Cold Turkey Week On Channel 4 starting this coming Monday is the start of Cold Turkey week.
Channel 4 are going to follow a few heroin addicts go through detox in a special centre for doing so.
Since the subject of heroin is still quite vivid and the dangers are obvious, anyone who wants to watch should look through their TV guides and book it to watch. 2300 is the uncut version and there is a daytime version (without the obvious swearing etc and i'm sure more educational).
PLUR
Elliot
Teknophobia @ The Electrowerkz,17/02/06 Teknophobia presents Brand new Tekno night @ The Electrowerkz, Islington, London,17/02/06
Behind Angel tube station :bounce_m:
Pat Hurley(opensource recs)www.electronik.biz
Jeff Amadeus (www.squatrecords.com)
Rosko (Teknophobia)
Reggie Mental (Teknophobia)
Ed First (Brighton)
Visuals by Catarax (www.catarax.co.uk)
£8 B4 12/£10 after/NUS £8
IN : UK tourist killed by infection after mosquito bite *DO NOT READ IF SQUEAMISH!* A very nasty way to go, although rare this man was young and otherwise healthy, but despite best efforts of the doctor they were unable to notice the condition (would probably have had to scan his organs but wouldn;t be surprised if the scanners were all in use for gunshot wound victims)
And this chap just seemed like a normal bloke who wouldn't have done anything "extreme" in India. "rave tourists" probably are pushing their bodies to the limit as well...
Quote:
Killed by a mozzie bite
Feb 10 2006
AN INFECTION from a mosquito bite during a foreign holiday killed a man by rotting his internal organs, an inquest heard.
Matthew Kernot, 36, was found dead in bed at his flat in Ravenstone Street, Balham, by paramedics after a trip to India.
An inquest on Tuesday was told Mr Kernot had suffered from an infection that caused his liver to rot and his spleen to semi-liquefy.
He had also suffered heart and kidney failure and fluid had filled his lungs.
The financial analyst, originally from Newport on the Isle of Wight, had started to feel unwell while on holiday in southern India after suffering mosquito bites that had started to "ooze".
Nine days later he was dead.
He had returned to London on November 18, and been off work complaining of a variety of symptoms including headaches, vomiting, fever and a painful abdomen.
He had gone to his local doctor's surgery four times in a week.
But a number of tests, including liver function procedures, did not reveal his deteriorating condition.
Westminster Coroner's Court heard that despite the trips to the doctor complaining of illness, numerous tests failed to show he had the rare life-threatening infection, which was not malaria.
His partner, Christina Devaney said he had appeared "perkier" after a final appointment with GP Dr Ai Lechi two days before his death.
She went away for the Saturday after Mr Kernot said he felt better, but kept in touch with him via text and mobile phone.
She returned to find paramedics in their flat.
Pathologist Dr Peter Wilkins said a postmortem revealed the cause of death was major organ failure caused by septicaemia.
He said insect bites "would have been the opportunity for organisms to get into the body at that time".
Coroner Dr Paul Knapman said: "The story is not very usual and the outcome is an absolute tragedy."
Dr Knapman recorded a verdict of death from natural causes.
[LA] 02/24/06 Lars Behrenroth & Daryl Cura (Eargasmic Rec.) Friday, February 24th
STRUT and deepershades.net present
Lars Behrenroth - Germany
& guest Daryl Cura - Eargasmic Rec. / Chicago
if you dig the music Lars plays on his weekly radio show 'Deeper Shades of House'
on XM Radio - The Move, then this is a must go event for you.
Deep house sounds from soulful to disco to jazzy to techy...
9.30pm - 2am / 21 and over / Free till 10 pm - $10 after
for complementary guestlist, please rsvp to
rsvp@deepershades.net by noon on Friday the 24th
Gotham Hall (come straight to the Red Room)
1431 3rd St. Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90403
gothamhall.com
more info about the show and Lars Behrenroth at http://deepershades.net
Feeling of Life 2005? One of my life changing experiences happened at Feeling of Life 02'.
Best thing I've ever been to in my life, even though i didn't do that much dancing, and only stayed just over a day, and depsite there being some dodgy locals from bristol there....but anyways is this thing back on again this year?
