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Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Carrier Wave Phase
Carrier Wave Phase by ph0n0n
From the last live Ph0n0n show of last year (at Seattle’s Pillow Full of Drone on December 12, 2010), our first publicly available track of the new year, for any who might be interested.
Monday, 3 January 2011
Funnily enough not a fan of scientology myself (religion my arse!)
exilestreet @Dirk57 Hmmm! http://bit.ly/fTCwpp 
Dirk57 Narconon co-opts Martin Luther King. Quite disgusting. RT @exilestreet: @Dirk57 Hmmm! http://bit.ly/fTCwpp 
Nazi Watch: Like Father Like Daughter
For 40 years Jean-Marie Le Pen has ruled one of the most successful and feared ultra-nationalist movements in Europe.
In 2002 he shocked France by winning through to the second round of the presidential election.But now at 82 years of age, the father of the Front National is ready to step aside and he is backing his daughter Marine to succeed him.
"I didn't take to politics readily," Marine told me. "But then as the daughter of Le Pen, it is probably unavoidable that I entered the fray. Politics swallowed me up."
"Now it is my desire to carry on my father's fight," she says. "I want to strive for what he believed in, what the French people really want. And if I don't do it, I don't think anyone else is capable."
Softer image Marine is not lacking in self-confidence. But she is hardly Joan of Arc, the symbol of French sanctity that is the adopted emblem of the FN party.
Invariably she wears jeans and high-heeled shoes. She is a twice-divorced mother of three. She is pro-abortion. She is certainly not the choice of the hard-line Catholics within her party.
But those who meet her agree she is personable and difficult to dislike. Which makes her a formidable politician.
"She is of her generation," said Nonna Mayer, an expert on far-right politics at the Sciences Po University. "She has no nostalgia for World War II. That is the past. She is looking ahead."
"She has the same ideas about immigration as her father," said Ms Mayer. "She thinks there are two kinds of French people: the 'real French' and the others. But she packages this message in a different, softer way. She is very popular and very good with the media."The vote for the party leader will be taken among 75,000 party members. The result is to be announced at a conference in Tours on 16 January...
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