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30.4.05
REMIX CULTURE: Creative Commons and Creativity : Friday May 6th 2005, University of Sussex. UK. EDB Building. Third Floor. A one day symposium to bring together people involved both in theory and practice of peer-produced commons production. Including the creative commons, open source and Free/Libre Culture. Theory, ideas, strategies and tactics, from releasing, sharing and remixing work - plus discussions of how to make new commons-based models function alongside the present music-industry type model and the increasingly restrictive legal environment.
29.4.05
US Jewish Lobbyist Funded Settler Gangs with Swindled Indian Tribe Money : A US magazine revealed today that a pro-Israeli lobbyist in close contacts with US Congressman Tom DeLay defrauded his Indian tribe clients and funneled large amounts of money in the form of paramilitary gear to Israeli settler gangs in the West Bank.
www.reflag.co.uk : Not a bad argument, I suppose. It would definitely shut all the Alf Garnets up...'There ain't no black..' and all that crap.
28.4.05
medicalhairrestoration.com - thought this was a joke at first, but sadly not. Perhaps it should be renamed www.menwhowanktoomuch.com
27.4.05
Peter Mandelson and the Temple Of Trade - Topical flash game from Friends Of The Earth.... Don't forget to sign the petition.
Guardian pulls ricin terror debunk from website A Guardian story on "The ricin ring that never was" has been pulled.
Pleix films : impressive collection of music/art vids - the one for the Plaid track 'itsu' is truly inspired
Punk Rock in the Holy Land : In Israel, a vibrant punk scene has emerged in a society torn apart by the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. In these four candid video interviews, FRONTLINE/World reporter and filmmaker Liz Nord talks to the musicians driving the movement.
26.4.05
venn festival 2005 : The second Venn festival is going to take place in Bristol, UK on 3-5th June 2005. Spread thick over an early summer weekend, VENN will again feature a joyful amalgam of local and international artists, only now deliberately drawing a dusty cluster of the world's most thrillingly wayward musical nomads to an area (Stokes Croft) all too often bypassed.
25.4.05
BBC reporter's award stuns Israel : Jerusalem Post outrage at BBC reporter Orla Guerrin's Press Award
'Yeti' by Caribou (formerly Dan Snaith's Manitoba) : The video was made by Dublin's Delicious 9 outfit, who made all the films for the previous Manitoba tour, and have recently completed visuals for the forthcoming Caribou tour.
Dr Imran Waheed, the Representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, outlines today's key events : These are the guys who gave Galloway a hard time recently...
Seymour Hersh interview : the daily show (.wmv player) | talk from a swedish seminar on investigative journalism (48mb mp3)
24.4.05
22.4.05
Mr. T's Rap Song : Oh yeah This really is as bad as you may think...Taken from the album 'Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool!'
20.4.05
A Life In Pieces : (DivX) is a series of twelve, five minute shows. Originally broadcast on BBC2 at Christmas 1990. The series features Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, being interviewed by Ludovic Kennedy, based loosely around The Twelve Days of Christmas.
Google Tutor & Advisor : finding interesting video, sound and image files in unprotected directories
Welcome to CarlLewis.com! : Apparently, Olympic sprinter Carl Lewis made a music video in the 1980's. Fortunately for us, it's aged like a fine wine.
19.4.05
Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat : Saturday 23rd April @ the Horse Hospital. Casuistry is the science of justifying something which may not be justifiable and Jesse Power, imprisoned in 2001 along with two young accomplices for brutally torturing and killing a pet cat in the name of art, is rather worried that it’s something he might be doing.
18.4.05
Respect Launch Manifesto Arguably, the only tiny scrap of socialist party politics we have left (Sic) in this country. Worth phoning everyone you know in Bethnal Green area, to persuade them to support George in kicking Oona out.
