Viva La MP3 Revolution! Cool free stuff by bands who were nothing but unknown MP3s on MySpace a while ago!

Read it yourself!

Nice spoof-commercial starring everyones favourite guy stranded on an island!

Schönen Gruß von den Miesepetern und Spielverderbern!

Andere Formate in bessererQualität bei der Frickelfraktion

"Du bist Deutschland"

Heute es in Kreuzberg krachen lassen. Ab 17 Uhr (Lord Ultra) also vor der Marabu Bar rumlungern und bis dahin mal nicht tippen oder an der Maus rumfummeln. Sehnen entzündet und Wetter zu gut. Ah, 19 Uhr, Team Plastique vor Karaoke Ron's Monsterkneipe und später Frau Geffen im Schmück!

Lieber nicht: Veranstaltungen mit einem Überangebot an blassen Deutschen, die nach drei Flaschen Bier den Verstand verlieren.

Legendary label Bear Family will put out a cd with all the old songs of the Capitol era (1958-1961) end of this year. I wrote the liner notes for it by the way. It will be sweet! More soon!

Tag: Dean Reed

"A nuclear-capable North Korean test warhead was found in Alaska.

According to a U.S. document, the last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska, former Japanese foreign minister Taro Nakayama was quoted as saying in the report. Washington, as well as Tokyo, has so far underrated Pyongyang’s missile capabilities.’

A story that would have expected to garner front page headlines for days was completely blacked out in the US, with not one single newspaper choosing to report it.

The reason?

How could the Bush administration sell a war against a country with no means to defend itself and as it later transpired with no weapons of mass destruction, when a country with WMD was firing long-range nuclear capable missiles that were hitting the western coast of the US?" (prisonplanet)

More at hankooki.com

Wer sich nicht alles auf MySpace rumtreibt! Und ein schönes Pseudonym hat er sich dafür ausgesucht!

Via The Man

Tons of video clips! They even got one by the Angry Samoans!

Via Metafilter

NewsMax: "Crisis management experts are calling for the creation of a "United Nations army an international rapid reaction force that could be deployed within 48 hours to intervene in emergency situations around the globe.

Composed of up to 15,000 military, police and civilian staff, including medics, the proposed force would be recruited from professionals hired by the U.N. from many countries, and based at designated U.N. sites.

Its actions would be authorized by the U.N. Security Council, according to the Toronto Star."

People's Daily: "Brazil's government started on Monday a National Anti-Drug campaign called 'Say yes to Life'. The goal is to educate and empower youth to reject illicit drugs.

Several comic books featuring Ronaldinho as a character will be distributed in schools throughout the country. The comic books were created by Brazilian designer Mauricio de Souza. Their goal is to 'help send kids an anti-drug message through their idols".

Guardian: "The new World Cup rule: take off your trousers, they're offending our sponsor. For Dutch football fans it has become the summer's cult outfit. Over the past few months, a quarter of a million Holland supporters have bought themselves a pair of patriotic orange lederhosen - wearing them whenever Holland take to the pitch in the World Cup. But when Holland fans turned up on Friday to watch their team play the Ivory Coast, wearing the garish trousers, officials from Fifa were not amused.

The lederhosen carry the name of a Dutch beer, Bavaria. The only problem is that the Dutch brewery which makes Bavaria is not an official World Cup sponsor. And so, in one of the most surreal incidents of the World Cup so far, stadium officials in Stuttgart made the supporters take their trousers off - leaving many of them to watch Holland's 2-1 victory in their underpants."

1 Search request: welche rolle spielt die politik bei einer WM?

Stephen Colbert asks Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, the one who sponsored the bill to display the 10 commandments in Congress, to name the 10 commandments. He doesn't get very far...

"What The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is to evening news, The Colbert Report is to personality-driven pundit shows. Colbert brings his sarcastic charm to a half-hour report, tackling the important issues of the day and telling his guests why their opinions are just plain wrong." THIS IS The Colbert Report!

Torrents!

