The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe (1845) recited by Christopher Walken

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more."

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;- vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore-
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-
Nameless here for evermore.

(....)
Listen all "The Raven" here by the voice of Christopher Walken here.
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Silvio Berlusconi Humps a Traffic Cop is a fake!

Amazing video, Silvio Berlusconi Humps a Traffic Cop! Is a fake... but in any case is funny, like this pic as above. I dont think is a damage for him, we will see in a short while, Italy will vote the 7th and 8th of april... by the way, i voted today early morning by mail.... and you never can imagine who..... guess it, i'm waiting for comments! ;)
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"P", Putin, "P", Plagiarist!

Vladimir Putin -- KGB spy, politician, Russian Federation president, 2006 host of the Group of Eight international summit -- can add a new line to his resume: plagiarist.
One pic when he was at primary scool as above and the link here for the rest of the story.
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... and i love Paris....stop....

Life like print ads are sweeping the world's most prominent cities. In Paris, Stringfellows strip club have put the pole into pole dancing by cleverly designing their print campaign to work with existing lamp posts throughout the city. The ads are sharp, sexy and almost interactive in their appearance, providing the ultimate X factor that most advertising agencies only ever dream about. by Andy G
www.joiasdobrasil.com
Thanks Cool Hunter!

Riot police in Minsk

Riot police in the Belarussian capital, Minsk, have broken up a five-day demonstration against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
The opposition says 500 people were detained after riot police broke up a five-day long protest against the poll.
Belarus officials insist that last Sunday's vote was democratic.
Here other pics of riot.
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... i love Paris with the rain...

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It's a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We're not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters. We'll see the theory here.
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Spring arrives today in Saski Park (Warszawa, Poland)

The people protest in Minsk

The people in Minsk protest against the fraud of the elections on the central square, even around were snipers ready to act, and military presence was huge. This evening the national belarussian television claims that the "western" countries paid almost 12 millions dollar the opposition for react to the status quo.
I continue the article with the news from Minsk (thanks Katia), here the report of yesterday's evening by the Democratic Organizations of Belarus:

On the October area in Minsk began performance(statement) of the uniform candidate in presidents from Alexander Milinkevicha's democratic forces. In the same place there is a second candidate from opposition — Alexander Kozulin who too prepares for performance(statement).
As correspondents БелаПАН inform from a place of event, on ступеньках the Palace of culture of trade unions there is all management(manual) of staffs Милинкевича and Козулина — they hold flowers and balls. Near to Козулиным — his(its) grandson. According to all available information, on the area has gathered about 30 thousand person.
Alexander Milinkevich has addressed going(gathered) on the October area of capital. " The country has woken up. We want freedom, the truth and fair calculation of voices. We achieve it and we hope, that voices will be counted up fairly ", — the uniform candidate for presidents from democratic forces has declared.
Then the word was taken by other oppositional candidate — Alexander Kozulin. As he said, " revolution has taken place in minds(wits) of people ", " people of Byelorussia became free ". A.Kozulin has called to send Alexander Lukashenko " on the deserved rest ". " Now there is a calculation of voices, and we hope, that members of the Central Electoral Committee will not admit(allow) falsification ", — the candidate has told. " As though we voted, all of them equally will count in own way. In any case, tomorrow we shall already live in other country ", — has added Козулин.

On meeting also have acted chairman of the commission on the international affairs of the Polish diet Paul Zalevsky who welcomed Byelorussia, and the leader of the Russian Union of right forces Никита White. Policies(politics) has called " to not trust that Russia supports Lukashenko ". " Russia supports democratic Byelorussia ", — it(he) has told.
Then the word was again taken by A.Milinkevich. It(he) has called people to not miss, the official data of the Central Electoral Committee will not be promulgated yet. " We shall listen to them, and then is amicable above them we shall be dared ", — the uniform candidate has told.
The candidate for presidents of Byelorussia Alexander Kozulin, as well as Alexander Milinkenvich, has called going(gathered) on the October area to not miss and wait announcements of results of elections by the Central Electoral Commission.

