What have you done Facebook algorithms?

Lobbyist claims Monsanto weed killer is safe to drink. WATCH WHAT HAPPENS NEXT*

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You just know our s̶u̶b̶u̶r̶b̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶l̶i̶c̶i̶t̶o̶r̶ sorry Attorney General will not understand this at all

The Pretenders - Live @Théâtre de l'Empire Paris (1979)

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Meanwhile just one day after Australia's data retention scheme was passed...

Wha Dat Hi Fi In Session (1985)

Featuring: Little John, Pampidoo, Philip Fraser, Tippa Lee & Rappa Roberts, Yami Bolo, Danny Culture and Barry G
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Luc Sante: Arleen

Let me play you “Arleen,” by General Echo, a seven-inch 45 on the Techniques label, produced by Winston Riley, a number one hit in Jamaica in the autumn of 1979. “Arleen” is in the Stalag 17 riddim, a slow, heavy, insinuating track that is nearly all bass—the drums do little more than bracket and punctuate, and the original’s brass-section color has been entirely omitted in this version. I’m not really sure what Echo is saying. It sounds like “Arleen wants to dream with a dream.” A dream within a dream. Whether or not those are his actual words, it is the immediate sense. The riddim is at once liquid and halting, as if it were moving through a dark room filled with hanging draperies, incense and ganja smoke, sluggish and nearly impenetrable air—the bass walks and hurtles. Echo’s delivery is mostly talkover, with just a bit of sing-song at the end of the verse. It is suggestive, seductive, hypnotic, light-footed, veiling questionable designs under a scrim of innocence, or else addled, talking shit in a daze as a result of an injury: “My gal Arleen, she love whipped cream/Every time I check her she cook sardine….”

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John Renbourn R.I.P.

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?

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