.: Space as Culture - Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Video Link

.: Doc - Underground Resistance

Underground Resistance is a label for a movement. A movement that wants change by sonic revolution. We urge you to join the resistance and help us combat the mediocre audio and visual programming that is being fed to the inhabitants of Earth, this programming is stagnating the minds of the people; building a wall between races and preventing world peace. It is this wall we are going to smash. By using the untapped energy potential of sound we are going to destroy this wall much the same as certain frequencies shatter glass. Techno is a music based in experimentation; it is music for the future of the human race. Without this music there will be no peace, no love, no vision. By simply communicating through sound, techno has brought people of all different nationalities together under one roof to enjoy themselves. Isn't it obvious that music and dance are the keys to the universe? So called primitive animals and tribal humans have known this for thousands of years! We urge all brothers and sisters of the underground to create and transmit their tones and frequencies no matter how so called primitive their equipment may be. Transmit these tones and wreak havoc on the programmers!

 underground resistance

.: Nehi - The Dave G Mixtape

Local rapper Nehi comes correct on 'Set Sail',
- the first cut from his full length release - 'The Dave G Mixtape'.
[Production by Complete Kit, Interlude by Maladroit]

   Download the full mixtape here.

     [41Mb zip]


Stay posted - There is lots more fresh local Hip Hop on the way.

.: LHF - Akashic Visions

Just looked in on Blackdown, [It's been one of my favourite blogs for a while now],
and this track and video instantly grabbed me, and I had to post.
It has a Detroit/to/London/via/Afghanistanfransico atmosphere that resonates across 20 years of culture [that I have witnessed], whilst sounding like the future.
Oh yeah, ..and then the beat drops.

 "Akashic Visions" is a cut taken from the forthcoming LHF début and double album,
 "Keepers of the Light" on Keysound Recordings. |   Video Directed by the mighty Skely Tor, a true Light Keeper.

Available as 2xCD with exclusive sleeve notes and artwork and as digital on April 2nd (2012).

Via Blackdown and Keysound Recordings

.: Aidex '91

Over the last week, I am ashamed to say, I have been working on an international arms trade fair.

Right here in the middle of Sydney - at Darling Harbour.
Called the Pacific Maritime Expo, it didn't even seem to raise an eyebrow.

I wanted to walk out on the first day,

- walk out of an event that offends every one of the principles I so readily espouse.

But I found, in Sydney 2012, those principles are too expensive for people like me.
Living week to week, it seems I can no longer afford them.

Part of my soul has died.

It seemed none of my friends shared my outrage, as I ranted about the injustice, after my first day there.

Don't get passionate about something anymore, -you could be mistaken for a fanatic.

A terrorist.

Too gutless to try and sabotage the event when I had the chance.., as if I could..

Even if I knew how to make a bomb belt without killing myself [hard],

-and got it into the set up [easy],

I wouldn't come near to taking out any of the real scumbags,

I would have only taken out the contractors, working poor like me.

The whole thing was done low key, and at first we thought it was just a boat show,

But it soon became clear, this was a full on Naval Military Expo.

Drones, missiles, and surviellance bugs that look like jellyfish,

- the future is inhuman.

When I told the people around me what this event was really about
..all I got was blank stares.

Source:  engagemedia.org

No-one, it seemed, remembered AIDEX.
Over 20 years ago now.

I wasn't there, but I remember the response in the community.

This video was produced for CAT TV by John Jacobs,

a true hero and a creative inspiration.

Watch his video after the link....

.: Sydney Graffiti on Flickr

photo by godotcab on Flickr.

photo by baddogwhiskas on Flickr.

photo by baddogwhiskas on Flickr.

This photo pool delivers.
28,000 photos strong and counting....

.: Settlers - Al Corrupt feat Ibojah

Best Australia Day Ever.

.: Tresor - A documentary

.: Kill the Corporation!

Source

.: "I am not moving."

.: The Greatest Speech Ever Made

In 1940, one of the most important speeches in recorded history was given by a comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin.
This is the speech from the end of his film 'The Great Dictator',cut together with more current footage that poignantly highlights the importance of his words.

