2nd Hand Reality

Playlist June-July

2007-08-16T22:40:00.000+02:00

Ween - Pure Guava
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Henrietta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters - Drive By Shooting
Hella - There's No 666 In Outer Space
Low - The Great Destroyer
Portion Control - I Staggered Mentally
John Mayer - Continuum
Metallic Falcons - Desert Doughnuts
Mika Miko - C.Y.S.L.A.B.F.

2007-08-16T21:51:00.000+02:00

BLAG meet José Parla and Futura 2000

José Parlá
Futura 2000

2007-08-14T09:07:00.000+02:00

Live Stamina

2007-08-06T11:47:00.001+02:00

reactable: basic demo #2

2007-08-01T13:19:00.001+02:00

reactable: basic demo #1

2007-08-01T13:17:00.000+02:00

May Playlist

2007-06-18T00:41:00.000+02:00

Bjork - Volta
Paheli OST
Black Flag - In My Head
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
Omar Rodriguez & Damo Suzuki - Please Heat This Eventually
Bruce Haack - This Old Man
Los Panchos - Epoca De Oro
Eugene McDaniels - Outlaw
Amm Group & MEV - Live Electronic Music Improvised

Breakfast Of A Champion

2007-06-17T15:29:00.000+02:00

"I LIKE TO EAT BREAKFAST ALONE, AND ALMOST NEVER BEFORE NOON; ANYBODY WITH A TERMINALLY JANGLED LIFESTYLE NEEDS AT LEAST ONE PSYCHIC ANCHOR EVERY 24 HOURS AND MINE IS BREAKFAST. IN HONG KONG, DALLAS, OR AT HOME -- AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT I HAVE BEEN TO BED -- BREAKFAST IS A PERSONAL RITUAL THAT CAN ONLY BE PROPERLY OBSERVED ALONE, AND IN A SPIRIT OF GENUINE EXCESS. THE FOOD FACTOR SHOULD ALWAYS BE MASSIVE: FOUR BLOODY MARY'S, TWO GRAPEFRUITS, A POT OF COFFEE, RANGOON CREPES, A HALF-POUND OF EITHER SAUSAGE, BACON OR CORNED BEEF HASH WITH DICED CHILIES, A SPANISH OMELETTE OR EGGS BENEDICT, SOMETHING LIKE A SLICE OF KEY LIME PIE, TWO MARGARITAS AND SIX LINES OF THE BEST COCAINE FOR DESSERT. . . RIGHT, AND THERE SHOULD ALSO BE TWO OR THREE NEWSPAPERS, ALL MAIL AND MESSAGES, A TELEPHONE, A NOTEBOOK FOR PLANNING THE NEXT 24 HOURS, AND AT LEAST ONE SOURCE OF GOOD MUSIC. . . ALL OF WHICH SHOULD BE DEALT WITH OUTSIDE, IN THE WARMTH OF A HOT SUN, AND PREFERABLY STONE NAKED."

1984 in France

2007-06-02T11:56:00.000+02:00

Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique :
Biométrie, données identifiantes et droits de l'homme (French PDF)

News From Thomas Homer-Dixon

2007-05-24T09:42:00.000+02:00

TERROR IN THE WEATHER FORECAST
DOES climate change threaten international peace and security? The British government thinks it does. As this month's head of the United Nations Security Council, Britain convened a debate on the matter last Tuesday. One in four United Nations member countries joined the discussion — a record for this kind of thematic debate.

A THEORY OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE (pdf)

NOTABLE READINGS: The Future of Coal

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Shoelace

2007-05-23T12:00:00.000+02:00

Exoskeleton

2007-05-23T10:16:00.000+02:00

HAL-5 Robot Suit

The BLEEX Project

Just When You Thought It Was Safe

2007-05-15T14:01:00.000+02:00

Biofuelwatch highlight the environmental impacts of the global biofuel market, especially the vast releases of greenhouse gases and considerable biodiversity losses they can cause. We campaign for regulation to ensure only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the EU.

