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Monday, October 1, 2012
College Radical, Eric Holder in ‘armed’ takeover of Columbia University
As college student, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of former Columbia University ROTC office.
Chinese hackers break in to White House military office network in charge of the nuclear football
Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands.
http://freebeacon.com/white-house-hack-attack/
TSA Confiscates Camera, Deletes Footage of Checkpoint
TSA workers steal memory card, cop claims “It must have fallen on the ground”
Tom McCormack explains how he was repeatedly harassed by TSA officers and then police simply for filming at a body scanner checkpoint, before TSA agents violently grabbed his camera from him and disappeared, a concerning development given the fact that TSA workers are routinely caught stealing expensive personal items belonging to travelers.
The following account of the incident comes courtesy of the Pixiq website.
I was in the San Juan airport at noon (Sept 24) heading for St. Kitts.
I videotaped (Canon Power Shot) the podium where they make you show the passport/boarding pass, as I approached and then the next area with the X-ray scanners. It was busy. One TSA woman told me to stop from about 20 feet away. I didn’t.
They all seemed intrigued I wouldn’t follow their orders. A TSA guy soon approached me and said I had to stop. I kept the video going and said
“Sorry, it’s a Constitutional right.” He said “Okay” and walked back, a little indignant, to the X ray area.
When I went through X rays they were waiting for me. Two uptight TSA ladies rolled up on a cart and approached me. I grabbed my camera and started rolling; I wanted to capture the conversation with them.
One of them approached me and violently ripped the camera from my hands. I was shocked and told her to give it back and lunged for my camera. They took my camera and passport and boarding pass and ran off to some corner to confer with one another.
A police officer approached and asked where I was from. I said California. The conversation went like this:
Me: “I’m from California. Why?”
Him: “Well, each State has its own rules.”
Me: “But this is TSA. A Federal agency. Therefore the State laws don’t apply. Besides, the First Amendment of the Constitution trumps state rules.”
Him: “This is an airport. You can’t just videotape people. You need permission.”
Me : “Nonsense, this is a public arena. There is not permission required or any expectation of privacy here.”
Him: “No, Puerto Rico is not like the States. There are local laws that have nothing to do with the way they do things in the States.”
Me: “Look, let’s just agree to disagree. I don’t accept anything you say. I want my camera back. See stole it. I want her to give it back right now.”
Him: “She didn’t steal it. She just confiscated it because you violated the rules.”
The TSA lady reappeared with my camera, passport, boarding pass. I took it and started to walk away (pissed off) when I noticed the camera would not go on. I looked at the cartridge slot and it was gone. They had stolen it!
I showed the cop and said, “Look I want my cartridge (with 200 or so personal photos) back or I’ll call a lawyer and 911 to get more cops.
This is outrageous!” He seemed to be aware I was getting upset and the TSA ladies scurried off with the cop and came back 2 minutes later with the cartridge.
“It must have fallen on the ground” said the cop.
Yeah, right. Predictably all the videos of them giving me a hard time were deleted. The whole episode lasted about 10 minutes.
http://www.pixiq.com/article/tsa-confiscates-camera-from-man-recording-checkpoint
CHEAP CAMERA THWARTS APARTMENT BREAK-IN AFTER E-MAILING LIVE PHOTOS TO RESIDENT
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cheap-camera-emails-ny-man-photos-of-home-break-in-in-real-time-prevents-theft/
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Michael O'Leary at the Innovation Convention 2011 - Brussels
Michael O'Leary at the Innovation Convention 2011 - Brussels
The first edition of the Innovation Convention took place one year after the adoption of the Innovation Union flagship initiative, the EU's roadmap to turn Europe into a more innovation-friendly and competitive continent.
Research and innovation are the main motors for sustainable job creation and the only way to achieve a sustainable exit from the current economic crisis. This conference brought together world leading experts in research and innovation to share their views on building a global innovation economy.
