Outrageous obversion...

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Sacrilege. Inappropriate and petty. This week Krusty the clown was given the Rodolfo Walsh award. FFS! What a complete fucking disgrace to give this award to Hugo. Walsh is said to be the pioneer the investigative journalism in Argentina but that puts it mildly: with "Operation Massacre", he was widely thought to be the pioneer of the journalism/ fiction blend almost a full decade before Truman Capote shot to fame with "In Cold Blood". There is no denying Walsh was a dyed-in-the-wool lefty with direct association to Cuba (even to the extent of deciphering CIA codes before the Bay of Pigs debacle) and was murdered - "on behalf of" a right-wing Junta - in broad daylight by the infamous EMSA the same day/day after he published his Open Letter to the Military Junta; but get this, the letter was, amongst other things, a cry against censorship of the press! Full and fair testimony to "A Man of Honour" HERE (Spanish)...[off topic: looking at that bio you just know that Kevin Spacey would have to play him in a film of his life]



Typical lefty-love-in fuck-fest; mind you, at least Florencia Saintout, the Dean of La Plata University's journalism program, the one's giving the award, didn't mince her words: "The prize we are giving is not neutral, it is not aseptic ... you head a profound process of emancipation in Latin America" and "unquestionable and authentic commitment" to media that support "human rights, truth and democratic values" [LINK].



Bullshit. Complete fucking pants.

Outrageous obversion...

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Sacrilege. Inappropriate and petty. This week Krusty the clown was given the Rodolfo Walsh award. FFS! What a complete fucking disgrace to give this award to Hugo. Walsh is said to be the pioneer the investigative journalism in Argentina but that puts it mildly: with "Operation Massacre", he was widely thought to be the pioneer of the journalism/ fiction blend almost a full decade before Truman Capote shot to fame with "In Cold Blood". There is no denying Walsh was a dyed-in-the-wool lefty with direct association to Cuba (even to the extent of deciphering CIA codes before the Bay of Pigs debacle) and was murdered - "on behalf of" a right-wing Junta - in broad daylight by the infamous EMSA the same day/day after he published his Open Letter to the Military Junta; but get this, the letter was, amongst other things, a cry against censorship of the press! Full and fair testimony to "A Man of Honour" HERE (Spanish)...[off topic: looking at that bio you just know that Kevin Spacey would have to play him in a film of his life]

Typical lefty-love-in fuck-fest; mind you, at least Florencia Saintout, the Dean of La Plata University's journalism program, the one's giving the award, didn't mince her words: "The prize we are giving is not neutral, it is not aseptic ... you head a profound process of emancipation in Latin America" and "unquestionable and authentic commitment" to media that support "human rights, truth and democratic values" [LINK].

Bullshit. Complete fucking pants.

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Happy Birthday Angus. And Brian's 64 this year! Jeez.

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Happy Birthday Angus. And Brian's 64 this year! Jeez.

Overt overspending...

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Add up ALL the savings (or "cuts cuts! CUTS!!" in BBC talk) and multiply the number by 50% and add that on too: there you have the new annual total of what we pay the EU, NET not gross [Independent]. As was agreed by New Labour, the UK's rebate was reduced by more than 40% in 2010 to 3 billion quid. The 9.2 billion now paid DOES NOT include the added exposure of EU bail-outs via the European Commission and contributions to the IMF.



Hat-tip: Dan Hannan



P.S. off the EU topic but relevant to "cuts": Brent North MP Barry Gardiner has slammed his own Labour-run council for planning to close six libraries: "We can't cut these services and fail to completely understand the needs of local people. Libraries are fundamental for children. It is about growing up and being part of an intellectual community. The council has to identify areas that are most important to local people and has to protect them...



...There are more than 50 people on Brent Council who are earning as much as Eric Pickles - Secretary of State. Why?" [LINK]

Overt overspending...

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Add up ALL the savings (or "cuts cuts! CUTS!!" in BBC talk) and multiply the number by 50% and add that on too: there you have the new annual total of what we pay the EU, NET not gross [Independent]. As was agreed by New Labour, the UK's rebate was reduced by more than 40% in 2010 to 3 billion quid. The 9.2 billion now paid DOES NOT include the added exposure of EU bail-outs via the European Commission and contributions to the IMF.

