10
January '11
- blood in
the mobile: another documentary about the millions of
dead people for our mobiles: BloodInTheMobile
- 1312 is illegal on T-shirts etc. ...: link (but what if you're a fan
of Edgar Davids and Nigel de Jong?)19 July '10
- who was born in the year zero?
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/godquiz.htm
- slave to the machine: adjust yourself to your cell-phone
(iPhone 4 etc.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK37dysPPzU
30 June '10
(about football/soccer only this time... can't help it!)
- Germany yet again has an annihilating weapon against
the Dutch threat (in German and Dutch only): http://tiny.cc/rfjsz
- Maradona knows best how to use the vuvuzela: http://tiny.cc/4l4ta
15 June '10
- a thing of beauty by Richard Lindner: http://tiny.cc/rh4yu
- do we really need all those big new shiny pop-centres
all over Holland? In Dutch only: http://tiny.cc/gxau8
02 June '10
- spread computer-viruses with a chip-implant: http://tiny.cc/zn2wx
- the myth of the Jewish people; the Jewish religion as a
missionary religion: http://tiny.cc/47mnx
13 April '10
- keep your laptop where it belongs (on your lap!) for a
bit longer and check your skin: http://tiny.cc/3xkek
- so this Global Warming thing, it's not so bad after all?
The proof is fabricated, isn't it? Those so-called
scientists tricked us, didn't they?
Well, read what the skeptics say: http://skepticalscience.com
15 March '10
- cartoon on 'Bible Study' in a Jesuit college: http://tiny.cc/KjQit
- Germany's minister of foreign affairs Guido Westerwelle
recently refused to answer a question in English from a
BBC-reporter. No wonder! Westerwelle speaking English in
2006: http://tiny.cc/uUTm5
03 February '10
- in our continuing series of "things we don't want
to hear": multitasking makes you stupid! Yes, we
know, it's un-cool not to multitask. Hey, people might
think you're unimportant or don't work hard enough.
Actually, it's better to focus. Read the Wall Street
Journal (2003 already; that's how stubborn we are) here
- Bob Lefsetz: we've quoted him many times over the years.
He was supposed to do a keynote speech at EuroSonic
Noorderslag. In December, he was diagnosed with leukemia
(that's why he has to cancel his EuroSonic trip). Read
his first announcement here, and browse through his
wonderful archives! Bob, we hope you recover soon!
12 January '10
- classical music makes cows give more milk, but also
helps humans:
http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n15/mente/musica.html
- make your work greener: sign up (no costs) and use
their resources:
check http://www.juliesbicycle.com
22 December '09
- snow ... - simonscat.com/snowbusiness.html
08 December '09
- Rob has finally found his church: http://www.revbilly.com
- How our plastic ruins the world's oceans: the Great
Pacific Garbage Patch: http://tiny.cc/a3iDB
05 October '09
- Hammer & Tickle: communism and humor: http://tiny.cc/qDmFv
- To Hell with Shell: Tändstickor Shocks from Rotterdam
sang it in the '80's, but it's still relevant: Shell
poisons the Niger Delta. See video on http://tiny.cc/I89lT
10 September '09
- Give Us Back New York! Exactly 400 years ago, we, the
Dutch, founded Nieuw-Amsterdam, now known as New York.
Check this video http://www.youtube.com/v/5IUwjFEwexI (the website
giveusbacknewyork.com ran in 2006, but not anymore now
unfortunately)
30 June '09
- Really funny video, great comment! You gotta see this:
Guy Starts Dance Party: http://tiny.cc/ISGVA
- Can it get worse? Well, it did! The economic crisis
exploits the Third World even more than in the past. http://tiny.cc/dOvYg
21 April '09
- funny: the perfect solution to avoid eating gentech
food: http://tiny.cc/4Kt8J
- In 2008, U2 got signed to Live Nation, and were partly
paid in shares (to prove they believe in Live Nation).
Late 2008, U2 sold their shares after they fell nearly 80%
in value: http://tiny.cc/rglXh . What will Madonna do
with her shares this month?
07 April '09
- Live Nation and Ticketmaster want to merge. Don't think
the resulting mogul has nothing to do with Europe or your
country, and see what a well-informed antitrust-attorney
has to say: http://tiny.cc/oV3LK
- Indie band pays fans to download album: http://tiny.cc/534N1 .
25 March '09
Can't help it, both links are to columns by mr. Lefsetz.