Speakers included Don Tapscott, Chairman of Moxie Insight (Canada), and co-author of 'Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World', Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google (USA), Claudie Haigneré, former astronaut and President of Universcience (FR), Professor Henry Chesbrough, Centre for Open Innovation (USA), Sam Pitroda, entrepreneur and advisor to the Prime Minister of India on innovation, Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, former Professor of the Public Understanding of Science and author of several books, including ' The God Delusion' (UK), Silvia Venturini Fendi, fashion designer (IT) and Michael O'Leary, CEO, Ryanair (IE)
Mott The Hoople (Ian Hunter), 14 September 1973, Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA
14 September 1973, Hollywood Palladium
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1973.09.15 Disc (UK) Changing Face of Mott
This gig, other than the TV recording at the Aquarius Theater, is the first live stage performance of Luther Grosvenor (Ariel Bender) after he replaced Mick Ralphs on guitar from the original lineup.
British rock news of the period noted the change in the lineup.
1973.09.08 Melody Maker (UK) news item Ralphs Quits Hoople [by Tony Stewart]
1973.09.15 Disc (UK) article Changing Face of Mott
1973.09.15 Melody Maker (UK) news item Ralphs Linked with Free Men
1973.09.15 New Musical Express (UK) news item Ralphs Quit Mott - to Join Free? [by Tony Stewart]
1973.09.29 Record Mirror (UK) news item Hail Ariel and Farewell Mick
The supporting players were changing as well.
Mick Bolton reminisces:
In May 1973 I auditioned for MOTT THE HOOPLE as piano player. They had a huge hit in 1972 with David Bowie's song All The Young Dudes and, following the release of their 1973 album Mott and the departure of organist Verden Allen, they were about to take on a piano-player and a Hammond organist to promote their new album. I didn't get the piano job - it quite rightly went to Morgan Fisher. But a couple of days later Stan Tippins the band's manager phoned to ask if I could play Hammond organ. When I answered yes I was told I had got the job.
Our first rehearsal was on June 15th in London and on July 27th we began a 42-date headlining US tour at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago with REO Speedwagon and Joe Walsh as support acts. The US and UK tours were virtual sell outs and we played some memorable concerts with some great support acts:-
- The Felt Forum, Madison Square Gardens, New York City supported by the New York Dolls
- Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C supported by Iggy Pop
- two nights at Bill Graham's Winterland, San Francisco
- two shows at the Schubert Theatre, Philadelphia supported by Aerosmith
- Hollywood Palladium supported by Blue Oyster Cult and Joe Walsh
- Spectrum, Philadelphia in front of 14,000.
- Radio City Music Hall, New York City
There were several TV appearances:- a show for ABC in NY City with Uriah Heep - a Midnight Special recorded in Los Angeles with Earth Wind and Fire and also a Don Kirschner Show, also recorded in Los Angeles. Four clips from the Don Kirschner Show can now be seen on YouTube. I can be heard on two of them - All The Young Dudes and Sweet Angeline - they show guitarist Ariel Bender in great form on only his second performance with the band.
http://www.mickbolton.com/bio
1978: LAPL Photo database - Sergieff, Mike., Herald-Examiner Collection
Drivin' Sister
All The Young Dudes
All The Way From Memphis
Sweet Angeline
Recorded Live during 4th US Tour 14th September 1973 Hollywood Palladium
Ballad of Mott The Hoople (26th March 1972, Zürich)
"My fave Mott song! Saw them @ the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd. in 1973 w/ Joe Walsh and Barnstorm opening the gig. During Mott's encore Iggy Pop ran on stage and grabbed the microphone from Ian Hunter and yelled cuss words until security carried Iggy off stage. After order was restored, Hunter said, "God bless Iggy." Great night of rock!"
