Monday, 13 February 2012


Wow! Unbelievable: Norway's pension fund may have invested 2 billion USD in companies that make surveillance tech

Original (Norwegian)

Dubai Fountains Synchronized With Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You'


Arab World Mourns Whitney Houston

Australian Govt holds second secret anti-piracy meeting



WTF???

Hmmm...

A message for the newbies...


Any dropouts crackles etc are intentional

Ghandi - Masala Mix (Bhangra 'n' Breaks)

Tracklisting/Details: 
Smith & Mighty 'U Dub'
Asian Dub Foundation 'Riddim I Like'
Meat Beat Manifesto 'Radio Babylon'
Donaeo 'Riot Music' (Shy FX rmx)
Panjabi MC 'Jugni' ft. Kuldip Manak
DJ Swami 'Reached Amritsar'
DJ Sanj & Karan MC 'Babulla'
Subbs ft. Binder Bajwa 'Nach Ke'
Sub Swara 'Inshallah' (Gislain Poirier rmx)
Bass Bin Twins 'Woppa'
Groove Chronicles 'Blackjack'
PMC 'Panj Pind'
Charged 'Electro Punjabi Dakoo' (Wayward Soul rmx)
PMC 'Pyar Wich/ Planet Rock'
David Starfire 'Ashes'
MJ Cole 'Ruff Like We'
Artful Dodger 'Ruffneck Sound'
Dee Pattern 'Who's The Badman?'
Sully 'In Some Pattern'
Jason Sparks 'Gangsters'
PMC 'GT Road'
Kuldip Manak 'Sharaab' (Swami rmx)
Tigerstyle 'Bol! Bol! Bol!' (SteamerPilot Dholstep rmx)
Bhang Bros ft. Juz D 'Hik Taan Kay'
Lightnin MC 'Sum Nex Auntie'
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John Barnes: Liverpool are 'blameless' for lack of handshake

John Barnes tells @stephennolan on @bbc5live that Liverpool are "blameless" for lack of handshake  (mp3)

Luis Suárez must show Liverpool he is worth the trouble of keeping him

Liverpool apologies seek to quell ugly echoes of Luis Suárez affair

David Hepworth  made an interesting point yesterday about modern footballers over at his blog but as a life long Liverpool fan and a life long anti-racist, I really do think it is time for Suárez to go.
Meanwhile...

'Uncle Tom' jibe at Kop star Johnson

Declining health-care productivity in England: the making of a myth

Journalism we need – and don't need

:)

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Kavanagh attacks arrest of Sun journalists

Police raids which led to the arrest of five Sun journalists have been attacked by the paper's associate editor.
Trevor Kavanagh said the senior members of staff had been treated like "an organised gang" and the tabloid was "not a swamp that needed draining".
He said money sometimes changed hands while unearthing stories, and this had always been standard practice. The Met Police were unavailable for comment.
The Sun staff were held over alleged corrupt payments to police and others.
A Surrey Police officer, a member of the armed forces and a Ministry of Defence employee were also arrested - and all eight were released on police bail.
'Homes ransacked' 
Writing in the Sun, Mr Kavanagh said at any other time the treatment of the journalists would have caused uproar at Parliament and among civil liberty and human rights campaigners.
The paper's former high-profile political editor said they were subjects of the biggest police operation in British criminal history - bigger even than the Pan Am Lockerbie murder inquiry.
He said 171 officers are involved in three separate operations, and claimed two officers on one raid revealed they had been pulled off an elite Olympics anti-terror squad.
"Instead of being called in for questioning, 30 journalists have been needlessly dragged from their beds in dawn raids, arrested and held in police cells while their homes are ransacked," he wrote.
"Wives and children have been humiliated as up to 20 officers at a time rip up floorboards and sift through intimate possessions, love letters and entirely private documents."
Sun editor Dominic Mohan has said he was "shocked" by the arrests but pledged to continue to lead the paper.
They were arrested as part of the Operation Elveden probe into payments to police.
The BBC understands they were picture editor John Edwards, chief reporter John Kay, chief foreign correspondent Nick Parker, reporter John Sturgis and associate editor Geoff Webster.
Meanwhile, the solicitor representing alleged victims of phone hacking is said to be heading to the US to take legal action against Rupert Murdoch.
Mr Murdoch is the boss of News Corporation, the parent company of News International, which runs the Sun.
Mark Lewis, who represents the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, told the Press Association he was not prepared to deny the reports.
He is expected to travel to America within weeks to meet lawyers and is said to be close to bringing at least one case against Mr Murdoch's US company.
@'BBC'

Witch-hunt has put us behind ex-Soviet states on Press freedom

Interview with a Designer Drug Designer

Niels Shoe Meulman




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Niels Shoe Meulman
Interview
Caught this expo in Melbourne last week. Simply stunning...

The Sun, the baby and the bathwater