaltered originals. These alterations to the public record changed the apparent number of countries making up the coalition, as well as the names of countries in the coalition. Some of these alterations appear to have been made as long as two years after the document's purported release date. -- /snap/ [link]

Hijacked narratives - Bangladesh

2008-12-02T12:52:00.002+01:00

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Unheard Voice

Dhaka -- Unlike the Baul statue circus a month ago, the group that came to smash Balaka Chattar/Biman Office statues (storks, also by Mrinal Haque) came near midnight. This time, no government officials, no advance “protest” in media, no advance anything. They worked quickly, with hammers. Other reports said “ramda”, but I tend to think that’s fear shorthand.

Then the police arrived. According to BdNews24, for the first fifteen minutes they did nothing. Then I suppose the “higher ups” decided whether to stop or allow, impede or accelerate. And then the police “swung into action.” Or, as Shamokal reports it, dhawa palta dhawa. Police wounded, attackers in custody, conveniently wearing white robes. Almost ready for their photo-op.

The hammers managed to get through the plaster legs, but stopped at iron rods.

I arrived after midnight. Lot of police vans. My CNG driver knew about it: “Ektu agei hangama hoise, oidike jaiben”. Helpful tour guide.

Al Jazeera camera crew were there. Video camera nicely set on tripod. [..]

It’s all one gigantic hodge-podge. But I’m sure some TV station will clarify and simplify, turn it into a bite-sized chunk and juicy headline.

And then two days later, a friend will write me from New York “What’s going on over there?” [..]

The police ask our group which paper we are with. We’re not with anyone. Ah, he says nodding, that’s why you’re so late. [..]

What is sand and pitch is a global audience, creating a conundrum for activists. I am glad they didn’t manage to smash the statues. Dodged the bullet, this time. And because there’s relief, our group starts having a discussion about tactical media. When we go home tonight and blog about this, we will put up our images by habit. But then what, where will those images go? -- [link]

Detention Center Schiphol East, Sunday 26th of October

2008-10-31T20:29:00.003+01:00

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“Some communication is going on there”says Martin.

“My name is Mohamed Omar Cheikh, I am from Somalia, problem place. I am here one year now. They say they not take me back, they keep me one year. Somalia problem, fight, everything. I stay here. No free, no nothing”, and then he cried.

Mamadou from Chad.

Ali, also from Somalia. Also: inside the prison for one year, “They keep me for nothing.”

Karimian, from Baghdad, “Shlonek?”

Mamadou, “I do 7 months, I am from Chad.”

Imrad Khan, “From Pakistan.”

“My name is Sayed Hassan, I am from India, I am coming here before 9 months. The motherfuckers say, you say you want asylum? I’m coming here, I want asylum. He keeping me here in prison. After he say you are not from India.”

What is the worst that happened to you in this prison?

Mamadou from Chad asked if he could speak French. Yes of course you can!

“Ma chambre sentait pas bien.” My room didn’t smell right. He moved to another cell, but he received no mattrass. So he slept on the ground for one month. He lost his hair.

“We were put in isolation for talking with you.” another brother told us.

[Migrant2Migrant]

Student protests in Italy

2008-10-29T16:43:00.002+01:00

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Watch the photos of the protests throughout Italy that people sent to Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

While doing that, listen to Jake Shimabukuro. Until this morning i didn't know he existed, but really, he is a ukulele genius!

The Somali suffering

2008-10-11T14:31:00.002+02:00

In the NYT:

-- While the audacity of a band of Somali pirates who hijacked a ship full of weapons has grabbed the world’s attention, it is the slow-burn suffering of millions of Somalis that seems to go almost unnoticed.

The suffering is not new. Or especially surprising. This country on the edge of Africa has been slowly, but inexorably, sliding toward an abyss for the past year and a half — or, some would argue, for the past 17. United Nations officials have called Somalia “the forgotten crisis.” --

No Depression in Heaven

2008-10-08T12:20:00.000+02:00

Wisdom concerning cannabis

2008-10-04T08:46:00.004+02:00

in: The Guardian
-- A report on cannabis prepared for next year's UN drug policy review will suggest that a "regulated market" would cause less harm than the current international prohibition. The report, which is likely to reopen the debate about cannabis laws, suggests that controls such as taxation, minimum age requirements and labelling could be explored.

The Global Cannabis Commission report, [..] was carried out for the Beckley foundation, a UN-accredited NGO, for the 2009 UN strategic drug policy review.

There are, according to the report, now more than 160 million users of the drug worldwide. "Although cannabis can have a negative impact on health, including mental health, in terms of relative harms it is considerably less harmful than alcohol or tobacco," according to the report. "Historically, there have only been two deaths worldwide attributed to cannabis, whereas alcohol and tobacco together are responsible for an estimated 150,000 deaths per annum in the UK alone."

