Skids - Scared To Dance [Box Set]
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Friday, 7 January 2011
Bradley Manning: The Forgotten Man
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A lot of attention has been given to Julian Assange of late, but another significant figure in the Wikileaks story is Bradley Manning -- the young American army officer who's alleged to have leaked the sensitive information to Wikileaks. Manning was arrested in May 2010 and is being held in maximum security isolation. If found guilty Manning could spend more than 50 years in jail.
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Iron And Wine (Live @npr's First Listen)
Back in 2002, Iron and Wine was a "band" in name only — a vehicle for the whispered acoustic bedroom recordings of a college film professor named Sam Beam. Beam's rustic musings sang of death and damnation, love and redemption, while packing a surprising degree of momentum and narrative thrust into what only sounded like gentle folk songs.
If it weren't for Beam's softly engaging croon, the Iron and Wine of the forthcoming Kiss Each Other Clean wouldn't always be recognizable to Beam fans from eight or nine years ago. For one thing, he's evolved into a full-fledged bandleader, following 2007's engagingly springy The Shepherd's Dog with a sound that feels fuzzier, even dirtier. The opening seconds of Kiss Each Other Clean sound like no preceding Iron & Wine record — "Walking Far From Home" swaps out the clean acoustic guitars for layers of fuzz and subtly processed vocals — though the album feels like a natural extension of its marvelous predecessor, and even lets rays of sunlight peek in during songs like "Tree by the River."
Like The Shepherd's Dog, Kiss Each Other Clean showcases Iron and Wine's subtly exploratory, even meandering side. But fans of the group needn't wait until the album's Jan. 25 release date to hear the new innovations for themselves: Wednesday afternoon, Beam and his bandmates appeared on WNYC's Soundcheck to announce a surprise live performance of the new album at The Greene Space in New York City that night — a concert you can now watch in its entirety or download as an mp3.
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The protest movement needs to expand now from the people who dodged our taxes to the people who stole our taxes: the banks & their bonuses
The Village Where the Neo-Nazis Rule
Horst and Birgit Lohmeyer have been working on their life's dream for six years, renovating a house in the woods near Jamel, a tiny village near Wismar in the far northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Birgit Lohmeyer writes crime novels, her husband is a musician, and both try to pretend everything is normal here in Jamel.
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Maximilian Popp @'Der Spiegel'
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach Live (unofficial)
'Plastic Beach Live' is a 2 disc compilation paying tribute to Gorillaz live in 2010. Disc 1 features the whole of Plastic Beach live including ALL the collaborators recording live (apart from Snoop who never performed WTTWOTPB live, but additionally including the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble on Broken and Plastic Beach) compiled from various gigs from the best possible sources. Disc 2 is the best recordings of the other 17 tracks performed around the world, featuring collaborators where possible. All tracks have been normalised for volume and are taken from the best sources available. Disc 1 is all from tv or radio - Disc 2 is more mixed, a couple of the tracks were taken from Youtube recordings and a bootleg. Thanks to Rust for the cover - other alternate covers are also available in the zip. Re-encoded only once more from sources, at 320kbps mp3. For all source info see the include release notes or click 'Read More' beloe.
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Disc 1
1. Orchestral Intro 2. Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach (featuring the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 3. White Flag (featuring Kano, Bashy and the Syrian National Orchestra For Arabic Music) 4. Rhinestone Eyes 5. Stylo (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack) 6. Superfast Jellyfish (featuring De La Soul and Gruff Rhys) 7. Empire Ants (featuring Little Dragon) 8. Glitter Freeze (featuring Mark E. Smith) 9. Some Kind of Nature (Featuring Lou Reed) 10. On Melancholy Hill 11. Broken (featuring the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 12. Sweepstakes (featuring Mos Def and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 13. Plastic Beach (featuring the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 14. To Binge (featuring Little Dragon) 15. Cloud of Unknowing (featuring Bobby Womack) 16. Pirate Jet
Disc 2
1. Last Living Souls 2. Kids With Guns (featuring Neneh Cherry) 3. O Green World 4. 19/2000 (featuring Miho Hatori) 5. Tomorrow Comes Today 6. DARE (featuring Roses Gabor and Shaun Ryder) 7. Dirty Harry (featuring Bootie Brown) 8. El Manana 9. November Has Come (featuring MF Doom) 10. Doncamatic (featuring Daley) 11. Punk 12. Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head 13. Don't Get Lost In Heaven 14. Demon Days (featuring Bobby Womack) 15. Hong Kong (featuring Zeng Zhen) 16. Feel Good Inc (featuring De La Soul) 17. Clint Eastwood (featuring Kano and Bashy) Bonus tracks: 18. Clint Eastwood (featuring Snoop Dogg) 19. Clint Eastwood (featuring Eslam Jawaad) 20. Clint Eastwood (featuring Tinie Tempah)
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Romanian witches to cast anti government spell
Double double toil and trouble: witches in Romania are planning to cast a spell on the country's rulers today over new rules forcing them to pay tax for the first time.
