Friday, 28 January 2011
Statement - Vodafone Egypt
All mobile operators in Egypt have been instructed to suspend services in selected areas. Under Egyptian legislation the authorities have the right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply with it. The Egyptian authorities will be clarifying the situation in due course.
HERE
Lucky I am NOT with them as if I was I wouldn't be now!!!
HERE
Lucky I am NOT with them as if I was I wouldn't be now!!!
Now it's starting in Jordan
Thousands of Jordanian opposition supporters have taken the streets in the country's capital demanding the prime minister step down and venting their anger at rising prices, inflation and unemployment. About 3,500 opposition activists from the main Islamist opposition group, trade unions and leftist organizations have gathered in Amman. The crowd is denouncing Prime Minister Samir Rifai's unpopular policies. Many are shouting: "Rifai go away, prices are on fire and so are the Jordanians." Another 2,000 protesters in cities of Irbid and Karak have made similar calls. Friday's rallies mark the third consecutive day of protests in Jordan inspired by Tunisia and Egypt's unrest that has demanding the governments' downfall. King Abdullah II has promised some reforms.
@'Winnipeg Free Press'
@'Winnipeg Free Press'
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Al Jazeera reports that its veteran journalist Ahmad Mansour has been "attacked" by plain clothed police officers in Cairo #Jan25
A timely cable release
"Torture and police brutality in Egypt are endemic and widespread. The police use brutal methods mostly against common criminals to extract confessions, but also against demonstrators, certain political prisoners and unfortunate bystanders. One human rights lawyer told us there is evidence of torture in Egypt dating back to the times of the Pharaohs..."
WikiLeaks Cable
09CAIRO79
WikiLeaks Cable
09CAIRO79
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says:
...All concerned people or leaders should ensure that the situation in that region, and particularly now in Egypt, does not and should not lead to further violence."
Egypt protest leaflets distributed in Cairo give blueprint for mass action
Anonymous leaflets circulating in Cairo also provide practical and tactical advice for mass demonstrations, confronting riot police, and besieging and taking control of government offices.
Signed "long live Egypt", the slickly produced 26-page document calls on demonstrators to begin with peaceful protests, carrying roses but no banners, and march on official buildings while persuading policemen and soldiers to join their ranks.
The leaflet ask recipients to redistribute it by email and photocopy, but not to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter, which are being monitored by the security forces.
Protesters in Cairo are advised to gather in large numbers in their own neighbourhoods away from police and troops and then move towards key installations such the state broadcasting HQ on the Nile-side Corniche and try to take control "in the name of the people". Other priority targets are the presidential palace and police stations in several parts of central Cairo.
The leaflet includes aerial photographs with approach routes marked and diagrams on crowd formations. Suggested "positive" slogans include "long live Egypt" and "down with the corrupt regime". There are no signs of slogans reflecting the agenda of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood. It advises demonstrators to wear clothing such as hooded jackets, running shoes, goggles and scarves to protect against teargas, and to carry dustbin lids – to ward off baton blows and rubber bullets – first aid kits, and roses to symbolise their peaceful intentions.
Diagrams show how to defend against riot police and push in waves to break through their ranks. "The most important thing is to protect each other," the leaflet says.
It is important to prevent policemen penetrating the ranks of demonstrators, it adds. If they do, they should be persuaded to change sides and reminded that their own families could be among the people.
Banners and posters should be hung from balconies and windows, it advises, and it provides handy models for posters – one showing a visor-helmeted riot policeman flanked by an elderly woman in traditional peasant dress and a younger one in modern clothes over the slogan "Police and people together against the regime".
The president's son Gamal – often thought likely to succeed his father – is labelled "Cowardly Mubarak", with the words "Where's Daddy now?" Another idea is the country's national symbol of an eagle with "Egypt's Liberation Day" underneath it.
Ian Black @'The Guardian'
blakehounshell Blake Hounshell
Biden on Mubarak: "I would not refer to him as a dictator." http://bit.ly/gD6ISN
WTF??? #Jan25
SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
Dr Jihad of the NDP party said "Clinton's remarks didn't respect that Egypt has a govt, these remarks caused the violence to start in Egypt"
Opposition in Egypt Gears Up for Major Friday Protest
REpost: Capt Beefheart's 10 Commandments for Guitarists
Captain Beefheart's Ten Commandments For Guitarists
1. LISTEN TO THE BIRDS That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.
2. YOUR GUITAR IS NOT REALLY A GUITAR Your guitar is a divining rod. Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you're good, you'll land a big one.
3. PRACTICE IN FRONT OF A BUSH Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush doesn't shake, eat another piece of bread.
4. WALK WITH THE DEVIL Old delta blues players referred to amplifiers as the "devil box." And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employer in terms of who you're bringing over from the other side. Electricity attracts demons and devils. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.
5. IF YOU'RE GUILTY OF THINKING, YOU'RE OUT If your brain is part of the process, you're missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.
