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Songs About People # 1,388 Duane Allman
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Wednesday 14 November 2012
Pirate’s Choice#362: Penny Reel Selection
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Jez Kerr - All The Things You Say
Tuesday 13 November 2012
John McAfee Wanted for Murder
HERE...McAfee's intensive use of psychosis-inducing hallucinogens would go a long way toward explaining his growing estrangement from his friends and from the community around him. If he was producing large quantities of these chemicals, as implied on Bluelight, that would also shed light on his decision to associate with some of Belize's most hardened drug-gang members.
McAfee's purported interest in extracting medicine from jungle plants provided him a wholesome justification for building a well-equipped chemistry lab in a remote corner of Belize. The specific properties of the drugs he was attempting to isolate also fit in well with what those closest to him have reported: that he is an enthusiastic amateur pharmacologist with a longstanding interest in drugs that induce sexual behavior in women. Indeed, former friends of McAfee have said he could be extremely persistent and devious in trying to coerce women who rebuff his advances to have sex with him.
McAfee: I’m Innocent
Post-Petraeus CIA Should Kill Less and Spy More, Former Chief Says
FBI Agent in Petraeus Case Under Scrutiny
Here’s the e-mail trick Petraeus and Broadwell used to communicate
Motives Questioned in F.B.I. Inquiry of Petraeus E-Mails
Paula Broadwell claims about Benghazi attack dismissed as 'baseless' by CIA
GusGus - Live on KEXP
Live at the KEX Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves '11. Recorded 10/12/11.
Setlist:
Selfoss
Arabian Horse
Over
Bonus:
GusGus live at the opening ceremony of the Reykjavik Concert Hall "Harpa", may 13th 2011.
Guest appearance by Högni Egilsson of Icelandic pop group Hjaltalín
Setlist:
Selfoss
Arabian Horse
Over
Bonus:
GusGus live at the opening ceremony of the Reykjavik Concert Hall "Harpa", may 13th 2011.
Guest appearance by Högni Egilsson of Icelandic pop group Hjaltalín
Monday 12 November 2012
Brent Stirton
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Paul Kelly & Neil Finn - Into Temptation
Two of Australasia's greatest singer songwriters Paul Kelly and Neil Finn, will bring their iconic songs on tour in February and March 2013.
Kelly and Finn will share the stage throughout as members of the one band, singing and playing together a selection from their rich and varied songbooks.
The concerts will be a family affair, with the line up to include Elroy Finn on drums and Dan Kelly on guitars.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday 16 November. All dates and details can be found here.
SAT 16 FEB / The Palais Theatre, Melbourne, VIC
MON 18 FEB / The Palais Theatre, Melbourne, VIC
WED 27 FEB / Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane, QLD
FRI 1 MAR / Adelaide Festival, Free Opening Night Concert at Elder Park, Adelaide, SA
SAT 2 MAR / A Day On The Green, Rutherglen, VIC
SAT 9 MAR / A Day On The Green, Armidale, NSW
SUN 10 MAR / Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW
MON 11 MAR / Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW
TUES 12 MAR / Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW
THU 14 MAR / Kings Park, Perth, WA
Australia and Obama’s return
The most immediate consequence of this for Australia is that it can enjoy the benefits of continuity. Significant amounts of time are lost as an outgoing president enters a “lame duck” phase and the new administration begins a steep learning curve. This has been avoided. PM Julia Gillard has an excellent relationship with President Obama, and she does not have to spend time waiting for and then developing a relationship with a new president.
Obama does not intend to make any drastic changes to his policy settings. The high value placed on the alliance with Australia will continue. The advantages – of support, intelligence and equipment as well as political access – will persist, but so will the downsides. Australia will continue to have to manage the knock-on effects of being so closely linked to the US. This includes the risk of being drawn into conflicts that could otherwise have been avoided, or fuelling the lingering perception that Australia is a reluctant Asian power...
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Nick Bisley @'The Conversation'
Rules for US troops in NT kept secret
Sunday 11 November 2012
Typefaces Created Entirely With Computer Codes
Using mathematical expressions and algorithms, ‘TYPE+CODE II’ represents a completely new form of typography that does not follow the centuries-old traditions of the typographic world.
Each a tiny piece of software, the letters in the collection are characterized by the highly structured, complex yet mesmerizing patterns that one would expect of computer-generated products.
According to the artist, not all of the typefaces are presented in full alphabetical sets as they “were created by using computer codes, which means [she] can easily switch any letter from A to Z through just typing in [her] computer codes”.
View more of these futuristic typography HERE.
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La Haine (1995)
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Takes me back to a great night about 8 or 9 years ago watching Asian Dub Foundation soundtrack this film on a beautiful summer evening, which was also my birthday, at the Myer Music Bowl here in Melbourne.
Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans
DeLara had searing memories of his combat experiences. A friend bled to death before his eyes. He saw an insurgent shoot his commander in the head. And, most hauntingly, he recalled firing at an Iraqi boy who had attacked his convoy.
The Army said it could find no field records documenting any of these incidents.
DeLara appealed, fighting for five years before a judge accepted the testimony of an officer in his unit. By then he had divorced, was briefly homeless and had sought solace in drugs and alcohol.
DeLara's case is part of a much larger problem that has plagued the U.S. military since the 1990 Gulf War: a failure to create and maintain the types of field records that have documented American conflicts since the Revolutionary War.
A joint investigation by ProPublica and The Seattle Times has found that the recordkeeping breakdown was especially acute in the early years of the Iraq war, when insurgents deployed improvised bombs with devastating effects on U.S. soldiers. The military has also lost or destroyed records from Afghanistan, according to officials and previously undisclosed documents.
The loss of field records — after-action write-ups, intelligence reports and other day-to-day accounts from the war zones — has far-reaching implications. It has complicated efforts by soldiers like DeLara to claim benefits. And it makes it harder for military strategists to learn the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan, two of the nation's most protracted wars.
Military officers and historians say field records provide the granular details that, when woven together, tell larger stories hidden from participants in the day-to-day confusion of combat.
The Army says it has taken steps to improve handling of records — including better training and more emphasis from top commanders. But officials familiar with the problem said the missing material may never be retrieved.
"I can't even start to describe the dimensions of the problem," said Conrad C. Crane, director of the U.S. Army's Military History Institute. "I fear we're never really going to know clearly what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan because we don't have the records..."
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Don't Get Me Started - Stewart Lee: What's So Wrong About Blasphemy?
Stewart Lee talks about blasphemy and how religions deal with criticism.
Talking to various commentators, including Liberty director Shami
Chakrabarti, journalist Polly Toynbee and writer Alan Moore.
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