"So It Goes" August 28th 1976. R.I.P. Tony Wilson.
AND WHO SAYS THEY COULDN'T PLAY!
AND WHO SAYS THEY COULDN'T PLAY!
Kendra Smith - Five Ways Of Disappearing (1995)
24 minutes ago
Thursday 5 November 2009
RePost - Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
'Remember, remember the Fifth of November,The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!'
Until the nineteenth century there was a special Church of England service for this commemoration in the Book of Common Prayer. Guy Fawkes Day became a public holiday in 1606 when it was proclaimed by an Act of Parliament. In commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot on this day in 1605, when Guy Fawkes and his comrades tried to blow up King James I and the whole English Parliament, English people still burn a 'guy' in effigy.
More here.
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Veteran rocker Mark E Smith faces RSPCA probe for chopping up rare red squirrels with hedge-clippers
Ever since Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat, hard-core rockers have had much to live up to in the depravity stakes.So perhaps Mark E Smith, frontman of The Fall, was trying to go one better when he boasted of murdering endangered red squirrels with hedge clippers. The short-tempered punk rocker - said to have been one of Radio 1 DJ John Peel's favourite acts - bragged to a music magazine he had "killed a couple last weekend". But if the readers of Uncut magazine were impressed, the RSPCA is decidedly unamused by Smith's claims - and yesterday announced an investigation. Now the 51-year-old could be prosecuted under the Wildlife and Countryside Act if his backyard bloodbath is confirmed. The gruff singer claimed he would "happily set about an endangered red squirrel with a set of professional hedge-clippers". He added: "Squirrels mean nothing to me. I killed a couple last weekend actually. They were eating my garden fence. "My sisters are animal lovers and they had been leaving food out for these squirrels. They've got rats in the bloody house now. Serves 'em right." To make matters worse, the maverick frontman went on to add that he 'wouldn't have a problem' with running over seagulls for fun. But the RSPCA said its investigators were appalled by the remarks and were now preparing a prosecution.
(Thanx Michael)
@ Reuters
CHAM, Switzerland and LONDON, November 2 /PRNewswire/ --
- Band and Label to Give Away Entire Album to Fans for Free
Earache Records have partnered with RapidShare for the promotion of Gama
Bomb's new album, "Tales From The Grave In Space". From 5th November 2009 all
songs will be available from http://www.earache.com/gamabomb, powered by
RapidShare. Earache and Gama Bomb's aim is to grow the overall fanbase of the
band and promote the sales of the CD box released in February 2010 as well as
concert ticket sales through the more widespread distribution of the music.
The independent UK record label also wants to remain at the cutting edge of
the digital future of the music industry.
"We're giving the album away for free as a natural progression," Philly
Byrne, singer of Gama Bomb, comments. "It's an open-handed gesture that
reflects the room the download revolution has created in the music business:
the label is up for it, which would have been impossible 10 years ago. Also,
it's a box-breaker for us: taking away the many restrictions of a
physical-only traditional release opens us up to a new and wider audience.
More people will hear the music and enjoy it and talk about it, and if that
leads to them helping us out by buying a t-shirt or coming to a show, so be
it. We're making our own kind of history here, and it's exciting. It's an
open road, so let's go."
Digby Pearson, Founder and Managing Director of Earache Records says:
"Actually the cost saving of distribution through the internet is a big
incentive for us. Piracy is not a problem, because if a fan passes on the
download link it can also be seen as free promotion for the band. In the
future we expect digital music to be ubiquitous and the payments made to the
artists or those who look after the artists to be small but consistent."
"We are pleased to help Earache Records support Gama Bomb's new album and
explore new ways of marketing," explains Bobby Chang, COO of RapidShare. "We
believe that the ability to spread electronic content fast and easily will
become one of the keys to success as consumers devote more and more time to
the internet."
About Earache
Earache Records is one of the few truly independent global record labels,
has 20 year history of providing extreme music and boasts an impressive back
catalogue of 450 albums.
About RapidShare
RapidShare AG distributes digital information to companies and individual
clients. Data can be uploaded into a system in a few easy steps and then made
available for users to download. RapidShare AG was founded in 2006 and has
its headquarters in Cham, Switzerland.
