This sick bastard should be behind some very thick walls swinging a sledge hammer to make small rocks out of big ones. What the Dutch court has done with verdict, is open the doors for every fundamentalist Muslim to wage war on Geert Wilders, giving a both a wink and a nod and tacit approval. Sick, and they dare bring Wilders up on charges on incitement for showing both a video of Muslim extremism (Fitna) along with their holy texts that they quote while carrying out their acts. What a sick bunch of judges, corrupted to the bone. KGS
THE HAGUE, 11/11/10 – The appeal court in The Hague yesterday acquitted a rapper of threateningParty for Freedom(PVV) leaderGeert Wildersbecause it did not consider the text of his song constituted an offence.
The rapper, who calls himself Mosheb, was prosecuted for the track ‘Who is next?’. He sings: Pim Fotuyn talked about Muslims, was shot. Theo van Gogh, talked about Muslims, was shot. Who is next…? (…) Am planning to make an attack on Geert Wilders. And that in WORDS. I find you a creep. You will be strangled. (…) Everyone who talks about Muslims gets killed.”
In the number, the rapper constantly alternates threats with mitigating words. “Geert you would be better to jump off the roof, or would you rather have bullets in your body? I am no terrorist, am an innocent rapper. This is a warning!! Do you want to stay alive? Then you must take back all your statements (…) Listen Geert, this is no joke, last night I dreamed that I had cut off your head.”
Wilders launched proceedings against the song in 2007, after he had heard and seen the clip on the Internet. A lower court convicted Mosheb, but the appeal court arrived at acquittal yesterday.
According to the appeal court, the text is not in itself a punishable offence. The track is punishable however in the way it was to be seen on Internet site YouTube. There, gunshots were also heard.
These shots cannot however be heard on the rapper’s original CD version. The appeal court concludes that it cannot be established whether the shots were added by the rapper or by someone else.
*THE SYNDICATE DOES NOT EXIST* Those who cry "hindabuilding"do not know in recent years has probably been living under a rock.In 2012 HydroBoyz scored under the wings of Rotjoch's label Mucho Dinero, a huge hit with their catchy single 'Hindabuilding "which on many festival and clubs from the Netherlands to Spain around blaring.Festivals like apple juice and Solar during that year also skillfully demolished during their energetic shows, and it was still just doubly confirmed by the State Award which they won 'Best live act' and nominated as "Best Group".Mocro Maniac onpopte themselves several years ago a true lyricist who conclusively proved as MC at legendary sessions as 101Barz and Zonamo Underground. This line he decided to withdraw his Maniac4President-mixtape released in January, in which he raps exclusively to old-school beats of world famous legends.With new releases ahead and always a fresh pocket is Mocro Maniac therefore more than ready to move into 2015 storm festivals, music venues and clubs!
When Princess Chelsea (aka Chelsea Nikkel) released her debut album,Lil Golden Book, back in 2011, she didn't have any particular expectations for the songs to find their way overseas. She didn't envision finding fans in Eastern Europe - or Western Europe for that matter. She did not foresee Alt-J frontman Joe Newman calling Princess Chelsea his favourite new band inNME. And she certainly had no inkling that her trackCigarette Duetand its accompanying video would light up the blogosphere and earn over 20 million views on YouTube.
But that's what happened. Her lilting chamber pop tunes filled with acerbic wit and cutting observations were shared around the world, andCigarette Duetwent viral.
She laughs when reflecting on making a video that became a cult sensation.
"It was strange how it all happened, because at that stage the album had been just getting word of mouth interest. I started to build a fan base in Europe, but I think theCigarette Duetvideo really opened up interest in other countries.
It was amazing to go there and play to all these people who knew my music. And we might not have gone back again so quickly, but Alt-J asked us if we would come out on tour in 2013, and we kind of felt like we couldn't turn it down, because they'd just won the Mercury Prize, and they were playing these big shows, and we just thought, we should go."
TheGuardianbecame a fan too, calling her things like "ravishingly strange", and describingCigarette Duet, which she sings with her long-time partner and fellow musician Jonathan Bree, as "a bit like Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood in synth hell, only with an extra dose of vicious".
All those YouTube hits and international touring don't make you rich though. The flat Nikkel and Bree share in Kingsland is modest and unassuming, and even though they have two home "studios" in which they record and mix all their work, they're humble spaces - small, stripped back, and dark, set-up by necessity rather than design.
Princess Chelsea features on the cover of this week'sTimeOut:
Nikkel writes, arranges, and records in their kitchen or living area, and takes things into "Studio B" to work up, before popping next door into "Studio A" to polish the songs up with Bree.
"It's a little bit fancier. And where we keep all our cocaine," she jokes.
The pair have both done a variety of other jobs (composing, working at Marbecks, etc), as well as running Lil' Chief Records, one of Auckland's eminent indie record labels - so you can see how on top of all the touring, the second Princess Chelsea albumThe Great Cybernetic Depression, has taken a while to come to fruition.