Hat-tip: Dan Hannan

P.S. off the EU topic but relevant to "cuts": Brent North MP Barry Gardiner has slammed his own Labour-run council for planning to close six libraries: "We can't cut these services and fail to completely understand the needs of local people. Libraries are fundamental for children. It is about growing up and being part of an intellectual community. The council has to identify areas that are most important to local people and has to protect them...

...There are more than 50 people on Brent Council who are earning as much as Eric Pickles - Secretary of State. Why?" [LINK]

Oblectation over online outbursts...

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Oh joy. "How not to handle bad reviews." [Guardian] "Self-published author Jacqueline Howett's online meltdown after a poor review..." It relates to the review she received from a blog that provides "Reviews and more from the world of the Kindle", Big Al's Books and Pals (click on image). The Guardian goes on:



"Writers, said the science fiction author Isaac Asimov, fall into two groups:

"Those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review."

Jacqueline Howett falls into the former category". The comments are hilarious as JH tries to explain, then excuse, then insult (and get insulted). Her final comment belies her smiling avatar. :-)



Hat-tip: Nattybumpo.

Oblectation over online outbursts...

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Oh joy. "How not to handle bad reviews." [Guardian] "Self-published author Jacqueline Howett's online meltdown after a poor review..." It relates to the review she received from a blog that provides "Reviews and more from the world of the Kindle", Big Al's Books and Pals (click on image). The Guardian goes on:

"Writers, said the science fiction author Isaac Asimov, fall into two groups:

"Those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review."

Jacqueline Howett falls into the former category". The comments are hilarious as JH tries to explain, then excuse, then insult (and get insulted). Her final comment belies her smiling avatar. :-)

Hat-tip: Nattybumpo.

Orwellian overtures II...

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It seems we are getting there: I wrote 5 years ago about Orwell's Omen**; I wasn't the first by a long way and I won't be the last; back then 20% of the world's CCTV cameras were in the UK: four million cameras covered almost every town centre and, of course, the numbers have been growing although I doubt now we have such a large percentage of world CCTV. Recent news reminded me of this: "you won’t be able to drive in or out of the town without being clocked", this sinister-sounding phrase said with pride by 'the town centre manager' of Royston:

"The town of Royston in Hertfordshire is to become Britain’s first ‘ring of steel’ town, with hidden Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras installed on every single road in and out of the town" [Big Brother Watch]

Now, ANPR isn't CCTV and you may think it quite close, however, see image and read on. The Town Council says that residents details will be safe (how many data lost/stolen stories are there every year? Dozens) and that the cameras are to "give the police hard evidence as they track known villains" but the fact that ANPR have released details of its hopes to combine with Scottish police and other national security bureaus it tends to add weight to what Charles Farrier of the group 'No CCTV' said when he accused the police of creating a UK-wide tracking grid "to keep tabs on everyone". I tend to agree, especially when you read what they do: The ANPR introduction tells us that:

"Just capturing number plates and storing them is not much use by itself. Each new vehicle is automatically displayed upon detection within the event panel"

Jeez: click on the image above to enlarge or scroll down the linked ANPR page and look at an event panel: apart from the car etc there is a picture of the driver, name, address, job, telephone numbers, e-mail...



** Amusingly, or not as the case may be, I read Orwell's words ('Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.') just today reading about BBC giving a very dodgy version of Libyan history (credit to pounce_uk on BBBC)



Read online: 1984 

Orwellian overtures II...

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It seems we are getting there: I wrote 5 years ago about Orwell's Omen**; I wasn't the first by a long way and I won't be the last; back then 20% of the world's CCTV cameras were in the UK: four million cameras covered almost every town centre and, of course, the numbers have been growing although I doubt now we have such a large percentage of world CCTV. Recent news reminded me of this: "you won’t be able to drive in or out of the town without being clocked", this sinister-sounding phrase said with pride by 'the town centre manager' of Royston:

"The town of Royston in Hertfordshire is to become Britain’s first ‘ring of steel’ town, with hidden Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras installed on every single road in and out of the town" [Big Brother Watch]

Now, ANPR isn't CCTV and you may think it quite close, however, see image and read on. The Town Council says that residents details will be safe (how many data lost/stolen stories are there every year? Dozens) and that the cameras are to "give the police hard evidence as they track known villains" but the fact that ANPR have released details of its hopes to combine with Scottish police and other national security bureaus it tends to add weight to what Charles Farrier of the group 'No CCTV' said when he accused the police of creating a UK-wide tracking grid "to keep tabs on everyone". I tend to agree, especially when you read what they do: The ANPR introduction tells us that:

"Just capturing number plates and storing them is not much use by itself. Each new vehicle is automatically displayed upon detection within the event panel"

Jeez: click on the image above to enlarge or scroll down the linked ANPR page and look at an event panel: apart from the car etc there is a picture of the driver, name, address, job, telephone numbers, e-mail...

