Wrong website, lady

Posted on Thursday, 29 July, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

A lady going by the name of “Angela” sent a message to me via the Committee to Protect Bloggers website contact form. Not only does she not know how to turn off caps-lock, she confused the committee website with Wikileaks and, I guess, me with Julian Assange. I’m flattered, but his hair is way better than mine.

Date and Time: Monday 26th July 2010 18:43:37

IP address: 96.243.197.224 (pool-96-243-197-224.tampfl.fios.verizon.net)

Message: HEY JULIAN — I HOPE YOU ARE PROUD OF YOURSELF. FOR SOMEONE WITH SUCH A BIG MOUTH, YOU ARE PRETTY SLICK IN HIDING YOURSELF. IN MY OPINION, YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE. YOU DON’T CONSIDER OUR BOYS FIGHTING FOR US. NO MATTER WHAT THE COST, YOU HAVE TO FORCE YOUR WAY OF THINKING ON THE WHOLE WORLD. IN MY OPINION, YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A CANDY ASS–JERK OFF. GET A LIFE AND DO SOMETHING WORTHWHILE INSTEAD OF COSTING SOLDIERS THEIR LIVES. YOU ARE A REAL COWARD FOR HIDING. WHY NOT EXPOSE YOURSELF AND YOUR LOCATION TO DEBATE–IT FIGURES WHY YOU ARE HIDING — JUST LOOK IN THE MIRROR.

92,000 documents showing in detail how the U.S. brutally “pushes its opinion” on the world and this is what she comes up with?

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Help U.S. distibution of documentary about Gaza filmed by Gazan

Posted on Friday, 25 June, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

Deep Dish TV is assisting my friend in Rafah, Gaza, Fida Qishta, develop and distribute Where Should the Birds Fly, a powerful on-the-ground view documentary. Fida worked with several folks including yours truly on the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project for a spell, and this documentary represents a lot of what that project was about: bringing a real view of life in Gaza to the rest of the world. Get a perspective from a local’s point of view.

In this film, Fida captures what was happening in Gaza during Israel’s onslaught in 2008, “Operation Cast Lead,” which killed and injured thousands of Palestinian civilians, and the aftermath since. You can help complete this moving film, a story that can engage the minds and touch the hearts of people in the U.S. Distribution isn’t cheap. Deep Dish is working to raise $30,000. Donations are tax deductible, which is more than you can say about the part of your taxable income that goes to perpetuate the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Visit the Deep Dish website to help this project move along.

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Howard Zinn wants you to read his book online, but HarperCollins doesn’t

Posted on Sunday, 20 June, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

Howard Zinn

HIstorian rock star Howard Zinn

People’s historian Howard Zinn has given permission to the folks at History Is A Weapon to put his classic A People’s History Of The United States, online, but that hasn’t stopped HarperCollins from chasing after the website’s developers with threats of a lawsuit for doing so. Last month HIAW published its response to the publishing giant.

While HarperCollins claims both they and the author have not given permission, but the person writing the Cease & Desist order didn’t seem to check her or his facts with Zinn, who had met the HIAW crew in advance and and also gave positive feedback after seeing it online. Download your archived copy here (while supplies last).

The online copy is far from an identical experience to the dead trees version . The site creators scanned the book’s some 650 pages and coded it via hand to correct scanning mistakes, missing some here and there. A lawsuit seems a little ridiculous. The site developers have said they’ll take it offline if and when they ever are asked to do so by Zinn or his family, so HarperCollins could quickly ascertain whether permission was given.

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Cultures of Resistance

Posted on Friday, 18 June, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

Cultures of Resistance

Cultures of Resistance the film is a feature-length documentary directed by Iara Lee. The film draws connections between people on every continent and highlights the work of artists, musicians, and dancers throughout the world who are re-conceiving resistance as a fundamentally creative act. The Cultures of Resistance website seeks to get audiences involved with the activist groups and campaigns featured in the film.

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The Gaza Flotilla archive

Posted on Friday, 11 June, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share


Delegitimize.com is a new media library project by Nigel Parry that plans to publish a series of both topic-specific and current event-focused archive websites, with the help of the pro-Palestinian community and beyond.

The Gaza Flotilla archive is a freely-available research resource on the events that took place in international waters off the coast of Gaza on 31 May 2010.

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Hindsight is wonderful

Posted on Wednesday, 9 June, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. — Albert Einstein

Image: chemicallygreen.com

“Hindsight bias is the inclination to see events that have occurred as more predictable than they in fact were before they took place. Hindsight bias has been demonstrated experimentally in a variety of settings, including politics, games and medicine. In psychological experiments of hindsight bias, subjects also tend to remember their predictions of future events as having been stronger than they actually were, in those cases where those predictions turn out correct. This inaccurate assessment of reality after it has occurred is also referred to as ‘creeping determinism.’” — Wikidpedia

BP would have done all those things differently if they could turn back time, I’m sure.

Read: British Petroleum has a long record of bold claims and clever slogans.

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