Contacts:
Talita Jenman, Earache Records Ltd., Tel.:+44-207-240-5002,
E-Mail: press@earache.com.
Bobby Chang, COO RapidShare AG, Tel.: +41-41-748-78-88,
E-Mail: bchang@rapidshare.com
Katharina Scheid, Company Speaker RapidShare AG, Tel.:
+41-41-748-78-81, E-Mail: kscheid@rapidshare.com.
SOURCE RapidShare AG
Contacts: Talita Jenman, Earache Records Ltd., Tel.:+44-207-240-5002, E-Mail:
press@earache.com; Bobby Chang, COO RapidShare AG, Tel.: +41-41-748-78-88,
E-Mail: bchang@rapidshare.com; Katharina Scheid, Company Speaker RapidShare
AG, Tel.: +41-41-748-78-81, E-Mail: kscheid@rapidshare.com.
@'Reuters'
Spank!
Rapper and 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' actor Ice-T attended Mariah Carey's Halloween party with wife Coco dressed up in S&M gear. Harvard to offer class on 'The Wire'
"Omar coming"THE Wire," HBO's gritty se ries about life in the Baltimore ghetto, is about to become a course at Harvard.
The announcement came at a panel discussion at the school featuring several of the show's stars, according to the Harvard student newspaper, The Crimson.
The class will be taught by sociology professor William J. Wilson, one of the best-known African American history professors in the country, who has made no secret of the fact that he is a huge fan of the show.
"I do not hesitate to say that it has done more to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life and the problems of urban inequality, more than any other media event or scholarly publication," Wilson told the audience before poking fun at himself, "including studies by social scientitsts."
Sonja Sohn, who played Det. Kima Gregs, Andre Royo (Bubbles) and Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar Little) were on the panel talking about the show's unusual impact.
The series ran for five seasons, starting in 2002. Each year, it took on a different aspect of urban life -- from drugs to schools to the news media.
Harvard will be not the first college course on "The Wire." Other students commented on The Crimson's site that courses on the TV show already exist at Duke University and Middlebury College.
@'NY Post'
The announcement came at a panel discussion at the school featuring several of the show's stars, according to the Harvard student newspaper, The Crimson.
The class will be taught by sociology professor William J. Wilson, one of the best-known African American history professors in the country, who has made no secret of the fact that he is a huge fan of the show.
"I do not hesitate to say that it has done more to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life and the problems of urban inequality, more than any other media event or scholarly publication," Wilson told the audience before poking fun at himself, "including studies by social scientitsts."
Sonja Sohn, who played Det. Kima Gregs, Andre Royo (Bubbles) and Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar Little) were on the panel talking about the show's unusual impact.
The series ran for five seasons, starting in 2002. Each year, it took on a different aspect of urban life -- from drugs to schools to the news media.
Harvard will be not the first college course on "The Wire." Other students commented on The Crimson's site that courses on the TV show already exist at Duke University and Middlebury College.
@'NY Post'
Dan Gentile's Live @ Bird's Barbers Mix # 1
Peter Brown – Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me? / Burning Love Breakdown
6th Borough Project – Just a Memory
D Train – Tryin’ To Get Over
Dam Funk – Electrik Breeze
Timex Social Club – Rumors (12” Mix)
Grace Jones – Pull Up to the Bumper (Larry Levan Mix)
Harlequin 4’s – Set It Off
Hot Chocolate – Haven Is In The Backseat Of My Cadillac (The Revenge Mix)
Sir Joe Quarterman – (I Got) So Much Trouble in My Mind (South City All Stars Remix)
NYC Peech Boys – Don’t Make Me Wait
Hall & Oates – Can’t Go For That (Beatconductor Remix)
Steely Dan - Peg
Amplified Orchestra – The Fighter
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw Cutes #5
Jackson 5 – What You Don’t Know (Eli Escobar Edit)
Eddy Grant – My Turn to Love You
Oliver Cheatham – Get Down Saturday Night
HERE
Ian Brown arrested after disturbance at home
Ian Brown has been arrested for allegedly attacking his wife.The former The Stone Roses man was arrested on suspicion of assault yesterday (November 2) after his neighbours alerted the police to a disturbance at the couple's west London home.
