Tuesday 22 September 2009

New Banksy?

Monday 21 September 2009

HA!

"I closed the book, took a deep breath, and looked at the ceiling in despair: the book was awful. It was so bad that it was a candidate for the worst book that I had ever tried to read. And I had another 501 pages to go."

"It's bloody awful"

Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol, faces its toughest critic yet: Michael Baigent, the historian who accused Brown of lifting his material in The Da Vinci Code (and lost in court). Baigent’s verdict: It’s bloody awful.
@ 'The Daily Beast'

Jedi religion founder accuses Tesco supermarket of discrimination over rules on hoods

But the grocery empire struck back, claiming that the three best known Jedi Knights in the Star Wars movies – Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker – all appeared in public without their hoods...

Caster Semenya: top athletics official admits lying over gender tests

Caster Semenya arriving back in Johannesburg last month. Photograph: Siphewe Sibeko/Reuters

South Africa's top athletics official is fighting for his political life after admitting that he lied over gender tests on runner Caster Semenya.

The South African government today led calls for Leonard Chuene to resign as president of Athletics South Africa, and the ruling African National Congress described ASA's handling of the affair as "disgusting". But the beleaguered official remained defiant, insisting that he will not "jump ship".

A leaked email exchange last week forced Chuene to admit that he knew women's 800m champion Semenya had undergone a gender test prior to the world championships, something he had always publicly denied. He claimed that he kept the information secret to safeguard the 18-year-old's privacy.

Gert Oosthuizen, South Africa's deputy sports minister, expressed frustration that even the government was in the dark and demanded that Chuene fall on his sword.

"Mr Chuene has not only lied to us at the ministry, but to the whole country, and this is not acceptable," Oosthuizen said. "We are convinced that the perpetual denial of the knowledge of these tests have fuelled the continuous violation of Ms Semenya's rights and dignity, by foreign and some local media."

Full story @ 'The Guardian'

Ahmadinejad interview with msnbc

How do you say "HA" in German?


"Tschüss"

Hey Kami - I hope you found it....welcome

(& you too Lachlan!)

What's it all about?


Mick Jones and Nicky 'Topper' Headon of The Clash ~ have recorded together for the first time in 27 years ~ in aid of a prisoners' charity.


The guitarist and drummer have reunited to play with Billy Bragg on a new version of their 1978 song Jail Guitar Doors in aid of Bragg's organisation of the same name which works with prisoners.

The duo last shared a recording session when they worked on The Clash's album Combat Rock, but Headon's drug use saw him ejected from the band on the eve of a tour to promote the release in 1982. He was replaced by Terry Chimes, who had played on the band's first album.

Jones was guitarist and co~frontman for punk pioneers The Clash, alongside the late Joe Strummer, but he too was kicked out the following year, leaving Strummer to soldier on for one more album Cut The Crap.




Jones and Headon were inspired to record again after seeing the work of Bragg's two year old initiative, which supplies musical instruments to prison inmates to aid with their rehabilitation.

Jones, who was the first person to donate money to the scheme to allow guitars to be delivered to a jail, said: "The guys were telling us how much this scheme had helped them move on from their previous lives before prison.

It was really touching to think we've helped, even if it's in a small way."

Nicked 100% from 'The hangover-helper'
Now lock me up!
Can I get one of those guitars Mick?
Thanx Fifi!

Sunday 20 September 2009

Massive Attack VS Mad Professor - Protection

Fernando Torres scores twice to help Liverpool overcome battling West Ham

West Ham 2 VS 3 Liverpool

Einstürzende Neubauten - Die Interimsliebenden"

Tao Lin: The 'hipster' thief

“Shoplifting can be justified morally. I was shoplifting from publicly traded companies and spending the money I gained at independent stores that were socially conscious, such as organic vegan restaurants.”

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Jarboe backed by Esoteric at the recent Supersonic festival held in the UK




Thanx to 'Wassoni'
For extra enjoyment look very thoroughly at that post!!!

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne (Isle of Wight 1970)

Leonard Cohen's Induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Date:March 10, 2008 Place:Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City

Leonard Cohen collapses onstage in Spain



Leonard Cohen in Melbourne earlier this year. Photos by TimN

MADRID — Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing onstage while on tour in eastern Spain, his music company said Saturday. The veteran poet and performer has been released from hospital after suffering from a stomach complaint, Doctor Music Concerts said in a statement. Cohen was part-way through his song "Bird on the Wire" in Valencia when he fainted, causing the band to stop playing to rush to his aid as concertgoers watched. The concert was stopped. A video showing Cohen kneeling down several times during the performance and then keeling over sideways during a saxophone solo has been placed on YouTube on the Web by a fan. The Canadian-born musician, who will be 75 years-old on Monday, was taken in an ambulance to the Nueve de Octubre hospital in Valencia but released early Saturday, Barcelona-based Doctor Music Concerts said. Cohen was due to perform the last show of his Spanish tour at the Palau Sant Jordi concert hall in northeastern Barcelona on Monday. Trucks carrying Cohen's show had arrived at the hall on Saturday morning and were to set up as normal, a spokesman for the concert hall saidCohen had to come out of retirement five years ago when he discovered that most of his retirement fund had disappeared in a disputed case of mismanagement. After leaving Spain Cohen was due to perform next at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on Oct. 17, his Web site said.
@ 'HuffPo'


Fever Ray - Seven

Saturday 19 September 2009

Khatami makes the cover

Iran: The Five Lessons of Qods Day

An excellent analysis over @ 'enduring America'.

