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October 25, 2005
African Studies Professor Demands Genocide of "White People"
The protein wisdom interview: Dr. Kamau Kambon
Full Interview Text is Available HERE.
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protein wisdom: “Let’s just jump right in, shall we? In an October 14 panel presentation you gave at the ‘Black Media Forum on Image of Black Americans in Mainstream Media’ at Howard University (which aired on CSPAN), you said -- and I’m quoting here—‘We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet.’ My question is, did you mean that, like, literally, or...-- ?”
Kambon: “-- Literally, yes. Wipe ‘em all out.”
protein wisdom: “Like, in ovens and such...?”
Kambon: “Well, the method is immaterial, frankly, though Whitey’s sheer volume would probably make the use of ovens—at least until the initial extermination procedure is carried out, and the herd thinned considerably—rather impractical. I’m no expert on these kinds of things, mind you, but if I had to speculate, I should think something more covert is necessary, like, oh, I don’t know… --”
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Posted by andrewanissi at 04:10 PM
October 17, 2005
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
Faith in the spirit world and in the mysterious power of photography
by Leslie Camhi
The Village Voice
The MET - 1000 Fifth Avenue
Through December 31
In the 1870s, the first French spirit photographer, Édouard Isidore Buguet, operated "a little industry turning out ghosts" (as one chronicler called it) from his Parisian studio. After a long wait, with his client finally settled, Buguet would enter the room in a trance, perform a series of incantations and magnetic passes over the camera, place his head in his hands, and groan. At last a portrait was taken: When developed, it sometimes showed spectral beings invisible to the naked eye, hovering near the sitter. The beloved features of a drowned brother, a deceased wife or child might be discerned among their veiled and swirling forms.
Buguet was convicted of fraud in 1875; during his sensational trial, he confessed to using double exposures and jointed, cloaked dummies to create his illusions. Yet despite these admissions, many of his clients persisted in recognizing in his pictures the faces of their lost relations. Buguet had provided them with consolations too deep to be denied.
"The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult," a rich and fascinating exhibition organized by the Metropolitan Museum and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, explores the fertile cross-pollination of two beliefs: faith in the spirit world and in the power of photography to capture hitherto unknown reaches of experience. Its curators, Pierre Apraxine, Sophie Schmit, and at the Metropolitan, Mia Fineman, have focused mostly on the period from the 1860s to the 1940s, following the great waves of spiritualist practice that arrived in the wake of mounting casualties from conflicts such as the Civil War, the Paris Commune, and World War I.
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Posted by andrewanissi at 10:54 AM
October 16, 2005
England's Royal Society Releases Adelphi Charter to Redefine the Future of Intellectual Property
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce - commonly known as the RSA - was founded in 1754 to encourage the development of a principled and prosperous society.
The Adelphi Charter was prepared by an International Commission of experts from the arts, creative industries, human rights, law, economics, science, R&D, technology, the public sector and education. The International Commission has determined that current intellectual property law no longer serves the public interest, because it leans much too heavily in favor of private enrichment.
Click HERE for more information.
Download the Adelphi Charter HERE.
Posted by andrewanissi at 10:37 PM
October 15, 2005
How Hip
Andrew A. Anissi
It appears that how hip one can claim to be, nowadays, depends directly upon the generation of iPod one carries. My mom now owns an iPod Nano, and I'm still on my fourth generation monochrome click-wheel iPod, putting my hipness at about the level of Pavement or Mogwai. You know what I mean, they were pretty cool...back then. The only way I can catch up now is to get one of those new video iPods. Then I will be hip once again. I was about to list some current, late 2005 hip bands, but I suddenly realized that I have no idea. I'm stuck in '03 - '04. Well...I guess I can point to Electric 6. They were very 2003, but I just saw them live and they're coming out with a new album. Yeah, Electric 6. Hip like a new iPod. Sorry, that's the best I can do.
Posted by andrewanissi at 05:06 PM
Paganism Revives in Russia
by Michael Bourdeaux
IN THE FOREST shrine, the meat of two rams and a goat cook in great cauldrons suspended from wooden frames. Cloth belts stained with the blood of these sacrificial animals hang from the trees. Higher up, the branches are festooned with votive offerings--items of clothing brought by people who claim to have been cured during earlier ritual sacrifices. This is a scene not from the distant European past but from Russia's Marl El Republic today. Located along the Volga River some 400 miles east of Moscow, Mari El has solid indigenous populations of Muslims and Buddhists. Pagans are spread more thinly, but they have emerged as a presence, even a political force, during the past decade both here and in many areas of Siberia.
The Mari are not Russian but the survivors of an ancient westward movement of an Asian people, the Finno-Ugrians. They have their own language and are now reasserting their old religion. The communists found it easier to demolish Orthodox churches than to find secret shrines in the dense forests and identify pagan priests who in their daily lives were employed in ordinary, usually humble professions. Now the karts, as the priests and shamans are called, have emerged into the open and are willing to meet even the rare foreigners who penetrate the region.
