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Who? Mr. Bojangels - 27 y.o
What? Blog in Croatian
When? First published Oct.08.2006 until ?
Where? Hollywood, CA, USA
Why? To take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.
How? Via Web 2.0
October 08, 1967: Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured in Bolivia.
October 09, 1940: John Lennon was born.
October 10, 1979: The Pac-Man arcade game is released to the Japanese market by Namco.
October 12, 1810: The first Oktoberfest was held in Munich.
October 14, 1957: "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley was released.
October 16, 1923: The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother Roy.
October 18, 1954: Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
October 22, 1964: Drazen Petrovic was born.
October 31, 1517: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
December 1: World AIDS Day, observed today each year since 1988.
December 6, 1897: London becomes the world's first city to host motorised taxicabs.
December 7, 1941: Attack On Pearl Harbor.
December 8, 1980: John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in New York City.
December 18, 1865: Slavery in the US was abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted.
December 28, 1612: Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune.
December 29, 1984: Band Aid were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' and Madonna was at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Like A Virgin.'
January 7, 1782: The first American commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens.
January 8, 1981: B.S was born.
January 10, 49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
January 15, 1992: The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from Yugoslavia.
January 17, 1994: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
January 20, 1937: Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
January 27, 1977: Record company EMI sacks the controversial punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
January 31, 1876: The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
February 7, 1964: Beatlemania arrives in the US-The Beatles have arrived in New York at the start of their first tour of the US.
February 18, 1885: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
March 8, 1948: The US Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
March 10, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
March 21, 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach was born.
March 29, 1871: The Royal Albert Hall is opened.
April 8, 1973: Pablo Picasso has died of a heart attack.
April 20, 1999: 12 students and a teacher die in the Columbine High School massacre.
May 11, 1981: Bob Marley dies of melanoma in Miami, Florida at age 36.
May 21, 879: Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.
June 18, 1967: Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival.
June 29, 1997: Mike Tyson bites off a piece of his opponent Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match.
July 07, 1985: Boris Becker becomes the first unseeded player, the youngest male and the first German to win the Wimbledon at age of 17.
July 13, 1923: The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood.
August 17, 1982: The first Compact Discs (CD's) were released to the public in Germany.
September 13, 1503: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
September 23, 1926: John Coltrane was born.
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Pjesma koja mi je trenutno u glavi:
10/8/06 Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio
10/9/06 I'm Losing You - John Lennon
10/10/06 Waiting Room - No Doubt ft. Prince
10/11/06 Thunder on the Mountain - Bob Dylan
10/12/06 Blind Leading the Blind - Mick Jagger ft. Dave Steward
10/14/06 Level - The Raconteurs
10/16/06 Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan
10/18/06 Hump De Bump - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10/22/06 All I Want - Joni Mitchell
10/25/06 Monkey 23 - The Kills
10/30/06 All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
11/03/06 All of You - Miles Davis Quintet
11/15/06 Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
11/17/06 Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler and James Taylor
11/20/06 One More Chance (Paul Oakenfold Urban Mix) - Michael Jackson
11/23/06 Dancing With Mr.D - The Rolling Stones
11/27/06 If It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen
12/01/06 Don't Give Up (Africa) - Bono and Alicia Keys
12/06/06 Digging in the Dirt (Secret World Live) - Peter Gabriel
12/08/06 I Just Shot John Lennon - Cranberries
12/13/06 8 Ball - Underworld
12/19/06 Final Straw - R.E.M.
12/28/06 The Payback - James Brown
12/29/06 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
01/07/07 Lost Children - Michael Jackson
01/08/07 Original Of The Species - U2
01/10/07 Oh What A Beautiful Morning - Ray Charles ft.Count Basie Orchestra
01/17/07 I Am the Walrus - The Beatles
01/20/07 Float On - Modest Mouse
01/27/07 Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
01/31/07 Women - Wolfmother
02/07/07 Frank Sinatra - Cake
02/18/07 Poncho & Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
03/08/07 Jolene - Randy Smith
03/10/07 Satellite of Love - Lou Reed
03/21/07 Maybe I'm Amazed- Paul McCartney
03/29/07 Nutty - Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane
04/08/07 North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
04/20/07 Romance in Durango - Bob Dylan
05/11/07 Fidelity - Regina Spektor
05/21/07 Wake Up - Rage Against the Machine
06/06/07 The Perfect Crime #2 - The Decemberists
06/18/07 Icky Thump - The White Stripes
06/29/07 Sposa Son Disprezzata - Cecilia Bartoli
07/07/07 Futures - Zero 7 Ft. Jose Gonzalez
07/13/07 You Can't Fail Me Now - Loudon Wainwright
08/17/07 Down Boy - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
08/24/07 One More Cup of Coffee - Bob Dylan
08/26/07 Queer - Garbage
09/13/07 Ball And Biscuit - The White Stripes
09/23/07 Hey Eugene - Pink Martini
10/23/07 The Underdog - Spoon
10/27/07 Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis
11/02/07 Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen
11/18/07 Teardrop - Jose Gonzales
11/30/07 Nature Springs - The Good, The Bad And The Queen
12/05/07 1234 - Feist
12/18/07 Breaker - Low
01/05/08Cold Turkey - Lenny Kravitz
01/11/08 Apartment Story - The National
01/24/08 Old man - The Walkin´Jennys
02/07/08 Summertime (live at Woodstock) - Janis Joplin
02/17/08 Mansard Roof - Vampire Weekend
03/03/08 New York - Cat Power
03/26/08 Supernatural Superserious - R.E.M.
