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Pat Condell: Islam is Not a Victim [LINK-ZUM]

Labels: atheist, islam, judaism, theocracy, video

David Blair: The Telepathic Motion Picture of "THE LOST TRIBES" [LINK-ZUM]

The creator of WAX or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees has many other films, including The Lost Tribes.

Labels: video

Pat Condell: A Secular World is a Sane World [LINK-ZUM]

Labels: christianity, islam, theocracy, video

Keith Olberman: Special Comment May 2008 [LINK-ZUM]

Part One:

Part Two:

Labels: fascism, television, video

GADGETTO: Certain Men Always Get Their Way [LINK-ZUM]

See also: cover art, mp3.

Labels: music, video

Trevor Blake: Paper [LINK-ZUM]

One of the many fortunate experiences I've had in my life was learning a little origami when I was very young. Making things out of paper has been a favorite hobby ever since. Here are some interesting paper projects and products I've noted lately...

Build your own Cardiac computer.
Print your own temporary tattoos.
Fold a functional pinhole camera.
Paper made from soldier's uniforms.
Room dividers made from cardboard here and here.
Watch some movies here and here made from paper props.

Labels: art, DIY, paper, video

Trevor Blake: World-Wide Protest to Islamic Videos [LINK-ZUM]

Hamas has broadcast an episode of a puppet-based television show for children in which President Bush is stabbed to death and the White House is converted into a mosque. Understandably, Muslims and non-Muslims alike around the world have protested against this film. The Iranian envoy to the Netherlands has been summoned to the Dutch embassy. Jordinians are protesting the film, the filmmakers have been banned from entering Indonesia, many in Malaysia are calling for a boycott against the nation where the film came from, the film's Web site has been hacked, Iran has called the film horrible, Afghanistan has expressed concern....

Ha ha, April fools! Actually the film encouraging children to kill Americans is okay, no worries. It's the film made up of videos shot by Muslims of Muslims acting on the orders of Muslims to carry out their duties as Muslims that is the problem. The film Fitna could have been made by Osma bin Ladin. It says little that the Muslims don't say about themselves. It's only when someone in the West says that killing people for thinking differently is not acceptable that the protests begin. Killing people is okay, but other people saying 'don't kill people' - why...

Labels: film, islam, video

MTV: Fascism Happened... [LINK-ZUM]

These two videos from think MTV [1] [2] are presented as a warning of what could happen in the United States of America. But they look to me like nothing so much as a depiction of what has been happening for quite some time as part of the war on drugs.

Labels: prohibition, television, video

Trevor Blake: Fitna and the United Nations [LINK-ZUM]

From Wikipedia: "Fitna is a film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Dutch parliament. The movie offers his views on Islam and the Qur'an." The film is available online from Wikileaks, Google Video, and via bittorrent.

Jorge Sampaio is the UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations. Mr. Sampiao issues a call for respect and calm:

The recent release of an insulting film on the Holy Qur'an seems to serve no other purpose than to cause offence. The film may provoke and prompt social unrest, and encourage extremist groups within European societies whose agenda is to discriminate against and marginalize Muslim immigrants. Similarly, this offensive film may add to tensions between different cultures and may give rise to the idea that Europe or the West as a whole are hostile to Islam. So let us always remember that misrepresentation fuels extremism and extremism appears to validate misrepresentation. That is the vicious circle we have to firmly oppose and avoid. We will all be the losers if we fail to immediately defuse this potential crisis, which will only serve to entrench already polarized opinions and to feed stereotypes and misconceptions that deepen patterns of hostility and mistrust among peoples and societies.

At the core of this situation is a trend towards extremism in many of our societies. We should indeed beware of overemphasizing it, because extremism anywhere is extremism everywhere, thanks to new media technologies. Few people think of themselves as extremists, but many can be pushed towards an extreme point of view, almost without noticing it, when they feel that the behavior or language of others is extreme. We therefore deeply regret this offensive film.

