Sunday, October 31, 2010

KRAFTWERK

MORE OF WHAT IS ON MY MP3 PLAYER (DON'T UNDERSTAND GERMAN? WHY, NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO LEARN!)

Kraftwerk - Das Model - HQ upload


Kraftwerk - Metropolis


Kraftwerk Rarities Der Telefon Anruf 12" german version 1987


Kraftwerk - Radioaktivität (1991)


Kraftwerk - Die Roboter


Kraftwerk - Computerwelt


Kraftwerk- Autobahn


Die Menschmachine - Kraftwerk and their fifth member, the studio.

DILMA ROUSSEFF, NEW PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL

MELHORANDO A VIDA DA GENTE NÃ0 É NADA POUCO
PARABENS BRASIL


Former Guerrilla World's Most Powerful Women Dilma Rousseff President of Brazil 31/10/10


Dilma vota em Porto Alegre-RS (31 de outubro)


After 35 Men Former Guerrilla Dilma Rousseff President of Brazil 31/10/10


Dilma Rousseff é eleita 1ª mulher presidente do país-ELEIÇÃO 2010

ROLLING STONES AGAIN

SOME MORE SONGS ON MY MP3 PLAYER (DEDICATED TO WINONA WILLIAMS)


Rolling Stones - Wild Horses


Rolling Stones Mixed Emotions


rolling stones-beast of burden


rolling stones,far away eyes


The Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend - Hampton 1981


Start Me Up (China)


Rolling Stones - Shine A Light - Live '95 Amsterdam

AN OPEN LETTER IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN CRYING IN SECRET (AND GNASHING YOUR TEETH TO BITS)

DEAR MR O'BUMMER,

WHERE DO I START?
HOW ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN 'PROMISES NEVER FULFILLED' ISSUE, THAT IS ALWAYS
A GREAT INDICATOR OF JUST HOW MUCH PP (POLITICAL PERFIDY=BULLSHIT) WE THE PEOPLE
ARE IN FOR
I DIDN'T EXACTLY WANT THIS LETTER TO GO ON AND ON (SPACEWISE), BUT HERE IS A
SHORT LIST OF WHAT REALLY AILS US, OK?
I'LL WRITE IT IN PLAIN ENGLISH (WE KNOW MANY PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON WILL NEED A
REFRESHER COURSE IN THIS, BUT THAT IS THEIR FAULT, ISN'T IT?)

1. THE 'ECONOMY' (BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA, IS OUR TAKE, THAT IS, WE DON'T THINK IT'S THE
'ECONOMY'S FAULT, BUT A BUNCH OF GREEDY BANKERS' WHO OUGHT TO BE IN JAIL,
ACCORDING TO THE RULE OF LAW)

2. THAT 'SOCIALIST' EVIL, HEALTH CARE, WHY DO THEY STILL CALL IT THAT, AND NOT ANOTHER
WORD FOR THE EVILEST SCAM SINCE EVE LEARNED TO LIE, TO MAKE SICK PEOPLE PAY, AND PAY,
AND PAY, THEY FORGET WHAT EXACTLY FOR, BUT I SERIOUSLY WOULDN'T CALL IT 'CARE'

3. OUR 'FOREIGN POLICY' IF YOU WANT TO CALL SEVERAL NEVER-ENDING FOR PROFIT WARS
A 'FOREIGN POLICY', YOU NEED YOUR HEAD EXAMINED, OR YOU NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL

4. THE WAR ON DRUGS, THE MOST CYNICAL 'BLAME THE VICTIM' SCHEME IN HISTORY,
WAGED IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES, EXCEPT WHERE IT COUNTS, AT THE ROOT OF 'DEMAND',
NOT 'SUPPLY', WHERE IT HAS NEVER SUCCEEDED

5. THE FACT WE ARE IMPRISONING MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY COUNTRY ON EARTH, INCLUDING
THE OLD BOGEY THE USSR, AND A DIRECT RESULT OF THE 'WAR ON DRUGS' AND OUR
OLD 'RACIST' PROBLEM

6. OUR SCHOOLS AREN'T FIT FOR 'CHIMPAMZEES' AS IF THOSE POOR CREATURES DESERVE THAT
SUPREMELY CONDESCENDING AND ILL FITTING REFERENCE
AS A MATTER OF FACT, EDUCATION BEING THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF RAISING OUR KIDS,
THE REASON WHY WE FIND OURSELVES IN THIS SITUATION, IS HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS
DO YOU REALLY THINK THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN RACE (AND NOT JUST THE TRAINING OF
SLAVES AND FACTORY WORKERS) WILL BE ADVANCED AT ALL BY THIS POLICY OF DUMBING DOWN
THE MASSES?

