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Saturday, 8 January 2011
2012 Australian of the Year Awards
As foreshadowed after missing out in the 2011 Awards selection process, Assange has now been formally re-nominated for the 2012 Australian of the Year Awards.
The nomination was made on 8 January 2011. The nomination reference is: 2012-1318.
You may use this reference number to submit supporting materials which you deem appropriate, before 31 August 2011, to the National Australia Day Council at: awardsinfo@australiaday.org.au
Germans back in for Babel
Skysports.com understands Hoffenheim are trying to lure Ryan Babel away from Liverpool.The Bundesliga side have held a long-term interest in Babel and have made moves to sign the Dutchman in the last two transfer windows.
Babel's future at Liverpool has again been the subject of conjecture with the 24-year-old failing to establish himself in Roy Hodgson's plans.
The former Ajax man has made just one Premier League start this season and Liverpool are thought to be open to offers for Babel.
Birmingham are also keen on Babel and are believed to have had a loan bid rejected for the forward.
Hoffenheim are thought to be ready to make a bid to sign Babel on a permanent basis as doubts surround the future of Demba Ba.
Any move for Babel depends on Liverpool being able to bring in a replacement as Hodgson does not want to leave himself short of options with the under-fire Reds boss already lacking strength in-depth in attack.
@'Sky'
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Friday, 7 January 2011
Heroes
I can remember
Standing
By the wall
And the guns
Shot above our heads
And we kissed
As though nothing could fall
And the shame
Was on the other side
Oh we can beat them
For ever and ever
Then we can be Heroes
Just for one day
Illustration: (the ever wonderful) 'exiledsurfer'
Algeria youths riot for second night
Algerian youths have rioted for a second night across the capital, Algiers, and in several other cities.
The riots have been linked to rising food prices, housing shortages, and wider social and political grievances.A BBC correspondent says Algiers has emptied out in the late afternoon over the last two days, before rioters take to the streets, clashing with police.
The riots follow a period of rare unrest in neighbouring Tunisia, which has led to at least three deaths.
The BBC's Mohamed Arezki Himeur reports from Algiers that there has been sporadic rioting in Algeria since the new year, when the price of many food products increased sharply.
But the protests have intensified since Wednesday, our correspondent says.
Political frustration They also spread to Bab el-Oued, a working class neighbourhood of symbolic importance. It was at the centre of the protest movement in 1988, at the beginning of a period of unrest that led to an Islamist insurgency in the 1990s.
The riots are widely seen as drawing on deep frustrations with the ruling elite and a lack of political freedom, as well as more immediate concerns about the cost of living, housing, and jobs.
During the riots this week, youths have ransacked shops, lit tyres in the street, and hurled stones at police.
Security forces responded with tear gas and high-pressure hoses.
Rioting has also been reported in cities including Constantine, Oran, and Bejaia.
The demonstrations in Tunisia began after a man set fire to himself on 17 December in the Sidi Bouzid region to protest against the police confiscating fruit and vegetables that he was selling without a permit.
Protests are rare in Tunisia, where there are tight controls aimed at preventing dissent.
As in Algeria, the unrest has been linked to frustrations with the president and the ruling elite, as well as to concerns over jobs and living costs.
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إطلاق الرصاص على العزل في تونسTunisia Sidi Bouzid
إطلاق الرصاص الحي على المتظاهرين العزل من قبل زبانية نظام عميل إسرائيل المدعو زين العابدين بن علي زوج مصففة الشعر ليلى الطرابلسي
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Jamie xx in the mix for Benjii B
Jamie XX – In The Mix for Benji B, January 5 2011 (ge.tt)
Tracklist after the jump.
Timmy Thomas — Why Can’t We Live Together
Zomby — Tarantula
Jamie Woon — Night Air – Becoming Real Remix
Koreless — M.T.I.
James Blake — I Mind
Cassie — Must Be Love – Jacques Greene’s Marriage Proposal Mix
Mount Kimbie — Before I Move Off
Rui Da Silva — Touch Me – Chopped and Screwed
DJ Choko — Stealth Drums
Jamie xx — Far Nearer – The Knife Bootleg
Beach House — 10 Mile Stereo
Crazy Cousinz — Inflation – Chopped and Screwed
Tanya Stephens — Can’t Touch Me No More
Dj A B — Darbuka
Harmonic 313 — Problem 7
Lumidee — Never Leave You
Adele — Rolling In The Deep – Jamie XX Shuffle
Gil Scott Heron and Jamie XX — One Take
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Bradley Manning: The Forgotten Man
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A lot of attention has been given to Julian Assange of late, but another significant figure in the Wikileaks story is Bradley Manning -- the young American army officer who's alleged to have leaked the sensitive information to Wikileaks. Manning was arrested in May 2010 and is being held in maximum security isolation. If found guilty Manning could spend more than 50 years in jail.
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Iron And Wine (Live @npr's First Listen)
Back in 2002, Iron and Wine was a "band" in name only — a vehicle for the whispered acoustic bedroom recordings of a college film professor named Sam Beam. Beam's rustic musings sang of death and damnation, love and redemption, while packing a surprising degree of momentum and narrative thrust into what only sounded like gentle folk songs.
If it weren't for Beam's softly engaging croon, the Iron and Wine of the forthcoming Kiss Each Other Clean wouldn't always be recognizable to Beam fans from eight or nine years ago. For one thing, he's evolved into a full-fledged bandleader, following 2007's engagingly springy The Shepherd's Dog with a sound that feels fuzzier, even dirtier. The opening seconds of Kiss Each Other Clean sound like no preceding Iron & Wine record — "Walking Far From Home" swaps out the clean acoustic guitars for layers of fuzz and subtly processed vocals — though the album feels like a natural extension of its marvelous predecessor, and even lets rays of sunlight peek in during songs like "Tree by the River."
