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Pirate Bay closed after Swedish court decision

Story here.

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UK 'file-sharers' to be cut off
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Update:
The Pirate Bay has apparently already relocated and is back online.

Schulanfang

Cartoon by Matt Groening
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Thanx to TomM for the pic and HerrB for the word.

Girlz With Gunz # 78

UK set to ban 'legal-highs'

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So they go back to taking drugs that you have deemed illegal and just tell me again, how many people die of alcohol related causes each year?

Mark Stewart + Mécanosphère + Adrian Sherwood

+ 'Beneath The City Streets'
w/'Creation Rebel/Dub Syndicate'
Live in Bristol 1984

Mark Stewart & The Maffia - Rise Again (Live Fuji Rock 08)

Radiohead - Twisted Words (Live @ Frequency)

Nietzsche?

How do you judge an air guitar competition?

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Dean Turner RIP

Dean Turner (right), bass player with Magic Dirt has passed away following a battle with lung cancer.
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Could Afghanistan become Obama's Vietnam

President Obama had not even taken office before supporters were etching his likeness onto Mount Rushmore as another Abraham Lincoln or the second coming of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Yet what if they got the wrong predecessor? What if Mr. Obama is fated to be another Lyndon B. Johnson instead?
To be sure, such historical analogies are overly simplistic and fatally flawed, if only because each presidency is distinct in its own way. But the L.B.J. model — a president who aspired to reshape America at home while fighting a losing war abroad — is one that haunts Mr. Obama’s White House as it seeks to salvage Afghanistan while enacting an expansive domestic program.
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We have said it before, the British couldn't win in Afghanistan. The Russians couldn't win in in Afghanistan and neither will the US.

Spank # 9

Secretary

Vincent Gallo - Honey Bunny

For all at dddd. Have you heard 'When'?

Us shifts policy, giving names of detainees to the Red Cross

In a reversal of Pentagon policy, the military for the first time is notifying the International Committee of the Red Cross of the identities of militants who were being held in secret at a camp in Iraq and another in Afghanistan run by United States Special Operations forces, according to three military officials.
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