Friday 16 November 2012

Unbelievable: The IDF Has Gamified Its War Blog

Internet access cut off in Gaza: How to get online

TELECOMIX #GAZA EMERGENCY ROOM
Telecomix IRC: https://chat.wnh.me/?channels=gaza&uio=d4
Situation:
Raids are ongoing and a lot stronger than before.
One theory says they're planning for a (very) big raid so they want to cut internet off to prevent covering it to the outside world
Egyptian SIM card:
If you have an Egyptian cellular card (Vodafone/Mobinil/Etisalat) you can use it to access internet from your phone or tablet since the Egyptian networks can be captured from Gaza
How to use Dial up numbers to stay connected:
Telecomix Dial up Numbers:
Important: The Telecomix dialups are not secure and do not protect from wiretapping of your communications. It is still important to proceed with precaution and encrypt the data.
Visit this link for dial up numbers:
http://www.cyberguerrilla.info/blog/?p=5077
Note: Since the number of lines is limited, do not use them if you don't need to!
- French free isp FDN (about 100 lines):  +33172890150 (login/pass: toto/toto)
- German free Free.de (about 35 lines).  +4923184048 (login/pass: telecomix/telecomix)
- Swedish isp Gotanet (about 30 lines atm, can expand services) : +46708671911 (login/pass: toto/toto)
- Belgium Edpnet: +32022750640 (login/pass: free.edpnet/ free) 
- Netherlands Edpnet: +31676002000 (login/pass: free.edpnet/ free)
netherlands +31205350535 and the username/password are xs4all
Important links:
http://www.movements.org/how-to/entry/how-to-prepare-for-an-internet-connection-cut-off/
Use Twitter Via Text Message:
Get Twitter messages redirected to your phone and send Tweets by text. Make sure to link your mobile phone to your Twitter account and locate the Twitter short code for your country. Then you can send a text message containing your Tweet to that short code and it will be posted to your profile.
Info: http://support.twitter.com/articles/14589-how-to-add-your-phone-via-sms
Palestinian Terrority Shortcodes:
Wataniya: 40404
Jawwal 37373
If you use one of the phone services listed above, text START to the shortcode to sign into your Twitter account.
                                CONFIGURING AND USING DIAL-UP (WINDOWS)
Configuring Dial-Up Connections
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Network and Internet Connections.
Click Create a connection to the network at your office.
In the Location Information dialog box, enter the appropriate information. Click OK, and then click OK to close the Phone and Modem Options dialog box and start the New Connection wizard.
In the New Connection Wizard, click Dial-up connection, and then click Next.
Type a name for the network to which you are connecting (such as "My Office Network"), and then click Next.
Type the phone number for the network to which you are connecting, including, if necessary, the area code and "1" prefix.
Specify whether you want this connection to be available for anyone's use, meaning for any user on this computer, or for your use only, meaning only for the user who is now logged on.
Specify whether you want a shortcut to the connection on your desktop.
Click Finish.
Using Dial-Up Connections
Click Start, click Connect To, and the click the connection that you want to use.
In the User Name box, type your user name.
In the Password box, type your password.
Choose one of the following options:
To save the user name and password so that you will not have to type them in the future, select the Save this user name and password for the following users check box.
If you want only the current user to have access to the saved user name and password, select the Me only check box.
If you want all users to have access to the user name and password, select the Anyone who uses this computercheck box.
Click Dial.
                                CONFIGURING AND USING DIAL-UP (MAC)
Configure Mac OS X
From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
From the View menu, choose Network.
Choose "Internal Modem" from the Show pop-up menu (or the "Configure" pop-up menu prior to Mac OS X v10.1).
If your computer does not have a built-in modem, select your external modem.
Mac OS X v10.5 or later: From the Configuration pop-up menu, choose Add Configuration.
Mac OS X 10.4.x or earlier: Click the PPP tab.
Enter your information into the relevant fields. Your username goes in the Account Name field, for example. If you want to copy this connection information to other user accounts on this computer, select "Save password".
You should now be able to connect. If you need to configure DNS servers or other advanced settings, continue to the next step.
Mac OS X v10.5 or later: Click the Advanced button, then click the DNS tab.
Mac OS X v10.4 or earlier: Click the TCP/IP tab. Choose either PPP or Manually from the Configure pop-up menu, as instructed by your Internet service provider. If configuring manually, type the IP address in the matching field.
Type the DNS server addresses in their field if necessary (click the "+" button first in Mac OS X v10.5 or later).
Click OK.
Click Apply (or Apply Now for Mac OS X v10.4 or earlier).
Connect and verify
Mac OS X v10.5 or later: Open Network preferences (in System Preferences).
Mac OS X v10.4.x or earlier: Open Internet Connect (from the Applications folder).
Be sure the Configuration pop-up menu is set to your modem.
Click the Connect button.
Once you're connected, open a Web browser or other Internet application to make sure your connection works.
Tip: You can have Mac OS X automatically connect to the Internet whenever you open an Internet application.
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Death in Gaza


Hmmm!


