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Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Monday, 28 November 2011
♪♫ Jungle Brothers - I'll House You (1989)
The single "I'll House You," added to the album "Straight out the Jungle" in 1989, is known for being the first hip-house record recorded outside of the Chicago scene, which was a club hit that drastically changed the way the hip-hop and dance-music industries worked. (wiki)
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Tracklist:
01.Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook – Definition Of Life
02.Pete Namlook aka 4 Voice – Old Love Dies
03.The Fires Of Ork (P.Namlook & Geir Jensen) – In Heaven
04.Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook – Holy Man
05.Tetsu Inoue & Pete Namlook – Shades Of Orion Parts XII, XIII & XIV
06 & 07.Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook – African Virus Parts II & III
08.Pete Namlook aka 4 Voice – The Final Frontier
09.Pete Namlook & Pascal F.E.O.S. aka Hearts Of Space – All About Sensuality
10.Pete Namlook – Summer Part IV
11.Pete Namlook & DJ Dag – Pure Energy
12.Pete Namlook & Dr. Atmo – Heaven
13.The Fires Of Ork (P.Namlook & Geir Jensen) – When The Night Is Black
14.Air aka Pete Namlook – Travelling Without Moving Trips IV & V
15.The Fires Of Ork (P.Namlook & Geir Jensen) – The Fires Of Ork
16.Pete Namlook & Charles Uzzell Edwards – Chill In (Lowrider)
17.Pete Namlook & Atom Heart – Beel
18.Pete Namlook & Atom Heart – The Third Option
19.Pete Namlook aka SYN – Jugoslavia
20.Pete Namlook aka SYN – Night Time Pleasures
21.Pete Namlook – While Angels Sing
22.Air aka Pete Namlook – Give Space A Trance (Chance III)
23.Tetsu Inoue & Pete Namlook – Biotrip
24.Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook – Angel Tech
25.David Moufang aka Move D – Goofi
26.The Fires Of Ork (P.Namlook & Geir Jensen) – Sky Lounge
27.Pete Namlook & Mixmaster Morris – Underwater
28.Pete Namlook aka Romantic Warrior – Romantic Warrior
29.Pete Namlook aka Romantic Warrior – Reflexion Au Jour
30.Pete Namlook – Homo Ambiens
31.Sequential (P.Namlook & DJ Criss) – 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
32.SOL Featuring Antonia Langesdorf – Venus/Stardust (Electro Mix)
33.Anthony Rother – Don’t Stop The Beat
34.Daniel Pemberton – Antartica
35.Pete Namlook – 25th Of November 2089
36.Daniel Pemberton – Antartica
37.Peter Kuhlmann aka Pete Namlook – Road VI
38.Peter Kuhlmann aka Pete Namlook – Wandering Soul Part XII
39.Chris Meloche – In The Air Part X
40.Solphax aka Victor Sol – S-pac-E/P-Machine
41.Pete Namlook – Finis
42.Pete Namlook & Peter Prochir – Terminal Beach
43.Koolfang (P.Namlook & David Moufang) – Counter
44.Pete Namlook & Move D – Bad Hair Day
45.Pete Namlook & Hubertus Held – Hey Leroy!
46.Pete Namlook & Move D – False Decodings
47.Pete Namlook & Move D – Saucerful
48.Pete Namlook & Move D – Nite Out/Time To Go
49.Pete Namlook & Move D – As Peter Plays The Strings/At The End
50.Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts – Radio Free Mars Talk 7
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Sunday, 27 November 2011
Cluster Bombs: Nations Reject Weakening of Global Ban
An attempt by the United States and others to weaken the comprehensive ban on cluster munitions has failed, Human Rights Watch said today. The effort by the US and other users and stockpilers of cluster munitions to create a new protocol to the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) was rejected on November 25, 2011, in Geneva after more than 50 states said there was no consensus for adopting it.
The draft protocol had been developed, discussed, and negotiated over the past four years as a response, and an alternative, to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, which comprehensively bans all use, production, stockpiling, and trade of all cluster munitions.
“The proposed law would have posed serious threats to civilians living in conflict by promoting increased use of cluster munitions,” said Steve Goose, Arms director at Human Rights Watch, and chair of the international Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC). “It's remarkable and gratifying that so many nations put humanitarian concerns above other interests and resisted the pressures of the major military powers.”
The convention banning cluster munitions has been signed or ratified by 111 nations, including some of the biggest users, producers, and stockpilers of cluster munitions in recent decades, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Twenty of 28 NATO members have joined the ban convention.
