Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Man rescued from Haiti rubble two weeks after quake

A man has been pulled alive from the rubble in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince - two weeks after the earthquake that destroyed the city.
US troops rescued the man from the ruins of a building in the centre of the city, and he was taken to hospital.
He had been trapped under the rubble for 12 days, the US military said, and was severely dehydrated.
The rescue comes 14 days after the 7.0-magnitude quake, which killed as many as 200,000 people.
HAITI'S REMARKABLE SURVIVORS
Lozama Hotteline with rescuers, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (19 Jan 2010)
Emmannuel Buso, 21 - rescued after 10 days
Marie Carida, 84 - saved after 10 days
Mendji Bahina Sanon, 11 - trapped for eight days
Lozama Hotteline, 25 - pulled out after seven days
Elisabeth Joassaint, 15 days - buried for seven days, half her life
Ena Zizi, 69 - rescued after seven days

Haiti has been rattled by at least 50 tremors since the original quake.
The survivor, a man in his 30s, was pulled from the ruins covered in dust and wearing only underpants.
"He was buried in the rubble for 12 days. The man had a broken leg and severe dehydration," a statement from the US military said.
Although he had been trapped by an aftershock rather than the initial earthquake, the man is the longest survivor so far under the rubble.
On Saturday, Haiti's government declared the search and rescue phase for survivors over.
It is estimated more than 130 people have been pulled alive by rescue teams in the Haitian capital since the quake.
However, many more have been rescued by ordinary Haitians, often with their bare hands.
Aid call
Earlier, Haitian President Rene Preval made an urgent appeal for more tents to house up to a million people left homeless by the tremor.
A US soldier carries a victim of the quake at a hospital in Port-au-Prince on 23 January 2010
More than 130 people have been pulled alive from the ruins in Port-au-Prince
Mr Preval said 200,000 tents were needed before the expected start of the rainy season in May.
His call came as donor nations and organisations met in Montreal, Canada, to assess the aid effort.
Mr Preval, who lost his house in the quake, is planning to move into a tent on the lawn of the destroyed National Palace in the centre of the capital.
The Haitian government wants to relocate some 400,000 people, currently in makeshift camps across the capital, to temporary tent villages outside the city.
But aid workers warned that if the camps were too big they could pose security problems, including robberies, rapes and gang activities.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she "resented" criticism of American assistance to Haiti.
She pinpointed some media outlets which had "either misunderstood or deliberately misconstrued what was a civilian and military response.

Cop Refusing to Arrest Medical Cannabis Users!



From Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Member Brad Jardis, a 10+ year veteran of the NH police force (and probably the most courageous cop I’ve ever known):
Hello everyone.
As you all know, I have been cleared for duty and will be reporting back shortly. I have been re-reading the NH Constitution carefully so that when I return I am well versed.
I have come to a conclusion in reading the document I am sworn to defend: It is unconstitutional for the state to take action against a sick person who decides to use Marijuana to treat a medical condition.
I will never arrest a person who possesses, uses, grows marijuana to treat a medical condition……. and neither should any other NH LEO who intends follow his or her oath. I won’t even take it from them.
Legal argument in support of my declaration (quite simple):
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1. Short of fellating the entire NH General Court and the Governor, political activists in this state have done everything to present FACTUAL evidence to support allowing sick people to use a natural substance to ease suffering. I personally have begged the General Court to not make me arrest sick people.
2. Chief DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young ruled in 1988:
“Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary, and capricious for the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of the substance.”
3. Fourteen other states (and DC) allow the sick and dying to use Marijuana as medicine to alleviate suffering.
4. Article 10 of the NH Constitution reads as follows:
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[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
5. Government prosecuting a sick person for using a scientifically proven safe substance does not “benefit,” or “protect(…),” any community.
6. Government prosecuting a sick person for using a scientifically proven safe substance IS in-fact the emolument of a class of men: pharmaceutical companies. This is proven by evidence of pharmaceutical companies fighting against medical Marijuana laws. You cant grow Oxycontin in your living room, now can you?
7. A sick person continuing to suffer because a state law forbids them to use a scientifically proven safe therapeutic substance IS “absurd.”
8. A sick person continuing to suffer because a state law forbids them to use a scientifically proven safe therapeutic substance IS “slavish.”
9. A sick person continuing to suffer because a state law forbids them to use a scientifically proven safe therapeutic substance IS “destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.”
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Conclusion: I won’t do it. Ever. Take your unconstitutional law and stuff it.
You know who I am, you know where I work, and I am not afraid of any of you. My word, my oath, is to the people: not the tyrants who want them to suffer.
- Bradley

Pull My Daisy


A short 1959 film that typifies the "Beat Generation". Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a never-completed stage play entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross, Delphine Seyrig and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-infant son. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Originally intended to be called "The Beat Generation" the title "Pull My Daisy" was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Neal Cassady over the 40's and 50's. Part of the original poem was used as a lyric in David Amram's jazz composition that opens the film.

Pull My Daisy: A Bebop Revolution

Another new Banksy


Bin Laden is just outside Salt Lake City

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Trick Pony (Live on Letterman 01-22-2010)

Jerry Stahl - Pain Killers


(Thanx Gary!)

Anthrax & Heroin Use

Scottish Drugs Forum has produced a new briefing document to help people working with heroin users  identify early signs of anthrax and help users seek potentially life-saving medical help.
The move comes as news comes that the deadly outbreak is spreading further across Scotland.
Link opens in new windowHealth Protection Scotland, the agency co-ordinating the response to the outbreak, has Link opens in new windowconfirmed today the first case in Ayrshire and Arran, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Scotland to 15 to date. 
Seven of the 15 have died since the outbreak was first identified in Glasgow in December 2009 - four in Glasgow, two in Tayside and one in Forth Valley health board areas.  Other cases have also been confirmed in Lanarkshire and Fife.
The new publication,  Link opens in new windowAnthrax and Heroin Users: What Workers Need to Know, has been produced in association with Link opens in new windowHealth Protection Scotland, the agency co-ordinating the response to the outbreak.
A key message to heroin users and those working closely with them is that anthrax can be cured if treatment is started at an early stage.

LCD Soundsysten - Clip 1

So  why is it that I can still listen to The Dame and yet not Slowhand, when they both came out with the same shit?
Move along, nothing to see here...

Pro Iran regime satirical video ends with Mousavi's execution


Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Deutsch-Australische Freundschaft


Stay well
HERRB!

Deutsch-Australische Freundschaft


Dr. Israel and Killah Priest - Gangsta n Police

Dirty Three: Live In The Studio (ABC Jan 2010)


Almost unrecognisable!
Since 1993 Melbourne trio the Dirty Three have inspired and intimidated audiences around the world with their unmistakeable, post-rock soundscapes.For their seventh and most recent album Cinder The Dirty Three spent six days on Phillip Island, south of Melbourne, breaking all their own rules to introduce brevity, bagpipes, bazoukis and in a first for the band...vocals!The Dirty Three joined Sarah Ashley from Radio National's The Deep End to perform live in the studio and talk about the making of Cinder.
You can hear 'Ever Since', 'Amy', 'Flutter' and 'Everything Is Fucked' along with the enigmatic Warren Ellis in conversation.