
At the third OPEC summit in 47 years, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the price of crude oil could reach $200 a barrel. “The basis of all aggression,” said Chavez, “is oil.” During a private meeting that was accidentally televised, the oil minister of Venezuela suggested to the oil minister of Iran that OPEC stop using the crippled dollar for pricing; the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia countered that public discussion of the weak dollar would cause U.S. currency to lose value. “Kill the cable!” shouted a security guard as he ran into the meeting room, “Kill the cable!”

Eric B. and Rakim - Let The Rythm Hit 'Em (Omega One rmx)
An economist with financial services firm UBS AG put the odds of a U.S. recession at 45 percent

Biggie Smalls – Party and Bullshit (Ratatat Remix)
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte called on President General Pervez Musharraf to end emergency rule in Pakistan. “Emergency rule,” said Negroponte, the ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, “is not compatible with free, fair and credible elections.”

Hall and Oates/Mr. Oizo – I Can’t Go For That/Trina Kills (DJ Original Bozak Remix)
An Iceland firm, deCODE Genetics, announced that it would offer personal gene profiling, as did Los Angeles-based 23andMe, which is backed by Google. Included in the $999 profile offered by 23andMe is an estimate of how closely one is related to historical figures and celebrities like Jimmy Buffett.

Boy 8-Bit – Suspense Is Killing Me
A man in rural Tennessee was accused of raping his teenage daughters, whom he controlled with wireless electric-shock dog collars; an Atlanta wrestler named Hardbody Harrison, who calls his fists “The Pork Chop” and “The Biscuit Cutter,” was on trial for keeping nine women as sex slaves; and a Washington man was arrested after he beat his girlfriend for giving him a wet willie.

Sebastien Tellier, Mr Oizo & SebastiAn – Ringardos
British scientists working with negative index metamaterials said that they were developing a technique that could someday be used to capture a rainbow.

4 comments:
ratatat's remixes are sogood and that one is by far my favorite. big ups
I'll probably post up more soon, i have the whole second remix album they did (got it at their concert) and its way fucking better than the first
i only have a few tracks off of vol.2 so i'm definitely looking forward to it
That Omega One remix is hot and mad props on remixing that Hall & Oats track. I've been digging that electric piano but I don't really like dropping that song alone in mixes. props pops
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