Friday, 7 January 2011

Gorillaz – Plastic Beach Live (unofficial)

'Plastic Beach Live' is a 2 disc compilation paying tribute to Gorillaz live in 2010. Disc 1 features the whole of Plastic Beach live including ALL the collaborators recording live (apart from Snoop who never performed WTTWOTPB live, but additionally including the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble on Broken and Plastic Beach) compiled from various gigs from the best possible sources. Disc 2 is the best recordings of the other 17 tracks performed around the world, featuring collaborators where possible. All tracks have been normalised for volume and are taken from the best sources available. Disc 1 is all from tv or radio - Disc 2 is more mixed, a couple of the tracks were taken from Youtube recordings and a bootleg. Thanks to Rust for the cover - other alternate covers are also available in the zip. Re-encoded only once more from sources, at 320kbps mp3. For all source info see the include release notes or click 'Read More' beloe.

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Both Discs as one Zip | Disc 1 | Disc 2

Disc 1
1. Orchestral Intro 2. Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach (featuring the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 3. White Flag (featuring Kano, Bashy and the Syrian National Orchestra For Arabic Music) 4. Rhinestone Eyes 5. Stylo (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack) 6. Superfast Jellyfish (featuring De La Soul and Gruff Rhys) 7. Empire Ants (featuring Little Dragon) 8. Glitter Freeze (featuring Mark E. Smith) 9. Some Kind of Nature (Featuring Lou Reed) 10. On Melancholy Hill 11. Broken (featuring the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 12. Sweepstakes (featuring Mos Def and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 13. Plastic Beach (featuring the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 14. To Binge (featuring Little Dragon) 15. Cloud of Unknowing (featuring Bobby Womack) 16. Pirate Jet

Disc 2
1. Last Living Souls 2. Kids With Guns (featuring Neneh Cherry) 3. O Green World 4. 19/2000 (featuring Miho Hatori) 5. Tomorrow Comes Today 6. DARE (featuring Roses Gabor and Shaun Ryder) 7. Dirty Harry (featuring Bootie Brown) 8. El Manana 9. November Has Come (featuring MF Doom) 10. Doncamatic (featuring Daley) 11. Punk 12. Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head 13. Don't Get Lost In Heaven 14. Demon Days (featuring Bobby Womack) 15. Hong Kong (featuring Zeng Zhen) 16. Feel Good Inc (featuring De La Soul) 17. Clint Eastwood (featuring Kano and Bashy) Bonus tracks: 18. Clint Eastwood (featuring Snoop Dogg) 19. Clint Eastwood (featuring Eslam Jawaad) 20. Clint Eastwood (featuring Tinie Tempah)

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Bratara Buzea whilst spelling the Romanian government

An Exile exclusive pic

I'm outta here, Romanian Witches?

Anti - government spells?

Seriously...

Too much for me/

Romanian witches to cast anti government spell

Double double toil and trouble: witches in Romania are planning to cast a spell on the country's rulers today over new rules forcing them to pay tax for the first time.
Into their cauldron will go cat excrement and dead dogs rather than eye of newt and toe of frog. But they are hoping to put a Macbeth-style hex on president Traian Basescu and his government after the imposition of a new tax regime aimed at tackling Romania's recession.
Witches from the east and west of the country will gather on Romania's southern plains and the banks of the Danube to protest against new laws and cast spells against the politicians who implemented them.
A dozen witches will hurl the poisonous mandrake plant into the Danube "so evil will befall them", a witch named Alisia said.
The threatened curse is not being taken lightly in a country with a long tradition of superstition. Basescu and his aides have been known to wear purple on certain days in an attempt to ward of evil.
"This law is foolish. What is there to tax, when we hardly earn anything?" Alisia said.
The new law is part of the government's drive to collect more revenue and crack down on tax evasion. It will force the likes of witches, astrologers and fortune tellers, among others, to register their professions making them liable for 16% tax in line with other self-employed Romanians.
Queen witch Bratara Buzea said she will lead a chorus of witches in casting a spell using a concoction of cat excrement and a dead dog.
"They want to take the country out of this crisis using us? They should get us out of the crisis because they brought us into it," she said.
"My curses always work!" she cackled, according to AP.
Some argue the tax law will be hard to enforce, as the payments to witches and astrologers usually are made in cash and are relatively small at 20 to 30 lei (around £5) per consultation.
Such spiritualism has long been tolerated by the Orthodox Church in Romania. The late Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, had their own personal witch.
Mircea Geoana, who lost the presidential race to Basescu in 2009, performed poorly during a crucial debate, and his camp blamed attacks of "negative energy" by their opponent's aides.
Geoana aide Viorel Hrebenciuc alleged there was a "violet flame" conspiracy during the campaign, saying Basescu and other aides dressed in purple on Thursdays to increase his chance of victory.
They continue to be seen wearing purple clothing on important days, because the colour supposedly makes the wearer superior and wards off evil.
Martin Weaver @'The Guardian'

