Isreal Again

This is too much. I would support any and all calls for the total dismemberment of the Isreali state. 

Al Jazeera

Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country's siege on Gaza.

At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured when troops intercepted the convoy of ships dubbed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday, the Israeli military said.

The flotilla was attacked in international waters, 65km off the Gaza coast.

An attack in international waters on unarmed and peaceful protesters delivering humanitarian aid. The victims have been a mix of legislators from various european and arab states, former US senators and even a holocaust survivor (yeah those bloody anti semites).

Nobody thought Isreal would be THAT stupid. The repercussions have already started, with isreali ambassadors in a half dozen countries already being ordered to report to the various host governments to provide information.

Turkey, who has traditionally been an ally, is now facing mass protests aimed at the Isreali ambassador and embassy. This is just going to go south fast. The ships had NATO authorisation. 

Read that again. 

Isreal attacked a NATO convoy in international waters.

May those brave people rest in peace.

May Isreal meet a bloody end.

Personal note: I had great fun with everybody draw mohammed day. But i am no more against the mindless chants of islamic extremists than i am against the BARBARISM displayed on the other side of the fence. We in SA are in for a bumpy ride. The Islamic side has just been shown p by SA society in general, not least of which Zapiro. But now is the turn of the zionists. They MUST feel the wrath of peaceful people everywhere, and enough with the peaceful demonstrations. The time is NOW to treat Isreal like the Germany before it. Remove their military, occupy them military, and reduce their economy to a manageable size.

LIVED

I have to be a warrior, a slave i couldn't be

A soldier and a conqueror, fighting to be free ...

- Wishbone Ash

That's what i took home with me last night, that rather melodic ditty competing with the loud ringing noise in my ears ;-) Wishbone Ash stole that entire show for me. Simple, clear, clean, they were really great on stage, and the music live was better than i could have imagined.I've only ever had 1 Ash album, so i didn't know all the tunes they played, but now i have to play catchup it seems. It remains the only band of the 3 that i want to hear more of today, and have just climbed onto my "greatest bands ever" list. Always enjoyed them, but 40 years on? They looked and sounded GREAT. The music was still fresh after 40 years, and that was the most electrifying live perfomance i've had the fortune to see. If they ever return to SA, i'll be first in line for tickets. 

Uriah Heep followed up a bit later. The sound started awful, and they were delayed for a while due to some issues that seemed to hang around the event. Although sombody somewhere managed to get the sound to a decent balance. Again, the accoustics in the dome suck. What an awesome performance!! You could tell immediately why they are still such a popular live act, especially with biker types. Nice selection of music, they did sunrise, which i enjoyed, and many of the old "classics" lady in black, free me, and so on. Very high energy performance, and very crowd focused. Almost all their tech guys were huge old fat guys, go figure. They gave a good show, but i kept having the feeling it was tired. They must have done this routine thousands of times, and it shows, they're old and just doing the same things for different people they've been doing for decades. 

Deep Purple was the big act, and they also showed us what great music, and years of experience can do. First big surprise was the playing of the monagues and capulets as they took place on stage. They somehow had a much bigger show than the other 2, with a totally revised lighting sequence that was muc more complex than the others. Their sound was good enough, but something was also wrong, and the vocalist was drowned out. He was drunk, and looked an old fool at times. The music was good, but not great, and they shared that tired feeling with Heep. I recognised the opening highway star, but then they played 3 or 4 songs i didn't know, which was both confusing and annoying, since it wasn't clear, too much sound drowning out the more subtle bits. My big surprise was when they started up on a Bruce Dickinson number, "perfect strangers", nice tune but WHY? DP has hundreds of tracks to choose form, i'm still quite confused about that. They were saved totally and utterly by Steve Morse. He glowed. He had this huge smile on the entire performance and was obviously in his natural element, and having a lot of fun. His guitar suffered the gremlins, and so he was distracted a lot by technical stuff. What an awesome guitarist, who really gave that shot of life into the whole show. 

The venue sucked. Really. From the sound to the people to the traffic to the management, to the no smoking policy i'm still trying to understand. I have to comment here, because it ruined the evening for me. No smoking, ok, so i wait for interval, to go outside. You cannot just walk outside, you have to go to a smoking zone, of which 2 were provided, about 3m2. Walking back to find my friend was a nightmare, and endured constant "don't stay here's" from the other people. So i figure just have a smoke sitting down, and it'll be ok. No. People around me started "politely telling me" that smoking was not allowed. This despite reeking of the beer that was everywhere.  I go to a rock concert only to get told about all the rules we should follow if we want the priviledge of being there. Fascists. I didn't enjoy the venue at all and doubt i'll ever want to repeat that. Irondad was right! LOL

An amazing experience all round though, and i'm really glad my buddy and i could go. I'll end as i started, and say Wishbone Ash were the stars of that show. I'd repeat that again anytime for that performance. As to DP and Heep, well i now have a personal connection to their music, which will always make "made in japan" that little bit extra special, Steve Morse is the other i want to hear more of. And Uriah Heep, good "that mood" music as ever was.

