[E.O.M.S.]

Scuba - Beatport Live (February 22 2012)

2012-02-24T07:59:00.000+11:00

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(Thanx Martin!)

2012-02-24T06:00:00.001+11:00

Proud

2012-02-24T05:51:00.002+11:00

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2012-02-24T05:39:00.002+11:00

Apocalypse now...

2012-02-24T05:30:00.001+11:00

Commercial freedom, trans issues, and the struggle for respect...

What are you doing tonight?

2012-02-24T05:26:00.002+11:00

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2012-02-24T05:21:00.002+11:00

Apple iPad sales cleared in Shanghai amid trademark dispute

2012-02-24T05:16:00.001+11:00

...and this is one of the Oscar voters? While the likes of Woody Allen and George Lucas aren't!!!

Are women cyclists in more danger than men?

2012-02-24T05:08:00.003+11:00

...In 2007, an internal report for Transport for London concluded women cyclists are far more likely to be killed by lorries because, unlike men, they tend to obey red lights and wait at junctions in the driver's blind spot.
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...and don't get me started on the compulsory helmet laws we have out here!!!

Rolling in the Deep

2012-02-24T05:04:00.001+11:00

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Anti Shell spokesman John Monaghan is driving to work when...

2012-02-24T04:58:00.001+11:00

Shell's battle for the heart of Ireland

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2012-02-24T04:38:00.000+11:00

Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Rick Santorum’s bogus statistics

John Peel's record collection to be made into online museum

2012-02-24T00:40:00.001+11:00

John Peel's record collection is to be made into an interactive online museum.
Peel's collection, which contains 25,000 LPs, 40,000 singles and many thousands of CDs, will become part of The Space, a new experimental digital service organised and funded by the Arts Council and the BBC.
The Arts Council will provide initial funding while the BBC will provide support and development advice. Further funding will be sought in the future to complete the project and make every record available online.
Tom Barker, Director, John Peel Centre for Creative Arts, said: "It is the first step in creating an interactive online museum with access to the entire collection, one of the most important archives in modern music history."
Frank Prendergast of Eye Film And Television added: "The idea is to digitally recreate John’s home studio and record collection, which users will be able to interact with and contribute to, while viewing Peel’s personal notes, archive performances and new filmed interviews with musicians."
Sheila Ravenscroft, John Peel's wife and Patron of the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts also commented, stating: "We’re very happy that we’ve finally found a way to make John’s amazing collection available to his fans, as he would have wanted. This project is only the beginning of something very exciting."
The Space will run from May to October across various platforms including PCs and smartphones, while it will also be available as a red button on-demand service via Freeview HD.
Arts Council England is committing up to £3.5m, while the BBC is contributing to the partnership by developing the technological solutions and providing ongoing support.
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(Thanx Marco!)

UPDATE:

2012-02-24T00:07:00.000+11:00

Virginia Will Not Require Invasive Vaginal Ultrasounds

From The Vaults: Interview with Jigoku

2012-02-23T23:32:00.005+11:00

The affinity for the weird, obscure and bizarre has gained momentum in the last few years reinforced by the likes of tumblr as catalysts of visual ‘debris’. The hunt for the abstruse and low-brow is no passing pop culture fad for audiovisual bricoleurs Jigoku though. Driven by the need to unearth and manipulate random VHS tapes of exploitation cinema classics adding a custom-made soundtrack, the AV collective is hardly a novice on the scene. Jigoku have collaborated with the likes of Italian soundtrack legend Alessandro Alessendroni or Rekids’ Matt Edwards. With the launch of their label Iron Triangle and DVD ‘From the Vaults Vol 1’, a compilation of trailers and edits from their vast collection of exploitation video tapes carefully hand-picked over three decades of digging all over the world, we have caught up with Jigoku’s Lovely Jon, old school East London free party veteran, to talk about the medium and the message...
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Dr. Kent Hovind - Dinosaurs and the Bible

2012-02-23T22:25:00.003+11:00

Dr (?) Hovind traces the Biblical and historical references to dinosaurs and interviews people who claim they have seen living dinosaur!!!
NB: that he is currently in prison
The Dissertation Kent Hovind Doesn't Want You to Read

I do hope that he has met 'Dino' in prison :)

(Thanx Gavin!)

