How the Paris Attackers Honed Their Assault Through Trial and Error

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The uprising movement in Syria was stolen by the extremists , this short pixilation Film , tells how the Syrian people's lives turned to black, how their dreams were shattered, and how their future can no longer be thought of.
Fade To Black.
A pixilation short movie made by
Amer Al barzawi
Ammar Khattab
Farah Presley
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On the run

JD Twitch - Post Punk Special (NTS Radio 30/10/15)

Tracklist:
This Heat - Pool
The Desperate Bicycles - The Medium Was Tedium
Blurt - Some Come
The Distributors - Wireless
The Murphy Federation - Slipping Past On The Inside
Basement 5 - Paranoia
Mark Wyman - Space In Faders
Missing Scientists - Big City Bright Lights
Maximum Joy - Mouse An' Me
23 Skidoo - Vegas El Bandito
The Impossible Dreamers - Spin
Glaxo Babies - Shake The Foundations
The Tesco Bombers - Hernando's Hideaway
Chantage - It's Only Money
Snatch - Shopping For Clothes
The Slits - Earthbeat
Sara Goes Pop - Arab O Habab Of Arabia
Amos & Sara - The Snake
L. Voag - Kitchen
Brenda Ray - Starlight
Pink Military - Did You See Her?
Poison Girls - Old Tarts Song
Zounds - Can't Cheat Karma
The Scars - Horrorshow
Clock DVA - 4 Hours
Rema Rema - Entry
Swell Maps - Let's Build A Car
Tools You Can Trust - Show Your Teeth
Robert Rental - A.C.C.
Philip & His Foetus Vibrations - Spite Your Face
Alex Fergusson - Brushing Your Hair
Comrade Oleau - Tiny Revolutions
The Lenin Lads - Dunlop
The Homosexuals - Prestel
Desmond Simmons - Pathenon
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Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws

Blank on Blank (PBS Digital Studios)

Bowie, Barnbrook and the Blackstar artwork

Arne Hanna - Murphy

(For John Murphy)

If you keep saying Saudi Arabia is like ISIL, you might get sued

The Mail Room

How the most extreme trips on erowid transformed modern drug culture

Laurie Anderson (RBMA 2015 Paris Lecture)

Scanner - Trails, Traces and Remembrance

One year ago my brother passed away in very unsettling circumstances so I want to share this piece in memory of him. I still miss him so very much.
The music was recorded entirely live and produced almost by accident in preparation for a Modular Synth Meet event in Peterborough UK. I set up the equipment in my studio to test levels and to explore what might be possible the day before the event, with this temporary live set up, and within minutes this music began to appear. Sometimes there is indeed magic in the air. This is for you Nick, if only you could hear it

- Robin Rimbaud

Notting Hill Carnival 1973

John Murphy Memorial Drone Performance - Ding Dong Melbourne (28/11/15) AUDIO

Here's my recording of the memorial gig for the late John Murphy held on 28/11/15 at Ding Dong here in Melbourne. 
Starts with Sara Thorn reading her (late) brother Barrington Sherman's poem (see pic) followed by the drone gig featuring Ollie Olsen, Andrew Duffield, Greg Williams, Arne Hanna, Michael Sheridan, Troy Norfolk and Kerri Simpson. Lastly Shining Vril's 'Schmerz' was played

Thank you to (especially) Alan, Kate and BillW for that making all that happen as well as the performers obviously. 
A (very) sad but beautiful day.
Photos used with kind permission of Bruce Butler
(FLAC) Recording 
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We can save atheism from the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris

Mark Stewart (The Pop Group) interview Le Guess Who? Utrecht 2015

Russian poster from 1915

This was just tweeted by the UK Russian Embassy to celebrate the centenary of WWI. Someone replied with this, seeing as they like old posters

The Amish Sex Pistols

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Islamophobia plays right into the hands of ISIL

Dub techno master Deepchord on sound as therapy and Detroit’s uncertain future

The Myth of the Caliphate

15 Years of Terror (A time-lapse map)

A time-lapse of all terrorist attacks with MORE than 20 fatalities between 1.12.2000 and 13.11.2015 by http://www.milanvuckovic.com
Soruces:
START terrorism database "GTD" (2000-2014)
Various News Agencies (2015)
Important Note: due to the large amount of data used, there are likely to be mistakes (exact chronology, location, casualties etc.). This video should serve as an approximation. (Especially in the messy parts.)
Typical error would be: GTD had sometimes the "at least" casualties in the database. Istanbul Bombings of 2003 are not present on the map because of this. I also used different definitions of terrorism regarding the area and time of attacks.
About the copy at the end:
Historians debate about weather terrorist groups are destined to fail or not. Some say that authentic terrorist organizations achieve partial goals only. Many regard John Brown (approx. 150 years ago) as the most successful terrorist till this day – But you might read the essays: "How Successful Is Terrorism?" (James M. Lutz and Brenda J. Lutz) and "Why Terrorism Does Not Work" (M. Abrahms) and you will find out what this message is exactly about: Deterring potential future terrorism by education

Eagles of Death Metal Discuss Paris Terror Attacks

A Thanksgiving Prayer

Sexpionage

Hamell on Trial

Slavoj Žižek, Yanis Varoufakis and Julian Assange: Europe is Kaput. Long live Europe!

Well played sis, well played

Just as well ISIL aren't Catholic...

...eh?

How religion spread across the world

Via

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Yes, It’s Fair to Compare the Plight of the Syrians to the Plight of the Jews. Here’s Why

Members Of The Far Right Are Threatening Political Violence. Whatever Happened To Those Anti-Terror Laws?

The Bug - Meth Teng

Sunn O))) - Boiler Room Berlin Live Set

So looking forward to their return to Melbourne in March next year

The Ruins of Kobane

Some other things...

Jeb has an awfully short memory. France has been no friend to Muslims. What has changed? The pill fuelling Syria's civil war and getting Saudi royalty arrested. Abdelhamid Abaaoud boasted back in February's issue of the ISIL magazine Dabiq of his involvement in European terror attacks.  (See also this in French from January) Confessions of an ISIL spy. Why do people join ISIL? One more time. The real power of ISIL. In the wake of terrorist attacks, the United States shows the worst of its everyday bigotry. Inside the surreal world of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine. Building an army for Syria’s future. Magical thinking about ISIL. Eye-wateringly simplistic distortion. Being Syrian. How to politicise a tragedy. Saudi Arabia, an ISIL that has made it. Meanwhile. How ISIL defeats us.
An Iraqi town is retaken from ISIL and looting and retribution begin. Measuring the impact of the Snowden Leaks on the use of encryption by online Jihadists. The Egyptian origins of the Statue of Liberty. 'Some were suspicious of a white box he was carrying. To ease the tension, Khalil shared the baklava.'  The Islamic State rampage in Iraq has torn villages apart, sowing distrust. What do the Paris attacks mean for Australia’s Syrian refugee intake? Surprise. Surprise. Remember this...Our responses to terrorism always involve more of the same. Encryption? What encryption? Demystifying radicalisation. And a reminder of how we came to be here...

It seems to me The War Against Terror (TWAT) is working out as well as The War Against Drugs. The secret history of World War III. Ansel Adams’s subversive images of Japanese internment. I too hope that the 'majority of Australian society wouldn't endorse the kind of ugliness on display' but the boneheads are not very smart. Australia, you may not be the lucky country for much longer.
Meanwhile life goes on...