6. NEVER POINT YOUR GUITAR AT ANYONE Your instrument has more power than lightning. Just hit a big chord, then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.
7. ALWAYS CARRY YOUR CHURCH KEY You must carry your key and use it when called upon. That's your part of the bargain. Like One String Sam. He was a Detroit street musician in the fifties who played a homemade instrument. His song "I Need A Hundred Dollars" is warm pie. Another church key holder is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf's guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty making you want to look up her dress to see how he's doing it.
8. DON'T WIPE THE SWEAT OFF YOUR INSTRUMENT You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.
9. KEEP YOUR GUITAR IN A DARK PLACE When you're not playing your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don't play your guitar for more than a day, be sure to put a saucer of water in with it.
10. YOU GOTTA HAVE A HOOD FOR YOUR ENGINE Wear a hat when you play and keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house the hot air can't escape. Even a lima bean has to have a wet paper towel around it to make it grow.
Hove's "Mercy Seat" (revisited)
Nick Cave has been offered driving lessons in lieu of prosecution for crashing his Jaguar into a speed camera last month.
Singer Nick Cave has been offered driver training as an alternative to prosecution after crashing into a seafront speed camera in Brighton
The 53-year-old Australian musician was behind the wheel of a Jaguar saloon when it struck the camera in Queensway on 7 December last year.
The singer and his twin 10-year-old sons, who were also in the car, walked away unharmed from the crash.
Cave, who lives in the area, was not arrested.
A Sussex Police spokesman said: "The driver of a Jaguar saloon car which collided with a roadside speed camera on Hove seafront in December has been offered driver training."
Following the incident, somebody scrawled 'Nick Cave waz ere Xmas 2010' on the speed camera, which belonged to the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership.
The singer is best-known as the frontman of rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and his 1995 Where the Wild Roses Grow duet with Kylie Minogue.
A spokeswoman for Cave refused to comment.
The Grinderman frontman should be done with driver’s ed. in time to promote John Hillcoat’s The Wettest Country in the World, a once-shelved film starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy that features a Cave-penned script.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Sidi Touré & Friends - Sahel Folk (Albumstream)
1. Bon Koum
2. Adema
3. Djarii Ber
4. Bera Nay Wassa
5. Sïnji
6. Taray Kongo
7. Haallah
8. Wayey Zarrabo
9. Artiatanat
Singer-songwriter Sidi Toure’s smooth, resonant voice and insistent, steady-rolling guitar offer a warm and intimate version of acoustic Malian music. Sahel Folk captures Toure in the Niger River city of Gao, playing and singing in relaxed, elegant colloquy with an ensemble of fellow travelers. Like Malian blues progenitor Ali Farka Toure, Sidi Toure has fashioned a very personal style and expression that gathers elements from life experience and traditional song and story.
On these particular sessions, the voices and stringed instruments -- acoustic guitars; kurbu, kuntigui -- of his friends are at the heart of a graceful and subtly-changing weave and flow, creating a musical experience that moves through satisfyingly variegated terrain.
The clarity and precision of the guitar lines is often breathtaking. It’s Malian string heaven as the string players ebb and flow, entrain, or change mood and tempo on a dime. Ringing, stinging, bent-bluesy, and hard-pulled guitar notes push to the fore at times, as do the rippling, fast-plucked patterns and pulses of the traditional instruments.
The singers cover varied terrain as well, with voices smooth, soaring, rough and hard, passing words and melodies back and forth. What might be most appealing about this clear and intimate recording is the way it captures not only a wide variety of textures, moods and voices, but also the musicians’ comfortable -- and nonetheless passionate -- virtuosity and elegance of expression.
(Kevin Macneil Brown - Dusted)
ALBUMSTREAM
Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line Live
1. Folsom Prison Blues 2. Big River 3. Five Feet High & Risin' 4. Cry, Cry, Cry 5. I Walk The Line 6. The Orange Blossom Special 7. Ring Of Fire 8. Jackson 9. The Man In Black 10. A Boy Named Sue 11. Sunday Morning Coming Down 12. If I Were A Carpenter 13. Daddy Sang Bass 14. A Bird On A Wire
Sir Les Patterson celebrates Australia Day
I have grown to be a bit of an icon, a symbol and a role model, but that's what you have made me, so I've got a huge responsibility. And in case you haven't noticed, I have resisted all efforts to put me on a pedestal, even though I'm sitting on one now as I write this thoughtful composition.
I've also resisted an enormous amount of pressure to put me on the stamps and the money because grandiosity has never been my thing and I have seen many a fellow politician, man of the people or captain of industry come to grief from being, quite frankly, up himself.
There's an old Asian saying which, roughly translated, says: "The higher the monkey climbs, the more you can see of its arse."
What a sensitive analysis that is of the politicians' downfall or hubris (to employ another Asian epithet).