17.4.05
Youth pleads innocent to head theft : A Morrisville teenager is being held on $100,000 bail after pleading not guilty to charges he raided a tomb in a cemetery and removed the head of the corpse. Authorities are not sure of the motive for the crime. Court documents said the suspect allegedly talked of using the man's head as a "bong," a pipe for smoking marijuana.
Caterpillar rejects proposal to block bulldozer sales to Israel : Shareholders of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar this week rejected a proposal that called on the company to examine the sale of its bulldozers to Israel due to their use in the demolition of Palestinian homes. Only 3 percent of shareholders voted in favor of the motion.
Video - Orwell Rolls In His Grave - Part I : "Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?..." Director Robert Kane Pappas’ "Orwell Rolls In His Grave" is the consummate critical examination of the Fourth Estate, once the bastion of American democracy. Asking whether America has entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for the truth, Pappas explores what the media doesn’t like to talk about: itself.
inventionarts.org : Guapo and Bradford on Avon's finest Eftus Spectum are playing in Bath on Monday night.
USATODAY.com - Air Force jet was used for drug run, authorities say : A U.S. military pilot and a sergeant were being held on federal narcotics charges after admitting they flew an Air Force jet from New York to Germany and returned with 290,000 pills of Ecstasy worth millions of dollars, authorities said Wednesday
Supporters of the Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine are chained while protesting in the refugee camp of Ein El-Hilweh, southern Lebanon, Sunday, April 17, 2005. Some two thousand protested in solidarity with Palestinians held in Israeli jails. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zatari)
14.4.05
13.4.05
Introducing the 'Matrix' laptop-triggered landmine By June, The US Army will deploy in Iraq its "Matrix" system of remotely-detonated landmines, despite widespread concerns about the technology. The Mosul-based Styker Brigade will be able to control individual devices from a laptop via a WLAN set-up.
12.4.05
Tricycle Theatre : BLOODY SUNDAY: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry. "The Tricycle's latest piece of tribunal theatre is political theatre at its very best" The Guardian
Many Iraqis killed in US air attack : Twenty Iraqis have been killed and 22 injured after US helicopters and heavy artillery bombed houses in al-Rummana village north of al-Qaim city.
Home of socks and sandals the world over - I fear they may become this summer's fashion craze, ironically.
Raindance East 2005 - Brings to the East End a phenomenal programme of this year’s hottest features, documentaries, shorts and special events that reflects the wealth of talent and celebrates the unique attitude of East London’s vibrant filmmaking community.
11.4.05
Villagers Riot in China : Thousands of villagers rioted in eastern China, injuring dozens of police, after two of about 200 elderly women protesting over factory pollution died during efforts to disperse them, residents and officials said on Monday.
the little web actitvity is down to a film I made over the weekend about the strike at my workplace. I'll post up a download link in a couple of days.
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"100 Records That Set The World On Fire [When No One Was Listening]" : The Wire 175 [September 1998]
Indifferent to death: tragedy of the traumatised children of the intifada : Daily acts of violence may be leaving Gaza's youngsters too emotionally scarred to adjust to a life of peace, reports Sandra Jordan
Aljazeera.Net - Journalists tell of US Falluja killings : All is quiet in Falluja, or at least that is how it seems, given that the mainstream media has largely forgotten about the Iraqi city. But independent journalists are risking life and limb to bring out a very different story.
Aljazeera.Net - US troops wounded in prison attack : Dozens of fighters have attacked the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, detonating two car bombs and firing rocket-propelled grenades at US forces before the assault was repelled, the US military said.
US scatters bases to control Eurasia : The United States is beefing up its military presence in Afghanistan, at the same time encircling Iran. Washington will set up nine new bases in Afghanistan in the provinces of Helmand, Herat, Nimrouz, Balkh, Khost and Paktia.
2.4.05
US army to produce Mid-East comic : The US military is planning to win the hearts of young people in the Middle East by publishing a new comic.
1.4.05
FSOL.Disenchanted.com : The source for live bootlegs, remixes, radio transmissions, and other commercially unavailable music by and of The Future Sound of London.