Del.icio.us links for September 28th through October 2nd:
- Revealed: millions spent by lobbyists fighting Obama health reforms – “America’s healthcare industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to block the introduction of public medical insurance and stall other reforms promised by Barack Obama. The campaign against the president has been waged in part through substantial donations to key politicians.” Money talks, power listens.
Tags: politicalcorruption lobbyists USA barackobama reformism healthcare business money politics - LENIN’S TOMB: The BBC is promoting the BNP – Great response to that fucking BBC web interview with the two clueless BNP yoot-fascists.
Tags: bnp fascists interview media bbc politics UK britain - Bill Maher: New Rule: If America Can’t Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle – I hate to be a nudge, but why has America become a nation that can’t make anything bad end, like wars, farm subsidies, our oil addiction, the drug war, useless weapons programs – oh, and there’s still 60,000 troops in Germany – and can’t make anything good start, like health care reform, immigration reform, rebuilding infrastructure. Even when we address something, the plan can never start until years down the road. Congress’s climate change bill mandates a 17% cut in greenhouse gas emissions… by 2020! Fellas, slow down, where’s the fire? Oh yeah, it’s where I live, engulfing the entire western part of the United States!
Tags: USA politics culture funny - China celebrates 60 years – The Big Picture – China formally kicked off its mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing’s historic Tiananmen Square earlier today. Hundreds of thousands of participants marched past Tiananmen Square in costume or uniform, with floats and dancers mingling with soldiers and military hardware. Collected here are photographs of the once-in-a-decade National Day parade in Beijing, and of others commemorating the anniversary elsewhere.
Tags: photography photos china militarism armedforces patriotism - Vitalic on MySpace Music – Pretty fucking excellent electro. The French know their shit.
Tags: band music hotdamn! - Incoming Cerebral Overdrive on MySpace Music – Awesome prog/alt/experimental metal band.
Tags: band music - Internet Forever on MySpace Music – Still so very <3
Tags: band music - BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME on MySpace Music – Prog metal, pretty good. Stupid teaser track for the new album though, rubbish.
Tags: band music - Skin Like Iron on MySpace Music – goodXcore
Tags: band music - Pink Narcissus on MySpace Music – Rad Brighton band.
Tags: band music - Guilty Parents on MySpace Music – New signing to Holy Roar – pretty good.
Tags: band music - American Steel on MySpace Music – As reviewed the other day… fucking excellent band.
Tags: band music hotdamn! - How the iPod became an instrument of war – It was a throwaway statistic in an article about the heavy metal band Slayer that got Jonathan Pieslak thinking. During the Gulf war, he read, some 40% of the band’s fan mail came from soldiers stationed in the Middle East. Professor Pieslak is a music theorist at the City College of New York. Over the past few years he has interviewed US soldiers about the music they listen to and – more importantly – what they listen to it for.
Tags: music conflict war soldiers brain psychology - Boredoms on MySpace Music – love love love
Tags: band music hotdamn! - Why hasn’t there been a science fiction Booker winner? – Not a single science fiction novel made this year’s Man Booker longlist – this is despite, as Robinson points out, the extraordinary quality of the best of contemporary science fiction: “the range, depth, intensity, wit and beauty of the science fiction being published in the UK these days is simply amazing … one has to ask, how is it that a group of such intellectual power could be working at one time, and our time at that?” I’m obviously not in a position to say whether his generous assessment of my novel is correct, but I would enthusiastically endorse his broader thesis. UK science fiction is indeed going through a golden age.
Tags: books publishing sciencefiction UK
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