The Murdoch tapes: News Corp culture and the phone hacking scandal

News Corporation executive chairman Rupert Murdoch has been secretly recorded regretting the assistance given to authorities who were investigating allegations of phone hacking and corruption at his newspapers.
In a 45-minute recording of a speech to staff at his British newspaper The Sun made by a reporter in attendance and subsequently leaked to the press, the News Corporation boss also described payments to police and public officials as part of “the culture of Fleet Street”.
Of the police investigation, Murdoch added:

I mean, it’s a disgrace. Here we are, two years later, and the cops are totally incompetent.

In a statement, News Corporation said: “Mr Murdoch never knew of payments made by Sun staff to police before News Corporation disclosed that to UK Authorities. Furthermore, he never said he knew of payments. It’s absolutely false to suggest otherwise.”

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Cover of the first BUY or DIE!, Ralph Records’ mail order catalogue

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She's a Punk Rocker U.K. (Zillah Minx 2010)

The Full version of Documentary "She's A Punk Rocker U.K" Directed by Zillah Minx. Made by and about Punk Rock Women, 1977 Punk Rock an Oral History by the women who were part of Punk.
"Punk women changed the public face of female. It was very empowering for universal women. The story of punk could almost be a women's liberation story." Caroline Coon

llustrating Twitter's #BooksWithaLetterMissing

Sometimes hashtags are annoying, but sometimes they bring out creative genius. Take “Books With a Letter Missing”  (#bookswithalettermissing). Though many Twitter users have contributed ideas, one, @darth, has actually been Photoshopping the covers of these “fake” books.
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Guy Debord 3D Action Figure

3D-printed Guy Debord action figures. Produced by McKenzie Wark, design by Peer Hansen, with technical assistance by Rachel L. Modified by Patrick Lichty.
(Thanx to Ken for the images!)
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Guy Debord: La Société du spectacle (1973)

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Adrian Sherwood on 'Tackhead Tape Time'

“Tackhead Tape Time was made from unreleased and exclusive versions of our recordings that were like Dub Plates, unique cuts of tracks but ones that only we could play out. In the studio we would make the “main” version and then would do dub versions that Gary Clail would play before and after the band went on stage for a live show. In this period we recorded everything using analog tape. A lot of the time when setting up the mixes I was running stripped down versions of the tracks and dubbing them up and Gary would be recording cassettes of the session…these sounded to a lot of people better than over produced and cluttered tracks,raw and somewhat mangled but with Keith Le Blanc’s great drumming and programming holding them together. Add the great grooves, the vocal samples that Keith referred to as “news on the beat”, Doug Wimbish’s bass, Skip McDonald’s guitar and keyboards, and my stripped down mixes -plus the fact that a lot of it was mastered straight from the often overloaded cassettes – this record has a great edge to it.”
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Gee Vaucher: Liberty/Justice

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Gee w/ REsearch's Val Vale

Friendly as a hand grenade indeed!

Happy Fourth

As my friend Tommy says: 'Americans. Happy Independence Day. I wish we could be independent from these fuckers too.'

♪♫ Spoek Mathambo - Escape From '85 Mix (Free Download)

Escape From ‘85 – a mixtape of 12 tracks inspired by the year of Spoek's birth.
Escape From ‘85 celebrates the music and culture of the 1980s – featuring guest artists including Yadi, Terri Walker, BB James, Seye, Cherry B, DJ Wool, Cerebral Vortex, Fannie Sosa and DJ Maddjazz.

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FUCK WIMBLEDON!

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Kate Moss: 'I’d go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces'

Corinne Day (1990)

Nick Knight (2003)

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Allen Jones (2013)

Kate Moss For Sale

Ad Break: Kate Moss for Versace

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After Marrow Transplants, 2 More Patients Appear H.I.V.-Free Without Drug

Two H.I.V.-infected patients in Boston who had bone-marrow transplants for blood cancers have apparently been virus-free for weeks since their antiretroviral drugs were stopped, researchers at an international AIDS conference announced Wednesday.
The patients’ success echoes that of Timothy Ray Brown, the famous “Berlin patient,” who has shown no signs of resurgent virus in the five years since he got a bone-marrow transplant from a donor with a rare mutation conferring resistance to H.I.V. ...

 

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