2012-02-23T22:19:00.000+11:00

Thx to Eva!

♪♫ Sinead O'Connor - The Wolf is Getting Married

2012-02-23T22:11:00.000+11:00

Bonus:

2012-02-23T21:53:00.002+11:00

Sorry, the lifestyle you ordered is currently out of stock

Andy, Mick and Keef

2012-02-23T19:41:00.001+11:00

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Black Sabbath - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (1975)

2012-02-23T19:30:00.000+11:00

(Thanx (again) SJX!)

Not a fan myself but I know some who are...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - BBC Four Session (2008)

2012-02-23T19:21:00.000+11:00

(Thanx SJX!)

♪♫ Captain Beefheart - I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby

2012-02-23T19:02:00.002+11:00

Bonus:

(Thanx SJX!)

Do NOT patent MY genes

2012-02-23T15:08:00.002+11:00

HERE

Blur - BRIT Awards 2012

2012-02-23T14:38:00.000+11:00

Well I didn't think that was that bad...

The Illusion of Choice

2012-02-23T14:28:00.000+11:00

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WOW!!!

2012-02-23T14:18:00.000+11:00

If I was them I would give her the job!!! 20 year olds today eh?

NYC Phone Booths Turned Into Free Mini Libraries by Architect John Locke

2012-02-23T13:05:00.001+11:00

The first mini-library was installed on a phone booth eight blocks further north in a rather desolate area that has little foot traffic.
The libraries are part of Locke’s urban intervention project call the Department of Urban Betterment (thus, DUB). The first mini-library was installed on a phone booth eight blocks further north in a rather desolate area that has little foot traffic. The books disappeared within six hours and the plywood shelf within just ten days. In order to counter this, Locke chose a much more conspicuous location near an express train stop on Broadway and put a visible logo on the bottom of each book’s spine. The shelf itself is completely detachable.
The new library hasn’t been vandalized, but Locke believes that the logo makes passersby reluctant to leave with the book and return with another one, which is the idea – to create an egalitarian book-sharing system for the city. He writes on Graceful Spoon, “I intentionally wanted to avoid any directions…but after seeing people hesitate when confronted with 002, perhaps there is a more subtle way to gently describe an intended use.
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(Thanx Walter!)

2012-02-23T12:31:00.002+11:00

Pentagon Says U.S. Citizens With Terrorism Ties Can Be Targeted in Strikes

2012-02-23T11:57:00.003+11:00

Journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik die in Homs

Anthony Shadid, peerless chronicler of human stories

Rami al-Sayed RIP

Syrian media rebels lead Web revolution

Interview with Herman Vanaerschot & Frank Rynne

2012-02-23T11:23:00.003+11:00

Frank Rynne at Arklow Pier (1979)

Photo by Herman Vanaerschot

♪♫ M Talic - Focus

2012-02-23T11:15:00.000+11:00

M Talic has music running in his genes...

Earth performing live at the (reportedly haunted) Brookdale Lodge in California's Redwood Forest

2012-02-23T10:51:00.003+11:00

2012-02-23T10:38:00.001+11:00

Faster than light neutrinos? More like faulty wiring

'...the neutrinos may be cleared of any speed violations.' LOL!

Einstürzende Neubauten - Live @ Transmusicales (1989)

2012-02-23T10:10:00.000+11:00

(Thanx SJX!!!)

Cassetteboy VS The News

2012-02-23T09:42:00.002+11:00

NSFW. Made from 15 editions of the BBC's News at Six during January 2012.
The music from the end is here: http://soundcloud.com/annefrankingmachine/giogiogio-rough-version-maxed
(ROFL!!! Thanx Stan!)

LOL!!!

2012-02-23T08:41:00.000+11:00

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2012-02-23T07:45:00.001+11:00

Shaking the Kaleidoscope in Iran

:)

2012-02-23T07:42:00.004+11:00

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:)))
Bonus: WTF??? (2006)

AWOOOGAH!!! Conservatives Start To Sound The Alarm Over Rick Santorum’s Extremism

2012-02-23T07:37:00.000+11:00

Tucker Carlson: ‘Iran Deserves To Be Annihilated’

Jacob Appelbaum: Transmediale 2k12

2012-02-23T07:33:00.000+11:00

Bonus:

2012-02-23T07:25:00.002+11:00

Oh Boy!!!

