Transmissions :: Shabaka Hutchings
29 minutes ago
Sunday 26 July 2009
Gala Drop
Damn this band is funky!
Note for all you people in Glesca, they are playing at 'Optimo' on September 13th.
Note for all you people in Glesca, they are playing at 'Optimo' on September 13th.
Saturday 25 July 2009
Be gone 'Ugly Spirit'!
I would like to think that we shall not see you again, but we both know that when you have perfected 'the *rort', you will be back!*Rort
(Learnt today that a lot of you Americans don't know that word. The educational 'Exile' at work!)
Palin's next step still a mystery!
Sarah Palin will enter uncharted political waters when she leaves the Alaska stage Sunday.
Now the question is whether she will go on to become a viable presidential candidate in 2012, after having quit her governor's job with 18 months left in her term.
@ 'Wall Street Journal'
UPDATE:
Palin Favorability Rating Dips As She Nears Exit, Poll Finds
@ 'Washington Post'
More.
(Learnt today that a lot of you Americans don't know that word. The educational 'Exile' at work!)
Palin's next step still a mystery!
Sarah Palin will enter uncharted political waters when she leaves the Alaska stage Sunday.
Now the question is whether she will go on to become a viable presidential candidate in 2012, after having quit her governor's job with 18 months left in her term.
@ 'Wall Street Journal'
UPDATE:
Palin Favorability Rating Dips As She Nears Exit, Poll Finds
@ 'Washington Post'
More.
Jesus H. Christ!!!
Cellcom Commercialפרסומת לסלקום מדיה
The commercial’s tagline, “what, after all, do we all want? To have a little fun,” only serves to make this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea even worse. Back to the drawing board with you, Cellcom. And no more associating the word “fun” with the plight of millions.
@ 'Daily Dish'
The row over a controversial advert for an Israeli mobile phone operator, which shows Israel Defense Forces soldiers playing soccer with Palestinians on both sides of the security barrier, continues.
In the Cellcom advert, IDF soldiers on patrol along the fence stop their jeep when it is hit by a soccer ball from the Palestinian side of the fence. The ball soon bounces back to the Israeli side, at which point the soldiers decide to hold an impromptu game with the Palestinians, cheered on by female soldiers.
The advert has been extensively criticized for making light of the Palestinian suffering inflicted by the West Bank barrier.
A video recently posted on YouTube has tried to reenact the game in reality, and found that the result could not be further removed from the situation on the ground: when the Palestinians kick the ball to the other side of the fence, what they get in return is a salvo of tear gas grenades.
Outraged Internet users have also vented their dismay on Twitter, blogs and other social networks. A Facebook group called "The new Cellcom advert makes me sick too" said on their home page: "You can go on forever about messages and media framings oozing with racism, but if you're here you think it's unnecessary. The unknown copywriter at McCann Erickson [the advertising firm behind the ad] displayed an unbelievably distasteful attitude, which does not deserve additional discussion. One thing the members of this group have in common is the shame we feel when an established Israeli company stands by such a repugnant advert, which brings us to call: remove it now!"
@ 'Haaretz'
Buffalo soldiers
Bush Administration Debated Using Military in Terrorism Arrests
Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.
Some of the advisers to President George W. Bush, includingVice President Dick Cheney, argued that a president had the power to use the military on domestic soil to sweep up the terrorism suspects, who came to be known as the Lackawanna Six, and declare them enemy combatants. Mr. Bush ultimately decided against the proposal to use military force.
Full story @ 'NY Times'
...And whose name pops up? Why yes - it's our old friend John Yoo again!
Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials.
Some of the advisers to President George W. Bush, includingVice President Dick Cheney, argued that a president had the power to use the military on domestic soil to sweep up the terrorism suspects, who came to be known as the Lackawanna Six, and declare them enemy combatants. Mr. Bush ultimately decided against the proposal to use military force.
Full story @ 'NY Times'
...And whose name pops up? Why yes - it's our old friend John Yoo again!
White House bans Twitter
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mentioned casually to CNN today that Twitter is blocked on official White House computers. Gibbs clearly doesn't appreciate the value that can be derived from the innovative social network; he jokes about it is a tool for personal exhibitionism. Many readers here will no doubt recognize that there's a whole lot more that can be done with the service than that. This is from the same administration that won't let its employees at the State Department use Firefox, though, so perhaps nothing is surprising. The Twitter admission by Gibbs was excerpted in a video embedded above, originally reported by Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times.
Full story @ 'Read Write Web'
It being easier for an administrator to impose universal secure settings on 'Internet Explorer' I do understand not using 'Firefox' but Twitter?
(Thanx to Carolyn)
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