From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine

2007-05-14T18:45:00.000+02:00

From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine
By WALT BOGDANICH and JAKE HOOKER

The Panama Syndrome (video)
A poisonous solvent sold by counterfeiters and mixed into drugs has figured in mass poisonings around the world that killed thousands.

April Playlist

2007-05-07T10:26:00.000+02:00

Yourcodenameis: Milo - All Roads To Fault
DJ Green Lantern - Sirius Invasion
Squeeze - Argybargy
Caveman - The Whole Nine Yards
Demon Boyz - Recognition
ILIKETRAINS - Spencer Perceval
Low - Drums & Guns
Cilvaringz - I
John Bender - I Don't Remenber Now

iLIKETRAINS

2007-04-11T11:43:00.000+02:00

2007-04-10T00:37:00.000+02:00

New Orleans Residents Arming Themselves
By MARY FOSTER

Son Of Man

2007-04-09T21:50:00.000+02:00

En 83, j'crois

2007-04-09T19:48:00.000+02:00

watchout for a beer bottle hit in the head at 3:15

Oath Betrayed

2007-04-09T19:18:00.000+02:00

Oath Betrayed' Questions Doctors' Roles in Torture

by Steve Inskeep

In the spring of 2004, when Americans were horrified by the pictures of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, medical ethics expert Steven Miles had just one question: Where were the doctors?

Miles, a doctor and medical ethics expert who has treated victims of torture throughout the world, had just one question: Where were the doctors?

How Doctors Got Into the Torture Business

2007-04-09T19:13:00.000+02:00

Soldiers are trained to kill and doctors to heal. At least that's how we usually understand those two professions. But wars can often distort reality, and the war on terrorism has turned into a test case. An inspiring example is that of Colonel Kelly Faucette, M.D. He recently wrote about caring for a new patient at the intensive-care unit of the 47th Combat Support Hospital in Mosul, Iraq. The patient was a terrorist insurgent, a man who planted hidden roadside bombs to murder civilians and Faucette's fellow soldiers. Faucette wrote in his local paper: "Something inside me wants to walk up to this guy ... and just clobber him." But Faucette didn't. Instead he healed him before sending him to a jail, and by that act of healing he helped heal Iraq.

By Andrew Sullivan

How Exxonmobil Funds The Climate Change Skeptics

2007-03-17T15:06:00.000+01:00

Playlist December 2 - January

2007-03-17T13:27:00.000+01:00

François De Roubaix - Le Samouraï
Illa Ghee - Myrtle & Throop
Ludichrist - Immaculate Deception
Gary Wilson - You Think You Really Know Me
Henri Texier - Amir
Killah Priest - A Prelude To The Offering
Kate Havnevik - Melankton
Kankick - Serious Business This
Rorschach - Autopsy

2007-03-17T13:11:00.000+01:00

The Khyber Impasse by Tariq Ali
After six years of NATO occupation in Afghanistan, the violence and death toll have escalated. The Taliban now control more territory than before. "The lesson here, as in Iraq, is a basic one. It is much better for regime-change to come from below even if this means a long wait as in South Africa, Indonesia or Chile. Occupations disrupt the possibilities of organic change and create a much bigger mess than existed before. Afghanistan is but one example," observes author and political commentator Tariq Ali.

2007-01-08T13:54:00.000+01:00

Playlist December 1

2006-12-22T09:29:00.000+01:00

Slow Suicide Stimulus - S/T
Existereo & Deeskee - Hopeless Crooks With Hopeless Books
The Naptown Afro-Jazz Quintet - S/T
David S Ware - Balladware
Prince - Camille
Moondog (NYHC) - S/T
Minor Threat - First Demo Tape
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
V/A - Dr Demento's Delights

Ingenuity ?

