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Rose Borchovski - The story of Susa Bubble
It seems odd that art censorship should bleed into virtual reality, a mirror existence built on pixels inside the Internet. But this past June, when the video artist Rose Bochovski exhibited her computer-graphic, 3-D film Susa Bubble in a Second Life art gallery, it was promptly removed, with the censors citing Second Life’s rules disallowing nudity beyond spaces with an “adult” rating. The images, viewable below, depict a young girl who is naked but not in any real provocative way and is completely devoid of sexualization, whether in the rendering or in the context. Real 21st-century problems, these, but they illustrate the vast illogic of censorship -- a couple of keystrokes on the Internet and anyone can view anything from real-life corpses to hardcore pornography. And yet in an online gaming system, a woman whose art piece is moderately less naked than Henry Darger’s cherubic hermaphrodites gets the boot? Surreal. Go here to read Bochovski’s response.
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Killing of Governor Deepens Crisis in Pakistan
Police officers in Islamabad, Pakistan, collected evidence at the scene where Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province, was shot dead by one of his guards on Tuesday.
Mr. Taseer, 65, a successful businessman and publisher of a liberal English-language daily newspaper, was exceptional, even within the secular-minded Pakistan Peoples Party, for his vocal opposition to the religious parties and the extremism they spread. He was imprisoned in the 1980s under the military dictator Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq for it and was still opposing the religious parties 30 years later.
He recently took up a campaign to repeal Pakistan’s contentious blasphemy laws, which were passed under General Zia as a way to promote Islam and unite the country. The laws have been misused to convict minority Pakistanis as the Islamic forces unleashed by the general have gathered strength. The laws prescribe a mandatory death sentence for anyone convicted of insulting Islam...
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Salman Masood and Carlotta Gall @'NY Times'
Julian Assange: The downside about being declared the messiah is that they generally come to a sticky end
HE comes from humble beginnings and defends the weak and vulnerable, because he can identify himself with their conditions. And no we are not thinking of Jesus Christ, whose birthday has just been celebrated, but rather the president of the United States Barack Hussein Obama . . . Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus
Oprah Winfrey at a Barack Obama rally on November 11, 2007:
IT'S a question that the entire nation is asking: is he the one? South Carolina, I do believe he's the one.
A query on Yahoo Answers:
IS Oprah the new Messiah?
ABC1's Lateline April 3, 2008:
TONY Jones: Is that a fear in this . . . what would happen if Obama was assassinated?
David Hale: I think Barack Obama is clearly vulnerable to assassination because he's a very unique figure in American history.
Jones: If, God forbid, that happened what would be the impact on America?
Hale: I think it would be catastrophic. Barack Obama has generated tremendous excitement in the last few months. He's had a profound effect on American politics and if we were to lose him to an assassin's bullet, I think America would be very, very demoralised and it would be a very major crisis for us as we contemplate where we're going.
Julian Assange interviewed by John Humphrys on the BBC's Today on Tuesday:
JUST a final thought. Do you see yourself as some sort of messianic figure?
Assange: Everyone would like to be a messianic figure without dying.
MSNBC on December 12:
A LAWYER for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday condemned calls for his assassination as "absolutely outrageous and indeed illegal" and claimed remarks by Sarah Palin may prevent him from getting a fair trial in the United States.
CIA response to Assange assassination FOI on Scribd.com:
This is a final response to your 11 October FOI Act request for all copies of all records current or previous plans to assassinate Julian Assange. The CIA can neither confirm nor deny the existence or non-existence of records responsive to your request. The fact of the existence or non-existence of requested records is currently and properly classified and is protected from disclosure. Therefore your request is denied.
Chris Capps writes on unexplainable.net on December 7:
JULIAN Assange, the Australian native and founder of Wikileaks has been arrested. And it is not lost on many UFO believers that Assange's arrest happens just as information regarding the UFO phenomenon has been announced. Is it possible that Assange stumbled upon something too great even for his site WikiLeaks? Assange said in a media chat interview that for a long time they had been receiving requests for information regarding the UFO phenomenon, and that they would soon be releasing information regarding UFOs referenced directly in diplomatic cables. Of course the incredible news sent shockwaves through the paranormal community. Will we finally learn what the government really thinks about UFOs? And is this the form disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth will take?
The Guardian, December 23, 2010:
IF the US succeeded in removing him from the UK or Sweden, Assange said there was a "high chance" of him being killed "Jack Ruby-style" in the US prison system.
Jack Ruby speaking to journalists before his conviction for the 1963 murder of John Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald:
GENTLEMEN, I want to tell the truth, but I cannot tell it here. If you want a fair shake out of me, you have to take me to Washington.
@'The Australian'
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Ennio Morricone Now Composing Ringtones for LG
So in an age where almost everyone’s life is run through their cell phone, it makes almost perfect sense that a great film composer is going to the digital medium. Ennio Morricone, the legendary Italian composer who has written scores for hundreds of films including Cinema Paradiso, The Good The Bad and The Ugly as well as The Untouchables, has signed a deal with LG to not only write brand new music for ringtones on their upcoming smart phones, but allow those phones to exclusively play some of his most famous themes...
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Germain Lussier @'/Film'
BrandDNA Mick Karn and Gerry Rafferty have died. The band up in heaven now has one a helluva bassist, plus the man who wrote my fave song Late Again.
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