If this ıs allowed to happen, unlike their last attempt at hijackıng democracy, any idea of Real Canadian Democracy will be set back half a century. This cannot be allowed to happen.
Broken Hallelujah will not be renewing it's domain name when it becomes due in June 2011.
Before Facebook and Twitter and the others, blogs were the main way of connecting with folks around the world online. But now it's so much easier for me to use social media.
Easy Bake Coven will probably always be online. It was my first born (2001) and it's still a part of me. It began with my daughter at 14 years old and my sister still living and battling cancer. It was fueled by making new friends online as we felt our way together through the darkness of the newborn Blogosphere.
It was soon after September 11, 2001, and we were fragile. The whole world was. We yearned for safety and comfort. We learned enough to hunt and peck our way through HTML and found others who were hurting but hopeful together.
We collectively comforted one another through rumors of war and realities of war. No matter the politics. No matter the religion. We blogged. And blogged.
We healed and laughed and loved and documented every (sometimes nauseating) detail. That was the inception of Easy Bake Coven and I could no easier throw it away than cut off my arm but I digress.
Broken Hallelujah has had a decent run but it's over. xoxo
As democracy protests spread across the Middle East, we as journalists struggle to convey the sights and sounds, the religion and politics. But there’s one central element that we can’t even begin to capture: the raw courage of men and women — some of them just teenagers — who risk torture, beatings and even death because they want freedoms that we take for granted.
Here in Bahrain on Saturday, I felt almost physically ill as I watched a column of pro-democracy marchers approach the Pearl Roundabout, the spiritual center of their movement. One day earlier, troops had opened fire on marchers there, with live ammunition and without any warning. So I flinched and braced myself to watch them die.
Yet, astonishingly, they didn’t. The royal family called off the use of lethal force, perhaps because of American pressure. The police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, but the protesters marched on anyway, and the police fled.
The protesters fell on the ground of the roundabout and kissed the soil. They embraced each other. They screamed. They danced. Some wept.
"We are calling it ‘Martyrs’ Roundabout’ now," Layla, a 19-year-old university student, told me in that moment of stunned excitement. "One way or another, freedom has to come," she said. "It’s not something given by anybody. It’s a right of the people.”
Courage is indeed the story. Thank you, Nick for always being the first to report the under reported stories until they can no longer be ignored.
With some dubbing the revolution in Tunisia, which sparked large-scale uprisings against geriatric regimes across the middle east, "the first wikileaks revolution," or "the first blogger revolution," it has become apparent to the old corrupt elite that they must fight a war on information itself, for their own self preservation.
In Egypt, the former head of the air force, and 30 year dictator: Hosni Mubarak, has shut down virtually all forms of communication, including the internet, telephone, and all television stations not run by the government. Cairo has been on complete power blackout. Most transportation, minus official transport, appears to have been shut down nationwide. Mohammad El Bareidi, the Egyptian former Director of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, and outspoken advocate of change and progress in Egypt, has been placed under house arrest. Meanwhile the geriatric Mubarak has fired his entire cabinet, sardonically blaming Egypt's problems on them, rather than on himself.
For Egypt in my opinion this is it: The aging relic Mubarak has declared war on on his own country and especially on modern communications. He needs to be ousted now.
- Lima posting from Aqaba Jordan
The Real Pirate Radio: Music's Eternal Influencer
I finally watched this movie the other night on HBO and wanted to research it further. The back story is always better than the movie about, well, Pirate Radio. If this interests you, you'll also enjoy the links below.
Offshore Radio Guide
Hans Knot
Radio Caroline
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