Wednesday, 21 August 2013

The whistleblower's mad moral courage

♪♫ MIA - UNBREAK my Mixtape


WikiLeaks Party of Australia self implodes a week before the election

Julian Assange's WikiLeaks Party running mate Leslie Cannold quits

Daniel Matthew's resignation statement (in which Julian Assange does not come out well)

Adam Curtis: Bugger

Maybe the real state secret is that spies aren't very good at their jobs and don't know much about the world

I Always Feel Like Obama's Watching Me


SERIOUSLY WTF???

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Immigrants Against Immigration

♪♫ The Rockingbirds - Live @The Diorama London


Elmore Leonard on Film

Elmore Leonard R.I.P.

Kazakh side sacrifice sheep ahead of Celtic clash

Tuesday, 20 August 2013


Whom 
to Detain 

HA!

(Click to enlarge)
Viz
(Thanx Bella!)

Quinn Norton: Bradley Manning and the Two Americas

♪♫ Roxy Music - Pyjamarama (1973)


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Ad Break: You're Never Alone With A Strand (1959)

Seem to recall a photo of Peter Gabriel when he left Genesis in Melody Maker adopting the lighting cigarette pose with the caption 'you're never alone with a band'

The Best of IceBridge Arctic '13 (NASA)

The views from the cockpit of NASA's P-3B aircraft on an Operation IceBridge campaign are truly stunning. The mission doesn't travel to both ends of the Earth for the scenery of course -- the airborne mission is there to collect radar, laser altimetry, and other data on the changing ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice of the Arctic and Antarctic. But for those of us who aren't polar pilots, here's a selection of some of the best footage from the forward and nadir cameras mounted to the aircraft taken during IceBridge's spring deployment over Greenland and the Arctic Ocean

Are the NSA Revelations Changing How We Use the Internet?

Upper West Side condo has separate entrances for rich and poor

What Will an Abbott Australia Look Like?

♪♫ bvdub - Strong Again (Teach Me To Feel)

A sample from the forthcoming bvdub album "born in toyko" out via n5MD, September 10th 2013.
This is also due imminently (but knowing Echospace...)
It has been nearly five years since Brock's highly acclaimed 'White Clouds Drift On And On' debuted on Echospace earning a plethora of critical acclaim including many coveted top albums of the year list from RA to The Wire. Brock returns in beautiful form with what he proclaims to be his most personal and self-defining moment in his fruitful musical career. This album however strikes on a very different chord from the last, rather than find contentment in repeating himself he has sculpted a unique sound slightly out of focus from his previous work, a sound one could only say is like drifting in and out of consciousness. A place where early LSD experiments reveal third dimensions of the mind and evoke emotions so powerful they haunt forever. Here we see Brock's true dedication to vision, maturity and growth, the reason why so many people have gravitated to his heart-tugging productions. On, 'Home' Van Wey paints a near three hour exploration so beautiful and hypnotic that the listener feels as if only moments passed by - a second to forever. This is a welcome return to form in the one place Brock refers to as 'Home' here on Echospace. If Burial were to meet Eno in the studio of a BBC radio workshop session with Tape masters sent to Steve Roach for further deconstruction this might be the unique result, residing somewhere in the ether
Samples

♪♫ Gary Clail On-U Sound System - The Emotional Hooligan


♪♫ Slade - Live @Winterland (1975)


Stevie Nicks (circa 1965)

Via

'It is apparent that the human mind is uninhibited let alone creative'

Things to do in Canberra
(#1 of a very occasional series)
'Cum On Eel The Boize'
(Apologies Noddy & Jim!)

Is the document swap mentioned at The Guardian at all?

Mr. Miranda was in Berlin to deliver documents related to Mr. Greenwald’s investigation into government surveillance to Ms. Poitras, Mr. Greenwald said. Ms. Poitras, in turn, gave Mr. Miranda different documents to pass to Mr. Greenwald. Those documents, which were stored on encrypted thumb drives, were confiscated by airport security, Mr. Greenwald said. All of the documents came from the trove of materials provided to the two journalists by Mr. Snowden.

Dear Lady Gaga, ‘Burqa’ sends the wrong message

Long Before Helping Expose NSA Spying, Journalist Laura Poitras Faced Harassment from U.S. Agents

A Strangely Beautiful Map of Race in America


Cameron Proves Greenwald Right

Nine hours in the life of David Miranda


David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't cooperate'

David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face

White House was given 'heads-up' over David Miranda detention in UK

Virgin Mary SHALL have her revenge


Laurel & Hardy dance to Billy Jean


Old friend ex Pretty Things drummer Viv Prince alive and well in Portugal tonight

I'll be honest I didn't think Viv would still be with us in this day and age. I met him in the late seventies through a woman I knew called Louise, who turned me on to Scott Walker and whose original May 68 posters I coveted. She was also one of the first twenty members of the original Rolling Stones fan club. Viv and her would reminisce about the early gigs and complain that they were never the same without Brian Jones. Viv also did the most incredible impersonation of Jagger's stage moves.  Every so often I would get invited back to Viv's small bedsit in Highgate to try the demon home brew he made and I remember one night I was extolling the virtues of (some) disco music which to say didn't go down well with Viv would be a rather massive understatement. Anyway after falling unconscious at some point I finally awoke and headed off and after walking about a mile realised on seeing my reflection in a shop window that the bast'rd had written 'I LOVE DISCO' in texta on my forehead (NOT easy deciphering it backwards with a dreadful hangover!!!)


Photo

Joe Strummer and Punk Self-Reinvention

How Lester Bangs Taught Me To Read

Monday, 19 August 2013

Map of London Underground trains in real-time

What I learned from getting shot