DAVID S. WARE QUARTET "LIVE IN VILNIUS" (NO BUSINESS, 2007)
25 minutes ago
Friday 24 June 2011
Van Jones at Netroots Nation
Watch the speech that Van Jones gave at Netroots Nation 2011 announcing the American Dream Movement and issuing a challenge to debate Glenn Beck.
link
link
The 14 HourTechnicolour Dream - Ally Pally 29th April1967 (Man Alive: What Is Happening? BBC)
Bonus:
Would be really grateful if anyone has a copy of Miles' 'Games For May' article from the NME...
Via
Thursday 23 June 2011
Britain's first cyber-strike – How the June 30th strike may play out online
The participation of these groups raises old questions about how people not traditionally represented by and outside of trade-union structures and activities can appropriately take direct action if they cannot withdraw their labour. But it also raises other issues that need to be addressed; notably, how changing conditions of production and employment in a 21st century, late-capitalist economy have affected the viability of the mass strike alone as an effective tool of social struggle.
There is no doubt that the withdrawal of labour is still the primary tactic working people have in defence of their interests, and as a process that broadens understanding of the dynamics of a class society through praxis; that is, in the very act of striking we can begin to understand our position and our potential for re-imagining social relations outside of the wage relation. But society today isn’t encapsulated by the unionised mass worker, but rather by the short term contract, the service industry worker, the temp and those whose labour isn’t rewarded at all. How are those most badly affected by cuts- the single-mother and the unpaid carer- supposed to withdraw their labour? It’s simply not possible. The difficulties faced by those in precarious jobs, with short term contracts, alienated and disconnected from their workmates and threatened by aggressive management, are similar. Simply calling on them to “unionise! don’t work!” is rhetoric, not a tactic...
Continue reading
(GB2011)
Throwing Muses – The Season Sessions (FREE DOWNLOAD)
Acoustic versions of songs from Rat Girl, performed by Throwing Muses
DIRECT DOWNLOAD:
FALL
WINTER
SPRING
SUMMER
via Kristin Hersh
Ciudad Juarez is All of Our Futures
War, as I came to report it, was something fought between people with causes, however crazy or honourable: like between the American and British occupiers of Iraq and the insurgents who opposed them. Then I stumbled across Mexico's drug war – which has claimed nearly 40,000 lives, mostly civilians – and all the rules changed. This is warfare for the 21st century, and another creature altogether.
Mexico's war is inextricable from everyday life. In Ciudad Juarez, the most murderous city in the world, street markets and malls remain open; Sarah Brightman sang a concert there recently. When I was back there last month, people had reappeared at night to eat dinner and socialise, out of devil-may-care recklessness and exhaustion with years of self-imposed curfew. Before, there had been an eerie quiet at night, now there is an even eerier semblance of normality – punctuated by gunfire.
On the surface, the combatants have the veneer of a cause: control of smuggling routes into the US. But even if this were the full explanation, the cause of drugs places Mexico's war firmly in our new postideological, postmoral, postpolitical world. The only causes are profits from the chemicals that get America and Europe high...
