Saturday, 4 August 2012

Spacepr0n! #2

Star Trails and the Captain's Ghost via APOD 2010 October 29

♪♫ Blue Mink - Melting Pot

Heard this on the bus today when I was out'n'about w/ Spaceboy. Gawd - this takes me back to when I was 10!

Pussy Riot: Making Punk a Threat Again

Pussy Riot is -- to borrow the Clash's mantle for a second -- the only band that matters.
It almost doesn't matter what the court says. The three women of Pussy Riot -- an explosive, obnoxious cross between a band and an anonymous Russian dissidents' movement -- have, in an important sense, already won their farce of a trial in Moscow. Every day that their trial for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" continues, they call international attention to the paranoid repression of Vladimir Putin's Russia. Pussy Riot has skewered Putin on the horns of a dilemma: Either his government convicts the band and martyrs it even further, or it backs down and concedes that prosecuting the masked trio for a cacophonous musical protest at Christ the Savior Cathedral that called attention to the Russian church's alliance with the Putin regime was always a mistake. Three of the five band members now face the prospect of seven years in prison, which has prompted an unlikely international outcry. On Thursday, Aug. 2, ahead of a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Putin indicated he'd prefer to back down...

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