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World's oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria
Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:11am EDT
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - French archaeologists say they have excavated an 11,000-year-old wall painting in
red, black and white in northern Syria which they describe as the oldest in the world, although it resembles
a modern work.
The 2-square-metre painting was found below ground at the Neolithic settlement of Djade al-Mughara
on the Euphrates, northeast of the city of Aleppo, mission head Eric Coqueugniot told Reuters.
"We found another painting next to it, but that won't be excavated until next year. It is slow work," said
Coqueugniot, who works at France's National Centre for Scientific Research.
Coqueugniot was referring to Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, who had links with the Bauhaus school,
a main player in the German modernist movement.Rectangles dominate the ancient painting, which
formed part of an adobe circular wall of a large house with a wooden roof at the 15,000-square-metre
site.
Excavations have been going on at the site since the early 1990s.
The painting has been recovered for now and will be moved to the Aleppo museum next year,
Coqueugniot said. Its red colors came from burnt hematite rock, crushed limestone formed the
white and charcoal provided black.
The world's previously known oldest painting on a constructed wall was found in Turkey but came
1,500 years after the one at Djade al-Mughara, according to Science magazine.
The inhabitants of Djade al-Mughara lived off hunting and wild plants. They resembled modern day humans
in looks but did not know agriculture or domestication, Coqueugniot said.
"There was a purpose in having the painting in what looked like a communal house, but we don't know it.
The village was later abandoned and the house stuffed with mud," he said.A large number of flints and
weapons have been found at the site as well as human skeletons buried under houses.
"This site is one of several Neolithic villages in modern day Syria and southern
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 Das Beckwerk: the Return of Democracy 8 Mar—28 May 2007
Under the alias “Das Beckwerk”, the Danish artist Claus Beck-Nielsen has travelled to Iraq, the US, and Iran, staging performances
on the theme of democracy. Along with fellow artist Thomas Altheimer, Nielsen has campaigned to bring democracy to Iraq and
spoken on the subject with government offices and diplomatic think-tanks in Washington, DC. This exhibition is an overview of
these past projects, with photographs and videos of the journeys and performances that recall and recreate the originals. Two
Danish actors playing the parts of Nielsen and Altheimer lead tours through the show, giving lectures and stage performances,
while other actors play the parts of US leaders, coalition soldiers and Iraqis. 
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Naomi Wolf: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
Naomi Wolf at the Notable Names Database · Critical Resources: Naomi Wolf ·
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Investor held amid Sept. 10 concerns
From UPI Published 5/25/2002 4:07 PM
SAN DIEGO, May 25 (UPI) -- An Internet investment adviser charged with insider trading was being held without bail on a parole violation Saturday after federal prosecutors in San Diego raised questions about a stock-sales order he placed the day before the September terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Amir "Anthony" Elgindy, 34, of Encinitas, faces charges in New York of allegedly taking part in a stock manipulation and extortion scheme with four other people, including two current and former FBI agents. Prosecutors, however, raised questions during a detention hearing Friday about what he might have known about the deadly attacks.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Breen argued that Elgindy, a native of Egypt who now lives in a $2.2 million home in an upscale beach community north of San Diego, had ordered the sale of $300,000 worth of stock in his children's trust fund on Sept. 10, and at the same time had told a stockbroker that he was expecting an imminent drop of some 3,000 points on the stock market.
"Perhaps Mr. Elgindy had pre-knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks," Breen said. "Instead of trying to report it, he tried to profit from it."
Authorities say Elgindy is a short-seller on the market, someone who profits by borrowing stock shares and selling them in anticipation of a price drop in the near future. Once the stock falls below the sale price, the short-sellers buy up shares to pay back the loan, keeping the difference.
Elgindy was named in a federal indictment unsealed in Brooklyn May 22 that alleged racketeering, insider trading, market manipulation and extortion. The scheme allegedly involved two New Mexico-based FBI agents who fed Elgindy confidential and potentially damaging FBI information about companies that he and two other traders would in turn use to set up short-selling transactions, or to extort money or stock out of the companies involved in exchange for his not posting the damaging details on his Internet tip services, InsideTruth.com and AnthonyPacific.com.
Elgindy has had scrapes with securities regulators in the past. The state of Ohio denied his request for a sales license on 1997 on the grounds he was "not of good business repute."
Breen also told the court that there was evidence that Elgindy had recently wired about $700,000 to Lebanon, possibly indicating he was preparing to flee the country.