History transformed in VCE exam

The Israeli documentary putting military rule in Palestine on trial

Why are Palestinans attempting to enter Israel labelled "infiltrators"?' Photograph: Gali Tibbon/AFP
The Law In These Parts, an Israeli documentary awarded this year's Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury prize, examines how the country created a military-legal system to control the Palestinians in the lands Israel occupied in 1967. And at some point during the film, it becomes clear that it's the judges who are on trial. The documentary, which just screened as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival, features forceful archive footage, alongside a line-up of Israeli legal experts, explaining how they made Israel's occupation laws.
Each judge sits in a black leather chair at a heavy wooden desk intended, you might first assume, to evoke a serious courtroom. But then, each is quietly interrogated by the film's narrator; asked to explain the military rule that they created. Why did Israel even need hundreds of new laws for occupied Palestinians? What was wrong with the existing legal system? Because Israeli law, one judge says, can only be applied if you give citizenship to the Palestinian population. Why aren't Palestinian fighters described as "prisoners of war"? Why are Palestinians attempting to enter Israel labelled as "infiltrators"? One judge is asked to recount a case from the mid-1970s, where a Palestinian woman giving bread and sardines to a Palestinian "infiltrator" from neighbouring Jordan was sentenced to a year and a half in prison – as deterrent. "How did you find out about the pitta bread?" asks the narrator. Don't worry about that, the military judge replies, the walls have ears.
The evidence against these Israeli judges slowly mounts as they try to justify an unjustifiable tangle of what they thought would be temporary laws, devised to control and subdue Palestinians in the occupied territories. One judge recounts how he told former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon of an obscure law from the Ottoman era, which Sharon swiftly deployed to seize Palestinian land. The film's narrator asks the judge if he thinks, with hindsight, that this was a good idea. "History will decide," the judge replies, but the narrator leaves no room for evasion: "But when will that be?" he asks, of a system that has been in place for 45 years.
This film successfully depicts the dense, crushing absurdities of Israel's military rule in a way that words don't always manage. While reporting from the region, I spent hours talking with lawyers, who would deconstruct the maze of rules that mean Palestinians always end up penalised. I have notebooks full of explanations of these small, complicated, crucial details. But how do you distil this system into one line of a short news piece? How do you condense the overlapping Ottoman rulings, laws from the British mandate era and brand new Israeli edicts that all fuse into a controlling mesh of military rule over Palestinians, while keeping Jewish settlers free – because as Israeli citizens, they are governed (or, mostly, not governed) by regular Israeli law? And how do you explain why 99.74% of military trials end up convicting Palestinians?
The Law In These Parts ends with a focus on Bassem Tamimi, one of the organisers of weekly demonstrations in Nabi Saleh, a West Bank village whose land and main water source, a spring, has been appropriated by a nearby settlement. He was sentenced to four months' imprisonment after protesting last month at an Israeli supermarket in the West Bank, which stocks settlement, but not Palestinian, produce. Amnesty has described him as a prisoner of conscience and demanded his release, castigating the Israeli military's "campaign of harassment, intimidation and arbitrary detention" against this 45-year-old father of four.
During a trial last year, Tamimi, a schoolteacher, told the military court: "Your honour, I was born in the same year as the occupation, and ever since I've been living under its inherent inhumanity, inequality, racism and lack of freedom. I have been imprisoned nine times for a sum of almost three years, though I was never convicted of any crime. During one of my detentions I was paralysed as a result of torture. My wife was detained, my children wounded, my land stolen by settlers and now my house is slated for demolition … You, who claim to be the only democracy in the Middle East, are trying me under laws written by authorities I have not elected, and which do not represent me". Shortly after this hearing, Tamimi was convicted of inciting protesters to throw stones at soldiers (he was cleared of more serious charges, including "perverting the course of justice", in May, after 11 months in military prison, because a judge decided that key evidence, obtained from a coerced 14-year-old Palestinian boy, was unreliable).
"What actually incited them," Tamimi told the courtroom, "was the occupation's bulldozers on our land, the guns, the smell of tear gas." And then he asked: "If the military judge releases me, will I be convinced that there is justice in your courts?"
Rachel Shabi @'The Guardian'

R.I.P. Pete Namlook, Electronic Music Pioneer

Via Pitchfork:

Pete Namlook, the electronic producer and ambient innovator who founded Germany's Fax Records in 1992, has died, Resident Advisor reports. According to a statement sent to Resident Advisor by Namlook's family, he "died peacefully from as yet unspecified causes" on November 8. He was 51.

Thursday 15 November 2012

Vangelis - Monastery of la Rabida


LSD Experiment (1955)


Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) on LSD


Bonus:
John Lennon on LSD

Paul McCartney on LSD

A Tour Inside Salvador Dalí’s Labyrinthine Spanish Home

Via

Irn Mnky - DJ Shadow Mix

Download
“I’ve Got Two,” Sesame Street
“Shadow Propaganda Mix,” Somepling
“Hole in Ya Speakers,” Irn Mnky
“Let’s Get It (Bass, Bass, Bass),”
DJ Shadow “Disavowed” (Irn Mnky Electro Edit), DJ Shadow
“Right Thing” (Z-Trip Set the Party Off Mix Bonus Beats 2), DJ Shadow
“Organ Donor,” DJ Shadow
“Droop-E Drop,” DJ Shadow
“Organ Donor” (Sovereign Universalist Remix), DJ Shadow
DJ esSDee scratch
“I Gotta Rokk” (Irn Mnky Swagger Mix), DJ Shadow
“Border Crossing,” DJ Shadow
“Walkie Talkie,” DJ Shadow
“Walkie Talkie” (Irn Mnky Beat Down Mix), DJ Shadow
“Building Steam With a Grain of Salt” (NiT GriT Mix), DJ Shadow
“Dats My Part” (feat E-40), DJ Shadow
“Inject the Beat” (feat. Cappo, Bane & DJ esSDee), Irn Mnky
“The Number Song,” DJ Shadow
“Compton,” Dan Greenpeace & Irn Mnky
“Scale It Back” (Irn Mnky Judgement Minimal Mix), DJ Shadow

Via

The Making of 'Fatty Boom Boom'


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Certifiably Insane?