The report, compiled by a group of scientists, academics and drug policy experts, suggests that much of the harm associated with cannabis use is "the result of prohibition itself, particularly the social harms arising from arrest and imprisonment." Policies that control cannabis, whether draconian or liberal, appear to have little impact on the prevalence of consumption, it concluded. -- /snap/ [link]

Somali pirates on the phone

2008-10-01T10:05:00.003+02:00

In the NYT:

“We just saw a big ship,” the pirates’ spokesman, Sugule Ali, said in a telephone interview. “So we stopped it.”

The pirates quickly learned, though, that their booty was an estimated $30 million worth of heavy weaponry, heading for Kenya or Sudan, depending on whom you ask.

In a 45-minute interview, Mr. Sugule spoke on everything from what the pirates wanted (“just money”) to why they were doing this (“to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters”) to what they had to eat on board (rice, meat, bread, spaghetti, “you know, normal human-being food”).

He said that so far, in the eyes of the world, the pirates had been misunderstood. “We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits,” he said. “We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard.”

The Public and the Private and the Carlyle Group

2008-07-09T16:37:00.005+02:00

-- The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity funds, may soon acquire the $2 billion government contracting business of consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the biggest suppliers of technology and personnel to the U.S. government’s spy agencies. Carlyle manages more than $75 billion in assets and has bought and sold a long string of military contractors since the early 1990s. But in recent years it has significantly reduced its investments in that industry. If it goes ahead with the widely reported plan to buy Booz Allen, it will re-emerge as the owner of one of America’s largest private intelligence armies. --
[says CorpWatch]

Mugabe&Friends

2008-06-23T18:12:00.002+02:00

-- In all probability he will never see the inside of a prison cell, let alone have an appointment with the executioner.

Mengistu lives in exile in Zimbabwe, given succour and protection by Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Mugabe considers Mengistu an ally following his support of Mugabe’s terror campaign in the Rhodesian bush war of the 1970s.

Mengistu initially lived in the upmarket Harare suburb of Emerald Hill, but in the last couple of years word has it that he now lives near to Kariba, preferring the bush life to the retrace in the cities.

Word also reached the watching world some three years ago that Mengistu was the mastermind behind the ‘urban slum clearance’ in Zimbabwe, now known as Operation Murambatsvina. --

[here's the link]

Myanmar [Burma]

2008-05-17T16:14:00.003+02:00

So. An Italian journalist managed to get into Burma.
It's the journalist who has been reporting from Afghanistan too. And then got kidnapped. March last year. Then he was liberated, but his interpreter did not survive it.

The journalist is Daniele Mastrogiacomo
His reports in Italian daily La Repubblica were published between the 4th and 10th of May.

And there's Global Voices, they've put video material together, from Burma.

Non non rien n'a changez...

2008-05-06T13:31:00.000+02:00

Mapping the election conditions in Zimbabwe

2008-03-31T17:34:00.003+02:00

SOKWANELE

-- Explore the map and then consider whether elections held in this context can ever be considered 'free and fair'. Information on how to use the map, the map data limitations, and the background to how we mapped the data is provided below the map. Please visit our Zimbabwe Election Watch section, and explore our database for a comprehensive look at the many ways the articles listed in the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections have been breached by the Zimbabwean government. -- [link]

Voter Registration

Food Supply

Abduction

Murder

Political Cleansing

Political Violence

Press Freedom

Unlawful Detention

Looting

Freedom of Association

Freedom of Information

State Propaganda

Vote Buying

Gerrymandering

Voters Roll

Observer Restrictions

Polling Issues

Judicial Issues

Not only morally just but tactically smart

2008-03-12T09:56:00.002+01:00

The Huffington Post

Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear
by Naomi Klein

-- Hillary Clinton denied leaking the photo of Barack Obama wearing a turban, but her campaign manager says that even if she had, it would be no big deal. "Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely."

Sure, she did. And George W. Bush put on a fetching Chamato poncho in Santiago, while Paul Wolfowitz burned up YouTube with his antimalarial African dance routines when he was World Bank prez. The obvious difference is this: when white politicians go ethnic, they just look funny. When a black presidential contender does it, he looks foreign. And when the ethnic apparel in question is vaguely reminiscent of the clothing worn by Iraqi and Afghan fighters (at least to many Fox viewers, who think any headdress other than a baseball cap is a declaration of war on America), the image is downright frightening.