2006-12-12T23:18:00.000+01:00

Well, mine is right there as you can see, as low as it can be. What is ingenuity if you don't have self esteem or at least people surronding you ? You might as well end up right there in a cardboard box.

2006-12-12T22:45:00.000+01:00

The End of Ingenuity by Thomas Homer-Dixon

2006-12-09T12:31:00.000+01:00

I will nearly enter age of Christ but I am still hooked on the first impressions I get of people. I got served a lesson two nights ago. I confrontred myself with my narrow mindedness. I discovered quite a nice human being, so rare that it has to be underlined.

Maybe I have to think back a little more from now on.

2006-12-07T01:04:00.000+01:00

Is Freedom of Thought Under Threat in France ?
By Michel Gurfinkiel

EU trade report could lead to curbs in protectionism

2006-12-06T23:50:00.000+01:00

Document questions role of manufacturing vs. Asian imports
By James Kanter / International Herald Tribune

BRUSSELS: Europe's top trade official this week will address a growing rift between European countries where companies have found ways to reap advantages from globalization, and those that continue to bleed jobs to low-cost centers in Asia.

2006-12-06T23:23:00.000+01:00

Shot in battle, by the video soldiers

Video: Battlefield by night
Video: Battlefield by day

November Playlist 2

2006-12-06T13:35:00.000+01:00

Albert Ayler - The Last Album
Pierre Akendengue - Gorée
The Delfonics - Tell Me This Is A Dream
Dave Grusin - The Taking Of Pelham 1,2,3 OST
The Residents - Not Available
Bigg Jus - Black Mamba Serums
Klaus Schulze - Angst OST
Om Kalsoum - Lailet Hob
Carlo Savina - Summer Dreams

2006-11-22T16:00:00.000+01:00

2006-11-22T15:59:00.000+01:00

oh no, here we go again

2006-11-21T02:57:00.000+01:00

THE NEXT ACT

Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more ?
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH

November Playlist 1

2006-11-15T16:19:00.000+01:00

Dj Mehdi - Loukoums
Doctor Ice - The Mic Stalker
Hostyle - Partners In Crime
Prince - Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Second Hand - Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Yvonne Fair - The Bitch Is Black
Nektar - Recycled
Black Moon - Alter The Chemistry
Thavius Beck - Live In LA

In 83, I Think

2006-11-15T15:09:00.000+01:00

Somewhere between September and November, I lost my way into space time, took the wrong turn on the precedent vortex. Too much "Space Is The Place". I've been listenning to Prince's "1999" again. Actually, It's a pretty damn good album. I forgot all about it. I have spent the last ten hours chopping drums, synth and bass from several songs. I am recording a few dancefloor tracks with that. I need to widen my styles.

Also, I am so close to finish the shooting script for my short cut. It will take place in an abandon warehouse, sort of a foot pursuit but in a twisted way.

2006-11-13T04:18:00.000+01:00

Somehow I have managed to see the whole 4th season of The Wire.
What bugs me is the availability of it before it is actually shown on TV. How can that happen ? Don't give me the piracy excuse. There is a major failure inside the system, all the way down.

Stop blaming everything and everybody for what you can't manage yourself.

Nazi & UFO

2006-11-01T00:28:00.000+01:00

don't give a F if that's true or not...

The Nazi UFO Secret
The Nazi-UFO Connection
Les Nazis en Antartique (in French)
Hitler's UFO Projects
UFOs & Wonder Weapons
Nazi UFOs
Des disques volants nazis aux Ovnis militaires
(in French)

"Came From My U.F.O."