"A 46-year-old man was arrested at the address and taken to a police station," Scotland Yard confirmed to The Mirror.
As police investigated the disturbance it is claimed Brown's wife Fabiola Quiroz told officers he had attacked her.
Brown was taken into custody, but was later freed on bail until next month.
@'NME'
Grateful Dead - Road Trips Vol 3 # 1 Oakland 1979
Road Trips Vol. 3, No. 1 is the complete show from December 28, 1979 in Oakland!The limited edition Bonus Disc (while supplies last) includes the heart of the second set from 12/30/79.
The CDs have been mastered to HDCD spec. The included booklet contains a number of Jay Blakesberg photos as well as an essay by Steve Silberman.
Tracklist
CD 1: Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 28, 1979
1. SUGAREE
2. MAMA TRIED>
3. MEXICALI BLUES
4. ROW JIMMY
5. IT’S ALL OVER NOW
6. HIGH TIME
7. THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED
SET 2:
8. ALABAMA GETAWAY>
9. GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
CD 2: Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 28, 1979
1. TERRAPIN STATION>
2. PLAYING IN THE BAND>
3. RHYTHM DEVILS>
4. SPACE>
5. UNCLE JOHN’S BAND>
6. I NEED A MIRACLE>
7. BERTHA>
8. GOOD LOVIN’
9. CASEY JONES
10. ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT
Bonus CD: (while supplies last) Oakland Auditorium Arena, December 30, 1979
1. NEW MINGLEWOOD BLUES
2. CANDYMAN
3. RAMBLE ON ROSE
4. LAZY LIGHTNING>
5. SUPPLICATION
6. SCARLET BEGONIAS>
7. FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN>
8. LET IT GROW
9. TRUCKIN’>
10. WHARF RAT
Advance listen -
"Sugaree"
HERE
Pre-order
HERE
Tuesday 3 November 2009
'Amphetamine Aynie'
How Ayn Rand Became an American Icon
Ayn Rand is one of America’s great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed democracy on the grounds that “the masses”—her readers—were “lice” and “parasites” who scarcely deserved to live. Yet she remains one of the most popular writers in the United States, still selling 800,000 books a year from beyond the grave. She regularly tops any list of books that Americans say have most influenced them. Since the great crash of 2008, her writing has had another Benzedrine rush, as Rush Limbaugh hails her as a prophetess. With her assertions that government is “evil” and selfishness is “the only virtue,” she is the patron saint of the tea-partiers and the death panel doomsters. So how did this little Russian bomb of pure immorality in a black wig become an American icon?Two new biographies of Rand—Goddess of the Market by Jennifer Burns and Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Heller—try to puzzle out this question, showing how her arguments found an echo in the darkest corners of American political life.* But the books work best, for me, on a level I didn’t expect. They are thrilling psychological portraits of a horribly damaged woman who deserves the one thing she spent her life raging against: compassion.
Monday 2 November 2009
Excerpts from draft 5 of "NOVA EXPRESS" a film by Andre Perkowski based on the writings of William S. Burroughs
Just received this e/mail from the filmaker...
Thanks for the link on your weird and wonderful blog, enjoyed digging around it... those bits of NOVA EXPRESS aren't even the really good stuff, the damn thing is huge, hideous, hellish, and will destroy young brains but good. I've been screening excerpts and trying to raise the dough to pay off two year old lab bills to get all the black and white 16mm footage I've shot for it... there's so much lovely animation and bezerk stuff I need to add in...
anyway, thanks again!
andre
Thanks for the link on your weird and wonderful blog, enjoyed digging around it... those bits of NOVA EXPRESS aren't even the really good stuff, the damn thing is huge, hideous, hellish, and will destroy young brains but good. I've been screening excerpts and trying to raise the dough to pay off two year old lab bills to get all the black and white 16mm footage I've shot for it... there's so much lovely animation and bezerk stuff I need to add in...
anyway, thanks again!
andre
“The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.” (Marty Feldman)
Who also said that "comedy, like sodomy is an unnatural act."Sunday 1 November 2009
Volcano Choir - Island, IS
The mighty Justin Vernon strikes again!
(And what a fugn brilliant video!)
(And what a fugn brilliant video!)