Kodachrome photos of 1940's New York

2012-02-23T07:18:00.000+11:00

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(Thanx GKB!)

Emptyset - Medium

2012-02-23T07:08:00.000+11:00

2012-02-23T07:03:00.000+11:00

How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect

2012-02-23T07:01:00.000+11:00

The artist vandalising advertising with poetry

2012-02-23T06:46:00.003+11:00

Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde on the Copyright Mafia

Pirate Bay vows to go underground over blocking threat

President Obama sings 'Sweet Home Chicago'

2012-02-23T06:41:00.001+11:00

(Thanx Kevin!)

Woodpecker making old alarm clock sound

2012-02-22T23:59:00.002+11:00

(Thanx Mr. Toop!)

2012-02-22T23:52:00.000+11:00

CNN’s Dana Loesch Thinks A Forced Trans-Vaginal Probe Is Just Like Sex

Barney Rosset RIP

2012-02-22T23:34:00.003+11:00

The Most Dangerous Man in Publishing

1922 - 2012

So sad! Grove/Evergreen fed my head SO much...

GTFTW

2012-02-22T23:24:00.002+11:00

Better Faster Stronger

For my children and their children's sake it really is time for a different fugn world...

2012-02-22T23:10:00.004+11:00

Thinking About Thinking About War

An attack on Iran would be an act of criminal stupidity

2012-02-22T22:30:00.000+11:00

The former US embassy in Tehran. Iran is threatened because of a future potential aggressor states have turned into reality. Photograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters
After a decade of calamitous western wars in the wider Middle East, the signs are becoming ever more ominous that we're heading for another. And, hard as it is to credit, the same discredited arguments used to justify the disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan – from weapons of mass destruction to sponsorship of terrorism and fundamentalist fanatics – are now being used to make the case for an attack on Iran.
War talk about Iran and its nuclear programme has been going on for so long it might be tempting to dismiss it as bluster. The mixed messages about Iran coming from the US and Israeli governments in recent weeks have become increasingly contradictory and bewildering. Maybe it's all a game of bluff and psychological warfare. Perhaps Iran's offer of new talks or this week's atomic energy inspectors' visit might lead to a breakthrough.
But the mood music has become more menacing. US defence secretary Leon Panetta has let it be known there is a "strong likelihood" Israel will attack Iran between April and June, even as Barack Obama says no Israeli decision has yet been taken. US officials told the Guardian last week they believed the administration would be left with "no alternative" but to attack Iran or watch Israel do so later this year.
Meanwhile, a US-Israeli stealth war is already raging on the ground, including covert assassinations of scientists, cyber warfare and attacks on military and missile installations. And Britain and France have successfully dragooned the EU into ramping up sanctions on Iran's economic life-blood of oil exports as a buildup of western military forces continues in the Gulf.
Any of this could easily be regarded as an act of war against Iran – and Iranian retaliation used as the pretext for a more direct military assault, as the risk of escalation grows. But instead of challenging what is a profoundly dangerous path to full-scale regional conflict – with or without western intervention in Iran's ally, Syria – the bulk of the western media and political class is busy softening up the public to accept another war as the unfortunate consequence of Iranian intransigence.
When it was reported that British officials expected the Cameron government to take part in a US attack on Iran, it passed with barely a murmur. In a parliamentary debate on Monday, only six votes were mustered to press for the threat of attack on Iran to be withdrawn. The Times claimed yesterday it to be "beyond doubt" that Iran "is trying to develop a nuclear weapon", even though neither the US nor the IAEA has managed to prove any such thing.
And even when US and British leaders have called for Israeli restraint, as William Hague and US joint chiefs of staff chairman Martin Dempsey have done in recent days, the issue is only one of timing. Military force would, they say, be "premature" and unwise "at this point".
If an attack is launched by Israel or the US, it would not just be an act of criminal aggression, but of wanton destructive stupidity. As Michael Clarke, director of the British defence establishment's Royal United Services Institute, points out, such an attack would be entirely illegal: "There is no basis in international law for preventative, rather than pre-emptive, war."
It would also be guaranteed to trigger a regional conflagration with uncontrollable global consequences. Iran could be expected to retaliate against Israel, the US and its allies, both directly and indirectly, and block the fifth of international oil supplies shipped through the Strait of Hormuz. The trail of death, destruction and economic havoc would be awesome.
But while in the case of Iraq an attack was launched over weapons of mass destruction that didn't in fact exist, the US isn't even claiming that Iran is attempting to build a bomb. "Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No," Panetta said bluntly last month. Israeli intelligence is said to be of the same view. Unlike Israel itself, which has had nuclear weapons for decades, it believes the Iranian leadership has taken no decision to go nuclear.
The issue, instead, is whether Iran – which has always insisted it doesn't want nuclear weapons – might develop the capability to build them. So Iran – surrounded by US bases and occupation troops, nuclear-armed states from Israel to Pakistan and Gulf autocracies begging the Americans to "cut off the head of the snake" – is threatened with a military onslaught because of a future potential the aggressor states have long ago turned into reality.
Such a capability wouldn't be the "existential threat" Israeli politicians have claimed. It might, of course, blunt Israel's strategic edge. Or as Matthew Kroenig, the US defence secretary's special adviser until last summer, spelled it out recently, a nuclear Iran "would immediately limit US freedom of action in the Middle East". Which gets to the heart of the matter: freedom of action in the Middle East is the prerogative of the US and its allies, not independent Middle Eastern states.
But if the western powers and Israel are really concerned about the threat of a nuclear arms race in the region, they could throw their weight behind negotiations to acheive a nuclear-free Middle East – which most Israelis favour.
What is clear, as both US and Israeli officials acknowledge, is that neither sanctions nor war are likely to divert Iran from its nuclear programme. Military attack can set it back – along with the prospects for progressive change in Iran – but would offer the strongest incentive possible for Iranian leaders to take the decision they haven't yet done and develop nuclear weapons.
Obama has every interest in heading off an Israeli attack on Iran that would draw in the US, until at least until after the presidential election. But as the sabre-rattling, crippling sanctions and covert attacks increase, so do the risks of stumbling into an accidental war. A military confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz in the next two or three months is now "quite likely", Clarke believes: "western policy towards Iran is a slow-motion road accident".
There is another factor driving towards war. The more they talk up the supposed threat from Iran's nuclear programme and the military option, the more US and Israeli leaders risk undermining their own credibility if they end up doing nothing. A potentially catastrophic attack isn't inevitable, but it's becoming perilously more likely all the time.
Seumas Milne @'The Guardian'

SBTRKT (feat.Sampha) - Hold On (Soundcloud Edit)

2012-02-22T17:41:00.000+11:00

HA!

2012-02-22T17:31:00.000+11:00

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Machinedrum with Badawi – Nastyfukk

2012-02-22T17:05:00.000+11:00

2012-02-22T15:36:00.003+11:00

Kim Dotcom granted bail in Megaupload case

Fear

2012-02-22T15:31:00.000+11:00

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Not Open!

2012-02-22T07:57:00.000+11:00

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2012-02-22T07:41:00.001+11:00

If all the Lego in the word was evenly distributed we would each receive approximately 30 pieces

(Photo: TimN)

2012-02-22T07:24:00.002+11:00

Murdoch's Legal Tab: Approaching $1 Billion

???

2012-02-22T07:21:00.002+11:00

'I challenge you to distinguish a naked prostitute from any other naked woman'

2012-02-22T07:18:00.002+11:00

A nation subdivided into religions — or a religion subdivided into nations?

♪♫ A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie

2012-02-22T07:14:00.002+11:00

Heimlich, Still und Leise - Stefanella (Feb 2012)

2012-02-22T03:05:00.001+11:00

Download

♪♫ Juliette Valduriez - Gimme Danger

2012-02-22T02:57:00.000+11:00

Damn! She is good...

(Thanx Mark!)

Kim Dotcom: Pirate King

2012-02-22T02:49:00.000+11:00

Is Megaupload's founder a criminal mastermind, or the world's most entertaining scapegoat? A file-sharing wizard's ridiculous rise and fall...

Harry Howard and The NDE - Near Death Experience

2012-02-22T02:41:00.001+11:00

<p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://harryhowardandthende.bandcamp.com/album/near-death-experience"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Near Death Experience by Harry Howard and The NDE&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;</p>Released 15 March 2012

The Jesus and Mary Chain by Andrew Catlin, Jim Reid & Julie Reid

2012-02-22T02:23:00.000+11:00

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I do wish that Andrew would find the photos he took of me way back in the day working behind the bar at Dingwalls...

Scuba - Personality

2012-02-22T01:32:00.000+11:00

Scuba is the production and DJ alias of Paul Rose, the curator of Hotflush Recordings, a label, which having released some of the most important tracks of the formative period of dubstep, has grown into a leading player in the wider world of electronic music. A celebrated and influential DJ, Scuba was voted #25 in Resident Advisor’s 2011 poll of the world’s Top 100 DJs and has also been nominated for several categories in DJ Magazine’s Best of British 2011 Awards.
Earlier this year Scuba released his ‘Adrenalin’ EP, picking up radio plays from Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, Rob Da Bank as well as Mistajam, illustrating how his sound has mutated into previously unexplored areas. Alongside ‘Adrenalin, Scuba also released his addition to K7!’s DJ-KICKS series which has made notable appearances on several "Best of 2011" lists.
On the 27th February, Scuba will release his third album through Hotflush. Entitled ‘Personality’ and featuring 11 brand new tracks, it takes in a wealth of genres across contemporary dance music, proving once again Scuba’s place at the cutting edge of the electronic music scene. Preceding his LP will be ‘The Hope’; pushing on from the tense atmospherics of previous Scuba material, the single fizzes with claustrophobic bass pressure and menacing narration. Backed by an exclusive non-album cut 'Flash Addict', ‘The Hope’ will proceed the album on the 6th February.
Originally from London, Scuba relocated to Berlin in 2007, and released his debut album, 'A Mutual Antipathy' in 2008. The stylistic synergy of the album cemented his position as one of the most forward-thinking producers to emerge from the London bass scene. In the same year, Scuba founded the massively successful SUB:STANCE night at the legendary Berlin club Berghain. SUB:STANCE has since launched in New York with a look to expanding further in 2012.
Scuba’s second album, 'Triangulation', was released on Hotflush in early 2010, joining the likes of Mount Kimbie, Sepalcure, Joy Orbison, Untold, Sigha and George Fitzgerald on its enviable roster.
With ‘Personality’ due for imminent release and plans for a live show in the works, Paul Rose's constantly developing world seems set to keep on turning in 2012.

Released by: Hotflush Recordings
Release/catalogue number: HFCD007
Release date: Feb 27, 2012

Dear RIAA this is what a pirate looks like...

2012-02-22T00:32:00.000+11:00

Spaceboy checking the ether to see if any new Winnie The Pooh vids have been uploaded to youtoob....

2012-02-22T00:15:00.000+11:00

The Pirate Bay Faces UK ISP Block After High Court Ruling

Ain't that the truth #6...

2012-02-21T23:53:00.000+11:00

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Real Men Don't Buy Girls

2012-02-21T22:12:00.012+11:00

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NB: The original of the Sean Penn et al graphic above that is floating around at the moment has it appears to me, some very misleading figures attached.

Current estimate is that every year 1.5 trillion dollars are spent on military expenditures worldwide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry.
In 2005 an UN report puts the world's illicit drug trade at an estimated $321billion per year http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/06/30/un_report_puts_worlds_illicit_drug_trade_at_estimated_321b/ and I suspect it would be higher now :)

Demi and Ashton's (!!!) 'Real Men...' say that Real Men Don’t Buy Girls is aimed at the global sex-slavery market, which generated some $32 billion in annual profit on the backs of women as young as 13. NB that is ALL sex slave trade not just kids...http://socialtimes.com/real-men-don%E2%80%99t-buy-girls-youtube-campaign-takes-on-sex-slavery_b57152.

Bad use of monetary figures REALLY does negate a very important issue I think...don't believe everything on the internet mind you...check for yourself!

2012-02-21T22:05:00.002+11:00

Khamenei's outlook dims hope for Iran nuclear deal

♪♫ Dirty Three ft. Nick Cave - Sea Above, Sky Below

2012-02-21T21:34:00.000+11:00

(For THE Dustdevil, Anne & Syd!)

