If any of you are bold or bored enough to go see DISTURBIA (the Rear Window re-imagining), you may notice that the lead kid (LaBarf?) is a big Reptilian Records fan... His room is decorated with posters for Heroine Shieks, Easy Action, Upper Crust, The Fuses, Matterhorn, Cutthroats 9, Carlos Batts' book, and hometown hero photog Sam Holden art.
The movie was actually good. Not great, but I expected it to suck.
[ posted by chrisx at 04/26/2007 05:16:44 PM ] [ link ] [ 9 responses ]
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The Highest Holiday
My birthday is Jan 12th. I am having a "public party" Thursday night at Rocket to Venus on the corner of 34th and Chestnut- all Killoggers are invited, wheteher you lke me or not. Come buy me a drink or punch me in the face, I'll do the same for you. To celebrate living way past my sell by date, I am going to Der Fatherland! I will be in Berlin for a week, where I will attend an art opening of Stephen Kasner (.com), whose book I am publishing. Then I go to Zurich to visit with HR Giger for a few days to iron out our THREE BOOK CONTRACT. Happy Fuzking Birthday indeed.
I may be old, but life seems to actually get somewhat better as the debt mounts.
Best part of being old- I saw bands you just heard of from your hipper-than-thou pseudo friends, like Big Black, Rapeman, Nirvana (30 people there), RFTC, Fang, Verbal Assault, early Fugazi (they were just as pretentious then), VoiVod, Soundgarden, Jesus Lizard, SAMHAIN, Helmet......you mom....
[ posted by chrisx at 01/10/2007 07:54:25 PM ] [ link ] [ 12 responses ]
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This Bike is a Pipe Bomb Scare
Band Sticker on Bike Causes Bomb Scare
Mar 02 6:26 PM US/Eastern
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ATHENS, Ohio
A sticker on a bicycle that said "this bike is a pipe bomb" caused a scare Thursday at Ohio University that shut down four buildings before authorities learned the message was the name of a punk rock band, a university spokesman said.
The sticker on the bike chained outside the university-owned Oasis restaurant near the center of campus attracted the attention of a police officer about 5:30 a.m., spokesman Jack Jeffery said.
Police blocked streets around the restaurant and the Columbus police bomb squad came from about 65 miles away.
The bomb experts hit the bike with a high-pressure spray of water, then pried it apart with a hydraulic device normally used to rescue accident victims trapped in cars, acting Athens Fire Chief Ken Gilbraith said. Once they had it open, they saw there was no bomb.
The buildings, including some classroom facilities, were reopened after a couple hours.
Dean of Students Terry Hogan urged students to be more careful when showing support for the band from Pensacola, Fla.
University police interviewed the bike's owner then released him, Jeffery said. Police are still investigating.
An e-mail seeking comment was sent to Plan-It-X Records, listed on a Web site for the band as its record label. The label does not have a published phone number.
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
[ posted by chrisx at 03/02/2006 09:30:12 PM ] [ link ] [ 18 responses ]
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Thought Crime Charges Sought by Israeli Lawyer
Israeli Lawyer to Germans: Charge Iran's Leader as 'Holocaust Denier'
News/Comment; Posted on: 2006-02-23 21:44:22
"The crime as described is directly linked to Germany, committed among others against German nationals of Jewish descent." -- Ervin Shahar
by R. V. Lily
AN ISRAELI lawyer, Ervin Shahar, says he has formally requested that Germany charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pictured) with "denying the Holocaust," a crime in the German state, whose government has been dominated by Jewish supremacists since the 1940s.
President Ahmadinejad stated last year -- agreeing with numerous historians -- that the Holocaust was a "myth." Ahmadinejad also suggested that Israel should be relocated out of the Middle East, though sensationalistic media distorted this remark to make it seem that the Iranian president had called for genocide, which he had not. Shahar's effort, if it results in an arrest of the Iranian leader, would effectively "decapitate" Iran and lead to extensive violent reactions worldwide, which observers say might be used to justify war against Iran -- a war for which Zionists have been pushing for some time.
Germany passed a law in 1993 forbidding "Holocaust denial," which in practice makes the Jewish supremacists' accounts of their alleged wartime sufferings into quasi-religious dogma, the questioning of which results in long prison terms -- as writer and artist Ernst Zundel and best-selling historian David Irving (the latter in Austria, which has similar laws) suffer today. In Germany, doubting these "official" stories is punishable by up to five years in prison.