2006-10-25T13:45:00.000+02:00

I arrive in front of "The Klub" (which is really labeled "Le Club" wtf ?) by accident. This place is like hidden in the middle of the street, it can easily get unnoticed. You have to ring to get the door opened, like a fucking private sex saloon. A big black guy welcomes me with his no expression face. I say "Hi", no response, classic Paris style. I then approach the cashier girl with the psychobilly haircut. Fuck ! When am i ? 1987 ? I ask her if I can leave during the concert to make a phone call then be back. She answers that there's 100 people in here and if everybody wants to do like me, that will become a problem so it's impossible. Wtf ? Fuck ! Fuck me ! Ok, I came here to have a good time. I pay the girl and walk down the stairs. A few guys are hanging out, staring at me like baboons on ketamine, I say hello, they don't answer back. Great. Paris style, I know. I enter the room. Noise music is filling the place, I can't see the stage, this place is a fucked up piece of interior installation. I see the bar. I need a drink. Straight up. I need to cool down. The beer taste like cheap piss, served in tiny plastic cup, €3,5. Fuuuuuuck ! I make my way into the crowd. I spend 30 minutes trying to see what is going on the stage. It's hot, it lacks air. There is no ventilation except in the side areas where you can't see a thing. Heat and suffocation are becoming too much for me. I am too old to sweat like a punk rock kid, especially listenning to noise music made by a big ass tatooed french bearded guy. Wait...the music is changing. Spectre is now on stage, speaking extra low zombie voice. Dub basses are hitting my stomach. Maybe I shouldn't have eaten so much Ramadan cakes. I hit the bar once again. I order a €6,5 big ass beer for my big ass annoyment, lit up a cigarette and take a big ass puff. I turn around and see Sensational on his way to the stage. I hit the crowd. All these snow whites are bugging me out. Like packed sheep, they don't move. Fuuuuck. I force my way to the other side of the venue, excuse me, fuck you, excuse me, fuck you...Man, it's hot. I reach the left side of the stage. Damn, there's air in here and very few people. Bang ! Sensational is on, blasting, drinking, smoking, rhyming, getting his freak on. Baby Cart is playing in the background. The Ill Saint is pulling beats one after the other. Kouhei now joins the stage, he is pumping cucumber sliced beats like Itto Ogami is slicing legs Suio school style. Man ! They played like two hours and I didn't noticed time was flowing. That was amazing. I walk to the merchandise table, cope the new Sensational CD, walk through the door, Sensational is trying to run upon a girl, he's fucked up, I am tired. A nice japanese girl is handing me a flyer, she's the one who handed me this night flyer 15 days ago at some crazy bar in Belleville, she was with Kouhei that night. I walk home, sparkling trees, listening to a Citizen kane mix. Paris is a good city to live and die in.

Moka

2006-10-20T09:34:00.000+02:00

Everything has fallen back into his place.
Back with my sanity, drinking that Ethiopian brew.
More coming soon...about Darwinism nowadays, crazy human evolution theory.
Back with all the anger I got against humanity, propaganda inside the propaganda.

Look Out !

Zombi

2006-10-16T14:38:00.001+02:00

Been sick for the last 3 days. The good Dr Agueev gave me the good medicine. But it seems that I under estimated the power of the cold soon to become flu. I am half deaf, my ears are now hi pass filters. My brain feels like the pacific ocean on hurricane. I can't neither do music nor write. So I am listenning to tons of classic italian horror soundtracks and watching DVDs of shows like Homicide & The Corner while liquifying on my non existent coach.
I'm up to see Mondo Cane this afternoon. I'm feeling despicable. Maybe It will make me feel good...

It's Been A Long Time

2006-10-11T15:51:00.000+02:00

"Long Time No See"

I went underground since May. Things went a little strange since then. Everything didn't turned out like it was supposed to. But project have matured, artists are on point, movies & albums are on their way.
New equipment was acquired. Different sceduling changes were made. Now is a good time to resurface. I'll keep you updated.

Let me catch my breath.

Inside Job ?

2006-03-27T03:23:00.000+02:00

Missile at the World Trade Center - Caught by 4 Different News Sources
The Pod on Flight 175
New York Firefighters Telling of 911 Controlled Demolition, Bombs !
www.letsroll911.org

Pentagon Strike

AIDS Origins

2006-03-21T15:51:00.000+01:00

The closest animal relative to HIV-1 (the AIDS virus) is a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) found in the common chimpanzee . There are many SIVs in nature, but they are only naturally found in African primates.

