Friday, September 30, 2005

Skivsamling.nu is a free service for everyone who wants to have their record collection easily accessible on the net.

It's all very simple, you enter your records here, and then it's all set up.

If you haven't figured it out yourself, "skivsamling" is "record collection" in Swedish :)


I feel somewhat better about putting my recipes into a mysql database now
posted by meau meau , 10:10 AM Þ 
Thursday, September 29, 2005

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=4260463&size=o&context=set-89655

Look at the amazing amount of traffic generated by the clients feeding LastFM.

That is what I call 'high volume'.
posted by Irdial , 4:48 PM Þ 

In a few years time it is possible that you will require your ID card to be authorised before using a computer in an internet cafe, once registered your browsing history will be automatically logged to your NIR record for at least the 6 month period defined by anti-terrorist legislation, using powerful social networking software the browsing of suspected terrorists history will allow the police to find similarly minded people who had previously fallen under the radar.

Far-fetched?

FEAR - Everything is true, nothing is permitted.
posted by meau meau , 1:23 PM Þ 

BRIGHTON, England -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologized to an 82-year-old man who was thrown out of the Labour Party's annual meeting after heckling Foreign Secretary Jack Straw over the Iraq war.

Blair said stewards had been "overzealous" in their treatment of Walter Wolfgang, telling British television on Thursday: "I'm really sorry about it."

Wolfgang, a veteran peace campaigner who fled Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee to make Britain his home, shouted "nonsense" at Straw on Wednesday as he said UK troops would remain in Iraq.

Stewards grabbed Wolfgang and physically removed him from the conference hall, prompting another delegate, Steve Forrest, to shout out a complaint about his treatment.

Forrest also was ejected from the conference center on Brighton's seafront.

Wolfgang tried to re-enter the conference venue but was stopped by police using powers under the Terrorism Act and had his pass confiscated, the UK's Press Association reported.

On Thursday, Blair told BBC television: "People are perfectly entitled to freedom of speech in our country and we should celebrate that fact and I'm really sorry about what happened to Walter and I've apologized to him.

"It's just an unfortunate thing that happened. The Labour Party has apologized. The chairman of the Labour Party and I have apologized to him."

On Wednesday night, Labour officials invited Wolfgang back to the conference Thursday provided he gave assurances he would not cause a disturbance.

"The Labour Party reserves its rights to remove from the conference site people who cause a persistent disturbance. However it is clear from TV footage that the way in which Mr. Wolfgang was removed was inappropriate," a party statement said.

The incident cast a shadow over the final session of the party's annual conference, as Blair was forced to field a series of questions about Wolfgang's treatment during a round of early morning broadcast interviews.

Wolfgang, from Richmond, southwest London, said he was approached by stewards after shouting "nonsense" as Straw was speaking.

Wolfgang said: "I shouted out 'nonsense.' That's all I said. Then these two toughies came round and wanted to manhandle me out.

"I said 'Do you want me to leave? I will leave, you don't need to manhandle me.' Physically, I am not too well, so I said I would follow them.

"Most of the Labour Party stewards are very nice people. One or two people lend themselves to this nonsense."

A Labour Party member of 57 years' standing, Wolfgang said: "It makes me feel that the people who resort to these tactics are very unsure of themselves and they are on the losing side." [...]

CNN

Well DUH, and my emphasis.

All the heckling and shouting in the world will not stop these people, "wake up, time to die..." I wonder just what it would take for someone like this to resign from the Labor party? Honestly, this man is a 'Jewish refugee as who fled Nazi Germany' Illegal invasions, bogus wars, unquestioned introduction of special powers, ID cards to be issued in response to a foreign threat, and then those powers used directly on you in front of millions without consequence...COME ON, how obvious do they have to make it?

And not that we needed any proof, but they used the terrorism act on this stupid man; just as everyone said, the police will use this legislation whenever they need it for any purpose not just the prevention of "terrorism", which now includes shouting out a single word of the english language.

The only reason why this man was apologised to was because they were all caught red handed on TV. Bliar all but admitted it himself; astonishing that he believes he can be exhonerated simply by granting apologies by the high priests of new labor, as if by virtue of their rank, the apology 'makes it all ok'.