6.5 HAS IT OCCURRED TO YOU, THAT WITHOUT THE TRAINING WE SO NEED (AND STOPPING ALL THOSE
USELESS, SELF-INTERESTED FIRINGS, AND SHIPPING JOBS OVERSEAS) YOU DON'T HAVE A CHANCE
IN HELL OF BECOMING (OR RETAKING THE PLACE OF) 'FIRST' AMONG THE 'DEVELOPED'
NATIONS? (NO SCIENTISTS=BACK TO CAVE DWELLING)

7. LAST BUT NOT LEAST, OUR RE-WRITING OF HISTORY IS GOING TO PROVE TO BE OUR DOWNFALL,
REMEMBER THE EXPRESSION 'THOSE WHO ARE IGNORANT OF HISTORY, ARE BOUND TO REPEAT THE
STUPIDEST MISTAKES OVER AND OVER, AND NOT LEARN ANYTHING' (THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES
AND THE US GOVERNMENT WHO DISREGARDED OR BROKE OVER 400 TREATIES COMES TO MIND)
AND THAT, HAND IN HAND WITH THE MOST CONDESCENDING, IDIOTICALLY SUPERIOR ATTITUDE
TOWARDS 'EVERYONE ELSE' (WHO ISN'T WHITE, YEAH YOU BELONG ON THAT GROWING LIST, THEY'RE JUST 'USING' YOUR ASS AS PROOF WE AIN'T RACISTS) ON THIS PLANET

AND THE LIST COULD ACTUALLY HIT THE HUNDRED MARK, NO KIDDING

THE ONLY WAY TO 'CHANGE' OUR COURSE, IS QUITE SIMPLY TO START OVER, CLEANING THE SLATE
FIRST, HOW DO YOU EXPECT ANYTHING TO CHANGE BY GIVING THOSE 'GOOD OLD BOYS'
THE SAME WIDE HIGHWAY TO AVOID ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY, AND ALL THOSE
'-ILLITIES' WE HEAR OF SO OFTEN (HAVING BEEN TWISTED SO MANY TIMES IN THE SPIN MACHINES)
EVERY DAY
AND, WE NEED TO FIX, INSTEAD OF 'FIX' THE VOTING SYSTEM IF WE ARE GOING TO KEEP CALLING
OURSELVES 'DEMOCRATIC', AND INSISTING WE HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS
NOTHING COULD BE FARTHER FROM THE TRUTH, AS LONG AS TWO OF THE MOST 'CONSERVATIVE'
COUNTRIES IN EUROPE, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, LEGALIZED SAME SEX MARRIAGE (BOTH), AND
DECRIMINALIZED ALL DRUGS, AS WELL AS HELPING ADDICTS TO GET RID OF THEIR ADDICTIONS
(PORTUGAL)
I GUESS NOWADAYS, IT DOESN'T EVEN COUNT TO SET AN EXAMPLE, DOES IT? OR MAYBE 'WE JES TOO SMART' TO FOLLOW ONE
LOOK, I'M NOT A POLITICAL ANIMAL, IT'S JUST THAT THESE ISSUES AFFECT ME, SO
PARDON MY BITCHING (AND MY FRENCH)

YOURS TRULY,

BUMMED OUT


PS THIS IS NO ATTACK ON YOU, I THINK YOU ARE (OR HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE) A FABULOUS,
MARVELOUS PERSON, AFTER ALL, I VOTED FOR YOU (DOESN'T THAT SAY A LOT?)
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, AND I VOTED FOR THE 'MIXED-RACE' CANDIDATE,
(WHAT AFRICAN-AMERICAN IS NOT?), ONE I COULD IDENTIFY WITH (I'M MIXED-RACE TOO, BOOBALA)
OF COURSE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY HIGH EXPECTATIONS ON THE 'POLITICAL' SIDE OF THINGS,
BUT SINCE ALL THOSE BROKEN PROMISES WERE MADE, I THOUGH I OUGHT TO EXERCISE THAT
DYING RIGHT OF 'FREEDOM OF SPEECH' I'M SUPPOSED TO HAVE
THANKS,