Abdullah Says He Is Withdrawing From Afghan Election
Abdullah Abdullah, the chief rival to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, announced on Sunday that he would not participate in the Nov. 7 runoff election, but he stopped short of calling on his supporters to boycott the balloting,
Concern over fate of star student who spoke out to Khamenei
It was near the end of a meeting Wednesday between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a group of university students when the man who is Iran's highest political and spiritual authority asked if there were any other questions. He spotted a young man in the corner with his hand raised and called on him, asking him to go to the podium to speak through the public address system.
What followed was an extraordinarily candid 20-minute speech by the student, later identified as national math Olympiad winner Mahmoud Vahidnia, in which he publicly and explicitly criticized Khamenei for the government's conduct in the unrest that followed Iran's June 12 elections.
Vahidnia, a first-year student of mathematics at Tehran's prestigious Sharif University, spoke without notes.
He criticized the violence against protesters during the election. He said Khamenei lived in a bubble, unaware of the sentiments against his rule. He critiqued what he described as Iran's "cycle of power" in which entrenched elites in institutions such as the Guardian Council and Assembly of Experts exert what he described as a stranglehold over the nation's political life.
He criticized state broadcasting and the media, saying their unwillingness to criticize Khamenei deepened Iran's divisions.
“Does the state broadcasting really reflect the realities of the country and the whole world, or does it draw an unrealistic caricature of the world?" he said. "Does state broadcasting permit diverse opinions?"
He said he had never seen anyone publicly criticize Khamenei in the media."I think if they let criticism against you get published, then simple problems are not overplayed and will not lead to schism and division and hatred," he said, according to reformist websites which recounted the exchange, but also Khamenei's own website (in Farsi).
"When a simple criticism cannot find an environment to be expressed, then gradually it gets tainted with ill intentions," he said.
Sporadic applause punctuated his speech. A live broadcast of the event on television was shut down. A moderator interrupted, saying time was up. Somebody else interjected, addressing Vahidnia. "If criticism were not allowed, you would not be criticizing," he said.
But Khamenei insisted on replying. Though he acknowledged that he appointed the head of state broadcasting, he said it didn't always do what he wanted. He, too, had complaints about the conduct of state broadcasting.
"We have never said not to criticize us," he said. "We have no objection. We welcome criticism.There are lots criticism against me. We take in the criticism, and we understand the criticism.”
Reformist websites said Vahidnia was harassed by security forces at the meeting as the event ended, and many fear that he has been locked up.
@'LA Times'
Sporadic applause punctuated his speech. A live broadcast of the event on television was shut down. A moderator interrupted, saying time was up. Somebody else interjected, addressing Vahidnia. "If criticism were not allowed, you would not be criticizing," he said.
But Khamenei insisted on replying. Though he acknowledged that he appointed the head of state broadcasting, he said it didn't always do what he wanted. He, too, had complaints about the conduct of state broadcasting.
"We have never said not to criticize us," he said. "We have no objection. We welcome criticism.There are lots criticism against me. We take in the criticism, and we understand the criticism.”
Reformist websites said Vahidnia was harassed by security forces at the meeting as the event ended, and many fear that he has been locked up.
@'LA Times'
Meanhile not so long ago...
The Tories were today forced to deny that a video clip purporting to show a long-haired party-goer at a 1988 outdoor rave was the party leader David Cameron. The purple-tinted video, set to a hypnotic acid house rave track, shows a man bearing a striking similarity to Cameron with shoulder-length hair and wearing dungarees. The video, called 'Acid House Sunrise 1988 Part 4', has surfaced on YouTube and has been picked up by political blogger Guido Fawkes.
