Jacob Appelbaum ‏@ioerror

I just wrote to the Ecuador Embassy in support of Julian #Assange's attempt to seek asylum - please write! ecugranbretania@mmrree.gob.ec

What an absolute load of crap!!!

Sen. Scott Ludlam on Assange

Fuxake!!!

Jonathan Green ‏@GreenJ

huzzah! RT @MrDenmore: So Murdoch will now control the entire pay TV industry and 70% of metro print; Rinehart the rest (plus Channel 10

Israel Weighs Response After Attacks by Hamas

My Idea of Hell

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Meanwhile in Egypt

Constant Forward Movement: Taylor Parkes On Can's Lost Tapes 

Can 'The Lost Tapes' | Spoon Records (Review)

Messer, Scissors, Fork and Light

Exposing the Big Game

Perspective

Scaredy Cat

Sunn 0)))

Sunn 0))) are a strange proposition. Their robes-and-smoke-machine aesthetic could well give the impression that they're an elaborate joke.
Describing their music doesn't go far to dispel this impression - for much of their Koko gig they cycled through three or four ultra low chords at a pace so sluggish that each change sounded like a rock face collapsing into the sea.
There are no drums. The music has no propulsion aside from the crowds willing it on. The tension builds incrementally until you feel they have to change chord or the place'll vibrate itself apart.
Slower and heavier music may be possible but it'd be hard to say how...
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Ecuador says WikiLeaks' Assange seeks asylum

Assange asks Ecuador for asylum