We haven't returned to blogging here, but the Raising Our Princesses blog at wordpress doesn't allow embeded scripts to be inserted to the post or even the sidebars. i really wanted to share this updating playlist - each time you check this page out, you are likely to find that the playlist to the right has changed as i will update the list and the files i host at fileden. If there's enough traffic here then maybe we can blog some other media, videos and so on here as well. For a slideshow, right click [here] and select "open in new tab".
this is music i am sharing as i enjoy it our home in Korea. If you would like to see my profile at lastfm just google me as "g_hard lastfm"
Jamendo is another great music site for listening, discovering new talent and downloading music. In order to play the playlists below, first pause the iPod looking widget to the right here >>>
then try any of the Jamendo playlists. If you are still using a closed source operating system, you may need to install some codec to play the ogg music files. If Microsoft doesn't assist you to play ogg, click [here].
Our love goes out to all of you - Azania, UK, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Korea, Germany, USA, Cambodia.. if i left any place out, let me know and then tell me why you don't write no more.
The word is JAMENDO
Alright, the real point of this post is to let you know just how little I get out. Trot over to our youtube channel to see a really boring video (no skiing yet). We are thinking about taking in a movie today.
More money will soon be approved for spending on housing in an illegal occupation of a disputed area in Jerusalem. All the while, a cease fire continues to evade residents in the disputed areas.
This is according to a report in the New York Times published this Christmas Eve and written by Isabel Kershner entitled Israeli Housing Plan Casts Pall Over Peace Talks.
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By lying to the federal court (in the Mossaoui case) as well as to the the September 11 commission, the CIA effectively broke the law and obstructed justice. According to the New York Times (Dec. 6)
"The C.I.A. in 2005 destroyed at least two video tapes documenting the interrogation of two [alledged] Al Qaeda operatives [...] Current and former government officials said [the destruction of the tapes] had been approved at the highest levels of the agency. (NYT)
In 2003 and 2005, the C.I.A., then headed by Porter J. Goss
"told federal prosecutors in 2003 and 2005, who relayed the information to a federal court in the Moussaoui case, that the C.I.A. did not possess recordings of interrogations sought by the judge in the case (NYT)
The C.I.A. said [Dec 6, 2007] that the decision to destroy the tapes had been made “within the C.I.A. itself,” and they were destroyed to protect the safety of undercover officers and because they no longer had intelligence value.
Mr. Moussaoui’s lawyers had hoped that records of the interrogations might provide exculpatory evidence for Mr. Moussaoui — showing that the Al Qaeda detainees did not know Mr. Moussaoui and clearing him of involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, plot.
Porter J. Goss, replying through a spokesperson, declined to comment.
What remains in question is, how is the term "safety of undercover officers" defined? Of course, the agency wished the public to understand this term in the sense that phantom operatives would use the tapes to identiffy then attack officers. In fact, the destruction of the tapes was to protect the officers from legal scrutiny. The decisioon to videotape the interrogations in the first place, was to prevent teh use of coercion and torture.
I am no legal expert, but it would seem that the agency can no longer be seen as reliable in any case. The claims that many defendants are using, that they are being coerced into illegal confessions, appears to be valid in at least some of the cases. If the Hollywood blockbusters are anything to go by, then any testimony or even involvement by the C.I.A. should cause the exoneration of any alledged "terrorists". This particularly when the agency beings to emply the secrecy clauses in its defense when placed under scrutiny or cross examination about people in their custody.
This is genuine madness. God forbid that any of the readers ever find themselves in an American court room. A house full of rats. A shameful abuse of power.