** Amusingly, or not as the case may be, I read Orwell's words ('Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.') just today reading about BBC giving a very dodgy version of Libyan history (credit to pounce_uk on BBBC)

Read online: 1984 

Outing outrecuidance over offers...

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Another Euro-MP has been caught in the extensive "brown-envelope" sting by the Sunday Times to expose how 'lobbies' sneak in amendments to EU legislation: he is the forth so far - out of fourteen MEPs 'baited' - to accept the offer to change/adjust/move EU rules/regs for money, bribed in other words; Pablo Zalba is the first Spaniard MEP to bite but according to sources close to the newspaper it isn't because of the inherant honesty of his colleagues but because reporters have difficulty finding one with sufficiently good English to be able to fiddle! Pablo had a great excuse for the third meeting, an informal one over a coffeee, with the false lobbyists: "era muy guapa": she was really pretty! [El Mundo: only in Spanish].



Unfortunately, as Dan Hannan points out, "unless you read the Sunday Times, you'll almost certainly have missed the story." He also points out a number of reasons why there is no real reporting of this: commercial rivalry (between competing newspapers); lack of familiarity (who's your MEP?); journalistic laziness (UK MP expenses stories aplenty); and finally cynicism (dodgy Euro practices - what's new). All reasonable possibilities, however, Dan mentions a fifth:

"So far, two of the MEPs named have been members of the Socialists and Democrats (to which Labour is affiliated) and the other two of the EPP (which the Conservatives left last year because of its aggressive palaeo-federalism). As many as ten more MEPs might yet be compromised in this affair. What's the betting that, if one of them turns out to be from the ECR, the Guardian and the BBC will suddenly decide that the story is worth covering after all?"

I have little doubt that very shortly we shall see if he's right.



P.S. Worth noting that PZ, on discovering the trap, contacted the Sunday Times and got a signed declaration from their lawyers - before publication - asserting that he "clearly did not accept any money" or "break any rule of procedure of Parliament". FFS! Caught with his hand in the cookie jar we get 'but I didn't actually get any cookies' and 'there's no law to say I can't put my hand in a cookie jar'!

Outing outrecuidance over offers...

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Another Euro-MP has been caught in the extensive "brown-envelope" sting by the Sunday Times to expose how 'lobbies' sneak in amendments to EU legislation: he is the forth so far - out of fourteen MEPs 'baited' - to accept the offer to change/adjust/move EU rules/regs for money, bribed in other words; Pablo Zalba is the first Spaniard MEP to bite but according to sources close to the newspaper it isn't because of the inherant honesty of his colleagues but because reporters have difficulty finding one with sufficiently good English to be able to fiddle! Pablo had a great excuse for the third meeting, an informal one over a coffeee, with the false lobbyists: "era muy guapa": she was really pretty! [El Mundo: only in Spanish].

Unfortunately, as Dan Hannan points out, "unless you read the Sunday Times, you'll almost certainly have missed the story." He also points out a number of reasons why there is no real reporting of this: commercial rivalry (between competing newspapers); lack of familiarity (who's your MEP?); journalistic laziness (UK MP expenses stories aplenty); and finally cynicism (dodgy Euro practices - what's new). All reasonable possibilities, however, Dan mentions a fifth:

"So far, two of the MEPs named have been members of the Socialists and Democrats (to which Labour is affiliated) and the other two of the EPP (which the Conservatives left last year because of its aggressive palaeo-federalism). As many as ten more MEPs might yet be compromised in this affair. What's the betting that, if one of them turns out to be from the ECR, the Guardian and the BBC will suddenly decide that the story is worth covering after all?"

I have little doubt that very shortly we shall see if he's right.

P.S. Worth noting that PZ, on discovering the trap, contacted the Sunday Times and got a signed declaration from their lawyers - before publication - asserting that he "clearly did not accept any money" or "break any rule of procedure of Parliament". FFS! Caught with his hand in the cookie jar we get 'but I didn't actually get any cookies' and 'there's no law to say I can't put my hand in a cookie jar'!

Oblivious, odious or olid...