The representative of the Ukrainian organization " the National alliance " has called the Belarus militia to be together with people and to not resort to reprisals.

Before participants of meeting Irina Halip and artist Alexey Marochkin have acted журналистка.

Organizers of the action(share) managed to connect more powerful звукоусилительную the equipment.


БелаПАН

Snipers on Central Square in Minsk

The authoritarian ruler of Belarus has ordered snipers to take up positions tonight around the central square in Minsk, the capital, where thousands of opposition demonstrators are expected to gather to protest at his expected victory in the presidential elections. Opposition sources in the former Soviet republic said that they had also received reports that members of the Vitebsk division, a top paratroop unit, had been moved to the outskirts of Minsk from their base 150 miles away.
Here the article.
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A new revolution this evening (1800 GMT)?

Minsk (Belarus) Opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko have called for a mass rally after polls close at 2000 (1800GMT), to protest against electoral fraud. Mr Lukashenko has warned he will crush any attempt to stage a popular revolt. Now in Minsk the situation of the town is like a madhouse! I am in Warsaw now and i am in continue contact with the Belarussian capital, i will update the state of crisis in direct.
Here all the news about the upcoming revolution.
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Black Farmers in America

John Ficara's "Black Farmers in America" introduces us to black farmers and their families, shows us how they work, interact, and struggle with a bureaucracy that does not treat them fairly. Farm failures have been an important American social issue for decades, and the economy has been brutal for independent farmers, white and black.
Black Farmers is failure of the American Dream. Hard work and sacrifice are not necessarily well rewarded. Ficara shows us farmers working by hand, with horses and outdated equipment.
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The Long Walk

Sławomir Rawicz (1915-2004) by his account, was a Polish cavalry officer who was captured by Soviet troops during the German-Soviet invasion of Poland and was exiled to Siberia. In a book he participated in writing, he claimed that he and six others escaped and walked over 6500 km (4000 miles south, through the Gobi desert, and over the Himalayas to India). None of the others who escaped with him have ever been identified or come forward. No evidence beyond the account of Slavomir Rawicz himself exists for the journey, and he also claims to have seen Yetis.
His saga is chronicled in a ghost-written book "The Long Walk", whose veracity has been controversial since the book was published. Here the obituary on The Guardian Unlimited.
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Penelope goes to war

"I solemnly swear…to devote all of my strength and to sacrifice my life to protect the land and the liberty of Israel," repeats the newly recruited soldier during her swearing-in ceremony. She enters the two-year period in which she will change from a girl to a woman, a teenager to an adult, all under a militaristic, masculine environment, and in the confines of an army that is engaged in daily war and conflict.(*)
The fragments life of these israleane girls on the pics by the american photographer Rachel Papo.
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(* from the script by Rachel Papo)

Do you remember "Just"?

Ah, was the really cool song by Radiohead from "The Bends" album!
Let's see now the cover by Mark Ronson, with the amazing Daptones horn section (The Dap Kings) and the voice of Alex Greenwald, the lead singer of Phantom Planet (best known for “California”, the theme to “The OC”).
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6174

The number 6174 is a really mysterious number. At first glance, it might not seem so obvious. But as we are about to see, anyone who can subtract can uncover the mystery that makes 6174 so special. Here the article of Yutaka Nishiyama.
Yutaka Nishiyama is a professor at Osaka University of Economics, Japan. After studying mathematics at the University of Kyoto he went on to work for IBM Japan for 14 years. He is interested in the mathematics that occurs in daily life, and has written seven books about the subject. The most recent one, called "The mystery of five in nature", investigates, amongst other things, why many flowers have five petals. Professor Nishiyama is currently visiting the University of Cambridge.
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All Marketers are Liars

Seth Godin is the author of six bestsellers, including "Permission Marketing", an Amazon Top 100 bestseller for a year and a Fortune Best Business Book. His newest book, "All Marketers are Liars", has already made the Amazon Top 100 and has inspired its own blog. He holds an MBA from Stanford, is a contributing editor to Fast Company magazine, and was called "the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age" by Business Week.
Here the video of his conference (48 min.) "All Marketers are Liars" - Seth Godin speaks at Google.
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Anti-Semitic cartoons contest