BO

PPS SPELLING CHECKERS ARE FOR IDIOTS! LET ME KNOW ABOUT ANY SPELLING MISTAKES,
PLEASE
THANKS AGIN,

BO

THEODORE SORENSEN RIP

Theodore C. Sorensen, 82, Kennedy Counselor, Dies

SOFIA BARBOSA


Sofia - Canção do Mar [ Dulce Pontes live Operação Triunfo ]


Sofia Barbosa - Povo que lavas no rio [ Operação Triunfo ]


Sofia Barbosa - Uma Lua Em Cada Mão (Festival RTP 1998)


OT1 - Gala Disney - Paulo de Carvalho e Sofia - Mãe negra


Operação Triunfo 1 - Hino Acreditar

ROLLING STONES

SOME SONGS ON MY MP3 PLAYER (DEDICATED TO WINONA WILLIAMS)


The Rolling Stones - Memory Motel

Angie


Tumbling Dice The Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones - Miss You


Rolling Stones - Route 66 (Blues in Rhythm, May 9, 1964)

Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)


Rolling Stones - Harlem Shuffle.mpg


Rolling Stones : 'SISTER MORPHINE', alt. version (1968)


Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia - Live '95 London


Rolling Stones - Stray Cat Blues - Live '02 Toronto


She's a Rainbow - Rolling Stones


Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers - Live '95 Amsterdam

ATTACK ADS


Attack Ads, Circa 1800

AMÁLIA RODRIGUES


Barco Negro by Amalia Rodrigues


Amália Rodrigues - "tudo isto é fado"


AMALIA RODRIGUES -"Povo Que Lavas No Rio"


Amália Rodrigues - Fado Português


uma casa portuguesa amalia rodrigues


Lisboa não Sejas Francesa


Ai Mouraria


Amália Rodrigues - Grândola, Vila Morena

É PRECISO LEMBRAR QUE QUANDO MORAVA EM LISBOA NOS ANOS 1950, NÃO ERA DE RIGOR
FALAR BEM DESTA SENHORA, MESMO SE SE SABIA QUE ELA FOI A PESSOA PRINCIPAL
QUE DIFUNDIU O FADO PELO MUNDO INTEIRO, TÃO BEM QUE O CANTAVA
HOJE EM DIA, É UMA SANTA, PRONTO, POR TODO O LADO, ATÉ EM PORTUGAL
ESQUISITO? NÃO, SEMPRE A PENSEI SEM IGUAL
ENTÃO, ISTO É UMA HOMENAGEM A UMA GRANDE SENHORA DO FADO

PRÉMIO PARA O PAVILHÃO DE PORTUGAL

Expo 2010: arquitecto "satisfeito e honrado" com prémio para pavilhão de Portugal

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!


MARILYN MANSON :: This Is Halloween

Saturday, October 30, 2010

MARLON BRANDO ON DICK CAVETT


Marlon Brando Interview 1973 (Pt 1 of 6)


Marlon Brando Interview 1973 (2/6)


Marlon Brando Interview 1973 (3/6)


Marlon Brando Interview 1973 (4/6)


Marlon Brando Interview 1973 (5/6)


Marlon Brando Interview 1973 (6/6)

Friday, October 29, 2010

TINY HOUSES


Tiny Yellow Houses Episode 1


TINY YELLOW HOUSE #2- "Gypsy Junker" A Recycled Portable Cabin-Shack-Fort-Bunkhouse


Tiny Yellow House #3 "LIVE from a Fort"- w/Nirvana,Journey,Van Halen "Hot for Teacher" Doumbek


"Roly West Cabin" for Tiny Yellow House TV (unplanned Flip-cam shoot)