Russia condemns Ahmadinejad's statement that the Holocaust was "a myth" as "totally unacceptable"

پایین کشیدن بیلبورد حزب الله لبنان توسط مردم

Protesters remove an official Hezbollah banner in Iran yesterday. Many in Iran blame Hezbbollah mercenaries for carrying out some of the worst violence against peaceful protesters since the election.

Kids kill Panama 'Montauk monster' by lake



PHOTOS have emerged of a mutant creature which “sparked fear and confusion” by climbing out of a cave and approaching a group of children in Panama. The photos appear to show the creature as a slimy, hairless humanoid. Already dubbed “Gollum” by the UK tabloids, the 150cm tall creature emerged from a cave behind a waterfall on the shores of a lake near the small town of Cerro Azul and is drawing comparisons to the so-called "Montauk monster" found on the shores of a New York beach last year. The children claim it started climbing over rocks to get to them. They defended themselves by throwing rocks and killing it.

The children told their parents they had thrown the body back in the lake. When the parents went to investigate, it had been washed up on the shore.
One of the children told The Sun: "I have only seen that creature once before - and it was in the Tolkien film."

@ 'News.com.au'

Meet the man who inspired Glenn Beck

Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him.

On Saturday, I spent the afternoon with America's new breed of angry conservative. Up to 75,000 protesters had gathered in Washington on Sept. 12, the day after the eighth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, sporting the now familiar tea-bagger accoutrements of "Don't Tread on Me" T-shirts, Revolutionary War outfits and Obama-the-Joker placards. The male-skewing, nearly all-white throng had come to denounce the president and what they believe is his communist-fascist agenda.

Even if the turnout wasn't the 2 million that some conservatives tried, briefly, to claim, it was still enough to fill the streets near the Capitol. It was also ample testament to the strength of a certain strain of right-wing populist rage and the talking head who has harnessed it. The masses were summoned by Glenn Beck, Fox News host and organizer of the 912 Project, the civic initiative he pulled together six months ago to restore America to the sense of purpose and unity it had felt the day after the towers fell.

In reality, however, the so-called 912ers were summoned to D.C. by the man who changed Beck's life, and that helps explain why the movement is not the nonpartisan lovefest that Beck first sold on air with his trademark tears. Beck has created a massive meet-up for the disaffected, paranoid Palin-ite "death panel" wing of the GOP, those ideologues most susceptible to conspiracy theories and prone to latch on to eccentric distortions of fact in the name of opposing "socialism." In that, they are true disciples of the late W. Cleon Skousen, Beck's favorite writer and the author of the bible of the 9/12 movement, "The 5,000 Year Leap." A once-famous anti-communist "historian," Skousen was too extreme even for the conservative activists of the Goldwater era, but Glenn Beck has now rescued him from the remainder pile of history, and introduced him to a receptive new audience
@ 'Salon'

Yesterday in Tehran


استقبال از راهپيمايان روز قدس با گاز اشک آور

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Bloody HELL!
I had forgotten that Shane MacGowan looked like this when I first met him!

'Exile' making sure the big boys give you the correct news

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Nice to see that the 'NY Times Lede blog' will admit when it is wrong!
Though speaking as one one of those anonactivist bloggers...

Tehran today...continued








Iran_TranslatorPeople were savagely beaten on Fatimi Avenue and many were arrested. Greens hid under cars to escape secforces #iranelection

Friday 18 September 2009

Iran continued... (keep refreshing page)





Still can't confirm any clashes or protest in Qom. Word's out everywhere, but no concrete proof. #iranelection

Mousavi today in Tehran



The attack on Khatami today





Iranian updates (keep refreshing page)


و این گونه روز قدس سبز شد





Ahmadinejad was giving a live interview on IRIB's Channel Two from the
scene of Quds Day. As he spoke, viewers could clearly hear the chants of "Ahmadi, Ahmadi, resign, resign" - this all over live TV.

Apparently Ahmadinejad was aware of the chants and their effect on the interview. He is said to have become flustered and quickly wrapped up the interview.
@ 'The Guardian'

Today's chants in Iran

Margh bar Roosiyeh

Death to Russia

Roosiyeh Haya Kon, Keshvaremoon ro raha kon

Russia, leave our country alone!

Na Ghazeh, na Lobnan, janam fadayeh Iran

My life belongs to neither Gaza or Lebanon - but Iran

Che Ghazeh, che Iran, margh bar zaleman

Whether in Gaza or in Iran, death to tyrants

Karoubi dastghir beshe, Iran ghiyamat mishe

If Karoubi is arrested, great chaos [armageddon] will ensue in Iran

Dorooqghoo, dorooqghoo, shast o se darsadet koo?

Liar, liar, where’s your 63%?

Basijiyeh vagheyi, Hemmat bood o Bakeri

The real Basijis were Hemmat and Bakeri

Neshoon dadim dobareh, ma hameh ba ham hastim

We showed once more, that we are together

Dorood bar Montazeri, salaam bar Sanei

Our respect and greetings to Montazeri and Sanei

Iranian updates (keep refreshing page)

Iran_TranslatorIn Rasht's Mikaeel Sqr, plainclothes men attacked protesters, injuring many inclu a woman and arresting 5. #iranelection

Iran_Translator
In Rasht people also came out in support of Mousavi and chanted "no Gaza no lebanon..." #iranelection



شعار سلام بر منتظری، درود بر صانعی در روز قدس



Protesters chant 'death to dictator' at annual Tehran rally@'CNN'



Iran continued...



Tehran today