Wednesday 29 December 2010

Jim McGuire's Nashville Portraits

 Emmylou Harris (1983)
Johnny Cash & Billy Graham (1978)
Townes Van Zandt (1990)
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Was it Easy to be a Photographer About 100 Years Ago?




The photography of Albert Kahn
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The Beyond Within (BBC 1986)


@'Dangerous Minds'

Hackers Watch a World Collapsing Into Chaos

Putin 'palace' brings home graft

The Wudos Band (Free Mixtape Download)

@'Frank151'
Haïkuleaks

One word: JesusHfugnChrist!!!

"This is West Coast Believers Kid's band called X-TReMe PoWeR. It was our second song and we made up the lyrics and put it all together through garage band. It's all about respecting and obeying your teachers, your parents, and Jesus! Hope you like this one too!"

WIRED: Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs

OPEN LETTER

TO:
THOSE INCITING MURDER UPON JULIAN ASSANGE AND/OR MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY.
We, among many law abiding citizens of the world deplore and condemn, as applicable, your utterances and writings calling for the extra judicial ie unlawful: kidnapping/assassination/murder/physical harm of Julian Assange, his supporters, Wikileaks workers or members of Assange's family.
We remind you of the laws in your country and others against incitement, inter alia:
Common law:
In English criminal law, incitement was an anticipatory common law offence and was the act of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime....The inciter must intend the others to engage in the behaviour constituting the offence, including any consequences which may result, and must know or believe (or possibly suspect) that those others will have the relevant mens rea."
Codified Incitement Law:
(1) Australian Commonwealth
11.4 Incitement
(1) A person who urges the commission of an offence is guilty of the offence of incitement.
(2) For the person to be guilty, the person must intend that the offence incited be committed.

(2) Canada
464. Except where otherwise expressly provided by law, the following provisions apply in respect of persons who counsel other persons to commit offences, namely,(a) every one who counsels another person to commit an indictable offence is, if the offence is not committed, guilty of an indictable offence and liable to the same punishment to which a person who attempts to commit that offence is liable; and
(3) United Kingdom
(1)A person commits an offence if—
(a)he does an act capable of encouraging or assisting the commission of an offence; and
(b)he intends to encourage or assist its commission.

(4)USA
There is no automatic 1st Amendment protection per
Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969):
Freedoms of speech and press do not permit a State to forbid advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action
We remind you that while such prima facie incitement by way of utterances and writings may go unpunished in your country, they will not necessarily go unpunished in others, and especially so should you have the courage of your convictions to repeat them in those other jurisdictions.
We ask you respectfully, to contemplate this writing of Mahatma Ghandi:
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.
And that truth is that Julian Assange is no terrorist; he is not a war defined "belligerent" acting against the United States; he cannot ever be a "traitor"to the USA since by definition he is not a citizen of the United States.
And lastly as Ron Paul put it so well:
In a society where truth becomes treason, however, we are in big trouble. The truth is that our foreign spying, meddling and outright military intervention in the post-World War 2 era has made us less secure, not more, and we have lost countless lives and spent trillions of dollars for our trouble. Too often it’s the official government lies that have given us endless and illegal wars resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and casualties.

Yours Faithfully
Peter H Kemp
The Wikileaks Central Crew
And I believe, so many others all over the world.
@'WL Central'

Avi Cohen RIP

Kenny Dalglish pays tribute to Avi Cohen after death of Israeli ex-Liverpool FC defender

Top Ten Myths about Afghanistan, 2010

Man In A Blizzard by Jamie Stuart

@'Roger Ebert's Journal'

Road kill for hot lady drivers

Always wear clean knickers, because you never know when the government is going to fuck you.

Hired?

