War, as I came to report it, was something fought between people with causes, however crazy or honourable: like between the American and British occupiers of Iraq and the insurgents who opposed them. Then I stumbled across Mexico's drug war – which has claimed nearly 40,000 lives, mostly civilians – and all the rules changed. This is warfare for the 21st century, and another creature altogether.
Mexico's war is inextricable from everyday life. In Ciudad Juarez, the most murderous city in the world, street markets and malls remain open; Sarah Brightman sang a concert there recently. When I was back there last month, people had reappeared at night to eat dinner and socialise, out of devil-may-care recklessness and exhaustion with years of self-imposed curfew. Before, there had been an eerie quiet at night, now there is an even eerier semblance of normality – punctuated by gunfire.
On the surface, the combatants have the veneer of a cause: control of smuggling routes into the US. But even if this were the full explanation, the cause of drugs places Mexico's war firmly in our new postideological, postmoral, postpolitical world. The only causes are profits from the chemicals that get America and Europe high...
BBCWorldBBC Global News Chinese state media reports artist Ai Weiwei released on bail after confessing to tax evasion and as he suffers from chronic disease, AFP
"Been a long time since I made a true foundation-styled mix, so really wanted to do one again. Had an idea of combining a whole bunch of (early) roots tunes with their deejay cuts by a variety of singers, groups and deejays. This is the result, well-known tunes with lesser known deejay cuts, well known deejay cuts with lesser known vocal efforts and I guess everything in between. Main selection criterium was: good music. Setlist would probably look different tomorrow, but this is what I came up with this time. Big music, in late 60s to mid 70s style (although some deejay cuts might be recorded somewhat later), enjoy the riding of the riddims!" (BMC)
1a) Marcia Griffiths - Working To The Top (1) 1b) Count Machuki - Dr. Sappa Too (1) 2a) Lloyd Charmers - What Can I Do (XYZ) 2b) U Roy - Officially (XYZ) 3a) The Maytones - Black And White (2) 3b) Cat Campbell - President In School (3) 4a) Jimmy London - A Little Love (Impact) 4b) Dr. Alimantado - Mary Lou (Impact) 4c) Peter Tosh - A Little Melodica (Impact) 4d) Impact Allstars - A Little Version (Impact) 5a) Eric Donaldson - Lonely Nights (2) 5b) U Roy - On Top Of The Peak (3) 6a) Clancy Eccles & The Dynamites - The World Needs Loving (4) 6b) King Stitt - Jump for Joy (5) 7a) Carl Dawkins - Get Together (Techniques) 7b) Carl Dawkins & Tony - Get Together (Techniques) 7c) Version (Techniques) 8a) Keith Hudson - Rudy Hot Stuff (Mafia) 8b) I Roy - Hot Stuff (Mafia) 9a) Claudius Linton - Crying Time (Outa National Music) 9b) Prince Heron - Crying In Babylon (Outa National Music) 9c) Soul Syndicate - Crying Dub (Outa National Music) 10a) Burning Spear - Door Peeper (6) 10b) Prince Jazzbo - Imperial I (7) 11a) The Abyssinians - Declaration of Rights (8) 11b) Sir Harry - Musical Rights (Clinch) 12a) Errol Gordon - Reggae Music (9) 12b) Jah Woosh - Reggae Music (9) 12c) Errol Gordon - Reggae Music Version (9) 13a) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Trenchtown Rock (Trax On Wax 10") 13b) U Roy with Bob Marley & The Wailers - Kingston 12 Shuffle (Trax On Wax 10") 13c) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Grooving KGN 12 (Trax On Wax 10") 14a) Ken Boothe - Black Gold & Green (Soul Beat) 14b) I Roy - Red Gold & Green (Soul Beat) 15a) Gregory Isaacs - Thief A Man (10) 15b) Dr. Alimantado - Gimme Mi Gun (11) 16a) Eric Donaldson - Love Of The Common People (12) 16b) Dennis Alcapone - Alcapone Guns Don't Argue (13) 17a) Junior Byles - Curly Locks (Clocktower) 17b) Johnny Lover - Ital Locks (Clocktower) 17c) Vital Drums (Clocktower) 18a) Derrick Harriott - Do I Worry (14) 18b) Scotty - I Worry (15) 19a) Horace Andy - Don't Think About Me (I Am Alright) (Mafia) 19b) Big Youth - Can You Keep A Secret (Mafia) 19c) Chuckles - Melody Maker Version 2 (Mafia) 20a) Heptones - Love Without Feeling (Moodisc) 20b) Big Joe & Mudie's All Stars - Lick Them Face (Moodisc) 20c) Mudie's All Stars - Dub Them Face (Moodisc) 21a) Larry Marshall - Mean Girl (16) 21b) Prince Far I - Natty Farmyard (17) 22a) Gregory Isaacs - Loving Pauper (Jahara) 22b) I Roy - Pauper And The King (Jahara) 23a) Dennis Brown - Baby Don't Do It (18) 23b) Lone Ranger - Monkey Sue (18)
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A British politician has called the Australian Government's chief climate change adviser, Professor Ross Garnaut, a fascist.
Footage has been posted on the internet of a speech Lord Christopher Monckton gave to a conference in Los Angeles earlier this month.
In it he displayed a Nazi swastika next to a quote from Professor Garnaut.
Lord Monckton compared statements made by Adolf Hitler to Professor Garnaut's suggestion that people should accept the mainstream science of climate change.
"That again is a fascist point of view, that you merely accept authority without question. Heil Hitler, on we go," he said.
The Scottish peer is scheduled to speak at the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) conference in Perth next week.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, who met Lord Monckton last year, will also address the AMEC conference along with independent MP Rob Oakeshott and Liberal Senator Mathias Cormann.
Lord Monckton, a one-time adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, is known around the world for his argument that humans are not damaging the climate.
Last year he told a Canberra audience that proponents of climate change wanted to establish a "world government... that would have shut down democracy worldwide".
On Tuesday night, Professor Garnaut criticised the Federal Opposition's climate policy stance, saying "bitterness and rancour" had arisen in the debate.
He dismissed the Coalition's stance to take direct action, saying carbon pricing "happens to be the low-cost way of meeting national targets".
"If countries want to shoot themselves in the foot by doing things in an expensive way they are free to do so. We would be foolish also to meet our targets in an expensive way," he said.
"There is no reason that carbon pricing should be a matter of partisan political division in Australia - and it wasn't only a few years ago."
He alluded to nations like Britain and New Zealand that have conservative governments and emissions trading schemes, saying action on climate change should transcend political boundaries.
"In much of the world, perhaps everywhere except in contemporary Australia and the United States, concern for global warming is a conservative as much as a social democratic issue," he said.
@'ABC' The man is a complete fugn moron, bankrolled by Gina again no doubt...
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