Scientists Issue Unprecedented Forecast of Next Sunspot Cycle

2006-03-08T09:33:00.000+01:00

Information Overload

2006-03-03T16:00:00.000+01:00

"The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets."

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler.

Could the evening news be bad for your health ?

The Brain

2006-03-03T15:25:00.000+01:00

What physical changes happen to the brain ?
Drug may stop brain shrinkage
Brain shrinkage : early sign of schizophrenia ?
Drug May Stop Brain Shrinkage

Lie detectors may be next step in airline security

2006-01-17T16:03:00.000+01:00

Lie detector may soon become standard part of airport security
Domodevo international airport introduces multilevel voice analysis technology
GK1 - Security Access Control System
Israel's revolutionary lie-dectector eyeglasses

The truth about the polygraph
Forensic "Lie Detection" : Procedures without scientific basis

POLYGRAPH "testing" has no scientific basis: it's entirely dependent on your ignorance and fear. Educate yourself. In this book, you will discover the trickery on which polygraph "testing" depends, and learn how to make sure you pass your polygraph "test."

The Lie Behind The Lie Detector

American Polygraph Association

Past the point of no return ??????

2006-01-17T15:18:00.000+01:00

Ecological Collapse, Trauma Theory and Permaculture

"alternative energy" will NOT save civilization

"We will do our best to survive, but sadly I cannot see the United States or the emerging economies of China and India cutting back in time, and they are the main source of [CO2] emissions. The worst will happen ..."
"We have to keep in mind the awesome pace of change and realise how little time is left to act, and then each community and nation must find the best use of the resources they have to sustain civilisation for as long as they can."
J. Lovelock

Reality Check

2006-01-17T14:53:00.000+01:00

"It's the most likely outcome if coal, oil and gas use continue to rise, either we implement a radical programme to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, or we need to start taking measures to prepare for post-collapse survival in the few areas which will remain habitable by the end of this century. The choice is ours." Mark Lynas

Is It Too Late ?

2006-01-17T12:49:00.000+01:00

"Before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable." James Lovelock

The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare

Now The Pentagon tells Bush : climate change will destroy us

Pentagon-sponsored climate report sparks hullabaloo in Europe. But new ice age unlikely, Bay Area authors of study say.

The Report : An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security (pdf)

Climate change: it's now or never

Global warming: Is it already too late ?

Global warming to speed up as carbon levels show sharp rise

2006-01-14T11:51:00.000+01:00

Free the Primates !

Agent Buzz or BZ or 3-quinuclidinyl benzillate or QNB

2006-01-14T10:44:00.000+01:00

The chemical warfare agent 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB, BZ) is an anticholinergic agent that affects both the peripheral and central nervous systems (CNS). It is one of the most potent anticholinergic psychomimetics known, with only small doses necessary to produce incapacitation. It is classified as a hallucinogenic chemical warfare agent. QNB usually is disseminated as an aerosol, and the primary route of absorption is through the respiratory system. Absorption also can occur through the skin or gastrointestinal tract. It is odorless. QNB's pharmacologic activity is similar to other anticholinergic drugs (eg, atropine) but with a much longer duration of action.

BZ Timeline
Backgrounder : The chemical warfare agent 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB, BZ)
Acid Dreams : The CIA-FDA connection
Insurgents using Chem Weapons - on themselves ?
The Pentagon's People Zapper
Jacob's Ladder
Sulum Yakoov...Jacob's Ladder

The Effect Of Noise On Wildlife

2006-01-13T12:40:00.000+01:00

Noise pollution, as it effects humans, has been a recognized problem for decades, but the effect of noise on wildlife has only recently been considered a potential threat to animal health and long-term survival. Research into the effects of noise on wildlife, which has been growing rapidly since the 1970s, often presents conflicting results because of the variety of factors and variables that can effect and/or interfere with the determination of the actual effects that human-produced noise is having on any given creature. Both land and marine wildlife have been studied, especially in regards to noise in the National Parks System and the onslaught of human- made cacophony in the oceans from military, commercial and scientific endeavors.