Like The Shepherd's Dog, Kiss Each Other Clean showcases Iron and Wine's subtly exploratory, even meandering side. But fans of the group needn't wait until the album's Jan. 25 release date to hear the new innovations for themselves: Wednesday afternoon, Beam and his bandmates appeared on WNYC's Soundcheck to announce a surprise live performance of the new album at The Greene Space in New York City that night — a concert you can now watch in its entirety or download as an mp3.
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The protest movement needs to expand now from the people who dodged our taxes to the people who stole our taxes: the banks & their bonuses
The Village Where the Neo-Nazis Rule
Horst and Birgit Lohmeyer have been working on their life's dream for six years, renovating a house in the woods near Jamel, a tiny village near Wismar in the far northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Birgit Lohmeyer writes crime novels, her husband is a musician, and both try to pretend everything is normal here in Jamel.
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Maximilian Popp @'Der Spiegel'
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach Live (unofficial)
'Plastic Beach Live' is a 2 disc compilation paying tribute to Gorillaz live in 2010. Disc 1 features the whole of Plastic Beach live including ALL the collaborators recording live (apart from Snoop who never performed WTTWOTPB live, but additionally including the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble on Broken and Plastic Beach) compiled from various gigs from the best possible sources. Disc 2 is the best recordings of the other 17 tracks performed around the world, featuring collaborators where possible. All tracks have been normalised for volume and are taken from the best sources available. Disc 1 is all from tv or radio - Disc 2 is more mixed, a couple of the tracks were taken from Youtube recordings and a bootleg. Thanks to Rust for the cover - other alternate covers are also available in the zip. Re-encoded only once more from sources, at 320kbps mp3. For all source info see the include release notes or click 'Read More' beloe.
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Both Discs as one Zip | Disc 1 | Disc 2
Disc 1
1. Orchestral Intro 2. Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach (featuring the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 3. White Flag (featuring Kano, Bashy and the Syrian National Orchestra For Arabic Music) 4. Rhinestone Eyes 5. Stylo (featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack) 6. Superfast Jellyfish (featuring De La Soul and Gruff Rhys) 7. Empire Ants (featuring Little Dragon) 8. Glitter Freeze (featuring Mark E. Smith) 9. Some Kind of Nature (Featuring Lou Reed) 10. On Melancholy Hill 11. Broken (featuring the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 12. Sweepstakes (featuring Mos Def and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 13. Plastic Beach (featuring the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble) 14. To Binge (featuring Little Dragon) 15. Cloud of Unknowing (featuring Bobby Womack) 16. Pirate Jet
Disc 2
1. Last Living Souls 2. Kids With Guns (featuring Neneh Cherry) 3. O Green World 4. 19/2000 (featuring Miho Hatori) 5. Tomorrow Comes Today 6. DARE (featuring Roses Gabor and Shaun Ryder) 7. Dirty Harry (featuring Bootie Brown) 8. El Manana 9. November Has Come (featuring MF Doom) 10. Doncamatic (featuring Daley) 11. Punk 12. Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head 13. Don't Get Lost In Heaven 14. Demon Days (featuring Bobby Womack) 15. Hong Kong (featuring Zeng Zhen) 16. Feel Good Inc (featuring De La Soul) 17. Clint Eastwood (featuring Kano and Bashy) Bonus tracks: 18. Clint Eastwood (featuring Snoop Dogg) 19. Clint Eastwood (featuring Eslam Jawaad) 20. Clint Eastwood (featuring Tinie Tempah)
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Romanian witches to cast anti government spell
Double double toil and trouble: witches in Romania are planning to cast a spell on the country's rulers today over new rules forcing them to pay tax for the first time.
Into their cauldron will go cat excrement and dead dogs rather than eye of newt and toe of frog. But they are hoping to put a Macbeth-style hex on president Traian Basescu and his government after the imposition of a new tax regime aimed at tackling Romania's recession.
Witches from the east and west of the country will gather on Romania's southern plains and the banks of the Danube to protest against new laws and cast spells against the politicians who implemented them.
A dozen witches will hurl the poisonous mandrake plant into the Danube "so evil will befall them", a witch named Alisia said.
The threatened curse is not being taken lightly in a country with a long tradition of superstition. Basescu and his aides have been known to wear purple on certain days in an attempt to ward of evil.
"This law is foolish. What is there to tax, when we hardly earn anything?" Alisia said.
The new law is part of the government's drive to collect more revenue and crack down on tax evasion. It will force the likes of witches, astrologers and fortune tellers, among others, to register their professions making them liable for 16% tax in line with other self-employed Romanians.
Queen witch Bratara Buzea said she will lead a chorus of witches in casting a spell using a concoction of cat excrement and a dead dog.
"They want to take the country out of this crisis using us? They should get us out of the crisis because they brought us into it," she said.
"My curses always work!" she cackled, according to AP.
Some argue the tax law will be hard to enforce, as the payments to witches and astrologers usually are made in cash and are relatively small at 20 to 30 lei (around £5) per consultation.
Such spiritualism has long been tolerated by the Orthodox Church in Romania. The late Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, had their own personal witch.
Mircea Geoana, who lost the presidential race to Basescu in 2009, performed poorly during a crucial debate, and his camp blamed attacks of "negative energy" by their opponent's aides.
Geoana aide Viorel Hrebenciuc alleged there was a "violet flame" conspiracy during the campaign, saying Basescu and other aides dressed in purple on Thursdays to increase his chance of victory.
They continue to be seen wearing purple clothing on important days, because the colour supposedly makes the wearer superior and wards off evil.
Martin Weaver @'The Guardian'
Thursday, 6 January 2011
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