T&B Vs IMPACT – OCT 29th – New line up & Venue TWISTED & BRAINFIRE VS. IMPACT - WEST COAST EDITION
MOVED TO BIGGER VENUE, 2 ROOMS, SAME PRICE!!!!!
SATURDAY 29TH OCTOBER
Due to popular demand for the TWISTED & BRAINFIRE vs IMPACT party on Saturday 29th October, we have decided to rather stick to one room for the West Coast Edition of T&B vs. Impact, as a one off we are going to move the party a few meters away to the old home of T&B "The Vaults", under Archaos on Queen Street in Glasgow.
This venue which many of you will have been to before is not only more spacious and has a more underground feel but gives us the opportunity too add a second room. Overall this means a bigger and more varied line-up and more for your money. Full details below...
TWISTED & BRAINFIRE vs IMPACT
"WEST COAST EDITION"
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ROOM ONE:: HARDCORE TECHNO & GABBA
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DJ JAPPO aka UNEXIST [Industrial Strength / Third Movement - Italy]
HARDCHOHOLICS [LIVE PA - Deathchant / Epileptik / Psychik Genocide - France]
NOISE FACTORY aka DJ LOKY [B.E.A.S.T - France]
STRONTIUM [LIVE PA Debut Appearance]
MINGETTA [Pedigree Skum]
IMHOTEP vs. ROB DA RHYTHM [Impact vs Twisted & Brainfire][/b]
+ 1more to be added
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ROOM TWO:: HARDSTYLE, TECHNO & OLDSKOOL
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BEN C & THE JUVENILE [Future Sound Corp / Disfunction]
DETONATOR Intense
VERTICAL DROP
SUB-SONIC and MC LOCO
STU MURDOCH
CORKY
THE CHEF & ANDY ACID
8.00pm to 3.00am
£10 on the door
@ The Vaults, Queen Street, Glasgow
Buses & Info : 0772 080 9434 (Al) or 07879021996 (Rob) or 07849152655 (Sarah)
BUSES
Aberdeen - Collie - 0791 371 3569
Balloch - Mick - 07749 613 544
Dundee - Billy - 0784 103 2382
Edinburgh - Beans - 07845 488 661
Edinburgh - Toby - 0781 861 2364
Glasgow - Robbie - 0787 902 1996 / Al - 0772 080 9434
Newcastle - Robin- 0191 370 1730 (5pm-10pm)
North Wales - Gwyn - 07761 639 606
Rosyth / Fife - Ian - 07835 449 706
Up For It Comedy Club UP FOR IT!
Live Stand Up Comedy
@ The Three Tuns
Bishops Castle
Shropshire
Thursday 20th October 2005
8.30pm £4 in
4 Comedians
...It's Funny n Stuff...
quality journalism New Statesman (UK)
17 October 2005
When journalists report propaganda instead of the truth, the consequences can be catastrophic -- as one largely-forgotten instance demonstrates.
We Need to be Told
by John Pilger
Thursday, October 13, 2005 -- (ICH) -- ''The propagandist's purpose," wrote Aldous Huxley, "is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, were specialists in the field. At the height of the slaughter known as the First World War, the prime minister, David Lloyd George, confided to C. P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian: "If people really knew [the truth], the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know, and can't know."
What has changed?
"If we had all known then what we know now," said the New York Times on 24 August, "the invasion [of Iraq] would have been stopped by a popular outcry." The admission was saying, in effect, that powerful newspapers, like powerful broadcasting organizations, had betrayed their readers and viewers and listeners by not finding out -- by amplifying the lies of Bush and Blair, instead of challenging and exposing them. The direct consequences were a criminal invasion called "Shock and Awe" and the dehumanizing of a whole nation.
This remains largely an unspoken shame in Britain, especially at the BBC, which continues to boast about its rigor and objectivity while echoing a corrupt and lying government, as it did before the invasion. For evidence of this, there are two academic studies available -- though the capitulation of broadcast journalism ought to be obvious to any discerning viewer, night after night, as "embedded" reporting justifies murderous attacks on Iraqi towns and villages as "rooting out insurgents" and swallows British army propaganda designed to distract from its disaster, while preparing us for attacks on Iran and Syria. Like the New York Times and most of the American media, had the BBC done its job, many thousands of innocent people almost certainly would be alive today.
When will important journalists cease to be establishment managers, and analyze and confront the critical part they play in the violence of rapacious governments?
An anniversary provides an opportunity. Forty years ago this month, Major General Suharto began a seizure of power in Indonesia by unleashing a wave of killings that the CIA described as "the worst mass murders of the second half of the 20th century". Much of this episode was never reported, and remains secret. None of the reports of recent terror attacks against tourists in Bali mentioned the fact that near the major hotels were the mass graves of some of an estimated 80,000 people killed by mobs orchestrated by Suharto, and backed by the American and British governments.