.: The Soundtank

More at Nowak’s Panzer SoundTank page.
via The SoundTank Will Crush Your Puny Little Mobile Music Making Device » Synthtopia

.: Noam Sayin'? The High Times Interview with Noam Chomsky

Brandon Bird: "Signifier and Signified"

Noam Chomsky  - interviewed by T.A. Sedlak - High Times, July 29, 2011

Q: You've spoken out against the War on Drugs, explaining that it's

essentially a means to lock up poor people, that it actually increases

drug use, and that it serves as an excuse to control foreign nations.

Would you briefly elaborate on these points?

A: Let's grant that there's a drug problem, for the sake of argument --

drugs meaning, you know, cocaine, marijuana and so on. Suppose you

accept that. How do you deal with it? There are studies -- government

studies and others -- that say that the most cost-effective way is

prevention and treatment. More expensive and less effective is policing;

still less effective and more expensive is border interdiction. And the

most expensive and the least effective is out-of-country operations,

like what they call "fumigation" -- which is, in fact, chemical warfare

-- in Colombia and so forth. I've seen it firsthand; it really is

chemical warfare. So those are the basic facts, and I don't think anyone

questions them very much.

Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40

years. It goes back farther, but start from 40 years ago: There's very

little spent on prevention and treatment. There's a lot on policing, a

ton of stuff on border control and a lot on out-of-country operations.

And the effect on the availability of drugs is almost undetectable; drug

prices don't change on measures of availability. So there are two

possibilities: Either those conducting the Drug War are lunatics, or

they have another purpose.

Well, in the law, there's a standard way of trying to determine

intention, and that's by looking at predictable consequences. You have

40 years of experience with almost no effect on what they claim they're

trying to do, and you have very predictable consequences -- in fact,

several. At home, you lock up the people who are essentially

superfluous. The economy shifted dramatically in the '70s away from

domestic production and towards financialization and the export of

production. That leaves a class problem: What do you do with unemployed

workers? We happen to have a very close class/race correlation in

America, so that means, overwhelmingly, black males and Hispanic males.

Well, you know, we're a civilized country, so you don't assassinate them

-- you stick them in jail. And, in fact, the incarceration rate has

been shooting up, especially since the early '80s; it's now way out of

line with any other comparable country. Meanwhile, overseas, the War on

Drugs contributes to counterinsurgency operations. So a rational

conclusion is that those are the purposes. The only alternative I can

think of is sheer lunacy....'

.: Read the rest of the interview.

.: from the vault - SYSTEM:CORRUPT

Here are some tasty bits of crouton, that never got used for garnish, - from the salad days of SYSTEM:CORRUPT....

[al corrupt]

.: 'It felt like a kiss' - Adam Curtis

                

It Felt Like a Kiss is an immersive theatre production, themed on "how power really works in the world".
Below is the 54 minute film component made by BBC documentary film maker, Adam Curtis.

'It felt like a kiss' by Adam Curtis

"I wanted to do a film about what it actually felt like to live through that time ... Where you could see the roots of the uncertainties we feel today, the things they did out on the dark fringes of the world that they didn't really notice at the time, which would then come back to haunt us"

.: "Why I am an anarchist" - ESR

Eric S Raymond [or ESR] is most widely known for his definitive book on the history of the rise of open source software and Linux,  'The Cathedral and the Bazaar'. He is also responsible for the assembling of  'The Jargon File'. aka 'The New Hackers Dictionary'
He is a bit of a legend from way back in hacker culture and open source dev & his website is a must-visit HTML treasure, well worth exploring. His essays are very interesting and wide ranging.
lots of great stuff to read.
I read this one many years ago,

• WHY I AM AN ANARCHIST

William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is one of the most subtly horrific pieces of writing ever uttered. The single most chilling paragraph in a book that does not flinch from describing Nazi atrocities is this one:
On August 19, 1934, 95% of the Germans who were registered to vote went to the polls and 90% (38 million) of adult German citizens voted to give Adolf Hitler complete and total authority to rule Germany as he saw fit. Only 4.25 million Germans voted against this transfer of power to a totalitarian regime.
With this vote, the position of Führer as an amalgam of President and Chancellor — the elevation of Adolf Hitler to the status of dictator — was formally and democratically approved by the German people.