MP Garth Turner has the lowdown on the lowly performance on our prime minister these past few days:

Over the weekend, our country emerged as the major stumbling block to a group of more than 50 nations deciding to do something serious about climate change. With PMSH leading the charge, we prevented the Commonwealth from showing leadership, by declining leadership. We insisted on a watering-down of integrity, a retreat down from the moral high ground, and have opted once again to follow the tepid and discredited environmental lead of the faltering United States.

How much Canada has wavered, in a mere twenty-two months. Mr. Harper broke the Kelowna Accord with First Nations, the Atlantic Accord with Maritimers, the Income Trust promise with investors, the vow to control spending with his own supporters and the Kyoto Accord with the civilized world. He’s sown more seeds of division with his Quebecois Nation resolution and his electoral bill favouring Alberta over Ontario. He apparently tried to cover up key information in the Schreiber-Mulroney affair and he has made a mockery of promises to make government more accountable and democratic. He’s thrown MPs overboard who disagreed with his control-freak style and muzzled even cabinet ministers while seeking to manipulate the free press.

More here…

“In Africa, When an old man dies, it is like a library burning to the ground” a quote attributed to Leopold Senghor

Tracklist — Mega Mix!

Por Por Akwaaba Welcome! Car Horn Orchestra of Ghana
Intro: Lafayette Afro Rock Band “Darkest Light” mixed w/Max Roach and Abdullah Ibrahim “Streams of Consciousness” (NY and South Africa)
Intro collage
African Anarchist Radio
Malcolm X “The Roots of Savagery” mixed w/
Max Roach/Abdullah Ibrahim “Streams of Consciousness” (NY/South Africa)
Tony Allen “Crazy Afro Beat” w/scratches by Rob Swift Vs Dj Spooky (NY and Nigeria)
X Plastaz “Msimu kwa msimu” (Tanzania)
Alif “Douta Mbaye”(Senegal)
K’naan “Soobax” (Somalia)
Kelis “Trick Me” (dancehall mix) (USA)
Fela “Kalakuta Show” (Mix Master Mike, Lateef and The Gift of Gab Remix) (Nigeria)
Lotfi Double Kanon “Bled Miki” (Tunisia)
MC Solaar featuring Ron Carter “Un Ange En Danger” (France/Senegal)
Akon “Locked Up” mixed w/ Nelson Mandela “Moments in Black History (Brad Sanders)” (NY/Senegal/South Africa)
Angola National Anthem - “Angola, avante!” Author: Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro (b.1941); Composer: Rui Alberto Vieira Dias Mingao
Mixed w/Malcolm X “The Root of Civilization”
Dj Spooky featuring Tapper Zukie “Revolution Dub” (NY/Jamaica)
Frederic Galliano featuring Pancha Angola: Kuduru Sound System
Frederic Galliano featuring Pinta Tirru “Entra No Roda” (Angola/France)
Bunny Lee Meets King Tubby “African Roots and Reggae” - (Jamaica)
Cesoria Evora - Angola (original + Carl Craig remix) -Dj Spooky remix (Cape Verde Islands/Detroit/NY)
David Byrne and Brian Eno “My Life in The Bush of Ghosts: Vocal Outtakes” (New York/London)
Fela “Zombie” (Nigeria) (remix)
King Britt “Obafunke Theme” (Philadelphia) mixed w/
Interlude Idi Amin speaks (Uganda)
Orson Welles “Citizen Kane” (L.A.)
President Obasanjo mixed w/”Move” by J Dilla (Detroit)
Ryuichi Sakamoto “Riot in Lagos” mixed w/ Nigerian National Anthem (Japan/Nigeria)
Baka Forest People of South East Cameroon - Water Drums (Cameroon) mixed w/
Foday Musa Suso “World Wide Funk” (DJ Spooky remix) (Gambia)
Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Talvin Singh “You Can Find the Feeling” mixed w/ Abdul Nasser “Independence Forever” (Morocco/Egypt/India)
Duke Ellington “Afro-Euraasian Eclipse” (NY)
Oum Kalthoum “Hob Eih” (Egypt) - Dj Spooky remix
Mixed w/Tectonic “Heat Sensor”
Charlie Dark “Afro Dreaming”(UK-Ghana)
The Monks of Keur Moussa “Nous Te Louons, Pere Invisible” (Senegal)
Ginger Baker/Tony Allen (UK/Nigeria) - drum solo mixed w/
Drexciya “Polymono Plexusgel” (Detroit)
Zimbabwe Legit “Shadows Legit Mix” Dj Shadow remix (Zimbabwe/San Francisco)
Soweto Gospel Choir “Rivers of Babylon” (South Africa)
Konono No1 “Kule Kule” (Congo)
Abdullah Ibrahim “Mindif” (Dj Spooky remix) (South Africa/NY)

Joyous jump-up music from the righteous thumb-piano…

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(((Sweet electro makes the Baby Robot smile…)))

Tracklist:

- Mekon Feat. Roxanne Shante - Yes Yes Y’All (Duke Dumont Mix)
- Les Petits Pilous - Jolie Fille
- Sourcecode - E Republic
- Yelle - A Cause Des Garçons (Tepr Remix)
- Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko (Boys Noize Fire Mix)
- Nelly Furtado - Maneater (Crookers Remix)
- Dusty Kid - The Cat
- New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream (Tiga Remix)
- The Juan MacLean - Give Me Every Little Thing (Cajmere Mix)
- Zombie Nation - Peace & Greed (Headman Remix)
- Justine Electra - Killalady (Surkin Remix)
- The Futureheads - Skip To The End (Digitalism Rerub)
- The Subs - Substracktion

Go watch this and spread the word… Straight out of the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” playbook:

Waiting For The Guards is the first of 3 films commissioned by Amnesty to highlight the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the “War on Terror”.

The Directors approached the making of the film in a way that has never been done before, choosing to show the reality of Stress Positions in as authentic a way as possible. They filmed a person being put into Stress Positions over a 6 hour period. There is no acting on the part of the “prisoner” – his pain and anguish is for real.

This powerful film shows without doubt that what the US administrations say is interrogation is in reality, torture and must be stopped.

We’ve released the film on the Internet before going to theatrical release in independent cinemas in early 2008. We believe this film is a great introduction to what the unsubscribe movement is all about, so we ask you to get the movie out there, in any way you can.

Absolute revulsion… How can such a strong and proud nation like America be reduced to such base thuggery?!

This week is the anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address… and this spits on everything Lincoln and the American Founding Fathers fought for and believed in…