Sunday, 19 August 2012
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Putin Lit Fires
State more time in prison
more arrests - more happiness
And every arrest - with a love of sexist swaying cheeks, as the chest and abdomen , but we can not be resealed in the box security officers overthrew a better and more often ignites fires Putin revolutions him terribly boring and the people in the silence Whatever punishment he had - that rotten ash, With no time in many years - is a subject for wet dreams...
There's no democracy – Putin is the Tsar of Russia now
Alexander Kosolapov
In the works This is my body and This is my blood by the SozArt artist Alexander Kosolapov, the standardised representation of Christ becomes a brand and the Eucharist an advertising message by Coca-Cola and McDonalds. One of the fundamental questions in capitalism relates to what unites consumers – Kosolapov's works gives one answer to it: religion. Both works are an ironic commentary on consumer culture, where products become fetishes and advertising becomes the Bible. Kosolapov combines Christian elements with the graphic language of commercial advertising and in this way draws attention to the parallels between the communication of religion and advertising strategies.
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Putin VS Punk
Pussy Riot must have offended many Russian Orthodox believers by screaming lyrics such as "Shit, shit, the Lord's shit" behind the iconotasis of the Church of Christ the Saviour. An opinion poll released by the independent Levada research group found that only 6% of Russians polled sympathised with the women and 51% felt either indifference, irritation or hostility. Similar umbrage would have been taken inside St Paul's or the Vatican. And those who doubt that may well wonder what tension would have been caused by a flash-mob invading a mosque at Friday prayers.
How many museums around the world would have looked the other way as a number of couples – including a heavily pregnant Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the three convicted on Friday – were filmed having sex to illustrate how Muscovites were being screwed by their government? The British Museum? The Louvre? The Metropolitan? The wish to punish anarchists is not Russian alone.
But the wish to crush political dissent, in this way and at this time, is Mr Putin's alone. Pussy Riot had two points to make, both of them valid: that the Orthodox Church provides intellectual and religious cover for Mr Putin's increasingly messianic political brand; and that this man is driving Russia straight up a cul de sac. The agent of stability is becoming the obstacle to change. The omens are not good. Mr Putin has no policies to offer a generation that has been politically awakened. He is not ready for dialogue with any part of country, and he is all about reinforcing central control. He has lost his grip on his popular image so he is forced back on an essentially conservative base. The result is that in his third term as president, Mr Putin has a real problem re-establishing himself as a leader for Russia as a whole.
The Pussy Riot trial will not be the last. Criminal prosecutions will become the weapon of choice against political activists like the anti-corruption blogger Aleksei Navalny, journalists who face stiffer penalties for libel, websites, or foreign-funded NGOs. Of course the world reaction is selective and partial. Would that Sergei Magnitsky, the lawyer whose corruption investigation led to his death in prison, have produced the same reaction as the Pussy Riot verdict. That does not change the verdict that all Mr Putin has to offer the next demonstration, called for September, is a bigger stick.
It need not be this way. Mr Putin still has time to climb out of the hole he has dug himself into. He could call early parliamentary elections, because it was the rigged Duma elections last year that triggered the current crisis. He could let a popularly elected prime minister run the country. He could retreat from the political frontline, and still fashion a role for himself as father of the nation. To continue as he is doing, as the only and increasingly unsteady hand on Russia's tiller, spells disaster.
@'The Guardian'
Putin Pissed Himself
Blowing up windows of FSB offices
Bitches piss on the Kremlin walls
Announcing a riot, Abort the System!
Act at dawn? Don’t start to question
For our and your freedom we’ll whip them to submission
The glorious Madonna will teach us to fight
The feminist Magdalena stood up for democracy
Revolt in Russia! Charisma of protest!
Revolt in Russia! Putin pissed himself!
Revolt in Russia! We exist!
Revolt in Russia! Riot! Riot!
Walk out on the street!
Live on Red Square!
Demonstrate freedom
With citizen rage!
Dissatisified with a culture of masculine hysteria
An uncontrolled autocracy devours our brains
The Orthodox religion is a hardened penis
Coercing its patients to accept conformity
Soon the regime will censor our dreams
The time has come for the battle to explode
A band of bitches of a sexist regime
Asks for forgiveness, armed with a feminist spike
Revolt in Russia! Charisma of protest!
Revolt in Russia! Putin pissed himself!
Revolt in Russia! We exist!