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OK, OK...the image is a bit OTT but it does serve as a warning to not forget what certain ideas and policies can do.  Little Red Ed, leader of the UK's 2nd opposition (the 1st opposition is the BBC and other media that seem intent on not telling the country what it needs to know) should sack his speech writer; maybe it's Balls. The bad timing he can do nothing about.



Today at the misguided leftist, swollen-public-sector, union protest march (yes I know there were other causes and people present), Ed, apart from his continuous lies and hyperbole about "back to the 80s", had the gall to compare today's march against 'cuts' (really just growth-in-spending reductions to a 2007 level) to the Suffragette cause, the America civil rights movement and anti-apartheid in South Africa. Now to me, Ed Miliband played quite a large part in the reason for the Coalition's need to "address" spending** so he was most definitely a part of the problem; his comparisons would be, IMHO, like Mary Humphry Ward speaking to a womens' celebratory "We got the Vote" party, or a KKK Grand Wizard praising an African American equal rights shindig or D.F. Malan saying black South Africans should have been running the country. It's like an arsonist setting fire to the local pub and then rousing the sleeping street residents against the ones trying to put the fire out because they're using too much of 'our' water. Rant over...but probably not for long. :-)



** Brown and Balls are the other reasons...and Blair (should have had the balls to sack Brown).

Oblivious, odious or olid...

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OK, OK...the image is a bit OTT but it does serve as a warning to not forget what certain ideas and policies can do.  Little Red Ed, leader of the UK's 2nd opposition (the 1st opposition is the BBC and other media that seem intent on not telling the country what it needs to know) should sack his speech writer; maybe it's Balls. The bad timing he can do nothing about.

Today at the misguided leftist, swollen-public-sector, union protest march (yes I know there were other causes and people present), Ed, apart from his continuous lies and hyperbole about "back to the 80s", had the gall to compare today's march against 'cuts' (really just growth-in-spending reductions to a 2007 level) to the Suffragette cause, the America civil rights movement and anti-apartheid in South Africa. Now to me, Ed Miliband played quite a large part in the reason for the Coalition's need to "address" spending** so he was most definitely a part of the problem; his comparisons would be, IMHO, like Mary Humphry Ward speaking to a womens' celebratory "We got the Vote" party, or a KKK Grand Wizard praising an African American equal rights shindig or D.F. Malan saying black South Africans should have been running the country. It's like an arsonist setting fire to the local pub and then rousing the sleeping street residents against the ones trying to put the fire out because they're using too much of 'our' water. Rant over...but probably not for long. :-)

** Brown and Balls are the other reasons...and Blair (should have had the balls to sack Brown).

Obama's obvious omissions...

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I did have one, short, comment about this earlier in the week; now a bit more. Obama seems to be getting more attention for what he is not saying (and not doing in the case of Libya etc). He has been going on about equal partnerships and shared values, fair enough; he also said that today Latin America is democratic and mentioned the Inter-American Democratic Charter (adopted by a General Assembly special session on 11th Sept 2001...) the central aim of which is to strengthen and uphold 'democratic institutions in the nations of the Americas', it "nominally binds the governments of the hemisphere to act against those who commit political abuses" [WP Opinion]. A couple of articles from that Charter:

Article 4: The strengthening of democracy requires transparency, probity, responsibility, and effectiveness in the exercise of public authority, respect for social rights, and freedom of the press, as well as economic and social development.

Article 7: Democracy is a condition for the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Great. Obama went on, "we have to speak out when we see those principles violated"...yet in his "weak meassage to Latin America" - not once on the tour - has he mentioned Venezuela (nor Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia for that matter) or their "increasingly autocratic rulers".

Obama's obvious omissions...

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I did have one, short, comment about this earlier in the week; now a bit more. Obama seems to be getting more attention for what he is not saying (and not doing in the case of Libya etc). He has been going on about equal partnerships and shared values, fair enough; he also said that today Latin America is democratic and mentioned the Inter-American Democratic Charter (adopted by a General Assembly special session on 11th Sept 2001...) the central aim of which is to strengthen and uphold 'democratic institutions in the nations of the Americas', it "nominally binds the governments of the hemisphere to act against those who commit political abuses" [WP Opinion]. A couple of articles from that Charter:

Article 4: The strengthening of democracy requires transparency, probity, responsibility, and effectiveness in the exercise of public authority, respect for social rights, and freedom of the press, as well as economic and social development.
Article 7: Democracy is a condition for the full and effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Great. Obama went on, "we have to speak out when we see those principles violated"...yet in his "weak meassage to Latin America" - not once on the tour - has he mentioned Venezuela (nor Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia for that matter) or their "increasingly autocratic rulers".

