Friday, 27 March 2015

Max Roach & M’Boom, Bobby Hebb with Ron Carter & The Persuasions - Live on SOUL! (17/11/71)

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"The Roots of Black Protest" Max Roach & the J.C. White Singers
Arthur Burghardt as Frederick Douglass

Rahsaan Roland Kirk & the Vibration Society - Live on SOUL! (4/10/72)

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Why does Jeremy Clarkson get me so angry?

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Tracking Britain's jihadists

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Interestingly on the day that Australia brought in mandatory data retention because you know "terrorism" that Alex Murray one of the journalists who worked on this piece at the BBC said on Facebook: "One of our key findings is that the importance of "radicalisation by internet" is less important than friendships and peer groups, which challenges one narrative which is frequently repeated and induces a public paranoia about the threat"

Adrian Sherwood - NTS Radio (24/3/15)

The third in a series of four shows. This and others can be downloaded at Swamp's blog

Romantic Warriors III - Canterbury Tales (Trailer)

Scott Ludlum on the data retention bill

New data world order: government can read every Australian like an open book

Peter Greste on the just passed metadata bill

Even if we wanted to live in a police state, history suggests that we can never really truly deal with terrorism.
And that perversely, the best way to tackle extremism of any sort is to keep an open, accountable society with a free media, able to do its job, interrogating not just governments, but those whose opinions tend to drift off into the political extremes...
Obviously there’s been a lot of discussion and debate about the metadata legislation and I haven’t been in the country long enough to really get involved at a personal level.I would like to take a closer look and see what we can do with that, but I think that we need to, as I said, hold to those principles and have a bigger debate about what the relationship should be between the press and the government.Which way do we want to go with this? Do we want to head towards more authoritarianism or head towards more accountability? That’s the way the slider works. It seems to me to be quite binary and we need to be conscious of that dilemma.That’s the discussion that the nation needs to have

Peter Greste calls for universal charter of media freedoms

Я Куба

A selection of scenes taken from the opening of Soy Cuba (Я Куба) Mikhail Kalatozov (1964)

Darren Wershler-Henry: The Iron Whim - A Fragmented History of Typewriting (2005)

The Iron Whim is a history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer’s life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Alger Hiss, William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Northrop Frye, David Cronenberg, and David Letterman; the soundtrack ranges from the industrial clatter of a newsroom full of Underwoods to the more muted tapping and hum of the Selectric. Wershler-Henry casts a bemused eye on the odd history of early writing machines, important and unusual typewritten texts, the creation of On the Road, and the exploits of a typewriting cockroach named Archy, numerous monkeys, poets, and even a couple of vampires. And by broadening his focus to look at typewriting as a social system as well as the typewriter as a technological form, he examines the way that the tool has shaped the creative process
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