Continue reading
Ed Vulliamy @'AlterNet'
Breaking: Ai Weiwei released
BBCWorld BBC Global News
Chinese state media reports artist Ai Weiwei released on bail after confessing to tax evasion and as he suffers from chronic disease, AFP
Chinese state media reports artist Ai Weiwei released on bail after confessing to tax evasion and as he suffers from chronic disease, AFP
Wednesday 22 June 2011
Malcolm McLaren's first attempt at a cocks and cowboys t shirt design was a bit of a fizzer
McLaren's second attempt after the jump (NSFW)
Jump For Joy - BMC presents Singers & Deejays - (early) roots style
"Been a long time since I made a true foundation-styled mix, so really wanted to do one again. Had an idea of combining a whole bunch of (early) roots tunes with their deejay cuts by a variety of singers, groups and deejays. This is the result, well-known tunes with lesser known deejay cuts, well known deejay cuts with lesser known vocal efforts and I guess everything in between. Main selection criterium was: good music. Setlist would probably look different tomorrow, but this is what I came up with this time. Big music, in late 60s to mid 70s style (although some deejay cuts might be recorded somewhat later), enjoy the riding of the riddims!" (BMC)
1a) Marcia Griffiths - Working To The Top (1)
1b) Count Machuki - Dr. Sappa Too (1)
2a) Lloyd Charmers - What Can I Do (XYZ)
2b) U Roy - Officially (XYZ)
3a) The Maytones - Black And White (2)
3b) Cat Campbell - President In School (3)
4a) Jimmy London - A Little Love (Impact)
4b) Dr. Alimantado - Mary Lou (Impact)
4c) Peter Tosh - A Little Melodica (Impact)
4d) Impact Allstars - A Little Version (Impact)
5a) Eric Donaldson - Lonely Nights (2)
5b) U Roy - On Top Of The Peak (3)
6a) Clancy Eccles & The Dynamites - The World Needs Loving (4)
6b) King Stitt - Jump for Joy (5)
7a) Carl Dawkins - Get Together (Techniques)
7b) Carl Dawkins & Tony - Get Together (Techniques)
7c) Version (Techniques)
8a) Keith Hudson - Rudy Hot Stuff (Mafia)
8b) I Roy - Hot Stuff (Mafia)
9a) Claudius Linton - Crying Time (Outa National Music)
9b) Prince Heron - Crying In Babylon (Outa National Music)
9c) Soul Syndicate - Crying Dub (Outa National Music)
10a) Burning Spear - Door Peeper (6)
10b) Prince Jazzbo - Imperial I (7)
11a) The Abyssinians - Declaration of Rights (8)
11b) Sir Harry - Musical Rights (Clinch)
12a) Errol Gordon - Reggae Music (9)
12b) Jah Woosh - Reggae Music (9)
12c) Errol Gordon - Reggae Music Version (9)
13a) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Trenchtown Rock (Trax On Wax 10")
13b) U Roy with Bob Marley & The Wailers - Kingston 12 Shuffle (Trax On Wax 10")
13c) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Grooving KGN 12 (Trax On Wax 10")
14a) Ken Boothe - Black Gold & Green (Soul Beat)
14b) I Roy - Red Gold & Green (Soul Beat)
15a) Gregory Isaacs - Thief A Man (10)
15b) Dr. Alimantado - Gimme Mi Gun (11)
16a) Eric Donaldson - Love Of The Common People (12)
16b) Dennis Alcapone - Alcapone Guns Don't Argue (13)
17a) Junior Byles - Curly Locks (Clocktower)
17b) Johnny Lover - Ital Locks (Clocktower)
17c) Vital Drums (Clocktower)
18a) Derrick Harriott - Do I Worry (14)
18b) Scotty - I Worry (15)
19a) Horace Andy - Don't Think About Me (I Am Alright) (Mafia)
19b) Big Youth - Can You Keep A Secret (Mafia)
19c) Chuckles - Melody Maker Version 2 (Mafia)
20a) Heptones - Love Without Feeling (Moodisc)
20b) Big Joe & Mudie's All Stars - Lick Them Face (Moodisc)
20c) Mudie's All Stars - Dub Them Face (Moodisc)
21a) Larry Marshall - Mean Girl (16)
21b) Prince Far I - Natty Farmyard (17)
22a) Gregory Isaacs - Loving Pauper (Jahara)
22b) I Roy - Pauper And The King (Jahara)
23a) Dennis Brown - Baby Don't Do It (18)
23b) Lone Ranger - Monkey Sue (18)
more details and download as
- One track @ 192 kbps
- One track @ 320 kbps
- Tracked version .rar archive
HERE @ Better Must Come
Monckton compares Garnaut to Hitler
Footage has been posted on the internet of a speech Lord Christopher Monckton gave to a conference in Los Angeles earlier this month.
In it he displayed a Nazi swastika next to a quote from Professor Garnaut.
Lord Monckton compared statements made by Adolf Hitler to Professor Garnaut's suggestion that people should accept the mainstream science of climate change.
