John Jones News February 26, 2001

February 26, 2001

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan

My Times

This week's song is What's A Nation.
It's another Sussex writing demo from the early 90's.

It was written around the drum loop and is a song about Nationalism and the pain and suffering it has brought to the world throughout the past few Centuries...

You can listen to What's A Nation and other demo's here - Demo jones.

It was recorded in East Sussex on an Akai MG1212 Mixer/Recorder using the sequencer program Notator on the Atari ST with a bunch of keyboards, samplers, bass, electric and acoustic guitars.

I'm having the pleasure of working with Syn Productions on an upcoming beer commercial for the Japanese market.

Have a look at some of the videos on their site featuring the brilliant music of Nick Wood.

The recent US - British attack on Iraq is making all the news programs and giving hard liners something to cheer about. And Gee Duh (Bush) is getting credit for upping the stakes and showing that he is more than a chip off of his old oil derrick dad.

Amazingly, the thousands of previous US and British attacks under the softy Willy Clinton Presidency are conveniently forgotten allowing for maximum impact on the nightly news.
But then...Clinton was only wagging the dog, wasn't he?

In case you didn't notice the United Nations lack of opposition to the recent missile and bomb attacks, their policy is made clear by their Secretary-General who pointed out that only the Security Council can interpret its own resolutions.

"Consequently, only the Council itself is competent to determine whether or not its resolutions are of such a nature and effect as to provide a lawful basis for the 'no-fly zones' and for the actions that have been taken for their enforcement."

The letter noted that the "no-fly zones" were declared by "certain Members" of the Security Council claiming authority under the Council's resolutions.

UN PR Feb 22, 2001

I think what Mr Annan is saying is that the Secretary-General and the representatives of the world body of the United Nations do not have any control over their own Security Council or the actions any of its individual members choose to take...
Did the USA just pay it's UN bill or something?

You decide.

Yesterday I had my first Eagle since the Rose Woods Tournament in 1999 and my first ever eagle on a par 4.
It happened on the 1st hole of Roosevelt Golf Course in Griffith Park in Hollywood, a 275 yard straight away up hill par 4 on a very rainy and cold morning!
It flew almost all the way and ended up pin high.
I think I hit it about 250 yards in the drizzle and made a 6 footer for the eagle.
It was beautiful!
I also drove the 310 yard down hill par 4 sixth hole and nearly made another one!

I love my new Titleist 975 D, 8.5!

Have you ever read the first rules of golf which were written in 1744 by the The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith?

Motor Racing is dangerous.
The loss of Dale Earnhart was terrible and possibly preventable.
It can never be 100% safe but the HANS device should be made mandatory in all car and truck racing on oval tracks where they exceed speeds of 180 miles per hour.

Dale may have been really unlucky that his seat belt might have broken, but why on earth aren't all of them wearing the HANS device anyway?

"I thought this was a very, very weak circumstantial case. I am absolutely astounded, astonished. I was extremely reluctant to believe that any Scottish judge would convict anyone, even a Libyan, on the basis of such evidence."

Professor Robert Black, Architect of the Trial - London Telegraph Feb 4,2001