civilized objects

This is one of my absolutely favorite recording.

http://www.simorgh.de/bites/cassette_whats_the_point.mp3 – I haven’t got it in any better quality at hand just now I regret.

CAS-001 Fast Forward EP: Product/ All The Rage//
What’s The Point (1 Track 1979)
v-Robbi g-Bog b-Aid Sharpe d-Rich Barker
From Derbys. Punk.
CAS-001 Fast Forward EP: Product/ All The Rage//What’s The Point (1 Track 1979)
v-Robbi g-Bog b-Aid Sharpe d-Rich Barker
From Derbys. Punk.

I think I haven’t uploaded this one before, it’s a variation http://www.simorgh.de/bites_10/amsterdam_2different.mp3 . Apart from that I just posted this entry about a German Animal Rights advocate: http://ar-civet-cat.blogspot.com/2010/07/martin-eduard-staudinger-1842-1910.html . Thirdly I mixed some painting by Farangis with some track I did and a small pamphlet:

SLICK PUBLICITY

source: http://www.schnews.co.uk/archive/news726.php

REPORT FROM NEW ORLEANS ON THE BP OIL-SPILL DISASTER…

In response to America’s largest ever environmental disaster, Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, said, “I’d like my life back.” We’re sure he does, as would the eleven workers who died on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig when it exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20th.

But you have to sympathise with Tony. The fact that BP failed to test the strength of the cement in the well, despite knowing that the casing was “the riskier of two options” and that it “might collapse under pressure” can’t be held against him. Even though the same disregard for safety killed 15 and injured 170 BP workers in the Texas Oil Refinery explosion of 2005.

BP has also had over 20 years since the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Alaska to learn from its botched response to that disaster. Yes, despite Exxon having its name on the tanker, it was actually BP who disastrously failed to contain the toxic sludge that spewed into pristine wilderness. But that was then. BP has since spent billions of dollars on advertising telling us they are ‘Beyond Petroleum’ – so beyond it in fact they don’t care how much they lose.

BP has had over 8,000 minor and major recorded spills since 1990 alone. While all eyes have been on the current ecocide in the Gulf of Mexico, their Alaskan Pipeline burst in late May, spewing 100,000 gallons of oil into the environment. State inspectors say this occurred because “procedures weren’t properly implemented,” in other words – they didn’t give a damn.

The ho-hum lackadaisical attitude of Tony Hayward is indicative of BP’s disaster response in general. It has been shocking to see BP’s slow response to contain the oil. There is a complete lack of any oil containment technology, beyond stringing some booms (vinyl tubes) over the ocean that deflate and blow away. While the oil industry has poured billions of dollars into riskier deep-water drilling, it has not invested in responses to the leaks and disasters that have increased four fold in the last decade.

CRUDE JOKE

Maybe we’re overreacting. Let us again heed the soothing words of Tony, or Tiny Tony as he is now known in the US due to the following comment, “The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.” That would be the estimated 47 million to 235 million gallons of toxic crude oil that has poured into the ocean over the last eight weeks. Not to mention the use in the ‘clean up’ of one million tonnes of the Corexit oil dispersant, a neuro toxin pesticide banned in the UK, arguably as harmful as the oil itself.

We need not worry our silly little heads about the ecological destruction either. Tiny Tony assures us, “the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.” Come now Tony, it’s you that is being modest. This disaster is going to kill thousands of dolphins and sea turtles, hundreds of thousands of seabirds and billions of fish and shellfish.

The communities along the Louisiana coast, whose main work is fisheries, have lost their catch to a greater predator, and BP are playing on their vulnerability and dividing them by giving the ‘lucky’ few work cleaning up the toxic waste. BP has refused to provide masks and other safety equipment to those in these communities, and when this resulted in several cases of clean-up workers being hospitalised, Tony said it was probably due to food poisoning. Shrimp à la oil?

The Louisiana wetlands that nurture the wildlife and communities have already been decimated by the oil industry. The wetlands are a 4.2 million acre region where the Mississippi River flows into the Atlantic. They have formed over 7,500 years by the rivers flooding and annually depositing silt creating long fingers of land and barrier islands. It has taken just 75 years for them to have been almost completely destroyed. They are disappearing faster than any other part of the world, with an area the size of a football field lost every 38 minutes.