The Effect Of Noise On Wildlife : A Literature Review by Autumn Lyn Radle

Global security in the 21st century and on how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological, and technological change

2006-01-06T10:44:00.000+01:00

Can we solve the problems of the future? Thomas Homer-Dixon tackles this question in a groundbreaking study of a world becoming too complex and too fast-paced to manage.

The challenges we face converge, intertwine, and often remain largely beyond our understanding. Most of us suspect that the "experts" don't really know what's going on and that as a species we've released forces that are neither managed nor manageable. This is the ingenuity gap, the critical gap between our need for ideas to solve complex problems and our actual supply of those ideas.

Poor countries are particularly vulnerable to ingenuity gaps, but our own rich countries are no longer immune, and we're all caught dangerously between a soaring requirement for ingenuity and an increasingly uncertain supply. As the gap widens, the result can be political disintegration and violent upheaval.

With riveting anecdotes and lucid argument, Thomas Homer-Dixon uses his ingenuity theory to suggest how we might approach these problems -- in our own lives, our thinking, our businesses, and our societies.

Interview (in French)

2005-11-28T12:26:00.000+01:00

South Asian Quake : Move Something !

2005-10-26T09:03:00.000+02:00

Again and again...
Nobody spend holidays in Kashmir...

Rich world 'failing' on quake aid

Many of the world's richest countries have so far failed to support a UN appeal for victims of the South Asian quake, a top UK-based charity has said.

Quake 'is UN's worst nightmare'
The UN says the shortfall in aid for victims of the South Asian quake has made the relief situation worse than after last December's tsunami.

Weather fears for quake victims
The question of how much time is left before the weather closes in on the quake-affected areas in Kashmir and northern Pakistan is now gaining urgency.

Saddam Hussein

2005-10-21T15:41:00.000+02:00

Iraqi Special Tribunal
The Former Iraqi Government On Trial
Groatian Moment : The Saddam Hussein Trial Blog
Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein

Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions

2005-10-21T15:28:00.000+02:00

The General Conference of UNESCO, meeting in Paris from October 3 to October 21, today approved (148 votes for, two against, four abstentions) the Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions, an international normative instrument that will enter into force three months after its ratification by 30 States.

You Want To Donate ?

2005-10-21T15:24:00.000+02:00

Arsenic removal water filter could help save millions of lives : UNESCO-IHE calls for donors

Talking About Tsunami...

2005-10-21T15:12:00.000+02:00

by Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

After the Tsunami concludes that survivors continue to suffer from inequities in aid distribution and substandard shelter. It also documents numerous violations of human rights in the wake of the tsunami, including arbitrary arrests, recruitment of children into fighting forces, discrimination in aid distribution, enforced relocation, and sexual and gender-based violence. Tsunami survivors reported widespread inequities in aid distribution on the part of some government agencies as a result of favoritism and political influence, bureaucratic inefficiencies, and caste affiliation. Government authorities rarely, if ever, investigated such abuses. Finally, government agencies and aid organizations often failed to consult people in affected communities about aid distribution and reconstruction.

The study recommends that governments in tsunami-affected countries should commission an independent study to investigate reports of inequities in aid distribution; increase accountability and transparency of public and private aid providers; and develop mechanisms that will enable tsunami survivors to participate in reconstruction planning and implementation.

What The Fuck ?

2005-10-20T19:08:00.000+02:00

What's up with all you bourgeois motherfuckers who thought they could redeem themselves calling for donations for the South East Asian Tsunami ?

The world is making me sick right now.

I don't want to write any further on this. Go find out for yourself how you can help.

