Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts

Miral

Monday, December 6, 2010

Miral, directed by Julian Schnabel, is based on journalist Rula Jebreal’s autobiographical novel about growing up as a Palestinian in Israel. It tells the first-hand tale of three women whose lives unfold during the first intifada, the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation that began in 1987. Highlighting the remarkable work of a Palestinian woman named Hind Husseini – a woman who sacrifices everything to establish a school for refugee Palestinian girls in East Jerusalem and takes Miral in – the book and film show that hope still exists within a world of conflict. Bringing numerous elements of her own life into the story – Jebreal and her younger sister were taken in by Husseini after their own mother committed suicide.

"the real problem is the movie is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel and it is going to be very difficult to get American audiences excited to see it," said one source.

Wikipedia | Guardian

Published by Serpent’s Tail Miral, the book, is out now. Miral, the film, is out now in the UK and released on 25 March, 2011, in the US.

The back story of Rula Jebreal's relationship with Schnabel is also pretty interesting.


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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Kucinich Raises Questions about Military Aid to Israel

Despite a rising death and injury toll, U-S government reaction to the conflict in Gaza has been slow, with few lawmakers making public statements about the crisis, including President Elect Barack Obama. But a former presidential contender - Ohio Congressmember Dennis Kucinich - took his time on the House floor today to raise questions about the U-S relationship with Israel - whether or not continued military aid to the county is a violation of the Arms Export Control Act.

Representative Dennis Kucinich: "I oppose Hamas' rocket attacks on Israel. The rocket attacks, even to try to end the blockade, have no moral justification, are illegal and must stop. But how can Israel claim self defense when it bombs Gaza which has no army, no air force, no navy and has been under a constant blockade? How can Israel claim self defense when its bombs destroy UN schools, killing children? The children of Palestinians and the children of Israel both deserve life. But the lives of the children of Gaza are cynically discounted as "human shields".

Dennis Kucinich is no stranger to being the lone voice of dissidence in Washington, DC. By the way, I'd like to see him get a respectable Obama appointment.

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Israel Deploys White Phosphorus Shells

Sunday, January 4, 2009


Footage of Israeli helicopter firing what appears to be WP on the streets of Gaza.
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Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday, cutting the coastal territory into two and surrounding its biggest city as the new phase of a devastating offensive against Hamas militants gained momentum. (Jan. 4)
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WHITE PHOSPHORUS STORIES MOSTLY IN INTERNATIONAL PRESS - The international press cannot go into Gaza to cover the war and are reporting a mile out from the borders.


More related stories:
War Crime du Jour

Gordon Brown calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Gaza death toll soars past 500 as Israel is accused of using banned phosphorus shells

Do know about white phosphorus? Phosphorus pentoxide (wp smoke) will eat your lung tissue until you die a horrible death.

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Friday, February 22, 2008

The Curse Of… The Mars Volta:

The board... was in fact a talking board, an archaic version of today’s Ouija board. Used by occultists for thousands of years to summon and communicate with spirits, talking boards are said to date back to 500 B.C. when Greek philosopher, mathematician and mystic Pythagoras allegedly used them in seances.

"It was sort of like sleepwalking," he says. "It was like something bigger than me was telling me to do it. I just felt drawn there somehow, just like when I went to Israel. I’d never heard of this place, but that’s where I was going. I got there, went out and buried it and didn’t make any conscious effort of figuring out how to get back there ever again. When it was done, I felt like there was nothing inside of me. I cried for days and days and didn’t understand why. For days afterwards, I wasn’t sure I wanted to play music. I wasn’t sure I wanted to do anything or have anyone around me. It was complete emptiness."

--Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, The Mars Volta

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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

SANTA'S GHETTO

In a creative bid to boost Bethlehem's sagging economy, Banksy has brought his seasonal "Santa's Ghetto" exhibition to this Palestinian town that has seen few tourists in recent years.

The infamous stencil artist joined several others in creating over a dozen works on the concrete wall surrounding the town, turning a hated symbol of Israeli occupation into an massive open air art gallery. Another dozen or so works are on display in a former chicken shop in Manger Square.

In pictures: Banksy returns to Bethlehem

More info can be found at the Santa's Ghetto website.


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Craig's List WTC Posting

Saturday, August 11, 2007

This is the most bizarre of all Craigs List postings ever... Is it true?
"I'm retired now. But five years ago I helped blow up the WTC complex."