Into their cauldron will go cat excrement and dead dogs rather than eye of newt and toe of frog. But they are hoping to put a Macbeth-style hex on president Traian Basescu and his government after the imposition of a new tax regime aimed at tackling Romania's recession.
Witches from the east and west of the country will gather on Romania's southern plains and the banks of the Danube to protest against new laws and cast spells against the politicians who implemented them.
A dozen witches will hurl the poisonous mandrake plant into the Danube "so evil will befall them", a witch named Alisia said.
The threatened curse is not being taken lightly in a country with a long tradition of superstition. Basescu and his aides have been known to wear purple on certain days in an attempt to ward of evil.
"This law is foolish. What is there to tax, when we hardly earn anything?" Alisia said.
The new law is part of the government's drive to collect more revenue and crack down on tax evasion. It will force the likes of witches, astrologers and fortune tellers, among others, to register their professions making them liable for 16% tax in line with other self-employed Romanians.
Queen witch Bratara Buzea said she will lead a chorus of witches in casting a spell using a concoction of cat excrement and a dead dog.
"They want to take the country out of this crisis using us? They should get us out of the crisis because they brought us into it," she said.
"My curses always work!" she cackled, according to AP.
Some argue the tax law will be hard to enforce, as the payments to witches and astrologers usually are made in cash and are relatively small at 20 to 30 lei (around £5) per consultation.
Such spiritualism has long been tolerated by the Orthodox Church in Romania. The late Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, had their own personal witch.
Mircea Geoana, who lost the presidential race to Basescu in 2009, performed poorly during a crucial debate, and his camp blamed attacks of "negative energy" by their opponent's aides.
Geoana aide Viorel Hrebenciuc alleged there was a "violet flame" conspiracy during the campaign, saying Basescu and other aides dressed in purple on Thursdays to increase his chance of victory.
They continue to be seen wearing purple clothing on important days, because the colour supposedly makes the wearer superior and wards off evil.
Martin Weaver @'The Guardian'
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Mainstream Pakistan religious organisations applaud killing of Salman Taseer
Taseer was buried in his home town of Lahore. The 66-year-old was assassinated yesterday by Mumtaz Qadri, one of his police bodyguards, after he had campaigned for reform of the law on blasphemy.
Qadri appeared in court, unrepentant, where waiting lawyers threw handfuls of rose petals over him and others in the crowd slapped his back and kissed his cheek as he was led in and out amid heavy security.
The internet had already been hosting fan pages for Qadri, with one Facebook page attracting over 2,000 followers before being taken down, while there were small demonstrations in favour of the killer in north-west Pakistan.
While terrorist acts are generally associated with an extremist fringe, the gunning down of Taseer appeared to have significant support that reached into the heart of society.
All the big mainstream political parties strongly condemned the murder, and thousands attended funeral prayers for Taseer. However, both the large religious political parties declared that he had deserved to be killed for his views.
Reports suggested that Qadri, 26, was a known radical in the police service who had previously been declared by his superiors to be unfit for guarding VIPs. He told interrogators he was proud to have killed a blasphemer.