Tiny Yellow House #5 - Deek's Vermont Cabin- Tiny/Small House/Shack/Fort/Cottage


MAN WITH THE UGLY HAT Tiny Living, Small Houses/Homes/Cabins Books


Tiny Texas House at the Homestead Cottages in Canyon Lake, Texas


Tiny Yellow House MAKEcation Special: The Boxy Lady


Relaxshacks.com Testing Out A Jungle Hammock Tent NYC 2010 Maker Faire

SHIPPING CONTAINER ARCHITECTURE


Extreme Makeover: Container Edition


Shipping Containers Recycled as Homes


Off Grid Shipping Container House


Shipping Container Homes by Container City


Shipping Container Home Design Software

CARLOS DO CARMO

Carlos do Carmo, a Portuguese fado singer


Lisboa, menina e moça


Carlos do Carmo - Por morrer uma andorinha


Pedra Filosofal


Carlos do Carmo--Gaivota


Mariza e Carlos do Carmo - Estádio da Luz


Paulo Gonzo & Carlos do Carmo - Estranha Forma de Vida


Fado, Carlos do Carmo-O Amarelo da Carris

TAVIS SMILEY

Watch the full episode. See more Tavis Smiley.

Johnny Mathis - 10/21/10

BOTTLE HOUSES, RECYCLED HOUSES, AND JUNK GYPSIES

H/T TIMOTHY, THANKS! (AND THE PBS VIDEOS TOO!)


bottlehouse.wmv


Beer Bottle House "Empty bottles. Full life" -ecoideasnet


Recycled Houses


Recycled Houses


Junk Gypsies

Thursday, October 28, 2010

TAVIS SMILEY

Watch the full episode. See more Tavis Smiley.

Joseph Wilson; Valerie Plame Wilson 10/26/10

POV

Watch the full episode. See more POV.

Behind the Lens - The Oath

POV

Watch the full episode. See more POV.

The Archive

JOSÉ ANTÓNIO CARLOS SEIXAS (1704-1742)


Harpsichord - Carlos Seixas - Nuno Oliveira


Sonata em Do Maior - Carlos Seixas


Organ - Carlos Seixas - Nuno Oliveira


Carlos Seixas Harpsichord Concerto - Natasha Pikoul


Carlos Seixas - Harpsichord Sonata No. 24 in D Minor


Seixas - Concerto for harpsichord in A Major


Seixas - Sinfonia for strings in B flat Major

SIGUR ROS - HEIMA (AT HOME)


Sigur Ros Heima Part 1


Sigur Ros Heima Part 2


Sigur Ros Heima Part 3


Sigur Ros Heima Part 4


Sigur Ros Heima Part 5


Sigur Ros Heima Part 6


Sigur Ros Heima Part 7


Sigur Ros Heima Part 8


Sigur Ros Heima Part 9


Sigur Ros Heima Part 10 (Final)

PANDA BEAR


Panda Bear - Boneless


Panda Bear - Take Pills


Panda Bear - Carrots


Panda Bear - Ponytail


Panda Bear - Bros


Panda Bear Comfy in Nautica


Panda Bear - I'm Not (Phaseone Remix)

HUMANOS


HUMANOS - QUERO É VIVER


Humanos - Estou Além (ao vivo no Coliseu)


Humanos - Muda de Vida (ao vivo no Coliseu)

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

MÉXICO HOY


hermano de patricia gonzales rodriguez ex procu vol 1 hq


Aristegui - Video Secuestro Hermano De Patricia González Ex Procuradora De Chihuahua 1/2


Aristegui - Video Secuestro Hermano De Patricia González Ex Procuradora De Chihuahua 2/2

Monday, October 25, 2010

FROM UNDERNEWS

WASHINGTON: WHERE SMART PEOPLE GO TO DO STUPID THINGS

MICHAEL MOORE


Michael Moore on Larry King Live - 7/27/10 (Part 1)


Michael Moore on Larry King Live - 7/27/10 (Part 2)


Michael Moore on Larry King Live - 7/27/10 (Part 3)


Michael Moore on Larry King Live - 7/27/10 (Part 4)


2008 Madonna @ Traverse City Film Festival August 2

FREE BRADLEY MANNING!