If not what is the next closest thing in the uk?
cheers all
[BRIGHTON] WED 15th Feb- Old Skool/Jungle/ Hardcore
Last minute shindig down at the volks!
Upstairs: Old Skool/ Jungle/ Hardcore/ Gabba
Downstairs: Mashup/hiphop/drumandbass/breakz/old skool
Basically a last minute night cause there was nothing else booked! Hence only £2 entry, and loads of drink promos, etc. Should be a phatty! 10-3am
PSY IV, Saturday 25 February’06 @ George IV, Brixton, London Hi there everybody,
We're glad to announce that PSY IV will be back on Saturday the 25th of February'06 with yet another spectacular Psychedelic Line-up at George IV, Brixton, London, SW2.
On stage we have residents Project FM and Zeus followed by guest dj's Kireesh and Jay OM. Also on stage that evening are, 24seven label owner, Astralex, Nigel Photon from Revolve Magazine and from Liquid Records we have Liquid Ross.
Entrance is only £5 before 11pm and more after or you can just e-mail me your names for the paying guest-list at rootsproductions@gmail.com.
*****Hope to see you all on Saturday for a great night out*****
Roots-Productions presents.......
PSY IV
Saturday 25th February'2006
@ George IV, Brixton Hill,
Brixton, London, SW2
Up the road towards Streatham Hill, pass the Fridge.
Buses 159, 59, 109
10.00 pm - 06.00 am
Entrance: £5.00 before 11pm, more after
or e-mail for paying guestlist.
Main Room: Psychedelic Trance
Project FM (psy iv, roots, free spirit, point zero recs.)
Kireesh (psy iv)
Zeus (roots, dark psy-d, freak-club, point zero recs.)
Jay OM (free spirit, implosion)
Astralex (24seven)
Nigel Photon (revolve magazine)
Liquid Ross (liquid recs.)
INFO: Peter 07951544732, Fabry 07904167916,
rootsproductions@gmail.com
THIS IS OLDSKOOL – FRI 3RD MAR – LUTON (SWAN – E / TORCHMAN / ATB)
After over 2 years Apply the Breaks will be re-donning their rose tinted spectacles for a nostalgic trip back in time on Friday, March 3, 2006. This Is Oldskool part 4 will see a return to the venue that started it all for ATB, as we proudly help re-launch the all new and improved Marino's nightclub in Upper George Street, Luton.
Long-term ATB members will know the venue well under its previous guise of Caspers. After being closed for a year, the basement club has been completely re-styled and revamped with a smart new look including a move for the bar and DJ booth to vastly improve the layout. So what better way to test out the new surroundings than with a night of classic House, Oldskool anthems and a splattering of Breakbeat from 10pm until 4am?
Luton's DJ daddy Swan-e will be headlining, former Milwaulkees resident Torchman will be digging through his back catalogue for a birthday set and Dunstable's DJ Force returns to the wheels of steel with some old favourites. Robbie Garooba is on warm-up duty while Apply the Breaks will be represented in the form of two one-hour three deck sessions (Mack and Rob B2B with Gemini G scratching and Smoove and Darren Lee B2B with Fingaz on the scratch attack).
Hosts for the evening, under the strict philosophy that less is more, will be KID and the Krafty MC.
Tickets: £6 from the usual outlets
Availible from:
Luton - Per Lui – 01582 723921
St Albans - Plastic Records - 01727 766123
Leighton Buzzard - White Label Records 015250766123
Hitchin - Tigerstyle – 01462 454611
St Albans – Plastic Records 01727 831144
Expect all the traditional ATB extras of CD giveaways and other surprises on the night.
INFORMATION:
Call 07958 172822 or 07941 996521
van insurance. just been on the phone to coop insurance to re insure my truck after a while of it being off road. the woman was very direct in asking whether it was a purpose built camper or a conversion. last time i was never asked so there was no lying to be done. its a big blue converted welfare bus that just screams "pull me and give me a producer" does anyone know who will insure it as legit as possible?
