Something pretty interesting is happening on the Internet at the moment. Once again its ability to spread information is allowing free speech to survive as it should. The current set of events that brought this particular post on is about the infamous Alisher Usmanov becoming to controlling owner of the Arsenal football club. The problem here is the guy himself, Alisher Usmanov, who by all accounts is a pretty nasty piece of work.
Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray (we will get back to more on Craig later) describes Alisher Usmanov in his blog (original post follows at the end oft his article) as, "Alisher Usmanov, potential Arsenal chairman, is a Vicious Thug, Criminal, Racketeer, Heroin Trafficker and Accused Rapist". Enough said.
Alisher Usmanov is one of those nasty oligarch's who exploited the communist ideals and the people of the USSR for his own greed, and he certainly has not slacked off with his criminal activities with the fall of communism. Today he is the 187th richest man and runs a major corporation called Metalloinvest, he still traffics in heroin and human misery. Forbes magazine estimates his value to be around US$5.5 Billion.. almost all of it blood money.
Now back to Craig Murray... this bloke spent a lot of time in Uzbekistan and got to know Alisher Usmanov very well. In fact, he wrote a book about Alisher Umanov called, "Murder in Samarkand" in which he writes about Alisher`s criminal activities. The book has so far sold 25,000 copies and while Alisher Umanov's lawyers have claimed the book is, "grossly libellous and defamatory"... and has being out for over a year... no legal action has being brought against Craig Murray yet.
Moving onto present day events, Craig Murray recently wrote a scathing article about what he considered as blood money buying out a famous English football club like Arsenal. However Alisher Usmanov is not without resources and he contact a law firm by the name of Schillings to serve David Murrays host company with a take down notice, threatening the host of David Murrays website if they did not.
David Murray had being hosting his blog website the the host company 'FastHost'. They received the legal threat from Schillings and took his website offline. Another political blogger by the name of Tim Ireland, and author of bloggerheads.com responded to this take down by re-posting David Murrays article on his blog. The host of his website was also Fasthost. They also took down his website. So now the blogosphere is responding and blog writers around the world are re-posting David Murrays original article. In the great words of, 'The Mentor', "you may be able to stop one of us, but you can not stop us all!"
If you have a blog out there, join us and get the word out on how English football is being sold to criminal cartel leaders. Show that trying to take on free speech and the blogosphere is like trying to nail Jelly to a wall. As an Arsenal supporter I would be very worried. If your club represents you, and your club is owned by such a disgusting individual... what does that say about you? Which criminal is going to purchase the next club? How long until Robert Mugabe buys out a club like West Ham United? How can supporters of the great game allow their game to be bought out with money that was earned on the deaths and misery of others? Is there a line?
To end this off I would also like to suggest to anyone hosting with the company Fasthost to cancel their hosting accounts and move to hosts who are more trustworthy.
Find out more:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/murray_usmanov_defiant/
http://b-heads.blogspot.com/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/24/usmanov_vs_the_internet/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/380565.html
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Due to a take down notice sent by Schillings Lawyers to my hosting provider I have had to remove the information I had here. Legal notice can be found here: http://newz.co.za/blood_money/stupid_legal_notice.pdf
However, the only reason I am doing this is because "The Planet" My host, tends to just switch off servers without any real legal reasons to save their own bacon. So I am REPRODUCING my original article at this location: http://www.newz.co.za/blood_money/blood_money.html
Which is hosted in South Africa and is not under The Planet's control
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wtf is wrong with all you people?
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Leetest form of linux there is. The primary OS I now use. Kubuntu, Dapper Drake, 6.06 LTS. I really think people should use this as their default OS
For those of you who dont know, I run Kubuntu OS as my desktop OS. With all the queerness of Microsofts Anti Piracy campaign, I have decided to completely leave the MicroSoft world. Sure, I loose windows media player and some gaming choices. However, you do get awsome games like warsow that are completely open source, and LOADS of fun to play. If you are in South Africa, there is a South African warsow server gracefully hosted by Web Africa. When in the game just type "connect warsow.webfafrica.co.za" And you will connect to the server to be able to jam with the rest of us.
I consider this a book that every South African should read to get perspective in their lives. Its honesty is most refreshing and Al Lovejoy`s ability to capture in words the essence of a culture and history of a generation of south Africans is amazing. Al Lovejoy has earned a lot of respect from a generation of youth who appretiate the truth. Thank you Al.
Other reviews:
‘Acid Alex is quite simply one of the most shocking autobiographies I have ever read. It is also well-written, addictive, excellent.’
– Sue Blaine, Business Day
‘Heartbreaking! Entertaining! Intelligent!’
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It is the story of a man who went to hell and came back, a morality tale, a Bildungsroman, the narrative of a f*ckup who found redemption, and the anthem of a lost generation.’– Caspar Greeff, Sunday Times
‘Truly, as Koos Kombuis says, this is “an astonishingly breathless story” … Besides being a great read, Acid Alex is an invaluable record of a type of mania that gripped a certain type of South African in the last quarter of the 20th century. It’s a book that’s going to appeal to many young South Africans who currently have to turn to the United States for their myths of pointless excess, and it’s going to inspire them. Not necessarily in a particularly savoury way.’
– Chris Roper, Mail & Guardian
This book is more than just a suggested read.
In what has to be a remarkable show of insight into the power of social networking, a British Indie band is offering their album free to download off their website. This is one band, that seems to have googled it. It looks like the older corporate models are failing and hopefully the world will not have to tolerate the insanity that is RIAA much longer.
I love artists with scope.
South Africa needs science and South Africa needs prominent scientific voices. Unfortunately, like the media in much of the rest of the world, South Africa's media is not nearly welcoming enough to the skeptical and scientific views of the world. Luckily, we have great examples from the United States and elsewhere of how self-publication through blogs can affect public discourse, promoting science and acting as a counterweight to indifference, ignorance, and gullibility. However, unlike our comrades elsewhere, South African science bloggers are unconnected and not organized. I propose to change that...Read More
Really funny flash video depicting the end of the world as the result of a nucleur fall out.
For those of you who dont know, I am South African. Im a born and bred white native african, and damb proud of it. However, I will often use words that you may not understand, local slag u wont pick up on. Click on this link to learn a little more about South African slang, aka, Safrikan!
The entire catalogue of information from 1,800 courses at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be available free online by the end of the year. Once uploaded, it will represent one of the internet’s most important resources.
MsDewey.com
I never have never used a search engine this cheeky before :) Its great fun for about 10 minutes.
Seaward.co.za for South Africa`s best coastal real estate.
In what has to be classed as bizare, a clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida's swamps.
I came across this site by Anup Shah that has a detailed look into the causes of poverty. I found some of the statistics he shows to be very embarrassing and a shameful reflection on humanity today.
* Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
* The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
* Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
* Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
* 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).
Anup Shah shows us the institutions, policies and people behind many of today's causes of poverty.
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty.asp
Haha, these poor lil bunnies. A bunch of pictures of bunnies trying to come up with imaginitive ways to kill themselves.
The Public Library of Science is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. A most excellent link for those of you wanting access to some amazing science.
A really nice Travian signature generator
Ever wondered how many babies are being pushed out every day, or how many people are dying every minute? Well this is the place for you then! This meter currently records those tpes of things, and with a population of 6.5 billion, there are lots of interesting stats for you to check out.
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