Friday, 21 February 2014

A day in the life of the Abbott Government:

11AM.
Hockey: 'Australia running out of money to pay for Medicare/welfare/education'
3PM.
$4bn acquisition of eight P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft

The Pogues In Paris: 30th Anniversary concert at the Olympia 11&12/9/12

00:00 Intro
02:50 01. Streams of Whiskey
05:55 02. If I Should Fall From Grace With God
08:40 03. The Broad Majestic Shannon
11:40 04. Greenland Whale Fisheries
14:35 05. A Pair of Brown Eyes
18:25 06. Tuesday Morning
22:45 07. Kitty
26:25 08. The Sunnyside of the Street
30:15 09. Thousands are Sailing
35:45 10. Repeal of the Licensing Laws
38:50 11. Lullaby of London
42:35 12. The Body of An American
47:45 13. Young Ned of the Hill
51:35 14. Boys From The County Hell
54:35 15. Dirty Old Town
58:40 16. Bottle of Smoke
01:02:10 17. The Sicked Bed of Cuchulainn

Unfortunately part 2 has been blocked

Maria Alyokhina: Sochi Under Siege

What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music

What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music explores the challenges that a life in music can bring. Shot at the 2013 Red Bull Music Academy in New York by award-winning director Ralf Schmerberg, and produced by his Berlin based artist collective Mindpirates, What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music delves deeply into the many challenges, stages of development and triumphs that musicians experience. Featuring the likes of Brian Eno, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers, Skream, Richie Hawtin and James Murphy, it seeks to go beyond just music, and ask questions about life itself.
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Corrine Grant: Where The Eff Is The Opposition?

"...Ironically, according to Radio National, Iran is now officially complaining that it was one of their citizens that was killed in the Australian-run Manus Island detention centre. Tanya Plibersek thought that was a ‘bit rich’ considering that Iran is well known for trampling the human rights of their own people.
Plibersek’s argument is a little bit like saying ‘Oh come on, he was going to die anyway, who cares where? I know Australia locked him up and then someone killed him, but at least he didn’t drown at sea’.
Surely no-one could still be buying the whole ‘we just don’t want to see people drown’ bullshit. If you care that much about them, why lump them in facilities where they get stoned to death and shot at?
None of this has anything to do with saving lives and everything to do with punishing innocent people because a small but apparently valuable percentage of the Australian public get off on it. That both major parties court the votes of those people makes my skin crawl.
The ALP has to change. It can earn itself some credibility by taking a stance, even if that means the short term pain of owning up to past mistakes and dodgy dealings. That would not only be the right thing to do, it is increasingly the only thing they can do if they have any hope of ever earning the respect of the country again."