Nettare ha due principali obbiettivi :
1. Divenire uno strumento di supporto e cooperazione per le Netlabel italiane in modo da evolvere il Netaudio da fenomeno della “Rete” a realtà concreta per la produzione e distribuzione musicale.
2. Far conoscere il Netaudio italiano ad un pubblico sempre più vasto: è giunto il tempo che gli ascoltatori intendino che scaricare musica da Internet non significa soltanto Filesharing, Peer To Peer ed “illegalità” perchè le Netlabel distribuiscono produzioni musicali in download gratuito con licenza Creative Commons e con una certa qualità sonora.

www.nettare.org

At the precise stroke of the advent of the third millennium, Yesmoke was born in a little town in the Swiss Alps. It was originally an online shop that sold the most popular premium cigarette brands; it quickly became the Number One online shop in the world.
And then, at a certain point, those “bravi ragazzi” (Good Fellas) of Yesmoke, decided to move from the Swiss Alps to North West Italy, to Settimo, in the suburbs of Turin.
And at Settimo, on August 7th 2007, 7 years, 7 months and 7 days after Yesmoke’s birth, they inaugurated a model cigarette production factory, identical to those of multinational cigarette manufacturers.

This is the story of a Davide against an aggressive Golia, but what’s important is that Davide is still alive and he reveal a lot of interesting thing about the sigarette market, that seems to be globazlly not so liberal….

Next days more informations, stay tuned the story is interesting and long.

After a decade of digital fetishism, the spectres of the financial and energy crisis have also affected new media culture and brought into question the autonomy of networks. Yet activism and the art world still celebrate Creative Commons and the ‘creative cities’ as the new ideals for the Internet generation. Unmasking the animal spirits of the commons, Matteo Pasquinelli identifies the key social conflicts and business models at work behind the rhetoric of Free Culture. The corporate parasite infiltrating file-sharing networks, the hydra of gentrification in ‘creative cities’ such as Berlin and the bicephalous nature of the Internet with its pornographic underworld are three untold dimensions of contemporary ‘politics of the common’. Against the latent puritanism of authors like Baudrillard and Zizek, constantly quoted by both artists and activists, Animal Spirits draws a conceptual ‘book of beasts’. In a world system shaped by a turbulent stock market, Pasquinelli unleashes a politically incorrect grammar for the coming generation of the new commons.

Matteo Pasquinelli is an Amsterdam-based writer and researcher at the Queen Mary University of London and has an activist background in Italy. He edited the collection Media Activism: Strategies and Practices of Independent Communication (2002) and co-edited C’Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader (2007). Since 2000, he has been editor of the mailing list Rekombinant (www.rekombinant.org).

Some of our preliminary assessments are highlighted below:

* The whole international system—as constructed following WWII—will be revolutionized. Not only will new players—Brazil, Russia, India and China— have a seat at the international high table, they will bring new stakes and rules of the game.
* The unprecedented transfer of wealth roughly from West to East now under way will continue for the foreseeable future.
* Unprecedented economic growth, coupled with 1.5 billion more people, will put pressure on resources—particularly energy, food, and water—raising the specter of scarcities emerging as demand outstrips supply.
* The potential for conflict will increase owing partly to political turbulence in parts of the greater Middle East.

From the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council.

Dopo la strage di San Gennaro la polizia perseguita le vittime e non i carnefici!
Giovedi 20 novembre irrompe nel “palazzo degli americani” luogo simbolo dell’insediamento degli africani a Castelvolturno. Di fatto lo sgombera e deporta molti immigrati nei centri di espulsione. Sabato 22 nov. raccogliamo la testimonianza di un padre comboniano e un migrante nel palazzo visibilmente devastato

Two robot drummers. Two steel drums. One human performer. Mechatronics and music. The repetitiveness of industrial production becomes a gesture of music. A project in which the past of the Italian avant-garde returns in all its contemporaneity to seal a new relationship between humans and machines. Orchestra Meccanica Marinetti is a project conceived by Angelo Comino aka Motor, who gives life to enlightening inspirations that were unrealizable in Marinetti’s day.

Long after The Sex Pistols buckled under the puppet strings of Malcom McLaren and The Clash grew tired of singing the day’s headlines, The Damned continue to this day to embody the punk ethic - the ability for a group of individuals, whether talented or not (again, preferably the latter), to grab a guitar, cop a microphone and some drums, and get up on stage and play - anything.

The first single off the album, “New Rose”, clocked in at an amazing two minutes, and would go down in history as the first punk single.

Most of the other songs on the albun, save for the brooding “Feel The Pain”, are vintage punk rock - amazinglyfast, full of abrupt chord changes, pounding drums, and caustic lyrics. Needless to say, the album became an instant classic and strengthened The Damned’s postition at the forefront of the burgeoning punk movement.

And although they have been shunned at times by the recording industry, The Damned continue to bring new sounds to the stage and the studio with their trademark dark vocals, poppy melodies and rocking guitar sounds.

WEDNESDAY 19TH NOVEMBER

THE DAMNED
**Album Launch**
Islington Academy, London, UK

”Grida veramente vergogna la sentenza emessa dal Tribunale di Genova di assoluzione per i vertici della polizia responsabili del massacro nella ‘macelleria messicana’ avvenuta alla scuola Diaz di Genova durante il G8 del 2001”. Lo afferma il leader di rifondazione Comunista Paolo Ferrero. ”Si tratta davvero - sottolinea - di una delle pagine piu’ cupe e vergognose della storia repubblicana. Una pietra tombale alla verita’ e alla giustizia che chiediamo da 7 anni e mezzo e’ stata messa e, ancora una volta, ci troviamo purtroppo di fronte ad una giustizia forte con i deboli e debole con i forti”.

”Da ieri - afferma l’ex segretario del Prc Franco Giordano - sappiamo che in Italia organizzare brutali pestaggi e seminare prove false per giustificare le aggressioni, come in una dittatura sudamericana, e’ considerato fatto lecito e non punibile”.”La vergognosa sentenza di Genova - prosegue Giordano - e’ gravissima per molti motivi. Non ultimo la sfiducia nello Stato democratico e nella giustizia che rischia di diffondere soprattutto tra i piu’ giovani”.

”Una sentenza ignobile e ipocrita quella emessa ieri dal tribunale di Genova per i fatti della Diaz”, dice Francesco Caruso, ex deputato no global del Prc.”Quel buco nero della democrazia nella storia del nostro paese viene insabbiato con una sentenza che assolve tutti, anche i pesci piccoli avranno a breve l’assoluzione per avvenuta prescrizione. Malgrado le evidenti responsabilita’, non solo nessuno degli imputati e’ stato rimosso o sospeso dal servizio, ma anzi tutti hanno avuto come ricompensa una promozione”.

via ANSA.it.