Tuesday, 25 June 2013

The Drugs Don’t Work: Tao Lin’s “Taipei” and the Literature of Pharmacology

Hyper Drive YURIKAMOME

Info

Ha!

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Daymare! Greetings from Generis to Boiled Rice (9 March 2013)

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Abandoned Island in the middle of NYC


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Andrew Ross Sorkin: ‘I’d Almost Arrest Glenn Greenwald’

Decline of Jersey mob mirrors storyline from TV's 'Sopranos'

Congress Gets Private Briefings About NSA Spying, But the Public Needs Answers Too

Monday, 24 June 2013

Miles Davis, John Lennon & Yoko Ono (1971)


HA!!!


'No human being is illegal; in some countries humans are considered illegal'

Ricardo Patiño

HA!


The Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky : The Mystery of Everyday Life

Offering Snowden Aid, WikiLeaks Gets Back in the Game

'Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians' - Nelson Mandela

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Here's tonight's nightmare for you

The tantric sex is over after three minutes of squelching noises. The pre performance posing can last for days

You gotta laugh!


Guess the Russians hadn't finished copying his laptop. NSA prob have to cancel that drone that was going to shoot the plane down


John Lydon in Jamaica 1978

♪♫ Wilco - Live @Solid Sound (21/6/13)

Marquee Moon

WILCO
2013-06-21
Solid Sound Festival
North Adams MA
Digital Master Audience Recording
Recorded inside Soundboard Cage
Sennheiser MKH-8040 Cardioids > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 24bit 48kHz wav file > Soundforge (level adjustments, EQ, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)
Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper 2013-06-22
Setlist:
[Total Time 2:25:00]
01 The Boys Are Back in Town [Thin Lizzy]
02 Cut Your Hair [Pavement]
03 In the Street [Big Star]
04 New Madrid [Uncle Tupelo]
05 Dead Flowers [Rolling Stones]
06 Simple Twist of Fate [Bob Dylan cover]
07 [John Hodgeman - the Randomizer 1]
08 Ripple [Grateful Dead]
09 Who Loves the Sun [Velvet Underground]
10 And Your Bird Can Sing [The Beatles]
11 And Your Bird Can Sing [repeat]
12 Psychotic Reaction [Count Five]
13 [John Hodgeman - the Randomizer 2]
14 Tom Courtenay [Yo La Tengo]
15 [John Hodgeman - the Randomizer 3]
16 James Alley Blues [Richard Rabbit Brown]
17 Waterloo Sunset [Kinks]
18 Waterloo [ABBA]
19 Peace Love and Understanding [Nick Lowe]
20 [John Hodgeman - the Randomizer 4]
21 Marquee Moon [Television]
22 [Happy Birthday to Pat Sansone]
23 Don’t Fear The Reaper [Blue Oyster Cult]
24 Cinnamon Girl [Neil Young]
25 [Stump the Band]
26 Get Lucky [Daft Punk]
27 Surrender [Cheap Trick]
28 Color Me Impressed [Replacements]
29 [John Hodgeman - the Randomizer 5]
30 Kingpin
31 Thank You Friends [Big Star]
32 [encore break]
33 The Weight [The Band]
34 Roadrunner [The Modern Lovers]
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notes
Track 14 performed with Yo La Tengo
Track 17 and 18 with Lucius
Track 28 with Tommy Stinson
Track 33 with Lucius
Track 34 with Yo La Tengo
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Filmmaker Robert Greenwald on 'War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State'

A new film directed by Robert Greenwald looks at four whistleblowers who had their lives practically destroyed after they went to the press with evidence of government wrongdoing. They are Michael DeKort, Thomas Drake, Franz Gayl and Thomas Tamm. Whistleblowers have come under unprecedented attack by the Obama administration. Evoking the Espionage Act of 1917, the administration has pressed criminal charges against no fewer than six government employees, more than all previous presidential administrations combined. In the film, Greenwald also interviews government oversight experts and investigative journalists who warn about the chilling effect prosecutions may have on potential whistleblowers and the journalists who help them.
http://www.democracynow.org 

Because A Car Stereo Is So Mainstream


A Saint in the City

Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug

Facebook's Former Security Chief Now Works for the NSA

The ‘wreckers of civilisation’ are in no mood to quit that rebel waltz

Cheney is a true threat to freedom

So When will Dick Cheney be charged with Espionage? His Crime was the Same as Snowden’s

TPP: The Biggest Threat to the Internet You've Probably Never Heard Of

he Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is being negotiated in secret between more than 12 countries around the Pacific region. Find out why it poses a huge threat to your digital freedoms.
For more information and to find out how you can take action, visit https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
Directed and animated by Santiago Rocha.

David Gregory tries to read Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian out of the journalism club

David Gregory whiffs on Greenwald question

Why NASA’s latest photo of Alaska is freaking people out

Damn


If you made a sphere of all Earth’s water, how big would it be?