I yield to none in my abhorrence of fancy phrases, and we of the Left have never been too proud to flaunt our ignorance.
The very spelling of the words "Labor Party" is a tribute, if you like, to an anonymous bloke of yesteryear who was not afraid to depart from the traditional spelling of the word "Labour", rebranding our beloved party in homage to our dyslexic American cousins.
When we helped the Seppos (Septic Tanks) to victory in World War II we never thought that one day we'd be saying "Enjoy!" to our wives and kids at the breakfast table, or "Hi you guys!" to the sheilas at the reception desk at my office.
That's something I love about Australia - our adaptability to overseas trends in human intercourse.
I've always been at the sharp end of intercourse, in any form, and though I yield to none in my abhorrence of sexual harassment in the workplace, there is a way of doing it which most of my research assistants over the years have found totally acceptable.
I guess Australia has got a healthy self-esteem and we recently paid Oprah Winfrey a bundle to come Down Under and give it a bit of a boost. I personally persuaded her to say "Australia is the greatest country in the world" on the steps of the Opera House and it didn't cost the Australian taxpayer much more than one day's unemployment benefit and child support for the entire Aboriginal population of Australia.
I was jetting in to Sydney last year, having represented my homeland at an international cheese-sniffing convention at Gorgonzola in Italy, when the Pom next to me asked me if I could hear a distant thumping.
"What's that rhythmic pounding?" he inquired, and since I wasn't doing a Ralph Fiennes in the nearest restroom with a horny little flight attendant, I was as mystified as he was.
"Could it be kangaroo is down there?" said the stupid bastard. "No, mate," I said. "It's 22 million Australians patting themselves on the back!"
I love Australia because like America in the olden days anyone can rise to the top. We recently had a Prime Minister called Kevin - where else in the world could that happen?
Now we've got a red-headed woman. She's got a nose like a woodpecker and a cushion up the back of her dress but she's very nice until she opens her mouth. The Lord be good to her.
My services have been called upon to groom her for international exposure and I've been as busy as a Brisbane mop-shop trying to teach her the rudiments of elocution - doing a Geoffrey Rush on the poor old PM.
I got to know Oprah quite well while she was out here on the Australian taxpayers' payroll and I started to see this wonderful country through her eyes.
She was particularly impressed by our burgeoning pillow-biting community.
"We've got them in the States too, Les," she said, "but this is ridiculous."
I tried to point out to her that we Australians only discovered sex about 53 years ago and since then we've been trying to make up for lost time.
We knew the rudiments, and even some of the rude rudiments, but only in the past few decades have my countrymen studied and put into practice the small print on the toilet wall.
She wanted to see the Outback even after I told her that most Australians give it the big miss, particularly since it's cheaper to get drunk in Bali.
When she left our shores she took me to one side and dumped an assortment of plastic boomerangs, Ken Done tea towels, wallaby scrotum duffle bags and goanna jaw money clips as well as Tim Winton and Bryce Courtenay paperbacks and an indigenous digital didgeridoo in my lap. They'd all been given to her at official functions.
"For God's sake get rid of all this crap please, Les!" I managed to drop most of it over the side of the Manly ferry one night but I hung on to a pair of cane toad cufflinks for ceremonial occasions.
I have never stuffed a swag, boiled a billy or humped a jumbuck. I've never chucked a boomerang, climbed Uluru Rock and the Sydney Harbour Bridge or gone down to Penguin Island to take photos of the Jap tourists.
I like a beer, but I'm really a single-malt man, or even a quadruple-malt man, and pies and sauce for breakfast are not compatible with the powder blue polyester and cashmere-blend suit with hand-stitched lapels.
The last time I tried a pie I yodelled so violently I lost my Order of Australia down the white telephone.
But I love Australian women and I let them know it too when Lady Patterson isn't on the prowl or having one of her episodes.
If I ever politely suggest anything a bit Continental and off the beaten track to a lovely young research assistant, our Aussie sheilas have got a lovely way of smiling and articulating that universal Australian phrase, "Not a problem".
I love Australia and I'm glad they sent my great-great-great-great grandfather Ebenezer Patterson out here in the olden days on a trumped-up charge of surprise sex.
I am as proud as buggery to represent this magnificent land of ours overseas.
God Bless Australia - I only wish we owned it.
@'Herald-Sun'
(Thanx Stan!)
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Radioaktiv – Kraftwerk 1973-2000 mixed by djmq
Tongebirge
Nachrichten
Radioaktivität
Metropolis
Die Roboter
Schaufensterpuppen
Endlos Endlos
Trans Europa Express
Musique Non Stop
Boing Boom Tschak
Die Stimme Der Energie
Sex Objekt
It’S More Fun To Compute
Heimcomputer
Computerwelt
Nummern
Taschenrechner
Expo 2000 (Kling Klang Mix 2002)
Tour De France (Kling Klang Analog Mix)
Das Model
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