Why Is Bradley Manning Being Held In Kuwait? Is This A New GITMO For U.S. Soldiers? Julian Assange


Julian Assange Explains WikiLeaks Disclosure Of Afghan War Info To Larry King pt.1


Julian Assange Explains WikiLeaks Disclosure Of Afghan War Info To Larry King pt.2


Julian Assange Explains WikiLeaks Disclosure Of Afghan War Info To Larry King pt.3


Daniel Ellsberg Compares WikiLeaks Disclosure To The Vietnam Papers pt.4

Sunday, October 24, 2010

FROM THE INDEPENDENT, UK, THIS MORNING

Robert Fisk: The shaming of America

Our writer delivers a searing dispatch after the WikiLeaks revelations that expose in detail the brutality of the war in Iraq - and the astonishing, disgraceful deceit of the US

Sunday, 24 October 2010

As usual, the Arabs knew. They knew all about the mass torture, the promiscuous shooting of civilians, the outrageous use of air power against family homes, the vicious American and British mercenaries, the cemeteries of the innocent dead. All of Iraq knew. Because they were the victims.

Only we could pretend we did not know. Only we in the West could counter every claim, every allegation against the Americans or British with some worthy general – the ghastly US military spokesman Mark Kimmitt and the awful chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Peter Pace, come to mind – to ring-fence us with lies. Find a man who'd been tortured and you'd be told it was terrorist propaganda; discover a house full of children killed by an American air strike and that, too, would be terrorist propaganda, or "collateral damage", or a simple phrase: "We have nothing on that."

Of course, we all knew they always did have something. And yesterday's ocean of military memos proves it yet again. Al-Jazeera has gone to extraordinary lengths to track down the actual Iraqi families whose men and women are recorded as being wasted at US checkpoints – I've identified one because I reported it in 2004, the bullet-smashed car, the two dead journalists, even the name of the local US captain – and it was The Independent on Sunday that first alerted the world to the hordes of indisciplined gunmen being flown to Baghdad to protect diplomats and generals. These mercenaries, who murdered their way around the cities of Iraq, abused me when I told them I was writing about them way back in 2003.
It's always tempting to avoid a story by saying "nothing new". The "old story" idea is used by governments to dampen journalistic interest as it can be used by us to cover journalistic idleness. And it's true that reporters have seen some of this stuff before. The "evidence" of Iranian involvement in bomb-making in southern Iraq was farmed out to The New York Times's Michael Gordon by the Pentagon in February 2007. The raw material, which we can now read, is far more doubtful than the Pentagon-peddled version. Iranian military material was still lying around all over Iraq from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and most of the attacks on Americans were at that stage carried out by Sunni insurgents. The reports suggesting that Syria allowed insurgents to pass through their territory, by the way, are correct. I have spoken to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers whose sons made their way to Iraq from Lebanon via the Lebanese village of Majdal Aanjar and then via the northern Syrian city of Aleppo to attack the Americans.

But, written in bleak militarese as it may be, here is the evidence of America's shame. This is material that can be used by lawyers in courts. If 66,081 – I loved the "81" bit – is the highest American figure available for dead civilians, then the real civilian mortality score is infinitely higher since this records only those civilians the Americans knew of. Some of them were brought to the Baghdad mortuary in my presence, and it was the senior official there who told me that the Iraqi ministry of health had banned doctors from performing any post-mortems on dead civilians brought in by American troops. Now why should that be? Because some had been tortured to death by Iraqis working for the Americans? Did this hook up with the 1,300 independent US reports of torture in Iraqi police stations?

The Americans scored no better last time round. In Kuwait, US troops could hear Palestinians being tortured by Kuwaitis in police stations after the liberation of the city from Saddam Hussein's legions in 1991. A member of the Kuwaiti royal family was involved in the torture. US forces did not intervene. They just complained to the royal family. Soldiers are always being told not to intervene. After all, what was Lieutenant Avi Grabovsky of the Israeli army told when he reported to his officer in September 1982 that Israel's Phalangist allies had just murdered some women and children? "We know, it's not to our liking, and don't interfere," Grabovsky was told by his battalion commander. This was during the Sabra and Chatila refugee camp massacre.

The quotation comes from Israel's 1983 Kahan commission report – heaven knows what we could read if WikiLeaks got its hands on the barrels of military files in the Israeli defence ministry (or the Syrian version, for that matter). But, of course, back in those days, we didn't know how to use a computer, let alone how to write on it. And that, of course, is one of the important lessons of the whole WikiLeaks phenomenon.