He's sharp, witful and funny, and his comments are valid
world wide:
- http://tiny.cc/YrbDY: Lefsetz on the merger
between Live Nation and Ticketmaster
- http://tiny.cc/8r6Ml: Lefsetz on ticket prices
27 January '09
- punk's Jewish roots (an older link): http://tinyurl.com/cwoms2
- Dutch conservative Christian secretary of state lies
but does not leave: http://tinyurl.com/clu8zv
10 December '08
- www.smallplacestour.info: Amnesty International is
celebrating 60 years of declaration of human rights with
the 'small places' tour with hundreds of concerts all
over the world.
20 October '08
- how the financial markets really work (excellent comedy
video): http://tinyurl.com/2qj6l5
- Amy Winehouse for Scrarecrow! Read all about it: http://tinyurl.com/5g8lu5
11 August '08
- You didn't shamelessly cash in yet? Don't be late, they
all do it! Après nous le déluge! http://tinyurl.com/5stazc
- No teaser needed: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
30 June '08
- Facebook works like this (hilarious video): http://tinyurl.com/59t5ez
- She loves me/she loves me not: Live Nation splits over
the 360 degrees model: http://tinyurl.com/47gpjl
09 June '08
- a group blog of games, politics, humor and snark: http://www.popehat.com
- remarkably up-to-date song-lyrics from 1983 describing
the live-music-bizz: http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/minorthreat/cashingin.html
05 May '08
- the older generation in the live music industry cashes
in (before it's too late?): http://tinyurl.com/3lj6mp
- rock 'n' roll cartoons: http://tinyurl.com/3uhvgf
14 April '08
- shoes or cola; Macy's or Dr. Pepper; Santana or Axl
Rose: http://tinyurl.com/58dmnp
- Tom Cruise does stunning propaganda for Scientology: http://tinyurl.com/3x5c5q
02 April '08
- don't panic if business is less than usual; record
companies spy on people?
http://tinyurl.com/25snhk
- Israel continues to act as an occupant despite nice
promises to Conoleezza Rice:
http://tinyurl.com/2l6nte
12 March '08
- Music Mayday: music helps youth in poor countries: http://tinyurl.com/yvaygs
- Part with your money and buy tickets now for July...
July next year that is! http://tinyurl.com/3apapz
12 February '08
- Top-acts are much older than you (think): http://tinyurl.com/2mpyfq
- Support artists, not multinationals: http://www.iwouldntsteal.net
28 January '08
- the top-end
of the live-music market is pillaging the industry: 20%
less tickets sold in 2007. http://tinyurl.com/2cbrbk
- 7 out of 10 cell phones have too much radiation: http://tinyurl.com/2ewdxm
08 January '08
- Richie Hawtin says: 'minimize your impact'. Read more
on his own website through http://aimeir.notlong.com (pdf-document)
- iPhone is full of toxic stuff: check the autopsy in a
short video through http://ieleig.notlong.com
06 December '07
- http://aewohh.notlong.com : News from the U.K.: IT
(Information Technology) emits as much CO2 as the airline
industry or SUV's (gas-gulpers). Internet-servers + their
airco in the USA alone emit as much CO2 as the entire
airline industry worldwide (though, on a side note: the
CO2-output by airplanes is about 6 times more damaging
because of the height where the missions take place)
- http://pidaix.notlong.com : take it easy, take your
time: smokers are less productive each hour, work less
hours and work less days. So start smoking, or, if you
don't, don't feel guilty about taking it easy!
16 November '07
- Oops: you don't want to know...: pulse radiation (cell
phones, wireless phones. WiFi) 50x more dangerous: www.bioinitiative.org/press_release/docs/aug31_2007.htm , www.bioinitiative.org/report/docs/section_1.pdf , www.bioinitiative.org/report/docs/section_1_table.pdf
- It don't matter; mankind knows how to adept: http://homepage.mac.com/matterworks/phoneear.jpg
25 September '07
- Alzheimer and cell-phones; the proof is mounting (but
the technology too new to draw final conclusions): http://www.brainclinics.com/file.php?fId=105 .
- Forward this news: World Food Day on October 16. "The
Right to Food". See http://www.fao.org/wfd2007/index_wfd2007 .
11 September '07
- No wonder our rosters change all the time: pop stars do
die younger! Check the Encore Newsletter through this
short link: http://aejuy.notlong.com
- 9 out of 10 USA-citizens own a gun; that's over 40% of
the world's civilian firearms (and some 4.5% of the world's
population). Check http://inahj.notlong.com .
