Del.icio.us links for March 18th:
- Metropolitan police pays Muslim man £60,000 damages over ‘serious attack’ – quot;The Metropolitan police today agreed to pay £60,000 damages to a British Muslim after a high court admission that officers had subjected him to quot;serious, gratuitous and prolongedquot; attack.quot; The Met police – still not racist, honest!
- Bridge and Tunnel on MySpace Music – New York punk band currently making waves. I#039;m not hearing anything exceptional here but it#039;s very good, solid, shoutalong punk rock. Could be one to watch.
- TRIBUTE TO NOTHING on MySpace Music – Pretty good British punk band, have some HWM-style influences and other stuff that the OrgCore oughta love.
- A HORSE CALLED WAR on MySpace Music – Excellent low-end riffy punk rock band. Playing with the Offcuts at the Brighton Hob in the near future.
- Sent back by Britain. Executed in Darfur – A failed asylum-seeker who returned to Darfur under a government repatriation scheme has been murdered by Sudanese security officers after they followed him home from the airport in Khartoum
- THOUGHTS COLLIDE on MySpace Music – Decent glossy hardcore band from Brighton – playing with the Offcuts in the near future.
- The Future of Warfare – Air Force officials acknowledge that more than a third of their unmanned Predator spy planes — which are 27 feet long, powered by a high-performance snowmobile engine, and cost $4.5 million apiece — have crashed, mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan.