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Monday, 13 February 2012
Barak: make peace with Palestinians or face apartheid
Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, last night delivered an unusually blunt warning to his country that a failure to make peace with the Palestinians would leave either a state with no Jewish majority or an "apartheid" regime.
His stark language and the South African analogy might have been unthinkable for a senior Israeli figure only a few years ago and is a rare admission of the gravity of the deadlocked peace process.
There have been no formal negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in more than a year, but Barak was speaking at a rare joint event with the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, as part of an annual national security conference in the Israeli city of Herzliya. The pair shook hands and both were warmly applauded.
Barak, a former general and Israel's most decorated soldier, sought to appeal to Israelis on both right and left by saying a peace agreement with the Palestinians was the only way to secure Israel's future as a "Zionist, Jewish, democratic state".
"As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic," Barak said. "If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state."
He described Israel and the Palestinian territories as the historic "land of Israel" to which Israelis had a right.
"We have to demarcate a border within the land of Israel," he said.
"We have a linkage, we have a right, but the reality of standing on the stage of history in realistic terms requires us to pay attention to international constraints." Barak is in a delicate political position. He leads the Labour party, supposedly a centre-left movement, but accepted a position in a rightwing coalition under Binyamin Netanyahu, a decision that split his party.
Though Barak articulates a willingness for peace talks, he represents a government that has defied US and Palestinian calls for a full settlement freeze as a prelude to any negotiations. He was also defence minister during last year's Gaza war in which nearly 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.
The Herzliya conference has echoed Israeli concerns about growing international criticism, particularly in the year since Gaza. Barak himself alluded to the danger that Israel might lose legitimacy if no peace deal was forthcoming. "The pendulum of legitimacy is going to move gradually towards the other pole," he said.
He acknowledged that Washington was pushing the two sides towards "proximity talks" but said this was "only an initial stage" before any return to full negotiations.
Fayyad, who has a limited political following among Palestinians, called on Israel to stop settlement building in the occupied territories and to halt military incursions in Palestinian cities as a sign of seriousness about negotiations.
"Things have to begin to happen in order to give the suggestion that this occupation is going to end," he said. "That Palestinian state is supposed to emerge precisely where settlements are expanding." Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has refused to start fresh negotiations with Israel unless settlement construction stops, in line with the 2003 US road map. Nearly 500,000 Jewish settlers live in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, even though settlements on occupied land are illegal under international law.
"How confident can we all be that once relaunched that political process is going to be able to deliver that which needs to be delivered, the permanent status issues and the key question of ending the occupation?" Fayyad asked.
Rory McCarthy @'The Guardian'
UN report accuses Israel of pushing Palestinians from Jerusalem, West Bank
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The Alex Ferguson guide to morals
Miss drug tests = ok
Sleep with your brothers wife for 8 years = ok
Sleep with pensioner prostitutes = ok
Don't shake one of his players hands = ban them for life
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Grateful Dead - Rockpalast (28-3-81 Essen)
Setlist:
Set 1
Alabama Getaway
Greatest Story Ever Told
Sugaree
Me & My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
Shakedown Street
Little Red Rooster
Althea
Looks Like Rain
Deal
Set 2
Samson & Delilah
Ship Of Fools
Estimated Prophet
He's Gone
The Other One
Drums #
Not Fade Away *
Wharf Rat *
Around & Around *
Good Lovin'
One More Saturday Night
* With Pete Townshend
# With The Flying Karamazov Brothers
AIR - 10 000 Hz Legend
Performers:
Jean-Benoît Dunckel
Nicolas Godin
Justin Meldal-Johnsen: Bass, Drums t1,3,5,10
Brian Reitzell: Bass, Drums t1-5,8-10
Annabel, Dunckel, Thomas: Handclaps t4