Confessions Of A 911 Hitman

Confessions Of A 911 Hitman
Reply to: pers-389756978@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-08-05, 10:33AM EDT

I'm retired now. But five years ago I helped blow up the WTC complex. I was paid a half million dollars, tax free, for my time and trouble. I don't know what the rest of my crew was paid--maybe a little more, maybe a little less. Not that I care much. In operations like this one, where dozens and dozens of top technicians operated like a team, nobody knew the entire operation or who was who, or what everybody got paid---the big picture, as people call it. Better that way. Better that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Living on the beach here in Cartagena, Columbia I've had lots of time to reflect. Lots more time to wonder. What surprises me most, however, is how very few intelligent people in America question the obvious signature of the crime, even after five years.

How did we do it and why did we do it? The absolute audacity and cleverness still surprises me. The planners knew that success was the only option and so they spent years, not months, designing the perfect plan. What you call murder, I call the perfect crime. What you call an act of terror, I call the perfect diversion.

The intelligent people who run your country know that America depends on a continuous supply of oil. They also know that Americans use far more oil than they can produce here in America. They also know that if anyone in the Middle East were allowed to sell oil for euros--which Iraq attempted to do and Iran is threatening to do---and thus break the monopoly of US petrodollars, America might just go down the tubes. At least that is how it was explained to me, one of the reasons we were doing what we were doing, in the weeks and months during our furious preparations.

But if the US was attacked by terrorists, however, by rogue clients of ME states, then America could retaliate, occupy their countries, insert puppet leaders like the Shah of Iran, and continue siphoning oil forever. And hundreds of people would make billions, while thousands of multinational companies--not just Halliburton--would profit immensely.

And so America needed to be attacked.

But the attack needed to be spectacular. And the targets needed to be high image targets that represented America but was really stuff that could be rebuilt. Rebuilt at a profit. And so you saw the Pentagon targeted rather than the Congress building. Because Congress still needed someplace to meet and declare war against those nations that attacked America.

MY job was to wire explosives inside the various WTC buildings. We wired buildings 1, 2, 6, and 7. We hardwired some areas and attached explosives and electronic detonators to many other key structural joints. We did this weeks in advance. WTC-7 fell in a classic controlled demolition (See example) but the Twin Towers required a lot more ingenuity. The fellow who planned the actual sequence of detonations is a genius. He was rumored to have been paid seven or eight figures and is a fucking master. Almost like a composer of a symphony orchestra but better. Much better.

Entry into even the most secure areas of the WTC complex was easy. The badges and identifications were specially made. We had a guy at the top, an insider, who supplied the entry passes. We were the invisible people, those people who you see everyday but don't see. We were the janitors and maintenance men you take for granted but who have far more access in your own building than you'll ever have. Like I said, this whole operation was designed years in advance and took months to assemble the teams of top specialists. Then we worked weeks together to attack each key area of the plan. Like a builder using a blueprint.

Those people who say it couldn't be done, or only hijackers in airplanes could do it, really piss me off. Because we did it. For example, instead of building the Hoover Dam we took it down, piece by piece in a couple hours, and made each step look believable. Made it look like the dam just burst naturally.

The majority of ignorant people say, "fires brought the buildings down." We just smile and say, yes they did. Most people don't know that steel doesn't melt from fuel fires but melted steel was found weeks later in the substructure of the WTC. Nobody seems to want to know how that happened to perfectly good steel. Most people don't know thermite was used in World War II or that explosives and detonaters can be attached and then remotely detonated from blocks away in whatever sequence you choose. That was why when you watched the middle part of the towers explode--pancake down as the experts claimed---the upper parts of the twin towers were being simultaneously detonated as the lower parts were crumbling. If we hadn't done that you would have seen 30 to 40 story segment sitting on the rubble pile.

Like I said it was a work of genius.

Am I sorry that almost 3,000 people got killed? Sure. Are you sorry that you, personally, use so much foreign oil? And are you sorry that all these faked resource wars have to be concocted so that you can get that oil and live comfortably? Didn't think so.

Investigators on those TV crime shows, the CSI people, always try to understand who benefits by the bloody crime. If you understand that many people benefitted by 9-11, by the WTC destruction, then you are more than halfway to solving the crime. Not just who dunnit, but how dunnit and why dunnit.

The benefits of the plan were manifold. Everyone involved profited. The political zealots at the Pentagon got there holy war, or wars, that would benefit Israel while weakening the entire ME. The corporate--connected people got billions in new contracts. The military people got new toys.

