Quote: John Pilger

"In numerous surveys, such as that conducted this month by BBC World Service, “we”, the majority of humanity, have made clear our revulsion for Bush and his vassals. As for Blair, the man is now politically and morally naked for all to see. So who speaks out, apart from Professor Edalal and his colleagues? Privileged journalists, scholars and artists, writers and thespians who sometimes speak about “freedom of speech” are as silent as a dark West End theatre. What are they waiting for? The declaration of another thousand year Reich, or a mushroom cloud in the Middle East, or both?"

John Pilger Article

Computing Power

Ah, technology. Intel Teraflop Chip less than the size of a human fingernail, that 11 years ago would have required a machine with 10,000 chips inside it taking up a total of 2,000 square feet. The Chip has 80 Cores delivering performance of more than a Trillion calculations a second (Teraflop). As the late, great Terence McKenna used to say "Faster and Faster and Faster"

Possible uses include artificial intelligence, instant video communications, photo-realistic games and real-time speech recognition, said the firm.

Coming soon "Civilzation 2012" a game so real you're unaware you're playing it. Coincidently also the title of a Novel and an Album by a fella called Miguel Ramirez.

Peace & Love

Migz

Give Peace A Chance!

Give Peace A Chance!

An excellent article in the Independent today. George Bush you really must desist from this INSANE Foreign Policy you have. The Iranians want to talk, it's a well documented fact.

Your own Baker-Hamilton report suggested opening talks with Iran & Syria to resolve the crisis in Iraq, what do you do? Escalate tensions by blaming Iran & Syria for US Losses in Iraq.

Give Peace a Chance George.

Quote: Bill Gates

"I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what - I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here." - Bill Gates

Quote: "Why is it necessary to bomb and to shoot at every opportunity?"

Quote: Vladimir Putin "Why is it necessary to bomb and to shoot at every opportunity?"

"One state, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way...."

"...This is very dangerous. Nobody feels secure any more because nobody can hide behind international law," Putin said. "This is nourishing an arms race with countries seeking to obtain nuclear weapons... We're witnessing the untrammelled use of the military in international affairs... Why is it necessary to bomb and to shoot at every opportunity?"

Probably because the current Idiot-in-Charge (Commander-In-Chief) sees himself as some sort of Cowboy Gunslinger out to cleanse the world of all it's Bad Guys, this obviously is done with true Christian Compassion by blowing the shit out of them. I remember reading in the Bible that Jesus had an Uzi and rode around on an Aircraft Carrier, that's definately in there somewhere I'm sure. "Suffer the Little Children..." well the Idiot-In-Charge is certainly making that happen, no doubt. I'm sure Jesus would approve. Wouldn't he?

Strange that a man so fond of thumping the Bible and quoting God, invading countries left right & centre (only if populated by 'brown folks' though let's make that clear) and unleashing Weapons Of Mass Destruction at EVERY available opportunity should have been so cowardly when it was his turn to fight. Making up for it now though, happy enough to send lots of other peoples' sons and daughters to kill brown children. Oh yes. You don't get congress approval for a $622 billion budget then not have fun spending it on highly advanced technology to maim, blind, slaughter, burn, cripple and kill.

The Idiot-In-Charge pays no heed to International Law, Pre-Emptive strikes are now the order of the day. Evidence? Who needs it? "Nuke 'Em All" it's the Christian way to Peace and Democracy. Don't like that Government? Overthrow it. Want some Oil or other natural resource? Invade the country, blow the living crap out of it's infrastructure then charge them $Trillions to rebuild it. Send in your buddy to steal a few $Billion, assign the "rebuilding contracts" to your other pals. The Vice Idiot-In-Charge can hardly manage to spend all the cash he gets in kick backs from his old company but I'm sure it's great fun trying, that's when he has time to go shopping, after all shooting people in the face must be a full time job for that idiot.

And now we're being told that the "highest levels" of the Iranian government is supplying Iraqi insurgents with sophisticated roadside bombs. The evidence? Well none actually, but hey when has that ever mattered? I'm sure they can find a "video" somewhere, maybe a passport to persuade the doubters. Come on let's get behind this, whatever you need I'm sure we can find. Let's go! I mean how dare another Country meddle in Iraq's affairs?