Odd onomatomania...

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HIV is rife in the UK and apparently there has been a doubling of new HIV infections in the past decade [BBC] (yes, as per TB and hepatitis B etc lack of immigration control is to blame, but don't say it out loud, it's racist you know). Not A Sheep points out the odd maths where the BBC state that the Health Protection Agency data shows new "UK-acquired cases rose from just under 2,000 in 2001 to nearly 3,800 in 2010"...but in the same report state that "In 2009, more than 2,000 black Africans were diagnosed with an HIV infection, one-third of all new diagnoses in the UK", so 2000 is one third of 3,800 (or a bit less presuming 2009 was lower). Eh? Anyway, that is odd but reading the article something else struck me, an apparent onomatomania: an apparent preoccupation with a certain word or words...I did a screenshot just in case (click image to enlarge): within only nine short sentences there are FOUR appearances of the phrase "men who have sex with men"! WTF is all that about?

Odd onomatomania...

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HIV is rife in the UK and apparently there has been a doubling of new HIV infections in the past decade [BBC] (yes, as per TB and hepatitis B etc lack of immigration control is to blame, but don't say it out loud, it's racist you know). Not A Sheep points out the odd maths where the BBC state that the Health Protection Agency data shows new "UK-acquired cases rose from just under 2,000 in 2001 to nearly 3,800 in 2010"...but in the same report state that "In 2009, more than 2,000 black Africans were diagnosed with an HIV infection, one-third of all new diagnoses in the UK", so 2000 is one third of 3,800 (or a bit less presuming 2009 was lower). Eh? Anyway, that is odd but reading the article something else struck me, an apparent onomatomania: an apparent preoccupation with a certain word or words...I did a screenshot just in case (click image to enlarge): within only nine short sentences there are FOUR appearances of the phrase "men who have sex with men"! WTF is all that about?

Obeisant obituary...

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A Hollywood great and beautiful double Oscar-winning actress: Elizabeth Taylor; she became known as a child star in the 1940s in the early Lassie films but especially as Velvet Brown in "National Velvet" which "skyrocketed Taylor to stardom at the tender age of 12"; 'A Place In the Sun' was another film highlighting her talent but even greater fame (and becoming the highest paid actress at the time) came when she signed a million dollar contract to play the title role in Cleopatra, perhaps her most famous known role; this was in 1963, in the middle her purple patch (the period 1956 - that saw the release of 'Giant', 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' in 1958 - through 1966 with 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?') when she had five Best Actress Oscar nominations and won two of them. Despite also being famous for her tumultuous marriages and "private" life it will be her acting, great beauty and Aids charity work for which she is remembered. R.I.P. Liz Taylor.

Obeisant obituary...

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A Hollywood great and beautiful double Oscar-winning actress: Elizabeth Taylor; she became known as a child star in the 1940s in the early Lassie films but especially as Velvet Brown in "National Velvet" which "skyrocketed Taylor to stardom at the tender age of 12"; 'A Place In the Sun' was another film highlighting her talent but even greater fame (and becoming the highest paid actress at the time) came when she signed a million dollar contract to play the title role in Cleopatra, perhaps her most famous known role; this was in 1963, in the middle her purple patch (the period 1956 - that saw the release of 'Giant', 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' in 1958 - through 1966 with 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?') when she had five Best Actress Oscar nominations and won two of them. Despite also being famous for her tumultuous marriages and "private" life it will be her acting, great beauty and Aids charity work for which she is remembered. R.I.P. Liz Taylor.

Outing obscurantism obstriction...

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Obstriction = obligation; the obligation to 'out' the overt prevention of enlightenment that is going on every day. "The 2011 Budget marks another step away from the economic recklessness of the Labour Government. They brought Britain to the brink of bankruptcy, doubling the national debt and leaving us with the biggest deficit in our peacetime history. Their legacy is £120 million a day being spent on debt interest alone." Conservative Home.

"Ed Balls and Ed Miliband were Gordon Brown’s chief economic advisers and the architects of this mess."

Click on image to enlarge, click HERE for PDF of more telling images and facts.

Outing obscurantism obstriction...

