Since the Cuban revolution Miami-based US national, with the support of the CIA and FBI, have killed over 4000 Cuban national in terrorist attacks, in the same ammount of time 3183 US nationals have died in terrorist attack on US soil. In 2005 Osvaldo Mitat was charged with illegal possession of weapons and explosives in the United States. He was arrested for this while illegaly smuggling Luis Carriles, who hijacked a Cuban plane in 1976 and killed 73 people, admitted involvement in a 1997 string of bombings on Cuban hotels and was arrested in 2000 in Panama on conspiricy to assisinate Fidel Castro; he was aquitted earlier this year. Mitat was released two days ago on an appeal that went essentially unprosecuted. This all happened while Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Josh Wolf and others are being illegaly held as political prisoners by the United States, where is the justice and why won't the United States fight real terrorism?

FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA!

Prime Minister John Howard, of Australia, announced on June 21 the takeover of 73 Aboriginal communities in Australia’s Northern Territories. 60,000 aboriginal Australians live in these communities, 30% of the people there. By this Austrialia implementing martial law in aboriginal communities to force market exploitation and wage slavery. The Australian government are using the excuse that there is high unemplyment and low education in these communities. This in spite of the fact that the government has completely underfunded these communities, many of which were created as part of the 1970's aparthied policies. All the aforementioned travesty in the wake of the 2006 federal government amendment the 1976 land reform to open the aboriginal-controlled lands to government-controlled 99-year leases for private homes and business. The Australian government is in the wrong and the world media is ignoring this. This has been done in the US and has devestated Native American communities throught the United States, don't let it happen, again.

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alienhunter187 wrote: I still say the 360 is the best console, puts the PS3 to shame. But the hardware difficulties are problems. And the customer service is utter crap. Guy honestly threatening me saying that if I don't back off, they won't repair my console. Then he said "sometimes things happen and they get lost in transit." As a console alone, I think 360 is probably the best value, but everything around it is extortion or tailored for the rich. I was going to blog about this earlier today, but this presents a better, quicker option. First, why force us to buy crap on the fatx file system, it's proprietary crap that is essentially the same as the basic fat32 system only storing less. Simply allowing the fat32 system to run would allow people to actually afford hard drives or at least release MS should release a system for creating fatx formats on existing fat32 drives. Two, the games are often designed for large, high definition television without options for anything else, while large, high-definition tv owners are a minority of the xbox 360's players. Aside from the obvious examples [Dead Rising text, etc...] I've noticed that games on the 360 often only allow one pre-fabricated camera setting, case-in-point Top Spin 2. The game puts the pc on the near side of the court as well as the far court, while the camera is static on the near court. This presents the problem of not being able to react; thus killing any realistic or, at times, fun aspects of the games. Third, there are no firewire ports, but four USB 2.0 ports. I for one greatly prefer Firewire for its greater security and increased speed and don't want to try to buy more new stuff for USB 2.0 and xbox 360. Luckily I got a free 1gb USB mem stick, so this no longer presents a problem, but it could have. Four, Xbox live is 256k plus, as a student I don't have the money to pay for xbox live, a fast internet connection, netflix and new games every month. Why not offer an alternative via. free, user-based servers for everybody; simple, extortive profit on a monopoly. Five, you have to pay to distribute games. As a game developer, this is extremely disheartening; I've always been able to get free hosting from the software and games I've created, why not let people host their own games and software at no cost?

I'm sorry I never finished my last blog post, but I had to run and don't have time to post the rest, now. So, here are a few movies the belong on the list off the top of my head:
Radovan III
Werner Herzog's short films
Wooden Crosses
Les Miserables
Tea and Rice
8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements

A Short Essay on Suzuki's Gate of the Flesh:
I have recently seen the film Gate of the Flesh by Suzuki and almost had to turn it off I was so repulsed, which has never happend to me durring a film, before. The content and presentation of the film is shocking and not in a camp horror film style, in the way that the reality of violance is shocking, shocking and repulsive. Suzuki linked violance and sex in a manner that is only surpassed by Nicholas Roeg in The Man Who Fell To Earth, but it is hardly fair to compare them. Where The Man Who Fell to Earth linked the act of sex with violance, Gate of the Flesh linked flamboyant sexuality or, rather, those surrounding the sexually flamboyant because of the expressed sexuality. What both films again do is complete the trifecta of sex, money and violence, viz. the expression of power. This is to say sex is power, violence is power and money is power, in modern thought, at least. Where this film diverges from Roeg's film is the biting realism and elaboration of the acts of such. Only realism can truely show violence and Suzuki did this all too well, fine film that goes beyond biting.

Good music in 2007, so far:
Friend and Foe -Menomena
Elated -Shannon Murray
We Were Dead Even Before the Ships Sank -Modest Mouse
Or Give Me Death -Acqueduct

Before the Revolution -Bernardo Bertolucci's first monumnetal film has not recieved a region 1 dvd release, which is a real shame. Bertolucci went on to be one of the most renown directors of his time and remains to be in both english and italian.

The Last Emperor -Winner of 9 Oscars and another Bertolucci gem, this was monumental politcally and artistically. As almost a brother to the six hour 1900, Bertollucci follows the change in culture after a major event. A confessed Marxist Bertolucci's view changed dramatically from WWI and Mussollini to the popular revolution in China gone awry. Though it was once out on DVD, it has been unavailible for some time.

Black Peter -Milos Foreman's first film is currently availible in a very hard to find [I know this from experiance] pan-and-scan dvd. This is a monumental film in need of restoration from experts and a decent transfer wouldn't hurt.

Ten Minutes Older -A set of two short films [the trumpet and the cello] made in 2000. The films were done by a multitude of directors including Bertolucci, Godard and Jiri Menzel.

Army of Shadows -Winner of theNew York Film Critics Circle 2006 foriegn film award, ironically the film came out in 1969. One of Melville's finest, it is likely to come out on dvd this, keep your fingers crossed.

The Magnificent Ambersons -Those who have seen this know why I mention this, that is the first 3/4 of the film. Though the end was taken out and reshot by the dstribution compony, the rest remains excellent. The film had a Criterion laserdisc release and now needs the same on DVD.

Wooden Cross -Russel Bernard Masterpiece, considered to be one of the greatest French films of all time [along with Jules et Jim, Le Illusion Grande, and Faire Les Quart Cent Coups]. There are rumors of a release on the new criterion line, Eclipse, but nothing has been confirmed.

The Deep -A seldom seen Welles film, that needs the DVD treatment. The entire film takes place at sea and has been described as The Posieden Adventure in art house form.