Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Pete Doherty 'arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs'
Pete Doherty: Sources say he has been arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/PA
The singer Pete Doherty has been arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs following the death of the heiress Robin Whitehead at a flat in east London, sources said today.
The 31-year-old Babyshambles frontman was one of four people questioned following the death of the 27-year-old film-maker.
The body of Whitehead, the granddaughter of the Ecologist magazine founder, Teddy Goldsmith, was discovered at a flat in Hackney on 24 January after paramedics answered a 999 call. She died from a suspected drug overdose.
Doherty was arrested in connection with the inquiry on Friday.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan police said: "A 31-year-old man was arrested on 19 March on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs.
"He was bailed to return on a date in April pending further inquiries."
Two other men, aged 41 and 28, were arrested on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug.
The 41-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman, were questioned on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The woman is suspected of allowing her premises to be used for the supply of controlled drugs.
Doherty, a friend of Whitehead, said he was "shocked and saddened" by her death.
She had completed a documentary film, The Road To Albion, about his former band, the Libertines, and spent a lot of time with him.
Her mother, Dido Whitehead, is a cousin of Jemima Khan and Zac Goldsmith, and her father is (/was - Mona) the 1960s filmmaker Peter Whitehead.
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Beyond the Box Tops: Paul Westerberg on Alex Chilton
How does one react to the death of one’s mentor? My mind instantly slammed down the inner trouble-door that guards against all thought, emotion, sadness. Survival mode. Rock guitar players are all dead men walking. It’s only a matter of time, I tell myself as I finger my calluses. Those who fail to click with the world and society at large find safe haven in music — to sing, write songs, create, perform. Each an active art in itself that offers no promise of success, let alone happiness.
Yet success shone early on Alex Chilton, as the 16-year-old soulful singer of the hit-making Box Tops. Possessing more talent than necessary, he tired as a very young man of playing the game — touring, performing at state fairs, etc. So he returned home to Memphis. Focusing on his pop writing and his rock guitar skills, he formed the group Big Star with Chris Bell. Now he had creative control, and his versatility shone bright. Beautiful melodies, heart-wrenching lyrics: “I’m in Love with a Girl,” “September Gurls.”
On Big Star’s masterpiece third album, Alex sang my favorite song of his, “Nighttime” — a haunting and gorgeous ballad that I will forever associate with my floor-sleeping days in New York. Strangely, the desperation in the line “I hate it here, get me out of here” made me, of all things, happy. He went on to produce more artistic, challenging records. One equipped with the take-it-or-leave-it — no, excuse me, with the take-it-like-I-make-it — title “Like Flies on Sherbert.” The man had a sense of humor, believe me.
It was some years back, the last time I saw Alex Chilton. We miraculously bumped into each other one autumn evening in New York, he in a Memphis Minnie T-shirt, with take-out Thai, en route to his hotel. He invited me along to watch the World Series on TV, and I immediately discarded whatever flimsy obligation I may have had. We watched baseball, talked and laughed, especially about his current residence — he was living in, get this, a tent in Tennessee.
Because we were musicians, our talk inevitably turned toward women, and Al, ever the Southern gentleman, was having a hard time between bites communicating to me the difficulty in ... you see, the difficulty in (me taking my last swig that didn’t end up on the wall, as I boldly supplied the punch line) “... in asking a young lady if she’d like to come back to your tent?” We both darn near died there in a fit of laughter.
Yeah, December boys got it bad, as “September Gurls” notes. The great Alex Chilton is gone — folk troubadour, blues shouter, master singer, songwriter and guitarist. Someone should write a tune about him. Then again, nah, that would be impossible. Or just plain stupid.
Sean Stewart from HTRK RIP
(more sadness)
Sean Stewart, guitarist for U.K. trio HTRK, died this past Thursday as the result of a suspected suicide. He was 29. Stewart was a founding member of the band who were recently featured as one of our 100 Bands You Need To Know in 2010. HTRK formed in 2003 in Melbourne before eventually settling in London. They released their debut full-length, Marry Me Tonight, last year. The producer of the album, the Birthday Party guitarist Rowland S. Howard, died this past December.
Our deepest condolences go out to Stewart's family, friends and fans.
Chomsky: Health bill sustains the system’s core ills
Despite its flaws, I'd have 'held my nose' to pass reform, renowned intellectual tells Raw Story
He’s a hero of many progressives, but his enthusiasm for the passage of health care reform legislation this weekend was fairly muted.
In an interview with Raw Story, world-renowned scholar and political critic Noam Chomsky reluctantly called the bill a mildly positive step, but cautioned that it wouldn’t fix the fundamental problems with the nation's troubled system.
"The United States’ health care system is so dysfunctional it has about twice the health care costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes," Chomsky told Raw Story. "This bill continues with that."
The decades-long critic of corporate power alleged that premiums won't stop rising as the package is designed in no small part to funnel money into the pockets of the health care industry. "The bill gives away a lot to insurance companies and big pharmaceutical corporations," he said.
The legislation forbids government from negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies or permitting the importation of drugs. Nor does it provide competition to private insurers, an oligopolistic industry that will maintain its impunity from antitrust laws. But despite this, Chomsky, an advocate for a single-payer system, said killing the bill wasn't a better solution.
"If I were in Congress," he said, "I’d probably hold my nose and vote for it, because the alternative of not passing it is worse, bad as this bill is. Unfortunately, that’s the reality."
"If it fails, it wouldn’t put even limited constraints on insurance companies," he explained, noting that the bill is "at least has some steps towards barring the withholding of policies from people with prior disabilities." The consumer protections from dodgy insurance practices are among the bill's most popular components.