Meanwhile the more pragmatic planners assembled a team to start removing gold and silver from below building 4 as soon as the remote-controlled planes struck the towers. We had teams taking bullion from the vaults immediately before and after the towers fell. Miles of tunnels connected the complex. Teams had seven hours to remove as much bullion as they could. The falling towers, the smoke, the fires, the sirens, that was all a grand diversion going on in the streets above. Like I said the plan was designed to appear to be an Islamic terrorist attack yet functioned perfectly as an enormous, gigantic bank robbery. The biggest heist in history.

Was I underpaid? Probably. But I was just one cog in this smooth functioning yet risky machine. Some internet blogger speculated that only 50-51 men could pull off this perfect crime, but I think it had to be several hundred experts involved.

Who were we? Americans, Israelis, South Africans, Brits, Irish. All top specialists. The best of the best. Like that popular TV show, the Mission Impossible force, that was us. Quite a few former special forces, several top intelligence men, financial wizards, some foreign mercenaries, Israeli demo specialists, electronic specialists, security specialists. You name it.

How to keep everyone quiet, you ask? You heard the old saying, two can keep a secret if one of them is dead? Well a thousand can keep a secret if everyone is happy and everyone is very well paid. You also heard that old saying, honor among thieves? Well why would anyone want to rat on someone else? And even if one person got shitfaced drunk and bragged about bringing down the trade towers, who would believe him.

After all, we all saw the hijacked jets crashed into the Trade Towers, right? And then we all saw that fuel fires weakened the steel and brought down those same towers, right?

No one will ever catch us. Who would investigate? Hugo Chavez? We commited the perfect crime and got away with it.

But like I said at the beginning, the crime was obviously a crime to anyone who even glanced at the pictures on the TV. It was so fucking obvious it still makes me laugh. What happened was a classic diversion. The towers fell; two or three ME countries were blamed. A suitable villain was fingered.

But you have hundreds of millions in stolen gold--did Osama steal it? You have those jackpot insurance claims on a pair of architecturel white elephants, leased only months before (giving us enough time to wire them). You have fake pilots that couldn't fly, doing maneuvers in Boeing jumbo jets that were electronically programmed not to allow pilots to fly that way. You have FBI and CIA head honchos looking the other way. I could go on and on. But isn't that what your real CSI people should be doing--but aren't? Isn't that what your real detectives should be doing--but aren't?

If a farmer finds his henhouse raided by a fox, he tracks the fox through the snow and discovers the burrow and sees the feathers and the blood. Well, you've seen the feathers and the blood all over the people who planned 9-11 but still you can't seem to put the pieces of this great crime together. Why is that?

Could this be legit? A rambling fake? Will we ever know the truth behind 9/11?

(via: 60s Beyond)

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/rnr/389756978.html
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UntitledCaoimhe Butterly interupts Tony Blair Press Conf in Lebanon

Monday, September 11, 2006

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- An angry protester accusing Tony Blair of complicity in the recent Israeli bombardment of Lebanon disrupted a news conference and thousands more shouted outside Monday as the British prime minister visited Beirut in a show of support for the devastated nation's government.

"This visit is an insult," the woman shouted as Blair and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora spoke at Saniora's office complex. "Shame on you Tony Blair."

She held a banner that said "Boycott Israeli apartheid" in front of live TV cameras until security guards holding her by her arms and legs carried her out. The two leaders stood quietly as she shouted.

The "woman" is peace advocate Caoimhe Butterly and she's very well respected around the globe for her unwavering fight against the war machine. Read more about her at Wikipedia.

BBC: Caoimhe Butterly interupts Tony Blair Press Conf in Lebanon - Indymedia Ireland

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Monday, August 14, 2006

WATCHING LEBANON - Washington's interests in Israel's war. --by SEYMOUR M. HERSH

The White House was more focused on stripping Hezbollah of its missiles, because, if there was to be a military option against Iran's nuclear facilities, it had to get rid of the weapons that Hezbollah could use in a potential retaliation at Israel. Bush wanted both. Bush was going after Iran, as part of the Axis of Evil, and its nuclear sites, and he was interested in going after Hezbollah as part of his interest in democratization, with Lebanon as one of the crown jewels of Middle East democracy.