Oil and natural gas were discovered in Louisiana’s coastal areas in the early 1900s. This lead to long canals being cut through the wetlands to transport drilling equipment and oil. As well as being destructive in itself, this allowed more salt water to seep in to the wetlands, which killed the freshwater plants’ roots leading to further soil erosion. These wetlands act as a natural defence against hurricane storm surges. The further they are destroyed the more vulnerable coastal towns all the way up to New Orleans become. The storm surge from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 flooded 80% of the city, killing over 2,000 people.

As New Orleans and the coastal region still struggle to recover five years after Katrina they face a real kick in the teeth. Meteorological experts are predicting, “the most active season on record” for hurricanes, comparing ocean temperatures that contribute to hurricane formation to those in the summer of Katrina. Oil from the BP rig is predicted to continue to spew in to the gulf for months to come. A hurricane sweeping a surge of oil into the wetlands and towns of Louisiana would be apocalyptic for the region.

Tiny Tony put it best last year, saying BP’s “primary purpose was to generate profit for our share holders” and that “our primary purpose in life was not to save the world.” Really Tony, you don’t say.

Some different related links:

Caught in the oil :AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html

BP is sadly just one of many players in the appalling offshore drilling picture, the latest oil-soaked pelicans among many victims.  ByJohn Sorenson

http://beta.themarknews.com/articles/1665-the-birds-and-the-bps

Animal Rights Activists Protest Oil Giant BP

http://www.examiner.com/x-46236-West-Palm-Beach-Animal-Rights-Examiner~y2010m5d28-Animal-Rights-Activists-Protest-Oil-Giant-BP

Counting the Carcasses by John Collins Rudolph

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/counting-the-carcasses/?partner=rss&emc=rss

WVBS for Gulf Coast Wildlife

http://animalrightscollective.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/wvbs-for-gulf-coast-wildlife/

However, to those people who hate me, and who supposedly “know me” …

A. You don’t know me.

B. Really.

C. There is a world beyond your limited horizon.

D. Maybe you should ask yourself why you hate philosophical anti-speciesist vegan animal rights people like me.

Iranian activist Bita Ghaedi has received a new date for deportation after her removal scheduled for the 20th was cancelled due to the volcanic ash cloud.

Bita, a fervent campaigner against the regime in Iran, had her application for asylum rejected in April after the UK Border Agency placed her application on the fast track scheme – a process that sees over 90% of claims rejected (see SchNEWS 709). She was arrested in a dawn raid and taken to Yarl’s Wood detention centre.

According to her partner, Mohsen, she is in a critical mental and physical condition. Because of Bita’s campaigning, she is seen as a ‘Mohareb’ – an enemy of God – by the Iranian regime. This is punishable by death.

Bita is due to be deported on flight BD931, leaving Heathrow at 19.00 on 5th of May. Campaigners have called for demonstration outside the Home Office in Marsham Street for this morning (30th) at 11am.

*The deportation of Sunny Idika, who was taken to Birmingham prison following last week’s disturbance after the death of a Kenyan detainee at Oakington detention centre (see SchNEWS 719), was cancelled on Monday (26th).

Cambridge Migrant Solidarity and No Borders activists had gathered at the airport for a last ditch attempt to prevent the deportation, but shortly after arriving they found out that Sunny had been taken from the airport to Colnbrook. He remains at risk. There have been rumours that further deportations of detainees involved in the Oakington protests are imminent.

*See www.ncadc.org.uk

SOURCE: http://www.schnews.org.uk > http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news7205.php

1. even stupidity can rule only partly

2. the time of the mass movements is over
since the world is global
and global indeed in its enviromental
problems
masses of interests fall into the pieces
of the dillemma
of the individual

3. I haven’t planned (rather : dared to hope) for it
but this is great
the ban of freedom
has been lifted
by fate

4. We are creative being passive, on a photo. I hold a vegetarian shoe by vegetarian shoes.

www.iran-e-sabz.org

Berlin, 15. April 2010

Dr. Kazem Moussavi, Sprecher der Green Party of Iran in Deutschland:

Der Botschafter des Terrorregimes im Iran bekommt durch die Bündnis90/Die Grünen eine Plattform im öffentlich-rechtlicher ARD-Hauptstadtstudio!

