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POPSBBC and the public - too little too late It's not what I want as someone who can be turned into a criminal because I disagree with being coerced into paying for this dross, and I don't just mean the so-called entertainers, but the mal-administrators of my money, the BBC Trustees.
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POPSShowdown as Mousavi Attends Friday Prayers
In his sermon broadcast live on radio nationwide, Rafsanjani reprimanded the clerical leadership for not listening to the controversy over the election, which was declared a victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in results that Mousavi's supporters say were fraudulent. "Doubt has been created (about the election results)," Rafsanjani said. "There is a large portion of the wise people who say they have doubts. We need to take action to remove this doubt." Rafsanjani couched his sermon in calls for unity in support of Iran's Islamic Republic. But his sermon was an unmistakable " if implicit " challenge to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has declared Ahmadinejad's victory valid and demanded an end to questioning of the results. Rafsanjani said the people's voice must be considered. "We believe in the Islamic Republic ... they have to stand together," he said. "If 'Islamic' doesn't exist, we will go astray. And if 'republic' is not there,
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POPSOh Dear, a Liberal at Obama's First Presser? Politico's Michael Calderone exhibits symptoms of amnesia when he asks, "What if Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh were up front at Bush's press conferences in the East Room?" They may not have been, but only because the Bush admin. hired a hooker to lob softball questions to the president. Not that right wing radio hosts didn't get their own presidential moments -- just not at press conferences. They got their's in private face-to-face meetings that Calderone seems to have completely forgotten about. On The Flintstones , when Fred had amnesia, a second knock on the head brought him out of it. Someone give Mike a good whack, maybe that'll work.
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POPSIAEA Nuclear Chief BOYCOTTS BBC over Gaza Appeal ElBaradei is due to leave his post as the IAEA director general in November. He won acclaim for his scepticism over western claims that Saddam Hussein was attempting to develop nuclear weapons and his public opposition to the invasion of Iraq. ElBaradei and the IAEA were awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2005. Officials in ElBaradei's office said it was unclear how long his boycott of the BBC would last. A spokeswoman said she expected him to review his position in light of how the corporation eventually resolved the row. ...fta
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POPSBill Cunningham: A-hole warrior in the class war
The list is long of people that proves this fool wrong: Jesus was poor, Mother Teresa was poor, the Dalai Lama is poor, can anyone argue against their integrity, ethics, values and/or morals? George Bush and Dick Cheney are rich, they committed countless atrocities against their own countrymen; Congress is full of rich people who pad their financial nest eggs with public money, thrive on countless perks, and give themselves annual pay raises; the most heinous scandals against the general public are perpetrated not by poor people but by the very rich; arms dealers and war profiteers are rich, their records speak for themselves; corporate lawyers are rich, they are paid to delay settlements to any victim of corporate malfeasance through legal loopholes; the list goes on. So, any trust fund kid who has never worked a day in their lives are considered more moral, ethical and have higher values than someone born to poor parents and cannot get a break to pull themselves out of it.
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POPSMP mixes chloride and chlorine In the same news source, there is a call for politicians to be paid properly. How much would you pay this clown. Obviously no idea. Failed in the real world and now failed in politics. These well-to-do right wingers should have died out by now.
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POPSBoston next for Armin van Buuren. DJ Magazine readers has elected Armin as the Nr 1 Dj in the World two years in a row. He has a weekly radio show aired by DI.FM network and a podcast show. Is now on World Tour.
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POPS It's The Stupid, Stupid--The Media gets a FAIL
Nevertheless, we get nonstop coverage of this man for two solid weeks from major television, radio, and newspapers. And yet the worst of the lot, television, when confronted with the fact that they were complicit in disseminating Pentagon propaganda by using retired generals as paid shills for the Iraq war effort, has less to say about it than Bill O'Reilly on the difference between a loofah and a falafel. Part of the problem is that modern news editors hate "policy," because "policy isn't news." But in times like these, it isn't hard to make a case that, yes, policy is news--but today's media is too vapid and too hard up for rapidly vanishing eyeballs to care. Four months in a row of job losses on the edge of recession calls for some sort of policy change (and the president is doing the Charleston trying to avoid saying the R-word). Gas prices are skyrocketing toward the $4/gallon mark, and two of the three presidential candidates are saying that cutting the gas tax--in effect, giv
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POPSBarack Obama Displayed His Bizarre Views On Foreign And Domestic Policy First, Obama showed ignorance of what led to the crisis in Kosovo, where a U.S.-Russian confrontation is now playing out, and he seemed to advocate some kind of U.S. military response through NATO. If a President Obama carried through on such a threat, it would be a foreign policy mistake of monumental proportions. It could lead to a war with Russia in the current circumstances. Second, Obama didn't seem to understand that in the case of the disabled woman, Terri Schiavo, the issue was giving her the same kind of due process rights that are guaranteed to death row killers. We now know where Obama really stands, and it is not a pretty picture. Tim Russert had some good questions: One was when he asked Obama what he would do if Russia helped Serbia militarily take control of Kosovo, which is under United Nations and NATO occupation and recently declared its independence.
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POPSOperation Live Free or Die These people, in part, helped organize the Operation Live Free or Die rally. They're NOT dirty hippie protesters, but rather intelligent, articulate, former-tech employees. They know their issues and they know how to articulate them.
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POPSHumpback Hunt It's curious that we don't even know this information in Japan. I think Japanese media isn't concerned about it at all. There's no argue on whale hunt on newspaper nor on TV these days. Radio silence.
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POPSGood old classic rock on Virgin Radio It's only few days this radio has arrived in Italy and I love it: I love the old pure rock with its giants and classics, but also more recent hits; music is quite never interrupted by news or spots and this is a great point. For rock lovers.
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