tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350220392009-07-15T17:06:01.871+03:00Circle of 13Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.comBlogger5000125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-48376306931839164132009-07-15T17:01:00.000+03:002009-07-15T17:06:01.884+03:00Can a place name be weirder than Braintree?Gropecunt LaneGropecunt Lane (pronounced /ˈɡroʊpkʌnt ˈlɛɪn/) was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street's function or the economic activity taking place within it. Gropecunt, the earliest known use of which is in about 1230Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-89912654486633806152009-07-15T16:57:00.001+03:002009-07-15T17:00:25.416+03:00Auburn man’s anti-military statements draw reactionOpelika-Auburn News - 8 Jul, 2009Emotions are running high after Auburn native and antiwar activist Matthis Chiroux likened the U.S. Army to the Fourth Reich and accused it of encouraging fear, racism and sexism.“When you hear somebody compare our military to the Fourth Reich, you kind of realize that this guy isn’t really worth listening to,” said Janine Babbitt, whose husband Maj. Erich BabbittPeacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-720611819369957052009-07-15T16:55:00.000+03:002009-07-15T16:56:37.325+03:00Game show looks to convert atheistsISTANBUL (Reuters) – What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success as it prepares to launch a gameshow where spiritual guides from the four faiths will seek to convert a group of non-believers.The prize for converts will be a pilgrimage to a holy site of Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-74103651881936722352009-07-15T16:53:00.000+03:002009-07-15T16:54:01.048+03:00Fortuna BoxPeacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-31651670940051921602009-07-15T16:49:00.000+03:002009-07-15T16:51:27.374+03:00French government destroys 551 images by Henri Cartier-BressonBritish Journal of Photography - 9 Jul, 2009More than 500 images taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson have been destroyed or thrown away by the French government, Le Monde newspaper revealed todayThe images were lost in 1991, however, for the first time in two decades, Martine Franck, a photographer and widow of Cartier-Bresson has revealed new details about the loss to the French newspaper.Of the 551 Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-1543316350010691852009-07-15T16:47:00.001+03:002009-07-15T16:49:09.209+03:00Flu mutatingMother Jones - 9 Jul, 2009Barack Obama warned today of a resurgence of flu this autumn. But it's summer in the northern hemisphere. Hard to fret in warm weather. Right? Well here are some developments worth the worry, summed up by New Scientist. In June, more than 98 percent of genotyped flu cases in the US were caused by the pandemic swine flu—which is to be expected, since seasonal flus tend Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-41170611605009389412009-07-15T16:44:00.001+03:002009-07-15T16:46:54.699+03:00Insurance companies vs. Michael MooreBill Moyers interviews former health insurance industry executive Wendell Potter, who left the field after almost 20 years to become a health reform advocate. Check out Potter's take on the campaign against Michael Moore's film 'Sicko'...http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/profile.htmlHealthPeacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-30677692891797063212009-07-15T16:35:00.001+03:002009-07-15T16:42:33.286+03:00Haiti is the American RevolutionBy Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD for Black Commentator - 9 Jul, 2009Our revolt rises up like the cry of the storm bird over the lapping waters of the stinking swamps. - Jacques Roumain, “A New Black Sermon” We spent most of yesterday telling stories. Someone says, Krik? You answer,Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-57569053474588994522009-07-15T16:28:00.002+03:002009-07-15T16:34:13.068+03:00The Fibonacci in Tool's 'Lateralus'"...When the 13 tracks of this Tool album are reordered in a Fibonacci sequence, they flow better: the end of each track exactly matches the beginning of the next one..."Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-19917547235887329552009-07-15T16:25:00.000+03:002009-07-15T16:27:17.919+03:00Pope calls for "world political authority"Edmonton Journal - 7 Jul, 2009Pope Benedict on Tuesday called for a "world political authority" to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.The pope's call for a re-think of the way the world economy is run came in new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose main Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-23133370427937574582009-07-15T16:23:00.000+03:002009-07-15T16:24:53.390+03:00Artist flees Turkey after Erdogan insultThe First Post - 29 Jun, 2009A British artist, Michael Dickinson, has fled Turkey after learning that he could be jailed for insulting the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in a collage he made called Good Dog (above), which shows the PM as a dog on a Stars and Stripes lead.Dickinson had been acquitted last September on charges of insulting Erdogan when the judge decided that though the Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-34499684341343459962009-07-15T16:21:00.000+03:002009-07-15T16:22:57.670+03:00Letter from an Israeli Jail, by Cynthia McKinneyIt's now been six days since the Israeli military attacked the Free Gaza organization's ship in international waters - for the second time - which is a serious crime, and despite the fact that a prominent US politician and a Nobel Laureate were on board, the media has yet to cover the story.This is Cynthia McKinney and I'm speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the FreePeacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-44820213016760684022009-07-15T16:18:00.000+03:002009-07-15T16:21:26.608+03:0013 doctors demand inquest into Dr David Kelly's deathDaily Mail - 13 Jul, 2009The death of Government scientist David Kelly returned to haunt Labour today as a group of doctors announced that they were mounting a legal challenge to overturn the finding of suicide.Dr Kelly's body was found six years ago this week in woods close to his Oxfordshire home, shortly after he was exposed as the source of a BBC news report questioning the grounds for war inPeacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-83410114979066148502009-07-15T15:57:00.000+03:002009-07-15T16:17:50.138+03:00Letter sparks investigation of Baxter vaccine by New Zealand Minister of HealthNaturalNews - 8 Jul, 2009 The New Zealand Minister of Health, Hon Tony Ryall, has asked the Ministry of Health