"That again is a fascist point of view, that you merely accept authority without question. Heil Hitler, on we go," he said.
The Scottish peer is scheduled to speak at the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) conference in Perth next week.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, who met Lord Monckton last year, will also address the AMEC conference along with independent MP Rob Oakeshott and Liberal Senator Mathias Cormann.
Lord Monckton, a one-time adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, is known around the world for his argument that humans are not damaging the climate.
Last year he told a Canberra audience that proponents of climate change wanted to establish a "world government... that would have shut down democracy worldwide".
On Tuesday night, Professor Garnaut criticised the Federal Opposition's climate policy stance, saying "bitterness and rancour" had arisen in the debate.
He dismissed the Coalition's stance to take direct action, saying carbon pricing "happens to be the low-cost way of meeting national targets".
"If countries want to shoot themselves in the foot by doing things in an expensive way they are free to do so. We would be foolish also to meet our targets in an expensive way," he said.
"There is no reason that carbon pricing should be a matter of partisan political division in Australia - and it wasn't only a few years ago."
He alluded to nations like Britain and New Zealand that have conservative governments and emissions trading schemes, saying action on climate change should transcend political boundaries.
"In much of the world, perhaps everywhere except in contemporary Australia and the United States, concern for global warming is a conservative as much as a social democratic issue," he said.
@'ABC'
The man is a complete fugn moron, bankrolled by Gina again no doubt...
Katapulko series: Love Takes You Higher (mixed by MeLo-X) Vol 1
01 Cris Prolific ‘Liberian Girl’ remix [Michael Jackson Tribute]
02 ComputerJay-’Epiphany’
03 Walter Mecca – ‘Supaa baad’
04 AD Bourke – ‘One For Me’
05 Hawthorne Headhunters- ‘Shining Star’ [Instrumental]
06 Onra – ‘High Hopes’ ft. Reggie B
07 Little Dragon – Fortune [AFTA-1 remix]
08 Waajeed – Fresh Boogie
09 Harmonic313 – Falling Away feat. Steve Spacek
10 Jneiro Jarel – Android Romance 1 & 2
11 Jesse Boykins III – AmorUs [MeLo-X remix]
12 J-Tronius – Naturally
13 Space Invadas – So Strong
14 MeLo-X – Orgasmic Audio [Still Dreaming]
15 Bilal – Free
16 Fresh Daily – Astral Dance feat. Nicholaus Ryan Gant [prod. Flying Lotus]
17 Ruckazoid – ‘If You Want My Love’
18 Jimmy Edgar – ‘Turn You Inside Out’
19 Machinedrum- ‘You & Me & You
20 Kesed – ‘Galaxy Ride’
21 Dolphin – ‘Machine Kiss’
22 Alex Moulton – Love Is Alive [RVRSplay Check The Kicks Remix]
23 Gosub – ‘Black Nova in G’
24 Prince Quan Luv feat. Rickstar & Old Money Massive – ‘Galaxy Ridin’ [prod. by Chief Encore]
25 Chico Mann – ‘All that is Rising’
26 B Bravo – ‘Computa Love’
27 Johnny Voltik – ‘Do You’
28 Dam Funk – ‘I Like Your Big Azz
29 J1 – ‘The Set Up’
30 RVRSPlay feat. Peter Hadar- ‘Glow’ Available for download here
Via
02 ComputerJay-’Epiphany’
03 Walter Mecca – ‘Supaa baad’
04 AD Bourke – ‘One For Me’
05 Hawthorne Headhunters- ‘Shining Star’ [Instrumental]
06 Onra – ‘High Hopes’ ft. Reggie B
07 Little Dragon – Fortune [AFTA-1 remix]
08 Waajeed – Fresh Boogie
09 Harmonic313 – Falling Away feat. Steve Spacek
10 Jneiro Jarel – Android Romance 1 & 2
11 Jesse Boykins III – AmorUs [MeLo-X remix]
12 J-Tronius – Naturally
13 Space Invadas – So Strong
14 MeLo-X – Orgasmic Audio [Still Dreaming]
15 Bilal – Free
16 Fresh Daily – Astral Dance feat. Nicholaus Ryan Gant [prod. Flying Lotus]
17 Ruckazoid – ‘If You Want My Love’
18 Jimmy Edgar – ‘Turn You Inside Out’
19 Machinedrum- ‘You & Me & You
20 Kesed – ‘Galaxy Ride’
21 Dolphin – ‘Machine Kiss’
22 Alex Moulton – Love Is Alive [RVRSplay Check The Kicks Remix]
23 Gosub – ‘Black Nova in G’