U.S. Magistrate John A. Houston agreed to hold Elgindy pending further proceedings in San Diego June 6, however he said he would disregard the speculation about Elgindy's possible knowledge of the Sept. 11 attack. Houston said he was ordering Elgindy to remain locked up because ammunition found in his home was a violation of his parole on an earlier conviction.
Elgindy's lawyer, Jeanne Knight, said the Sept. 10 sell order was placed after the market closed and was routine in nature. She called the prosecution's speculation about Sept. 11 a form of racial profiling aimed at smearing her client.
"This is just like the case of Wen Ho Lee, who the government tried to charge with spying just because he was Chinese," she told the Los Angeles Times. "My client was being watched only because he is of Middle-Eastern descent."
Elgindy, who has been an active supporter of causes aiding Muslim refugees in Kosovo, apparently attracted the attention of the FBI in the days after Sept. 11 when investigators began combing stock market transactions for signs that the terrorists or their supporters had sold off holdings or made deals such as selling short in order to make a quick profit as the stock market fell.
"There is no solid link indicating a connection between Elgindy and Sept. 11," Jan Caldwell, the FBI's spokeswoman in San Diego, told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "Elgindy's name came up during the terror probe."
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Lesson Learned ED:
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The first text is from pajamasmedia, an avowedly rightist site that publishes vetted articles -
with at least some of them thoroughly fact-checked - and is probably about as reliable as any
private site is likely to be. The second is a petition starting to circulate.
--LM
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Smuggled Video from Iran - Ayatollah's Parting Words Before Arrest
PJM in Hollywood ; October 17, 2006 5:46 AM ; Ayatollah Boroujerdi
Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi is the Shia Ayatollah who supports separation of
church and state. He has been arrested and tortured many times by the current regime for
these views. Last week he was arrested again. Smuggled out of Iran, this video - shot under
extremely difficult and dangerous circumstances
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and to our knowledge not shown by the mainstream media - first shows a regime cleric begging
Boroujerdi's backers to disperse from the area of Boroujerdi's home. The cleric is rebuffed by
supporters of Boroujerdi and rushed away from the scene. At the end of the footage Boroujerdi
is seen making his last emotional speech outside his house before his arrest. This is a partial
translation given to Pajamas Media.
"…Tell the world that Boroujerdi did not fear death…. He defended an Islam which promotes
love and kindness not the Islam that these lot advocate which has brought poverty, corruption,
prostitution, addiction ….I don't want you to risk your lives for me, I just want you to tell the
world what happened here,."
http://pajamasmedia.com/2006/10/raw_video_from_iran_grand_ayat.php
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President Bush & Vice President Chaney regime fosters climate of violance
not science & art literacy
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19775 (1 of 9) [10/8/2007 10:21:51 PM]
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Haas & Fuchs Gallery
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Some of the artists participating in the exhibition (clockwise from Left):
Nancy Wells, Rene Chamizo, Joan Monastero, Onie Millar,and Thom Corn.
Photo Credits: © Eddie Paylor / PhotoGraphix, tel. (718) 230-5033
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... Onie Millar, and Thom Corn.
385 x 247 - 27k - jpg
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Thom Corn, Red and White Composition, 25" x 20"
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Thom Corn
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Thom Corn is an artist, actor, and drummer whose work has been exhibited in New York City since 1981, when his one-person exhibition The
Fear of Man was shown at the seminal South Bronx Gallery, Fashion Moda. In 1985, Thom organized the first Democracy at Work group exhibition,
a responsive alternative to the dearth of cultural and gender inclusiveness in the New York gallery scene of the time, which featured the work of over 100 artists at 22 Wooster Gallery. Versions of Democracy at Work were subsequently mounted at the Longwood Arts Gallery in the Bronx (sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts) and at the Max Fish Gallery in the original Planet Ludlow. ... more.
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http://www.nathancummings.org/art/exh_return_corn.html
Return to Earth: Spirit and Memory
An exhibition curated by Carol Blank
Thom Corn
I began my first woven pieces back in 1982. At that time I wanted to recycle various materials accumulated in my studio--a kind of variant on the "found art" aesthetic. As I worked out my formula I became conscious of blending high and low artistic approaches and on another level--commenting about gender and work in western society and culture. I became aware of the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa and their systems of initiation. Men would weave cloth, and women would spin thread. The resulting clothing covered and protected--the fabric of civilization was artfully expressed, the checkerboard of warp and weft being a gridded symbol of positive human interaction. Fields and villages were constructed with the same grid system.