Eyal Zusman (30), actor and playwrite, and Amitai Sandy (29), graphic artist and publisher of Dimona Comix Publishing, from Tel-Aviv, Israel, they announced the launch of a new anti-Semitic cartoons contest - this time drawn by Jews themselves!
The contest including a lot of funny cartoons, let's see here!
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The new Asimo running

Honda show new version of ASIMO the humanoid robot at Welcome Plaza Aoyama (Japan).
New ASIMO runs smoothly and quickly.
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Slobodan Milosevic Died

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been found dead in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal. Milosevic suffered from high blood pressure and a heart condition. Last month the tribunal rejected a request by the former president to go to Russia for medical treatment. Natural death, poisoned, or suicide? Both the former Serbian leader's parents committed suicide, but his lawyer wants an autopsy elsewhere as Mr Milosevic feared he was being poisoned.
Milosevic, 64, had been held at the UN war crimes tribunal for genocide and other war crimes since 2001.
Here an interesting article by Jasmina Tesanovic.
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Jeremy you are a genius!

The new video of the half-french, half-english song-writer Jeremy Warmsley is up on internet!
I love the work of this young artist, the videos are impeccable, and the music is electronic with a touch of orchestrale minimalism. You can listen his music on the website (jeremywarmsley.com) or see the last video "Dirty Blue Jeans"
here.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Gold Lion"

Arctic Monkeys and Yeah Yeah Yeahs are two of more important "internet bands", they starts their career from the web, and public has known them just for download music and videos.
Here the last undergrounder's video by Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Gold Lion", the sacred fire that spirit the pyromaniacs...
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Mellowdrone "Oh My" video

Under the label of Psychedelic/Rock another big band, good sound like ever ...
Mellowdrone "Oh My" (Dir: Vince Haycock).
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EUTHANASIA, russian decadence

Awesomes pics of russian decadence. Different sections: abbandoned, industrial, urban and different, the russian decline in pictures.
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March 8

March 8 is International Women's Day, here some russian posters. Socialism real or surrealistic?
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Julio Galindo "Nudes Mexico"

Eloquents nude images that emphasize the mystical. Keeping alive a quality of innocence from girls who are not professional models.
His work is mostly done with a Rolleiflex camera. The negative is scanned and enlarged using pictorico film, on an Epson 4000 printer. The negative is sensitized with PT/PD, he use Arches Platine paper.
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The Answer

"The Answer" by Peter J Charlton.
Text of subtitles:
"Be not afraid
Be not afraid of the spooks,
of the ones that would have your hearts burn with hatred.
Be not afraid of the ghosts
who would have you build your own prison walls
with evermore pace and frenzy.
Be Still.
And love shall uncloak the thieves that have stolen our innocence."

Writer/Director/Camera/Effects: Peter J Charlton
Answerer: Thordis Elva Bachmann
"The Answer" is a 1 minute movie shot in Iceland.
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Jacob Appelbaum

Jacob Appelbaum, hacker photographer, has some nice San Francisco Infrared Photos online now. In the photoset people and nudity.
Link (via flickr)

Focus (1973)

Focus "Hocus Pocus" (1973)
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After Neoconservatism

I want to suggest you the lecture of this article of New York Times by historian philosopher Francis Fukuyama, the one of "the End of history", it rethinks all the theory of neoconservatorism.
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Picture:Three Flags by Jasper Johns, 1959
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine

Broken Social Scene "Shoreline" video

Another video by Broken Social Scene "Shoreline", is one of my favorite bands...
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Public Library Buys Burroughs Papers

In Folio 110 of a meticulously constructed, voluminous personal archive, William S. Burroughs offers a fanciful autobiographical sketch that is part "Junky," part "Naked Lunch."
Here the article.
Link (via herald tribune)