Friday, 7 January 2011

Grooming and our ignoble tradition of racialising crime

HA!

(Thanx Michael!)

Bradley Manning: The Forgotten Man

A lot of attention has been given to Julian Assange of late, but another significant figure in the Wikileaks story is Bradley Manning -- the young American army officer who's alleged to have leaked the sensitive information to Wikileaks. Manning was arrested in May 2010 and is being held in maximum security isolation. If found guilty Manning could spend more than 50 years in jail.
@'ABC'

PSA

U.S. teenager tortured in Kuwait and barred re-entry into the U.S.

Conscious - Dougie

'Elaborate fraud'

Study linking vaccine to autism was fraud

'Piltdown' medicine: Andrew Wakefield's scientific fraud was worse than previously thought

fuck...

@'cum bubbles'

(Thanx Stan!)

Iron And Wine (Live @npr's First Listen)

Back in 2002, Iron and Wine was a "band" in name only — a vehicle for the whispered acoustic bedroom recordings of a college film professor named Sam Beam. Beam's rustic musings sang of death and damnation, love and redemption, while packing a surprising degree of momentum and narrative thrust into what only sounded like gentle folk songs.
If it weren't for Beam's softly engaging croon, the Iron and Wine of the forthcoming Kiss Each Other Clean wouldn't always be recognizable to Beam fans from eight or nine years ago. For one thing, he's evolved into a full-fledged bandleader, following 2007's engagingly springy The Shepherd's Dog with a sound that feels fuzzier, even dirtier. The opening seconds of Kiss Each Other Clean sound like no preceding Iron & Wine record — "Walking Far From Home" swaps out the clean acoustic guitars for layers of fuzz and subtly processed vocals — though the album feels like a natural extension of its marvelous predecessor, and even lets rays of sunlight peek in during songs like "Tree by the River."
Like The Shepherd's Dog, Kiss Each Other Clean showcases Iron and Wine's subtly exploratory, even meandering side. But fans of the group needn't wait until the album's Jan. 25 release date to hear the new innovations for themselves: Wednesday afternoon, Beam and his bandmates appeared on WNYC's Soundcheck to announce a surprise live performance of the new album at The Greene Space in New York City that night — a concert you can now watch in its entirety or download as an mp3.
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@'npr'

Sado-Justice in America: The Treatment of High Security Prisoners and the Bill of Rights

Tears as chemical signals – smell of female tears affects sexual behaviour of men

(GB2011)

johannhari101

The protest movement needs to expand now from the people who dodged our taxes to the people who stole our taxes: the banks & their bonuses

♪♫ Shelby Lynne - Your Lies

Station Street, Fairfield

Photo:TimN

The Village Where the Neo-Nazis Rule

Neo-Nazis have placed signs at the entrance to the village of Jamel in eastern Germany pointing the way to it point the way to Hitler's birthplace (Braunau am Inn 855 km) and to the formerly German cities of Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland) and Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia)

Hitler salutes in the street and firing practice in the forest: Neo-Nazis have taken over an entire village in Germany, and authorities appear to have given up efforts to combat the problem. The place has come to symbolize the far right's growing influence in parts of the former communist east.

Horst and Birgit Lohmeyer have been working on their life's dream for six years, renovating a house in the woods near Jamel, a tiny village near Wismar in the far northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Birgit Lohmeyer writes crime novels, her husband is a musician, and both try to pretend everything is normal here in Jamel.

It wasn't easy to find their new home. The Lohmeyers spent months driving out to the countryside every weekend, heading east from where they lived in Hamburg, but most of the houses they saw were too expensive. Then they came across the inexpensive red brick farmhouse in Jamel. Slightly run-down, but not far from the Baltic Sea, the house sits surrounded by lime and maple trees, near a lake. The Lohmeyers knew that a notorious neo-Nazi lived nearby -- Sven Krüger, a demolition contractor and high-level member of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD). What the Lohmeyers didn't know was that other neighbors felt terrorized by Krüger. He and his associates were in the process of buying up the entire village...