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Cityscape: E flat, 26" x 12"
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How to Contact the Foundation
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The Nathan Cummings Foundation is rooted in the Jewish tradition and committed to democratic values and social justice,
including fairness, diversity, and community. We seek to build a socially and economically just society that values nature
and protects the ecological balance for future generations; promotes humane health care; and fosters arts and culture
that enriches communities.
The Foundation owes its existence and inspiration to Nathan Cummings, who rose from impoverished beginnings to become
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immigrant parents and transmitted these values to his children and grandchildren, who now contribute their time and energy
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GoalTo support artistic practices, programs and policies that encourage cross-cultural and multidisciplinary collaborations,
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International Print Center New York.
526 West 26th Street, Room 824, New York, NY 10001 (212) 989-5090, (212) 989-6069 fax
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IPCNY SHOP
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Current Exhibition Working with Prints
Selections from Eight Corporate Collections
September 8 - October 20, 2007
http://www.ipcny.org/
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© 2001 International Print Center New York. All rights reserved. All rights to the name International Print Center New York (IPCNY) are reserved by the organization http://www.ipcny.org/about/benefit07_cocktail.htm Cocktail Reception in IPCNY's Gallery
and viewing of Pop Prints from the
Collection of John and Kimiko Power
Ellsworth Kelly and Deborah Wye, Honorees 
Janice Oresman, Chairman, IPCNY; Anne Coffin, Director, IPCNY
Anne Hoene Hoy, Judith Solodkin, SOLO IMPRESSION
Richard Anderman , Jim Cohen
Sookhyun Lee, IPCNY; Carol Weaver, Harlan & Weaver, Michelle Levy, IPCNY
Sandra Lang, John Koegel
Ann Marshall and Jean-Paul Russell, Durham Press
Installation view of Ellsworth Kelly's States of the River
On view for the occasion in Greene Naftali project space
All photos by Liam Alexander ©2007 International Print Center New Yor
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http://www.ipcny.org/info/
workshops/Frameset_Workshops.htm
Consistent with its mission, IPCNY makes information about prints and printmaking readily available to the public both on its website and in an information facility located at the entrance of the gallery. Visitors to the space may browse through periodicals, brochures, a modest selection of print related books, and listings of local exhibitions and workshops. A New Editions file, available by appointment, contains announcements and documents from print publishers on current print editions.
Opportunities for artists are posted on IPCNY's website, as well as listings of print shows and events for the general public, and a newly posted Directory of North American Print Workshops. The separate links section includes museums, universities, publishers, workshops, auction houses and galleries worldwide.
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Randel Plowman's Online Gallery
NoReallyFuckPicasso2bW2 From the sex & violins series...2007/7 ©2007 Mingus Designs & Flyinf Red Rhino , Inc. All rights reserved
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Unminds Must Fearfront page About fma7 and Unminds Must Fear
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The Palestinians, frankly, are a ragtag people, many who barely speak English. And whatever they say
is often offensive and then used against them.- Dr. Ziad Asali, President and founder of the American Task Force
on Palestine, 1 August 2007.
[…] The ATFP’s true strategy has been on display over the past month in the “Issue” and “Policy” papers published on their website and opinion essays in Lebanon’s The Daily Star and The Jordan Times by their staff members Rafi Dajani and Hussein Ibish. Collectively, these writings suffer from a paternalistic tone and are riddled with inane and contradictory claims, glaring omissions, and factual errors that serve to undermine any pretense of impartiality. Their shared theme amounts to a defense of Abbas’ strategy of deference and obsequiousness to the US and Israel, under the guise of “political realities” and a “realistic hope for the future of Palestine.” According to Ibish’s issue paper, Abbas’ problem is not that he is a failed, corrupt and ineffectual leader who appears to Palestinians as an eager American tool, but that he is “uninspiring” and “lacks the charisma that many politicians rely upon, and is not an emotive speaker.” [11] As part of this pathetic defense, the ATFP attempts to conflate the PA with the PLO and both bodies with Fatah. Therefore, anyone critical of these organizations and their leadership is either a Hamas supporter
or is unwittingly serving their cause. Moreover, they claim that these criticisms only serve to prolong Israel’s occupation and undermine Palestinian aspirations. [12] That these are facile assertions, which ignore that the vast majority of Palestinians living under occupation or in the Diaspora prefer national unity over factionalism is irrelevant. In the current American and Palestinian political climate, these accusations are designed to intimidate and silence dissent
