Monday, 10 January 2011

"Such a British jihadists instead of infidel enemies beyond either sheep or innocent people own microwaves in the air..." (Google translate I love you LOL!)

Original German

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(Thanx HerrB!)

Bobby Robinson RIP

Bobby Robinson, whose tiny record shop on Harlem's 125th St. spawned No. 1 national hits and made him an uptown patriarch for six decades, died yesterday.
He was 93 and had been ill for several years - though he regularly went to work at his shop until it was forced to close in January 2008.
Impeccably dressed, well-spoken and ambitious to make his mark in the entertainment business, Robinson opened Bobby's Happy House in 1946.
His shop was the first black-owned business on 125th St., and within five years he used it to launch a series of record labels.
Sometimes working with his brother Danny, who also had an office on 125th St., Robinson recorded hundreds of artists from Gladys Knight and the Pips to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Knight's first hit, "Every Beat of My Heart," was released on Robinson's Fury label.
Robinson, a South Carolina native, had a No. 1 national hit in 1959 with Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City" - and said years later that a hit of that magnitude crippled his business because he had to press so many copies he couldn't promote any other artists.
But his Red Robin, Whirlin' Disc, Fire, Fury and Enjoy labels became legendary in the rhythm and blues world, and his releases by artists like the Channels, Teenchords and Scarlets helped define the sound of the New York streets through the 1950s.
Robinson ultimately recorded a wide range of artists that included the great bluesman Elmore James, whom Robinson inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In the late 1970s, Robinson became one of the first label owners to record rap music, cutting artists like Flash, Doug E. Fresh and Spoonie Gee.
Robinson eventually had to move the shop around the corner in the late 1990s, and he closed for good on Jan. 21, 2008, when his new landlord decided to raze the building for a development.
"I've seen 125th St. at its best and worst," Robinson said in late 2007. "And I'll tell you, there's no more exciting place in the world."

David Hinckley @'NY Daily News'

WTF???

Rop Gonggrijp

On the Twitter court order

Mary Anne Hobbs - Dubstep Warz

January 9th &;10th 2011 is the 5th anniversary of the notorious Dubstep Warz transmission on my BBC Radio1 Breezeblock show. This show marked the global tipping point for the dubstep sound. Mala, Skream, Kode 9 & The Spaceape, Vex'd, Hatcha & Crazy D, Loefah & Sgt Pokes and Distance changed the world of global dance music forever. Dubstep Warz still sounds as vital, as primal and as thrilling as the night we threw it down.. it brings tears to my eyes. If, as a broadcaster, you can deliver one show with the cultural & historical impact of this one in a lifetime.. it's a miracle

Tracklist:

D1 – Untitled (white)
Mala (Digital Mystikz)
Digital Mystikz – ‘10 Dread Commandments VIP’ (white)
Digital Mystikz – ‘Haunted’ (white)
Digital Mystikz – ‘Left Leg Out’ (white)
Skream – ‘Request Line’ Mala remix (white)
Digital Mystikz – ‘All Of A Sudden’ (white)
Digital Mystikz – ‘Anti-War Dub’ (white)
Skream – ‘Midnight Request Line’ (Tempa)
Skream – ‘Tapped’ (Tempa)
Sunship and Warrior Queen – ‘Almighty Father’ Skream remix (white)
Skream – ‘Glamma’ (Tempa)
Skream – ‘Deep Concentration’ (Tempa)
Skream – ‘Rottan’ (Tempa)
Digital Mystikz – ‘Ancient Memories’ Skream remix (white)
Horsepower – ‘Egypt’ (Skream remix) (white)
Skream – ‘Music 2 Make Us Stagga’ (white)
Benny Ill, Kode9 & the Culprit – ‘Fat Larry Skank’ Kode 9 remix (white)
Kode 9 and Space Ape – ‘9 Samurai’ (Hyperdub)
Kode 9 and Space Ape – ‘Backward’ (Hyperdub)
Kode 9 and Space Ape – ‘Kingston Dub’ (Hyperdub)
Burial and Space Ape – ‘Space Ape’ (White)
Vex’d – ‘Saturn’ (white)
Vex’d – ‘3rd Choice’ (white)
Vex’d – ‘Wavescape Remix’ (white)
Vex’d – ‘Killing Floor’ (white)
Benga – Untitled (white)
Benga – Untitled (white)
Coki – Untitled (white)
Coki – Untitled (white)
Coki – Untitled (white)
Skream – ‘Request Line’ Remix (white)
Benga – Untitled (white)
Benga – Untitled (white)
Benga – Untitled (white)
Digital Mystikz – ‘Ancient Memories’ Skream remix (white)
Loefah – ‘Mud’ (white)
Loefah – ‘Ruffage’ (white)
Loefah – ‘Sukkah’ (white)
Loefah – ‘System’ (white)
Loefah – ‘Root’ (DMZ)
Distance – ‘My Demons’ (white)
Distance – ‘Fallen’ (white)
Distance – ‘Tuning’ (white)
Distance – ‘Cella’ (white)
Distance – ‘Cyclops’ (white)
Distance – ‘Night Vision’ (white)
Distance – ‘Traffic’ (white)
DJ Pinch – ‘Qawwali’ (white)
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Violence, Government Violence, and Anti-Government Rhetoric