"It's just an unfortunate thing that happened." The murderers of England are the unfortunate "thing" that has happened. They took over the great house, stripped off the wood paneling of the ancient rooms and burned them simply because the central heating went off in the middle of winter.

...newsflash...

Summer is icumen in!
posted by Irdial , 10:36 AM Þ 

You will have no doubt heard about the heckler expelled from the Labour Party Conference yesterday and that;
"When Mr Wolfgang tried to re-enter the Brighton conference venue he found himself stopped by the police under the Prevention of Terrorism Act..."

This morning the PM was on the Toady programme arguing that 'common sense' would prevent his even more draconian legislation being misapplied, not to denegrate the police too much but there hardly seems to be a great deal of common sense in the application of the current legislation in regard to non-intelligence led charges (basically I'm saying the police are using any excuse to pounce on dissenting voices in the country and because the Anti-terrorism legislation is so badly defined in its scope and that it gives the police the greatest control over those arrested, they will use this greatly prejudicial and potentially blighting tool in preference to 'common sense').

It is not simply a matter of being inconvenienced in a detention room, arrest under anti-terrorism legisaltion leads a person to be flagged up as a potential risk to the nation and other countries and we know from the various false positives thrown up by US-VISIT etc that databases of this information are already not being maintained properly so false information will stick. This affects individuals rights as much as bad legislation des in the first place and is too great a matter to be left to 'common sense'

-

Turkey & the EU:

J Straw says "Turkey would lose from a no decision. But Europe and its people would lose even more."

A part of me wonders whether UK gov is so eager for Turkey to become part of the EU so the massive oil pipeline across its territory will be 'safely' within EU boundaries and therefore within Murder Inc's sphere of influence.
posted by meau meau , 10:30 AM Þ 
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

From Pinocchio's speech:

And the way to stop the innocent dying is not to retreat, to withdraw, to hand these people over to the mercy of religious fanatics or relics of Saddam, but to stand up for their right to decide their Government in the same democratic way the British people do (With the support of 25% of the country? - mm).


Now focus on Saudi Arabia, not a democracy in any sense of the word, what would be the best way for a government which so loves intervening in foreign government's policies to send a tough message that democratic principles are the only principles the UK will tolerate - because to do the opposite would be simple hypocrisy and undermine the excuse of the UK government for going to invade Iraq:

Tony Blair and John Reid, the defence secretary, have been holding secret talks with Saudi Arabia in pursuit of a huge arms deal worth up to £40bn, according to diplomatic sources.

[...]

Defence, diplomatic and legal sources say negotiations are stalling because the Saudis are demanding three favours. These are that Britain should expel two anti-Saudi dissidents, Saad al-Faqih and Mohammed al-Masari; that British Airways should resume flights to Riyadh, currently cancelled through terrorism fears; and that a corruption investigation implicating the Saudi ruling family and BAE should be dropped. Crown prince Sultan's son-in-law, Prince Turki bin Nasr, is at the centre of a "slush fund" investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.

[...] Guardian

Notice the stumbling blocks don't include human rights or democratic principles. And wasn't propping up the House of Saud one of al-quaeda's original grievances against the west?
posted by meau meau , 1:23 PM Þ 
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

There are many references to the activities of Peter Hain, who is described as "an implacable enemy of apartheid over many years." Other individuals mentioned who, like Hain, are now government ministers include Richard Caborn and Fiona Mactaggart.

The files also contain reports of local group meetings attended by as few as six people, of whom one must have been the police informant.

At one point in the 1970s Special Branch noted that a new anti-apartheid movement group had been formed in Ealing by a 17-year-old schoolboy. At another point it is noted that a member of a local group has written a letter to the Guardian in defence of Tony Benn.

On occasion the most low-key form of anti-apartheid movement activity was drawn to the attention of Special Branch.

In 1982 they investigated the discovery of posters in "a shed under a fire escape at the back of a factory" in Barnet.

