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I swear kids the world over are doing soooo much better in school this week now that their Blackberries don't work

RIP NHS

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Lord Owen's amendment has failed, by 262 to 330. NHS bill passes to its next stage bit.ly/qIkqWv

Wall Street protests swell in New York, Boston

A group of union-backed organizations joined the loosely defined Occupy Wall Street movement again Tuesday, leaving behind the confines of New York's financial district for the posh neighborhoods that dot Manhattan's Upper East Side, according to multiple group representatives.
Crowds also swelled in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, where demonstrators waved placards and chanted slogans attacking corporate greed and social inequality.
The union-organized march, meanwhile, took protesters past the homes of well-to-do residents like billionaire David Koch, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
Organizations such as UnitedNY, the Strong Economy for All Coalition, the Working Families Party, and New York Communities for Change were accompanied by protesters typically based in Zuccotti Park, a privately owned park in New York's financial district.
The Upper East Side march was "in support" of the Occupy Wall Street movement, but was not organized by it, said T.J. Helmstetter, a spokesman for Working Families Party, a coalition of New York community and labor groups.
Protesters hopped on the subway, emerging at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street near Central Park, where organizers held a press conference that addressed both New York-centric themes, such as state taxes, and the movement's broader concerns of social inequity.
"We are the 99%," the group chanted, a reference to their insistence that most Americans lack the influence in their country's political and financial affairs enjoyed by the elite 1%.
"I think it's time that these people realize that people are hurting in this country and it's time to reform what's going on in Washington," said New York resident Lenore Silverstein, who attended Tuesday's march...

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Stylin' 508 w/ Underground Resistance

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Full show dedicated to the Detroit techno collective, with Mad Mike Banks, Cornelius Harris aka Atlantis, Esteban Adame (Ican) and Milton Baldwin aka DJ Skurge joining me in the studio and dropping some new tunes. Will be up on Soundcloud for a week, after that stream will be available at www.rrr.org.au/stylin and www.straightup.com.au.
1. Timeline - Return of the Dragons [Underground Resistance]
2. Mad Mike - Alpha UR-040 [Submerge]
3. UR - Rainbows Over Paradise (The Rain) [Underground Resistance]
4. Atlantis - Words from Atlantis [Underground Resistance]
5. Underground Resistance - Transition [Underground Resistance]
6. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove [Warner Bros]
7. George Clinton - Man's Best Friend [Capitol]
8. Sweat Band - Freak to Freak [Uncle Jam]
9. George Clinton - Atomic Dog (Instrumental) [Capitol]
10. The Martians and Starchild - Starchild [Red Planet]
11. Members of the House - Share this House [10]
12. X-102 - Xanadu [Tresor]
13. Mad Mike - Hi-Tech Dreams [Underground Resistance]
14. Underground Resistance - The Theory (Mind Mix) [Underground Resistance]
15. X-102 - Tethys [Tresor]
16. Drexciya - Wavejumper [Underground Resistance]
17. The Aquanauts - Relentless (Xpect no Mercy Mix) [Underground Resistance]
18. Los Hermanos - Galaxy Traveler [Submerge]
19. Underground Resistance - Amazon [Underground Resistance]
20. Final Cut - Now to that's Funky [Full Effect]
21. Underground Resistance - Eye of the Storm [Underground Resistance]
22. Esteban Adame - Aztlan Reclaimed [Ican]
23. Ican - Caminos del Niño [Ican]
24. Thee Midniters - The Town I Live In [Rhino]
25. Ican - A Quien [Planet E]
26. Mantronix - Bassline (Instrumental) [Sleeping Bag]
27. War - Galaxy [MCA]
28. The Aztec Mystic - Jaguar [Underground Resistance]
29. DJ Skurge - k@r3ir (54m4r174n h4x0r) [Underground Resistance]
30. DJ Skurge - Slide Skate [Underground Resistance]
31. DJ Skurge feat Juan Atkins - Turn the Knob (demo) [Underground Resistance]
32. Waajeed - Tron [Bling 47]
33. Waajeed - Tetris [Scion A/V]
34. P-Gruv & DJ Dez - Grind [Hipnotech]
35. UR - Codebreaker (Side A) [Underground Resistance]
36. The Martian - Meet the Red Planet [Red Planet]
37. UR - Ma Ya Ya [Underground Resistance]
38. Timeline - The Ghost of Greystone [Underground Resistance]

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