Monday, 3 January 2011

Genocide In West Papua?

The role of the Indonesian state apparatus and a current needs assessment of the Papuan people

Jónsi - New Piano Song (Download)

Nazi Watch: Like Father Like Daughter

For 40 years Jean-Marie Le Pen has ruled one of the most successful and feared ultra-nationalist movements in Europe.

In 2002 he shocked France by winning through to the second round of the presidential election.
But now at 82 years of age, the father of the Front National is ready to step aside and he is backing his daughter Marine to succeed him.
"I didn't take to politics readily," Marine told me. "But then as the daughter of Le Pen, it is probably unavoidable that I entered the fray. Politics swallowed me up."
"Now it is my desire to carry on my father's fight," she says. "I want to strive for what he believed in, what the French people really want. And if I don't do it, I don't think anyone else is capable."
Softer image Marine is not lacking in self-confidence. But she is hardly Joan of Arc, the symbol of French sanctity that is the adopted emblem of the FN party.
Invariably she wears jeans and high-heeled shoes. She is a twice-divorced mother of three. She is pro-abortion. She is certainly not the choice of the hard-line Catholics within her party.
But those who meet her agree she is personable and difficult to dislike. Which makes her a formidable politician.

"She is of her generation," said Nonna Mayer, an expert on far-right politics at the Sciences Po University. "She has no nostalgia for World War II. That is the past. She is looking ahead."

"She has the same ideas about immigration as her father," said Ms Mayer. "She thinks there are two kinds of French people: the 'real French' and the others. But she packages this message in a different, softer way. She is very popular and very good with the media."
The vote for the party leader will be taken among 75,000 party members. The result is to be announced at a conference in Tours on 16 January...

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Christian Fraser @'BBC'

Reporter behind WMD claims calls Assange ‘bad journalist’ (!!!)

A former New York Times reporter assailed for her incorrect reports about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction is criticizing Julian Assange for being a "bad journalist."
Judith Miller took on the WikiLeaks founder during an appearance on Fox News Watch Saturday, arguing that Assange was a bad journalist "because he didn't care at all about attempting to verify the information that he was putting out, or determine whether or not it hurt anyone."
For many critics of the war in Iraq, that claim is likely to set off irony alarms. Miller has become famous for being the author of a 2002 New York Times article -- now debunked -- suggesting that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons program.
"Mr. Hussein's dogged insistence on pursuing his nuclear ambitions, along with what defectors described in interviews as Iraq's push to improve and expand Baghdad's chemical and biological arsenals, have brought Iraq and the United States to the brink of war," Miller wrote.
Senior Bush administration officials would soon use the article to argue for an invasion of Iraq.

In an article published last week, Salon.com's Alex Pareene argued that Miller simply parroted what Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi had told her.

Lying exile grifter Ahmad Chalabi fed her the worst of the nonsense designed to push America into toppling Saddam Hussein (and giving Iraq to him), and she pushed that nonsense into the newspaper of record. She got everything wrong, and for some insane reason, she remained employed at the Times until 2005, when she negotiated her separation from her longtime professional home.

As the Crooks and Liars blog points out, Miller once defended her reporting with the argument that it is not a journalist's job to verify -- only to report inform readers of what they had been told.
"[M]y job isn't to assess the government's information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself. My job is to tell readers of the New York Times what the government thought about Iraq's arsenal," she said.
Miller's career trajectory since leaving the Times in 2005 has had a distinctly rightward bent. She became a contributor for Fox News, before recently joining the conservative magazine Newsmax. Her first article appears in the January, 2011, issue.
Miller made her comment about Assange while arguing that organizations like WikiLeaks are part of the "new journalism" of the digital age.
"This is part of the new journalism," she said. "Everybody's just got to get used to it. If you have that much information, most of which is over-classified -- if the waste basket in the office is classified, someone's going to leak it," she said.
The following video, broadcast on Fox News Jan. 1, 2011, was uploaded to the web by Crooks and Liars.
Daniel Tencer @'Raw Story'

WTF??? At the end of the segment they ask if you have any evidence of media bias to get in touch!!!

Drum & Bass - Lola Da Musica (NL 1996)

Now the Wikileaks shit is really hitting the fan

Diplomats Help Push Jet Sales on Global Market

RIP Pete Postlethwaite

Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite dies aged 64

Israel preparing for 'large scale war'

Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

RePost: Two songs by Lou Barlow

Lou Barlow

'Easy'
The Folk Implosion

Said I wouldn't do it, leave it alone
Tried to ditch it, followed me right back home
After a while I don't resist
I'm alive with a purpose
My way down looking for it
That's what I'm afraid of

When I finally hold it, arrive on the scene
The doors are open I can hardly breathe
And like every guilty feeling
I've forgotten before
Three hours later, I'm hungry for more
That's what I'm afraid of
I don't have the will to change
Not when it's so easy, to be easy

Resistance is low when I'm feeling bored
What I thought was fun isn't fun anymore
Gravity pulls neither wrong or right
The moon is full and we're out of our heads
Let's do it again and feel allright
The fight is over for now
The fight is over

'Too Pure'

Sebadoh

Is something missing in my touch, a tension tugging at my smile?

If there's a right thing to say, I'm sure I missed it by a mile

Swallowed in some detail, heavy in my blood

I wanna hold you close, but I can't lift my arms up

Is there a reason for this distance?

More than the drug that floats my days

A nervous bug in my system, it keeps me edgy and ashamed

I've got a saint, never ever will forgive

That never understood me but still tells me how to live

It fits when I stretch and I stretch because I can

I stretch until I'm sore and then I open up for more

I do it out of habit, not addiction

And if I give it up, clean out my blood

Will I still feel bored and disconnected?

If I do it all for love, will I ever give enough?

'cause you can never be too pure or too connected

You can never be too pure or too connected

You can never be too pure

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Interview w/ John Young from Cryptome

Hmmm!

Steal Your Face Right Off Your Head

Grateful Dead articles from Rolling Stone

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I Have A Dream

Illustration: 'exiledsurfer'

Anonymous and DDoS attacks: I predict a riot

Is this is the new revolution? Are online protests happening on a huge scale, involving tens of thousands of volunteers? I am talking about the actions taken by Anonymous, the loose online collective and its growing army of hangers-on and coattail-riders.
Something that began on message boards such as the infamous 4chan, for the purposes of attacking the Church of Scientology, has with generous media coverage evolved into a bigger deal. Tens of thousands of volunteers are downloading tools that enable them to participate in the global assault on businesses with which they feel personally aggrieved.
The latest version of this tool includes functionality that means the user can hand of control of their weaponised computer to a central authority to direct and control the attacks.
In addition to the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, or Loic, other variants are being developed and released, including JS-Loic, a JavaScript version ;a completely rewritten version called Loic-2, which supports alternative command-and-control methods such as RSS, Twitter and Facebook; and the Hoic and Goic versions that support more sophisticated attack methods, designed for simultaneous attacks on multiple victims and a plug-in architecture...