In 1984 the Surrey Police Special Branch sent the Met a confidential telegram to report that a part-time worker at Sainsbury's in Croydon "is actively passing anti-apartheid literature to other members of staff". [...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4285964.stm

You might well laugh at some of this, but as you finish your guffaw, think about what must be going on today, on a massive scale thanks to electronic communication.

Then after you have thought about that, consider that none of the spying, reporting, and record keeping made a single bit of difference to the sucessful smashing of Apartheid. Anyone that is paranoid about targeted surveillance of blogs for example, has not paid much attention. No amount of surveillance can stop a tsunami or a hurricane or, topically, a sand storm. False Evidence Appearing Real is the greatest weapon that they have against you, and its a gun of your own ceation that you point at your own head, without anyone compelling you to do it.

Peter Hain, today, a man of pure grease. Jack 'Straw Man' straw - accessory to mass murder. Both of these people in their youth were on the right side, and they can both of them, prove it. How did they both get turned to the Dark Side? It really is rather odd and horrifying to see how people go 180°....'I can overthrow the Emperor...we can make things the way we want them to be'...

The darkest thought of all; Hain, Straw and the other back turners and Dark Siders are on the inside of the real truth, and are acting accordingly....Now that is truely scary...and no less probable than any other possibility.
posted by Irdial , 11:27 PM Þ 

http://wordpress.pvassar.net/index.php?p=433

A very shocking graph, even for non economists
posted by Irdial , 11:06 PM Þ 

Strip away their fake claims of grievance and see them for what they are: terrorists who use 21st century technology to fight a pre-medieval religious war that is utterly alien to the future of humankind. T. Bliar

BBQ

Probably the most 'parralell universe' statement he has ever made. By saying this... first of all, the people who peddle fake claims are named Bliar and the Neocons - 'Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)'. Those are the fake claims. And they are the only fake claims that matter in this case.

Anyone who has a TV knows that the grievances that drive these people are anything but fake. They are absolutely real, a true outrage, really horrible and unforgivable. To say that these people's claims are 'fake' reduces them to animals; animals who don't have the right to dignity, true self determination (where THEY decide what form of government is best for them, not a cabal of murderers) and life.

That is why they are doing what they are doing....uh oh, have I just justified terrrism?! 'My feet just touched Yankee soil; got to burn my boots!'.

Speaking of anyone with a TV, if you have Sky and go to the numbers above 801, you can see 'The Islam Channel' that has all of the Ummacentric media you could want, in English. I guarantee you that the relevant people are watching these channels and not BBQ.
posted by Irdial , 7:43 PM Þ 

419 scammer gets his life almost completely destroyed by a baiter.
posted by chriszanf , 3:21 PM Þ 
Monday, September 26, 2005



And here is a photo of the protest. It covers almost all the windows on this building!
posted by Irdial , 6:52 PM Þ 

This site has the worst implimentation of a drop down I have ever seen.

This is the worst way to create a navigable list....astonishing miles long, not sort()ed...ghastly. Perhaps the guy who made this never expected it to be popular....you know how it is, you leave something running and before you know it, the disk is full, the pot has boiled over, the cake is burning, you are out of gas, you've reached your credit limit, the battery runs out, the ice has melted....like that.
posted by Irdial , 4:48 PM Þ 

China:

"The state bans the spreading of any news with content that is against national security and public interest," said a statement from Xinhua, the official news agency. The announcement called for blogs and personal web pages to "be directed towards serving the people and socialism and insist on correct guidance of public opinion for maintaining national and public interests".

applied to the UK government proposals:

"The state bans the spreading of any opinions with content that is against national security and public decorum," said a statement from BBQ, the official news agency. The announcement called for blogs and personal web pages to "be directed towards serving the people and State and insist on correct guidance of public opinion for maintaining national and public obedience".



Maybe I exaggerate the current poisition but the typically inept thinking in the proposals to propogate WORDS that may indirectly blah blah terrorism amounts to pretty much the same thing (or is about two doors away).

