Saturday, 21 September 2013

The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia

How We Met: Paul Simonon & Peter Ackroyd

♪♫ The Orb and Kakatsitsi - Live At Glastonbury Festival (2013)


♪♫ The Small Faces - All Or Nothing


The War On Whistleblowers with Alexa O'Brien, Robert Manne & Jeff Sparrow (RMIT Melbourne 20/9/13)


Alexa O'Brien: Manning a litmus test of American justice

Friday, 20 September 2013

John Cusack: Will Eric Holder guarantee NSA reporters' first amendment rights?

♪♫ Adrian Sherwood & Pinch - Rehearsal Mix


Sherwood & Pinch Interview

Ideas at the House: Panel - The War on Whistleblowers and Their Publishers (16/9/13 Sydney Opera House)

US Journalist and activist Alexa O'Brien and Australian commentator Robert Manne are joined by video conference with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Guardian Journalist Glenn Greenwald and Chelsea Manning's Lawyer David Coombs on stage at the Sydney Opera House (moderated by Bernard Keane of Crikey).
Powerful governments are waging a war on whistleblowers and those involved in publishing their material. Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, Manning has been convicted of espionage and is awaiting sentencing, and Julian Assange has been granted asylum by Ecuador but cannot step outside its London Embassy. It's clear that the actions of whistleblowers and their publishers - 'traitors' as they are known to some - have come at a significant personal cost, and while the human drama of these stories is engrossing, the focus should be on the very real issues they've raised: surveillance, press freedom, privacy, secrecy, and accountability.
The roles of governments and corporations in the future of the internet, and their use and abuse of data, have been put under the global spotlight. In the wake of Manning, Snowden and Wikileaks, we finally have the scope to properly debate the need for government transparency and the trade-off between privacy and security.
Watch our expert panel discuss the implications of the war on whistleblowers for the main actors, and the consequences if that war is lost for the rest of us
Looking forward to the Melbourne leg of this tonight

Thursday, 19 September 2013

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Paul Simonon as a kid


Ameriguns



Wednesday, 18 September 2013

please kill me...

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Tuesday, 17 September 2013