Sunday, 9 January 2011

We Come in Peace - CCC 27C3 Spezial (2010-12-29)

Interviews with Anne Roth (in German; 3:00)
Nicholas Merrill (in English; 15:35)
& Rop Gonggrijp (in English; 37:10)
during the 27th Chaos Communication Congress

Nicholas Merrill founded Calyx Internet Access Corporation in 1995. Calyx Internet Access was one of the first commercial Internet service providers operating in New York City. Calyx pursued relationships with and worked with many activist groups on a pro bono or low-cost basis, including the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Independent Media Center (Indymedia.org) and the Drug Policy Foundation.
In 2004, after a receiving a “National Security Letter” from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and a subsequent request from the U.S. Secret Service, Calyx became involved with the ACLU and in using the legal system and the media to resist illegal government requests for information on Internet users. For six and a half years, Merrill and the ACLU tirelessly challenged the orders contained in the letter, resulting in the establishment of two key legal precedents overturning aspects of the national security letter program.

http://www.calyx.net/

Internet pioneer Rop Gonggrijp is a hacker from day one and still active today. In a discussion with Diana McCarty he explains the background of netzpolitics, activism, prozac and the meaning of the hacker movement.

http://rop.gonggri.jp/

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My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act -- Here's Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange

by Robert Meeropol, son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

READ HERE

'Bullet passed through her brain'

Nine killed in Tunisia riots

At least nine people have been killed in clashes with police in a two cities in Tunisia.
Six people were killed in the city of Tala, 200km southwest of the capital Tunis, on Saturday, after security forces opened fire on protestors.
Another three people were killed in similar clashes in the Kasserine region.
Six protestors in Tala were seriously wounded, according to witnesses.
Belgacem Sayhi, a teacher and trade union activist, told the AFP news agency that the victims in Tala were between 17 and 30 years old, and were killed when the police opened fire on the crowd.
An employee at a hospital in Tala told Reuters news agency that several people had been admitted to the hospital after the clashes, and other witnesses said that the six people who were in critical condition have been moved to the regional capital, Kasserine.
Witnesses said police fired their weapons after using water cannons to try to disperse a crowd which had set fire to a government building. The crowd has also thrown stones and petrol bombs at police.
There had already been unrest in Tala on Friday, with protesters attacking a bank and official buildings, and setting them on fire, Sadok Mahmoudi, a union leader, told AFP news agency.
The authorities in Tunisia refused to confirm either the deaths or details of the clashes.

Troop deployment
On Saturday, troops were deployed to the area for the first time since the start of the recent wave of unrest which has been in protest at high levels of youth unemployment.

The soldiers were assigned to protect public buildings, said Mahmoudi.
Protests sparked by high youth unemployment have spread from the central town of Sidi Bouzid to other parts chiefly in the north African country's interior, which lags behind the more prosperous coastal areas.
On Saturday, the Tunisian General Union of Labour (UGTT), the country's main union, condemned the authorities for their heavy-handed response to protestors.
Several hundred UGTT members gathered in the capital of Tunis to observe a minute's silence for those who have died since protests began.
"We support the demands of the people in Sidi Bouzid and interior regions," said Abid Brigui, deputy general secretary of the union, which is considered to be close to the government.
Last week, a 26-year-old Tunisian man who set off a wave of protests after attempting to commit suicide by setting himself on fire last month died of third-degree burns in hospital.
Zine al Abidine Ben Ali , the Tunisian president, has said the violent protests are unacceptable and could harm the country's interests by discouraging investors and tourists who provide a large part of the country's revenues.
Protests traditionally have been rare in Tunisia, which has had only two presidents since independence from France 55 years ago.
The country has in the past been praised by Western allies as a model of stability and prosperity in the Arab world.
@'Aljazeera'