Free Classic Movies

2005-10-03T11:49:00.000+02:00

Night Of The Living Dead
Nosferatu
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Daughter Of Horror / Dementia
The Lost World
The Invaders
Indestructible Man
D.O.A
Gulliver's Travels

THE COMING WARS

2005-09-30T10:43:00.000+02:00

U.S. Conducting Secret Iran Missions
What the Pentagon Can Now Do in Secret
Learning from Hiroshima and Nagasaki or the Loss of Historical Memory ?

Oil For Food

2005-09-30T10:10:00.000+02:00

The U.N. is Us

The Oil-For-Food 'Scandal' is a Cynical Smokescreen
Oil For Food Facts

The Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme (IIC) is ‎collecting and examining information relating to the administration and management of ‎the Oil-for-Food Programme, including allegations of fraud and corruption on the part of ‎United Nations officials, personnel and agents, as well as contractors, including entities ‎that have entered into contracts with the United Nations or with Iraq under the ‎Programme.

Interactive Hunger Map

2005-09-18T12:35:00.000+02:00

(click on the map)

Niger is ranked the poorest country in the world and has suffered years of neglect by the outside world.

2005-09-18T11:41:00.000+02:00

Niger food aid 'no longer needed'

Huh ?

Niger's prime minister says he agrees with UN plans to end large-scale food aid, which he described as an affront to the country's dignity.

According to WFP website : WFP’s operation in Niger remains only 58 percent funded, with US$23 million of the $57.6 million appeal still urgently required. As of 5 September, US$33.5 million had been confirmed.

Niamey, Niger, 15 September 2005 - With the harvest still several weeks away in most areas of Niger, WFP is ready to start a second round of food aid distributions that will target the people most in need of assistance across the country.

Dynamics & Thermodynamics

2005-09-15T10:45:00.000+02:00

Although we cannot say at present whether more or fewer hurricane will occur in the future with global warming, the hurricanes that do occur near the end of the 21st century are expected to be stronger and have significantly more intense rainfall than under present day climate conditions.

Katrina was the most feared of all meteorological events, a major hurricane making landfall in a highly-populated low-lying region. In the wake of this devastation, many have questioned whether global warming may have contributed to this disaster. Could New Orleans be the first major U.S. city ravaged by human-caused climate change ?

Hunger

2005-09-12T09:08:00.000+02:00

On average more than 40 young children have been dying a day in one area surveyed in the east of the country.

"If they pledged the same amount every year to a permanent emergency fund at the UN, preventable crises like Niger and southern Africa would not happen."

Food aid is urgently needed for Mali, where the same famine that struck neighbouring Niger is intensifying, the United Nations emergency food agency warns.

Tens of millions of Africans will continue to go hungry over the next 20 years unless major changes in trade and aid policies are enacted, a report forecasts.

Yes! I would like to help feed people in Niger

Niger food aid is 'misdirected' (...) Thousands have probably died of hunger in recent months

WHO declares TB an emergency in Africa

2005-08-30T16:28:00.000+02:00

26 AUGUST 2005 | MAPUTO -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa comprising health ministers from 46 Member States has declared tuberculosis an emergency in the African region - a response to an epidemic that has more than quadrupled the annual number of new TB cases in most African countries since 1990 and is continuing to rise across the continent, killing more than half a million people every year.

The declaration was made in a resolution adopted today at the end of the Committee's fifty-fifth session in Maputo, Mozambique. The resolution urges Member States in the African Region to commit more human and financial resources to strengthen DOTS programmes and scale up collaborative interventions to fight the co-epidemic of TB and HIV. These and other measures recommended by the Committee encompass those laid out in a "blueprint" developed by the global Stop TB Partnership, which calls for US $2.2 billion in new funding for TB control in Africa during 2006-2007.

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Nakba

2005-08-18T11:44:00.000+02:00

Palestine : 1947-1949

Mass deportation of a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, massacres of civilians, and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages.