Reports also said Qadri, part of Taseer's security force, had tipped off other guards about his plan to kill the Punjab governor. The other bodyguards did not seem to react as Qadri fired a whole clip of bullets into Taseer in a market in central Islamabad and then laid down his weapon.
It is thought that over a dozen police officers were taken into custody following the murder. Taseer's ruling Pakistan People's party suggested that a "wider conspiracy" was behind the killing, while the issue also became an ugly party political spat.
Taseer's job was a ceremonial position representing the president, the head of the PPP, Asif Zardari, but the provincial government is run by the administration of opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, which was blamed for providing the governor with poor security.
Taseer had used his position to warn about the "Talibanisation" of Punjab province, telling the Guardian last year: "The Sharifs are creating a potential bomb here in Punjab."
"This is a political murder," a senior member of the PPP, Fauzia Wahab, said. "There will be an investigation. It is a conspiracy."
Taseer's call for the widely-abused blasphemy law to be reformed or abolished was so incendiary that it united rival Islamic schools of thought against any change, the moderate Barelvi sect with the pro-Taliban Deobandis.
The statute, meant to protect Islam and the prophet Muhammad from "insult", is used to convict dozens of people on flimsy evidence each year.
"Salman Taseer was himself responsible for his killing," Munawar Hasan, the head of Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the two big religious political parties, said. "Any Muslim worth the name could not tolerate blasphemy of the Prophet, as had been proved by this incident."
Qadri was in the Barelvi sect, which is followed by most Muslims in Pakistan. However, on the issue of the blasphemy law, the Barelvi clerics had joined hands with the pro-Taliban Deobandi. The issue was sparked by Taseer's championing of a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy late last year.
"No Muslim should attend the funeral or even try to pray for Salmaan Taseer," a statement from Jamaate Ahle Sunnat Pakistan, one of the biggest organisations of the Barelvi, representing 500 religious scholars, said. "We pay rich tributes and salute the bravery, valour and faith of Mumtaz Qadri."
Taseer's assassination showed how free speech has been curtailed in Pakistan. The religious scholars warned that others could meet the same fate.
"The supporter is as equally guilty as one who committed blasphemy," the Jamaate Ahle Sunnat Pakistan statement said. It added that adding politicians, the media and others should learn "a lesson from the exemplary death".
Saeed Shah @'The Guardian'
Fake ID by Consequence co-starring Q-Tip, Havoc & Large Professor
"Fake ID" by Consequence
Co-starring...
Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest
Large Professor of Main Source
Havoc of Mobb Deep
CLASSIC!!!
Produced by @bandcamprecords VERY OWN The Produce Section
"I'm the from the Era that if you said you sold drugs... The guess what you REALLY sold drugs!!!" "I'm from the Era that if you said you wrote rhymes... Then guess what you REALLY WROTE RHYMES!!!"
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Thomas Meinecke/Move D - Work
Excerpts from the performance:
Thomas Meinecke / Move D »WORK«
@ ZKM_Medientheater 25.09.09
Thomas Meinecke is the mastermind of German underground legends Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle
Move D aka David Moufang is a German DJ and Techno producer who has worked with Pete Namlook some years ago.
Assange warned after late report to police
Assange's website, which facilitates the leaking of secret information, has released hundreds of thousands of pages of U.S. military and diplomatic documents over the past eight months. Prosecutors in Sweden want him for questioning in connection with sexual misconduct allegations unrelated to WikiLeaks.
Assange has denied the allegations, and is free on 200,000 pounds ($310,000) bail while he fights extradition. He must stay at the mansion of a supporter outside London, report to police between 2 and 5 p.m. daily, and wear an electronic tag to monitor his location.
Adventure-Equation
This was slack of me as I should have put this up yesterday...
Anyway Yotte (our man who is lucky in Kentucky) has started a new blog and I suggest that you all check it out for your 'cosmic philosophy' needs.
Mick Karn 1958-2011
Mick Karn, the former bass player of pop band Japan, has died at the age of 52 after suffering from cancer.
A statement on Karn's website said the musician "passed away peacefully" on Tuesday at his London home in Chelsea, "surrounded by his family and friends".
