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Friday, January 27, 2006 |
Today I watched (on Dutch tv) the splendid performance of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante by Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Nothing better to begin the festivities and the listening marathon I have embarked on with the complete works. One disc a day.
"Barenboim and the late Edward Said set up the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in 1999, an ensemble bringing together talented young Israeli and Palestinian musicians, which the conductor himself described as an 'orchestra of peace' and which gave a concert in the West Bank town of Ramallah last August."
6:02:04 PM 
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Modern neocon capitalism is all about profits and money, not for you but for the corporations. And to hell with people, welfare, reason and justice.
CommonDreams: "Groups fighting for the rights of peasant communities are stepping up pressure on governments to ban the use of genetically modified 'suicide seeds' at UN-sponsored talks on biodiversity in Spain this week.
Developed by multinational agribusinesses and the U.S. government, Terminator has the effect of preventing farmers from saving or replanting seeds from one growing season to the next."
Guardian: "The growing intimacy between business and political leaders is leaving poor countries on the sidelines of the world trade game."
Independent: "Irish rock star Bono has persuaded some of the world's biggest companies to back his new weapon in the fight against poverty: a consumer brand with a conscience (Product Red)."
Isn't that setting the fox to watch the geese?
12:40:20 PM
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National Security Archive: "A secret Pentagon 'roadmap' on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for 'boundaries' between information operations abroad and the news media at home, but provides for no such limits and claims that as long as the American public is not 'targeted', any leakage of PSYOP to the American public does not matter.
The Information Operations Roadmap, a 30 October 2003 document approved personally by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 'provides the Department with a plan to advance the goal of information operations as a core military competency' and 'stands as an another example of the Department's commitment to transform our military capabilities to keep pace with emerging threats and to exploit new opportunities afforded by innovation and rapidly developing information technologies'."
12:12:42 PM
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12:01:08 PM
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Gore Vidal: "Religion is used to explain terror attacks as part of a cosmic conflict between Good and Evil rather than in terms of political processes... Manichaeanism rules across the United States."
This is George Bush before starting his predatory work. Don't forget the praying mantis is a predator.
11:54:30 AM
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Haaretz: "Iran said Thursday it had information that the United States, Britain and Israel had a role in two deadly military plane crashes in the last two months."
It seems the Russian proposal to enrich uranium for Iran has taken the wind out of Bush's sails as far as invading Iran is concerned. His army is not up to it either. So we can expect more sabotage, terrorist bombings and incitements to rebellion in Iran from the US, Israel and Britain.
11:13:29 AM
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