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Submitted 06-06-14 15:42
“I was lucky to have David Attenborough on the radio show last year, and doing a bit of research beforehand I came across a really good programme he did called Song of the Earth, which was looking for the roots of music-making in the animal kingdom. He came to the conclusion that all music-making was some form of sexual display for getting a mate.” (Guardian: http://bit.ly/1k7m1mT)
Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker contemplates the art of song-writing.
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“It’s a sad commentary of the times. Basically, no one gives a damn.”
Pittsburgh resident Paul Mawhinney, owner of the world’s biggest vinyl collection of over 3 million records, commenting after revealing that absolutely no-one has enquired about buying it despite its $3 million asking price being $47 million less than its appraised worth.
Apple executive Eddy Cue explains why they’ve bought Dr Dre’s headphone/ streaming company Beats for $3billion after numbers of new releases on itunes ‘is the smallest ever’ while overall sales growth has stalled.
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“Petitioning FIFA and the Brazilian Football Confederation. Allow some Brazil-flavoured dance music at the World Cup Opening Ceremony, and/or Final. Eg. sets by Brazilian DJs such as Marky, Felguk, Anderson Noise or Gui Boratto, and Brazilophile Fatboy Slim.”
DJ magazine launch a petition calling for FIFA to play music by Brazilian stars at the upcoming World Cup instead of by ‘western pop acts rumoured to be Ricky Martin, will.i.am and J-Lo & Pitbull’. (Change.org: click here to support: http://chn.ge/1mzfMLu)
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"The best thing for him was psychological torture. When a person was in a secret place, it was faster to obtain information. He also studied in other places but he said England was the best place to learn." (BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27625540)
Brazilian prosecutor, Nadine Borges, from Brazil’s Truth Commission, recalls how notoriously sadistic army torturer Col Paulo Malhaes told her that the British taught him the most about how to torture dissidents without leaving physical marks (during Brazil’s military rule of the 70s).
Brasil Dictatorship Links:
A documentary that narrates the seek of justice of a terrorist attack victim during the Military Regime in Brazil's 1960s. For the first time in Brazil's Cinema trajectory, a feature film shows both sides of a violent time: the Military repression and the extremist terrorism.
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"Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.” (Guardian; http://bit.ly/1kliXZi)
Bank of England fat cat Mark Carney warns that capitalism could be ‘doomed’ ‘unless bankers realise they have an obligation to create a fairer society’.
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“Even using an optimal depletion rate and starting with a very small number of Elites, the Elites eventually consume too much, resulting in a famine among Commoners that eventually causes the collapse of society. It is important to note that this Type-L collapse is due to an inequality-induced famine that causes a loss of workers, rather than a collapse of Nature.” (Guardian: http://bit.ly/1gjyS3u)
Just months after a NASA funded study warned that increasing inequality and resource depletion driven by greedy ‘elites’ mean society could soon be facing imminent – and irreversible – collapse.
Illuminati links:
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“Looking good when you're young is the cornerstone of British youth culture – the thing that sets us apart from the Americans with their board shorts and the men on the street with their rape culture slogan-Ts” (Vice Magazine: http://bit.ly/SjE82M)
Vice Magazine publish a spot-on guide to raving in today’s UK.
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‘Coolness excites consumers, adds symbolic currency to products, and drives consumer trends - everyone wants it, even if they can’t define what ‘cool’ actually is.” (Daily Mail; http://dailym.ai/1mz5wTI)
Chicago researchers say that brands which ‘break the rules’ for positive causes are the ones which become ‘cool’ (then commercially more successful).
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