Japan came to prominence in the early 1980s with hit albums that included Tin Drum and Gentlemen Take Polaroids.
John Taylor of Duran Duran said he was "one of the great visual and sound stylists of the late-70s/early-80s."
Born Adonis Michaelides in Cyprus in 1958, Karn emigrated to London when he was three years old.
His official biography tells how he bought his first bass guitar for £5 after a bassoon he played in an orchestra was stolen.
He formed Japan in 1974 with David Sylvian and the latter's younger brother Steve Jansen, performing for the first time when Karn was 15.
Having been joined by Richard Barbieri, another school friend, Japan landed their first record contract in 1977.
With their dyed hair and make-up, Japan offered a "glam" alternative to punk and later became associated with the New Romantic movement.
After Japan split in 1982, Karn continued to work on solo projects and recorded with Kate Bush, Gary Numan, Midge Ure and Joan Armatrading.
Karn briefly reunited with other members of Japan in 1991 for the one-off project Rain Tree
A statement on Karn's website said the musician "passed away peacefully" on Tuesday at his London home in Chelsea, "surrounded by his family and friends".
Japan came to prominence in the early 1980s with hit albums that included Tin Drum and Gentlemen Take Polaroids.
John Taylor of Duran Duran said he was "one of the great visual and sound stylists of the late-70s/early-80s."
Born Adonis Michaelides in Cyprus in 1958, Karn emigrated to London when he was three years old.
His official biography tells how he bought his first bass guitar for £5 after a bassoon he played in an orchestra was stolen.
He formed Japan in 1974 with David Sylvian and the latter's younger brother Steve Jansen, performing for the first time when Karn was 15.
Having been joined by Richard Barbieri, another school friend, Japan landed their first record contract in 1977.
With their dyed hair and make-up, Japan offered a "glam" alternative to punk and later became associated with the New Romantic movement.
After Japan split in 1982, Karn continued to work on solo projects and recorded with Kate Bush, Gary Numan, Midge Ure and Joan Armatrading.
Karn briefly reunited with other members of Japan in 1991 for the one-off project Rain Tree
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(Thanx Mark!)
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
David Carson returns to print with new magazine
The new magazine, called C A R S O N, will “share his unique vision and dedication to quality in not only design, but fine art, illustration, photography and writing as well”, according to a press release.
It is slated for a bi-monthly release beginning this year.
Each issue will be themed and will cover the whole gamut from culture to current events. Carson and his team have been soliciting contributors from established writers and artists to bring a “new interest to print magazines”, the release said.
Carson will take the role of art and design director in the new endeavor.
Lest you think this is nothing more than a hankering for the past, editor-in-chief Alex Storch said the new title isn’t “about being retro”.
“It’s about pushing forward,” Storch said in a statement. “People want quality things they can hold and touch, not pseudo-journalism and themed template design on their computers. We’re excited for people that have only seen David’s books and a heavily-worn copy of Ray Gun to experience his mastery of the form.”
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Huffing and Puffing
Reminiscent of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Arianna Huffington is being sued by two political consultants, Peter Daou and James Boyce, who claim a critical role in creating her top-ranked Web site, the Huffington Post. So what exactly happened in the fall of 2004 when Huffington, Daou, Boyce, and such liberal lights as David Geffen, Larry David, and Norman Lear discussed a Democratic answer to the Drudge Report? And why did the two men wait nearly six years to claim credit? The author walks back their she-said-we-said collision.
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William D. Cohan @'Vanity Fair'
Rose Borchovski - The story of Susa Bubble
It seems odd that art censorship should bleed into virtual reality, a mirror existence built on pixels inside the Internet. But this past June, when the video artist Rose Bochovski exhibited her computer-graphic, 3-D film Susa Bubble in a Second Life art gallery, it was promptly removed, with the censors citing Second Life’s rules disallowing nudity beyond spaces with an “adult” rating. The images, viewable below, depict a young girl who is naked but not in any real provocative way and is completely devoid of sexualization, whether in the rendering or in the context. Real 21st-century problems, these, but they illustrate the vast illogic of censorship -- a couple of keystrokes on the Internet and anyone can view anything from real-life corpses to hardcore pornography. And yet in an online gaming system, a woman whose art piece is moderately less naked than Henry Darger’s cherubic hermaphrodites gets the boot? Surreal. Go here to read Bochovski’s response.
