An audio mash up of GW Bush singing the John Lennon classic "imagine", it has been a worldwide hit and has made it into (John Peel's) BBC Radio 1 Music Festive 50 on UK Radio 1. Created by John Callaghan link embedded from YouTube.
A moment of pause today offered by a quote from the pages of the New York Times (Registration required)...
"I am only a chicken farmer in Pakistan," he protested to American military officers at Guantánamo. "My name is Abdur Sayed Rahman. Abdur Zahid Rahman was the deputy foreign minister of the Taliban."
If in fact he is only a chicken farmer, Zahid is according to Donald Rumsfeld the "worst of the worst" of the bad guys. Meanwhile, Rahmatullah Hashemi, the spokesman for the disbanded Taliban hicks in charge of Afghanistan is currently trying to obtain full time student status at Yale University.
With that bit of distortion in mind; the primary reason for my post today is to turn your attention to Syriana . Rivaled only by another stinger Lord of War, Syriana is by far the most provocative film of 2005 I have seen. It is a politically-charged film that offers a glimpse into the shpere of the modern oil industry. The film is directed by Stephen Gaghan, and is based on the memoir See no Evil of Robert Baer.