Topic: Bastard pop - on September 2, 2007 at 10:18:00 AM CEST
"This Was Pop (2002-2007)" MARK VIDLER GO HOME PRODUCTIONS
The ever so talented Mark Viddler a.k.a Go Home Productions has just released a 5 year retrospective featuring 20 of his groundbreaking mashups from the years 2002-2007.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 2, 2007 at 10:16:00 AM CEST
Manu Chao repeats himself well on 'La Radiolina'
Simply said, singer-songwriter Manu Chao is an enigma. He is considered one of the founders of Latin alternative music, but he sings in French, Spanish, Arabic, Galician, Portuguese, English and the Senegalian language Wolof. He is thought of as a standard bearer of the anti-globalization movement, but he shies away from leadership, living his life more as a nomadic anarchist.
Chao's new album, "La Radiolina" (Nacional), will more than please his fans, although his penchant for repetition and recycling remains unabated. The title, invoking a pirate radio station for the world's politically voiceless, is not unlike his previous coining of Radio Bemba, slang for the "word on the street." Still the 21-track album is perhaps his most creative work yet, sharpening his political focus while allowing him to explore new sonic styles.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 2, 2007 at 10:14:00 AM CEST
Man arrested for stealing bridge
Russian police have detained a 45-year-old municipal worker for stealing a bridge.
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Topic: WEB - on September 2, 2007 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
Security researcher stumbles across embassy e-mail log-ins
Security consultant Dan Egerstad has managed to snag usernames and passwords for over 100 e-mail accounts belonging to embassy employees around the world. According to Computer Sweden, which was able to check that some of the data was accurate, the embassies affected include India, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Iran, along with a British office in Nepal.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 2, 2007 at 10:08:00 AM CEST
Bluemchenwiese
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Topic: * - on September 2, 2007 at 10:07:00 AM CEST
Germany Wants to Spy on Suspects Via Web
German officials on Friday defended a proposal to use "Trojan horse" software to secretly monitor potential terror suspects' hard drives, amid fierce debate over whether the measures violate civil liberties.
Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble wants to include the measure in a broader security law being considered by conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 2, 2007 at 10:03:00 AM CEST
Hashish intercepted at Ceuta port as Moroccans flood back to Europe
A 50 year old man from Ceuta has been arrested by the Guardia Civil at the town’s port when trying to bring 232 kilos of hashish to the mainland.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 2, 2007 at 10:00:00 AM CEST
Afghanistan Opium Survey 2007: Executive Summary United Nations
In 2007, Afghanistan cultivated 193,000 hectares of opium poppies, an increase of 17% over last year. The amount of Afghan land used for opium is now larger than the corresponding total for coca cultivation in Latin America (Colombia, Peru and Bolivia combined).
Favourable weather conditions produced opium yields (42.5 kg per hectare) higher than last year (37.0 kg/ha). As a result, in 2007 Afghanistan produced an extraordinary 8,200 tons of opium (34% more than in 2006), becoming practically the exclusive supplier of the world’s deadliest drug (93% of the global opiates market). Leaving aside 19th century China, that had a population at that time 15 times larger than today’s Afghanistan, no other country in the world has ever produced narcotics on such a deadly scale.
On aggregate, Afghanistan’s opium production has thus reached a frighteningly new level, twice the amount produced just two years ago.
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