April 29, 2026

BREAKING: Steven Cheung voted Sexiest Man Alive by FIFA Peace Prize Magazine.

April 28, 2026

iio - Rapture (Armin Van Buuren Remix) (feat. Nadia Ali) 2001🖤

Label: United Recordings – UTD 025
Format: Vinyl, 12", Single Sided, White Label, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: Netherlands
Released: 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Trance

April 28, 2026

HARDCORE UPROAR!! by DJ OLLIE D: 1993 rave hardcore vinyl mix, DJ Ratty, DJ Easygroove, DJ Tango, DJ Slipmatt, Nookie,

Reinforced Records, Metalheadz, Slammin Vinyl, etc.




After decades of being shoved away in the attic, I decided to dust off the 1210s and vinyl to revive my passion for old skool hardcore, DnB, jungle and techno. 😎

I hope you enjoy this mix ...there are some absolute weapons grade classics in here!!! Cheers !!!!


0:00 Shining in Da Darkness - Nookie (rmx)
4:30 Finest Illusion - Foul Play (rmx)
9:48 Ruff! - D-Force
12:52 M Power - DJ Mayhem
17:55 Darkage - DJ Solo
21:45 Cold Acid - DJ Mayhem
25:38 In Effect - Red Alert Mike Slammer
29:51 Future Followers - DJ Tango
33:55 Give a Little Love - Nookie (rmx)
37:55 Can I Dream - Essence of Aura
42:10 Mine - Simon Bassline Smith
45:15 Breaking Free - Slipmatt
50:00 Shot in the Dark - DJ Hype
54:00 Terminator - Rufige Cru
57:10 The Touch - Origin Unknown
1:00:34 Final Conflict - Tango & Ratty
1:04:34 SMD2(side b) - DJ Slipmatt
1:09:00 When I was Young - Easy B and Teabags (rmx)
1:12:25 Fugitive - Underdog Records

April 27, 2026

The Warner Bros. Sale to the Ellisons Illustrates Perfectly Why Shareholder Capitalism Is a Disaster

99 percent of the company’s institutional shareholders voted to approve it. An equivalent share of the company’s workers and Hollywood generally opposed it.

https://prospect.org/2026/04/27/warner-bros-sale-ellisons-shareholder-capitalism-merger-paramount/


Politicians, filmmakers, and allies hold a press conference outside the Warner Bros. headquarters​ advocating to block the merger with Paramount, April 23, 2026, in New York City. Credit: Michael Nigro/Sipa USA via AP Images

When Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted last Thursday on the Ellison family’s purchase of the company, the result wasn’t exactly close. Approximately 1.743 billion shares were cast in favor of the sale, while just 16.3 million were cast against it. That’s a ratio of roughly 99-to-1. I can’t say with complete certainty that had the vote been taken among Warner Bros. employees and the Hollywood community at large, the ratio would also have been 99-to-1, but in this case against, not for. But by all available, if imperfect, metrics, including the signatures of more than 4,000 media industry workers on a letter predicting industry disaster if the sale went through, it’s clear that the people most affected by the sale were resolutely against it. Not a single actor, director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, composer, musician, stunt worker, grip—anyone who actually works in the industry—has come out in favor of the deal. Not one. Maybe their vote wouldn’t have been 99-to-1 against. More likely, it would have been 100-to-0.

The industry workers have good reason to be opposed. As I noted one week ago, deals of this kind saddle the purchased companies with the debt the buyer incurred to make the deal—in this case, it’s a cool $79 billion—that compel cutbacks in production in order to pay off some of that debt. That was exactly what happened when Disney bought 21st Century Fox in 2019, despite the assurances that Fox would remain unscathed. Instead, Fox barely exists today, and the signatories to that letter warned of similar consequences coming to Warners, which has produced many more and generally better pictures in recent years than the Ellison-owned Paramount. Indeed, Warners films took in $4 billion in revenue last year (an all-time record) while also winning 11 Oscars (also a record) last month, chiefly for the two most acclaimed studio films of 2025, One Battle After Another and Sinners.

