Deadly contractor incident sours Afghans (yes Blackwater again)

Four men with the U.S. firm once known as Blackwater are said to be under investigation in the deaths of two Afghans. A U.S. report found serious fault with private security firms in Afghanistan.
@ 'LA Times'

Les Paul RIP

Les Paul
(June 9, 1915 – August 13, 2009)

Let's play (war)games

Just what America needs...more powerful guns!
What a tosser!
Still I like Sage Francis's song at the beginning!
Unfortunately...
'Summer of Hate'
@ 'Daily Beast'

Oh yes...

PJ Harvey also steals her closing rant in "Rid of Me" from Captain Beefheart's "Dirty Blue Gene". Yes, she does!1:58 AM Aug 8th from web

Ever noticed how PJ Harvey's "I Think I'm A Mother" steals the words from Captain Beefheart's "Dropout Boogie"? Yes, it does!1:58 AM Aug 8th from web

From Lydia Dutch (Ninja Author) on Twitter.

Where I used to go on my holidays as a kid

The water was FREEZING!
Slimy moss on all the rocks!
Midgies!
More midgies!
Fugn hated it!
(And we won't mention the Mirror Class dingy!)

Barack Obama's words downplay wars

(Illustration by Shepard Fairey)

He may be presiding over two wars and facing a terror threat at home and abroad, but you'd hardly know it from listening to President Barack Obama speak.

Obama has uttered more than a half-million words in public since taking office Jan. 20 - and a POLITICO analysis of nearly every word in this vast public record

shows that domestic topics dominate, so much so that Obama sounds more like a peacetime president than a commander-in-chief with more than 100,000 troops in the field.

@ 'Politico'

Things you learn on the interwebby thingy!

Go figgure!

Scotland's drug death toll at record levels

Story @ 'BBC' here.

Interesting that the photograph above is a little more realistic than the one which accompanied a story the other day on the record amount of Class A drugs seized in Scotland in the past year:

"Careful son or you'll take yer eye oot!"

PS: Scotland did it again...
...pass me the drugs!

SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST (Sonny Sharrock)

More @ 'Destination - Out'
A summer re-up!
(Thanx guys, it is the one that I voted for!)

"Is it cos I is black" - Ali G.

President Obama debunks Palin’s “death panel” conspiracy theory

Isakson's response:

Yesterday:
"I just had a phone call where someone said Sarah Palin's web site had talked about the House bill having death panels on it where people would be euthanized. How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts. You're putting the authority in the individual rather than the government. I don't know how that got so mixed up"

Today:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today denounced comments made by President Obama and his spokesman regarding Isakson’s alleged connection to language contained in the House health care bill on "end-of-life counseling."

Isakson vehemently opposes the House and Senate health care bills and he played no role in drafting language added to the House bill by House Democrats calling for the government to incentivize doctors by offering them money to conduct "end-of-life counseling" with Medicare patients every five years.

"The House provision is merely another ill-advised attempt at more government mandates, more government intrusion, and more government involvement in what should be an individual choice."

As John Cole put it:

"In for a penny, in for a pound. There is simply nothing these guys will not lie about, and they have no problem reversing course hours after publicly stating something completely different. The facts are just optional with these guys. They just don’t care if they tell the truth, they are not ashamed to lie at will, and no one in the media will hold them accountable.

Isakson is up for re-election in 2010, and he knows how wingnutty the base is. He has to play to the Palin wing or he will get primaried. That is how crazy the GOP is these days."

@ 'Daily Kos'

broken haze - Live

broken haze is the alias of Keisuke Ito, a Japanese experimental electronica hip-hop producer whose fururistic music is composed with glitchy digital noise, chopped melody, industrial drum sound, and dark cinematic ambience.
This is some cutting-edge music. If you like dark dubstep/atmospheric breakbeat/techno/glitch, you'll feel right at home.

David Sylvian - Manafon (Update)

Manafon's release date is set for Sept 14th. Manafon will be available in two editions. A regular CD/digipak edition and a twin volume deluxe edition with CD and DVD featuring the film 'Amplified Gesture'.

7 minutes of fame for carrying a gun to an Obama protest! Will it be 15 minutes for using it?

Go here.