(Thanx Roxy!)

2012-02-21T21:20:00.002+11:00

The Upside of Dyslexia

Occupy Protests At San Quentin and Other US Prisons

2012-02-21T12:25:00.004+11:00

US hikers Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer took part in demonstrations outside San Quentin prison in California. Photograph: Beck Diefenbach/Reuters
Occupy demonstrators participated in a nationwide day of action to protest against the US prison system on Monday, with demonstrations carried out at over a dozen sites across the country, including prisons in California, Chicago, Denver and New York.
The call to protest was issued by activists with the Occupy Oakland movement and was co-ordinated to coincide with waves of prison hunger strikes that began at California's Pelican Bay prison in July. Demonstrators denounced the use of restrictive isolation units as infringement upon fundamental human rights. The hunger strikes followed a US supreme court ruling in May which stated that overcrowding in the California prison system had led to "needless suffering and death." The court ordered the state to reduce its overall prison population from 140,000 to 110,000, which still well-exceeds the state's maximum prison capacity.
Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer – the American hikers who were held for over a year by Iranian authorities – took part in demonstrations outside San Quentin prison in Marin County, California. Addressing the crowd, Shourd described the psychological impact of solitary confinement, saying her 14 and a half months without human contact drove her to beat the walls of her cell until her knuckles bled. Shourd noted that Nelson Mandella described the two weeks he spent in solitary confinement as the most dehumanising experience he had ever been through.
"In Iran the first thing they do is put you in solitary," Fattal added.
Bauer said "a prisoner's greatest fear is being forgotten." He described how hunger strikes became the hikers' own "greatest weapon" in pushing their captors to heed their demands. According to Bauer, however, the most influential force for changing their quality of life while being held in Iran was the result of pressure applied by those outside the prison. It was for that fact, Bauer argued, that "this movement, this Cccupy movement, needs to permeate the prisons."
Occupy supporters are calling for a fundamental change in the US prison system, which today houses one quarter of the planet's prisoners; more than 2.4 million people. As of 2005, roughly one quarter of those held in US prisons or jails had been convicted on a drug charge. Activists point out that in the past three decades the nation's prison population has increased by more than 500%, with minorities comprising 60% of those incarcerated. The number of women locked up between 1997 and 2007 increased by 832%.
Demonstrators are broadly calling for the abolition of inhumane prison conditions, and the elimination of policies such as capital punishment, life sentences without the possibility of parole and so-called "three strikes, you're out" laws.
Some demonstrators were also demanding changes in their own specific states. Activists in Columbus, Ohio, for example, highlighted the fact that their state is second only to Texas in rates of capital punishment and planned to deliver letters to several elected officials, including governor John Kasich.
Ben Turk, an activist with Red Bird Prison abolition, noted that rising prices in prison commissaries have also been an issue with many Ohio prisoners. According to Turk, prices at the commissaries where prisoners purchase food and other amenities have risen, while the amount of money prisoners are able to make have largely remained the same.
"We work with prisoners and ask them what their grievances are," Turk said. "A lot of them talk about how commissary prices have been continually rising for the last couple of decades, while state pay remains the same."
At least 20 prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary chose to fast for the day in solidarity with Monday's action.
In Washington DC, demonstrators protested new prisoner visitation policies that will include the installation teleconference TV screens in place of glass partition.
In New York City, Mercedes Smith, a Brooklyn mother, took the streets along with roughly 250 others who marched from the Lincoln Correctional Facility through Harlem. Smith said she and her 21 year-old son had both been personally impacted by the criminal justice system. Smith said her son had been stopped and searched by the police throughout his life and is now incarcerated.
Smith carried a sign that read "End the War On Drugs". She said that people who were addicted to drugs had a "sickness" that was "not a reason to put them in prison."
"This war is costing more money. All the money that they using to keep this war going on, they could open up more centers, more programmes to help people," Smith told the Guardian.

Ryan Devereaux @The Guardian

Severed Heads - Rock Arena (ABC TV - 4/10/1986)

2012-02-21T09:16:00.001+11:00

Petrol
A Million Angels
Bless This House
Big Blue Is Back
Harold & Cindy Hospital
Propellor
Halo
Severed Heads
(For Audiozobe)
(Thanx SJX!)

