Thursday, 23 December 2010
Flowbyte - Tribute To Burial
In Mc Donalds
Gutted
U hurt me
Near Dark
Archangel
Ghost hardware
Dog Shelter
Etched Headplate
Distant lights
Untrue
Forstercare
Shell of light
Exit wounds
Broken home
Endorphin
Night bus
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WikiLeaks Joins Forces With Lebedev's Moscow-Based Newspaper Novaya Gazeta
Novaya Gazeta, the Moscow newspaper controlled by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and billionaire Alexander Lebedev, said it agreed to join forces with WikiLeaks to expose corruption in Russia.
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes secret government and corporate documents online, has materials specifically about Russia that haven’t been published yet and Novaya Gazeta will help make them public, the newspaper said on its website today.
“Assange said that Russians will soon find out a lot about their country and he wasn’t bluffing,” Novaya Gazeta said. “Our collaboration will expose corruption at the top tiers of political power. No one is protected from the truth.”...
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Aiannucci Done a gleefully stupid interview with @stephenfry about swearing in which we both swear a very lot. Fucking good way to cunt up the year.
The A-Z of Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly's first album was released in 1981 and there have been 17 since; his most recent an "undressed" collection covering the whole period, and it's called A-Z. Paul's been touring the country singing through his alphabet of songs about the little and big things in life, including the poignant 'letter' from an inmate at Christmas called How to Make Gravy. That's also the title of his new "mongrel memoir". Paul Kelly reads, sings and chats with Andrew Ford on this week's Music Show.
News Black-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to Those Veterans Chained to the White House Fence
There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world, and their civilian supporters, chained and tied themselves to the White House fence during an early snowstorm to say enough is enough.
Washington Police arrested 135 of the protesters, in what is being called the largest mass detention in recent years. Among those arrested were Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst who used to provide the president’s daily briefings, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the government’s Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration, and Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York Times.
No major US news media reported on the demonstration or the arrests. It was blacked out of the New York Times, blacked out of the Philadelphia Inquirer, blacked out in the Los Angeles Times, blacked out of the Wall Street Journal, and even blacked out of the capital’s local daily, the Washington Post, which apparently didn't even think it was a local story worth publishing.
Making the media cover-up of the protest all the more outrageous was the fact that most news media did report on Friday, the day after the protest, the results of the latest poll of American attitudes towards the Afghanistan War, an ABC/Washington Post Poll which found that 60% of Americans now feel that war has “not been worth it.” That’s a big increase from the 53% who said they opposed the war in July.
Clearly, any honest and professional journalist and editor would see a news link between such a poll result and an anti-war protest at the White House led, for the first time in recent memory, by a veterans organization, the group Veterans for Peace, in which veterans of the nation’s wars actually put themselves on the line to be arrested to protest a current war...
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Dave Lindorff @'truth-out'
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