24 Prince Quan Luv feat. Rickstar & Old Money Massive – ‘Galaxy Ridin’ [prod. by Chief Encore]
25 Chico Mann – ‘All that is Rising’
26 B Bravo – ‘Computa Love’
27 Johnny Voltik – ‘Do You’
28 Dam Funk – ‘I Like Your Big Azz
29 J1 – ‘The Set Up’
30 RVRSPlay feat. Peter Hadar- ‘Glow’ Available for download here
Via
'Seroxat Taken On Trust' (Panorama BBC)
Seroxat is one of the world’s biggest selling and [we are told] most successful anti-depressants. But this Panorama investigation discovers the drug may have a darker side – the programme reports that people can get hooked on it, suffering serious withdrawal symptoms when they try to come off it.
For some it can lead to self harm and even suicide. But little warning of these possible side effects accompanies the drug.
These are accusations that the drug’s maker GlaxoSmithKline denies.
The programme follows one Seroxat user and charts her nine month struggle to wean herself off it.
Panorama also spoke to Dr David Healy, an expert on the drug who has had access to confidential Seroxat studies in the GlaxoSmithKline archives.
Via
MORE
simonowens Simon Owens
"Every magazine, television network, or radio station with an archive is sitting on gold." http://bit.ly/k9AIUM
"Every magazine, television network, or radio station with an archive is sitting on gold." http://bit.ly/k9AIUM
Bon Iver - Holocene (Fallon)
The Curse of the Crocodile: Russia's Deadly Designer Drug
Irina Pavlova, a recovering krokodil addict, at the Chichevo rehab center in Russia, rocking Artiom Tiomkin — the baby of another resident — on June 13, 2011
Mae Ryan for TIME
The new arrivals at the drug rehab center in Chichevo, a tiny village that is a two hours' drive east of Moscow, are usually given two weeks without chores to recover from the nausea, pain and sleeplessness of withdrawal. After that, between Bible study and prayer (the center is run by Pentecostals), they have to start chopping firewood, hauling water from the village well or otherwise helping around the old wooden house. But a lot more leeway was allowed in the case of Irina Pavlova, the only resident at the center who is addicted to krokodil, or crocodile, Russia's deadliest new designer drug.
There is no good medical explanation for why Pavlova survived her addiction. The average user of krokodil, a dirty cousin of morphine that is spreading like a virus among Russian youth, does not live longer than two or three years, and the few who manage to quit usually come away disfigured. But Pavlova says she injected the drug nearly every day for six years, having learned to cook it in her brother's kitchen. "God must have protected me," she says. But the addiction still left some of its trademark scars. She developed a speech impediment, and her pale blue eyes have something of a lobotomy patient's vacant gaze. "Her motor skills are shot from the brain damage," says Andrei Yatsenko, the house manager, who was addicted to heroin for seven years. "She'll try to walk forward and instead jolts back into something. So we try to be gentle with her."
As typically happens in Russia, Pavlova began her drug use as a teenager shooting a substance called khanka, a tarlike opiate cooked from poppy bulbs, then graduated to heroin and finally, at the age of 27, switched to krokodil, because it has roughly the same effect as heroin but is at least three times cheaper and extremely easy to make. The active component is codeine, a widely sold over-the-counter painkiller that is not toxic on its own. But to produce krokodil, whose medical name is desomorphine, addicts mix it with ingredients including gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous, which they scrape from the striking pads on matchboxes. In 2010, between a few hundred thousand and a million people, according to various official estimates, were injecting the resulting substance into their veins in Russia, so far the only country in the world to see the drug grow into an epidemic...