US Christians Apologise [read]
A Call to repentance and resistance (Feb. 2003) [read]
Warcast for Catholics [listen]
Pastor Steve Brown [read]
The war [..] is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find ourselves organising … committees [like this] for the next generation (Dr. King)
The featured address is based on the speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam, at Riverside Church in New York City. [read text]
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” (J.F.K., 1962)
Indonesia Emphasizes Justice as Pre-requisite to Peace
Speaking at the 2nd General Assembly of the Asian Parliament Assembly (APA)
November 19th, 2007
Tehran
The Indonesian Parliament Speaker welcomed the Iranian President's emphasis on justice in international affairs during his inaugural speech today morning in Tehran at the 2nd General Assembly of the Asian Parliament Assembly (APA), as the cornerstone of maintaining peace in the world. Agung Laksono said that like Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad he believed that without justice peace is impossible.
He
reiterated that in line with this viewpoint, Asian countries should
comply with their commitments to maintain peace in the world,
especially in the Middle East region by resolving the issues of
Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq.
The Indonesian parliament speaker
said traces of poverty are evident in Asia, similar to the experiences
of the African nations, which warrants Asian countries to come up with
due investment projects to tackle the social problems gripping this
resourceful continent.
The 2nd APA General Assembly began work in
Tehran with speeches by President, Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the
Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel.
MPs from 39 countries, including speakers, are attending the meeting to study ways of more convergence among Asian countries. [text source: irib]
Also in Tehran, Venezuelan President Chavez headed a five minister delegation to Iran. The Venezuelan president is to review the latest regional and
international developments as well as further expansion of economic and
political relations between the two countries with Ahmadinejad.
Both Chavez and Ahmadinejad had been attending the OPEC summit in
Riyadh, where Chavez warned oil could hit $200 a barrel if the US was
"mad enough to launch a military attack on Iran".
Iran has strongly been cultivating its ties with Non-Aligned allies like Belarus, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Syria and Venezuela. [text sources: irib & alalam]
Direction & Cinematography, Laura Poitras
Music title, OH MY COUNTRY composed & performed by Kadhum Al Sahir
Violin, Kais Salman.
Film - In Memoriam, Dr Riyadh's nephew assassinated january 12th 2006
Aluta continua. This movie is dedicated to Dr. Riyadh's nephew who was assassinated in January of 2006. I am always aware of our martyrs in Azania.. the lesser known ones, who died under a blaze of bullets, called terrorists then, forgotten today: Ashley Kriel, Anton Fransch, Hector Peterson, and on all the others in minor streets, and in fields of blood and grenades and bullets under Apartheid. The ones who noone remembers anymore.
We should never forget that a nation that is not vigilant, will pay the price. Perhaps Iraqi's are paying that price today. They allowed that bastard American agent Saddam to reign over them. Now the chickens have come home to roost. I mean no contempt for any nation. But this view is one I heard expressed by an Iraqi participant in this film. I pray each day that Americans stop paying the price as well, for their own sakes, and for their victims. Indeed, the ones who do not fear God, are the least vigilant. I was told this weekend, I am loosing my mind. Do I really think there is a fight on the internet? No way. The fight is on every street. It is in every heart and mind. Beginning with my own.
Related links:
- War After The War: What Washington doesn't see in Iraq by George Packer New Yorker, 2003 [Letter from Baghdad]
- My Country My Country [official site]
- Media brief concerning a film by Eugene Paramoer [UWC presentation]
My short answer is that, if someone embraces his illness, he has made the first step toward recovery.
The question of this post is easy to answer of course. If he knows he's insane, he is hardly insane. If he doesn't, well...
But who are the "enlightened few" to whom I refer?
Withholding medical treatment and preventing professionals from continuing to do research on such issues is a human rights issue. This is as true as the case of depriving the right of choice of "life" over "death" from the unborn child [Charter of the Rights of the Family]. To those who are searching for a way out of an affliction, there is medical help out there, though the current predominance of politics over science prevent you from easily accessing such help [treatment]. I pray that this post will be of some help to all who read it.
On the issue of the enlightened, the decrepit philosophical underpinnings of such word usage, faithful readers shall be rewarded in coming posts with further "enlightenment". Keep the faith. I'm on a role.
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