27 August '07
- age means NOTHING! Really! See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY
- record companies clean up Wikipedia-entries on them,
themselves:
http://encore.celebrityaccess.com/index.php?encoreId=92&articleId=22775
24 July '07
- www.greatfirewallofchina.org (can Chinese people see
YOUR website?)
- www.oneseat.eu (help the European Union
save money!)
18 June '07
- nice suitable T-shirts: http://www.elchingadero.com/menstall.html
- funny political cartoons: http://www.markfiore.com/
04 June '07
- John Cleese (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers) now has a
mountain named after him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_cleese
- Slave labour in Palestine:
http://www.gnn.tv/threads/21358/The_World_Bank_s_dark_plan_for_Palestine_slave_labour
30 April '07
- www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/03-2.html (scroll down to number #084):
the Dutch queen on a holiday around 1980; yes, four hands!
Today, April 30, is Queens Day in Holland, an official
holiday
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goli_otok (The former Yugoslav
"island of death" where not only Yugoslavs but
also Italians were killed by their "comrades")
17 April '07
Iraq death toll due to the invasion of 2003: not 50,000,
but more like 655,000 (June 2006) according to scientists:
www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journals/lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf
30 March '07
- www.fiery-foods.com/dave/sagajolokia.asp: it does not get any
hotter!
- www.cbc.ca/documentaries/bigsugar/: sugar, not only a
craving, but also an historic example of how currencies (like
money) can and will be used to create inequality and
immoral behaviour
20 March '07:
- AC/DC’s Angus Young builds a house in the remote
rural town of Aalten, The Netherlands. The house blends
in really well in this traditionally agricultural area of
modest hard-working people, don’t you think? No real
big story, seems that some local folk think it does not
fit in, and some think it does. www.destentor.nl/lochem/article1100409.ece
- worst inventions ever?? Top 10: 1. Weapons; 2. Cell
Phones! www.bbcmagazinesbristol.com/newsread.asp?id=27453
06 March '07:
- scare away those other train-passengers and have all
the legroom that you need! http://thecleverest.com/countdown.swf
- the USA the last few years: strong growth in the
economy, strong growth in poverty (36 million people
including 13 million children), strong decline of income
for the average citizen (except the wealthy and rich,
they’re getting richer all the time): www.soundvision.com/Info/poor/statistics.asp
05 February '07:
- Hire a protester! This German temp-agency makes it real
easy to make democracy work! www.erento.com/mieten/agenturen,_personal_dienstleistungen/personal/demonstrant/
- Nuclear energy helps us fight global warming, they say.
On the contrary, these scientists say. www.stormsmith.nl
10 January '07:
- www.giveusbacknewyork.com (the Dutch will bring the
place back to glory)
- www.million-against-nuclear.net (Essent Awards for Dutch
music, also at Noorderslag. But Essent promotes and sells
nuclear energy. Essent also burns palm oil and sells it
as green energy(!?). Nuclear energy causes more CO2 than
an efficient gas-power-plant because of mining the
nuclear fuel, transport and enrichment. Palm oil causes
major deforestation of rainforests)
21 December '06:
- Friday Dec. 22, Solstice Day: participate in the Global
Orgasm for Peace! www.globalorgasm.org
- A separate Internet for the rich? www.savetheinternet.com
05 December '06:
- www.dullmen.com (for you-know-who! Dull
men, grey mice etc. ...)
- http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=14092 (not just the Bush family
knows how to manipulate an election!)
16 october '06:
- If you fly with American Airlines, don’t give your
partner a kiss – especially not if you’re a gay
couple!
www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060925ta_talk_collins
- A new 007 movie, featuring George W. Bush and
Condoleezza Rice.
http://moncineamoi.canalblog.com/images/for_your_oil_only.jpg
01 september '06:
- www.saveorganicfood.org (the manufacturer of
Apache, the world’s finest (organic) tortilla chips,
driven out of business by Monsanto and their genetically
engineered Bt-corn which polluted organic corn through
pollen-drift)
- www.sellaband.com: for bands: this website
helps you find 5000 investors who are willing to spend $
10 + transaction costs each. The site helps you to then
record an album etc. etc.