Mr. Sampaio's statement continues and may be read in full here. Fitna presents the words of the Qur'an as text, then shows Muslims and Muslim leaders reading that text and explaining what it means, then shows Muslims and Muslim leaders acting on that explanation. If the words, explanation and acts are murderous, it is not the fault of a film that reports such murders that is to blame.

The tension between different cultures presented in the film are as follows. In the West there is a pluralism in which filmmakers can make films and cartoonists can make cartoons without the threat of State-sanctioned death; a pluralism in which homosexuals can be homosexuals without the threat of State-sanctioned death; a pluralism in which women can be women without the threat of genitals mutilation. In the Muslim world, there is a monoculture in which filmmakers and cartoonists and authors and people in buildings and people on buses and people on trains and people just about anywhere can be put to death; a monoculture in which homosexuals can be put to death; a monoculture in which women can have their genitals mutilated. The pluralism of the West tries to include the monoculture of the Muslim world, tries to greet as friends those who are murdering them. The Muslim world contains no such contradiction. Mr. Sampaio uses ideas of culture, race and religion interchangeably. To condemn Islam is to be racist, he seems to say. It is not the case that culture, race and religion are so interchangeable, and to make that claim is deceptive.

This film may cause offense. The ten thousand men, women and children killed by Muslims since 11 September 2001 causes me more offense. How can it be that murder is a matter of culture while art is a criminal offense? The pluralism of the West has been perverted into cultural relativism.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made the following statement about Fitna:

I condemn, in the strongest terms, the airing of Geert Wilders' offensively anti-Islamic film. There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. The right of free expression is not at stake here. I acknowledge the efforts of the Government of the Netherlands to stop the broadcast of this film, and appeal for calm to those understandably offended by it. Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility.

The United Nations is the centre of the world's efforts to advance mutual respect, understanding and dialogue. We must also recognize that the real fault line is not between Muslim and Western societies, as some would have us believe, but between small minorities of extremists on different sides with a vested interest in stirring hostility and conflict.

This reads to me like nothing so much as a man encouraging his neighbors to continue paying 'protection money' to the gang that controls his neighborhood. The plain words of the Qur'an, the recorded speeches of Muslims and Muslim leaders, the video of Muslims using a hand knife to saw off the head of kidnap victims... somehow these are worthy of mutual respect, understanding and dialogue. It is a film that accurately portrays these that is hateful, not the acts themselves. It is a film that is to blame for inciting violence, not what the film portrays. This film should be banned by law, but somehow that is not a violation of the right of free expression. And once again we are offered the claim that the pluralism of the West is to be found in the Muslim world if the West will only keep quiet about the Muslim world's vested interest in stirring hostility and conflict. Once again we are told that the extremists are to found on both sides. But from where I'm sitting one side made films and cartoons and books, the other side kills people.

I am disappointed by these two statements by United Nations representatives regarding the film Fitna and regarding Islam.

Labels: art, books, comics, film, islam, theocracy, video

Trevor Blake: Music Recommendations [LINK-ZUM]

The Cock N Bull Kid: [myspace] [video]
Mochipet: [myspace] [video]
Time Served: streaming audio show hosted by Guy, J.Dub, Sharpshooter & Rapid MC on dnbradio.com.
Tom Ellard: [past] [archive] [present]

file2hd is an online tool useful for extracting audio files from myspace. downloadthemall is a Firefox plugin useful for downloading large amounts of audio from Web pages.

Labels: music, tools, video

Trevor Blake: Buckminster Fuller Play in Portland [LINK-ZUM]

Portland Center Stage will be presenting R. Buckminster Fuller: The History [and Mystery] of the Universe October 14 - December 7, 2008. "An engineer, architect, mathematician, designer, poet, philosopher, motivational speaker, major utopian thinker and inventor of the geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller was one of the most remarkable minds of the 20th century. Born in 1895, Bucky was way ahead of his time. Refusing to think in conventional ways, he was an innovator, a futurist, and one of the first true global thinkers. This tour-de-force, one-man performance explores Bucky's life and work through a blend of testimony, lecture, autobiography, poetry, comic antics and video imagery. The play spirals and spins through ideas and experiences as Bucky escorts you on an unforgettable journey."