The turban "scandal" is all part of what is being referred to as "the Muslim smear." -- /snap/ [link]

Paki Quake Perceptions

2008-03-03T21:41:00.004+01:00

AlertNet

The relief effort following the Pakistan earthquake in 2005 - which saw the unlikely spectacle of U.S. forces distributing aid alongside Islamic militant groups - has been touted as the most effective response ever to a natural disaster on this scale.

The complex operation is examined in a new report the Boston-based Feinstein International Center, which asks what impact the war on terror had on aid operations.

The quake killed approximately 75,000 people, injured 70,000 more and left an estimated 3.5 million homeless in the north of Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in its "war on terror". [link]

Henry Okah: a superempowered individual in warfare

2008-02-29T10:41:00.001+01:00

Global Guerrillas

-- Henry Okah is likely someone you have never heard about. Despite that, he is one of the most important people alive today, a true innovator in warfare: a global guerrilla.

Henry is a burly man who speaks with a cultured British accent, a consequence of his upper class upbringing and his education in Nigeria's private school system. His mind is an interesting combination of the discipline of engineering, gained through his experience as an engineer in Nigeria's merchant marine, and the believability of an arms salesman that once used worries about personal safety to sell handguns to private citizens. In short, it is a combination of attributes that made him the perfect guerrilla entrepreneur. [..]

Nigeria is a mess, due to the combination of legions of legendarily corrupt politicians, buckets of oil money, and vast pools of neglected citizens. The Niger Delta, the wellspring of Nigeria's oil wealth, is particularly messy. It's where people, abandoned by their government, are living at a minimal subsistence level just outside the fences of the major oil company compounds, which sport European levels of convenience and lifestyle for their expatriate employees. As a result, it's little wonder that the Delta's political environment is a swirling maelstrom of actors -- from tribal chiefs to military commanders to gangs (aka "cults" in the local parlance of the Delta) to local/national politicians -- all competing for a share of the Delta's abundant oil wealth. Here how Henry was able to leverage this environment: -- /snap/ [link]

Unfiltered Cartoon contamination: No waste: Scampìa

2008-02-16T14:10:00.004+01:00

Searching for Napoletan music, i found more:

Southern tendencies

2008-02-14T22:10:00.001+01:00

Digital despair

2008-01-27T07:51:00.003+01:00

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Says Geert:

"At the moment I am in Novi Sad for the fifth edition of the Dictionary of War. The material will be online within a week. The concept (Begriff) that I will be talking about is ‘digital despair’, using material from the Streamtime Iraqi Blogs Support Campaign. Together with Cecile Landman, who runs the aggregator metablog, I prepared a presentation about the faith or demise, if you like, of the Iraqi blogosphere, five years after Salam Pax started his blog, still writing under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein."

Read more at Net Critique

An Iraqi-flag-interpretation:

What!?! Kenya?!?

2008-01-03T10:22:00.000+01:00

KenyanPundit

- For those who are asking about other blogs that are covering the situation in Kenya. Hash has a comprehensive list.

- For those who are looking for the Redcross link, here it is. I’m really just stunned by the fact that the government is not even attempting to avert the humanitarian crisis - there’s no talk of shelters, no talk of relief supplies, zero. They can sit and blame ODM all they want (though it seems to me both sides are willing to sacrifice innocent lives), but at minimum they have the resources to alleviate the suffering of those who have been displaced and they’ve done nothing. Have heard reports that Kikuyus in Eldoret are being offered GSU escort out of the area to Central Province - nothing about what happens when they get there and nothing about those people who’ve grown up in Eldoret and know no one in Central. I think there’s an opportunity for those who want to help to find a way to channel resources to charitable organizations and religious organizations that have been struggling to cope on the ground. Will think about this on the plane and I’m open to suggestions (leave a comment or send an email: kenyanpundit-at-gmail-dot-com) -

Ménage sans Bhutto

2007-12-28T16:11:00.000+01:00

Assassins, a South Asia Story

Assassination Alley

Ménage sans Bhutto

Lakota Indians withdraw from treaties with US

2007-12-20T11:55:00.000+01:00

The Citizen.co.za

-- "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.

A delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department on Monday, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States, some of them more than 150 years old. -- /snap/ [link]

Ghost Town

2007-12-14T08:23:00.000+01:00

Algerian lessons

2007-12-12T17:29:00.000+01:00

/../ In 1992, a ghastly war broke out between government security forces and Islamist rebels after the army canceled the country's first democratic legislative elections, which the radical Islamic Salvation Front won. Tens of thousands of Algerians have died, and over 7,000 "disappeared." Since the early 90's, the Algerian government has projected itself as the country's only defense against theocratic despotism.