Corky Hale: Harp t5
Julia Sarr, Olyza: Backing Vocals t8
Jean Croc: Whistle t10
Tracklist:
01 [00:00] "Electronic Performers" (5:37)
02 [05:37] "How Does It Make You Feel?" (ft Roger Joseph Manning Jr.) (4:38)
03 [10:15] "Radio #1" (ft Jason Falkner, Ken Andrews, Roger Joseph Manning Jr.) (4:23)
04 [14:38] "The Vagabond" (ft Beck) (5:38)
05 [20:16] "Radian" (ft Barbara Cohen) (7:38)
06 [27:54] "Lucky And Unhappy" (ft Jason Falkner, Ken Andrews, Lisa Papineau) (4:31)
07 [32:25] "Sex Born Poison" (ft Buffalo Daughter) (6:19)
08 [38:44] "People In The City" (ft Jason Falkner, Ken Andrews) (4:57)
09 [43:41] "Wonder Milky Bitch" (5:50)
10 [49:31] "Don't Be Light" (ft Beck, Elin Carlson) (6:19)
11 [55:50] "Caramel Prisoner" (4:58)
Release date: May 28, 2001
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Sunday, 12 February 2012
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (Trailer)
'Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me' is a feature-length documentary about legendary Memphis band Big Star. While mainstream success eluded them, Big Star's three albums have become critically lauded touchstones of the rock music canon. A seminal band in the history of alternative music, Big Star has been cited as an influence by artists including REM, The Replacements, Belle & Sebastian, Elliot Smith and Flaming Lips, to name just a few. With never-before-seen footage and photos of the band, in-depth interviews and a rousing musical tribute by the bands they inspired, 'Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me' is a story of artistic and musical salvation.
(Thanx Stan!)
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All artists can deal with adversity. In fact they thrive on it. I've never met one yet who could deal with success.
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If We Don’t Get Serious About Protecting Our Digital Spaces, We’ll Get the Internet We Deserve
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Woody Guthrie Serenades New York City (1943)
While Bound for Glory would introduce Guthrie to a much broader audience than that which knew him only through his music, he was already something of an underground folk hero to what, in retrospect, feels like the early stirrings of the counterculture of the 1960s. A politically engaged — and occasionally enraged — artist, Guthrie crafted wrenching tales of loss and struggle, as well as paeans to romantic love and national pride, into some of the most enduring American music ever made. (At the time the pictures in this gallery were made, Guthrie had written and performed, but not yet published, the song that more than a few people believe should be the national anthem; namely, the simple, celebratory gem, “This Land Is Your Land.”)
Guthrie, an Oklahoma native, had a strong connection to New York City. It was where he lived at various times in the 1940s, and made his first real recordings; where he wrote “This Land Is Your Land”; where he befriended and collaborated with other politically minded artists like Pete Seeger; and where his devotees — including the likes of Bob Dylan and the great Phil Ochs — later ignited their own Guthrie-inspired folk scene.
On assignment for LIFE in 1943, photographer Eric Schaal followed Guthrie as he gave impromptu performances around New York — in bars, on the stoops of brownstones, on the subway. Engaging, charming, and at ease, the Woody Guthrie in these photos is exactly where he most liked to be: among the people, guitar in hand.
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Spaceboy - This one's for you!!!
“What day is it,?" asked Pooh.
"It's today," squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite day," said Pooh.”
"It's today," squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite day," said Pooh.”
Now let's get out of here and get up to some mischief!!!
Einstürzende Neubauten - Palast Der Republik (4/11/04)
This performance was filmed on November 4, 2004 at the Palast der Republik in Berlin, the former Parliament building and symbol of the no longer extant DDR (East Germany). Einstürzende Neubauten found the steel skeleton of the ruins of the Palast a congenial location for their architectural-musical fantasies and field studies. Accompanied by a 100 member choir, recruited from the supporters of the www.neubauten.org Internet project, they played in and with the building in their inimitable, almost literally building-collapsing fashion. Contains previously unreleased songs, band commentary and more.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Hurricane Festival (Sheessel Germany June 19th 2009)
With the magnificent Ed Kuepper on guitar!
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