Thursday, 6 January 2011

René Guénon - Tradition, Civilization and the Modern World

ГВОЗДЕНО ДОБА

The Man Who Spilled the Secrets

Mainstream Pakistan religious organisations applaud killing of Salman Taseer

The assassination of the Punjab governor, Salman Taseer, was praised by mainstream religious organisations in the country. Photograph: Governor House/EPAThe increasing radicalisation of Pakistani society was today laid bare when mainstream religious organisations applauded the murder of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, earlier this week and his killer was showered with rose petals as he appeared in court.
Taseer was buried in his home town of Lahore. The 66-year-old was assassinated yesterday by Mumtaz Qadri, one of his police bodyguards, after he had campaigned for reform of the law on blasphemy.
Qadri appeared in court, unrepentant, where waiting lawyers threw handfuls of rose petals over him and others in the crowd slapped his back and kissed his cheek as he was led in and out amid heavy security.
The internet had already been hosting fan pages for Qadri, with one Facebook page attracting over 2,000 followers before being taken down, while there were small demonstrations in favour of the killer in north-west Pakistan.
While terrorist acts are generally associated with an extremist fringe, the gunning down of Taseer appeared to have significant support that reached into the heart of society.
All the big mainstream political parties strongly condemned the murder, and thousands attended funeral prayers for Taseer. However, both the large religious political parties declared that he had deserved to be killed for his views.
Reports suggested that Qadri, 26, was a known radical in the police service who had previously been declared by his superiors to be unfit for guarding VIPs. He told interrogators he was proud to have killed a blasphemer.
Reports also said Qadri, part of Taseer's security force, had tipped off other guards about his plan to kill the Punjab governor. The other bodyguards did not seem to react as Qadri fired a whole clip of bullets into Taseer in a market in central Islamabad and then laid down his weapon.
It is thought that over a dozen police officers were taken into custody following the murder. Taseer's ruling Pakistan People's party suggested that a "wider conspiracy" was behind the killing, while the issue also became an ugly party political spat.
Taseer's job was a ceremonial position representing the president, the head of the PPP, Asif Zardari, but the provincial government is run by the administration of opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, which was blamed for providing the governor with poor security.
Taseer had used his position to warn about the "Talibanisation" of Punjab province, telling the Guardian last year: "The Sharifs are creating a potential bomb here in Punjab."
"This is a political murder," a senior member of the PPP, Fauzia Wahab, said. "There will be an investigation. It is a conspiracy."
Taseer's call for the widely-abused blasphemy law to be reformed or abolished was so incendiary that it united rival Islamic schools of thought against any change, the moderate Barelvi sect with the pro-Taliban Deobandis.
The statute, meant to protect Islam and the prophet Muhammad from "insult", is used to convict dozens of people on flimsy evidence each year.
"Salman Taseer was himself responsible for his killing," Munawar Hasan, the head of Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the two big religious political parties, said. "Any Muslim worth the name could not tolerate blasphemy of the Prophet, as had been proved by this incident."
Qadri was in the Barelvi sect, which is followed by most Muslims in Pakistan. However, on the issue of the blasphemy law, the Barelvi clerics had joined hands with the pro-Taliban Deobandi. The issue was sparked by Taseer's championing of a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy late last year.
"No Muslim should attend the funeral or even try to pray for Salmaan Taseer," a statement from Jamaate Ahle Sunnat Pakistan, one of the biggest organisations of the Barelvi, representing 500 religious scholars, said. "We pay rich tributes and salute the bravery, valour and faith of Mumtaz Qadri."
Taseer's assassination showed how free speech has been curtailed in Pakistan. The religious scholars warned that others could meet the same fate.
"The supporter is as equally guilty as one who committed blasphemy," the Jamaate Ahle Sunnat Pakistan statement said. It added that adding politicians, the media and others should learn "a lesson from the exemplary death".
Saeed Shah @'The Guardian'

Phone hacking approved by top News of the World executive – new files

News of the World executive suspended over alleged phone hacking

Wikileaks in Zimbabwe, and in the Media

Beyond espionage: Four ways the United States can still prosecute WikiLeaks's Julian Assange

30 September 2010
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iPhone hacker publishes secret Sony PlayStation 3 key

Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (Drop Out Orchestra Rework)

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Fake ID by Consequence co-starring Q-Tip, Havoc & Large Professor

"Fake ID" by Consequence
Co-starring...
Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest
Large Professor of Main Source
Havoc of Mobb Deep
CLASSIC!!!
Produced by @bandcamprecords VERY OWN The Produce Section
"I'm the from the Era that if you said you sold drugs... The guess what you REALLY sold drugs!!!" "I'm from the Era that if you said you wrote rhymes... Then guess what you REALLY WROTE RHYMES!!!"
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Thomas Meinecke/Move D - Work

Excerpts from the performance:
Thomas Meinecke / Move D »WORK«
@ ZKM_Medientheater 25.09.09

Thomas Meinecke is the mastermind of German underground legends Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle

Move D aka David Moufang is a German DJ and Techno producer who has worked with Pete Namlook some years ago.