Held during the so-called second Summer of Love in 1988, the long-haired man appears to be joining in the fun at the outdoor event. Tory blogger Guido Fawkes, aka Paul Staines, was Head of PR for the 1988-89 rave party planners, Sunrise. It was Fawkes who received the emails sent by Brown's special advisor Damian McBride about slurs on top Tories which led to McBride's sacking. Posting on his blog, Guido asks his readers to decide for themselves whether the man in the clip really is the Tory leader and Old Etonian. Alongside stills from the video, he says: 'This has been building up for a few weeks and now Guido is getting calls from Dead Tree Press diarists, it is probably time to bring it out into the open. 'Is this a picture of a long-haired 22 year-old David Cameron? 'The pictures are taken from a video of a Sunrise Party held in the summer of 1988. You decide… ' However a Tory press spokesperson 'categorically' denied that the man in the clip was Cameron. Raves, fuelled by dance music, boomed during the late 1980s and were infamous for the widespread use Ecstasy. The all-night parties, frequently illegal, were held at secret locations in warehouses or in fields. In 2007, it was revealed that Cameron narrowly avoided being expelled from Eton after being named by a fellow pupil as a cannabis user. Cameron repeatedly refused to answer questions during his successful Tory leadership campaign on whether or not he had taken drugs. And he has stuck by his insistence that all politicians are entitled to a 'private past' and should not be required to reveal everything of their lives before they enter politics.
Ministers face rebellion over UK drug tsar's sacking
The government was at the centre of a furious backlash from leading scientists last night following its sacking of Britain's top drugs adviser.The decision by the home secretary, Alan Johnson, to call on Professor David Nutt to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has thrown the future of the respected independent body into severe doubt. There were claims last night that many of those who sit on the 31-strong council – which advises ministers on what evidence there is of harm caused by drugs – may resign en masse, raising serious doubts about how ministers will justify policy decisions.
Several were this weekend seeking urgent reassurances from the government that it will not try to control their agenda and will allow them to speak out before they decide whether to quit. One is said to have already resigned.
The government's decision to dismiss Nutt came after he wrote a paper for the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) at King's College London that questioned the "artificial" separation of alcohol and tobacco from illegal drugs.
Nutt told the Observer he had received hundreds of messages of support and had been contacted by several members of the council. "I actually think it might be an untenable position," Nutt said of the chairmanship. "I can't believe that any independent-minded scientists would want to take it on. People will think, if you can't speak your mind and be honest about what you think, why take on the job? It might be that the council becomes unviable."
He said he had not approached members of the council – who include police officers and social services professionals as well as medical experts – but about a third had already contacted him.
"All the ones that have contacted me are considering their positions," he said. "There is uniform support, uniform horror at what happened. We have been abused by government, misused by government."
Nutt accused the former home secretary, Jacqui Smith, of "distorting and devaluing" scientific research. He said Smith's decision to reclassify cannabis meant she had fallen victim to a "skunk scare", and in another dig at the government claimed that advocates of downgrading ecstasy from class A to class B had "won the intellectual argument".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme yesterday, Nutt was also fiercely critical of Gordon Brown's role in shaping drugs policy. "He is the first prime minister... that has ever in the history of the Misuse of Drugs Act gone against the advice of its scientific panel," he said.
Now that Helloweenie is over, you are ALL going to hell!
Fifi's yard"I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference."
@'Charisma'
(Thanx to RB)
(Thanx to RB)
Pastaklubben - Asperger, (Phantom Channel 2009)
Pastaklubben is an exquisite corpse of music. A joyful depression. A vivid tranquility and a painful pleasure. Formed in Copenhagen in 2007, these 4 young Cyber-Punks, armed with an array of effects units, guitars and laptops have a penchant for creating live and improvised dark, emotional and atmospheric sounds.
In a constant flux of development, no two Pastaklubben performances are ever cloned. ‘Asperger’, recorded in just one take, paints a fascinating, futuristic world, mirroring that of Ridley Scott’s bleak, dystopian vision of Los Angeles, in his outstanding Bladerunner motion picture.
A dizzying amalgam of pitch-black ambience, dismembered electronics and static-drenched, particle-sized beats, ‘Asperger’ is a must for fans of Murcof, Autechre and, of course the Vangelis score that so enhanced Scott’s film. ‘Asperger’ is spacious yet claustrophobic, an alchemy of contradictions, much like its creators. Please listen to the uncut, uncensored facts.
More web releases from Phantom Channel
HERE
In a constant flux of development, no two Pastaklubben performances are ever cloned. ‘Asperger’, recorded in just one take, paints a fascinating, futuristic world, mirroring that of Ridley Scott’s bleak, dystopian vision of Los Angeles, in his outstanding Bladerunner motion picture.