The "inevitable" pre-emptive war against Iran must not be allowed to happen, as Noam Chomsky so accurately states "The grand strategy authorises the US to carry out preventive war: preventive, not pre-emptive. Whatever the justifications for pre-emptive war might be, they do not hold for preventive war, particularly as that concept is interpreted by its current enthusiasts: the use of military force to eliminate an invented or imagined threat, so that even the term "preventive" is too charitable. Preventive war is, very simply, the supreme crime that was condemned at Nuremberg."

—Noam Chomsky, "Preventive War 'The Supreme Crime': Iraq: invasion that will live in infamy", August, 11, 2003.

New Album: Track Complete - "Abre Los Ojos" (Original Mix)

Abre Los Ojos: It came to me in a dream. I awoke with the melody, the bass riff and the rhythm all crystal clear in my mind and nagging me (urging me) to bring them into reality. This is the first time I've ever written / produced like this. My friend Andy (I-Nerve) and I both compose in a very similar way. Andy calls it "Organic composition" and I think that usually sums up my writing. But this, ah this was oh so different.

I attribute my new creative "buzz" to my new life style which I constantly give thanks for (it's important to do that I feel). Abre Los Ojos is a case in point - the hook is burned into my cerebrum - I almost can't believe I wrote it, but it is mine and that makes me so very happy.

Knowing my "set up" is proving invaluable, it's a given and an obvious one at that but it's something that can quite easily pass musicians by. Technology being what it is and todays instruments being what they are it's quite easy to get "lost in the machine". By that I don't mean that the music sounds "mechanical" (Squeeks and Bleeps eh Reg?) I mean it's all too easy to get distracted from the creative process and get bogged down with the technology bullshit. Any budding muso's please take note - it's the music that's important - don't lose yourself in the technology. That said and this is my point, you have to know your technology.

When you have a bit of kit you are completely at one with your writing reflects that, both in the quality and the ease in which you complete the writing process. If you're spending too much time "messing" you lose the thread of creativity (well I used to anyway). I've been using my new sequencer (which is really a self contained studio in a single bit of software) for a few months now and having spent a considerable amount of time with it, and it's rather fat manuals, I can pretty much get it to do what I want.

Every single sound in Abre Los Ojos is my own. Every drum sound has been crafted (Ultrabeat what a monster of a Drum Machine!) every synth sound built from the ground up, every effect patch created from scratch, only Ms Cruz has not been engineered by me :)

"Ramirez Ain't No Square" has to be one of my favourite synth sounds ever - and it's mine! It's built from a basic Square Waveform (hence the name) but twisted and modulated with some very tasty envelope & velocity action which makes it sooooo playable and so very very fat.

Abre Los Ojos remixes coming soon, I may well work on those next but "Curious Yellow" "English Voodoo" "Forgotten Friends" "One 2 Eight" "Dorkin" "Layers of Reality" and "Talamanca Dreaming" are all part complete and now shouting for attention.

Abre Los Ojos is Track 7 from the album "Civilization 2012"

Peace & Love

Migz

Stoned Slackers

The folks at Comedy Central were annoyed when Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly kept referring to "The Daily Show" audience as "stoned slackers."

So they did a little research. And guess whose audience is more educated?

Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research.

Hardly a surprise. Bill O'Reilly - the most fear filled man on TV, his audience are probably too busy swilling beer and picking fights, they haven't got time for all that "fancy" reading stuff :)

Innovate

Good to see that not all technology companies have run out of ideas. Having chuckled at the hilariously funny Windoze Vista and it's plagiaristic Aqua or is it Aero or Widgets or Gadgets or the "new" search...

David Pogue, writing for the New York Times, puts it a bit more bluntly:

“You get the feeling that Microsoft's managers put Mac OS X on an easel and told the programmers, ‘Copy that.’"

Well I'm sure all the Windoze fans will deny it but that doesn't mean it's not true, but anyway Mr Gates & Co lack of imagination not withstanding it'll be interesting to see what they make of 's new baby - the iPhone.

Oh and while we're on the subject - Leopard is waiting just off stage, we'll expect the Microsoft version (copy) in about another 5 years...

Random Acts Of Kindness

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Windoze Vista

So fellow dwellers, can you contain yourselves? Are you salivating? Drooling uncontrollably? Has the sight of the worlds richest man whoring himself on every chat show on every continent to push his "new" product got you as moist as an otter's pocket? Or are you like me? Do you see a tired and grey little man who sounds far too much like Kermit the Frog for it to be coincidental, with absolutely no passion for his "product" just going through the motions?

More on this later....

Windoze Vista - don't make me laugh.