- www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/hud/ (recent excellent hoax
about the New Orleans housing agency taking a social
course; even CNN fell for it! http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/28/hud.hoax/)
21 august '06:
- www.sethville.com/bushwhackers (one of many current
protest songs against Dubya. A cool country song this
time)
22
may '06:
- Dutch prime-minister Balkenende (“Harry
Potter”) tries to be jolly and steps on a
skateboard… (click “klik om te starten” on
www.flabber.nl/archief/016119.php)
- The Cold War never stops: Germany pretends to be afraid
that Holland will become World Champion: www.hollandstoppen.de… (“Holland will
become World Champion… only you can stop them!”,
this German site says)
01 may '06:
- Rolling Stones are anti-Bush they say, but they do
accept sponsorship from Ameriquest, and are featured in
Ameriquest’s commercials and other promo-campaigns.
Ameriquest was one of the prime financers for Bush and
Schwarzenegger in their election campaigns. The company
makes money by predatory lending (400 % interest! Forgery!)
at the expense of the poorest people in the US (www.arnoldwatch.org/articles/articles_000785.php3)
- Fast food? A quick bite? Take it easy… the
Italians show us the way to… www.slowfood.com!
18 apr '06
- Don’t sing songs by The Clash! You could be seen
as a terrorist! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4879918.stm
- A Map showing the quality of freedom around the world,
according to the makers obviously. www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=15&year=2005
28 mar '06:
- German neo-nazis get it their way: censorship on live-show:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,405286,00.html (scroll down to more than
halfway: “A Right Rucus”)
- See on a map of the world how computer-viruses spread: http://worldmap.f-secure.com/
13 mar '06:
- German neo-nazis get it their way: censorship on live-show:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,405286,00.html
- Music jokes: www.ahajokes.com/muscn.html
28 feb '06:
- get caught in industrial farming: The Meatrix! (www.themeatrix.com; turn up the volume)
- Shell in Nigeria (www.indymedia.org/en/2006/02/833738.shtml)
06 feb '06:
- Pay less for your cell-phone-use (roaming) in Europe: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/roaming/index_en.htm
- Johnny Rotten (Lydon) on religion: www.fodderstompf.com/LYRICS/firstlyric.html#RELIGION (and version 2)
23 jan '06:
- “Speak Dutch or Die”… (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Verdonk; see January 2006 news):
Dutch secretary of state for Immigration and Integration,
Rita Verdonk (“Iron Rita” or “Fat
Rita”) wants to prohibit foreign languages being
spoken in public in Holland…
- “Make Some Noise”: music can change the world
(www.amnesty.org/noise)!
09 jan '06:
- www.thecorporation.com: USA-law gives
corporations the rights of an individual, but frees them
from crucial responsibilities. This makes corporations
psychopaths, a documentary argues.
- www.webmd.com/content/article/93/102125?SRC=RSS_cancer: Cigarettes pollute 10
times more than a modern eco-diesel car.
- Since a month we have started to use different country
codes in our communications. We switched from UN vehicle
codes to the widely used 3-letter code: ISO ALPHA-3 code,
as defined by the UN (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm). In addition to this, we
keep using 'EUR' as abbreviation for 'Europe'.
past:
music:
- www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=13058&Page=1&pagePos=1 (Sony BMG introduced anti-copy-protection
on Music CD’s - with hacker technology making your
computer vulnerable to attacks…! Use the removal-tool)
- www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/overrated/shortlist.shtml (Nirvana’s
“Nevermind”, the world’s most overrated
album ever? You won’t hear me argue about number 10
though… (Rob))
- www.music-map.com (find out what bands you
are supposed to like!)
fun:
- Christmas: “What’s that naked bird doing on
the table?”. © Loesje (check www.loesje.org)
- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article312210.ece (all over the world
clerks work really hard…)
- shameless, (on Shameless, a comedy/drama
TV series about the U.K.’s most dysfunctional family.
Great series!)
- http://youth.ibn.net/humor3.asp?ID=48 (Islamic humor)
- laughnet, music jokes
- Guardian, spray-on mud from the
spray-can, to give your off-the-road vehicle that
authentic country-side-look...
- laughlab, science studies jokes!
- Pope
Joan, the
legend of the female Pope - we’ll never know for
sure!