It’s not clear that the holders of the 1 percent of shares voted against the purchase were influenced by any of this; it’s very clear that the owners of the 99 percent of shares voted in favor of the Ellison purchase were not. About 71 percent of all the shares in the company are held by institutional investors, including the Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and State Street; the Newhouse publishing empire, previously the largest shareholder, sold off much of its stake last year, but, along with at least one Newhouse family member, still holds a significant share. After the vote, the company reported that the 99 percent of the shares voted in favor of the sale represented about 70 percent of all outstanding shares, which is to say that the voters, not surprisingly, were the institutional shareholders. All this is notable not because it violates any norms of current American capitalism, but because it exemplifies those norms. During the meeting, Warner Bros. Discovery board chair Samuel Di Piazza Jr. hailed the board for navigating “this strategic review process that led us to approve the merger agreement … Your board served you, the investors, with commitment, courage and deep sense of responsibility to creating shareholder value.”

Thus does the doctrine that the sole purpose of the corporation is to serve the interests of its shareholders still govern America’s boardrooms, 56 years after Milton Friedman propounded that idea in a 1970 New York Times essay. In that year, the legacies of the New Deal—the tax rates, the unions, the public investment that had produced the broadly shared prosperity of the postwar decades—was still largely in place, and it was not yet clear that the ideas in Friedman’s article would so mutate American capitalism that broadly shared prosperity is just a dim memory today. It wasn’t yet sufficiently clear that actualizing Friedman’s perspectives would produce today’s K-shaped economy in which those Americans who can afford significant stock holdings—broadly, the wealthiest 10 percent—would be thriving while the bottom 80 percent would be largely shut out of not only the home-buying market but the new-car market as well. It was not immediately apparent that the interests of workers and shareholders would be so calamitously counterposed as they were in the Ellisons’ takeover of Warners, or they are in the daily lives of our leading companies. In just the past year, the share value of the Big Tech companies has continued to soar even as they’ve eliminated tens of thousands of jobs, replacing workers with AI. Indeed, those values soar on the very days that they announce those layoffs.

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April 27, 2026

Oldskool Garage (UKG) Mix by Paul Velocity

UK Garage (UKG) is an electronic music genre that emerged in the UK in the early-to-mid 1990s, characterized by syncopated 2-step or 4/4 rhythms, heavy basslines, and sampled vocals.

24-carat gold UKG anthems from back in the day mixed to perfection. Get your white Reebok classics on.

00:00 Artful Dodger feat. Romina Johnson - Movin Too Fast (Bump + Flex Vocal)
04:00 The Streets - Has It Come To This? (Original Mix)
06:56 Artful Dodger (feat. Lifford) - Something
10:44 DJ Luck & MC Neat Feat JJ ‎– Ain't No Stoppin Us
13:07 Dem 2 - Destiny (New Vocal Mix feat. Lonyo)
15:17 Ed Case - Something In Your Eyes (K Warren Mix)
19:21 DJ Luck & MC Neat Ft. JJ - Masterblaster
24:35 Artful Dodger Feat. MC Alistair - R U Ready
27:56 M: Dubs Feat. Lady Saw ‎– Bump 'N' Grind (I Am Feeling Hot Tonight)(Sunship Remix)
32:28 Kristine Blond - Love Shy (Tuff Jam Vocal Original Classic Mix)
37:15 Industry Standard - What You Want (Somore I Refuse)
41:40 Night Crawlers-Push the feeling on (MK's Nocturnal Dub)
44:04 Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
46:48 Sticky Feat. Ms Dynamite - Booo! (Dubaholics Numb Dub Mix)
50:05 Reservoir Dogs - Budda Finger
54:41 Second Protocal - Bass Lick



Paul Velocity stands at the intersection of classic house music heritage and contemporary electronic innovation. A globally recognized DJ whose signature sound blends tech house rhythms with influences from UK garage, drum & bass, and hardcore, Paul Velocity has commanded the decks at some of electronic music's most hallowed grounds - from Ministry of Sound in London to Bar M in Ibiza.