In Mohammed Harbi's view, this is a false choice, since, he said, most Algerians reject both the state and its radical Islamist opponents. The army and the rebels, he argues, are objective allies: both sides refuse to allow Algerians to govern themselves, both reject political pluralism and both are willing to use extreme violence — and even, some reports suggest, to cooperate behind the scenes — to further their aims.

Wishing a plague on both houses is, of course, the most dangerous position of all in a civil war, and Mr. Harbi has kept a low profile for much of the last decade, evading various assassination plots. "He seemed less nervous about his safety than I was," Stuart Schaar, a historian of North Africa at Brooklyn College, remembers. "I was afraid when he'd take subways. I begged him to take taxis, but he wouldn't." /../

:: Interview in Il Manifesto with Mohammed Harbi [Italian]

«L'islamismo radicale cerca il consenso dei poveri»
Per lo storico algerino Mohammed Harbi, gli attentati si inseriscono nella grande crisi delle classi meno favorite, in cui mira a fare breccia l'islam radicale
Geraldina Colotti

Raggiungiamo a Parigi lo storico Mohammed Harbi, classe 1933, studioso della rivoluzione algerina, a cui lui stesso ha partecipato, pagando con cinque anni di carcere militare.

Qual è la sua lettura degli attentati di Algeri? /../

Sendero Rumoroso

2007-12-10T11:57:00.000+01:00

Silence is shit

2007-12-09T14:16:00.000+01:00

The Word Is A Bird

Some say silence is golden
But silence is shit
‘Cause words can hit
But they can heal
They can liberate us from what we feel
‘Cause mazwi acho akasimba
Anogona kutibatsira kwatirikuenda
‘Cause words are warriors
And their great gifts are glorious
But politicians wanna sell us words that are worthless
Creating a populace that’s wordless
Throwing curse upon curse on the word’s carcass
But the word is a bird and birds fly regardless
Flying above the durawalls of their so-called silence
The word still heard above their virile violence
‘Cause you can bomb the word but you can’t keep it silent

(cc) Comrade Fatso 2007

More Zimbabwe: Sokwanele

SIDR Strikes Bangladesh

2007-11-20T14:00:00.000+01:00

Unheard Voices

Drishtipat - blog

He is 25, she's 84

2007-11-10T13:55:00.002+01:00

Musical distraction today:

Smoothing

2007-11-06T10:41:00.000+01:00

Giuseppe Fava, founder of 'I Siciliani' - an '83 interview

2007-11-04T11:53:00.000+01:00

-- Giuseppe Fava was an Italian journalist. He founded the newspaper called "I Siciliani". He was killed in January 1984 by the mafia. -- [click here for english transcription]

Once upon a time... Lucky Luyck

2007-11-01T21:00:00.000+01:00

Have been writing an article in Italian, for a special about the eighties in Amsterdam, Milan and some other cities.

It'll be published tomorrow, on paper by Liberazione.

While writing i listened to various versions of Iggy Pop's The Passenger

Anchor refuses Paris-Hilton 'story'

2007-10-28T10:53:00.000+01:00

MSNBC's anchor Mika Brzezinski: "I'm done with the Paris-Hilton story. I won't do it. Can you burn this for me please?"

Pornography cancer of these times?

2007-10-27T21:28:00.000+02:00

Was a question asked to Michel Houellebecq by De Groene Amsterdammer, at the occasion of the magazines' 130th year of existance.

The writer answers he doesn't want to answer that question:
"Cancer is cancer. Pornography is pornography."

The stream from the Amsterdamse Stadsschouwburg: click here
[from 20:00 CET]

Io mi chiamo Pasquato Cuffieru...

2007-10-22T19:11:00.000+02:00

Hearing the whales sing

2007-10-19T15:46:00.000+02:00

The Great Whale Trail of Greenpeace

Listen and watch whales here

Clean Clothes

2007-10-17T09:00:00.000+02:00

On September 26, 2007, the Indian court issued arrest warrants against seven staff members of the Clean Clothes Campaign and the India Committee of the Netherlands. Notwithstanding international pressure, FFI keeps refusing to engage with union and local labour rights organisations and stop legal action.

Instead of working with local organisations to improve labour conditions and labour relations, the jeans supplier is trying to stop labour rights groups from distributing information on the situation at FFI/JKPL and have filed restraining orders and libel lawsuits to silence them. The workers’ rights advocates are committed to pursuing justice for the women and men who stitch our jeans, but support is needed in the face of the huge legal campaign mounted by FFI/JKPL.

How you can help: [link]

Subliminal CNN

2007-10-15T20:43:00.000+02:00

Burma

2007-09-28T10:35:00.002+02:00

Mizzima News -- http://www.mizzima.com

Burmese Air Force planes airborne

Military aircrafts from the Matehtilar airbase are airborne. It is not known why the aircrafts have scrambled. On the other hand there is commotion in the Light Infantry Division 33 and 99 of the Burma Army. The exact nature of the commotion cannot be determined as yet.