Steve Morse: 

More Live

Deep Purple
Ian Gillan-lead vocals
Roger Glover- bass
Ian Paice-drums
Steve Morse-guitars
Don Airey-keyboards

Uriah Heep
Mick Box-guitars, vocals
Trevor Bolder-bass, vocals
Bernie Shaw-lead vocals
Phil Lanzon-keyboards, vocals
Russell Gilbrook- drums, vocals

Wishbone Ash
Andy Powell-guitars, vocals
Muddy Manninen-guitars
Bob Skeat-bass
Joe Crabtree-drums

Thanks to Masters of Rock, compilers of all the best stuff for years!

According to Wishbone Ash, it's going to be a classics line up. The others haven't really let on whats going to be performed. Although, have a look at Deep Purple's schedule for the next few weeks, they're going to be very busy boys.

For the record, the tickets were a gift, from my brother. Got the call tuesday i think, "Hey boet i got these for you" ...

So ya, thanks boet!!! 

I cannot wait, got wishbone going on my work pc, man what an unbelievable chance to see them do it live. Andy Powell and Steve Morse, both in one night. I'm vaguely disappointed that Richie Blackmore isn't coming along, but i think i won't notice anything amiss at the time LOL.He's doing his own stuff quite happily.

The ones i want to hear, are Child in Time (!!!!!!) and Sunrise, a personal favourite, although Gypsy and Lady in Black are supposed to be in too. I KNOW they'll play Smoke on the Water, inevitable, but hey it's DP, *GRIN* not some posers ... Mitzi Du Preez would also be a fun one ...

3 sessions, hour each with half hour between. Starting at 7. Apparently this show has not been sold out yet, and i'm currently discovering how many people DON'T know who thes guys are. 

Wishbone Ash i've gotten used to nobody knowing, but for crying out loud, the number of young guys who don't even know DP??? The best i've ever heard was on RSG one night, introducing a band called (in afrikaans) Oeria heep (pronounced like ear) nm ... private joke LOL.

ROCKON

Live

http://wishboneash.com/

http://www.uriah-heep.com/

http://www.deeppurple.com/

This friday, the dome.

I got tickets.

:D

Isreal offered to sell NUKES

Shimon Perez and and PW Botha. There in black and white.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons

The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this agreement" was to remain secret.

But South Africa was years from being able to build atomic weapons. A little more than two months later, on 4 June, Peres and Botha met in Zurich. By then the Jericho project had the codename Chalet.

Fucking hell. Not only historical importance here, but currently this is probably the hottest potato out there. With the current: "let's bomb Iran because they may get nukes which may not be looked after" hype, what can they say now? SA was a pariah nation in those days, and especially arms were very much prohibited in the international community.

I'm gobsmacked. Die ou krokodil is dead, but Peres is still VERY much in command, and this is just .... this is trouble. Isreal have just lost ANY moral high ground.

The arab states have what they need now. Evidence. They will use this. Most definitely.

The Travels of Ch'ang Ch'un to the West

The Travels of Ch'ang Ch'un to the West, 1220-1223 

recorded by his disciple 
Li Chi Ch'ang 

translated by E. Bretschneider (1888) 


Introduction:
K'iu Ch'ang Ch'un was an eminent Taoist monk born in 1148 CE and thus elderly at the time of his trip. He was ordered by Chingis Khan to travel to his court, which at the time encamped in Central Asia. The route went through the Altai and Tienshan mountains, the southern parts of today's Kazakhstan, through Kyrgyzstan, to Samarkand and then down into NE Iran and Afghanistan. He was accompanied by his disciple Li Chi ch'ang who composed the narrative—a rather detailed diary of the journey. It was published with an introduction by Sun si in 1228 and included in the Tao tsang tsi yao. Bretschneider observes that this account "occupies a higher place than many reports of our European mediaeval tavellers." It is indeed a brilliant account of Central Asia at the time, providing insight into many areas including geography, the life of ordinary people, Mongol administration, travel conditions, and even a more endearing and benevolent portrait of emporer Chinghis himself. 

The text has been excerpted from E. Bretschneider's Mediæval Researches from Eastern Asiatic Sources (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1888), pp.37-108. Bretschneider's page numbers are included here in the format //[p.xx].

Open Book

http://youropenbook.org/

I could not resist this, nominated as my website of the year.

Their homepage basically searches for any fb entry that says: "don't tell anyone" .... *GRIN*

Can search for male or female or both, any phrase or status update, worldwide. They also have a very nice explanation about why fb is such a bad fuckin idea.

Your window on the world of wierdness. Have fun, don't be too wicked *wink*

Zapiro rocks!

""It seems to be provocative in many ways on the very eve of the World Cup in South Africa, when we need peaceful co-existence and co-operation amongst religious communities in South Africa," said MJC President Ihsaan Hendricks."

Callers to Johannesburg-based Talk Radio 702 said the Mail & Guardian was irresponsible for printing the cartoon so close to World Cup and this could raise the possibility of a terrorist attack during the tournament.

