Saturday, 12 February 2011
Mubarak's failed last stand
An independent Egyptian government responsive to the will of its people would certainly also reject Mubarak’s close cooperation with Israel to maintain the blockade of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, though I thought it unlikely that any Egyptian government would want to go to war with Israel. I do not think I was wrong. However, I totally failed to anticipate that the regime itself would play the foreigner card.
Starting particularly on February 2, the day the regime commenced its ultimately unsuccessful attempt to dislodge the pro-democracy movement with attacks by armed thugs, state media attempted to whip up a frenzy of anti-foreigner sentiment by claiming foreigners had organised and funded the protests against Mubarak. It must be emphasised as strongly as possible that the notion of foreigners provoking the revolution or underwriting it financially is utterly absurd.
The only foreign influence here is the inspiration of the Tunisian example. Egypt's revolution is as home grown as any revolution in the history of the world - let alone the history of Egypt. But propaganda is as propaganda does. For a while at least, the state media campaign seemed to have had some success. One night we overheard one of our friends having angry phone conversations about politics with a relative who was upset by reports of a Mossad agent trained by Hamas fomenting unrest in Egypt. This seemingly bizarre concatenation may actually have been an accurate interpretation of Omar Suleiman's speech from the night before...
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Abu Atris @'Al Jazeera'
De La Soul's 20 Years High and Rising Tour @Jazz à la Villette, Paris 09 September 2009
Tracklist
1. De La Soul's Big Up
2. Intro
3. This is Radio Clash (The Clash cover)
4. Eye Know
5. A roller skating jam named "saturdays"
6. Much More
7. Stakes is High
8. Pass the P's
9. Jenifa Taught Me (derwin's revenge)
10. The Grind Date
11. Oooh
12. The Bizness
13. I am I be
14. All Good
15. Breakadawn
16. Me, Myself and I
17. Feel Good Inc. (Gorillaz cover)
18. Rock Box (Run DMC cover)
19. Ring Ring (ha ha hey)
20. The Magic Number
Target of FBI's Anonymous Probe Speaks Out
"I think the Feds need there to be a leader. How do you cut the head off a snake that doesn't have a head? They are looking for the fastest most efficient way to kill Anonymous. If they ever kill Anonymous, it won't be fast and it wont be efficient. They would have to oppress many, many civil rights to do so. As far as taking out those who are more active—I can tell you that we had a boy in the Netherlands who used to help a lot with Anonymous. He got caught. He was 16. Before he got caught, Anonymous had maybe 15 Dutch on the whole IRC. After he got caught a special channel had to be made just for all the Dutch people that were coming in."
@'Gawker'
RWW ReadWriteWeb
theharryshearer Harry Shearer
Dear George W. Bush: this is how the Middle East gets re-made. No invasions necessary.
Warning: Smurfs Can Be Bad For Your Bank Account
The Washington Post reports today on problems with an iPhone game for children called Smurfs' Village, which allows kids to "build a complete Smurfs village from scratch":
Over the winter break from school, 8-year-old Madison worked to dress up her simple mushroom home on the iPhone game Smurfs' Village. In doing so, she also amassed a $1,400 bill from Apple....But like a growing number of parents, Madison's mom, Stephanie Kay, was shocked to find very real charges from iTunes show up in her e-mail box days later.Loopholes? You've got to be kidding. What possible justification can a game developer (Capcom in this case) have for charging real money for virtual objects under any circumstances? If you can sucker adults into doing this, that's one thing. But these are games for kids. Of course they think the charges are just play money. So would most parents. What person in his right mind would even consider the possibility that a corporation would charge a hundred real dollars for a wagon of virtual Smurfberries?
....The practice is troubling parents and public interest groups, who say $99 for a wagon of Smurfberries or $19 for a bucket of snowflakes doesn't have any business in a children's game. Though a password is needed to make a purchase, critics say that the safeguards aren't strong enough and that there are loopholes.