The United States, Russia, China, India, Israel, and a few other nations attempted to cut a deal in which they would ban cluster munitions produced before 1980, but be given specific legal authorization to use all of their other cluster munitions. That would have included the vast majority of their arsenals, many millions of cluster munitions containing many hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of submunitions. Nearly all of these types of cluster munitions have already been well-documented by Human Rights Watch and others to have caused extensive harm to civilians in conflicts in the past decade in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Georgia. They were banned in 2008 by the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
A powerful alliance comprised of Norway, Austria, Mexico, and about 50 other governments, as well as several UN agencies (most notably the UN Development Programme), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the CMC, led by Human Rights Watch, fought the creation of the CCW protocol. In addition to highlighting the humanitarian harm that could be brought about by the proposed protocol, the alliance expressed strong concern that it represented a regression in international humanitarian law, and could have set a precedent where, for the first time, nations agreed to an international instrument with weaker provisions than one on the same subject that had already been adopted.
“It is a great day for those who care about the protection of civilians,” Goose said. “This protocol would have given political and legal cover to those who want to continue to use these weapons that have already caused so much human suffering.”
@'Human Rights watch'
The draft protocol had been developed, discussed, and negotiated over the past four years as a response, and an alternative, to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, which comprehensively bans all use, production, stockpiling, and trade of all cluster munitions.
“The proposed law would have posed serious threats to civilians living in conflict by promoting increased use of cluster munitions,” said Steve Goose, Arms director at Human Rights Watch, and chair of the international Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC). “It's remarkable and gratifying that so many nations put humanitarian concerns above other interests and resisted the pressures of the major military powers.”
The convention banning cluster munitions has been signed or ratified by 111 nations, including some of the biggest users, producers, and stockpilers of cluster munitions in recent decades, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Twenty of 28 NATO members have joined the ban convention.
The United States, Russia, China, India, Israel, and a few other nations attempted to cut a deal in which they would ban cluster munitions produced before 1980, but be given specific legal authorization to use all of their other cluster munitions. That would have included the vast majority of their arsenals, many millions of cluster munitions containing many hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of submunitions. Nearly all of these types of cluster munitions have already been well-documented by Human Rights Watch and others to have caused extensive harm to civilians in conflicts in the past decade in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Georgia. They were banned in 2008 by the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
A powerful alliance comprised of Norway, Austria, Mexico, and about 50 other governments, as well as several UN agencies (most notably the UN Development Programme), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the CMC, led by Human Rights Watch, fought the creation of the CCW protocol. In addition to highlighting the humanitarian harm that could be brought about by the proposed protocol, the alliance expressed strong concern that it represented a regression in international humanitarian law, and could have set a precedent where, for the first time, nations agreed to an international instrument with weaker provisions than one on the same subject that had already been adopted.
“It is a great day for those who care about the protection of civilians,” Goose said. “This protocol would have given political and legal cover to those who want to continue to use these weapons that have already caused so much human suffering.”
@'Human Rights watch'
White Light/Black Rain (Excerpt)
This is from the 2007 documentary by Steven Okazaki "White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0911010/
Some Hiroshima survivors were flown to the US in 1955 to get plastic surgery for wounds they received when the atomic bomb was dropped. Among them was Shigeko Sasamori, who was interviewed for the film.
At the time, the leader of the mission, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, was featured on the TV show "This Is Your Life" where he met Captain Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay...
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Some Hiroshima survivors were flown to the US in 1955 to get plastic surgery for wounds they received when the atomic bomb was dropped. Among them was Shigeko Sasamori, who was interviewed for the film.
At the time, the leader of the mission, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, was featured on the TV show "This Is Your Life" where he met Captain Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay...
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Saturday, 26 November 2011
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.
But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? – the picture darkened. The National Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a Freedom of Information Act request to investigate possible federal involvement with law enforcement practices that appeared to target journalists. The New York Times reported that "New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers" covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD to raise their hands to prove they had credentials: when many dutifully did so, they were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the story they were covering, and penned far from the site in which the news was unfolding. Other reporters wearing press passes were arrested and roughed up by cops, after being – falsely – informed by police that "It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk."
In New York, a state supreme court justice and a New York City council member were beaten up; in Berkeley, California, one of our greatest national poets, Robert Hass, was beaten with batons. The picture darkened still further when Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on "how to suppress" Occupy protests...