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Obstriction = obligation; the obligation to 'out' the overt prevention of enlightenment that is going on every day. "The 2011 Budget marks another step away from the economic recklessness of the Labour Government. They brought Britain to the brink of bankruptcy, doubling the national debt and leaving us with the biggest deficit in our peacetime history. Their legacy is £120 million a day being spent on debt interest alone." Conservative Home.

"Ed Balls and Ed Miliband were Gordon Brown’s chief economic advisers and the architects of this mess."

Click on image to enlarge, click HERE for PDF of more telling images and facts.

Obambulating Obama's obnubilation...

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Obama, on his 'tour' of South America says "We are all Americans... ...There are no senior partners or junior partners, only equal partners". He doesn't believe it; they don't believe it; we don't believe it...so why say it? FFS, Why spout such banal crap?

Obambulating Obama's obnubilation...

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Obama, on his 'tour' of South America says "We are all Americans... ...There are no senior partners or junior partners, only equal partners". He doesn't believe it; they don't believe it; we don't believe it...so why say it? FFS, Why spout such banal crap?

"Outlaw" 'Oso' Owsley obit...

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I'm a week late late with this; his trip is over: Owsley ' Bear' Stanley who died on 13th March in a car crash had "two main passions in life – acid and sound" [LINK]. Back in the 70's I recall a report in the Times that quoted US authorities stating that he was the man that "did for LSD what Henry Ford did for the motorcar". He has been 'immortalised' in song by more than a few rock bands of the 60s and 70s including Jimmy Hendrix, Steely Dan and the Grateful Dead.



He was a chemist - or,as he would say, he knew how to follow mixing instructions - but much more: his contribution to music is "that he almost single-handedly changed the way rock bands are heard and recorded." Rather than bands, no matter what their 'sound', plugging in to whatever the available sound-system was, Owsley started with a personal PA system that the band would take with them on tour: the Wall of Sound (click on image for design and explication of this wall). "The Grateful Dead became the first ever rock band to haul their own PA to concerts."

"Owsley would record every concert he worked on, applying his theories of microphone placement and stereo imaging. His live recordings are still considered unrivalled in quality and definition."

"Outlaw" 'Oso' Owsley obit...

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I'm a week late late with this; his trip is over: Owsley ' Bear' Stanley who died on 13th March in a car crash had "two main passions in life – acid and sound" [LINK]. Back in the 70's I recall a report in the Times that quoted US authorities stating that he was the man that "did for LSD what Henry Ford did for the motorcar". He has been 'immortalised' in song by more than a few rock bands of the 60s and 70s including Jimmy Hendrix, Steely Dan and the Grateful Dead.

He was a chemist - or,as he would say, he knew how to follow mixing instructions - but much more: his contribution to music is "that he almost single-handedly changed the way rock bands are heard and recorded." Rather than bands, no matter what their 'sound', plugging in to whatever the available sound-system was, Owsley started with a personal PA system that the band would take with them on tour: the Wall of Sound (click on image for design and explication of this wall). "The Grateful Dead became the first ever rock band to haul their own PA to concerts."

"Owsley would record every concert he worked on, applying his theories of microphone placement and stereo imaging. His live recordings are still considered unrivalled in quality and definition."

One org, Ostara orbital obliquity and oral obligation...

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World Citizen Day

Obliquity (Axial tilt)

World Storytelling Day - Water

As always, click on each of the images for more info. on today's World Days and the vernal equinox.

One org, Ostara orbital obliquity and oral obligation...

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World Citizen Day

Obliquity (Axial tilt)

World Storytelling Day - Water

As always, click on each of the images for more info. on today's World Days and the vernal equinox.

Orts of oblectation...

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A well-used but certainly not hackneyed phrase if ever there was one is Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr's 'plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose':  more or less 'the more it changes, the more it's the same thing' ; I laughed today with this phrase in mind when reading about Conservative Arts Funding cuts, concern over the growth of public sector salaries and the phrase "Not all journalists are trendy left-wing wets!" (from a young[er] John McCririck); all from in THIS article reporting 30,000 documents released recently by the Thatcher archive.

Orts of oblectation...

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A well-used but certainly not hackneyed phrase if ever there was one is Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr's 'plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose':  more or less 'the more it changes, the more it's the same thing' ; I laughed today with this phrase in mind when reading about Conservative Arts Funding cuts, concern over the growth of public sector salaries and the phrase "Not all journalists are trendy left-wing wets!" (from a young[er] John McCririck); all from in THIS article reporting 30,000 documents released recently by the Thatcher archive.