..."If the most dominant military force in the region the 'Israel Defense Forces' can't pacify a country like Lebanon, with a population of four million, you should think carefully about taking that template to Iran, with strategic depth and a population of seventy million," Armitage said. "The only thing that the bombing has achieved so far is to unite the population against the Israelis."

...A former intelligence officer said, "We told Israel, 'Look, if you guys have to go, we’re behind you all the way. But we think it should be sooner rather than later—the longer you wait, the less time we have to evaluate and plan for Iran before Bush gets out of office.' "

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More truth on laying the foundation for a war with Iran. Hersh always cuts through the mountains of bullshit and also has an incredible way of getting people of the highest ranks to confide in him.

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Monday, July 31, 2006

I have seen my share of modern wars, as a researcher at Human Rights Watch. In Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, we found many civilian casualties due to bombing campaigns. Civilians fleeing attacks were hit by mistake. In Iraq, US bombs often hit civilian homes, hours after Saddam Hussein or members of his inner circle had left, missing their legitimate targets but killing civilians.

In Lebanon it is a very different picture. Time after time, Israel strikes at civilian homes and civilian vehicles attempting to flee the besieged southern border zone, killing families without any military objective in sight.

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"And still, it continues ...": Lebanese bloggers react to massacre at Qana in this collection of posts.

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Although you don't hear much about it here in the US, global protests were held this weekend for Lebanon.

STOP THE BOMBING NOW!

Round up of weekend events for Lebanon
July 28th –July 30th 2006

In the UK - these links are of protests around the globe

1/ Edinburgh: link
2/ Prestwick Airport: link
3/ Leeds: link
4/ Norwich: link
5/ London (Downing Street): link
5a/ London (Trafalgar Square): link
6/ Birmingham: link
7/ Brighton: link

Around the World:

8/ Beirut: link
9/ Pebble Beach, USA (Blair and Murdoch cosy up): link
10/ New York City (Brooklyn): link
11/ Portland, Oregon: link
12/ Perth, Australia: link
13/ Warsaw, Poland: link
14/ Tel Aviv, Israel: link
15/ Ireland: link


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Monday, July 17, 2006

FROM GAZA WITH LOVE

As a mother, I fear for our children. I can see the effects of the continuous sonic booming and artillery shelling on my daughter. She is 13 years old and she is restless, panicked. She is afraid to go out, yet frustrated because she can't see her friends. When the Israeli planes break the sound barrier, which they do at all times of the day and night, the sound is terrifying. My bed shakes tremendously. My daughter usually jumps into bed with me, shivering with fear. Then both of us end up crouching on the floor. My heart races, yet I need to pacify my daughter, to make her feel safe. Now she knows that we need to pacify each other. She feels my fear. When the bombs sound, I flinch and scream. I can't help myself. I am a doctor, a mature, middle-aged woman. But with the sonic booming, I become hysterical. I am only human after all, and we all have our threshold for fear and pain."

Dr. Mona El-Farra is a physician by training, a human rights and women's rights activist by practice, in the Occupied Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory. See the Gaza Strip through her eyes.

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I'm certainly not taking sides in any Middle East conflict nor am I skilled enough to debate it. I just find it more interesting to hear a Mother's viewpoint than a newscaster's.

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Thursday, March 2, 2006

Web Trail | Impending Iran attack?, Low-Fat bOING bOING, Bare Care, Pass the PDR, Busted, Iknow Eno

Inevitable Iran Attack? The official excuse for the attack is the possible nuclear weapons program in Iran: ex-CIA agents Paul Pillar and Ellen Laipson as well as retired United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix state that if Iran were really trying to build atom bombs, then the most effective way to stop this would be a guarantee from the US and Israel not to attack Iran. [MORE...]

The popular bOING bOING is a good website in part because they have something for everyone. But there are some topics that just don't interest me - particularly the tech stuff that's way over my head. And that's where bOING bOING LITE comes in.

McSweeney's Career Days is very funny with a Memo
To: All Employees
From: Paul Pell, President and CEO, Die Mold Industries Inc.


Bush BUSTED!

Please Call Home is the working title of a feature-length documentary about the Big House -- the Macon, Ga., residence in which the Allman Brothers Band lived during the early '70s.

About 35 UC San Diego students stripped to their underwear – and in some cases, wore nothing but poster boards – yesterday to persuade university administrators to adopt more stringent labor codes for the manufacturing of all university licensed apparel. [More...]

And goes running for the shelter... - Alcibiades Dream a clinical, but honest account of a drug user in college.