?Snowden's travels raise concerns of foreign involvement¿

US: Snowden shouldn't be allowed to travel to Ecuador and revokes his passport

Mark Steel @People's Assembly


Sunday, 23 June 2013

...and ̶V̶e̶n̶e̶z̶u̶e̶l̶a̶ Ecuador

(Thanx exiledsurfer!)

Snowden seeks asylum in Ecuador amid diplomatic storm

Evgeny Morozov does make me laugh!!!

The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis

'You Fucked Up, You Trusted Us': Talking Ratings Agencies With Chris Hayes

2d per inch

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WikiLeaks helps move Snowden on

Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong on Moscow flight

Julian Assange speech text Sat June 22 on 1 year, Snowden, Manning and more

It has now been a year since I entered this embassy and sought refuge from persecution.
As a result of that decision, I have been able to work in relative safety from a US espionage investigation.
But today, Edward Snowden’s ordeal is just beginning.
Two dangerous runaway processes have taken root in the last decade, with fatal consequences for democracy.
Government secrecy has been expanding on a terrific scale.
Simultaneously, human privacy has been secretly eradicated.
A few weeks ago, Edward Snowden blew the whistle on an ongoing program – involving the Obama administration, the intelligence community and the internet services giants – to spy on everyone in the world.
As if by clockwork, he has been charged with espionage by the Obama administration.
The US government is spying on each and every one of us, but it is Edward Snowden who is charged with espionage for tipping us off.
It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Prize, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.
Edward Snowden is the eighth leaker to be charged with espionage under this president.
Bradley Manning’s show trial enters its fourth week on Monday.
After a litany of wrongs done to him, the US government is trying to convict him of “aiding the enemy.”
The word “traitor” has been thrown around a lot in recent days.
But who is really the traitor here?
Who was it who promised a generation “hope” and “change,” only to betray those promises with dismal misery and stagnation?
Who took an oath to defend the US constitution, only to feed the invisible beast of secret law devouring it alive from the inside out?
Who is it that promised to preside over The Most Transparent Administration in history, only to crush whistleblower after whistleblower with the bootheel of espionage charges?
Who combined in his executive the powers of judge, jury and executioner, and claimed the jurisdiction of the entire earth on which to exercise those powers?
Who arrogates the power to spy on the entire earth – every single one of us – and when he is caught red handed, explains to us that “we’re going to have to make a choice.”
Who is that person?
Let’s be very careful about who we call “traitor.”
Edward Snowden is one of us.
Bradley Manning is one of us.
They are young, technically minded people from the generation that Barack Obama betrayed.
They are the generation that grew up on the internet, and were shaped by it.
The US government is always going to need intelligence analysts and systems administrators, and they are going to have to hire them from this generation and the ones that follow it.
One day, they will run the CIA and the FBI.
This isn’t a phenomenon that is going away.
This is inevitable.
And by trying to crush these young whistleblowers with espionage charges, the US government is taking on a generation, and that is a battle it is going to lose.
This isn’t how to fix things.
The only way to fix things is this:
Change the policies.
Stop spying on the world.
Eradicate secret law.
Cease indefenite detention without trial.
Stop assassinating people.
Stop invading other countries and sending young Americans off to kill and be killed.
Stop the occupations, and discontinue the secret wars.
Stop eating the young: Edward Snowden, Barrett Brown, Jeremy Hammond, Aaron Swartz, Gottfrid Svartholm, Jacob Appelbaum, and Bradley Manning.
The charging of Edward Snowden is intended to intimidate any country that might be considering standing up for his rights.
That tactic must not be allowed to work.
The effort to find asylum for Edward Snowden must be intensified.
What brave country will stand up for him, and recognize his service to humanity?
Tell your governments to step forward.
Step forward and stand with Snowden.

Britain's response to the NSA story? Back off and shut up

John Pilger: There's a New Fascism on the Rise, and the NSA Leaks Show Us What It Looks Like



Hastings Sent Colleagues This Email Hours Before Crash

Hastings Obituary Did Not Capture His Adversarial Spirit



In Defense Of Kanye's Vanity: The Politics Of Black Self-LoveIn Defense Of Kanye’s Vanity: The Politics Of Black Self-Love

Black Noise

Glenn Greenwald: On the Espionage Act charges against Edward Snowden

Waxing lyrical: David Lynch on his new passion - and why he may never make another movie

Edward Snowden: US spies on Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data

NSA targeted China's Tsinghua University in extensive hacking attacks

♪♫ Wilco - Live at Sydney Opera House (3/4/13)

Less Than You Think
Art of Almost
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
I Might
Via Chicago
Spiders (Kidsmoke)
Impossible Germany
Born Alone
Laminated Cat
She's A Jar
Say You Miss Me
Whole Love
Box Full of Letters
Hummingbird
California Stars
Forget the Flowers
Dawned on Me
A Shot in the Arm
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Jesus, etc.
Hate It Here
Heavy Metal Drummer
Walken
I'm The Man Who Loves You
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The Late Greats

♪♫ Wilco - Get Lucky (Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA 21/6/13)


Wilco Focuses On Covers For First-Ever All-Request Set