His dynamic sets have earned him headline slots at prestigious venues worldwide, including Gatecrasher (Birmingham), Venus (Manchester), Skykitchen (Vienna), and Kameleon (Croatia). In his current home base of Seattle, he's become a fixture in the Pacific Northwest electronic scene, appearing at Q Nightclub and Monkeyloft.

As one-half of production duo Sawtooth & Sine, Paul has released original tracks through Global Dance Records, garnering support on platforms like Beatport and Spotify. His remixes have found their way into rotation on Kiss100 FM and the Kisstory club circuit, while his bootlegs have become sought-after weapons in DJ boxes worldwide.

April 27, 2026

Pioneering TB researcher, 91, wins The Times Active Life Award

After escaping Czechoslovakia in 1968, Juraj Ivanyi devoted his life to science. His enduring drive has now been recognised

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/the-times-active-life-award-juraj-ivanyi-kfh2n5fmn

https://archive.li/Bm97U


Professor Juraj Ivanyi remembers being ten when German soldiers in Slovakia knocked on the door of the family home to ask for directions while his father hid in a wardrobe
Jack Taylor for The Times

At 70 years old, with more than 200 scientific papers under his belt, Professor Juraj Ivanyi could respectably have looked back upon an illustrious career and decided to call it a day. Instead, he kept going. Twenty-one years and 32 scientific papers later, his enduring drive hasn’t wavered. In recognition of his achievement, last week Ivanyi, 91, who survived Slovakia during the Second World War and went on to devote his life to tuberculosis research, won The Times Sternberg Active Life Award. Created in 2008 by Sir Sigmund Sternberg, the late Hungarian-British businessman and philanthropist, in partnership with The Times, the awards celebrate outstanding contributions made by people aged over 70 to their communities and to public life. Nearing his 92nd birthday in June, Ivanyi has continued to write, mentor and follow research. He is motivated by a conviction that science should serve public health and the fact that research is his “only real hobby”.


Ivanyi at King’s College London
Jack Taylor for The Times

A secret nomination

The award came as a surprise. He was nominated in secret by his stepdaughter Naomi Honey. “She didn’t tell anyone, but she consulted with three of my scientific colleagues,” he said. “As much as I appreciate that the trustees and judges selected me, I equally appreciate that my stepdaughter chose to do it entirely on her own, as a reflection of our loving relationship.” It was a “pleasurable” experience to accept the award at 11 Downing Street, conveniently located for his celebratory dinner at his late wife’s favourite restaurant, Thai Pot. Ivanyi settled in Britain in 1968, with his first wife, Lida. He was offered a job while on holiday in London, as the Warsaw Pact invasion crushed the Prague Spring. He chose not to return to Czechoslovakia. “We never regretted it,” he said. “This is my home.” He remarried after the death of his first wife and maintains close relationships with his four stepdaughters and four grandchildren. He met his late wife, Catherine, known as Katie, at a concert hall in Blackheath. They spent 21 years together before her death in 2023. “It is to her credit that I continued spending my time with my hobby, which was doing research,” he said. “We had a very complementary and relaxing, loving relationship.”

Refusing to retire

Although he is very modest about his achievements, they were groundbreaking. Ivanyi helped advance the world’s understanding of tuberculosis, the immune system’s response to it, early diagnosis and why it has proven so difficult to control. He was among the first researchers to make monoclonal antibodies against tuberculosis in the Eighties, work that opened up possible diagnostic uses and helped establish his reputation in the field. Over the decades he held senior roles at the Wellcome Research Laboratories and as director of the MRC Tuberculosis Unit at Hammersmith Hospital, later continuing his work through an honorary professorship at King’s College London. In academic research, the convention has long been to retire aged 65 and move on from the institution that employed you. Ivanyi was not about to let that stop him. He spent 21 years at Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London, calling it quits on laboratory work at the age of 85.