Die Green Party of Iran verurteilt die als Dialogpolitik getarnte Propagandaveranstaltung von Omid Nouripour (Bündnis90/Die Grünen) und des wieder Versuchs der Deutschen Atlantischen Gesellschaft für das Terrorregime im Iran, mit der sie dem Henker von iranisch Kurdistan (siehe Laufbahn im Programmflyer) und Botschafter des Mullah-Regimes in Deutschland Alireza Sheikh Attar eine öffentlich-rechtliche Plattform im Haus des ersten Deutschen Fernsehens ARD bereitstellen!
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All good wishes to all my friends and of course to everybody / every being on this planet. Let’s make this a most wonderful year – with the help of the intelligence of this world and it’s inhabitants.

LISTEN TO: هایده ، زندگی قشنگه

HEADLESS MORSE-MAN

Hunt monitor Bryan Griffiths is looking at a manslaughter conviction
following huntsman Trevor Morse’s death by gyrocopter (See
SchNEWS 669). Griffiths, who was was tracking from above, had landed
his ‘copter to refuel when Morse looked at the gyrocopter
straight in the blades and thought “I can win this…’ He
purposely strode across the field and valiantly stood in its path
where at a breakneck speed of 200mph the propellers went right through
his head.

As a result of Morse’s idiocy Bryan Griffiths, is on trial in
Birmingham Crown Court accused of manslaughter by gross negligence.
The sentence carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Bryan
Griffiths’s future dangles uncertainly as Mr. Morse’s
choice brought things to a head. The trial perseveres…

SOURCE: SCHNEWS

SEE ALSO:

indymedia.org.uk Support Bryan Griffiths – Charged With Murder Over Hunt Death 25.03.2009

shoreham-protester.org.uk Hunting and the election

BBC Warwickshire gyrocopter pilot ‘feared hunt attack’ 4 March 2010

The Times Hunt supporter died after pilot Bryan Griffiths drove gyrocopter at him March 3, 2010

Nostalgia … wanted to write something on my blog, but it was not so important. Then I got lost reading a flux interview. the interview was a bit snore, I mean the questions. The interviewer seemed to have the typical “do you remember” type of approach that is currently around a lot, as if there was a past that needs to be buried. Time is a now and a continuum. The past isn’t really something cut off. Not even today.

(I now did decide to write at least a bit on here of what I wanted to write initially, on here.)

Phantasia … once an islamic guy, who wanted so badly to be a skinhead, but wasn’t accepted by the “white guys”, … he wanted to kill me with an axe.

He thought it would be even more impressive to try to do that with a clockwork orange long rubber nose.

As you can see he didn’t manage to kill me.

Funny is now, there is somebody I really like who would fit just the pattern what made that islamic guy wanted to kill me in order to try to be something like a white Alex towards me. ME : as a thoughtful person – a thoughtful victim maybe? haha. Well I am still around.

Many misogynists, of whatever ethnicity or whatsoever background, dream of being an Alex as how he appears in Kubrick’s movie – once they’ve caught up on the movie and the avatar-like characters of the protagonist droogs. It’s ridiculous. Especially when you reckon that Anthony Burgess’ book originally has what you could call a happy ending, but his American publisher thought that more positive ending to be boring. In the original version Alex abandons the violent behavior in the end.

“Let me put the situation baldly. A Clockwork Orange has never been published entire in America. The book I wrote is divided into three sections of seven chapters each. Take out your pocket calculator and you will find that these add up to a total of twenty-one chapters. 21 is the symbol of human maturity, or used to be, since at 21 you got the vote and assumed adult responsibility [...] Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they presumably know or is really a discardable limb. I meant the book to end in this way, but my aesthetic judgegment may have been faulty. Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. ‘Quod scripsi scripsi’ said Pontius Pilate when he made Jesus Christ the King of the Jews. ‘What I have written I have Written.’ We can destroy what we have written but we cannot unwrite it. I leave what I wrote with what Dr. Johnson called frigid indifference to the judgement of that .00000001 of the American population which cares about such things. Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.” – Burgess as quoted here http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0062.html