Hmmmm, you see this just nails the crux of it. We want peace, but if you don't "respect" us, (somebody) will give you war. IE, peace is only possible if you follow our instructions. It's that simple. Don't do this, don't do that. 

No, i reject that. If you are offended by my freedoms, i am equally offended by your lack of freedoms. You insult me by your holier than thou attitudes, and your demands over my behaviour. If islam wishes to launch a fatwa against any and all civilised people, well then they must start. Now. Otherwise perhaps shutting up about killing people (for anything) would be a very nice compromise. 

Don't threaten to kill people, and we won't draw pictures of your prophet. Really now, WTF would i want to waste time drawing a dead psychotic paedophile? I would never wish to even discuss the existance of this historical figure, he means less than nothing to me. Only because i stand for your freedom as much as mine, except you don't want freedom, you want dominion over my actions. Go worship him as you like, that is what i give to you. 

CrimethInc.

http://www.crimethinc.co.za/

Welcome to CrimethInc Far South, a messy collective of anarchist activists, radical autonomists, peoples' poets and surrealist saboteurs of the banal complacency of everyday life.

Positioned against the tyranny of the modern world, where desire is normalised into consumption and beauty is crushed underfoot as fodder for the empty cycles of grey hegemonists, our aim is wakefulness. Our enemy is dreamless sleep.

Beautifully done website, and whoever wrote the content is really very good with words.

I think i know where i'll be sunday ;-)

The Chilbolton 'Arecibo message' Formation

So in my internet surfing i occasionally stop by a very interesting website. I'll wander around for a bit and decide it needs to be featured in my blog. I then leave it until a suitable time, during which it's another window open in my browser. Sometimes for weeks on end.

This is one of those. I've covered crop circles before, and how a company claims to make them (all?). But there's a question as to how advanced it can get. I mean wood and ropes in the middle of the night? Making binary code messages hinting at many things. I don't know, i still think that crop circles are just the wierdest things on earth.

http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/articles/arecibo.html

Read it, some astounding correlations and oddities are presented.

On mad people ...

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

Jupiter changes

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/16/extraterrestrial-global-warming/#more-19550

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/05/evil-climate-skeptics-responsible-for.html

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/jupiter-cloud-belt-disappears-100513.html

The astronomer, Anthony Wesley, is from Australia, and had previously published significant images of Jupiter. More about that below.

http://jupiter.samba.org/

Smile

Would this do
To make it all right
While sleep has taken you
Where I'm out of sight

I'll make my getaway
Time on my own
Search for a better way
To find my way home
To your smile

Wasting days and days
On this night
Always down and up
Half the night

Hopeless to reminisee
Through the dark hours
We'll only sacrifice
What time will allow us
You're sighing... sighing

All alone
Though you're right here
Now it's time to go
From your sad stare

Make my getaway
Time on my own
Needing a better way
To find my way home
To your smile

Thank you David Gilmour and his wife Polly Samson.

be vewy vewy quiet ....

Sick of arguing

I'm sick to death of people telling me how wonderful freemasonry is. I'm sick of people telling me a one world government is  asolution. I'm sick of people telling how christians are bad, moslems are bad, jews we all agree on, and how bad poor people are.

Here is what the thought formulater of most of the 2oth and 21st century "hidden doctrine" says about what we can expect:

 "We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a great social-cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to all nations the effect of absolute-atheism; the origins of savagery and of most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the people will be forced to defend themselves against the world-minority of the world-revolutionaries and will exterminate those destroyers of civilization and the multitudes disillusioned with Christianity whose spirits will be from that moment without direction and leadership and anxious for an ideal, but without knowledge where to send its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal-manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out into public view. A manifestation which will result from a general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and Atheism; both conquered and exterminated at the same time." Albert Pike - Freemason

AND i'm sick to fucking death of people telling me lucifer is just a Babylonian king,  or the planet Venus, or just other such fairy tale. Albert Pike and is followers all VERY clearly believe in lucifer as being the fallen angel who will wage war on heaven, i'm sick of arguing this point. They believe it, wholeheartedly. They're the ones in power. Take notes ok?

Satan/lucifer/devil/baphomet/whoeverthefuckyouwannacallhim greatest trick is making people believe he does not exist. It's that fucking simple.

SOTT.net

SOTT.net

A very well put together article on the news of the last 2 months, and how there is just a lot of it. Lots of war, lots of severe weather, lots of strange happenings. 

No silly speculation, just facts.

enjoy

Only a dream

I was lanesplitting, suddenly the front started wobbling. To my left, cars, enough space but close to each other front and back, to my right a bus. The bus was in the fast lane of 3. I figured that the front tyre had blown.

I couldn't touch the front brakes, and couldn't slow down, the bike would have wobbled me off just in time for the busses back wheel. I give throttle, ride it out, and swerve in front of the bus, just missing it. 

I fall safely off my bike in the yellow lane at low speed into the gravel and roadside crud. I watch the bus ride away, i see my bike, it's new gashes and crumples and scrapes. I'm fine, probably.

It was only a dream. Last night.