As withLil Golden Book, it's a lovingly crafted affair, a complete package with carefully chosen aesthetics and themes. But this time, it's all about synthesisers.
"I wanted to do that again, because I like doing that. I like the album format, and I like records, and I like the idea of a storybook of songs.
"I'd been listening to a lot of this guy, Tomita, who is this sort of 70s synth guy, who does some pretty cute stuff, some of it's a bit cheesy, like covers of Debussy way back when synthesisers were first built. But I remember listening to it and thinking, 'Man it's so cool how he's using the synthesiser in this way, which is more like an orchestrated way'.
"I was really into the Yamaha DX7 sounds, which was the big synth of the 80s, so there's lots of cheesy bell sounds and pad sounds that really bring back memories for me, like when I first heard a Madonna ballad or a Michael Jackson song."
Cyndi Lauper, Aha, and Sinead O'Connor were all also on high-rotate, but lyrically and thematically, Nikkel was in a darker place than those musical references might suggest.
"I knew that I was feeling pretty bummed out, and somewhat depressed, if I'm honest. I was having a weird year so I was like, 'Well, I guess I'm writing these songs that are somewhat depressing in their ideas, so instead of writing them in the first person, maybe I should channel them into some type of narrative metaphor-type thing'. So that's kind of what I did.
Princess Chelsea.
"I was initially writing this story about these characters in the future, who fall in love over the internet, and then one of them dies. And I wroteWe Are Strangersabout those two characters, but then things went a different way, so the whole album is not about them, but that's how it started, with this futuristic concept."
And the cosmic, space element which permeates the artwork also presented itself early on.
"I guess with synthesisers, I feel like the early use of them was always kind of associated with space, they seemed to be intrinsically linked with that kind of imagery. I don't necessarily close my eyes and see nebulas everywhere and then write music, but dreamy synth pop goes with space to me."
Nebulas are also the inspiration for their band outfits, and there will be limited edition nebula vinyl too.
"I feel like nebulas are pretty fantastical looking - I sound like such a stoner!" she laughs. "But sometimes I will just sit and look at pictures of nebulas for two hours, and go 'Oh wow, wow, look at this one!'"
The album weaves together Nikkel's futuristic narrative ideas, with a couple of songs written by other people -No Church On Sunday, which was written by her friend Jamie Lee about their shared experience in choosing to leave their church and religion behind at the age of 17, andWe're So Lost, which was originally a Voom song.
"I love covers, but I felt like these two belonged on the album. With Jamie Lee's song I felt like it was a shared experience, so it seemed like the right thing to do, to finish it and put it out, if she wasn't going to.
Princess Chelsea.
"AndWe're So Lostis an amazing song. I actually did the cover ages ago, but the palette of the song, the synthesisers, and instruments, and way it's presented, that kind of shaped the album I think."
Nikkel also decided she wanted to do her own version of a power ballad, something that hadn't fit in the past, and soWe Were Meant To Bewas born. "It was hard, and it took me a long time, but I had a very solid idea of the kind of sounds I wanted to use for it. It's obviously referencing a certain type of song, no doubt about it, but I also wanted it to suit the album, and I didn't want it to be too much of a pastiche either. So it's kind of like a power ballad, but in a modern context.
"People sometimes think I'm being ironic with this stuff, but I'm not. It's interesting because I think when synth pop and power ballads and hair metal were popular, a lot of pretty crazy music was on the charts. LikeVienna, by Ultravox - that is such a crazy song, and the fact it was in the public consciousness is pretty amazing. And the older you get, the less you scoff at these songs that you might've written off when you were younger."
Yes, Nikkel still has plenty of dry wit and clever observations, but it's the way she's embraced all those 70s electro artists and 80s synth sounds without any scoffing at all, that makesThe Great Cybernetic Depressionso appealing.
Sci-fi comedy classicRed Dwarfis making a comeback.
Two new series have been commissioned, reuniting Craig Charles (Lister), Chris Barrie (Rimmer), Danny John-Jules (Cat) and Robert Llewellyn (Kryten) as the four hapless space explorers.
The shows will air on TV channel Dave in 2016 and 2017 after beginning production in the autumn.
Red Dwarf's co-creator Doug Naylor, who is writing and directing Red Dwarf XI and XII, said that he had been trying to bring back the series since 2012.
Series 2 has been commissioned
"Frustratingly it's taken until now to get our ducks in a row and all the boys available at the same time. Now they are, we're all absolutely delighted," he said.
The now legendary Red Dwarf attracted a cult fanbase and a dedicated following after first airing in 1988 on BBC2.
The first episode featured the technician character Dave Lister on the mining ship Red Dwarf, who wakes up to discover that he has been in stasis for three million years and that his fellow crew have been killed by a radiation leak.
The show went on to attract more then eight million viewers, was broadcast in 25 countries and scooped International Emmy and British Comedy Awards.