Come to think of it, this actually sounds fairly predatory even for adult games, though I suppose I'm being hopelessly naive and elderly on that score. But kids? Somebody please tell me I'm not crazy to be genuinely shocked over this.
Kevin Drum @'Mother Jones'
Friday, 11 February 2011
J. Period, John Legend & The Roots: “Wake Up! Radio” (Mixtape)
In anticipation of an award-winning evening for John Legend & The Roots’ WAKE UP! album (nominated for 5 Grammys at Sunday’s 2011 Grammy Awards), J.Period & Truelements Music are pleased to present WAKE UP! RADIO – a star-studded mixtape collaboration with Columbia Records’ multi-platinum singing sensation, and the hardest working Late Night band on the planet!
Hosted by The Roots’ own Black Thought, WAKE UP! RADIO pays tribute to the legacy of soul music that paved the way for WAKE UP! and imagines a world where mainstream radio transmits music with a message. Employing an all-star cast of musical contemporaries (including John Legend & The Roots themselves), J.Period dissects, remixes and rebuilds the original recording sessions from the WAKE UP! album in an unprecedented manner, defying the conventional wisdom of what a “mixtape” can be—producing a full-fledged remix album in the process. The result is a treasure trove of powerful new music, produced and remixed exclusively by J.Period for WAKE UP! RADIO.
Scheduled for release today, February 10, 2011 , WAKE UP! RADIO will be offered as a FREE DOWNLOAD in celebration of WAKE UP!’s 5 Grammy nominations, and will also be available as a Limited Edition gift-bag giveaway at The Roots’ Grammy Jam on Saturday, February 12 in Los Angeles, CA—consistently one of the hottest tickets on a weekend overflowing with events. J.Period will also be on hand in Los Angeles to perform at The Grammy Jam, DJing to open up for The Roots’ headlining performance.
Adding to the historic nature of this mixtape release, J.Period will also release an exclusive Digital 12” on Tuesday, February 15, featuring a history-making collaboration between John Legend, Black Thought of The Roots, and hip hop luminary, Rakim. The track, entitled “In the Ghetto (Wake Up!)”, produced by J.Period, is an homage to the Eric B. & Rakim classic “In The Ghetto”—which hearkens back to a time when hip hop and social messages went hand in hand.
Additional featured guests on WAKE UP! RADIO include Common, Q-Tip, Late Night host Jimmy Fallon, Nigerian songstress Nneka, Somali sensation K’NAAN, Def Poet Mayda Del Valle and more, in addition to never-before-heard music from Black Thought and John Legend. Also look out for J.Period’s history-making “Our Generation” Remix, reuniting hip hop legends Pete Rock & CL Smooth, which was originally released online in November, and is also featured on WAKE UP! RADIO.
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Adam Freeland - Sounds of Kaleidoscope @ The Nest
Tracklist:
Tyco - Coastal Break
Glimmers - U rocked my world (Pete Herbert mix)
Funk-d'void - 37.1
Wagon Christ - Manalyze This!
Todd Terje - Balearic Incarnations
Justin Martin - Deep Throat
Ramadanman - Work them
Scuba - You got me
Gessafelstien - Body Of Eyes
Hannulelauri - Super Monkey
Djedjotronic - Uranus
PFN - The Flow (False Profet mix)
B Movie - Nowhere Girl (Adam Freeland mix)
Luke Abbot - Trans Forest Alignment
Glimmers - U rocked my world (Pete Herbert mix)
Funk-d'void - 37.1
Wagon Christ - Manalyze This!
Todd Terje - Balearic Incarnations
Justin Martin - Deep Throat
Ramadanman - Work them
Scuba - You got me
Gessafelstien - Body Of Eyes
Hannulelauri - Super Monkey
Djedjotronic - Uranus
PFN - The Flow (False Profet mix)
B Movie - Nowhere Girl (Adam Freeland mix)
Luke Abbot - Trans Forest Alignment
chris_carter_ Chris Carter
btw: I have begun remastering the original Throbbing Gristle albums for vinyl rerelease on Industrial Records Ltd.
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