Al-Nakba
Palestine Remembered
Deir Yassin Remembered
Palestine-Net : Destroyed Villages

US Public School System

2005-08-02T09:14:00.000+02:00

Most modern addicts get their start on the school grounds, not from the pusher hanging over the school fences, but from the school itself. It is there where they learn all about drugs, what they feel like, which ones are dangerous, what they look like, and how available they are. When the child decides he must experiment, he knows which one to look for, what the signs of quality are, the going prices, and he has been reassured that they are available. He knows what downers and uppers are and how to use one to offset the other. The school makes sure that the child becomes well educated in drugs. It is in fact a mantra of the educators, "Drug use is going up, therefore, we must redouble our efforts to educate the child in drugs." This is quite kin to the statement, "The fire is getting bigger, therefore, we must throw more gasoline on the fire." And besides, the child is taught, everyone is doing it.

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Fascism Anyone?

2005-08-02T09:04:00.000+02:00

Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death.

World Peace

2005-07-22T20:20:00.000+02:00

all you hippies better start to face reality.
all your far fetched dreams of anarchy.
better start to see things the way they are,
cause the way things are going they won't be goin' far.
world peace can't be done. it just can't exist.
world peace can't be done. anarchy's a mess.
things are gettin hectic. it's all gonna end.
you don't know what's waitin' up around the bend.
open your eyes. perhaps you'll realize.
if AIDS don't get ya then the warheads will.
world peace can't be done. world peace.
it just can't exist. world peace.
world peace can't be done. world peace.
anarchy's a mess. world peace.
world peace can't be done. world peace.
no it can't. world peace. it just won't exist.
world peace. world peace. world peace.

"World Peace" Cro-Mags / Age of Quarrel LP 1986

I don't eat pork, I eat people !

2005-07-18T16:37:00.000+02:00

In french...

Niger Famine

2005-07-08T12:24:00.000+02:00

Anybody ?
3,6 million condemned, including 800 000 children.
16 millions dollars needed.

Niger famine appeal falls on deaf ears
12 Myths About Hunger
Does "Overpopulation" cause hunger?
It is a myth that world hunger is due to scarcity of food

Krautjazz Space Guerilla

2005-07-08T11:23:00.000+02:00

Missus Beastly (1974)
2nd self-titled of an obscure German band featuring menbers of Embryo.
Bass, keyboards, drums, sax and flute.
Wtf ? Stalk that shit !

Space Encounter

2005-07-04T20:57:00.000+02:00

Deep Impact encounter
Deep Impact Story

Children

2005-06-28T20:27:00.000+02:00

"You made your children what they are.... These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.... You can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you. My father is your system.... I am only what you made me. I am a reflection of you. You made your children what they are.... These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.... You can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you. My father is your system.... I am only what you made me. I am a reflection of you."

I Beg To Differ

2005-06-21T20:00:00.000+02:00

Everything's Gonna Be Alright...

2005-06-04T09:10:00.000+02:00

George Thompson

(...)By 2025, two-thirds of the world's population will live in water-scarce regions; about one-third will face severe water shortages(...)

(...)Ninety-five percent of the future growth will occur in poor countries. It sustains a destabilizing youth bulge in many of these countries' populations. In some countries in Africa, over 50 percent of the population is below 15 years of age. The youth bulge, in turn, produces large numbers of urbanized, unemployed, young males -- the most dangerous social group of all, and the most easily recruited to radical political causes(...)

(...)In 1900, Africa's population was about one-third that of Europe. In 2000, the populations of the regions were roughly equal. By 2050, Africa's population will be three times that of Europe(...)

quoted from Synchronous Failure: The Real Danger of the 21st Century, by Thomas Homer-Dixon

Sun Ra Death Anniversary

2005-05-30T18:02:00.000+02:00

30 May 1993

Sun Ra Birth

2005-05-22T16:03:00.000+02:00

"Came to Earth on a rocket ship"
22 May 1914