- Worth1000.com, mobile / cell phone for
people with deep pockets…
- hoehel.be, for those who understand
the West-Flemish dialect: a Google parody
- beetle_names, newly discovered slime
beetles officially named after your most favourite
politicians: Agathidium bushi, A. cheneyi and A.
rumsfeldi
- Mash
4077,
mistakes in MASH
- Pope in
NL, Pope
John Paul II was always welcome in Holland… pictures
from the town of Utrecht; a Catholic welcome was
organized in the town of Den Bosch: a few dozen Pope-lovers
showed up
internet:
- http://wiki.dataretentionisnosolution.com:81/index.php/Main_Page (sign the petition
against plans from the EU to force internet providers etc.
to keep all your internet use on file for a long time)
environment:
- Worldwildlife, Western Europe consumes
over 2.5 times more than what the earth can sustain for
us; the USA even doubles that figure
- organic
consumers,
in the wake of Sep. 11 2001, European governments
introduced anti-terrorism laws - and said they would not
misuse them... now Greenpeace Denmark is subject to such
a law!
- McSpotlight, a site about McDonalds
and their litigation policy
- worldchanging.com, why was it extremely
sunny in North-America, with very clear skies, during the
first three days following Sep. 11, 2001? (also check BBC)
- BBC, on "Global Dimming";
or how pollution blocks out sunlight and lulls us into
sleep regarding Global Warming
- WWF, about the book "Not
On the Label" by Felicity Lawrence; this book
reveals shocking facts about our food
- My
Footprint,
make this world a better place! How much resources do we
use with our lifestyle? Can the earth sustain us? Do this
simple test
politics:
- www.nme.com/news/kanye-west/20977 (“Make Poverty
History” is now a political slogan, according to U.K.
media regulators…)
- www.amnestyusa.org/waronterror/document.do?id=4494BC984C8C552280256FE3004228E2 (now that Condoleezza
Rice tells Europe that it’s all a lie, some facts
about the CIA flights by the “Special Removal
Unit”)
- www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6 (the USA’s current
activities for “outsourcing torture”)
- http://amleft.blogspot.com/archives/2004_04_01_amleft_archive.html#
108112087436221697 (war president George W.
Bush photo-mosaic of Americans who died in Iraq since GW
came into office)
- http://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/08/3175.shtml (US-reverend and big
supporter of George W. Bush calls for the murder on
Venezuela’s president Chavez… and later says he
is sorry and only wanted to ventilate his frustration
about the fact that Chavez is on to the reverend and his
political friends…)
- www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/we.html (yes yes yes… a CIA-site!
Now that almost 9,000 Israeli settlers have left the
settlements in the occupied Gaza Strip, almost 200,000
still live on the occupied West Bank and another (almost)
200,000 in occupied East-Jerusalem)
- globalsecurity, (the USA’s defence
budget has ballooned over the last few years and is now
at half of that of the entire world)
- www.gulf-daily-news.com/1yr_arc_Articles.asp?Article=125947&Sn=WORL&IssueID=28228&
date=11-3-2005 (Ugly Rumours about Tony
Blair!)
- www.greenpeace.org/international/rainbow-warrior-bombing/spy-story (Official de-classified
French documents now confirm that French president
Mitterand ordered the bombing of a Greenpeace ship in
1985... and the French always denied he did)
- stiftung-sozialgeschichte (click on the word
“Summary” under the heading Dokument, and read
the English text), how German diplomacy, while fighting
England and France in WW-I, turned Jihad into a means of
war
- hrw.org, maybe they did not flush
the Koran down the bog, but…
- Cage
Prisoners,
site on Guantánamo Bay prison conditions
- BlackWallstreet, the 1921 extermination
of a flourishing black community in the USA; an event
sometimes referred to as “The Black Holocaust”
- AI -
death panelty, officially almost 4,000 died
worldwide in 2004 as a result of the death penalty
local (Dutch):
- www.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/828188.shtml (in our home town,
political activist Louis Sévèke was shot dead on Nov.
15. We are in mourning)
- http://www.vrijeboeken.nl/Kaviaar/reisbureaurita.html (controversial poster
against rigid deportation policy for asylum seekers of
Dutch government)
- www.iisg.nl/~staatsarchief/geluid/me-wals.mp3
on April 30, Dutch queen Beatrix will be in position for
25 years! The Dutch squatters movement welcomed her
coronation on April 30, 1980 with massive riots in
Amsterdam - Listen to this beautiful mix:
- our royal family (honest!) singing and playing a swing
tune (Loo-Show-Trend) (includes Beatrix on vocals)
- very interesting recordings from the police radio in
Amsterdam on April 30, 1980 showing their panic.
- www.iisg.nl/~staatsarchief/foto's/fotos30.htm, photos from the
Amsterdam street-actions on April 30, 1980
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