Back in the First World War or the Second World War or Vietnam, you wrote your military reports on paper. They may have been typed in triplicate but you could number your copies, trace any spy and prevent the leaks. The Pentagon Papers was actually written on paper. You needed to find a mole to get them. But paper could always be destroyed, weeded, trashed, all copies destroyed. At the end of the 1914-18 war, for example, a British second lieutenant shot a Chinese man after Chinese workers had looted a French military train. The Chinese man had pulled a knife on the soldier. But during the 1930s, the British soldier's file was "weeded" three times and so no trace of the incident survives. A faint ghost of it remains only in a regimental war diary which records Chinese involvement in the looting of "French provision trains". The only reason I know of the killing is that my father was the British lieutenant and told me the story before he died. No WikiLeaks then.

But I do suspect this massive hoard of material from the Iraq war has serious implications for journalists as well as armies. What is the future of the Seymour Hershes and the old-style investigative journalism that The Sunday Times used to practise? What is the point of sending teams of reporters to examine war crimes and meet military "deep throats", if almost half a million secret military documents are going to float up in front of you on a screen?

We still haven't got to the bottom of the WikiLeaks story, and I rather suspect that there are more than just a few US soldiers involved in this latest revelation. Who knows if it doesn't go close to the top? In its investigations, for example, al-Jazeera found an extract from a run-of-the-mill Pentagon press conference in November 2005. Peter Pace, the uninspiring chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is briefing journalists on how soldiers should react to the cruel treatment of prisoners, pointing out proudly that an American soldier's duty is to intervene if he sees evidence of torture. Then the camera moves to the far more sinister figure of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who suddenly interrupts – almost in a mutter, and to Pace's consternation – "I don't think you mean they (American soldiers) have an obligation to physically stop it. It's to report it."

The significance of this remark – cryptically sadistic in its way – was lost on the journos, of course. But the secret Frago 242 memo now makes much more sense of the press conference. Presumably sent by General Ricardo Sanchez, this is the instruction that tells soldiers: "Provided the initial report confirms US forces were not involved in the detainee abuse, no further investigation will be conducted unless directed by HHQ [Higher Headquarters]." Abu Ghraib happened under Sanchez's watch in Iraq. It was also Sanchez, by the way, who couldn't explain to me at a press conference why his troops had killed Saddam's sons in a gun battle in Mosul rather than capture them.

So Sanchez's message, it seems, must have had Rumsfeld's imprimatur. And so General David Petraeus – widely loved by the US press corps – was presumably responsible for the dramatic increase in US air strikes over two years; 229 bombing attacks in Iraq in 2006, but 1,447 in 2007. Interestingly enough, US air strikes in Afghanistan have risen by 172 per cent since Petraeus took over there. Which makes it all the more astonishing that the Pentagon is now bleating that WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands. The Pentagon has been covered in blood since the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, and for an institution that ordered the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 – wasn't that civilian death toll more than 66,000 by their own count, out of a total of 109,000 recorded? – to claim that WikiLeaks is culpable of homicide is preposterous.

The truth, of course, is that if this vast treasury of secret reports had proved that the body count was much lower than trumpeted by the press, that US soldiers never tolerated Iraqi police torture, rarely shot civilians at checkpoints and always brought killer mercenaries to account, US generals would be handing these files out to journalists free of charge on the steps of the Pentagon. They are furious not because secrecy has been breached, or because blood may be spilt, but because they have been caught out telling the lies we always knew they told.

US official documents detail extraordinary scale of wrongdoing

WikiLeaks yesterday released on its website some 391,832 US military messages documenting actions and reports in Iraq over the period 2004-2009. Here are the main points:

Prisoners abused, raped and murdered

Hundreds of incidents of abuse and torture of prisoners by Iraqi security services, up to and including rape and murder. Since these are itemised in US reports, American authorities now face accusations of failing to investigate them. UN leaders and campaigners are calling for an official investigation.

Civilian death toll cover-up

Coalition leaders have always said "we don't do death tolls", but the documents reveal many deaths were logged. Respected British group Iraq Body Count says that, after preliminary examination of a sample of the documents, there are an estimated 15,000 extra civilian deaths, raising their total to 122,000.