Did You Know?
Brian Eno did the Windows 95 startup sound.

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Friday, January 13, 2006

Sad News
From Gary Rhine's Website...

It is with great sorrow that we inform the readers of Rhino's Blog that Gary Rhine has passed away. Gary died while doing something he loved - flying a small plane. The plane crashed in Lancaster, California, on January 9th at 1:40 p.m.

The funeral will be in San Francisco
on Sunday the 15th of January:
Congregation Beth-Israel-Judea
625 Brotherhood Way
San Francisco, Ca. 94132
Services will begin at 1:30.

A memorial will be held in Los Angeles at a later date. That information will also be posted here when we know more.

If you would like to contact Gary's family, then you can e-mail his wife, Irene Romero, at: imromero@kifaru.com

The family thanks you for your concern. In lieu of flowers, you may choose to honor Gary by sending a contribution to one of the following two charitable organizations that Gary cared deeply about:

The Friendship House
56 Julian Street
San Francisco, Ca. 94103

Plenty USA
PO Box 394
Summertown
Tennessee, 38483
(on the memo line, please indicate that the funds should be directed to the Rhino/Katrina Building Fund)


Rhino's Blog : Political activism, commentary & satire from a 5th generation San Franciscan, filmmaker, father, paramedic, and Indigenous rights activist. Rhino's Blog

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Monday, January 9, 2006

"Nuclear War Against Iran"

By Michel Chossudovsky
globalresearch.ca
1-5-06


The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran is now in the final planning stages.

Coalition partners, which include the US, Israel and Turkey are in "an advanced stage of readiness".

Various military exercises have been conducted, starting in early 2005. In turn, the Iranian Armed Forces have also conducted large scale military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf in December in anticipation of a US sponsored attack.

Since early 2005, there has been intense shuttle diplomacy between Washington, Tel Aviv, Ankara and NATO headquarters in Brussels.

In recent developments, CIA Director Porter Goss on a mission to Ankara, requested Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "to provide political and logistic support for air strikes against Iranian nuclear and military targets." Goss reportedly asked " for special cooperation from Turkish intelligence to help prepare and monitor the operation." (DDP, 30 December 2005).

In turn, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has given the green light to the Israeli Armed Forces to launch the attacks by the end of March:

All top Israeli officials have pronounced the end of March, 2006, as the deadline for launching a military assault on Iran.... The end of March date also coincides with the IAEA report to the UN on Iran's nuclear energy program. Israeli policymakers believe that their threats may influence the report, or at least force the kind of ambiguities, which can be exploited by its overseas supporters to promote Security Council sanctions or justify Israeli military action. [More]

I used to think that Nixon was the worst president I'd ever voted against. This seed was planted ages ago and after the prerequiste amount of fear-mongering, the public will be aggitated enough to support this assault, too. If the latest news on an impending strike on Iran doesn't worry you, you may not have a pulse.

[Link - via Zim Zalabim]

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Guided by inspiration from his journey to Iraq, Palestine and Israel this past summer, musician/poet/activist Michael Franti heads to Kingston, Jamaica to team up with legendary godfathers of riddim Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records and long-time Beastie Boys collaborator, Jack Johnson producer, Mario Caldato, Jr.

BJORK is ready to speak out on behalf of down-trodden women because she is sick of men leading less complicated lives. She always avoided conversations about gender issues in the past because she didn't want to be labelled a feminist - but now she is prepared to speak her mind.

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Saturday, March 27, 2004









Beautiful art;especially the Tarot deck. link seen @ sugar 'n' spicy. Ilana always has great artsy links and blogs from Israel.





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Friday, July 18, 2003

Aloha Friday!



UN Secretary General Khofi Anan tells Myanmar envoy to release Suu Kyi. Her plight has affected me deeply and I sure hope she's soon released.



Is he or isn't he? Well, of course he's.... Canadian. And news correspondant Jeffrey Kofman is reporting the truth from the soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq. They've got something to say about their extended Iraqui vacation plans.



The Airplane Takes Off Again. BMG Heritage has prepared deluxe reissues of the group's first four albums, all set for an Aug. 19 release. ("Jefferson Airplane Takes Off," "Surrealistic Pillow," "After Bathing at Baxter's" and "Crown of Creation" ) I read a review the other day where someone was talking about Surrealistic Pillow sucking out loud. I certainly beg to differ.