Blue Oyster Cult fans weigh in on the event.
http://www.hotrails.co.uk/history/1973.htm
Friday 14 Sept
Bands on the Bill:
1: Orphan
2: Blue Oyster Cult
3: Joe Walsh and Barnstorm
4: Mott the Hoople
Blue Oyster Cult:
Eric Bloom vocals/guitar
Buck Dharma guitar/vocals
Allen Lanier keys/guitar
Joe Bouchard bass/vocals
Albert Bouchard drums/vocals
Gig Promoter(s):
Pacific Presentations
Stealthtip
The show was in California at the Hollywood Palladium and the actual date was September 14, 1973. I still have the ticket stub! There were four bands in all, opener - Orphan, then BOC, then Joe Walsh, then Mott the Hoople
BOC played 7 or 8 tunes that evening - maybe 45 minutes max.
I believe they played all of side one from Tyranny and Mvtation along with COF, Before the Kiss, A Redcap, either Workshops or Transmaniacon(???) and a rolling stones cover of It's Not Easy. This would be very close to the actual set-list that night.
As for Mott the Hoople - Mick Ralphs had just left the band prior to that gig and lots of people were shouting where's Mick during the show that evening. He had just been replaced by very short notice with one Aerial Bender on guitar.
Steve Weidemann
My first Mott the Hoople concert was at the Hollywood Palladium, August 1973. Opening acts were Cactus (I think), Joe Walsh and Barnstorm, and Blue Oyster Cult.
No seats resulted in "festival standing". Enjoyed the hell out of the night! Bummer of the night was that someone tried to break into my Vega.
Originally posted on weidemannia.com on 2 March 2003
Metal Mike Saunders
FEW GROUPS in recent memory have had as successful a California debut performance as Blue Oyster Cult's here this September. Third-billed to Joe Walsh and Mott the Hoople, BOC stole the show musically and elicited an extremely enthusiastic crowd response that was equal to that for the two more popular groups.
The surprising thing is, the crowd was with the Cult from the start. Yells for Manny Bloom and specific Cult songs filled the air. Astute as you'd expect them to be, BOC's set list answered with the first three cuts from Tyranny And Mutation and the crowd was on their feet from the start.
Visually, the group's focal point was Manny Bloom (the guy with the frizzy hair, glasses, and greaser black leather), strutting around the stage with his red Gibson SG like a John Kay Honcho - totally jive but totally alive. The Cult's stage act is impeccably professional, flowing from one highlight to another without a letup, essentially the same stage presentation (although with different material) that the group spent two months in seclusion working up in early 1971.
Highlights of the Oyster Cult's 45-minute set included the thunderous 'Cities On Flame', 'Buck's Boogie', and an extended rendition of the Stones' 'It's Not Easy' replete with quotes from 'Born In Chicago', 'Land Of A Thousand Dances', and 'Walking The Dog'. Not since the Flamin' Groovies has a group walked the dog, much less their guitars across stage! 'Born To Be Wild' was the encore as usual, Manny Bloom and Buck Dharma crossing their guitars above their heads in a sonic blitzkrieg. The music rumbled on, Alan Lanier's skill on rhythm guitar making the Cult one of the few groups around with an awesome four guitar lineup (drummer Albert Bouchard also plays guitar) when they want it.
No doubt about it, Blue Oyster Cult slayed the crowd as well as this fan, and Joe Walsh's interminable 60-minute Grand-Funk-gone-bad tuneup jam and Mott The Hoople's vaguely disappointing set of English arrogance (lots of fans upfront yelling "where's Mick?" at Ariel Bender's fucked up guitar playing) were pretty much an anticlimax (although Mott finally drew big response towards the end of their set and several of the editors of this magazine insist they were great).
With a live show this impressive, it seems highly possible that Blue Oyster Cult will break big within the next year or two, joining the handful of fellow heavy metal groups at the top of the charts. BOC have had good success so far, selling over 100,000 with both albums already, but potentially they have the ingredients to go far beyond that, all the way to solid gold.