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Posted by andrewanissi at 03:36 AM
October 14, 2005
Chinese workers in Israel sign no-sex contract
Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Wednesday December 24, 2003
The Guardian
Chinese workers at a company in Israel have been forced to agree not to have sex with or marry Israelis as a condition of getting a job.
According to a contact they are required to sign, male workers may not have any contact with Israeli women - including prostitutes, a police spokesman, Rafi Yaffe, said.
He said there was nothing illegal about the requirement and that no investigation had been opened.
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Posted by andrewanissi at 03:55 PM
Opening a closed society
A forced Islamic identity creates a profound confusion to distinguish the real Iranian identity from the forged one
October 12, 2005
Identity is a series of collective characteristics by which a person should be recognised as a part of a given group. In my article, I raise up the question whether the Iranian identity is distinct.
The main reason of this identity crisis isthe process of political and social polarisations of the Iranians in recent decades rather than a material or immaterial substance of the past history.
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Posted by andrewanissi at 03:33 PM
Democracy is overrated
The authoritarian development state
October 6, 2005
Arash Sayedi
There are few who would refute the claim that the Japanese model of modernisation has been one of the greatest miracles of the 20 th century. Any system that could achieve in two generations what Europe did in three hundred years is a powerful one and one that cannot be ignored. Many see Japan and the Asian Tigers as democratic nations but a brief look at their near history reveals that during their periods of high economic growth they were anything but.
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Posted by andrewanissi at 03:18 PM
October 13, 2005
Jews Against Zionism
from the Hackney Gazette
10 October 2005
AN orthodox Jewish synagogue in Stamford Hill has been attacked and vandalised - not by anti-semetic thugs, but by fellow Jews who regard its leaders' outspoken condemnation of Israel as a betrayal.
Rising tensions over the forced evictions by Israeli troops last month of Jewish settlers from occupied Palestinian territory as part of the Middle East peace process has sparked a backlash among Stamford Hill's orthodox Jewish community.
Windows at the synagogue in Alkham Road were smashed after bottles were hurled at them last Thursday evening and the front of the building was covered with red spray paint.
The synagogue belongs to Neturei Karta, an ultra-orthodox sect opposed to the Zionist political movement that established the state of Israel as a national homeland for Jews.
The sect claims that the concept of a sovereign Jewish state is contrary to the teachings of the torah (Jewish law) and has led to the bloodshed in the Middle East.
In recent years it has staged the public burning of the Israeli flag on street corners in Stamford Hill.
The article was published HERE.
Posted by andrewanissi at 06:01 PM
October 12, 2005
The spies who pushed for war
Julian Borger reports on the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force
Thursday July 17, 2003
The Guardian
As the CIA director, George Tenet, arrived at the Senate yesterday to give secret testimony on the Niger uranium affair, it was becoming increasingly clear in Washington that the scandal was only a small, well-documented symptom of a complete breakdown in US intelligence that helped steer America into war.
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Posted by andrewanissi at 11:11 PM
October 11, 2005
A Picture and 1000 Words: Joanna Scott
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Posted by andrewanissi at 11:08 AM
October 10, 2005
Creativity Now
Tokion's Annual Conference on October 15-16 at Cooper Union
$45 one day ($40 for students)
$75 two days ($70 for students)
Posted by andrewanissi at 06:19 PM
Einstein was wrong. General relativity explains astrophysics, without the need for dark matter or Special Relativity
Posted by Hemos on Monday October 10, @10:30AM on Slashdot
from the all-einstein-quotes-you-know-are-wrong dept.
dr. loser writes "The CERN newsletter reports that a new PAPER by scientists at the University of Victoria has demonstrated that one of the prime observational justifications for the existence of dark matter can be explained without any dark matter at all, by a proper use of general relativity! What does this imply for cosmology and particle physics, both of which have been worrying about other aspects of dark matter?"
Posted by andrewanissi at 03:18 PM
October 09, 2005
Record Labels Unveil Greed 2.05
Posted by Zonk on Sunday October 09, @03:42PM on Slashdot
theodp writes "Unsatisfied with $2.49 ringtones and as much as 70 cents of each 99 cent iTunes download, Newsweek reports that record labels want a bigger cut of digital music profits. One example: If you type in 'Madonna' - a Warner act - at the Google Video site, and the results are accompanied by ads, Warner wants a share of those ad dollars." Even more ridiculous demands than those put forth in previous stories.
For more information, click HERE.
Posted by andrewanissi at 07:45 PM
October 06, 2005
Highest Court of Australia Rules Against Sony in Playstation Mod Chip Case
The High Court of Australia today allowed an appeal against a finding that Mr Stevens’s modifications to Sony PlayStation consoles to allow unauthorised copies of games to be played were illegal.
With effect from 4 March 2001, the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act introduced provisions relating to “circumvention devices” into the Copyright Act. The appeal concerned the meaning of that term.
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Posted by andrewanissi at 11:54 PM
October 03, 2005
Shining in a New Light
Have you seen Stanley Kubrick's The Shining? Were you terrified and emotionally scarred aftewards? Or did you think it was a heart-warming family film that touches us deeply? Click on this link for a new trailer that seems to indicate the latter:
http://www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov
Posted by andrewanissi at 11:24 AM