6 Artists Who Were Banned, Censored or Arrested by Conservatives
Killing of Governor Deepens Crisis in Pakistan
Police officers in Islamabad, Pakistan, collected evidence at the scene where Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province, was shot dead by one of his guards on Tuesday.
Mr. Taseer, 65, a successful businessman and publisher of a liberal English-language daily newspaper, was exceptional, even within the secular-minded Pakistan Peoples Party, for his vocal opposition to the religious parties and the extremism they spread. He was imprisoned in the 1980s under the military dictator Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq for it and was still opposing the religious parties 30 years later.
He recently took up a campaign to repeal Pakistan’s contentious blasphemy laws, which were passed under General Zia as a way to promote Islam and unite the country. The laws have been misused to convict minority Pakistanis as the Islamic forces unleashed by the general have gathered strength. The laws prescribe a mandatory death sentence for anyone convicted of insulting Islam...
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Salman Masood and Carlotta Gall @'NY Times'
Julian Assange: The downside about being declared the messiah is that they generally come to a sticky end
HE comes from humble beginnings and defends the weak and vulnerable, because he can identify himself with their conditions. And no we are not thinking of Jesus Christ, whose birthday has just been celebrated, but rather the president of the United States Barack Hussein Obama . . . Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus
Oprah Winfrey at a Barack Obama rally on November 11, 2007:
IT'S a question that the entire nation is asking: is he the one? South Carolina, I do believe he's the one.
A query on Yahoo Answers:
IS Oprah the new Messiah?
ABC1's Lateline April 3, 2008:
TONY Jones: Is that a fear in this . . . what would happen if Obama was assassinated?
David Hale: I think Barack Obama is clearly vulnerable to assassination because he's a very unique figure in American history.
Jones: If, God forbid, that happened what would be the impact on America?
Hale: I think it would be catastrophic. Barack Obama has generated tremendous excitement in the last few months. He's had a profound effect on American politics and if we were to lose him to an assassin's bullet, I think America would be very, very demoralised and it would be a very major crisis for us as we contemplate where we're going.
Julian Assange interviewed by John Humphrys on the BBC's Today on Tuesday:
JUST a final thought. Do you see yourself as some sort of messianic figure?
Assange: Everyone would like to be a messianic figure without dying.
MSNBC on December 12:
A LAWYER for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday condemned calls for his assassination as "absolutely outrageous and indeed illegal" and claimed remarks by Sarah Palin may prevent him from getting a fair trial in the United States.
CIA response to Assange assassination FOI on Scribd.com:
This is a final response to your 11 October FOI Act request for all copies of all records current or previous plans to assassinate Julian Assange. The CIA can neither confirm nor deny the existence or non-existence of records responsive to your request. The fact of the existence or non-existence of requested records is currently and properly classified and is protected from disclosure. Therefore your request is denied.
Chris Capps writes on unexplainable.net on December 7:
JULIAN Assange, the Australian native and founder of Wikileaks has been arrested. And it is not lost on many UFO believers that Assange's arrest happens just as information regarding the UFO phenomenon has been announced. Is it possible that Assange stumbled upon something too great even for his site WikiLeaks? Assange said in a media chat interview that for a long time they had been receiving requests for information regarding the UFO phenomenon, and that they would soon be releasing information regarding UFOs referenced directly in diplomatic cables. Of course the incredible news sent shockwaves through the paranormal community. Will we finally learn what the government really thinks about UFOs? And is this the form disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence on Earth will take?
The Guardian, December 23, 2010:
IF the US succeeded in removing him from the UK or Sweden, Assange said there was a "high chance" of him being killed "Jack Ruby-style" in the US prison system.
Jack Ruby speaking to journalists before his conviction for the 1963 murder of John Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald:
GENTLEMEN, I want to tell the truth, but I cannot tell it here. If you want a fair shake out of me, you have to take me to Washington.
@'The Australian'
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