today
two things

1) I finally remembered their names: The Clayton Brothers! After having seen their show at The Wacko Bookstore in LA 2003, totally hung over with bodily fluids leaking from every crack of my body, the strong impact of their art made me sick and I simply had to leave, and I forgot. But if you are feeling nice and dandy, check them out at: http://www.claytonbrothers.com/

2) THE BLOGGIES are the Web`s answer to the Oscars, but this one award you can attend smoking, drunk and buttnaked. The fifth annual Weblog Awards to be posted march 14th on BLOGGIES.COM will name winners, chosen by readers in 30 categories. Favorites to take the grand prize (140 dollars and a dvd) this year is BOINGBOING.NET and WONKETTE.COM

Go Bloggers!

Today,
Three things:
1) consider the irony of this: El Presidente© said yesterday during a speech at the National Defense University in Washington DC on undemocratic gonvernance in the MiddleEast:

“The Lebanese people have the right to determine their future, free from domination of a foreign power, and the Lebanese people have the right to choose their own Parliament this spring, free of intimidation.”

2) A humble excuse for my poor English grammar and spelling abilities. Yesterday I ranover some of my postings and was horrified to see the numerous mistakes. I will work on that issue. Sorry.

3) While chewing on this, check out the work of brilliant French artist SKWAK and his world of puking Koogais, at www.skwak.com

A little selfcelebrating news from the world of blogging mentally moved me up in the world yesterday as I in The Business section of New York Times read an article under the headline:

At a suit`s core: Are Bloggers reporters too?

I`ll try to boil it down:
The case which involves company secrets (filed by Apple) that Apple says were disclosed on several web sites, is closely being followed by fellow bloggers worldwide but have broad on complications for juournalist working in the more traditional news organisations as well.
If the court in Santa Clara County rules that bloggers are journalists, the privelige of keeping news sources confidential will be applied to a large new group of people.
Apple has long had a devoted following, and leaked information about new Apple products had apperared on web-sites for years. Apple has asked the court to compel the websites that displayed their product information (thinksecret.com, Appleinsider.com, PoerPage.org) to disclose their identity.
The discussion thus goes under what circumstances an online forum should be forced to sdisclose a source behind information being posted, as the is no principled distintion between a Nww York times reporter and a blogger for these purposes. Both operate news sources for wide swaths of the general public.
Blogs and blogging, are already becoming much more powerful and influential and some have a readership that exceed those of smalltown newspapers. At the recent lecture with superwoman Naomi Klein she also so emphasied the importance of blogs, especially in connection with the war in Iraq: specific blogs with different specific focuses had given her contact and insigt from within iraq, that does not come a through the corporate media-apparatus.
CBS and anchorman Dan Rather suffered a major defeat by being “blogged” after being under intense scrutiny in the case of El Presidente© records from his time in the National Guard.
As the mainstream media has become more and more corporate and more and more like the government and corporate bodies that mainstream journalist used to report on, a lot this stuff haa now fallen into the hands of bloggers – to do what meainstream folks used to do: serving the same purpose as to keep the bad guys honest.

night,
succesive dream of superstars who all say I owe them stuff: thats fucked! but there is one, and she races through my head like a truck.

Now also the official death toll of American GI`s in Iraq has reached well over 1500. Of the 1500 its said that a good 1200 in killed in a direct line of fire, the rest in more normative casualties such as car accidents, suicides, self inflicted gun-shots, and a number of deaths by FRAGGING (fragging/fragmentation) , which is GI slang for:
assassination of an officer by his own troops, usually by means of a grenade.

In other words: a discontent GI drops a grenade in the officer-mass.
An estimated 5% of the officers killed in Iraq and Vietnam died by fragging.

the eye in the skye
http://www.pogo.org/index.html

facts and figures
http://home.mweb.co.za/re/redcap/vietcrim.htm

WHY THIS...part 43

I can and can not fucking believe it.

Livestyle-guru, all American Hausfrau Martha Stewart was being released from Alderson Correctionall Facility (AFC), West Virginia yesterday after serving three of a 5 month punishment for insider trade way back then.
Zoned out in front of the tv - zapping - three of the major news broadcasters CNN, FOX and NBC had reporters and camera crews stationed at the entrance to AFC awaiting her release, as if she would walk out of three, greeting the hungry crowd and tell them how much better a person she is now. Jesus. But there they are, the camera crews plus hundreds of reporters in a fucking snowstorm waiting, and crosscuts to the studios, packed with experts in legal matters, lifestyle, weather and what not – all creaming up this news which is nothing, but non the less headlines as breaking news.

Then: Oh Oh its looks like something is happening back to the reporter at the gate, some one is coming, she is blonde, is it her, no its its it’s………. a prisonguard and another official with a pressrelease and the vultures rips it from his hands, zooms in, get on their cell phones, what does it say, what does it say? Nothing but: that Martha has left the building like hours ago. Then a car comes out with tainted windows, oh my god is it her, is it her, and jseus did you see that, they ran a stop sign, that’s another violation right there, Martha Martha, what have become of you…
And then, and then: as it dawns she will not come wandering out the gate, crosscut to the Greenbrier Private airstrip where they think she will be taken off from shortly, choppers in the air, rumours that she has her own stylist waiting in the plane, and what couldn’t have happened to your hair after five months among hardcore inmates and how hard it is to generally do hair in a plane in a snowstorm: what is wrong with you people? And I almost cry again and zap on and what do I see on E-news: A fucking en-actment of the case against Michael Jackson. They have hired fucking actors who on a day by day basic act out the cour tmeetings according to transcripts, and three experts and a reporter in the studio.

