WSB in London at the time of the Final Academy.
Paparazzi – Cold in A Warm Climate (CDr)
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Saturday, 9 January 2010
Meanwhile in LaLa land - "It would be like discovering that Buddha, unbeknownst to anybody, had sat down and wrote down the entirety of his discoveries and it could be verified that he wrote it,"
More than 1,000 unreleased recordings of lectures by L. Ron Hubbard and reams of corresponding writings have been unveiled in the culmination of a 25-year project to locate, restore and transcribe lost pieces of the Scientology founder's work.
The new materials were announced in a New Year's celebration at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles that was broadcast to churches around the world last week and include 1,020 lectures and hundreds of corresponding booklets from courses and other sessions with Scientology ministers from 1953 to 1961. They include discussions of how Hubbard arrived at the principles of Dianetics and his research on everything from decision-making to personal responsibility.
They were recovered through a painstaking hunt that led members to find tapes and papers in a basement in Wichita, Kan., a storage trailer in Phoenix, and a garage in Oakland, Calif., among other places. Some of the materials were believed to have been lost...
A Concert for Tuli Kupferberg January 22 - St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn
Lou Reed, Philip Glass, Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Gary Lucas, Richard
Belzer and other notable artists will join THE FUGS for a benefit
concert for Tuli Kupferberg, the Beat poet and original member of The
Fugs, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn on Jan. 22.
Mr. Kupferberg, 86, has had two strokes over the last year, which have
left him blind. The ticket proceeds from the concert, which is being
produced by Hal Willner, will help pay his medical expenses.
Among the others performers are the singer John Kruth; Ed Sanders, Mr.
Kupferberg’s fellow Fug; and Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders
(who also played on early Fugs albums). Tickets are $75 to $125 and
are available at stannswarehouse.org or (718) 254.8779.
A Concert for Tuli Kupferberg
January 22 - St. Ann's Warehouse
with -
Lou Reed
Philip Glass
Sonic Youth
The Fugs
Gary Lucas
John Zorn Trio
Peter Stampfel
John Kruth
RePost: For a friend...
Sunn O))) live at Corsica Studio London 22/02/09.
Just Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson playing live to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 'Grimmrobe Demos' release.PLAY LOUD!!!
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Indian man attacked and set alight in Melbourne
An Indian man is in a serious condition in a Melbourne hospital after being attacked and set alight by a gang.
The attack comes a week after an Indian graduate student, Nitin Garg, was stabbed to death in the city.
This prompted a travel advisory from the Indian government about the safety of Melbourne.
Last year saw a spate of attacks against Indian students, which has deterred many from studying in Australia.
The 29-year-old Indian was returning home from a dinner party with his wife when he set up by a gang of men, who poured fluid over him and then set him alight.
He is now in a Melbourne hospital, where his condition has been described as serious, suffering from burns to 15% of his body.
Police say they are not sure why the man was targeted and whether it was a racially-motivated attack - but it is bound to increase the sense of outrage in India, where there's been an angry reaction to the murder last weekend of Nitin Garg.
The Indian government has already this week issued an advisory warning about the dangers of travelling to Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, where the local Indian community claims that racist attacks are on the rise.
OK let's see if the Victorian police say it is not racism now.
Iran opposition leader Karroubi's 'car hit by gunfire'
The armoured car of one of Iran's opposition leaders, Mehdi Karroubi, was hit by gunfire in the northern town of Qazvin, his party's website reported on Friday, but only the windows were damaged.
Karroubi was in the town to attend a mourning ceremony for slain opposition protesters organised by a reformist former member of parliament, Sahamnews.org said.
"Around 500 basiji (members of the Basij Islamic militia) and residents of nearby villages surrounded the place where he was and attacked the building with stones, breaking windows," it said.
After four hours, anti-riot police finally intervened to get Karroubi out of the building.
"As his car was pulling away, it was attacked and hit by gunfire. But, as it is an armoured car, only the windows were damaged."
There was no immediate word from the authorities on the incident.
The website quoted Karroubi as saying there had been no return of fire by his guards.
"My bodyguards did not return fire as, unlike the assailants, they would have been brought before the courts and faced prosecution," Karroubi said.
The attackers chanted slogans in support of the Islamic regime and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the website added.
"Our town is not a place for hypocrites," they reportedly chanted using the regime's standard term of abuse for the outlawed rebel People's Mujahedeen.
A reformist former speaker of parliament, Karroubi stood against hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a June election along with moderate former prime minister Mir Hossein Moussavi.
Both men have charged that the vote was marred by massive fraud and have led a series of mass protests over the months since.
Karroubi was in the town to attend a mourning ceremony for slain opposition protesters organised by a reformist former member of parliament, Sahamnews.org said.
"Around 500 basiji (members of the Basij Islamic militia) and residents of nearby villages surrounded the place where he was and attacked the building with stones, breaking windows," it said.
After four hours, anti-riot police finally intervened to get Karroubi out of the building.
"As his car was pulling away, it was attacked and hit by gunfire. But, as it is an armoured car, only the windows were damaged."
There was no immediate word from the authorities on the incident.
The website quoted Karroubi as saying there had been no return of fire by his guards.
"My bodyguards did not return fire as, unlike the assailants, they would have been brought before the courts and faced prosecution," Karroubi said.
The attackers chanted slogans in support of the Islamic regime and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the website added.
"Our town is not a place for hypocrites," they reportedly chanted using the regime's standard term of abuse for the outlawed rebel People's Mujahedeen.
A reformist former speaker of parliament, Karroubi stood against hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a June election along with moderate former prime minister Mir Hossein Moussavi.
Both men have charged that the vote was marred by massive fraud and have led a series of mass protests over the months since.
Friday, 8 January 2010
Three Palestinians killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza
Crater left by an Israeli strike on what Palestinian describes as a metal workshop
Three people, including a 14-year-old-boy, have been killed in Israeli air strikes overnight in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics say.
The Israeli military said it was responding to mortar and rocket attacks on Thursday on Israel from Gaza. It said it attacked two tunnels on the border with Egypt, a tunnel to be used by militants for crossing into Israel and a weapons making site.
The strikes hit targets Gaza City, Khan Younis and Rafah.
The militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, said an Israeli jet had also bombed a building in Gaza City.
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Gaza militants have fired more than 280 rockets or mortars at Israel since the end of a devastating offensive against the territory on January 18, according to the Israeli military.
Palestinian groups and human right organisations say about about 1,400 Palestinians died during the offensive. Thirteen Israelis were also killed in the fighting.
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