Troops marching to Rangoon

There is an urgent report that Burmese troops from middle Burma has started to march towards Rangoon. The reported troops are from Central Command based in Taung Oo and South East Command. At this reporting, it is not clear if the troops are marching to reinforce or to challenge the troops in Rangoon for shooting the Buddhist monks. --

Warning: shocking cultural history content

2007-09-20T16:08:00.010+02:00

X
X Amsterdam
X

Robodock

Drive

2007-09-04T15:47:00.000+02:00

Sicilian conversations

2007-08-29T18:29:00.001+02:00

Vulcano to Vulcano

2007-08-14T10:52:00.000+02:00

From Vesuvio

to Etna

Gargano

2007-08-10T19:39:00.001+02:00

Driving from Pescara to Lecce we saw a huge fire, miles away. The day after we heard it was Gargano.

From as far as we were, the fire looked like an enormous torch that sucked everything around into it.

It is burning everywhere in the south.

But today it rained some bits, here, in Naples.

Garbino (hot windstorm)

2007-07-24T11:13:00.000+02:00

Pescara to Puglia

Weather for Rome

2007-07-22T13:51:00.000+02:00

34°C
Clear
Wind: SW at 16 km/h
Humidity: 36%
Sun

New Network Theory

2007-07-01T11:27:00.000+02:00

New Network Theory

The Googlization of Everything: How One Company is Shaking Up Culture, Commerce and Community / Everything is everything: network science, neo-liberalism and security / Imagined Networks / Just Networking: Can Network Knowledge Be Better Than "Good Enough" Knowledge? / The Image in the Network / Network adoption amongst groups - elements for success and failure / rom Networked Publics to Object-Oriented Democracies / The Work of Users in Times of Perfect Templates / "Text" and "network", reconsidered / MTML meets Web 2.0: Theorizing social processes in multidimensional networks / OSNA -- Open Source Network Analysis / Towards Scholarly Marketplaces / Fibers, links and networks – a parallel between textiles, data communication systems and social interaction / E-sociability metaphors: From virtual community to social network and beyond / The Philosophical Foundation of Network Theory: the Reticulum / Subversive Stitches and Revolutionary Knitting Circles. Between art and activism, DIY and prosumer cultures: Weaving new networks in times of Web 2.0. / From Network to Foam. Extending the dispositif of user interactions / Bird Flu as a Public Hype: Networks of Communication on the Web / Mapping, practicing and thinking "the Internet". Challenging network thought in the context of online health information / From ad-hoc to infrastructure: The lifecycle of hyperlink networks and its implications for social, cultural, and political activity / Linking and the Network Imaginary / Wirelessness and radical network empiricism / The Sedimentation of the Passage: Conceptualizing the Locality Today / Stories, Roadmaps and RFID. Exchange; a performance releasing location, memory and identity / Toothing and Bluetoothing; network–fantasy-reality / Rethinking Structure and Causation in Network Theory / Post-Rekombinant Networks or the Transition from the Cognitariat to the Precariat / Subjects that matter: Subjectivity in Network Reality / Saying 'No': On the rejection of consensus-oriented communication on the Internet / Hyperlocality and the tyranny of nodes / Acting Out Network: Self-destructive Murmurs in the Blogosphere / Community (New) Media - Public access in the age of networked social media / Re-thinking network theory and analysis concerning social care networks in the Internet age. A case description / Desire, Dissent and Differentiation: Sustaining Growth in Virtual Networks / The List Serves: Bare Life in Cybernetic Order / LANDSTREAM - experimental program / An Eternal Engine / Heath Bunting from physical space to the net and back again / Imag(in)ing Networks / Internet platforms: cultural production in late capitalism / Suffering in Networks. An exploration into conceptions of marginality, conflict and exploitation in network theories / Actor-Network Theory - ontologizing realities / Open Cartographies, On Assembling Things Through Locative Media / Faith in Exposure / Assessing Virtual Networks: Human Rights Advocacy in Real- and Cyberspace / Navigating the World Social Forum. Individual orientation in a central node of the global activists' network / The Politics of ‘Truthiness:’ Digital Dissent and Satire as Networks of Activism / Bodies and Swarms: Networks, Multitude, and Biology / Glocalisation as a curatorial and artistic mission / Innovative Artists. Transformations of Work and Arts organizations with ICT / The executive language: Coding the future / Anomalous Objects and Processes / Bad Bits: Software and Incorporeal Events / Viral Evolution and the New Software Ecology / On Anomalous Objects of Digitality. An introduction / Between Issue and Social Network. Insights from an ongoing research on mobilization on Communication Rights in Italy / Advocacy networks and policy networks in the European Union: the case of media pluralism / Networks of radical tech collectives: Social logic and technological dimensions of emancipatory practices in the field of digital communication / Consumption Styles and Digital Networks in Italy / The extreme right, networks, and the internet: a comparison of the multi-organizational field of the extreme right in Italy and Germany / Conceptualizing Semantics and Ontologies in a New Network Era / Communicative Societies in a Networked World / Study of the rate, types and behavioral model of internet's users in Mashhad city in Iran / The Political Importance of Internet Cafes in Jordan and Egypt / The special effect of issue-affectedness. On being sensitive to the normative charges of networks / RFC10 and reflexive engineering [Symposium-program]