I saw this play in Seattle (with a different actor as Fuller) and it is very worth attending. View a commercial from a recent presentation of this play in California.

Labels: art, portland, synergetics, video

Trevor Blake: Insects in Cans [LINK-ZUM]

Exhibit one:
Dr. Lance Sanchez USDA Approved Hornet Nest in a Can, Use It Today. From the film Splash Splash Oops. Portland Oregon USA, 3 August 2005.

Exhibit two:
The Modesto Bee: Angela Nellany didn't admit that she tried to kill her estranged husband with a can of wasps.

Exhibit three:
Negativland - Nesbitt's Lime Soda Song [video]

We spent a lovely summer, my wife Elaine and me,
We bought us a great big motor home, with a shower and TV,
We was camping and having a great time, watching Brokaw on Today,
Till a bee flew into the Nesbitt's Lime Soda, and we had to throw it away.
Now most of the time I'm a peaceful man, but I lost my temper that day,
Just one last bottle of Nesbitt's Lime Soda, and we had to throw it away.
I brought a case of Nehi, and Double Cola, too,
A half a dozen Upper 10's, and good old Mountain Dew,
I bought a quart of cola-a, to get me through the day,
But just one bottle of Nesbitt's Lime Soda, and we had to throw it away.
Now most of the time I'm a peaceful man, but I lost my temper that day,
Just one last bottle of Nesbitt's Lime Soda, and we had to throw it away.
We spent a lovely summer, my wife Elaine and me,
We bought us a great big motor home, with a shower and TV,
We was camping and having a great time, watching Brokaw on Today,
Till a bee flew into the Nesbitt's Lime Soda, and we had to throw it away.
FUCK! GIT - FUCKING GET OUT OF HERE! GET AWAY FROM HERE!
JUST GET THE FUCK AWAY! SHIT!

Exhibit four:
The Onion: Single Bee Sends Gathering Of Humans Into Helpless Panic.

Labels: music, subgenius, video

Trevor Blake: Music Recommendations [LINK-ZUM]

The CockNBull Kid: There's a Mother In Our Bed [mp3] [video] [more]
Ebony Bones: Don't Fart on My Heart [video] [more]
Lily Allen: Smile [video] [more]
Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy - Warm Leatherette [video]
Barnes and Barnes - Fish Heads [video]
Coil - Tattooed Man [video] [lyrics] [more]

If you want to download audio files from myspace, try file2hd.com - works every time.

Labels: music, tools, video

Magibon [LINK-ZUM]

Labels: subgenius, video

John Butler Trio - God will Fuck You Up [LINK-ZUM]

Labels: christianity, music, subgenius, video

Pat Condell: Sharia Fiasco [LINK-ZUM]

Labels: atheist, christianity, islam, judaism, theocracy, video

Trevor Blake Wishes You A Happy New Year 2008 [LINK-ZUM]

Video by SELENE, audio by SATCHMO.

Labels: music, rockets, video

Osborne & Hagmann: Bin Laden video transcript oddity [LINK-ZUM]

According to official U.S. government sources, the video from Osama bin Laden was reportedly obtained and transcribed today - 7 September 2007. The complete transcription, obviously transcribed after the video was obtained, was presented to news outlets in PDF format. One such copy can be downloaded in its entirety below. When analyzing the transcript, however, it was noted that the date of transcription is yesterday, 6 September 2007, one full day before the video was allegedly obtained.

[Article continues at link, with alleged downloads of the questionable transcript in PDF form. Also noted is the claim by George Maschke at Booman Tribune that the bin Laden video freezes for around eleven minutes while the audio continues. All references to current events occur during the time the video is frozen. Who might profit from the disemination of a video that claims to be a contemporary record of bin Ladin but which is not? - Trevor Blake]

Labels: fascism, islam, television, video

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Labels: architecture, art, blog, books, comic, comics, film, flash, mac, music, palm, periodical, podcasts, sewing, spoken, television, ubuntu, video, zine

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