Shahar said he "wanted the German federal prosecutors' office to take the issue before the constitutional court in the hope that international arrest warrants would be issued against Mr Ahmadinejad."
"I'm awaiting a response about whether they will file charges but I don't know how long it will take," Mr Shahar stated. "It doesn't take days but several months."
On Monday, British historian David Irving was found guilty in Austria of "denying the Holocaust" in a speech he made in 1989 ( ! ) -- and sentenced to three years in prison even after pleading guilty.
The BBC reports that, "although Mr Ahmadinejad did not deny the Holocaust on German soil, another law passed in 2005 permits the filing of international cases in German courts. Mr Shahar hopes the case might result in international warrants for Mr Ahmadinejad's arrest, thus preventing the president from entering the US or Europe."
Shahar recently organized a rent-a-mob airlift of hundreds of radical Jewish supremacists from Israel to The Hague to protest the court's consideration of human rights issues arising from Israel's Apartheid Wall
[ posted by chrisx at 02/28/2006 05:43:30 PM ] [ link ] [ 54 responses ]
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The Underminig of Scientific Integrity
Body: Bush administration undermines scientific integrity
By FRANCESCA GRIFO
Scripps Howard News Service
27-FEB-06
In a recent commentary, Scripps Howard columnist Jay Ambrose not only misrepresented the history and positions of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), he also ignored the real news story: the Bush administration's continued attacks on the science that informs policies that affect our health, safety, and environment.
UCS was formed in 1969 to address the misuse of science and technology and to direct scientific research towards pressing global security and environmental problems. For more than thirty-five years, UCS has worked with the world's leading scientists to find solutions to problems ranging from oil dependency to the spread of nuclear weapons to global warming.
UCS has been successful because independent science guides our work. We do not take positions on issues for which we do not have scientific expertise, such as stem cell research as Ambrose's column stated or the Iraq war or social security reform.
Here are the facts: The Bush administration has regularly censored federal scientists, altered government scientific documents, and misrepresented scientific findings that contradict their predetermined policy decisions. Science has been manipulated on subjects as diverse as childhood lead poisoning, toxic mercury emissions, breast cancer, workplace safety, and nuclear weapons.
Two years ago, 62 leading scientists including science advisors to Republican and Democratic administrations dating back to Eisenhower's issued a statement denouncing this unprecedented level of political interference in science and called for concrete reforms to end these practices.
Since then, almost 9,000 additional scientists, including 49 Nobel laureates, have joined their colleagues in this protest. Leading scientific societies have dedicated major symposia to this problem and have issued strong statements reaffirming the critical role of independent science in policy making.
The most egregious example of abuse concerns global warming. In September 2002, the Bush administration removed a section on global warming from the Environmental Protection Agency's annual air pollution report, even though the issue had been a part of the report since 1997. In June 2003, the administration demanded such extensive changes in a global warming section of an EPA report that EPA ultimately removed the whole section rather than make changes that would undermine the science.
And last summer, it became public that the White House altered scientific documents to add uncertainty to well founded scientific conclusions about global warming. With this backdrop, the public learned in January that government officials had been limiting media access to senior scientists at multiple government agencies, including James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, because their understanding of the science behind global warming is inconsistent with the administration's global warming policies.
Despite Ambrose's intimations to the contrary, using independent science to inform public policy is a non-partisan issue. While policymakers make decisions based on factors other than science, we can all agree that nobody should interfere with the science behind those decisions.
UCS works in a bipartisan fashion to advance common sense solutions. We believe that American ingenuity and new technologies are able now to solve many of the challenges we face. What we need is the political will to put that ingenuity and innovation to work.
(Francesca Grifo is senior scientist and director of the scientific integrity program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, www.ucsusa.org, in Washington, D.C.)
[ posted by chrisx at 02/28/2006 03:50:02 PM ] [ link ] [ 5 responses ]
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Kayne West doesn't care about white people
WEST REVEALS RACIAL LINES IN SLANG USE
Hip-hop star KANYE WEST is advising his white counterparts that they can only use certain slang terms when they're out of style for black people.
The JESUS WALKS rapper - who recently charged that US President GEORGE W BUSH "doesn't care" about African Americans - believes that certain slang words should only be able to cross racial barriers when they're no longer in style for black people.
He says, "I think white people are allowed to say 'bling'. They are allowed to say old-school black slang, like 'hottie' and 'homie'.
"Actually, I do not think that (white people) are allowed to use slang until it is at least a year old. If you say a slang word too early, it's like you're trying to be black. So as long as the slang is a little played out, you're all good."
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