Immigrants asked to speak Dutch in Netherlands http://www.workpermit.com/news/2006_02_09/europe/immigrants_speak_dutch.htm
09 February 2006
The Netherlands, home to multinational companies such as Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, may ask residents not to use foreign languages in public.
Rotterdam, the country's second-biggest city, last month passed a code that encourages residents to speak only Dutch in schools, at work and on the street as the city struggles to assimilate Turkish and Moroccan immigrants. Now Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk is calling for a similar national measure. Neither move includes penalties for violators.
"I'm for such a code for all Dutch people,'' Verdonk said in a Jan. 31 column in the Amsterdam-based newspaper Trouw. ``In such a code, you tell people what's expected of them and hope that they will live by it.''
The proposal is the latest reaction to rising tensions between immigrants, who make up 10 percent of the population, and native Dutch.
A language code may harm the Netherlands' reputation for tolerance and multiculturalism, according to Rotterdam's Labor Party. Dutch people speak an average of 1.59 languages other than their mother tongue, the second-highest figure in the 25 European Union nations, behind Luxembourg, according to a 2002 survey by the EU. About 75 percent of the Dutch speak English, 67 percent German and 12 percent French.
Since 1602, when the Dutch East India Co. was created to import spices from Southeast Asia, the Dutch economy has been built on international trade. Royal Dutch Shell, Europe's second-biggest oil company, is based in The Hague. Unilever, the world's third-largest foodmaker, is based in Rotterdam.
City officials in Amsterdam, the Netherlands' largest city, and The Hague, the third-biggest, say they have no plans to introduce such language codes in their communities.
IMPLOSION "13th Act" 11/03/06 Sat @G. IV, London
IMPLOSION “13th Act”
GEORGE’s ORGANIC IMPLOSION
Brixton’s George IV, the scene of monthly Implosions since 2005 will do so again Saturday, March 11th, 2006, but there be no need for concern - it will be an organic combustion.
Implosion’s dj line-ups are as multicultural as their dance floor and March 11th is no different, featuring Chris Organic, label boss of, you guessed it, Organic Records. Man and label’s combined contribution to the international psy-scene, for more than 10 years, means he requires very little introduction. His son’s birth in 2003 meant a reduction in his djing appearances but, going on 2005 and now early ’06, it appears he, label and various guises, are back. The George IV’s intimate environment is a wonderful place to witness for yourself, why I need say no more.
Also, from Italy, Dj Josko, his sound best described as cyber-groove, influences ranging from techno to electro, via pop and another who’s reputation - through work on labels Neurobiotic Records and Indica Music - proceeds him. Alongside him, Dj Buju, (London based, Israeli born) the night’s progressive-psytrance rep (Domo Records,), Marchello (Neurobiotic/Free-Spirit) with his own fast-developing, international renown and also, Nic No Name (Frolic productions). If that isn’t already enough we have from Free-Spirit Recs. and also Implosion residents, Jay OM and Bedouin. Add to that a UV market, performers, the George’s relaxed, tolerant Brixton feel; all infected with the Implosion crew’s good vibes. It’ll be tasty, and healthy.
Dancing on the dance floor, you close your eyes, the music is making your whole body vibrate with a delicious energy, feeling the beats deep within, the energy of the rhythm lightens your spirit and a smile forms in the pit of your soul, it’s warming you, moving its way up then erupting to light up your face. Your body begins to sway…you’ve imploded, again.
Chris Organic
(Organic Recs.)
Marchello
(Neurobiotic, Free-Spirit ,Fairy Tales,)
Jay OM
(Free-Spirit Recs.)
Josko
(Neurobiotic Recs.,Sonica)
Buju
(Domo Recs.)
Nic No Name
(Frolic productions)
Bedouin
(Free-Spirit, Pickle)
IMPLOSION “13th Act”
Saturday 11th March 2006
George IV, 144 Brixton Hill, London, SW2 - 10pm to 6am
Tube/Rail: Brixton, Buses: 59, 109, 159, 333, 133.Fluoro market, dancers, fluffy and friendly crowd plus magical decor transformation by Pickle and Implosion crew.