The blog: Masters of Media

Murambatsvina in the Negev

2007-06-25T17:38:00.000+02:00

Israeli gov. destroyed another unrecognized village in the Negev (South of Israel)

Today the Israeli government destroyed more than 20 homes
in the unrecognized village Atir and Um El Hiran

The twin unrecognised villages of Um al-Hiran and Atir are situated
about 30km from the city of Beer el-Sabe and are surrounded
by an expanse of the Naqab desert

FAST follows the stories

Imagine, chickpea plantations over the middle east

2007-06-21T13:49:00.000+02:00

Yes, a question i like :)

where do the chickpeas come from?

"so one of the things which are really nice about being in the middle east is that you have hummos all the time. i mean at least three times a day, for breakfast, lunch and dinner. you wont hear me complain." says paul

'Fuel will continue to flow for those of us left'

2007-06-20T21:34:00.000+02:00

.... showing members of a group called the Yes Men posing as key players from the U.S. oil industry.

Oil and gas industry executives had paid $50 each to hear a speech from the National Petroleum Council, a group that advises the White House on oil and gas matters.

Rumour had it that a new joint energy policy from the Canadian and American governments was coming down the pike.

At first, the speech just seemed odd.

"Without oil, at least four billion people would starve," one of the speakers earnestly told the crowd. "This spiral of trouble would make the oil infrastructure utterly useless."

<-----When the 'Yes Men' strike - Beware!----->

C'era una volta...

2007-06-18T16:36:00.000+02:00

Gaia x davvero!

Two interpretations of civic duties

2007-06-12T23:15:00.000+02:00

--- Timetable now really off the polse ---

--- And yet before that: Bush being advertised as teetotal ---

yeehh. time for some laughter.

Alive and kicking!

2007-06-10T22:44:00.000+02:00

DeathProof

Tonites' Friends Road Show

2007-06-05T19:11:00.000+02:00

Cool Media Hot Talk Show

on art and media

~ ~~ with stream~~ ~

Expectations

2007-05-24T22:11:00.000+02:00

"Expect more American soldiers and Iraqis to die in the summer."

Microsoft happier with the FUD

2007-05-16T15:31:00.000+02:00

Linus Torvalds Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims

Linus Torvalds, lead developer of the Linux kernel, has a sharp retort to Microsoft executives' statements in a Fortune magazine article that Linux and other open-source code violate 235 Microsoft patents.

"It's certainly a lot more likely that Microsoft violates patents than Linux does," said Torvalds, holder of the Linux trademark. If the source code for Windows could be subjected to the same critical review that Linux has been, Microsoft would find itself in violation of patents held by other companies, said Torvalds. [..]

Microsoft should name the patents that it claims have been violated so the claims can be tested in court or so open-source developers can rewrite code to avoid the violation, Torvalds wrote. [..]

"So the whole, 'We have a list and we're not telling you,' itself should tell you something," Torvalds said of Microsoft's stance in the Fortune story. And for good measure, he added: "Don't you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they'd just tell us and go, 'nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!'" -- [InformationWeek]

Exercises in Style, a special Queneau case

2007-05-08T00:11:00.000+02:00

Exercises in Style
was written by Raymond Queneau (original title in French: Exercices de style).
It's a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style.

--
In each, the narrator gets on the "S" bus (now no. 84), witnesses an altercation between a man with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger, and then sees the same person two hours later at the Gare St.-Lazare getting advice on adding a button to his overcoat.
--

wiki

-- and another piece of Queneau-cake ->> Zazie

Corporate News

2007-05-01T17:24:00.000+02:00

Tra i Papaveri Rossi

2007-04-20T12:46:00.000+02:00

6th Dutch soldier has died in Afghanistan since the presence of Dutch troops in Uruzgan.