Asked for the reasons and the roots behind the Blue Oyster Cult's brand of metal mania, manager Sandy Pearlman (who is to the BOC something of what Andrew Loog Oldham was to the Stones) summed it up succinctly: "A technical attitude from the Yardbirds, and Ideas from the Doors". That's a pretty cerebral combination, probably the reason for an extreme musical calculation that is BOC's one major shortcoming, but otherwise it works out just fine. R. Meltzer wasn't in California, and hence unavailable for comment on Mr. Pearlman's analysis ("It was a good gig - just like Chicago!"), but I have the feeling he'd agree. This group looks like a big one.
November 1973 in "Phonograph Record"
Ralph
"It was a good gig - just like Chicago!"??!!
That would seem to indicate that I'm missing a Chicago gig from this adjacent time-frame... obviously, they played there back in January, but Sandy Pearlman would seem to be referring to a gig a bit closer to September than that with such a comment...
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"My fave Mott song! Saw them @ the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd. in 1973 w/ Joe Walsh and Barnstorm opening the gig. During Mott's encore Iggy Pop ran on stage and grabbed the microphone from Ian Hunter and yelled cuss words until security carried Iggy off stage. After order was restored, Hunter said, "God bless Iggy." Great night of rock!"
Blue Oyster Cult fans weigh in on the event.
http://www.hotrails.co.uk/history/1973.htm
Friday 14 Sept
Bands on the Bill:
1: Orphan
2: Blue Oyster Cult
3: Joe Walsh and Barnstorm
4: Mott the Hoople
Blue Oyster Cult:
Eric Bloom vocals/guitar
Buck Dharma guitar/vocals
Allen Lanier keys/guitar
Joe Bouchard bass/vocals
Albert Bouchard drums/vocals
Gig Promoter(s):
Pacific Presentations
Stealthtip
The show was in California at the Hollywood Palladium and the actual date was September 14, 1973. I still have the ticket stub! There were four bands in all, opener - Orphan, then BOC, then Joe Walsh, then Mott the Hoople
BOC played 7 or 8 tunes that evening - maybe 45 minutes max.
I believe they played all of side one from Tyranny and Mvtation along with COF, Before the Kiss, A Redcap, either Workshops or Transmaniacon(???) and a rolling stones cover of It's Not Easy. This would be very close to the actual set-list that night.
As for Mott the Hoople - Mick Ralphs had just left the band prior to that gig and lots of people were shouting where's Mick during the show that evening. He had just been replaced by very short notice with one Aerial Bender on guitar.
Steve Weidemann
My first Mott the Hoople concert was at the Hollywood Palladium, August 1973. Opening acts were Cactus (I think), Joe Walsh and Barnstorm, and Blue Oyster Cult.
No seats resulted in "festival standing". Enjoyed the hell out of the night! Bummer of the night was that someone tried to break into my Vega.
Originally posted on weidemannia.com on 2 March 2003
Metal Mike Saunders
FEW GROUPS in recent memory have had as successful a California debut performance as Blue Oyster Cult's here this September. Third-billed to Joe Walsh and Mott the Hoople, BOC stole the show musically and elicited an extremely enthusiastic crowd response that was equal to that for the two more popular groups.
The surprising thing is, the crowd was with the Cult from the start. Yells for Manny Bloom and specific Cult songs filled the air. Astute as you'd expect them to be, BOC's set list answered with the first three cuts from Tyranny And Mutation and the crowd was on their feet from the start.
Visually, the group's focal point was Manny Bloom (the guy with the frizzy hair, glasses, and greaser black leather), strutting around the stage with his red Gibson SG like a John Kay Honcho - totally jive but totally alive. The Cult's stage act is impeccably professional, flowing from one highlight to another without a letup, essentially the same stage presentation (although with different material) that the group spent two months in seclusion working up in early 1971.
