Dalej grzeje

O 6 rano w radiu podano, ze jest juz 28 C. z humidexem 39 C. Spalo sie dobrze, ale cala noc wlaczona byla klimatyzacja. Chcialoby sie nie wytykac nosa z domu i nie wychodzic do tego piekla, ale sluzba nie druzba.

Bahamska bankowosc przychylnie odniosla sie do prosb Amerykanskiego Urzedu ds. Walki z Narkotykami (DEA) o umozliwienie wgladu w operacje finansowe, odmawiajac w ten sposob bezpiecznej przystani terrorystom, handlarzom narkotykow i przestepcom podatkowym (Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, "Bahamy - bliska zagranica", GONIEC, 21-27 lipca 2006).

Wyglada na to, ze amerykanskie KGB-DEA rozszerzylo swoja globalna dzialalnosc zwalczania narkotykow o terroryzm i przestepstwa podatkowe.

GDZIE JEST USTKA Z TAMTYCH LAT?

"Czesto wspominamy z Zenem kompletnie juz zapomniane formacje beatowe, takie jak Klan, Dzamble czy Romuald i Roman. Kiedy w meandrach pamieci Zen wygrzebal koncerty ...74 Grupy Biednych. Byl to zespol stylu underground (doslownie), nieznany nikomu oprocz paru setek bywalcow koncertow w Ustce, gdzie grupa przez pewien czas rezydowala pod koniec lat szescdziesiatych . To tam mozna bylo uslyszec polska awangarde, podrobki Vanilla Fudge czy Jefferson Airplane. Przy pajdzie swiezego chleba i butelce "jabczanki", spotykal sie tam kwiat polskiej subkultury: psychodelic i flower-power. Wieczorami na promenadzie mozna bylo uslyszec "Pastora" siedzacego z gitara i harmonijka ustna, zbierajacego do kapelusza datki wczasowiczow, urzeczonych polskim Bobem Dylanem" ("Big Beat", KRZYSZTOF - AUSTRALIJSKA PERSPEKTYWA - http://australink.pl/krzysztof/archives/000299.html).

Podaje jeszcze raz link do obejrzenia makabry wojny, na ktora wielcy politycy patrza przez okulary zaklamania: http://www.fromisraeltolebanon.info/ ( Anna Kozlowska - Ottawa, "Poczta Gonca", GONIEC, 28 VII - 3 VIII 2006).

The passion of Mel Gibson

Bloggers are abuzz about reports of movie star Mel Gibson's alleged anti-Semitic tirade when he was charged with drunk driving on the weekend. Here's Arianna Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/):

In the same way that ordinary Muslims need to separate themselves from the blood-drenched ideology of Hezbollah, Hollywood needs to separate itself from the odious racism of Gibson...
Remember, during his DUI tirade, Gibson (reportedly) claimed, "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." That kind of thinking makes him psychological soul mates with Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who has said, "If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, dispicable, weak, and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology, and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew..."

But Steve Janke of Angry in the Great White North (http://stevejanke.com/) thinks Gibson faces other obstacles:

The Passion of the Christ was made with his own money outside of the control of the Hollywood studio structure, then went on to make millions. It proved that an ostentatiously religious movie with a positive moral theme could be successful, even without a car chase or robots from the future... That's a lot scarier to these people than anti-Semitism or pedophilia ("Best of the blogs", TORONTO SUN, Tuesday, August 1, 2006).

Americans aged 18 to 26 spend more surfing the Web than watching TV, survey finds

Young U.S. adults spend more time using the Internet than watching television, a study by Forrester Research Inc. found. Adults ages 18 to 26 spend 12.2 hours a week surfing the Web, compared with 10.6 hours watching TV, according to a survey published yesterday by Forrester, a Cambridge, Mass.-based market researcher. The survey highlights the challenge facing traditional media, such as TV and newspapers, as Internet companies, including Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., take a greater share of advertising. As a whole, adults spend 12.6 hours a week watching TV and 7.4 hours using the Internet, the January-February survey of almost 67,000 North American households found.
Bloomberg News ("Media Habits", NATIONAL POST, Wednesday, August 2, 2006).

Data otwarcia "drugiego frontu" na polnocy nie byla przypadkowa. Kilka dni wczesniej uplynal termin miedzynarodowego ultimatum w sprawie zawieszenia iranskiego programu atomowego. Teheran na nie nie odpowiedzial, za to do akcji przeciw Izraelowi ruszyly proiranskie bojowki w Libanie. Zamiast zwracac uwage na globalne zagrozenie, jakie stwarza iranski program atomowy, media swiatowe zajely sie kryzysem libanskim ("Zaslona dymna Iranu", OZON 26 lipca 2006).

This week, President Chavez, a former soldier, is in Belarus and Russia for a tour complete with photo ops with Alexander Lukashenko - the man the U.S. calls "Europe's last dectator" - and Vladimir Putin. Both Lukashenko and Chavez claim the United States is trying to overthrow their governments. "The jaws of imperialism and hegemony have clenched over Belarus," Chavez said Tuesday. "Our countries should keep their hands on their knives." In Moscow, Chavez is signing a deal to buy US$1 billion worth of military hardware, including 30 Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets and 30 military helicopters to go with last year's purchase of 100,000 assault rifles.
After Moscow, the populist leader is off to visit Iran, where he's likely to vent a great deal of his trademark anti-American rhetoric and condemn Israel for what he calls its "invasion" of Lebanon. Vietnam, Mali and perhaps Senegal will round out his world tour. North Korea will be booked soon, but as he told reporters before he set off in July, he just couldn't squeeze it in this trip (Isabel Vincent, "This can't be good. Hugo Chavez takes his angry, anti-American paranoia on the road", MACLEAN'S AUG. 7 '06).