La guerra di Piero, a song by Fabrizio De André [at YouTube]

Highest act of patriotism: opposing the war in Iraq

2007-04-17T14:19:00.000+02:00

Democracy Now! special from Boston:

-- Two of the city's leading dissidents, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, sit down for a rare joint interview. Noam Chomsky began teaching linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge over 50 years ago. He is the author of dozens of books on linguistics and U.S. foreign policy. Howard Zinn is one of the country's most widely-read historians. His classic work A People's History of the United States has sold over 1.5 million copies and it has altered how many teach the nation's history. Chomsky and Zinn discuss Vietnam, activism, history, Israel-Palestine, and Iraq, which Chomsky calls "one of the worst catastrophes in military and political history." [rush transcript included] -- [.. ] -->

AMY GOODMAN: Vice president Cheney is saying this war can be won.

NOAM CHOMSKY: There's an interesting study being done right now by a former Russian soldier in Afghanistan in the late 1980's, he's now a student in Toronto who's comparing the Russian press and the Russian political figures and military leaders, what they were saying about Afghanistan, comparing it with what Cheney, others and the press are saying about Iraq and not to your great surprise, change a few names and it comes out about the same.

Beyond the usual rhetoric of citizens' journalism

2007-04-11T16:34:00.000+02:00

Blogging, the nihilist impulse

Media theorist and Internet activist Geert Lovink formulates a theory of weblogs that goes beyond the usual rhetoric of citizens' journalism. Blogs lead to decay, he writes. What's declining is the "Belief in the Message". Instead of presenting blog entries as mere self-promotion, we should interpret them as decadent artefacts that remotely dismantle the broadcast model.

IOD

2007-04-09T20:17:00.000+02:00

DEAF 07

Wal-Mart spooks

2007-04-07T10:03:00.000+02:00

----- Managers received a list of email addresses and phone numbers with which their employees have communicated, and a list of Web sites visited.

Wal-Mart also developed a system to read the personal emails of workers sent or received from private accounts such as Hotmail or Gmail. -----

At Democracy Now!

Island!

2007-04-02T08:16:00.000+02:00

Update 7-4-07 -> lighthouse (vuurtoren) had a new teinture

- i'm off for some days -

La Telestreet in a TV-journals tail [Napoli]

2007-03-30T19:43:00.000+02:00

'The distracted and confused communicative machine of mainstream'

The small Italian Telestreet networks were nearly discovered by mainstream media.

.. pfew ..

-- Nicola Angrisano al TG1 --

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telestreet

Secrecy Conference

2007-03-25T11:25:00.000+02:00

Yesterday:

http://www.secrecyconference.net/

secret networks of terror vs. secret networks against terror

-- The conference explores theoretically as well as visually the emergence of new phenomena of secrecy within transnational terrorist and counterterrorist networks. Since 9/11 and in the aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq worldwide clandestine operations have increasingly been undertaken by terrorist and counterterrorist networks. Conflicts are on the whole no longer fought in public, but rather in concealment. In the present ‘state of exception’, the ‘war on terrorism’ has been waged in a symbolic realm consisting of global ‘cobwebs’ of names, actions and locations. This conference addresses the question as to whether the increasing awareness of hitherto invisible contemporary terrorist and counterterrorist actions has produced a new ‘visualization’ of secrecy. --

Sound of talking [collective experience]

2007-03-24T00:42:00.000+01:00

At http://www.sokwanele.com/ -->

Tracey Chapman famously informed us in song
that ‘Talkin’ about a revolution sounds like whisper”.
Zimbabweans could add that ‘talking about a revolution looks
like an sms message’.

The first message I received from Harare read
‘mass arrests @ rally. 1 killed. lots beaten by police.
v v bad. r u ok where u r?’

It was the first of many sms messages
that day. The details of our collective experience filtered down slowly via texts, emails, and phone calls from concerned family and friends in the diaspora who have blissful access to extensive information.

The majority of people in Zimbabwe do not have
the luxury of an internet connection or a cell phone, and they rely on second or third hand information, constantly re-cycled and checked. On their way to work they walk past newspaper billboards broadcasting disinformation and blatant lies. If they are lucky enough to have a radio, the state controlled media brings more of the same to their ears.

Hallibaba and the Forty Thieves

2007-03-21T23:07:00.000+01:00

Seeing Zimbabwe like a cake

2007-03-14T14:51:00.000+01:00

Kubatana - blogs

-- "So what am I hearing here in Harare?

In several conversations I’ve had with high density dwellers they have stated that there is a heavy police presence, not only in Highfields but many other areas as well. An illegal curfew has been put in place which sees bars closing as early as 6pm. People walking in groups of 4 or more are particularly at risk of harassment and intimidation. Pedestrians are randomly being accused of being the “ones that stoned the police” at the rally on Sunday.