Indeed, the collaboration of western governments, together with the role of western business, laid the pattern for subsequent Anglo-American violence across the world: such as Chile in 1973, when Augusto Pinochet's bloody coup was backed in Washington and London; the arming of the shah of Iran and the creation of his secret police; and the lavish and meticulous backing of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, including black propaganda by the Foreign Office which sought to discredit press reports that he had used nerve gas against the Kurdish village of Halabja.
In 1965, in Indonesia, the American embassy furnished General Suharto with roughly 5,000 names. These were people marked for assassination, and a senior American diplomat checked off the names as they were killed or captured. Most were members of the PKI, the Indonesian Communist Party. Having already armed and equipped Suharto's army, Washington secretly flew in state-of-the-art communication equipment whose high frequencies were known to the CIA and the National Security Council advising the president, Lyndon B Johnson. Not only did this allow Suharto's generals to co-ordinate the massacres, it meant that the highest echelons of the US administration were listening in.
The Americans worked closely with the British. The British ambassador in Jakarta, Sir Andrew Gilchrist, cabled the Foreign Office: "I have never concealed from you my belief that a little shooting in Indonesia would be an essential preliminary to effective change." The "little shooting" saw off between half a million and a million people.
However, it was in the field of propaganda, of "managing" the media and eradicating the victims from people's memory in the west, that the British shone. British intelligence officers outlined how the British press and the BBC could be manipulated. "Treatment will need to be subtle," they wrote, "e.g., a) all activities should be strictly unattributable, b) British [government] participation or co-operation should be carefully concealed." To achieve this, the Foreign Office opened a branch of its Information Research Department (IRD) in Singapore.
The IRD was a top-secret, cold war propaganda unit headed by Norman Reddaway, one of Her Majesty's most experienced liars. Reddaway and his colleagues manipulated the "embedded" press and the BBC so expertly that he boasted to Gilchrist in a secret message that the fake story he had promoted -- that a communist takeover was imminent in Indonesia -- "went all over the world and back again". He described how an experienced Sunday newspaper journalist agreed "to give exactly your angle on events in his article ... i.e., that this was a kid-glove coup without butchery".
These lies, bragged Reddaway, could be "put almost instantly back to Indonesia via the BBC". Prevented from entering Indonesia, Roland Challis, the BBC's south-east Asia correspondent, was unaware of the slaughter. "My British sources purported not to know what was going on," Challis told me, "but they knew what the American plan was. There were bodies being washed up on the lawns of the British consulate in Surabaya, and British warships escorted a ship full of Indonesian troops down the Malacca Straits so that they could take part in this terrible holocaust. It was only later that we learned that the American embassy was supplying names and ticking them off as they were killed. There was a deal, you see. In establishing the Suharto regime, the involvement of the IMF and the World Bank was part of it ... Suharto would bring them back. That was the deal."
The bloodbath was ignored almost entirely by the BBC and the rest of the western media. The headline news was that "communism" had been overthrown in Indonesia, which, Time reported, "is the west's best news in Asia". In November 1967, at a conference in Geneva overseen by the billionaire banker David Rockefeller, the booty was handed out. All the corporate giants were represented, from General Motors, Chase Manhattan Bank and US Steel to ICI and British American Tobacco. With Suharto's connivance, the natural riches of his country were carved up.
Suharto's cut was considerable. When he was finally overthrown in 1998, it was estimated that he had up to $10 billion in foreign banks, or more than 10 per cent of Indonesia's foreign debt. When I was last in Jakarta, I walked to the end of his leafy street and caught sight of the mansion where the mass murderer now lives in luxury. As Saddam Hussein heads for his own show trial on 19 October, he must ask himself where he went wrong. Compared with Suharto's crimes, Saddam's seem second-division.
With British-supplied Hawk jets and machine-guns, Suharto's army went on to crush the life out of a quarter of the population of East Timor: 200,000 people. Using the same Hawk jets and machine-guns, the same genocidal army is now attempting to crush the life out of the resistance movement in West Papua and protect the Freeport company, which is mining a mountain of copper in the province. (Henry Kissinger is "director emeritus" of this enterprise.) Some 100,000 Papuans, 18 per cent of the population, have been killed; yet this British-backed "project", as new Labour likes to say, is almost never reported.
What happened in Indonesia, and continues to happen, is almost a mirror image of the attack on Iraq. Both countries have riches coveted by the west; both had dictators installed by the west to facilitate the passage of their resources; and in both countries, blood-drenched Anglo-American actions have been disguised by propaganda willingly provided by journalists prepared to draw the necessary distinctions between Saddam's regime ("monstrous") and Suharto's ("moderate" and "stable").
Since the invasion of Iraq, I have spoken to a number of principled journalists working in the pro-war media, including the BBC, who say that they and many others "lie awake at night" and want to speak out and resume being real journalists. I suggest now is the time.
John Pilger's book 'Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs' is published in paperback by Vintage.