in the Palestinian community by labeling them as Hamas loyalists whose “rhetoric could have a decidedly negative influence” (i.e., incite violence and support terror) and who are “taking their lead from others in the Middle East” (i.e., Tehran). [13]
Another ATFP goal is to frighten secular leftists with the threat of a theocracy emerging in Palestine. In doing so,
they deliberately ignore the presence of a thugocracy in Palestinian politics as embodied by Mohammad Dahlan,
Jabril Rajoub and their ilk, which presents an equal, if not greater threat, to the independent, viable and democratic Palestinian state the ATFP contends it supports. This tactic is justified by the claim that a secular Palestinian state even if “not necessarily fully democratic at the outset would be hardly as repressive as a theocracy.” [14] Ibish also intentionally overlooks the presence of American Lt. General Keith Dayton, who has been training Fatah militias for
over a year for the express purpose of confronting Hamas with the enthusiastic support of Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. Conveniently, Dahlan, Rajoub, and Dayton are absent from Ibish’s 9,000 word screed. Thus, the ATFP’s idea of an independent secular Palestinian state is a US-backed government of thieves and their enforcers — definitely not what Palestinians believe “liberation looks like.” [15]
Historically, national liberation movements have only been successful when their political parties had a unified strategy. However, instead of advocating for national unity as a way out of the current political crisis, Ibish derides reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas as “utopian.” [16] It is telling that while a number of foreign policy experts and policy makers, including Israelis and Americans, have argued that an accommodation is needed between the two parties, the ATFP and Abbas have ruled this out. Rather, Ibish offers non-partisan Palestinians an unappealing and ultimately false choice: either embrace Hamas, which doesn’t have a political program and is now barred from joining the PLO, or ally with Fatah, whose political platform has been on sale to the highest bidder since the Oslo Accords. Therefore, according to the ATFP’s line of reasoning, Palestinians can prevent “unending conflict and untold suffering” and achieve independence only by supporting Fatah and forsaking Hamas.
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Last updated: Saturday October 13th, 2007
Poem: With My Boys In Iraq
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October 11th, 2007 ·
palestinechronicle.com/
Sam Hamod is a poet who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, has published 10 books of poem and is the winner of the Ethnic Heritage Prize for Poetry.
[…] But after they’d killed
a couple
thousand
of these camel jockeys, these
rag heads, these Mohammadan
sinners, as their major
called them,
saw the little girl
her tiny lifeless fingers
still holding that little cotton baby,
her mother, black
dress ripped, blooded
her body
covering her
son, and what must have been the father
his shattered head on the other side
of his body, his legs
gone– it was then they
knew something,
they knew
something
was wrong, when
they saw that wrinkled old man
kiss his cross and ask
God to help him, they
realized he was
kneeling down, crying and praying,
kept asking
for God to help him, that
they were not
just rag-heads not, but who were they
then the doubt
began, began,
started creeping in,
when they saw
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Main Stories
Ramzy Baroud: Burma Is Not Iraq
If Iraq has been a lesson of any worth it is that the Burmese are much better off without American bombing raids or British napalm in the name of intervention.
Terry Walz: Stop Gap Peace Talks?
Oslo had the great bonus of bringing back the nationalist leader Yasir Arafat. Who can the new international conference produce who will mean anything to the Palestinians?
Ben White: Nonviolent Resistance a Means, Not the End
Popular struggle, like violent resistance, is not an end in and of itself; it is a method, a strategy. It is the end goal, decolonization and liberation from occupation and Zioni.....
Jeremy Bowen: Summit Prospects
Holding summits about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is risky. If they fail, it is not just a question of going back to the drawing board.
Rising of the oppressed: The Second Intifada
A compelling book whose compassion could not fail to touch the conscience of the many across the world who have not abandoned their sense of justice and humanity.
Refugees Return to Lebanon Camp
Each family was given two handouts, one bearing photos of munitions that still litter part of the camp and the other specifying areas that remain off-limits.
Philip Rizq: Killing Rami
This is the first time in Gaza's recent history for a Christian to be kidnapped and killed. In Gaza, Muslims and Christians live and die side by side.
John Zavesky: It’s War Time for Hollywood
Nothing says “holidays” better than war, and this year Hollywood has no less than six major releases dealing with the subject.
Joharah Baker: What Israel Wants, Israel Gets
This is all part of the so-called E1 plan for Jerusalem, which is designed to expand this settlement bloc and cut off Jerusalem completely from the northern West Bank.
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President Bush & Vice President Chaney's regime fosters a climate of violance not literacy in art & science.
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Stop The Militarization of Our Police
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