The Jesus And Mary Chain - The Way We Were (1980 - 85 mix by Bobby Gillespie & Douglas Hart)

2012-02-21T08:54:00.000+11:00

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Mani VS The Scream Team

2012-02-21T08:45:00.000+11:00

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2012-02-21T02:54:00.000+11:00

ben goldacre @bengoldacre

so odd, to be ashamed of meeting PM today. MT @Davewwest: five attendees of no10 #nhs summit left via front door, rest left by secret tunnel

2012-02-21T01:53:00.002+11:00

How Dangerous Does the Government Want the Internet to Be?

2012-02-20T21:04:00.000+11:00

Flou - Shed Mix

2012-02-20T20:14:00.000+11:00

1. STP : the fall (Subsolo)
2. Shed : flat axe (Ostgut Ton)
3. Taho : energy fields - Shed’s ride disturbance mix (Delsin)
4. Shed : boom room (Ostgut Ton)
5. Wax : 30003 A (Wax)
6. Shed : another wedged chicken (Ostgut Ton)
7. Shed : selection one (Soloaction)
8. Wax : 40004 A (Wax)
9. Head High : it’s a love thing – piano invasion (H2 Recordings)
10. Equalized : 3 A (Equalized)
11. Equalized : 4 B (Equalized)
12. Shed : hidden (Soloaction)
13. Wax : 10001 B (Wax)
14. Shed : selection two (Soloaction)
15. Shed : well done 033472 edit (Soloaction)
16. Wax : 10001 A (Wax)
17. Shed : egotism (Soloaction)
18. Wax : 40004 B (Wax)
19. WK7 : higher power - hardcore PCK mix (Power House)
20. Shed : red planet express (Soloaction)
21. Shed : kinky dudes (Soloaction)
22. Wax : 30003 B (Wax)
23. Shed : digin in the dirt (Styrax Leaves)
24. Shed : stars (Soloaction)
25. Shed : balance (Soloaction)
26. Shed : that beats everything! (Ostgut Ton)
27. Shed : atmo - action (Ostgut Ton)
28. Shed : opulence 11 (Soloaction)
29. Shed : sweep dreams (Ostgut Ton)
30. Shed : well done 030 edit (Soloaction)
31. Equalized : 2 A (Equalized)
32. Deuce : guttering (Ostgut Ton)
33. Substance : relish - Shed remix (Scion Versions)
34. Deuce : cue ed (Ostgut Ton)
35. Equalized : 3 B (Equalized)
36. Shed : opulence 22 (Soloaction)
37. Shed : unvisible (Soloaction)
38. Wax : 20002 A (Wax)
39. Planetary Assault Systems : hold it - Deuce remix (Ostgut Ton)
40. Shed : guile (Delsin)
41. Shed : smooth kicks (Soloaction)
42. D-Bridge : ZX 81 - Shed remix (Fat City Recordings)
43. Shed : push the button (Soloaction)
44. Shed : solitude straight (Soloaction)
45. WK7 : the avalanche (Power House)
46. Equalized : 4 A (Equalized)
47. WK7 : higher power (Power House)
48. Equalized : 1 A (Equalized)
49. Radio Slave : tantakatan - the drunken Shed mix (Rekids)
50. Steve Lawler : kalimba - Shed turtle shield mix (R & S Records)
51. Shed : my R-Class (Ostgut Ton)
52. Shed : 728 (Delsin)
53. Shed : with bag and baggage (Monkeytown Records)
54. Shed : TK001 (Styrax Leaves)
55. Shed : stale (Delsin)
56. Equalized : 2 B (Equalized)