There is no good medical explanation for why Pavlova survived her addiction. The average user of krokodil, a dirty cousin of morphine that is spreading like a virus among Russian youth, does not live longer than two or three years, and the few who manage to quit usually come away disfigured. But Pavlova says she injected the drug nearly every day for six years, having learned to cook it in her brother's kitchen. "God must have protected me," she says. But the addiction still left some of its trademark scars. She developed a speech impediment, and her pale blue eyes have something of a lobotomy patient's vacant gaze. "Her motor skills are shot from the brain damage," says Andrei Yatsenko, the house manager, who was addicted to heroin for seven years. "She'll try to walk forward and instead jolts back into something. So we try to be gentle with her."
As typically happens in Russia, Pavlova began her drug use as a teenager shooting a substance called khanka, a tarlike opiate cooked from poppy bulbs, then graduated to heroin and finally, at the age of 27, switched to krokodil, because it has roughly the same effect as heroin but is at least three times cheaper and extremely easy to make. The active component is codeine, a widely sold over-the-counter painkiller that is not toxic on its own. But to produce krokodil, whose medical name is desomorphine, addicts mix it with ingredients including gasoline, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid, iodine and red phosphorous, which they scrape from the striking pads on matchboxes. In 2010, between a few hundred thousand and a million people, according to various official estimates, were injecting the resulting substance into their veins in Russia, so far the only country in the world to see the drug grow into an epidemic...
Continue reading
Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America
The Most Hated Family in America is a TV documentary written and presented by the BBC’s Louis Theroux about the family at the heart of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Via
Via
Portishead - ATP I'll Be Your Mirror London Mixtape
00.00 "...They Don't Sleep Anymore on the Beach..." / Monheim - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
13.19 We Carry On - Portishead
19.44 A Cold Freezin' Night - The Books
23.04 Gazzillion Ear - Doom
27.15 You Fucking People Make Me Sick - Swans
32.20 Yang Yang - Anika
35.11 Real Love - Factory Floor
42.32 Infinity Skull Cube - DD/MM/YYYY
45.51 Untilted - Helen Money
51.42 "Four Spirits In A Room" Excerpt - Alan Moore & Stephen O'Malley
56.50 Plaster Casts Of Everything - Liars
60.43 8 Steps To Perfection - Company Flow
65.23 Written On The Forehead - PJ Harvey
68.49 Arabic Emotions - The London Snorkeling Team
71.27 Wulfstan - BEAK>
77.28 When My Baby Comes - Grinderman
84.09 Paris Signals - S.C.U.M.
88.30 Lovers With Iraqis - Foot Village
92.18 Gratitude - Acoustic Ladyland
96.29 Violence - The Telescopes
100.01 Hannibal - Caribou
106.15 Walk In The Park - Beach House
13.19 We Carry On - Portishead
19.44 A Cold Freezin' Night - The Books
23.04 Gazzillion Ear - Doom
27.15 You Fucking People Make Me Sick - Swans
32.20 Yang Yang - Anika
35.11 Real Love - Factory Floor
42.32 Infinity Skull Cube - DD/MM/YYYY
45.51 Untilted - Helen Money
51.42 "Four Spirits In A Room" Excerpt - Alan Moore & Stephen O'Malley
56.50 Plaster Casts Of Everything - Liars
60.43 8 Steps To Perfection - Company Flow
65.23 Written On The Forehead - PJ Harvey
68.49 Arabic Emotions - The London Snorkeling Team
71.27 Wulfstan - BEAK>
77.28 When My Baby Comes - Grinderman
84.09 Paris Signals - S.C.U.M.
88.30 Lovers With Iraqis - Foot Village
92.18 Gratitude - Acoustic Ladyland
96.29 Violence - The Telescopes
100.01 Hannibal - Caribou
106.15 Walk In The Park - Beach House
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