A dizzying amalgam of pitch-black ambience, dismembered electronics and static-drenched, particle-sized beats, ‘Asperger’ is a must for fans of Murcof, Autechre and, of course the Vangelis score that so enhanced Scott’s film. ‘Asperger’ is spacious yet claustrophobic, an alchemy of contradictions, much like its creators. Please listen to the uncut, uncensored facts.
More web releases from Phantom Channel
HERE
Antiwar Activists Reawaken as Obama Weighs Afghanistan Strategy
Sitting in the front row at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, directly in sight of committee Chairman John Kerry, two women discreetly held up two pink cardboard signs that read "U.S. War = Terrorism" and "Drone Attacks Kill Civilians." The women, Toby Blome and Martha Hubert, are part of Code Pink, a nationwide antiwar group that formed in 2002. They were quietly protesting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as former CIA agent Robert Grenier testified that a significant increase in troops is required to fend off al-Qaida in the latter country. Since the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003, Code Pink protesters had been a common, often colorful, presence on Capitol Hill.
Abdullah to make run-off decision
President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential poll says he will announce on Sunday whether he intends to quit the race.Dr Abdullah Abdullah called for the resignation of key election officials and others as a way to mitigate fraud and corruption in the vote.
But those demands were rejected earlier in the week in talks with Mr Karzai.
A senior adviser said that in talks on Friday, Mr Abdullah's team decided he should not take part in the poll.
But Mr Adbullah's campaign said on Saturday that no final decision had been made, and that the former foreign minister would announce his next move on Sunday.
The BBC's Ian Pannell in Kabul says that if he withdraws it will raise serious questions about the credibility of the election.
However, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said a runoff with only one candidate would not necessarily threaten the legitimacy of the process.
"We see that happen in our own country where, for whatever combination of reasons, one of the candidates decides not to go forward," Mrs Clinton told reporters in the United Arab Emirates.
@'BBC'
US warily leans to new Iran sanctions over nukes
Frustrated by Iran's continued defiance of demands to come clean on its nuclear program, the Obama administration is leaning toward imposing new sanctions, even it must act alone.Administration officials acknowledged growing concern that there may not be international consensus to expand the existing U.N. sanctions, despite Tehran's apparent rejection of a confidence-building measure proposed by the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog in hopes of making progress on the nuclear issue.
To that end, the administration is quietly supporting legislation in Congress that would give President Barack Obama a broad new array of authority to target Iran's energy sector by penalizing foreign firms that sell and ship refined petroleum products to Iran. The regime is heavily dependent on gasoline, kerosene and propane imports.
The legislation would also allow the administration to go after insurance and reinsurance concerns that cover oil tankers and their cargo. And the U.S. could also target companies that provide Iran with covert technology used to crack down on protesters and democracy advocates as it did during demonstrations this summer after a disputed national election.
U.S. officials took a neutral public stance on the legislation when it cleared two key congressional panels this week. They were anxious not to endanger ongoing negotiations between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Tehran over a deal that would see most of Iran's low enriched uranium shipped out of the country for reprocessing, handicapping its ability to use the uranium for weapons instead of energy.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview with CNN on Friday that the administration wants to let the negotiating process "play out."
But White House press secretary Robert Gibbs expressed limited patience with Iraq. "The president's time is not unlimited," he said when asked whether it was time to pursue tougher sanctions.
And privately, officials said they welcomed approval of the bills by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday and the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Thursday.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration planning.
"We have to be prepared to act and we are not going to let this drag out forever," said one administration official.
@'Antiwar'
"We have to be prepared to act and we are not going to let this drag out forever," said one administration official.
@'Antiwar'
The Woodentops - Love Train (Roskilde 1987)
Hope it went brilliant Rolo!
Lots of Woodentop's music
HERE
(I was really lucky to catch the sixth gig by The Woodentops & the original bass player James moved in to our house in Peckham. Rolo gave me a copy of their first demo tapes and well, well etc...Wish that I could have been there in London the other night)
Lots of Woodentop's music
HERE
(I was really lucky to catch the sixth gig by The Woodentops & the original bass player James moved in to our house in Peckham. Rolo gave me a copy of their first demo tapes and well, well etc...Wish that I could have been there in London the other night)
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