Zadnji Dobar/Odlican/Savrsen film koji sam gledao:
10/8/06 Transamerica
10/9/06 Casino
10/11/06 Good Night and Good Luck
10/14/06 The Beat That My Heart Skipped
10/16/06 Click
10/25/06 The Squid and the Whale
10/30/06 American Beauty
10/31/06 Winter Passing
11/02/06 The Departed
11/04/06 Borat
11/15/06 Munich
11/20/06 Don't Move
11/22/06 Match Point
11/27/06 Closer
12/02/06 Me and You and Everyone We Know
12/05/06 School of Rock
12/11/06 An Inconvenient Truth
12/18/06 Rain
12/20/06 Grizzly Man
01/10/07 Memory of a Killer
01/13/07 Downfall
01/14/07 Hidden (Cache)
01/15/07 Little Miss Sunshine
01/20/07 Cinderella Man
02/06/07 The Devil Wears Prada
02/16/07 Flags of Our Fathers
03/20/07 Babel
03/25/07 The Sopranos - Season 2
04/19/07 Melinda and Melinda
05/11/07 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
05/21/07 Last King Of Scotland
06/06/07 Deliver Us From Evil
06/11/07 The Sopranos - Season 3
06/18/07 Volver
07/10/07 Raging Bull
07/16/07 Snatch
08/12/07 Zodiac
08/15/07 Cashout
08/24/07 The Day of the Jackal
09/06/07 Black Snake Moan
10/16/07 Taxi Driver
10/22/07 Sidewalks of New York
10/26/07 Notes on a Scandal
11/01/07 Reign Over Me
12/05/07 High Fidelity
12/09/07 The Queen
12/10/07 Atonement
12/12/07 Ratatouille
12/15/07 SuperBad
12/17/07 The Office - Season 1
12/27/07 Finding Nemo
01/12/08 Juno
02/16/08 Kingdom
03/03/08 Svjedoci
03/12/08 The Darjeeling Limited
03/14/08 The Rage in Placid Lake
When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away; Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.
When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there, you loved when all was young.
"A lot of time, you just have to go down many roads to get where you are going...The important thing is to keep moving." Bob Dylan, 1971.
The question is not what we are willing to kill for" rekao je Gandhi "but what are we willing to die for."
Mirsad, it was a name for Sarajevo, not for London. Now his name is Miro, but I think he should love his name. Names in my country are like flags, you can live or die because of your name.
"L.A. is a strange place. As long as you think it's strange, then you're all right. I think it's strange, and I am pretty damn strange too." Bono, 1989.
"Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro"
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Bush shoots for ‘Jaws,’ delivers ‘Jaws 2’
President claimed to stop four terror plots, but where is the evidence?
SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
Jan 30, 2007
West Yorkshire in England has a new chief police constable.
Upon his appointment, Sir Norman Bettison made one of the strangest comments of the year:
“The threat of terrorism,” he says, “is lurking out there like ‘Jaws 2.’”
Sir Norman did not exactly mine the richest ore for his analogy of warning. A critic once said of the flopping sequel to the classic film: “You’re gonna need a better screenplay.”
But this obscure British police official has reminded us that terrorism is still being sold to the public in that country — and in this — as if it were a thrilling horror movie and we were the naughty teenagers about to be its victims.
And it underscores the fact that President Bush took this tack, exactly a week ago tonight, in his terror-related passage in the State of the Union.
A passage that was almost lost amid all the talk about Iraq and health care and bipartisanship and the fellow who saved the stranger from an oncoming subway train in New York City.
But a passage ludicrous and deceitful. Frightening in its hollow conviction.
Frightening, in that the president who spoke it tried for “Jaws” but got “Jaws 2.”
I am indebted to David Swanson, press secretary for Dennis Kucinich’s 2004 presidential campaign, who has blogged about the dubious 96 words in Mr. Bush’s address this year and who has concluded that of the four counter-terror claims the president made, he went 0-for-4.
“We cannot know the full extent of the attacks that we and our allies have prevented,” Mr. Bush noted, “but here is some of what we do know: We stopped an al-Qaida plot to fly a hijacked airplane into the tallest building on the West Coast.”
This would, of course, sir, be the purported plot to knock down the 73-story building in Los Angeles, the one once known as the Library Tower — the one you personally revealed so breathlessly a year ago next month.
It was embarrassing enough that you mistakenly referred to the structure as the “Liberty Tower.” But within hours it was also revealed that authorities in Los Angeles had had no idea you were going to make any of the details — whether serious or fanciful — public.
Who terrorized Southern California that day, Mr. Bush?