The mandate to purchase insurance has been a central qualm of progressives and conservatives opposed to the effort. Chomsky, while admitting it’s a boon to insurance companies, called it a "step toward universality," asserting that "without some kind of mandatory coverage, nothing is going to work at all."
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor added that it’s a damning referendum on American democracy that one of the most highly supported components of the effort nationally, the public insurance option, was jettisoned. He partly blamed the media for refusing to stress how favorably it’s viewed by the populace.
"It didn't have 'political support,' just the support of the majority of the population," Chomsky quipped, "which apparently is not political support in our dysfunctional democracy."
The provision has consistently polled well, garnering the support of sixty percent of Americans across the nation in a CBS/New York Times poll released in December, days after it was eliminated from the reform package. Democratic leaders deemed it politically untenable.
"There should be headlines explaining why, for decades, what's been called politically impossible is what most of the public has wanted," Chomsky said. "There should be headlines explaining what that means about the political system and the media."
He’s a hero of many progressives, but his enthusiasm for the passage of health care reform legislation this weekend was fairly muted.In an interview with Raw Story, world-renowned scholar and political critic Noam Chomsky reluctantly called the bill a mildly positive step, but cautioned that it wouldn’t fix the fundamental problems with the nation's troubled system.
"The United States’ health care system is so dysfunctional it has about twice the health care costs of comparable countries and some of the worst outcomes," Chomsky told Raw Story. "This bill continues with that."
The decades-long critic of corporate power alleged that premiums won't stop rising as the package is designed in no small part to funnel money into the pockets of the health care industry. "The bill gives away a lot to insurance companies and big pharmaceutical corporations," he said.
The legislation forbids government from negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies or permitting the importation of drugs. Nor does it provide competition to private insurers, an oligopolistic industry that will maintain its impunity from antitrust laws. But despite this, Chomsky, an advocate for a single-payer system, said killing the bill wasn't a better solution.
"If I were in Congress," he said, "I’d probably hold my nose and vote for it, because the alternative of not passing it is worse, bad as this bill is. Unfortunately, that’s the reality."
"If it fails, it wouldn’t put even limited constraints on insurance companies," he explained, noting that the bill is "at least has some steps towards barring the withholding of policies from people with prior disabilities." The consumer protections from dodgy insurance practices are among the bill's most popular components.
The mandate to purchase insurance has been a central qualm of progressives and conservatives opposed to the effort. Chomsky, while admitting it’s a boon to insurance companies, called it a "step toward universality," asserting that "without some kind of mandatory coverage, nothing is going to work at all."
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor added that it’s a damning referendum on American democracy that one of the most highly supported components of the effort nationally, the public insurance option, was jettisoned. He partly blamed the media for refusing to stress how favorably it’s viewed by the populace.
"It didn't have 'political support,' just the support of the majority of the population," Chomsky quipped, "which apparently is not political support in our dysfunctional democracy."
The provision has consistently polled well, garnering the support of sixty percent of Americans across the nation in a CBS/New York Times poll released in December, days after it was eliminated from the reform package. Democratic leaders deemed it politically untenable.
"There should be headlines explaining why, for decades, what's been called politically impossible is what most of the public has wanted," Chomsky said. "There should be headlines explaining what that means about the political system and the media."
Sahil Kapur @'Raw Story'
Winston Churchill said:
"America will always do the right thing, but only after exhausting all other options."
Method of Defiance - Montreaux 2009
A REVOLUTION IN SOUND PERSPECTIVES
Iconoclast Drum & Bass, Massive Dub, Avant Funk, Black Noise, Hardcore Electronica, Futurists Rock, Ambient, Metal, Roots Reggae, Mutant Dancehall and much more…
Beyond Fusion, Hybrid, and Recombinant: A true detonator of sonic and aesthetic borders.
Designed by: Bill Laswell
Grammy-Winning electric bassist/Producer/Reconstructionist/SoundAssassin. A universe unto himself, creating from an unsanctified palette, marginal instruments, new technology and iconoclastic written texts alongside established traditions from around the world. Creator of Herbie Hancock’s Rockit/Future Shock, bringing Proto-Turntablism and Electronica to a mass audience and since then working with an unimaginable range of musicians, artists and thinkers, among them, William S. Burroughs, Afrika Bambaataa, John Zorn, George Clinton, Mick Jagger, Rammellzee, Zakir Hussain, Paul Bowles, Hakim Bey, The Last Poets, John Lydon, The Dalai Lama, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Motorhead, Brian Eno, Tony Williams, Sting, Carlos Santana, Pharoah Sanders, Bootsy Collins and hundreds more from the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, China and Japan.
Always displaying a revolutionary spirit and consistently charting innovative paths leading to the most creative processes possible.
Method of Defiance are
Keyboard Master Bernie Worrell of Parliament Funkadelic, Talking Heads, Black Uhuru, Rolling Stones and countless others.
Dr. Israel – Voice and Electronics - Has worked with Mad Professor, Jah Shaka, Sepultura and others, various solo projects and collaborations with Wordsound and Baraka Collectives. He is a true innovator of Brooklyn’s urban underground.
Hawk/Hawkman – Vocalist - Jamaican born, he’s collaborated with Tricky, Sly and Robbie, Live, Tool, Praxis and others. He’s a new voice of power.
Toshinori Kondo – Electric Trumpet - Japanese Trumpeter, Writer, Actor, Cultural Critic
Guy Licata – Drums - Post Modern rhythm destroyer
DJ Krush – Turntable legend / Beat icon
and a certain Mr. Laswell on bass...
and a certain Mr. Laswell on bass...
Has this been officially released?
Does anyone have it?
Or the audio?
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