November 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
White Fence (33)
The Brokedowns (24)
Unfun (20)
Young Livers (19)
Gatorface (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
October 2011
Heading back to New York
Will soon be back to regularly scheduled programming.
Walking is still honest.
Against Me! at Fest.
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Fest bound!
Off the grid (mostly) until Monday.
“The new pipeline, the first major one to be built in New York City in decades,...”
– Gas Pipeline to Manhattan Stirs Debate in 2 States - NYTimes.com
BBC News - Eurozone leaders agree emergency deal... →
Eurozone leaders have reached a “three-pronged” agreement they say is vital to resolving the region’s debt crisis.
Q/A: Michael Zeldin On Patriot Act’s 10th... →
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, a law passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (A legislative history on how the law got passed, written by Samuel Rubenfeld as a college student, is available here.)
In this Q/A, Michael Zeldin, principal of the forensic and dispute services practice at Deloitte, discusses how the landmark law moved the...
FIFA Expands Probe Of Caribbean Officials -... →
International soccer’s governing body announced it wants to speak with 10 more officials as it investigates a bribery-for-votes scandal.
In a statement, Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, said it “asked the 10 officials for further interviews” and said their cases will be submitted by mid-November to the FIFA Ethics Committee. It brings the number of Caribbean...
Brazil Sports Minister Resigns After Graft... →
Orlando Silva, Brazil’s sports minister, resigned Wednesday amid a corruption investigation, marking the fifth top official to step down following graft allegations in less than a year.
Silva’s resignation also renews concerns about the readiness of Brazil to host both the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. (The Wall Street Journal’s report on his stepping down here.) Silva quit...
“More than half of all employed people worldwide work off the books. And that...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, Investigative journalist Robert Neuwirth examines how the underground economy works. (via nprfreshair)
Here's a thought!
langer:
It’s novel, I know, but seriously: If you, in your professional capacity as a reporter, run a story based on what “policemen say,” when what “policemen say” has been clearly and thoroughly contradicted beyond any and all reasonable doubt by who knows how many thousands of firsthand tweets/twitpics/videos/etc that have all been dispatched with such overwhelming abundance that they can’t...
“9:30 (ish)— This was written somewhere under the East River, on the 4 train. I...”
– Steven Thrasher’s account of being trapped in a smoke-filled 4 train last night will make you reconsider taking the subway ever again (via villagevoice)
“Occupy Oakland demonstrators on Tuesday night clashed with police who lobbed...”
– The Oakland Tribune (via the Santa Cruz Sentinel), “Occupy Demonstrators, Police Clash In Downtown Oakland” (via inothernews)
NYPD shadows Muslims who change names →
The NYPD monitors everyone in the city who changes his or her name, according to internal police documents and interviews. For those whose names sound Arabic or might be from Muslim countries, police run comprehensive background checks that include reviewing travel records, criminal histories, business licenses and immigration documents. All this is recorded in police databases for supervisors,...
Telecoms Exec Receives Longest FCPA Sentence Ever... →
The former president of a telecommunications company was sentenced to 15 years in prison, the longest term ever handed down in a U.S. foreign bribery case.
Joel Esquenazi, the former president of Terra Telecommunications Corp., received the sentence Tuesday from U.S. District Judge Jose E Martinez in the Southern District of Florida. Carlos Rodriguez, the former vice president of Terra,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
The Big Sleep (18)
Bangers (14)
mclusky (14)
The Joykiller (14)
The Copyrights (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Among the 1 percent of American households with the highest income, a...”
– Protesters Said, the Data Show It - Much Wealth Resides in New York - NYTimes.com
US Seeks Mansion, Michael Jackson Gear Belonging... →
By Joe Palazzolo:
The Justice Department on Wednesday moved to seize a Malibu mansion, Gulfstream jet and Michael Jackson memorabilia belonging to Equatorial Guinea’s agriculture minister, who U.S. prosecutors say amassed a fortune through theft of his country’s resource wealth.