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They're coming back!
After a 10-year absence, Dave initially brought back the show in 2009 with Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, which became the biggest ever non-terrestrial commission attracting over 2.6 million viewers - followed by a six-part series, Red Dwarf X in 2012.
Commissioning editor Simon Lupton said: "Red Dwarf has superb talent attached: writing, directing and acting plus an expert team who absolutely know what they are doing when it comes to delivering a stand-out piece of television.
"It has a universal appeal that manages to touch long-standing fans and recruit new ones.
"It is fantastic to be collaborating with them again on the next phase of the Red Dwarf adventure."
Hillary Clinton appears to have cornered the market on endorsements from the sex trade.
Two weeks after a group of Nevada prostitutes calling themselves 'Hookers for Hillary' came out in favor of her presidential candidacy, pornography publisher Larry Flynt is throwing his support behind her.
'I'm endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, but I don’t think she needs my endorsement,' Flynt toldBloomberg during an interview in his Los Angeles office.
Flynt said he's basing his thinking on the need for a more liberal U.S. Supreme Court – presumably one that won't pare back Americans' freedom to indulge in the skin trade.
NOD FROM THE SKIN TRADE: 'Hustler' publisher Larry Flynt says he's supporting Hillary Clinton for president because she would make sure the Supreme Court tilts to the left
HE DID WHAT? Clinton's campaign hasn't reacted to the news that she now has the support of the world's most famous brothel and a top-tier pornographer
'They wind up making the rules that everybody else lives by, and we've had a right-leaning court for half a century, and it's time that that was changed' he said, sitting in a gold-plated wheelchair that has been his short-distance transportation since he was paralyzed in a 1978 shooting.
'But if Hillary gets in, chances are she’s going to have an opportunity to appoint two, maybe three justices. We could shift the balance of that.'
Clinton's campaign won't be sending him a thank-you letter anytime soon, judging from its silence when the Nevada hookers posed in front of the infamous Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Carson City to cheer for her White House bid.
Flynt doesn't much care. And he knows that the feminist wing of the Democratic Party will never make peace with him, especially with a female candidate as their standard-bearer.
'People in Gloria Steinem’s world, they don’t – they think I’m the misogynist of the century,' the publisher of the smut-mag 'Hustler' conceded.
'I'm sure that Hillary doesn’t necessarily approve of everything I do. But if I've got a choice betwen anything I've seen in the Republican field, or Hillary, I'm gonna vote for her.'
He said, though, that he would approve of her campaign taking a more bare-knuckle approach to 'Clinton Cash,' the anti-Clinton book by Peter Schweizer that has made countless national headlines in advance of its May 5 release date.
'All she needs to do is start fighting back,' he said.
Flynt compared Schweizer's one-man Clinton bashing campaign to the late Rev. Jerry Falwell's crusade against Bill Clinton during his 1990s presidency.
'One of the biggest evangelists in the world put out a video accusing President Clinton of murder,' Flynt recalled.
The book, he said, 'is the same kind of smear tactic.'
HOOKERS FOR HILLARY: A group of Nevada sex workers, Hookers For Hillary, have come out in favor of the most prominent Democratic contender for president
Unlike Falwell's targeted smear, Clinton Cash is endlessly footnoted and has, so far, withstood intense media scrutiny as select news outlets got copies early. (Daily Mail Online was among them.)
Bloomberg published a 97-second video excerpt of its interview with Flynt online on Friday.
In contrast with Flynt's focus on the future makeup of the nation's highest court, the Bunny Ranch ladies of the evening said on their website that they’re supporting Clinton because of her work on health care reform, foreign relation experience, tax reform and government oversight on public health.
'Hillary Clinton, as part of her husband's administration, envisioned health care reform in the 1990s, long before President Obama was able to sign it into law,' they wrote.
'Bill Clinton presided over the most prosperous time in Bunny Ranch history,' the added, 'which coincided with a tax increase on the wealthiest Americans such as brothel owner Dennis Hof.'
'The Bunnies recognize that thriving economies are built from the bottom up, where the vast majority of their clients originate.
'Hookers for Hillary' didn't say whether 'bottom up' was meant to signify anything other than an economic catch-phrase.
KBS' 'Music Bank' is back for its weekly show featuring performances by your favorite artists!
On this episode,BTSreturned with "I Need U",JiminandJ.Don(JNJ) made their unit debut with "GOD", andKim Ye Rim(Lim Kim) made a comeback with "Love Game".
As for the winners,EXOandEXIDwere the nominees, but it wasEXOwho took the #1 trophy with "Call Me Baby". Congratulations toEXO!
Other performers of the night wereDal Shabet,MR.MR,CLC,BASTARZ,Oh My Girl,HOTSHOT,24K,Rubber Soul,A.cian,UNIQ,Park Bo Ram,Jinusean,Red Velvet, andThe Ark.