First Listen: Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun

2012-02-20T17:05:00.000+11:00

For a band with no lyrics, Melbourne's Dirty Three evokes a broad and complex array of human emotions. Violinist Warren Ellis, guitarist Mick Turner and drummer Jim White each carry equal weight in the group's music, and each lends a distinct personality: As Dirty Three's most gregarious figure, Ellis plays the instrument most conducive to showy flourishes and displays of heartsick emotion, but Turner and White provide the bones and sinew that keep him standing. White's drum patterns skitter around the edges of rhythms, lending the band's music a portentous air of uncertainty, while Turner's guitar flows around him like blood. All are crucial: Each is capable of functioning as an instantly identifiable lead voice (even when performing outside the band), but when the three play together, the emotions they conjure can be overwhelming.
Toward the Low Sun, out Feb. 28, is Dirty Three's first album in seven years — Ellis has been working with Nick Cave and Turner has put out some marvelous solo work, while White made a brilliant 2007 record with Nina Nastasia, among other projects — and it sounds more haunting and haunted than many of its predecessors. Right off the top, "Furnace Skies" forgoes the soaring beauty of Dirty Three's ballads in favor of a kind of low, foreboding, vaguely ugly rumble. From there, Toward the Low Sun works for its moments of cathartic beauty instead of letting them come easily in each track. But when they do arrive, as in the gorgeous pairing of "The Pier" and "Rain Song," they hit harder for the troubled-sounding textures that surround them. Ellis and Turner each lend a bit of piano work, in "Ashen Snow" and elsewhere, and it only adds to the moody beauty throughout.
Any band playing wordless music with such emotion is bound to find its thematic intentions open to interpretation, but each Dirty Three song title expresses a tiny universe of context — "Sometimes I Forget You've Gone," "You Greet Her Ghost" — to help chart an inevitably nonlinear course. But that's what Dirty Three's music is all about: functioning as the moody, conflicted soundtrack for a storm-swept journey where getting lost is part of the plan.
Stephen Thompson @'npr'

Listen To 'Toward The Low Sun' In Its Entirety

Shed (René Pawlowitz) Wax Treatment Podcasts

2012-02-20T12:19:00.001+11:00

Wax Treatment Podcast #003 - Shed

18.10.09 - Tracklist:

01. Cornel Campbell: Natural Fact - Attack Gold 015
02. Earl Sixteen: Gold Of Sheba - Merge 10-04
03. Elemental: Talk - Runtime LP 001
04. Aardvarck: A1 - Bloom 03
05. Neil Landstrumm: 6 At Le Mans - Planet µ 246
06. Kryptic Minds: 768 - Tectonic 032
07. Hyetal: Pixel Rainbow Sequence (Peverelist Remix) - RDCTN 003
08. Zomby: Godzilla - Ramp Recordings 022
09. Joy Orbison: Hyph Mngo - Hotflush HFT 009
10. 2562 - Flashback - Tectonic 034
11. ID: Nine Tree Hill - Mata-Syn 005
12. RSD: Green Hill - Punch Drunk 012
13. Distance: V (Pinch Remix) - Chestplate 007
14. F & Headhunter: Dedale - Transistor 001

Wax Treatment Podcast #030 - Shed

23.01.2012 - Tracklist:

01. Ras G: Discipline09-1 - Leaving 004
02. Tokimonsta: Line To Dot - Ramp 030
03. Flying Lotus: Tea Leaf Dancers - Warp 228
04. Ras G: Discipline09-2 - Leaving 004
05. Dro Carey: Velvet Mouth - Ramp 047
06. Anstam: Say My Name - 50Weapons LP04
07. Aphex Twin: Flim - Warp 094
08. Martyn: I Saw You At Tule Lake - Brainfeeder 025
09. Objekt: Porcupine - Hessle Audio 019
10. Roly Porter: Hessra - Subtext LP 002
11. Stay+: Dandelion - Ramp 053
12. Skeptical: Another World - Exit LP 005
13. Shed: Sonar Intro
14. Shed: RQ170 - 50Weapons 047
15. Shed: DREFX120
16. GonjaSufi: Nikels And Dimes - Warp LP 223
17. King Midas Sound: Lost (Lost (Flying Lotus Rework) - Hyperdub CD 009

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2012-02-20T11:47:00.002+11:00

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Bradley L. Garrett : Urban Explorers - Quests for Myth, Mystery and Meaning

2012-02-20T10:04:00.000+11:00

This video is a 30-minute introduction to the practice of urban exploration. Constructed as a video article for the journal Geography Compass, the article uses footage from the author's own explorations in California, Las Vegas and London to visually depict a theoretical unpacking of the practice by 5 academic geographers.
You can find the article that goes with the video at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00389.x/abstract

2012-02-20T09:57:00.002+11:00