Monday 26 October 2009

Nick Griffin attacked by his own BNP supporters over Question Time

The leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, found himself the victim of an extraordinary attack from his own supporters last night following his controversial appearance on the BBC's Question Time.

As a public postmortem into one of the most divisive broadcasts in the corporation's history attempted to gauge its impact on the party's fortunes, Lee Barnes, the BNP's legal officer, accused Griffin of "failing to press the attack" during the televised debate, which was watched by a record 8 million people. Others sympathetic to the BNP's views expressed dismay at Griffin's flustered attempts to appeal to the mainstream.

@'The Guardian'

Scientists study possible health benefits of LSD and ecstasy

A growing number of people are taking LSD and other psychedelic drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy to help them cope with a variety of conditions including anorexia nervosa, cluster headaches and chronic anxiety attacks.

The emergence of a community that passes the drugs between users on the basis of friendship, support and need – with money rarely involved – comes amid a resurgence of research into the possible therapeutic benefits of psychedelics. This is leading to a growing optimism among those using the drugs that soon they may be able to obtain medicines based on psychedelics from their doctor, rather than risk jail for taking illicit drugs.

@'The Guardian'

YES!

LIVERPOOL 2 VS 0 MANCHESTER UTD.

Sunday 25 October 2009

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Cheney's blood lust

Cheney's "dithering" salvo was just the latest attack on Obama from the former vice president and his daughters. Lee Siegel on a family crusade worthy of Ancient Greece.

There is something Greek about the Cheney family’s obsessive persecution of President Obama. Ancient Greek, that is. It recalls the vindictive persecution of the House of Atreus by the Furies in Aeschylus’ great trilogy of tragic plays, The Oresteia. The Cheneys’ Fury-like pursuit of Obama is relentless, irrational, and unforgiving.

@'Daily Beast'

Why I don't go out much...

I LOVE IT!
GREAT NEWS FOLKS

...speaking to a philosophy student earlier who brought up Peter Singer. "Vegetarian?" I asked, yes she said. Wear leather shoes I asked "Only second hand" she replied!

THE COW DOESN'T GET KILLED TWICE!

Saturday 24 October 2009

Should you be in Berlin tonight...


Start: Friday, 30 October 2009 at 22:00
End Time: Saturday, 31 October 2009 at 05:00
Location: St.Georg
Street: Ritterstrasse 26 (Aqua-Butzke Höfe), Berlin

Mark Stewart, Monitorpop & Spex presents:
Massive Attack Aftershow Party

Live Acts:
Namosh
Angie Reed

DJs
Mark Stewart (Bristol)
Max Dax (Spex)
Professor ERIC D.CLARK
iGedget (Beatevolution)
Grizzly Adams
Jose Fox (Lissabon)
DSB (London)
€ 5

Girlz With Gunz # 86

Girlz with Gunz Guitarz # 5

Girlz With Gunz # 85

'Hands' by Frieda Abtan



23 Skidoo logo's by Neville Brody


HA!

Pomplamoose - My Favourite Things

Pomplamoose is Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte
A VideoSong is a new Medium with two rules:
1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice)
2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds)
MP3 HERE

Analysis of Sasha Grey



Friday 23 October 2009

US asks for Polanski extradition

The US has formally asked Switzerland to extradite film director Roman Polanski on sex charges, Swiss officials say.

Polanski has been wanted in the US since he fled the country in 1978, after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex with an under-age girl. He was held in Zurich after travelling from France to collect an award at the city's film festival in September. The director recently lost an appeal to be released on bail from a Swiss jail. The Swiss justice ministry said in a statement that if it approved the US request, Polanski might appeal against the decision.

@'BBC'

WTF?

"I Wanna Fuck You, Ba-By! Oh Yes!"

"...it wasn't too damn bad"



(Thanx Suzy Cakes)

FWOK!

Richard Hell and Debbie Harry, Seventeenth Street, New York City. Photograph by Chris Stein, with graphics by John Holmstrom, “The Legend of Nick Detroit” PUNK magazine, no. 6 (October 1976) © Chris Stein.

The Slits- Animal Spaces (Live Brooklyn 2006)

Thanx Solwolfpunk!