Is is sick or is sick or is it just really fucking deranged?

going away for holiday?
http://www.westportnow.com/archives/stewarttv07160401.jpg

save the whatever
http://www.savemarthastewart.com/

Today,
A busy day, trying to shape up the motivation for taking the next crucial steps in finishing the larger part of my BA – project, and also a day – a recordholding day 9 – awaiting a moneytransfer from DK, famished, surpised and anguished by the fucking slow pace banking hi-tech or should we could it no-tech..

But I will also launch The Flottenheimer Quiz “ASK THE BRAIN” part 8, with this reservations:

After a disappointing participation in the last round of the quiz, this one will be the last one, after which I will conclude it from first hand was a jackass idea or that you – dear readers – simply isn`t competitive.

But heres the question:
Which flamboyant rapper from one the 80`s most influential rap-groups are currently dating fucked up danish would-be starlet on the American reality-show “Strange Love”? (aired on Vhr.1)

In other words: Who is the odd couple?

The answer it self is the price.

WHY THIS second rate poet DOESN´T LOVE BIG BUSINESS part 42:

In many earlier postings the conflation between State, Church and Big Business have been emphasised and concluded basicly banging the same drum and I can recommend to go back in the files and read the postings 1 through 40, and swallow the inescapable facts.
But as my purpose isn`t to be right, but to keep feeding the arguments and disclosure of the unfortunate marriage between the three in question, here is another one:

El Presidente© has renewed his commitment on tuesday to promoting social welfare through religious groups with taxpayer funds, calling on a sceptic Congress to lift its “roadblocks” and implicitty rebutting critics who claim he has gone back on his “compassionate conservatism”-agenda.
Setting out in his second term advancing his faith-based initiative, El Presidente© highlited legislation heading today to allow religious groups to hire and fire based on religious beliefs even while receiving federal funds. If Congress doesn`t allow his lead El Presidente© warned, he would try to circumvent lawmakers by using executive powers.

This is exactly what the religious right have been waiting for: The Payback for their more than generous supprot of his rally for El Casa Blanca!

After having celebrated, only yesterday, the 40th posting in the ongoing WHY THIS secondrate poet DOESN´T LOVE BIG BUSINESS I hurry on in the pursuit and present part 41 on the blog today, on this beautiful first day of spring.

Taser International have over the last years been supplying US police forces with a gun known as the TaserGun, supposedly a “non-lethal” weapon to restrain fleeing criminals, violent people and aggressive dogs and so forth. Non the less the TaserGun have in the hands of officers killed 94 people since it was introduced. TaserGuns fire twin metal barbs that emit 50.000-volt charge into a suspect, causing them to collapse from loss of muscular control.
In most cases resulting in casualties the suspect have had up till 25 single shots from the gun, causing their hearts to explode – a ventricular fibrillation- but also in most cases the officers have walked away from inditements and being sued, because the suspects have been either drunk or drugged, which have been stated as the conclusive reason for their deaths.
Taser International states that company studies where researchers shock anesthetized pigs confirm that the TaserGun can not trigger erractic heart beats. Other researchers, not employed by Taser International, says that a knocked-out pig will not have the same panicked adrenaline response of a suspect clashing with the police.

It might be safe with the pigs, but not with humans. A metaphore full of contradictions.

stunning good news
http://www.taser.com/index.htm

today,
end February: the ongoing continues with this one being a proud little motherfucker, as WHY THIS secondrate poet DOESN’T LOVE BIG BUSINESS have reached a jubilee part 40, about the same day the deathtoll of American GI`s in Iraq reaches 1500.
Well then its good to know that there`s stand up dudes running companies like Halliburton, which this week by the US Army, was approved to receive subsidiary bonuses for their work in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though the US administration havnt yet approved final cost and terms of the contracts. Bingo!
Halliburton (formerly headed by Dick “don’t be one” Cheney) have among other bonuses received a 4.4 million dollar bonus for a 758 million dollar of logistics work in Kuwait in support of the war in Iraq, 5 million dollar bonus for logistic work in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, in total a 9,4 million dollar bonus. A 10 million dollar bonus for yet non-supported cost. On behalf of the taxpayers- heyho wonderland!

Having in mind what superwoman Naomi Klein concluded after having vistited Iraq and American contractors in general in the troubled Middleeast-region: She documented that 60 percent of all projects, industrial, buildings, whatever…inside Iraq were spent on security-measurements, thus leving crumbles for the actual planned activities.
Moreover, regarding the election on January 30th, she also emphasised the fact, that in the spring of 2003, only month after the invasion, Iraq per se, experienced a – in perspective – much more peaceful and hopeful time, than now, and in fact there were elections in many local and rural areas seeking out to establish local governance and democracy. Elections which for a large part were overruled by interim dictator Paul Brenner and a company called Research Triangle Institute – based in a business complex in North Carolina – hired by the US administration to write the new Iraqi constitution, even before the invasion.

These facts in mind are among the numerous reasons that Naomi Klein, called the US engagement in Iraq for a “free fall”, and why she did not speak of the resistance as “insurgents” but a an national rise against the occupation, an intafada, which have escalated proportionally with the disclosure of the US agenda in Iraq: The Free Money; The Market and The Oil. Year Zero! The extreme makeover.

good intentions dont do the trick
http://www.rti.org/