A year ago next month, the Los Angeles Times quoted a source who insisted that the purported “Library Tower plot” was one of many al-Qaida operations that had not gotten very far past the conceptual stage.
More ominously, the L.A. Times source who debunked the Library Tower story said that those who could correctly measure the flimsiness of the scheme “feared political retaliation for providing a different characterization of the plan than that of the president.”
But Mr. Bush, you’re the decider.
And you decided that the Library Tower story should be scored as one for you.
And you continued with a second dubious claim of counter-terror success. “We broke up a Southeast Asian terror cell grooming operatives for attacks inside the United States,” you said.
Well, sir, you’ve apparently stumped the intelligence community completely with this one.
In his article, Mr. Swanson suggests that in the last week there has been no reporting even hinting at what exactly you were talking about.
He hypothesizes that either you were claiming credit for a ring broken up in 1995 or that this was just the Library Tower story “by another name.”
Another CIA source suggests to NBC News that since the Southeast Asian cell dreamed of a series of attacks on the same day, you declared the Library Tower one threat thwarted, and all their other ideas, a second threat thwarted.
Our colleague Mr. Cressey sums it up:
This “Southeast Asian cell” was indeed the tale of the Library Tower, simply repeated.
Repeated, Mr. Bush, in consecutive sentences in the State of the Union — in your constitutionally mandated status report on the condition and safety of the nation.
You showed us the same baby twice and claimed it was twins. And then you said that was two for you.
Your third claim, sir, read thusly: “We uncovered an al-Qaida cell developing anthrax to be used in attacks against America.”
Again, the professionals in counter-intelligence were startled to hear about this.
Last fall, two Washington Post articles cited sources in the FBI and other governmental agencies who said that hopes by foreign terrorists to use anthrax in this country were fanciful at best, farcical at worst.
And every effort to link the 2001 anthrax mailings in this country to foreign sources has also struck out. The entire investigation is barely still active.
Mr. Cressey goes a little further. Anything that might even resemble an al-Qaida cell “developing anthrax,” he says, was in the “dreaming” stages. He used as a parallel those pathetic arrests outside Miami last year in which a few men wound up getting charged as terrorists because they couldn’t tell the difference between an al-Qaida operative and an FBI informant.
Their “ringleader” seemed to be much more interested in getting his “terrorist masters” to buy him a new car than in actually terrorizing anybody.
That’s three for you, Mr. Bush.
“And just last August,” you concluded, “British authorities uncovered a plot to blow up passenger planes bound for America over the Atlantic Ocean.”
In a series of dramatic raids, 24 men were arrested.
Turned out, sir, a few of them actually had gone on the Internets to check out some flight schedules.
Turned out, sir, only a few of them actually had the passports needed to even get on the planes.
The plot to which President Bush referred was a plot without bombs.
It was a plot without any indication that the essence of the operation — the in-flight mixing of volatile chemicals carried on board in sports drink bottles — was even doable by amateurs or professional chemists.
It was a plot even without sufficient probable cause.
A third of the 24 arrested that day — exactly 90 days before the American midterm elections — have since been released. The British had been watching those men for a year. Before the week was out, their first statement, that the plot was “ready to go, in days,” had been rendered inoperative.
British officials told NBC News of the lack of passports and plans; told us that they had wanted to keep the suspects under surveillance for at least another week.
Even an American official confirmed to NBC’s investigative unit that there was “disagreement over the timing.”
The British then went further. Sources inside their government told the English newspaper the Guardian that the raids had occurred only because the Pakistanis had arrested a man named Rasheed Raouf. That Raouf had been arrested by Pakistan only because we had threatened to do it for them.
That the British had acted only because our government was willing — to quote that newspaper, The Guardian — to “ride roughshod” over the plans of British intelligence.
Oh, by the way, Mr. Bush, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan reduced the charges against Mr. Raouf to possession of bomb-making materials and being there without proper documents.
Still, sir — evidently, that’s close enough.
Score four for you!
Your totally black-and-white conclusions in the State of the Union were based on one gray area, and on three palettes on which the experts can’t even see smudge, let alone gray.
It would all be laughable, Mr. Bush, were you not the president of the United States.
It would all be political hyperbole, Mr. Bush, if you had not, on this kind of “intelligence,” taken us to war, now sought to escalate that war, and are threatening new war in Iran and maybe even elsewhere.
What you gave us a week ago tonight, sir, was not intelligence, but rather a walk-through of how speculation and innuendo, guesswork and paranoia, daydreaming and fear-mongering, combine in your mind and the minds of your government, into proof of your derring-do and your success against the terrorists.
The ones who didn’t have anthrax. The ones who didn’t have plane tickets or passports. The ones who didn’t have any clue, let alone any plots.
But they go now into our history books as the four terror schemes you’ve interrupted since 9/11.
They go into the collective consciousness as firm evidence of your diligence, of the necessity of your ham-handed treatment of our liberties, of the unavoidability of the 3,075 Americans dead in Iraq.
Congratulations, sir.
You are the hero of “Jaws 2.”
© 2007 MSNBC Interactive
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16893899/