Waiting for a Legal Shot - Heroin Maintenance in Denmark

In February 2008 the Danish parliament made an almost unanimous decision to launch a 9,5 Million € medical heroin maintenance project. This decision put an end to a 15 years long debate on how to treat those “hard core” heroin users who do not want or who cannot abstain from using heroin for a longer period of time. Denmark is the first country where decision makers introduced heroin maintenance as a permanent service without a trial. There was a significant political opposition to the idea of providing addicts with the drug of their addiction: some people considered this step as a full surrender in the war on drugs. “Why don’t you treat the real problem, that is, addiction itself?”, they asked. However, even opponents had to confess that recently there is no silver bullet to “kill” addiction: it is still a chronic, relapsing social and health condition, not curable in the short run. Most heroin users try to quit several times and relapse even more before they can stop the circle: it is not our choice to decide when. But it is our choice to help them to survive heroin use without getting infected with HIV and hepatitis C, or felling victim to a lethal overdose. It is our choice to let people use on the street or to create a supervised environment for opiate users where they can use sterile injecting equipment and dispose their used syringes safely. It is also important for the whole society where these people get their daily doses from: whether they purchase it from the black market, that is, from criminal organizations, or from a legal medical clinic, in controlled quality and quantity. Most heroin users commit crimes in order to feed their habit. If you provide them with cheap medical substitutes of street drugs, they should not get involved in criminal activities and prostitution to avoid withdrawal symptoms. What is more, a significant proportion of the patients of heroin maintenance programs will be able to build a new life and quit heroin use.

Marilyn Minter's Dirty World


Lil Wayne Pleads Guilty, Faces One-Year Prison Sentence

The Associated Press reports that Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted gun possession in New York this morning. According to the AP, he "expects to receive a one-year jail sentence." Wayne is out on bail right now, but he'll be sentenced in February.
The charge stems from a 2007 incident in which Manhattan police raided Wayne's tour bus after smelling marijuana and reportedly saw Wayne trying to get rid of a bag, which contained a loaded .40 caliber semi-automatic. Wayne had previously pleaded not guilty to the charge of illegal gun possession. As the AP reports, if he had been found guilty for that, he would have faced a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence.
@'Pitchfork'

BNP on BBC 'Question Time'

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'BNP policies' 'wordle' by The Guardian's Adam Gabbatt
You can follow his live blog

HERE

HA!

(Forgive me Agneta)

St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church (Fillmore S.F.)

John Coltrane - I Want To Talk About You - 1962

1962 in Stockholm, filmed by an audience member.
John Coltrane - Tenor Sax, McCoy Tyner - Piano, Jimmy Garrison - Bass & Elvin Jones - Drums

Moderat - Auf Kosten der Gesundheit (2003)



Moderat


Numbers Font

"Let's make a mess, lioness" (with apologies to the Arctic Monkeys)

Docking by Mato Atom

la tetuda asesina

Thursday 22 October 2009

Bastard...

Rodrigo y Gabriela "Hanuman" live @ Eurockéennes

For Fifi/ in DeeCee/ it's on its way/ to you today

The esteemed author(ess) of this blog, Ms. Mona Street pictured with 'George Best' (signed by The Wedding Present) which is now heading off in a big white plane to the land of the free, with love from down under!
(Photo by TimN)

Fast Internet access becomes a legal right in Finland

Finland has become the first country in the world to declare broadband Internet access a legal right. The move by Finland is aimed at bringing Web access to rural areas, where access has been limited.
Starting in July, telecommunication companies in the northern European nation will be required to provide all 5.2 million citizens with Internet connection that runs at speeds of at least 1 megabit per second. The one-megabit mandate, however, is simply an intermediary step, said Laura Vilkkonen, the legislative counselor for the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The country is aiming for speeds that are 100 times faster -- 100 megabit per second -- for all by 2015.
"We think it's something you cannot live without in modern society. Like banking services or water or electricity, you need Internet connection," Vilkkonen said.
@'CNN'

Never Mind the Pity


How a dying teenager’s dream turned into the making of a miraculous album.
(My BIG thanx to Chris for pointing out this remarkable, heart wrenching and yet heart warming story to me)