The shooting of men trying to surrender

In February 2007, an Apache helicopter killed two Iraqis, suspected of firing mortars, as they tried to surrender. A military lawyer is quoted as saying: "They cannot surrender to aircraft and are still valid targets."

Private security firm abuses

Britain's Bureau of Investigative Journalism says it found documents detailing new cases of alleged wrongful killings of civilians involving Blackwater, since renamed Xe Services. Despite this, Xe retains extensive US contracts in Afghanistan.

Al-Qa'ida's use of children and "mentally handicapped" for bombing

A teenage boy with Down's syndrome who killed six and injured 34 in a suicide attack in Diyala was said to be an example of an ongoing al-Qa'ida strategy to recruit those with learning difficulties. A doctor is alleged to have sold a list of female patients with learning difficulties to insurgents.

Hundreds of civilians killed at checkpoints

Out of the 832 deaths recorded at checkpoints in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, analysis by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism suggests 681 were civilians. Fifty families were shot at and 30 children killed. Only 120 insurgents were killed in checkpoint incidents.

Iranian influence

Reports detail US concerns that Iranian agents had trained, armed and directed militants in Iraq. In one document, the US military warns a militia commander believed to be behind the deaths of US troops and kidnapping of Iraqi officials was trained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

END BULLYING

NO ONE DERSERVES TO BE PICKED ON


President Obama: It Gets Better

HERE'S TO MULTICULTURALISM, MRS MERKEL!


Mariza - Rosa Branca

A NOSSA MARIZA DOS REIS NUNES


Loucura


Há uma música do povo


Fabuloso e Arrepiante !!! Gente da minha terra - Mariza

NOW, FOR COLDPLAY AGAIN

Lost in Translation - Coldplay "Trouble"


Life in Technicolor - COLDPLAY


Coldplay - Fix You (Live Tokyo 2009) (High Quality video) (HQ)


Coldplay - Yellow (Live Tokyo 2009) (High Quality video) (HQ)

THE HARDEST PART

INDEED IT WAS


Coldplay - The Hardest Part

TONY CURTIS


Tony Curtis


Tony Curtis Interview


Tony Curtis and Sir Roger Moore are The Persuaders


Tony Curtis Chicagoactor.com

Friday, October 22, 2010

JOAN RIVERS

Joan Rivers: 'I'm the funniest person performing stand-up today'


Joan Rivers


Joan Rivers: 'A Piece Of Work'

JOAN RIVERS ANS A PIECE OF WORK INTERVIEW

JOAN RIVERS UNLOADS AT SUNDANCE


Joan Rivers 1982 monologue. Hysterical!


[01] Joan Rivers Live at The Apollo [2007]


[02] Joan Rivers Live at The Apollo [2007]


[03] Joan Rivers Live at The Apollo [2007]

DAVID BYRNE/BRIAN ENO (continued)


Brian Eno & David Byrne - Les Hombres Ne Le Sauront Jamals/A Secret Life


David Byrne and Brian Eno - Mea Culpa


Brian Eno & David Byrne "Strange Overtones"


Brian Eno & David Byrne: Everything That Happens


david byrne 11-7-08 "home"

DAVID BYRNE/BRIAN ENO


David Byrne & Brian Eno - Qu'ran


America is waiting - David Byrne & Brian Eno


Brian Eno + David Byrne - Defiant


A Secret Life (Robjn Abstraction) (Brian Eno & David Byrne)


BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE - Moonlight in glory


Eno/Byrne remix - Help Me Somebody


Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit By MARI

DUNYA YUSIN


Brian Eno & David Byrne "Regiment" FT. DUNYA YUSIN (Lebanese mountain singer)


Dunya YuSIN - Abu Zeluf


The Carrier

TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS


The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows


801 - Tomorrow Never Knows


Oasis - Tomorrow Never Knows (Feat Johnny Marr)


Danielle dax - Tomorrow Never Knows


Our Lady Peace - Tomorrow Never Knows


Sinestesia - Tomorrow Never Knows


Seven Sundays-Tomorrow Never Knows (Cover)


The Mission,Tomorrow Never Knows[The Amphetamix]


The Walls - Tomorrow Never Knows