Illustration: 'exiledsurfer'

FDL’s Merged Version of Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Now Available

Key Wikileaks-Manning Articles

The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired

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WikiLeaks: Africa Offers Easy Uranium

Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centres, and border customs are enabling international companies to exploit the mines and smuggle dangerous radioactive material across continents.
The Wikileaks cables reveal that U.S. diplomats posted in a number of African countries - the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Niger, and Burundi, among others - have had direct knowledge of the poor safety and security standards in these countries' uranium and nuclear facilities.
The cables also highlight the involvement of European, Chinese, Indian, and South Korean companies in the illegal extraction and smuggling of uranium from Africa. Most European nuclear reactors use uranium imported from African countries.
In one classified document, dated Sep. 8, 2006, the U.S. embassy in the DRC capital Kinshasa reported that several U.S. diplomats and security service personnel toured the Kinshasa Nuclear Research Centre (CREN-K) on Jul. 27 that year in order to assess the facility’s security needs.
CREN-K houses the DRC’s two nuclear reactors. Neither reactor is currently functioning, but staff conduct nuclear-related research and teaching at the facility.
Although inactive, CREN-K stores significant amounts of uranium and nuclear waste. This radioactive material includes 138 nuclear fuel rods, at least 15 kg of enriched and non-enriched uranium, and some 23 kg of nuclear waste.
At CREN-K, "external and internal security is poor, leaving the facility vulnerable to theft," Roger A. Meece, U.S. ambassador to DRC, reported in the 2006 document.
Meece's detailed description of the security measures at CREN-K suggests that security is not just "poor," but non-existent. According to the report, the fence surrounding CREN-K "is not lit at night, has no razor-wire across the top, and is not monitored by video surveillance.
"There are numerous holes in the fence, and large gaps where the fence was missing altogether," Meece wrote.
"University of Kinshasa students frequently walk through the fence to cut across CREN-K, and subsistence farmers grow manioc on the facility next to the nuclear waste storage building," he added...
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Julio Godoy @'truth-out'
If anyone is trying to tell you that the nuclear industry is "SAFE" and "GREEN" they have obviously been spending too much time wandering around this facility in Kinshasa and their brains have been radioactively melted. The complicity/complacency of such "august" governments/companies in this ecological nightmare verges on insanity, and places the whole world at risk by these "eco-deniers", let alone the interminable legacy for the people of Africa.

Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame

They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America's doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America's arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame.
A medical brigade of 1,200 Cubans is operating all over earthquake-torn and cholera-infected Haiti, as part of Fidel Castro's international medical mission which has won the socialist state many friends, but little international recognition....
 Nina Lakhani @'The Independent'

Tuesday 28 December 2010

♪♫ Polar Bear - A New Morning Will Come

The “Anarchist” and the Literary Agent: Julian Assange’s Book Deal

Wikileaks: This Is Just The Beginning

Game Changer

Why Wikileaks will be the death of big business and big government

The Top 20 DMCA Cease and Desist Senders of 2010

Asterix & Wikilix

Asterix & Wikilix, 27 December 2010
© Asterix & Wikilix, 27 December 2010
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Egypt's real state of emergency

Blake Hounshell blakehounshell

New rule: If you take to the Washington Post op-ed page instead of the streets, your pro-democracy cause is in bad shape. 

Monday 27 December 2010

27th chaos communication congress

Heather Brooke newsbrooke good to see a talk on one of my pet peeves: copyright as the new censorship. Major driver for attacking freedom online #27c3

Thanks to the Mission Angels, you’ll be able to interact with the talks going on at the 27c3 and more! While you watch the streams from one of many Peace Missions throughout the world, Mission Angels will be monitoring IRC and Twitter for questions to be asked in selected events during the 27c3.
To ask a question in a session on IRC join #27c3-Saal-1, #27c3-Saal-2, #27c3-Saal-3 on Freenode or use the corresponding terms as a Twitter hashtag to put your question to the session.
If you’re in a Peace Mission, you can even sign up to give a Lightning Talk!
See the Peace Missions entry on the 27c3 wiki for more information. We’ll be updating the entry as we add more communications methods. If you’re at the bcc, consider volunteering to be a Mission Angel!
HERE 
(Thanx Linda!)