The minister, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, is the son of Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema...
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EU Unveils Legislation To Require Transparency... →
European Commission officials announced legislation Tuesday that would require extractive industry and forestry companies to disclose payments they make to foreign governments.
The legislation, which was telegraphed in a May statement from EC President José Manuel Barroso, would require both listed and non-listed companies to disclose the payments country-by-country, and when sums are...
Punx Not Dead, It's Just Photographed
journalofajournalist:
Holy crap. Slug & Lettuce, the old punk rock zine, just put their photo archive online. So many pictures of shows I attended as a young angry thing. Aus-Rotten, Final Warning, The Pist, Strike Anywhere, LES Stitches, Suicidal Supermarket Trolleys, The Restarts, Toxic Narcotic, Showcase Showdown… Holy crap.
Eight current and former New York Police... →
joshsternberg:
NYPD taking more hits these days.
The arrests on Tuesday were based on charges that include weapons trafficking, conspiracy, and the shipment and sale or receipt of stolen goods, as well as the shipment of stolen slot machines, one of the people said. The five current city officers were all patrol officers who worked in Brooklyn, the person said.
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UK Arrests, Charges Figure In Alcoa-Bahrain... →
A key figure in a bribery probe of Alcoa Inc.’s work in Bahrain was arrested by the U.K.
On Monday, the Serious Fraud Office said it arrested Victor Dahdaleh, a Canadian businessman born in Jordan and living in Belgravia, London. The Wall Street Journal’s Dionne Searcey wrote this report.
Dahdaleh was arrested for allegedly paying bribes between 2001 and 2005 to state-owned Aluminum Bahrain...
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Freeze By Financial Firms Could Shutter WikiLeaks... →
WikiLeaks said Monday it will shut down by the end of the year if financial firms don’t end their “blockade” of donations.
The website, which has published leaked documents of varying classifications for several years, made its biggest splash in November 2010 when it began releasing selections from a trove of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables. The cables, about half of which were ...
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Halliburton Probes Angolan Operations Following... →
Halliburton Co. said it’s conducting an internal probe of some of its operations in Angola pertaining to possible violations of U.S. bribery law.
The investigation, disclosed in a filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, began in December when the Houston-based company received an anonymous email alleging that “current and former personnel” possibly violated the company...
NPR: Today's Wall Street Not Much Different From... →
As the European markets get closer to a meltdown and the echoes of the 2008 banking crisis still resonate in the U.S., has anything changed on Wall Street in the past few years?
“As any befuddled, frustrated and guilt-ridden environmentally conscious New...”
– On Recycling, N.Y.C. Goes From Leader to Laggard - NYTimes.com
“Exactly when dugout phones began to be used in baseball is unclear. The Hall of...”
– Dugout Phones - Last Bastion of the Landline - NYTimes.com
“Rare pleasure reserved for traveling journos: Grabbing different papers at...”
– buffsrob (via partylikeajournalist)
I do this.
CMJ Accomplished.
Had an amazing/stressful/tiring time.
Best new band: White Fence
(Runners up: Appomattox, Popstranger)
Best band I saw that I knew already: The Big Sleep
Weirdest Band: David Leibe Hart (ask Alex about it)
Worst Band(s): Caged Animals, Yuksek
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“In and around the city, seemingly from every nook, cranny and sidewalk crack, in...”
– Nature Adds Water, and Everything Mushrooms - NYTimes.com
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Mario Balotelli's house set on fire as he shoots... →
theworldsgame:
Never change, Mario. Never change. Football would be a little less interesting.
I love soccer.
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And I'm sitting in the kitchen sink... →
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Blatter Releases FIFA Reform Proposals, Delays ISL... →
The governing body of international soccer announced Friday what it called a “road map” for reform that will, among other things, entail the release of controversial documents relating to a former marketing partner.
oseph “Sepp” Blatter, president of Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, had promised a slate of reform upon his re-election in June as the body lurched...