To contact the Free West Papua Campaign, e-mail [samoxen@aol.com] or phone 01865 241200
Ed Fuk where are you cutie Hey peeps
I'm on the search for a chap named Ed who I suspect has something to do with all these disgraceful beatnik gatherings.........My name is Abi, I used to live in Bristol and was a regular at Subway records and the free party scene in Somerset from 1999-2001. Now I'm a breakbeat and Techno DJ in Essex, and I desperately want to find Ed again! Where are you boy?
Any clues very gratefully received!
Lurve me love my bass
A clean(ish) New Orleans joke FBI agents have reason to believe the New Orleans disaster was no long caused by hurricane Katrine, but now suspect it was a suicide plumber.
Oh come on, I've heard worse but this isn't the place. Maybe I'll pop over to sj!
[Podcast] Alliance Web Chat with Dr. Andrew Weil Published: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:23:41 EST
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[Podcast] Alliance Web Chat: Opportunities for Reform in 2005 Published: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:39:31 EST
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[Podcast] Alliance Web Chat: Election 2004 Published: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:40:39 EST
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[Podcast] Alliance Web Chat with Author Eric Schlosser Published: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:42:16 EST
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[Podcast] Alliance Web Chat with Dr. Sasha and Ann Shulgin Published: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:43:04 EST
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Medical Marijuana Supreme Court Decision: A Chat with Angel Raich Following Monday’s Supreme Court decision to allow federal prosecution of medical marijuana patients, Angel Raich joined Alliance Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann and Alliance Legal Affairs Director Dan Abrahamson for a live audio web chat last night to discuss her reaction to the ruling and what it means for the thousands of medical marijuana patients across the country. You can listen to the web chat here if you missed it.
[Podcast] Is San Francisco Going to Pot? A Public Forum with Ethan Nadelmann (Part 1 of 2) Published: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:46:24 EST
Due to its length, this presentation has been split into two parts. This is Part 1 of 2.
A public forum with Alliance Director Ethan Nadelmann was held in San Francisco in July.
Mayor Gavin Newsom gave introductory remarks, and Nadelmann spoke on the future of drug policy both internationally and domestically, as well as on the role of San Francisco as a leader for reform.
Please click the title above to listen to the chat.
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[Podcast] Is San Francisco Going to Pot? A Public Forum with Ethan Nadelmann (Part 2 of 2) Published: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:45:59 EST
Due to its length, this presentation has been split into two parts. This is Part 2 of 2.
A public forum with Alliance Director Ethan Nadelmann was held in San Francisco in July.
Mayor Gavin Newsom gave introductory remarks, and Nadelmann spoke on the future of drug policy both internationally and domestically, as well as on the role of San Francisco as a leader for reform.
Please click the title above to listen to the chat.
You can also add the following URL to your podcast receiver to automatically download audio files from the Alliance:
http://www.rapidfeeds.com/?fid=373
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[Action Alert] Cut Drug War Waste to Pay for Hurricane Relief Published: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:32:54 EST
Are you tired of the government spending your money on all those anti-marijuana TV ads that don't work? You know, the ones that claim that drug users are terrorists, and that smoking marijuana will make you crazy, get you pregnant, and cause you to shoot your neighbor.
You can help us cut those anti-marijuana ads this year.
But don't stop there. You can also help us cut funding to the Andean Counter-Drug Initiative (formerly known as "Plan Colombia"), which is devastating Colombia and destroying the environment.
And help us cut the federal Byrne grant program, which is financing out-of-control anti-drug task forces like the ones we've told you about in Tulia, Texas and Flint, Michigan.
These are just three examples of wasteful, harmful drug war programs that Congress could cut to pay for hurricane relief efforts. Eliminating these programs would save $1.6 billion this year alone.
Tell Congress to save money by cutting drug war waste.
You have probably already read in the news that members of Congress are debating how to pay for relief efforts. We know what would be a good start: stop wasting money on the failed war on drugs. Imagine how much money would be saved if the government simply stopped arresting people for marijuana, and stopped raiding raves and other peaceful electronic music events.
And what if instead of incarcerating people with substance abuse problems, we provided them with drug treatment? California voters approved our treatment-instead-of-incarceration initiative in 2000 and taxpayers have already saved more than a billion dollars. That's just one state, and one reform.
You may recall that we have already been successful in cutting federal drug war waste. Congress has cut funding to the anti-marijuana ads and the Byrne grant program for two years in a row. Last year we were able to slash funding for Bush's student drug testing program in half.
Now, we're working to cut wasteful drug war spending even more. As just one example of why we think we will be successful, the Republican Study Committee (a caucus of more than 100 conservative House Republicans) recently suggested completely eliminating several drug war programs, including those ridiculous anti-marijuana ads. By working with them, as well as with progressive Democrats, we can make these cuts happen.
But we need you to contact Congress, and then forward this alert to your friends.
Take action now!
Also, if you haven't become a dues-paying member of the Drug Policy Alliance, please consider doing so. As the old saying goes, "There's strength in numbers." Help strengthen the opposition to drug war waste by becoming a member here.
Finally, we hope to have some exciting news to report next week. So stay tuned!
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