Lord Faulkner (whe of best friendliness to the PM) was on the radio trying to say the legislation will be used to cach phrases such as "I think the London bombings were a good idea ... and I hope that such actions will be made in the future".
I'd question whether such a statement was indirect incitement, but the Lord knows that the real intent of the legislation is to suppress any 'extremist' viewpoint and substitute government musings and suppositions as fact, and legislate accordingly.
posted by meau meau , 2:45 PM Þ 

The Register reports that:
The US Army has asked companies to bid for contracts to produce large quantities of anthrax and equipment to produce other unnamed biological agents ... the same equipment could easily be put to use to grow spores of the lethal Ames strain, and it is this that has raised eyebrows.


Of course you must realise that this is not blatant hypocrisy in regard to the 'dual purpose' capabilities of the Iranian nuclear program the the US government is using to censure the Iranian government and no doubt eventually invade, sorry, establish democracy.
posted by meau meau , 1:32 PM Þ 

Prison for tax protest pensioner



A retired social worker from Devon has become the first woman pensioner to be jailed in England for refusing to pay her council tax.

Ms Hardy was cheered by supporters when she arrived at court, complete with a packed bag in expectation of serving a jail term.

She was jailed after missing a deadline to settle arrears of £53.71. She said she was not afraid of going to prison.

Before the case she said: "If we pay it now, if they keep on increasing the taxes like they are doing, we eventually won't be able to afford to pay the bills and then we will have no existence at all, no quality of life at all.

"We'll just have to sit at our homes and do nothing. That is not for me."

When told that it would cost tax-payers' more to send her to prison than it would for her to pay, she said: "What we're doing now could save them money in the long-run. [...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4280040.stm

The old people in this country have got the right idea.

Now imagine the ten million people who are against the illegal occupation in Iraq taking a similar disobedient action. It would cause a total panic in government and would initiate a 180° policy turnaround. Nothing strikes fear into the heart of government more than mass tax disobedience. The stop war people should replace their planning team with OAPs - it looks like they are the only ones that have a got a grip!
posted by Irdial , 10:57 AM Þ 

One here for London based people...first BCG live performance for quite some time,
notobemissed imho.


Sunday 2 October, 2pm, arch
Bruce Gilbert

An improvisation using analogue and digital sound-modifying devices. Parts of the performance will be dependent on the physical and acoustic qualities of the performing area. Be warned some of the sounds may be of an extreme or loud nature.

Free entry. No booking necessary.

Beaconsfield
22 Newport St, SE11 6AY
020 7582 6465
posted by THESE , 12:34 AM Þ 
Sunday, September 25, 2005

posted by meau meau , 3:15 PM Þ 

Incredibly the Stop War people are STILL marching.

Thoussands of drones turned out again, on their own time (a Saturday) and at their ownn expense, to march, the same way they did last time.

Something is terribly, frighteningly wrong with this behaviour. We all know that this marching business (after having had to test it for one last time) simply doesn't work to bring about policy changes. What kind of person keeps putting their hand in the fire after feeling the ferocious pain and smelling the singed flesh?

They have even written a letter, signed by the great and the good (except Billy Bragg, he is niether great nor good) for what purpose heaven only knows.

A million letters a million marchers none of it will do any good against people who will not be moved and who have absolute power. The only thing that will stop this outrage, and the outrage being planned on Iran is a complete withdrawing of all monies that are given to the government, en masse until they get the message that warmongering with your money is not going to be permitted, full stop.

You will note that there has just been an announcement that there is yet another cash crisis in the NHS. It is absurd that billions of pounds are spend on these murderous and counterproductive adventures while everything falls to pieces all around us...this is perfectly clear. What is NOT clear is why people still believe that marching and petitioning are usefull tools. A hammer that cannot drive in a nail would be discarded after the first failure; marching and petitioning are precisely the same, and should have been thrown out long ago.

It's high time that these people connect the dots and take an action that will actually have a result, or, go home stop blocking up the streets with their useless and self promoting displays of lemming logic, which not only has been proven not to work, but which actually gets people killed and takes away your liberty as the victims become ever more brutalized and hell bent on revenge.

Finally, some of these pathetic creatures have been flypostering all over London with calls to march. Honestly, these people are beyond the pale.
posted by Irdial , 1:34 PM Þ 
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