Armenian police target teenage rock cult

When police officers arrived at 13-year-old Masha's home, searched her room and inspected her computer, it was not because they suspected her of any crime. Her offence was simply to be a devoted follower of the angst-ridden punk-rock subculture known as 'emo', in an ex-Soviet state where pressures to conform remain strong.
"It was offensive and frightening at the same time," said Masha, a schoolgirl in the Armenian capital, clearly upset by the experience.
Police in Yerevan have been conducting a campaign against the capital's small but controversial emo community since the recent suicides of two teenagers who were rumoured to have been emo fans.
They claim that the subculture represents a threat to young people's welfare.
Officers have visited schools, searched pupils whose distinctive clothing marks them out as possible 'emos', and mounted surveillance on public places where young people gather.
Several fans have been detained for questioning, despite the lack of any specific legislation against the musical genre or its followers.
In a recent newspaper interview, Armenia's Chief of Police, Alik Sarkisian, claimed that emo could "damage our gene pool". "We should fight against such phenomena because they are morally harmful to our people," he said.
Emo -- an abbreviation of 'emotional' -- is a more melodic and melancholy form of punk rock. It has origins in the United States but has become a well-established global subculture in recent years.
Masha and her friend Ani, also 13, say they started dressing in the unconventional emo style in an attempt to stand out from what they call "the grey masses".
But they now feel that they have to disguise themselves in ordinary clothes for fear of detention or harassment by other youths. "They point and laugh at us. Or even worse, they sometimes beat up our boys," Ani said.
Sensationalist media reports in Europe have suggested that the gloomy lyrics of some emo songs can influence teenagers to harm themselves or attempt suicide, although fans have consistently rejected the accusation.
Emo devotees in Britain and Russia staged protests two years ago against what they saw as negative stereotyping.
Some people in Yerevan not only believe that emo can cause suicidal depression, but also see it as a degenerate Western influence on traditional Armenian values.
Members of the youth wing of a local police association held a march against the subculture in the capital this month, carrying banners that read "No to foreign perversions!"
One teacher in a Yerevan suburb, who asked not to be named, said the directors of some schools supported the police action, and had even been actively encouraging officers to search pupils who dressed unusually and check them for signs of self-harm.
"We suspected one female pupil of being an emo. We invited our district policeman and the pupil's parents to come in, and explained how dangerous the consequences of this could be," the teacher said.
A local human rights activist compared the police's behaviour to a Communist-era witch-hunt.
"It is like the repression in Soviet times, when law enforcement agencies were chasing hippies, punks and rockers -- all those who refused to live within society's limits and be like everyone else," said Mikael Danielian, chairman of the Helsinki Committee of Armenia.
But the police say they are only intervening to protect vulnerable youngsters. "We are simply doing our job," said the police colonel responsible for youth affairs, Nelli Durian.
"We are conducting explanatory, preventative work among teenagers and their parents to prevent children from becoming hooligans and from thoughts of suicide."
However, she said that she could not blame emo music for the reported rise in teenage suicide attempts in Armenia this year.
Young fans like Masha and Ani have been worried by the anti-emo campaign, but they insist that they will not be pressured into abandoning the subculture that they love.
"It is impossible to ban youth movements using repressive methods," Ani said defiantly. "We will not stop listening to our music and dressing how we like. This is my choice."
@'France24'
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Once upon a time there was a great assassin


Tyler Shields: The Mouse

ids:001 Mick Pressure


Irishdubstep.com’s maiden podcast comes from outa Carlow from [nakedlunch] boss Pressure.
Micky set up the label two years ago after returning from Holland.
He’s put out records from Cosmin TRG, Jus’wan, Scuba, Breakage and the latest from Instra:mental is out later this month on 10″. This first mix clocking in at just under ninety minutes is a good snapshot of things at the minute, a few unrealeased bits and plenty of wot do you call it moments…
Your five release in now, Are you looking to go in any particular
direction or sound with [NakedLunch] or just concentrating on putting out
stuff you like ?