Peter, a waiter in a cafe in Harare, told me that he didn’t know that the rally was taking place, nor did his team mates so they were turned away by police when they arrived at Zimbabwe Grounds, the heartland of the rally that was disrupted. Peter was indignant and said that the ban of public meetings was ridiculous and that both Zanu PF and the MDC should be free to meet as they please.

I’ve been seeing Zimbabwe like a cake lately." -- /znip/

:: WOZA - Strikes and Protests 2007-- Women of Zimbabwe Arise

:: Tips for living positively in Zimbabwe -- kubatana.net - an online community for Zimbabwean activists

Magic Ludo

2007-03-09T14:54:00.000+01:00

in the middle of the night

a call from Peru

strange voice told me

dear Magic Ludo died

[8. March]

Ludo died nearly exactly one year after Ali Farka Toure'.

Satire makes a difference

2007-02-21T17:34:00.000+01:00

:: Jon Stewart's The Daily Show is "bad for Americans" ::

The Daily Show and Political Activism

The popular debate about whether Jon Stewart's The Daily Show is "bad for Americans" won't go away. Indeed, worries got so big that now FOX has launched a conservative antidote, "The _ Hour News Show" which premiered this week. Now streaming on YouTube, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ran a piece featuring Daily Show clips and two pundits debating whether "therapeutic irony is rendering us politically impotent." Similar fears were fanned last year when news media had a fiesta with a questionable study by two academics which claimed that watching The Daily Show breeds cynicism and lowers young voters' "trust in national leaders." In September, The New York Times Magazine ran a savvy piece called "My Satirical Self" about a generation of satire in which Wyatt Mason describes how "ridicule provides a remedy for his rage." In 2003 in an interview with Bill Moyers, Moyers asks Jon Stewart: "I do not know whether you are practicing an old form of parody and satireor a new form of journalism. Stewart replies: "Well then that either speaks to the sad state of comedy or the sad state of news. I can't figure out which one. I think, honestly, we're practicing a new form of desperation (July 2003, PBS).

by MEGAN BOLER

Spunky hair!

2007-02-16T13:56:00.000+01:00

Within / Without

Hairdo. Any of the cylindrical filaments

2007-02-12T13:21:00.000+01:00

Yesterday at a concert I visited with my dad, I got quite obsessed spotting women with long hair.
But there were very few of them.

In The Netherlands like in some other western countries, breastcancer numbers have risen to epidemic scales. [Breastcancer Facts]

Consequences of breastcancer are dramatic. Many women die. Many women lose their breast/s.
In the case of a 'breast saving' operation, treatments of the not-so-funny kind follow: radiation therapy, chemo therapy after which (not in all cases) hormone blocking pills throw the patient into a too early forced meno-pause - a misleading term, no pause at all for five years.

I found myself in this last group since May '06, and now, after eight months, I'm just very, very tired.
And even with rising temperatures of climate change it's still too cold here to really enjoy my buddhisty baldness, and I am however unable to be flegmatic like a buddhist monk.

I have tried to keep http://Streamtime.org going, and in some way, my reading of the Iraqi blogs and other un/related sources kept me alive as well.

But after the crack of the Streamtime-site at the end of Dec. '06 I was under last toxic-attacks in the chemo therapy series and real + virtual reality were very far from my comfortable and safe under sea-level bed, where I instead enjoyed the heavy storms that blew over the low country last January.

Where I was, the sea is only separated from the land by the so-called 'fragile dune'. The storm blew the waves, the sea ate parts of the dunes, and the sand flew everywhere and covered the land. After the storms it looked as if it had been snowing. Everything was covered with the salty white layer of the fine sand.
Two days after I found many starfish on the beach.
So, why bother about web, or war?

However, against all odds, I am planning to get back to it all, but first I'll wait for HAIR!

Personal touch

2007-01-23T12:01:00.000+01:00

Hear: 'I got a life!' (It ain't over)

Update:
Yes indeed! ... I was K.O. for a while. May have something to do with my shrunken cognitive functions, but now i am glad to announce that i'm nearly back on my feet again.

Spring will come.
Slowly.

Un Ponte Per... and The Iraq National Library and Archive

2007-01-06T10:09:00.000+01:00

Diary of Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive

Please click to the links to the Diary of Dr Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archive. Dr Eskander's journal, which appears with his kind permission, starts in November 2006 and describes the perilous and tragic situation that the Iraq National Library and Archive is operating under and which led to the institution's temporary closure at the end of that month.
Via -The British Library-

Also in this context:
Iraq National Library and Archive, other projects, and Un Ponte Per...

And not in this context, an interesting piece about reporting Iraq by Zeyad

-- Streamtime is taking a sudden break, but will be back online in a week or so --