Highlights of the Oyster Cult's 45-minute set included the thunderous 'Cities On Flame', 'Buck's Boogie', and an extended rendition of the Stones' 'It's Not Easy' replete with quotes from 'Born In Chicago', 'Land Of A Thousand Dances', and 'Walking The Dog'. Not since the Flamin' Groovies has a group walked the dog, much less their guitars across stage! 'Born To Be Wild' was the encore as usual, Manny Bloom and Buck Dharma crossing their guitars above their heads in a sonic blitzkrieg. The music rumbled on, Alan Lanier's skill on rhythm guitar making the Cult one of the few groups around with an awesome four guitar lineup (drummer Albert Bouchard also plays guitar) when they want it.
No doubt about it, Blue Oyster Cult slayed the crowd as well as this fan, and Joe Walsh's interminable 60-minute Grand-Funk-gone-bad tuneup jam and Mott The Hoople's vaguely disappointing set of English arrogance (lots of fans upfront yelling "where's Mick?" at Ariel Bender's fucked up guitar playing) were pretty much an anticlimax (although Mott finally drew big response towards the end of their set and several of the editors of this magazine insist they were great).
With a live show this impressive, it seems highly possible that Blue Oyster Cult will break big within the next year or two, joining the handful of fellow heavy metal groups at the top of the charts. BOC have had good success so far, selling over 100,000 with both albums already, but potentially they have the ingredients to go far beyond that, all the way to solid gold.
Asked for the reasons and the roots behind the Blue Oyster Cult's brand of metal mania, manager Sandy Pearlman (who is to the BOC something of what Andrew Loog Oldham was to the Stones) summed it up succinctly: "A technical attitude from the Yardbirds, and Ideas from the Doors". That's a pretty cerebral combination, probably the reason for an extreme musical calculation that is BOC's one major shortcoming, but otherwise it works out just fine. R. Meltzer wasn't in California, and hence unavailable for comment on Mr. Pearlman's analysis ("It was a good gig - just like Chicago!"), but I have the feeling he'd agree. This group looks like a big one.
November 1973 in "Phonograph Record"
Ralph
"It was a good gig - just like Chicago!"??!!
That would seem to indicate that I'm missing a Chicago gig from this adjacent time-frame... obviously, they played there back in January, but Sandy Pearlman would seem to be referring to a gig a bit closer to September than that with such a comment...
6215 Sunset Blvd.
90028
Hollywood, CA, US
Obama Weakens American Defense
Rarely before have we seen a bleaker picture for U.S. defense spending.
General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal: Innovation Uncensored 2012
Shortly after his removal from command in Afghanistan, McChrystal announced that he would retire from the Army. The day after the announcement, the White House announced that he would retain his four-star rank in retirement, although law generally requires a four-star officer to hold his rank for three years in order to retain it in retirement. His retirement ceremony was held on July 23, 2010 at Fort McNair in Washington D.C. During this ceremony, McChrystal was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey and the Defense Distinguished Service Medal by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. On August 16, Yale University announced that it had hired McChrystal to teach a graduate seminar in modern leadership at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.[62] In November 2010, JetBlue Airways announced that McChrystal would join its board of directors. On February 16, 2011, Navistar announced that McChrystal would join its board of directors. GEN McChrystal is currently a Partner and co-founder at the McChrystalGroup, a leadership solutions firm. In 2012 McChrystal said that he wants a return to the draft even though he realizes that this would lead to a decrease in professionalism across the United States military.
Ian Hunter, 29 September 2012, Chicago, City Winery
Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Black Tears
What For
Moon Upstairs
Fatally Flawed
Michael Picasso
Michael Picasso
Michael Picasso
Wash Us Away
Wash Us Away
Isolation
All-American Alien Boy
Roll Away the Stone
All The Way From Memphis
All The Way From Memphis
All the Way to Memphis
Sweet Jane
Saturday Gigs/Life/All The Young Dudes
Saturday Gigs/Life
All The Young Dudes
Ian Hunter with Fans After 09.29.12 Chicago City Winery Show
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