Revolt in Russia! Riot! Riot!
Go out on the street!
Live on Red Sqaure!
Demonstrate freedom
With citizen rage!
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(Thanx HerrB!)
Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes (BBC Arena)
Broadcast BBC Four, 17 Feb 2012
2011 was the 82nd year in the extraordinary life of arguably the greatest saxophone player in the world, Sonny Rollins. Four decades ago, as a young filmmaker and aspiring musician, Dick Fontaine followed Rollins up onto the Williamsburg Bridge in Manhattan during one of his legendary escapes from the perils of 'the jazz life'. Today, still resisting stereotype and compromise, and revered by a new generation of young musicians, Rollins continues his single-minded search for meaning in his music and his life. Dick Fontaine's film is built around the explosive energy of Sonny's 80th Birthday Concert, where legendary figures Roy Haynes, Jim Hall and Ornette Coleman join him to celebrate his journey so far, his music and its future for a new generation.
Dick Fontaine's film, made for the BBC's prestigious art series Arena, is built around the
explosive energy of Sonny's 80th Birthday Concert, where legendary figures Roy Haynes, Jim Hall and Ornette Coleman join him to celebrate his journey so far, his music and its future for a new generation.
Sonny Rollins / Jack DeJohnette / David Murray - Jazz Jamboree Live (1983)
Sonny Rollins:
SONNY ROLLINS - tenor sax
MARC SOSKIN - piano
JEROME HARRIS - bass
AL FOSTER - drums
Jack DeJohnette Special Edition:
JACK DeJOHNETTE - drums
RUFUS REID - bass
MARTY EHRLICH - bass clarinet
JOHN PURCELL - alto sax
HOWARD JOHNSON - tuba, baritone sax
David Murray Octet:
DAVIDA MURRAY - tenor sax
JULIUS HEMPHILL - alto sax
ROY CAMPBELL - trumpet, flugelhorn
BAKIDA CARROLL - trumpet
CRAIG HARRIS - trombone
CURTIS CLARKE - piano
WILBUR MORRIS - bass
BILLY HIGGINS - drums
SONNY ROLLINS - tenor sax
MARC SOSKIN - piano
JEROME HARRIS - bass
AL FOSTER - drums
Jack DeJohnette Special Edition:
JACK DeJOHNETTE - drums
RUFUS REID - bass
MARTY EHRLICH - bass clarinet
JOHN PURCELL - alto sax
HOWARD JOHNSON - tuba, baritone sax
David Murray Octet:
DAVIDA MURRAY - tenor sax
JULIUS HEMPHILL - alto sax
ROY CAMPBELL - trumpet, flugelhorn
BAKIDA CARROLL - trumpet
CRAIG HARRIS - trombone
CURTIS CLARKE - piano
WILBUR MORRIS - bass
BILLY HIGGINS - drums
Greece: 25 trans women detained during large-scale police crackdown
Via press release from the Greek Transgender Support Association:
From news reports, it seems that this was part of a large-scale operation during which some 6,000 people were detained.
It should be remembered that this comes at a time when the Greek economy is facing its most severe crisis since 1974, and the consequent austerity package demanded by the EU and the IMF has resulted in rioting and social unrest. Against this backdrop, there has been a worrying rise in popularity of the Golden Dawn, a right-wing extremist political organisation. In this light, it is perhaps no surprise - although still by no means acceptable - that there should be a backlash which combines racism, transphobia and sexism on such a large scale. I was going to close with a smartass remark about the fate of a country which, for over 2,400 years, has taken pride in claiming it invented democracy, but my irony meter broke.
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Image made by Helen from images found at Wikipedia (here and here). Both original images are public domain and so is this one. If using elsewhere, please ensure correct attribution.
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[Cross-posted from The F-Word]
Subject: Police detention of Transgender Individuals during 'Xenios Zeus' Operations
The Greek Transgender Support Association, a recognized NGO for the support of the rights of the trans community in Greece, is hereby strongly condemning the massive police detention of twenty five (25) trans women on Thursday, August 9th, during the crackdown police operation "Xenios Zeus".
Specifically, on the night of Thursday, August 9th, during a massive police crackdown, 25 trans individuals were taken and detained at the division of Central Police Station of Athens. They were not given sufficient explanation why they were being taken. They were forced to undergo an HIV test, administered by a Center for Disease Control (C.D.C.) doctor, were subsequently found to be HIV-negative and released afterwards.