That new campaign is really, really funny! Especially for people who use what they call "a PC"! Watch the video and scroll to the bottom of the page to find more!

Schön gesagt von Axonas : "Wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe, dann ist die Grundlage seiner Haltung die Beobachtung, dass das zukunftsblinde Verwertungsinteresse der Kulturindustrie durch das Zusammentreffen ihrer technischen Schöpfungen mit den Möglichkeiten des Internets die Grundlage zur Zerstörung ihres eigenen Geschäfts geschaffen hat."

Mehr bei Axonas

flipflopflying.com: "Especially for you German readers, a kind of holy triptych of Fußball experten: Franz Beckenbauer (again) and Günther Netzer (a man who looks like a Thunderbird puppet) and Rudi Völler (flat hair)."

Telepolis: "In Brandenburg wurde ausgerechnet im Justizministerium ein Aktenvermerk über eine Fernsehjournalistin des RBB angelegt, weil diese in der Vergangenheit Missstände in Haftanstalten des Landes öffentlich angeprangert hatte."

Tagesschau: "Darf man so den amerikanischen Präsidenten empfangen?", fragt eine große Boulevardzeitung und macht sich Sorgen. Große Sorgen."

"The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad, lose your vote.

A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts. Files from the secret vote-blocking campaign were obtained by BBC Television Newsnight, London. They were attached to emails accidentally sent by Republican operatives to a non-party website. (...) Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, “Do not forward”, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as “undeliverable.”

The lists of soldiers of “undeliverable” letters were transmitted from state headquarters, in this case Florida, to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted." Full story by Greg Palast

The new book by Greg Palast: Armed Madhouse

Lots of MP3z!

Email that Bill Gates sent out to all Microsoft employees and Subsidiaries.

Indymedia: "Österreichs Bundeskanzler Wolfgang Schüssel hat es zugelassen, daß McDonalds sein Foto zu Werbezwecken nutzt. Der Regierungschef verkündet den surrealen Slogan: =Österreich isst Weltmeister!= Die Werbekampgane hat einen bedenklichen Hintergrund. Immer öfter lassen sich Politiker vor die Konsumgüterwerbung spannen. Kritiker merken an: Schüssel mache Politik so, wie Österreich Fußball spielt und McDonalds seine Angestellten behandelt."

Netzeitung "Von Ordnern bei Veranstaltungen der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft in Berlin gehen offenbar erhebliche Sicherheitsgefahren aus. Bei Berliner WM-Festen habe die Polizei entdeckt, dass sich unter dem Sicherheitspersonal Hooligans befunden hätten, berichten der «Tagesspiegel» und der Rundfunks Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). Die Krawallmacher seien auf der Fanmeile am Brandenburger Tor sowie bei einer Public-Viewing-Veranstaltung am Stadtrand aufgefallen."

E! ONLINE : "After George failed to show up for a Friday court date, a Manhattan judge issued a warrant for his arrest. However, Judge Anthony Ferrara said that he's not going to order any action to be taken until after a June 26 hearing on whether the former Culture Club singer violated the terms of a sentence he's serving for filing a false police report."

Time: "Exclusive Excerpt: Author Ron Suskind (The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11.) reveals how officials learned about a cell that came within weeks of striking New York City."

Shoutwire: "William Arkin reports in the Washington Post on the largest anti-terror drill yet to be conducted in the context of the 'Continuity in Government' procedures. The drill is intended to prepare the country for 'a Second 9/11'. If a second 9/11 were to occur, civilian government would in all likelihood be suspended and martial law would be established."

"In the spring of 1996 Fox News was only a conspiracy (which broke a few months later). CNN belonged to Turner Broadcasting, which hadn't yet been gobbled by Time Warner (although it would be just a few months later); Viacom had not yet bought CBS News (although it would in 1999, before they later parted ways); and, as the Telecommunications Act had been passed only months earlier, local radio had not yet largely disappeared from the United States (although it was obviously vanishing)."

Very good article in The Nation

Original Line-Up (Bremen, ca. 1990)