£6 before 23h30 with flyer. £9 on the door. Paying guest list £6 email: implosion@free-spirit.eu.com before 12h00 11/03
Advance Tickets: £7 Access All Areas tel. 0207 267 6148
More info: www.free-spirit.eu.com - www.picklepromotions.com – www.accessallareas.org
Contact: Implosion: +44 (0) 7961 033 809
Hope to see you there!!
Implosion Crew
"When you are on the dance floor and the music surrounds you, the beat hits you in your stomach and collapses inside you, that is Implosion"
ANDY WHITBY, MC SHARKEY, CALLY GAGE & MORE @ FRIDGE 3/3/06 AFTER THE SUCCESS OF OUR 3RD BIRTHDAY
WE RETURN TO THE FRIDGE WITH ANOTHER AWESOME LINEUP
TOTAL MAYHEM
FRIDAY 3RD MARCH 2006
FRIDGE, BRIXTON
10PM-6AM
HARDHOUSE, HARDTRANCE AND UPLIFTING TRANCE
BILLY DANIEL BUNTER + MC SHARKEY (tasty/nu energy)
(xclusive harddance dj and mc set)
ANDY WHITBY (frantic)
CALLY GAGE (frantic)
FUSION (colourbox recs germany)
EL GREKO (crossover)
MICKEY.C (total mayhem)
IAN EDWARDS (total mayhem)
KIERON TONG (total mayhem)
DANNY TAPPENDEN (spangled sundays)
BILBSTAR B2B KESTAS (warm up set)
ROOM 2
BILBSTAR (total mayhem)
KESTAS (total mayhem)
JON HANLEY (twisted)
STEFAN B (peach goes hard)
J.K (e-z duzzit)
MICKY FALLOUT (spangled sundays)
EDDIE H (spangled sundays)
AFTER THE SUCCESS OF OUR 3RD BIRTHDAY
WE RETURN TO THE FRIDGE WITH ANOTHER AWESOME LINEUP
AS ALWAYS U CAN EXPECT ONLY THE BEST IN PRODUCTION WITH STATE OF THE ART SOUND AND LIGHTING, BACKDROPS, GIANT INFLATABLES, BUBBLE MACHINES, GIANT L.E.D WALL, SMOKE MACHINES, GIANT LASERS, GIANT BALLOON DROP, MULTICOLOURED STROBES, U.V DANCERS, U.V STALLS AND MUCH MUCH MORE..
VERY SPECIAL GUESTS ON THE NIGHT GARFIELD THE CAT & FRIENDS
advanced tickets £10 from ticketweb
08700 600 100 (ltd tickets available)
www.ticketweb.co.uk
for paying guestlist and info call 07984 721 366
or email
MICKEYC@TOTALMAYHEMUK.COM
WWW.TOTALMAYHEMUK.COM
so join us as for
a night of total madness
a night of total excitment
a night of TOTAL MAYHEM!!!
Out of sight Can a film right the wrongs committed in Guantánamo? Clive Stafford Smith, who has represented many of its prisoners in court, reports
Tuesday February 14, 2006
The Guardian
'The film puts paid to the myth that everyone in Guantánamo is a terrorist' ... a scene from The Road to Guantánamo
Only a fool wants never to learn from his mistakes. Government should always have a process for this. When a train crashes, or a ferry capsizes, Britain traditionally holds a public inquiry to learn what went wrong. In America, a congressional committee sometimes plays this role, although most cases fall into the cauldron of civil litigation. While I often feel that the courtroom is pointlessly adversarial, it has been said that cross-examination "is the greatest engine for exposing truth known to human kind". Often, though, there will be no inquiry, and no lawsuit; there are some mistakes that our leaders would rather not expose to public criticism or debate. The iconic catastrophe of Guantánamo Bay falls into this category.
Consider the undisputed facts: 38 Guantánamo prisoners were found innocent, even by biased military tribunals, after being held for three years. At least eight of these conceded innocents are still there. More than 250 prisoners have been released, apparently because they were not a danger to the US after all. For the most part, each has vanished back into the faraway country whence he came. Nobody has asked why President Bush branded them the "worst of the worst" among the world's terrorists, although we now know that no senior al-Qaida officer in US custody was in Guantánamo - they have been held in secret prisons around the world (some in Europe). Five hundred prisoners remain in chains in Guantánamo, many with compelling claims of innocence, yet on December 20 2005, the US Congress passed a law barring their access to any US court.