Accidental path to tackling a deadly disease

Science wasn’t his first love; he had originally wanted to be an engineer. Yet under the influence of his brother, Pavol, he found his way into medicine as an undergraduate student in Prague. “I was active in [scientific] research, instead of having other hobbies for leisure,” he said. Tuberculosis fascinated him partly because, scientifically, it is not like many other infectious diseases. “In tuberculosis, you have immune responses which help not the host, but the bacterium,” he said. That, he argued, was one reason TB has been so hard to tackle. Although it became curable with chemotherapy in the Fifties, it still spreads because many people transmit infection before they are diagnosed. “It mainly affects poor people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries,” he said. He is still driven to close the gap between scientific papers and real-world benefit. “We scientists publish, and our career is determined by how much research we do, but it’s a long way before this research is translated into helping people,” he said.

Surviving the war....................

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April 27, 2026

FL Dems Darren Soto, Kathy Castor, Jared Moskowitz, & Debbie Wasserman Schultz are the most likely to lose their seats

under the new FL redistricting map.

April 27, 2026

Sabastian Sawe breaks world record at the London Marathon. Kenyan becomes 1st person to run a marathon in under 2 hours.

Kenyan athlete beats two-hour world record

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/london/article/marathon-2026-today-live-latest-news-x09cclzz2

https://archive.ph/DymG0


Sabastian Sawe crosses the finish line
Matthew Childs/Reuters

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/london/article/marathon-2026-today-live-latest-news-x09cclzz2#bd94f806-d1c7-4f78-9ff1-9de3f7f25e64


Sabastian Sawe won the men’s elite race
Karwai Tang

Sabastian Sawe has become the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours, setting a world record of 1hr 59min 30sec in front of cheering crowds on the Mall. The 30-year-old Kenyan has been considered the leading marathon runner in the world over the past year and won the London race last year, but that was in a time that was nearly three minutes slower than today’s record.

Breaking the two-hour barrier has been one of the most notable targets in athletics, but the closest anyone had come was in 2023 when another Kenyan, Kelvin Kiptum, set a world record of 2:00:35 that stood until Sawe’s historic run today.

Second runner beats two-hour marathon

Sabastian Sawe was not the only runner in London to beat the two-hour barrier — Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia finished second in a time of 1:59:41. The third-placed athlete, Jacob Kiplimo, of Uganda, recorded a time just over two hours (2:00:28) that would have been a world record before today’s race.

Sawe’s time was faster even than the one recorded by the distance running icon Eliud Kipchoge in 2019 but that was not a world record because Kipchoge was not competing in an open race and was aided by a team of rotating pacemakers and had hydration delivered by bicycle.


Sabastian Sawe, centre, Yomif Kejelcha, left and Jacob Kiplimo
John Walton/PA

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April 26, 2026

Sen Welch (D-VT): Schumer isn't the leader when it comes to where the Democratic Party is on what's going on with Israel

“Senator Schumer is not the leader when it comes to where the Democratic Party is on what's going on with Israel, in Lebanon, in Iran. And the war is extremely unpopular… This war is a killer… it's not going to make us more secure, but it is going to make a lot of Americans more poor.”

In this ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’ interview, Mehdi Hasan speaks with Vermont Senator Peter Welch who urges Democrats to reject AIPAC’s influence, taking a stand agains the pro-Israeli lobby. He calls for a change in US foreign policy following Israel’s violent actions in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

Co-sponsor of the Justice for Hind Rajab Act, Senator Welch has long been an outspoken critic of US complicity in Israel’s genocidal actions and Trump’s illegal war in Iran. He was also one of 40 senators across the nation who voted to block the sale of weapons to Israel, signaling a shift as the Democratic Party slowly distances itself from Israel.