Gov't Mule, with family friend Warren Haynes, has a busy fall lined up as well as some solo venues planned soon. The Fall tour will mark the introduction of a new bass player since bassist Allen Woody passed. And Warren always does a Christmas show each year here in Asheville, NC.



Retrolounge. Bringing you the best of bygone eras. [via coudal partners]



blogging around

Rickie Beth is moving from NJ to Philly. I'm a wee bit jealous.



The MEG blog pointed us to the World O'Blivion.



Ever played the word game Smush at Crinkle Cutz?



Sugar N Spicy is Ilana from Israel. She always has the best pictures and fun links.



Go Fish -- aka Nicole, lives in Philadelphia. She's currently out of town but has fun guest bloggers filling in. She has the greatest "skins". [Philly must be the city of the day.]



Quote For Today

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

~Kahlil Gibran, 'On Giving,' The Prophet, 1923



Fond of dead flowers, nipple rings--- the usual girlie stuff.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2003

I still wish for peace.....



The Rolling Stones have released an Artist Choice - Music That Matters To Them CD, with their just favorite songs of other artists for a Starbucks (yikes!)promotion. You can also listen to some of those songs included: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, James Brown; You Shook Me, Muddy Waters; If You Want Me To Stay, Sly & The Family Stone.



More Weblog Stuff

**Do you ping? Some blogging systems will automatically ping you, like Movable Type and Radioland and Blogger Pro, (I believe all these do) but many of us have to ping ourselves manually. For those not familiar with "pinging", it's a way of listing your site after you update it, so that others will know you've recently updated your weblog. Many who use blogrolling.com can signify an updated site. I use an * (asterisk) beside the recently updated ones. Anybody can ping. To manually ping your own site after posting/updating, bookmark this site: http://newhome.weblogs.com/pingSiteForm, and fill in the name of your site first, and then the address of your site. That's it.

**New stuff! Now getting Blogspot updates integrated into the recently updated feeds. This is a beta feature and only updates once an hour right now. Like all beta features let me know if you notice any wonkiness. This will be updating more often in the near future. I just read this on the Blogrolling site; it was written on Sunday, Mar 23.



Per Daily Kos: "No Scuds. No WMDs. No attacks on Israel. But AK-47s, RPGs and pickup trucks. Thank the gods I'm being "defended" (per Bush) from these pickup trucks of mass destruction. I will definitely sleep better tonight.

(Actually, I wont...)"



One very good source for war news. I check it a few times each day now.



Quote For Today

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." ~Albert Schweitzer



Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. {michael moore}



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Monday, March 24, 2003

Weblog Problems DuJour:

1) Tried to border a pic with info on Meg's site (mandarin design), and it posted fine in editing; but wouldn't publish correctly.

2) Comments are completely down this morning. {back up after 12:00}

3) My site will NOT take a ping, after 6 attempts within 2 hours. {finally got a ping after 11:30}



Good Morning. I still wish for peace.....



"Why are you here in this country? Are you trying to take over? Are you going to take our country forever? Are the Israelis coming next? Are you here to steal our oil? When are you going to get out?" This is the other side of the news we've been getting about Iraquis dancing in the streets with glee since seeing American soldiers. Pardon me for being more than a little cynical, but I've been watching my television news do this for many decades now. I just want the truth.



Companies secretly bid to rebuild Iraq. The USAID contract is filled with details about plans to construct Iraqi schools, airports, roads, bridges, hospitals, power plants and more. Things like this are why I'm a little cynical.



The TV War Coverage Drinking Game I mentioned last week, suggests taking a drink when certain popular phrases are mentioned. Like, "WMD", "shock and awe", "regime change", "9-11", "embedded". I added "capitulation" to their list. Today I might add:" pockets of resistance". No discussion about popular phrases can be complete without my favorite non-phrase, "that said", and "that being said", "having said that". Does anyone know how stupid that sounds? If you have ever uttered one of those phrases, Stop It. Now. It adds nothing to the conversation and makes you look like the lemming that you are. {long-time blogging buddies will recognize this rant.}



Most bloggers have rings, cliques, groups we belong to, as do I. So I thought if I could remember, I'd try to spotlight one of them occasionally. Today I'll mention the Ageless Project. When I first visited their site over a year ago, I looked up other weblogs to see if there were people as old as me were others who had birthdays close to mine. And there were. So I stopped by a few of them and introduced myself. I still talk to these folks almost daily and we have a great online friendship.



Quote For Today

"I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed."

~Anais Nin



Earth is full. Go home.





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