We, the Greek Transgender Support Association, express our deepest concern, and outright condemnation of the C.D.C.-assisted police crackdown operations. Especially since they target, among others, one of the more vulnerable minorities, namely trans individuals, who are deprived of basic human rights such as the right to work, be insured and access the health services, owing to the Greek State's refusal to protect trans rights.
We also deem the forced and obligatory tests by the C.D.C. to be in breach of basic human rights. This is because the way the tests are performed, coupled with the complete lack of deontology and the specific conditions under which they take place, are not those of a European country nor of a just State.
At the same time, we question the recent ruling of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA), according to which the HDPA calls itself unauthorised to judge the recent and obvious violation by the state of personal data, in the case of the publicization of the identities of hiv-positive people. The HDPA invoked the Spearation of Powers, but at the same time countradicts itself by proposing amendations to the legislature.
We, the Greek Transgender Support Association, express our solidarity towards the hiv-positive individuals who are being prosecuted, and condemns the police crackdown operations, as well as the involvement of the CDC, for endangering and creating abject conditions for the trans community. Furthermore, we express our complete opposition of all police operations that violate human rights based on nationality, race, gender, religious or other beliefs, sexual orientation, and gender identity. We demand that greek legislation protects gender identity by aligning with the Ruling 2008/913/ΔEY regarding the fight against all kinds of discrimination and racism.
We are in active cooperation with grassroots and NGO organizations inside Greece, as well as European organizations for the rights of the trans community. We will defend, in every legal way, the dignity and human rights of trans people.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Greek Transgender Support Association
Athens
17 August, 2012
From news reports, it seems that this was part of a large-scale operation during which some 6,000 people were detained.
Officers stopped mostly African and Asian people in the street for identification checks. Most were only briefly detained, but about 1,600 were arrested for illegal entry and sent to holding centres pending deportation. [Source]
It should be remembered that this comes at a time when the Greek economy is facing its most severe crisis since 1974, and the consequent austerity package demanded by the EU and the IMF has resulted in rioting and social unrest. Against this backdrop, there has been a worrying rise in popularity of the Golden Dawn, a right-wing extremist political organisation. In this light, it is perhaps no surprise - although still by no means acceptable - that there should be a backlash which combines racism, transphobia and sexism on such a large scale. I was going to close with a smartass remark about the fate of a country which, for over 2,400 years, has taken pride in claiming it invented democracy, but my irony meter broke.
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Image made by Helen from images found at Wikipedia (here and here). Both original images are public domain and so is this one. If using elsewhere, please ensure correct attribution.
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[Cross-posted from The F-Word]
A Russian hooligan speaks...
Friday, 17 August 2012
The Cure - Vieilles Charrues 20.07.2012
1. Push
2. Inbetween Days
3. Just Like Heaven
4. From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
5. The Hungry Ghost
6. Wrong Number
31 minutes
Pussy Riot found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred
"The Pussy Riot singers colluded under unestablished circumstances, for the purpose of offensively violating public peace in a sign of flagrant disrespect for citizens," the court said in a verdict being pronounced on Friday.
The women were motivated by religious enmity and hatred, and acted provocatively and in an insulting manner inside a religious building in the presence of a large number of believers," the court said.
The court also has found that the Pussy Riot activists realized that their actions during the "punk prayer" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior were insulting and intended to communicate information on the stunt to a broad range of believers.
"Intending to make the planned actions public and ensure that they drew public response, to draw the attention of the public to their illegal actions, and to communicate the expressed disrespect not only to the clergy and people in the church, but also to other citizens who were not present in the church at the time [of the punk prayer], but shared Orthodox traditions, Samutsevich, Tolokonnikova, Alyokhina, and their unidentified accomplice informed various media assistants and active bloggers on their action," the sentence read in the Khamovnichesky Court on Friday says.
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Livestream
Letter from Nadya Tolokonnikova from prison 16/8/12 #Pussyriot
Our
imprisonment has served as a clear and obvious sign that the whole
country is being robbed of freedom. And this threat of annihilating the
freeing, emancipatory forces in Russia – that’s what causes me to be
enraged. Seeing the large in the small, the trend in the sign, the
common in the individual.