Mehdi and Welch also discuss Joe Biden’s legacy, Democratic leadership and Trump’s threats to upcoming midterm elections in this interview. This panel was published on zeteo.com last week. If you want early, exclusive access to this kind of independent, unfiltered journalism — subscribe to our Substack here: https://zeteo.com/subscribe

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:42 Iran negotiations
05:53 War powers vote
07:51 Democrats
09:48 Weapons to Israel
13:36 Is Trump mentally unfit?
18:08 Biden, Democrats and Israel
24:31 AIPAC
25:35 Hind Rajab
28:33 November elections




related:


Killing of Hind Rajab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab


Hind Rajab, graduating from kindergarten, later killed by Israeli forces at the age of 5

Hind Rami Iyad Rajab (3 May 2018 – 29 January 2024) was a five-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the Gaza war, which also killed six of her family members and two paramedics coming to her rescue.

Rajab and her family were fleeing Gaza City when their vehicle was shelled by the IDF, killing her uncle, aunt and three cousins, with Rajab and another cousin surviving and contacting the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) to ask for help while noting that they were being attacked by an Israeli tank. The cousin was later also killed and Rajab was left stranded in the vehicle for hours on the phone, as paramedics from PRCS attempted to rescue her. Both Rajab and the paramedics were later also found dead on 10 February after an Israeli withdrawal.

Israel claimed that there were not any troops present in the neighborhood and denied carrying out the attack. However, this was refuted by The Washington Post and Sky News's investigations relying on satellite imagery and visual evidence, which concluded that a number of Israeli tanks were indeed present and one had likely fired 335 rounds on the car that Rajab and her family had been in, with tank operators being able to see that the car had civilians including children in it. The Forensic Architecture investigation also concluded that an Israeli tank had also likely attacked the ambulance that came for Rajab.

In the aftermath of the killing, Western media outlets were criticized for their coverage of the incident, including for not attributing who killed Rajab and for their adultification of her. American student protesters occupied and renamed Hamilton Hall in her honor at Columbia University, drawing increased attention to the incident.

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April 25, 2026

Kash Patel's theme song: Andrew W.K. - Party Til You Puke

Label: Bulb Records – BLB-073DX
Format: Vinyl, 12", EP, First Pressing
Country: US
Released: Oct 2000
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop











Real Name: Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier

Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and motivational speaker. Based in New York City, New York, United States. Born May 9, 1979 in Stanford, California. His mother is Wendy Wilkes. In 2008 he married Cherie Lily.

In 1993, he joined the band Slam, later called Reverse Polarity. Over the next 5 years he was in many different bands in Michigan, most notably The Pterodactyls (as L.A. Ellington) and Kathode (as Glaucomanie). During 1996 he founded two labels: V. Records. In 1994 he also started Ancient Art Of Boar, later making it a solo project titled AAB which ended in 1998. In 2004, Andrew had a television show on MTV2 titled Your Friend.

In late 2004, legal disputes surrounding the use of Andrew W.K.'s name emerged, which prevented him from using it in the US and affected his possibility to release music there. He began performing as a self-help, new age motivational speaker in 2005. In 2006, after premiering the live concert film Who Knows? Live In Concert: 2000 - 2004, he released his third album, Close Calls With Brick Walls = 兄貴、危機一髪!, exclusively in Asia due to the legal issues. He was commissioned to record ringtones with covers of Japanese songs in 2008.

In February 2009, Andrew found a loophole in his contractual constraints and formed Skyscraper Music Maker (renamed Steev Mike in 2010). He hosted Cartoon Network's Destroy Build Destroy in 2009. In 2013 he became the vocalist of Marky Ramones Blitzkrieg, until 2015. His Japanese name is アンドリュー W.K. His Japanese Real Name is アンドリュー・フェタリー・ウィルクス・クライアー