When we ignore the fact that the Titanic is steaming towards the iceberg, the ship is destined to sink. Thankfully, the media - and in this case the medium of film - occasionally stand in for the public conscience. Instead of an inquiry or a lawsuit, Guantánamo will now go before the jury at the Berlin film festival in Michael Winterbottom's latest work, The Road to Guantánamo (co-directed by Mat Whitecross).
Three young men from Tipton - Rhuhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul - were among the victims of Guantánamo. I have been privy to the best evidence that the Americans can throw at them, and their story goes essentially uncontradicted, as it is presented in the film. They went to Pakistan for Iqbal's marriage, just prior to the attack on Afghanistan. When the friends gathered shortly before the wedding, they got caught up in the moment and embarked on a well-intentioned but unwise escapade into Afghanistan to help the victims of the war. They felt this would fulfil their Muslim duty of zakah, or charity.
A couple of days in they recognised the folly of the venture, but getting back out proved more difficult. Recklessness then dissolved into tragedy, as what had originally been the Tipton Four lost a member. Munir Ali disappeared in the crowds. Nobody knows what happened to him, and his family may never know.
The remaining trio were probably betrayed by locals looking to collect on the $5,000 bounty being offered by the Americans for foreigners. They were swept up by Coalition allies, and shuffled into a container that was then machine-gunned by General Dostrum's forces, killing many inside. In American custody they were beaten and abused, before ultimately being dispatched to Guantánamo Bay for two years. In 2004 they were released without charge.
The Road to Guantánamo weaves commentary from the Tipton lads between credible re-enactments of their nightmare. This may be the only inquiry that Guantánamo ever gets. If so, what are the lessons we might learn?
First, that the Tipton lads were, paradoxically, the lucky ones: Munir is presumed dead, and nobody seems to care. Second, the Tipton Three are now free; 500 prisoners in Guantánamo are not. They are free because they are British nationals. Eight British residents remain in Guantánamo, four years into their ordeal, locked up without legal rights. The British government refuses to do anything for these people, although Jamil el Banna has five English children and another, Shaker Aamer, has four; some of these residents had lived here for more than of 20 years. Human rights are for human beings, rather than simply people from Britain, yet Tony Blair negotiated one set of legal rules for British citizens - most favoured nation status - and left the British residents at the mercy of the original Bush plan.
Third, the Tipton Three were extraordinarily lucky that the Americans tried to exaggerate the evidence against them. Virtually everyone in Guantánamo has been accused of visiting the al-Farouq training camp in Afghanistan. Disproving this is difficult. Fortunately the Americans insisted that Ahmed, Iqbal and Rasul not only visited the camp, but appeared on a videotape with Osama bin Laden there. The tape was made in 2000. MI5, setting out to help corroborate the prosecution for a US military tribunal, learned that Rasul was working at a Birmingham Currys at the time.
Finally, Winterbottom's film puts paid to the myth that everyone in Guantánamo is a terrorist, itching to blow up Americans. Given the appalling treatment that many prisoners receive, it is a tribute to their Islamic faith that they do not feel this way. Instead of assaulting the US embassy, Ahmed, Iqbal and Rasul have spent months helping Winterbottom tell the truth.
The film should not be a substitute for a full inquiry, but merely the impetus to get one off the ground. Setting aside what the Americans have done, the British government has been complicit in the seizure and mistreatment of many of the victims of Guantánamo, and the still more secret prisons beyond. Abusing the Tipton Three did not make the world safer for democracy, but it did hold hostage the values our society should hold dear. Until we expose these crimes, and learn what led people to commit them, our world will continue to repeat them.
Clive Stafford Smith is legal director of Reprieve (reprieve.org.uk). The Road to Guantánamo is at the Berlin film festival today, and will be shown on Channel 4 on March 9.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1709506,00.html
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