Second-Wave
Feminists said the personal is political. That’s how it is. The Pussy
Riot case has shown how the individual troubles of three people facing
charges of hooliganism can give life to a political movement. A single
case of repression and persecution against those who had the courage to
Speak in an authoritarian country has shaken the world: its activists,
punks, pop stars, and government members, its comedians and ecologists,
its feminists and its masculinists, its Islamic theologians, and those
Christians who are praying for Pussy Riot. The personal has become
political. The Pussy Riot case has brought together as one forces so
multidirectional, I still have trouble believing this isn’t a dream. The
impossible is happening in contemporary Russian politics: a demanding,
persistent, powerful and consistent impact of society on its government.
I
am thankful to everyone who has said “Free Pussy Riot!” Right now, all
of us are participating a large and important political Event that the
Putin regime is having an ever more difficult time controlling. Whatever
the upcoming verdict for Pussy Riot, we – and you – are already
winning. Because we have learned to rage, and to speak politically.
Pussy
Riot is happy that we have been able to spur a truly collective action,
and that your political passion has proven to be so strong, it has
cleared the barriers of language, culture, surroundings, and economic
and political status. Kant would say that he sees no other reason
for this Miracle besides man’s moral beginning. Thank you for this
Miracle.Via
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Diplomatic Premises
While diplomatic premises in the UK are part of UK territory, they are
inviolable and may not be entered without the consent of the Ambassador
or Head of Mission. (See DPA 1964 section 2(1) and schedule 3.)
Any offences committed in diplomatic premises in the UK are triable
under the ordinary principles of English law, subject to the principles
of diplomatic immunity for those who have it. Those who do not have this
status (whatever their nationality) can be prosecuted as normal, as for
example happened in the case of the terrorists who seized the Iranian
embassy in London in 1980.
Via
Livestream
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Livestream
♪♫ Phil Minton and Ute Wassermann - Urursonate
An improvisation based on Kurt Schwitters Ursonate performed by Phil Minton and Ute Wassermann at the Sage Gateshead on 30 June 2012. Part of Helen Petts' concert "Throw Them Up and Let Them Sing" during her exhibition of the same name at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle.
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/hatton/news/throw-them-up-and-let-them-sing/
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/hatton/news/throw-them-up-and-let-them-sing/
Siberian Princess reveals her 2,500 year old tattoos
She is to be kept in a special mausoleum at the Republican National Museum in capital Gorno-Altaisk, where eventually she will be displayed in a glass sarcophagus to tourists.
For the past 19 years, since her discovery, she was kept mainly at a scientific institute in Novosibirsk, apart from a period in Moscow when her remains were treated by the same scientists who preserve the body of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin.
To mark the move 'home', The Siberian Times has obtained intricate drawings of her remarkable tattoos, and those of two men, possibly warriors, buried near her on the remote Ukok Plateau, now a UNESCO world cultural and natural heritage site, some 2,500 metres up in the Altai Mountains in a border region close to frontiers of Russia with Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.
They are all believed to be Pazyryk people - a nomadic people described in the 5th century BC by the Greek historian Herodotus - and the colourful body artwork is seen as the best preserved and most elaborate ancient tattoos anywhere in the world.
To many observers, it is startling how similar they are to modern-day tattoos.
The remains of the immaculately dressed 'princess', aged around 25 and preserved for several millennia in the Siberian permafrost, a natural freezer, were discovered in 1993 by Novosibirsk scientist Natalia Polosmak during an archeological expedition.
Buried around her were six horses, saddled and bridled, her spiritual escorts to the next world, and a symbol of her evident status, perhaps more likely a revered folk tale narrator, a healer or a holy woman than an ice princess.
There, too, was a meal of sheep and horse meat and ornaments made from felt, wood, bronze and gold. And a small container of cannabis, say some accounts, along with a stone plate on which were the burned seeds of coriander.
'Compared to all tattoos found by archeologists around the world, those on the mummies of the Pazyryk people are the most complicated, and the most beautiful,' said Dr Polosmak.
'More ancient tattoos have been found, like the Ice Man found in the Alps - but he only had lines, not the perfect and highly artistic images one can see on the bodies of the Pazyryks...
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♪♫ Bob Dylan - Hurricane/Oh Sister/Simple Twist Of Fate (1975)
The World Of John Hammond PBS Soundstage WTTW-TV Studios Chicago, Illinois, USA Recorded September 10, 1975 Broadcast December 13, 1975. Music starts at 2:00 in.
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