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Naomi Wolf @'The Guardian'
Bruce Sterling: Twenty Years Fore & Aft
Even if you were having a great time in 1991 (I sure was), you should resolutely refuse that year any reverent nostalgia. That halcyon year is gone for ever, yes, but its legacy is alive and also unstable. 1991 was the heyday of cyber-counterculture. 1991 was the triumph of neo-liberalism over the corpse of Communism. 1991 was the flushed, tubercular onset of the dotcom collapse. 1991 was when a feral oil market destroyed a new world order. 1991 was all of those things at one time. The past takes its meaning from what we do today, and 1991 can be construed – just as 2031 can.
1991 hasn’t yet been through the full, awful rigour of historical revisionism – it’s not like the year 1789, chewed to mulch by generations of ideological stakeholders. But the only fate that history offers is to be re-interpreted; re-cast as retrodiction, more and more wildly as its constituent elements vanish, as its eyewitnesses leave us, as the past’s quotidian aspects become remote, romantic, fantastic ...
Twenty years from now is 2031. That year is not Utopia or Oblivion, it’s not made of sci-fi hologrammed tinsel; it’s just another year among many, and most of its working parts are already scattered around. Like any other year, it offers novelties, but also huge absences. 1991 had many thriving elements denied to 2031. Film cameras. Newspapers. Bookshops. Print magazines that were simply, entirely and utterly print. National analogue broadcast television networks. Young people.
2031, by contrast, has the common 21st-century population: huge and old. Back in 1991, only Florida, Japan and Italy had that solid, permanent preponderance of the elderly that is common everywhere in 2031. This vast social transition changed everything and created all kinds of financial and political mayhem, but it was nothing much to get excited about, because there was nothing much to be done about it. Nobody ever gets less old...
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The Tunisian fruitseller who changed the Middle East
Time magazine gives its annual Person of the Year award to the person or group who has had the most profound effect on the year's news. By definition, therefore, it tends to go to the great and the good. This year it should go the man who started the Arab Spring: a 26 year old Tunisian street vendor named Mohammad Al Bouazizi.
Last December, confrontations with a local government official left Mohammad fearing he was losing his family's only source of livelihood. Desperate and unable to get the authorities to listen to him, he set fire to himself in front of the gates of the Governors office in Sidi Bouzid.
He died on 4 January 2011 from his injuries. In the intervening time, rioting, sparked by his act, had started in cities across the country. Before Mohammad died, the man who couldn't get anyone to hear his pleas was visited in hospital by President Zine el-Abidine Ben, and 10 days after his death, the President fled the country.
As we now know, this was nowhere near the end of it. Presidents have fallen in Egypt, Libya and now Yemen. Tunisia itself has had democratic elections. The West has been pulled in to new military action. Syria is in civil war. And all can be traced back to a fruitseller in a small provincial Tunisian town.
Of course, Mohammad Al Bouazizi could not have known where his protest could lead. But that is not the point. One man's act has changed the Middle East more than decades of diplomacy have managed. And I think his influence and memory should be marked.
I don't know if Time will make him Person of the Year -- they've short listed him (which is great), but he's not the favourite. Steve Jobs appears to have a clear lead.
But this year? Please drop Time a line and tell them there's really only one choice.
Richard Morris @'The New Statesman'
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Once a year, it feels like Sunday but it's really Friday. Are you gonna waste it buying foreign-made crap at Walmart?
Once a year, it feels like Sunday but it's really Friday. Are you gonna waste it buying foreign-made crap at Walmart?
IV at 40: A Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of 'Led Zeppelin IV' at Flood Gallery
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Les Savy Fav - ATP Nightmare Before Christmas Mix
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Please enjoy this mixtape chosen by Les Savy Fav who have picked a track each from all of the artists chosen for their day of the event, highlighted by an unreleased Oxes track from back in 1999.
- Les Savy Fav - The Sweat Descends
- Archers Of Loaf - Lowest Part Is Free!
- Future Islands - Balance
- Hot Snakes - Light Up The Stars
- Marnie Stern - The Crippled Jazzer
- No Age - Fever Dreaming
- Wild Flag - Future Crimes
- Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes
- Violent Soho - Love Is A Heavy Word
- Total Control - One More Tonight
- Oxes - Jellyfish Minus Piechart Plus
- The Dodos - Fools
- The Budos Band - T.I.B.W.F.
- Simian Mobile Disco - 1000 Year Egg
- Holy Fuck - Frenchy's
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