officials to urgently advise him on issues raised about a "swine flu" vaccine produced by Baxter International Inc. This follows his receipt of a letter raising concerns about whether vaccines produced by Baxter for "swine flu" can be trusted.In an open letter to all members of the New Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-20451438756052652042009-07-15T15:45:00.001+03:002009-07-15T15:45:57.669+03:00Colombian paramilitaries admits to killing 21,000Jamaica Observer [AFP] - 14 Jul, 2009Colombian right-wing paramilitaries have admitted to killing 21,000 people, prosecutors said yesterday."We are up to 21,000 murders that have been confessed to," Luis Gonzalez, of the public prosecutor's office, told local radio.The confessions by the former fighters spanned a three-year period and are part of a peace deal that includes a drive to demobilise Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-43875277432055590462009-07-07T11:46:00.005+03:002009-07-07T14:38:01.325+03:00Swine flu: 'The greatest crime against humanity in history is under way'From YouTube:An award winning journalist in Austria named Jane Bergermeister has filed criminal charges indicting several individuals on promoting a swine flu hoax merely to sell vaccines.And, she adds, that the vaccines given will cause more harm than the flu they were meant to protect against.Please show this video to anyone you know in the military.This appears to be the actual complainthttp:/Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-62056971158319774492009-07-07T11:39:00.000+03:002009-07-07T11:38:03.233+03:00Poet who hung out with elite but never quite won acclaimHAROLD NORSE: WILLIAM Carlos Williams once wrote to Harold Norse, who has died aged 92, that "you are the best poet of your generation". Often associated with the Beat writers, Norse began publishing in the early 1940s, befriending and collaborating with leading 20th-century literary figures, among them WH Auden, James Baldwin and Allen Ginsberg. The author of 12 books of poetry, Norse was Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-86940893419842685502009-07-07T11:36:00.000+03:002009-07-07T11:34:41.548+03:00The issue of participation in the municipal electionsFrom: New banner, old ideas It is characteristic that Bookchin has always been a proponent of the participation of anarchists in the elections of local authorities. The following confession of Dimitris Roussopoulos, publisher of the anarchist Black Rose Books, in his interview in the Greek journal Arnoumai, regarding his participation as a nominee in the elections of Montreal, Canada, is Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-42294498591275251952009-07-07T11:31:00.000+03:002009-07-07T11:30:07.042+03:00Italy adopts law to curb migrantsItaly's parliament has given final approval to a law criminalising illegal immigration and allowing citizens' patrols to help the police keep order. The new measures have been strongly criticised by human rights groups and the Vatican. Illegal immigration will be punishable by a hefty fine and those who knowingly house illegal migrants will face up to three years in prison. The law also Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-35354621318627136772009-07-05T18:06:00.000+03:002009-07-05T18:08:00.136+03:00Bush invite to event upsets dadsSara Plummer reports for Tulsa World:CHOCTAW — Oklahomans Warren Henthorn and John Scripsick are upset and disappointed that former President George W. Bush is considered an honored guest at Woodward's Independence Day celebration Saturday.Both believe Bush and his administration shoulder some of the blame for their sons' deaths while serving for the U.S. military in Iraq.Henthorn of Choctaw saidPeacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-34663619562702445112009-07-05T18:04:00.000+03:002009-07-05T18:05:50.355+03:00End Police Brutality ProtestProtest march in response to fraternal order of police reunion of '68 riot cops glorifying police brutality.Produced by Fred Hickler for Chicago Independent Television (www.chicagoindependenttv.org), the Chicago Indymedia video collective. Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-30871442599075364882009-07-05T18:02:00.001+03:002009-07-05T18:04:43.845+03:00Deep Purple Live In Hamburg 1970 (very rare footage!)"...This is one of the rarest footage from the legendary (best) Mk2 line-up of one of the best Rock bands ever Deep Purple. ... These footages were part of a Wochenschau (cinema news reel) from early 1971 concerning Deep Purple's riot blighted tour of Germany in November / December 1970. The 90 seconds of footage feature riot scenes with water cannon being deployed by the police, Ian Gillan's Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-41487752887004995562009-07-05T18:00:00.002+03:002009-07-05T18:14:55.751+03:00Ottoman whispers in a secret corner of GreeceI had been in Xanthi, the centerpiece city in the northeastern Greek region of Thrace, for only a few hours, admiring the neo-Classical-style buildings and restored tobacco warehouses of the old town. I spotted the minaret shortly after I heard a muezzin’s cry separating from the church bells and the cafes blasting Rihanna.I’d never seen a mosque open for prayer in Greece. Almost all Greeks are Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-2537240375280047692009-07-05T17:57:00.000+03:002009-07-05T18:00:23.429+03:00Belgrade: The pipeline deal between Russia, Italy, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece envisages completion of the project by 2015(birn) The pipeline deal between Russia, Italy, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece envisages completion of the project by 2015. During the often blazing heat that suffocates Serbia during the summer, it can be easy to forget how close, last winter the whole country came to freezing, when a dispute broke out between Russia and Ukraine, shutting off gas supplies to great swathes of South Eastern Europe. Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35022039.post-87938533679422763702009-07-05T15:55:00.000+03:002009-07-05T15:53:53.944+03:00Pakistan: Millions of displaced people face discrimination and cannot access aid, warns AmnestyMore than two million people who have fled fighting in northwestern Pakistan do not have access to aid distributed in official displacement camps, Amnesty International warned today. Ethnic Pashtuns who have fled fighting also face discrimination from host communities, said Amnesty, as it called on the Pakistani government to ensure that ethnic Pashtuns fleeing to other provinces of Pakistan are Peacedreamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08363995588734665120noreply@blogger.com0