Obama Is Just Like The Rest

by | Mar 16, 2008 | Uncategorized

And there you have it. From the below BBC report, it’s clear that Obama isn’t any different from Bush. When it was reported that his pastor made critical remarks about the US’s track record in international affairs, Obama distanced himself from them, saying he denounces any statement that disparages “our great country”. He can’t or won’t be honest about the USA’s track record in sponsoring state terrorism around the world. If he can’t do that, ow can he change things? If a Presidential candidate isn’t willing to speak honestly, what hope is there that he is genuine about changing things for the better?

See how the Democrats and the Republicans are just the same party? Nothing is going to change until we find a way to re-engineer the system, folks.

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

In a sermon on the Sunday after the attacks of 11 September 2001, Mr Wright told his congregation: “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards.

“America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

“I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies,” he wrote.

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Zen Geometry

by | Mar 15, 2008 | Melbourne, Uncategorized

The kids and I went to The Blue Train Cafe today (my last visit to one of my long-time favourite Melbourne haunts) for lunch and I took my geometry kit. This is one of my favourite ways to relax. There is something about working out basic platonic solids and golden ratio designs, armed with only a compass, ruler and pencil, which completely absorbs my attention and concentration for an hour and gives me a bunch of joy. I never paid attention to geometry as a kid. It’s only been the last five years or so that I have been so fascinated by it. The book that I use as a guide, “Geometry Of The Golden Section“, is something I picked up in a little bookshop besides the abbey in Vézelay in France in 2004. If you ever get a chance to visit Vézelay, do it. It’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever visited. The abbey does a polyphonic mass which is beautiful enough to impress even a militant atheist such as myself. And the abbey itself, which is from the 9th century, is simple amazing. Anyway, as I was saying – I loves me some time with a compass.

G’Day World #319 – A Little

by | Mar 15, 2008 | Podcast

Today we have a return of the “Cam Heart To Heart” show – aka “the rant” – where I don’t bother with a guest, I just tell you about what’s been on my mind lately. Today I talk about getting myself a performance coach, about reading up on Carl Jung, on Karl Marx, the Russian Revolution and ask, yet again, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING WITH YOUR LIVES???

In the background I’m playing these songs:

Go Away White

Bauhaus
“International Bullet Proof Talent” (mp3)
from “Go Away White”
(Cooking Vinyl)
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Go Away WhiteBauhaus
“Too Much 21st Century” (mp3)
from “Go Away White”
(Cooking Vinyl)
Buy at iTunes Music Store
More On This Album

These Are The Good Times PeoplePresidents Of The United States Of America
“Sharpen Up Those Fangs” (mp3)
from “These Are The Good Times People”
(Cooking Vinyl)
More On This Album

These Are The Good Times PeoplePresidents Of The United States Of America
“So Lo So Hi” (mp3)
from “These Are The Good Times People”
(Cooking Vinyl)
More On This Album

Dig Yourself DeepThe Undertones
“She’s So Sweet” (mp3)
from “Dig Yourself Deep”
(Cooking Vinyl)
Buy at iTunes Music Store
More On This Album

The Sub-Vocalizing Phone

by | Mar 14, 2008 | Uncategorized

Straight out of sci-fi (get used to hearing that over the next decade), comes the phone that you use without speaking. According to New Scientist:

‘A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a “voiceless” phone call for the first time.

With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice.’

clipped from www.warrenellis.com

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Have you seen this man?

by | Mar 14, 2008 | Uncategorized

Heinrich Kieber, a 42-year-old former bank employee from a Liechtenstein bank, is wanted on suspicion of selling a cd-rom containing information about bank clients with secret (read “tax evasion”) accounts totalling over $300 billion to the German government for a fee of more than 4 million euros ($6.2 million). He is believed to be hiding in… Australia. Apparently he has gone into hiding disguised as Michael Stipe.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

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