I don’t have any direction in mind for the label , im just putting out stuff that I really
like and which I am confident will sell… so far I have been right,
lets hope i can keep it consistent.
Are you feeling all the cross pollination going at the moment ?
Everybodys playing and making things that maybe they wouldn’t
have few years back.

I think its a good thing and its good to know music listeners are
open minded , but playing multiple genres in a club is hard as
dancefloor punters tend to be very narrow minded… in the majority of
cases they want full on mid-range wobble all night and im to old for
all that shite.
Whats gonna happen next , Any tips on who we should be watching this year?
Just keep watching instra:mental they got some serious music in the works,
what you’re hearing now is the tip of the iceberg
Whats your favorite cheese ?
Anything except cheddar , im sick to death of it… is it to much
from a man to ask for a bit of red leicester or double gloucester to
be in the supermarket??

ids Podcast 001: Download

Augustus Pablo – East Of The river Nile //Shanachie
Clouds- Timekeeper Dave Aju Remix // Ramp
Joy Orbison – Brklyn Clln (Michna’s Brooklyn Bridge remix)
Unknown – Untitled
Thriller- Hubble // Thriller
Kowton – Clack Clack Clack
2000 And One – Funk That // Intacto
Badawai – DstryPrfts Feat Vengeance Tenfold (Shackleton Remix) // The Index
Jack Sparrow – Terminal // Tectonic
Unknown – Untitled
DVA – Ganja // Hyperdub
Roska – Holograph // white (Fantastic 4 EP)
Doc Daneeka – Drums In The Deep // Fabric
DJ Sdunkero – Choosinglove // Sdunkero Sounds
Mosca – Gold Bricks // Fabric
Unknown – Untitled
Shackleton – Moon Over Joseph’s Burial // Perlon
Instra:mental – Vicodin // [Nakedlunch]
Pariah – ?
José James – Warriors (jus wan remix) // Brownswood
Sigha – Untitled
Ramadanman – I Beg You // forthcoming Hessle Audio
Unknown – Untitled
Lv & Untold – Beacon // forthcoming Hemlock 007
2562- Narita – Tectonic
Sigha – Shapes // forthcoming Hotflush
Ramadanman – No Swing – forthcoming Hessle Audio
Illum Sphere – Titan – 3024
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One of XLR8R's top podcasts of 2010

Warpaint - Noisemakers Session



Exile's best new band of the year by the way!

SoleHeaven.com Presents Kicks N Mixtapes Vol.6 - DJ DSK

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(Thanx Graham!)
Simon Whitehouse siwhitehouse Bring Me The Head of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead #failedrockbandmovies

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German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'

In a SPIEGEL interview, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière talks about the failed terrorist attack in Stockholm, his opinion of WikiLeaks and governments' responsibility for protecting the Internet.
SPIEGEL: Does the recent suicide attack in Stockholm mean that the wave of terror that you feared has now arrived in Europe?
Thomas de Maizière: No. This has little to do with the warnings of attacks that we have been receiving for months. But it is unfortunately true that wide-scale public debates always lead to copycats who are not closely linked to global terrorist networks. This might have been the case here.
SPIEGEL: You're saying that the vociferous public debate in Germany about terror and the palpable level of tension that followed your Nov. 17 warning about a possible attack in Germany were a mistake?
De Maizière: By no means, but the possible negative consequences are the reason why, for nearly a year, I carefully considered the issue of whether and when I should issue a public warning. Terrorism is also a form of psychology. In retrospect, for instance, we know that the threat in the run-up to the German 2009 parliamentary elections was just a psychological ploy. Also the fact that al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the parcel bombs mailed from the Arabian Peninsula six weeks ago, and the way they claimed responsibility, was primarily intended to have a psychological effect: Look here, with a few thousand dollars, we can attack international freight traffic. We shouldn't support these psychological tactics with a public debate...
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Holger Stark and Marcel Rosenbach @'Der Spiegel'

A MUST READ!

Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Ending the futile war on drugs

If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet