There is a currency war raging world-wide.Japan, Brazil, Peru and countries all over the world are trying to beggar thy neighbor (just as happened during the 1930s) and gain a leg up for their exports by cheapening their currencies.As the Wall Street J…
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Did 9/11 Really “Change Everything”?
September 24th, 2010 |
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We’ve been told that 9/11 changed everything.Is it true?Let’s look:The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this)The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11. Indeed, former CIA director George Tenet said that the White Ho…
War would have “no limits”, Iran leader warns
September 22nd, 2010 |
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The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned that if the U.S. starts a war against Iran it will – in his words – have “no limitsâ€. He was speaking to American media representatives before his appearance at the UN Development Goals summit in New York.
War criminal no-show in court
September 21st, 2010 |
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Convicted war criminal Branimir Glavaš today failed to appear in a Bosnian court that was to consider his sentence. The former mayor of the Croatian town of Osijek and Croatian politician, who was found guilty in that country of committing war crimes against ethnic Serbs, also holds Bosnian citizenship.
Lady Gaga “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell†Speech Maine Equality Rally [VIDEO]
September 21st, 2010 |
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When she’s not wearing rotting meat to awards shows, pop star Lady Gaga is beating the drum for equality. The “Poker Face” sensation spent Monday afternoon at a rally in Portland, Maine, where she delivered a poignant speech outlining her opposition to the government’s 1993 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Policy,” prohibits service members from revealing whether or [...]
Indictment for Kosovo crimes issued
September 11th, 2010 |
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The war crimes prosecution has issued an indictment for nine members of the Šakali, or Jackals, paramilitary group for war crimes committed in Kosovo. The indictment states that the paramilitary unit members showed extreme brutality in committing crimes in the village of Ćuška.
Massive Attack: Help EP
September 9th, 2010 |
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NEW EP FOR WAR CHILD; NORTH AMERICAN TOUR WITH THIEVERY CORPORATION
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15 years ago Massive
Attack took part in the record breaking War Child
benefit album Help, and on the anniversary of that release they’ve announced a new fundraising EP to raise
money and awareness for the children’s charity. The EP will be released on November 1 and contains a film of “Atlas
Air”, two new remixes, plus a brand new track, “Redlight” featuring Guy Garvey. The 12inch vinyl – limited
to 1000 copies – comes packaged with a numbered screen print. War Child works internationally to provide aid to
children affected by war.
Massive Attack return to North America for some eagerly anticipated shows this Fall. The celebrated UK duo
comprising of Grant Marshall and Robert Del Naja and their formidable live band are readying
themselves for a coast to coast tour with Thievery Corporation, kicking off on October 18 in Montreal. Dates are below.
Massive Attack/Thievery Corporation North American Tour Dates:
October 18 Montreal, Quebec Bell Centre
October 19 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
October 21 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
October 22 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
October 23 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata
October 26 Miami, FL Bayfront Park Amphitheater
October 27 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
October 29 Atlanta, GA Fox Theater
October 30 Asheville, NC MOOG Festival/Asheville Civic Ctr
November 1 Dallas, TX Palladium Ballroom
November 4 San Diego, CA RIMAC Arena
November 5 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
November 6 San Francisco, CA The Greek
November 7 Los Angeles, CA The Gibson
EP (in Aid of War Child) Track List:
1. Atlas Air (Edit) Film
2. Atlas Air (Tim Goldsworthy Remix)
3. Redlight (featuring Guy Garvey)
4. Redlight (Clark Remix)
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The War On Drugs: Future Weather
August 31st, 2010 |
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NEW ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 26
 Future Weather |
The War On Drugs will
release their new album, Future Weather on October 26 (TBD in the UK). In the meantime, check
out the first single “Comin’ Through” here.
You can also catch The War On Drugs on tour
this fall at select dates in the Eastern U.S. including an appearance at Hopscotch Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina
September 9.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Come to the City
2. Baby Missles
3. Comin’ Through
4. A Pile of Tires
5. Comin’ Around
6. Brothers
7. Missles Reprise
8. The History of Plastic
TOUR DATES:
08/30/10 Brooklyn, NY- The Knitting Factory w/ Black Mountain
08/31/10 Brooklyn, NY- The Rock Shop w/ Light Pollution and Xylos
09/07/10 Charlottesville, VA- Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar
09/08/10 Charlotte, VA- The Milestone
09/09/10 Raleigh, NC- Hopscotch Festival w/ Public Enemy, Panda Bear, Bowerbirds
09/14/10 Asheville, NC- Grey Eagle
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Karzai: Afghan war strategy ineffective
August 31st, 2010 |
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has again harshly criticized coalition strategy for fighting Afghanistan’s stubborn insurgency. President Karzai said in a meeting Sunday with the visiting German Parliament speaker Norbert Lammer the current strategy has been “ineffective” and has not achieved anything other than “killing civilians.”
Dell, HP Stubbornly Raise Stakes in Bidding War for 3PAR
August 29th, 2010 |
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News Analysis: As Dell and HP keep stacking the cash higher in the bidding war for 3PAR, the question arises: What makes this small enterprise storage company worth it? – As the bidding for storage company 3PAR ratchets higher,
so does one question why are Dell
and HP willing to spend this much money for one fairly small
company?
My first thought was that maybe the two companies just
hate each other. I was having visions of a face-off under the hot Texas
su…
HP Now at $2B in Bidding War with Dell for 3PAR
August 27th, 2010 |
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3PAR received an offer from Dell matching HP’s $1.8 billion bid and accepts it, apparently ending the high-stakes bidding war. But HP isn’t done. – To say that modestly profitable utility storage maker 3PAR is a
company in the right place at the right time would be a massive
understatement.
The Dell versus Hewlett-Packard bidding war for the smallish Fremont, Calif.-based
enterprise storage company took two huge steps only minutes apart…
HP Enters Bidding War with Dell for 3PAR
August 23rd, 2010 |
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With its $24-per-share bid, HP ups the ante by 33 percent in an effort to acquire solid-performing storage company with scale-out architecture and a popular thin-provisioning feature. – 3PAR, a solid, consistently well-performing independent storage
company for the better part of the last decade, suddenly has a couple
of first-tier suitors interested in an acquisition.
Hewlett-Packard, despite already being loaded with one of the largest
storage product catalogs in the worl…
Fisheries biology: War dividend
August 19th, 2010 |
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The second world war led to a boom in North Sea fish numbers
SOME experiments are hard to conduct. Fisheries biologists are, for example, reasonably confident that creating protected areas in the sea, in which fishing is forbidden, encourages the recovery of those species that stay put in the area. This has worked in several places in the tropics, notably the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, where fish populations in protected zones have doubled in five years. They are less confident, however, that it applies to places where the fish of interest are migratory, as is often the case in temperate-zone fisheries like those of the North Atlantic and its adjacent seas.
Closing such places to fishing in order to find out is politically difficult. But 71 years ago politics did dictate one such closure, and a group of biologists, led by Doug Beare at the European Commission’s Office of Maritime Affairs, has now taken advantage of it. The closure in question was the little matter of the second world war, and Dr Beare and his team have been looking at its effects on the population of cod, haddock and whiting in the North Sea. …
The True Meaning of the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy
August 18th, 2010 |
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The Founding Fathers believed in freedom of religion, and tolerance of all religions. The Constitution enshrines freedom of religion.As such, anyone who tries to ban Islam as evil is anti-American.As Greg Palast argues, if we ban mosques because some M…
Ex-BFFs Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton turn ‘silent foes’ at Vegas party
August 17th, 2010 |
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Famously feuding ex-BFFs Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton continued their cold war at Lavo Las Vegas’ two-year anniversary party recently. Sources revealed that the pair, who usually can”t bear to be in the same VIP room, didn’t say a word to each other. However, their cold war continued. “When Paris decided to do an impromptu [...]
U.S. general: Progress in Afghan war
August 16th, 2010 |
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U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan General David Petraeus says he sees progress in the war, VOA reports. But he cautioned that the fight against the Taliban is an “up and down process.”
Apple iPad, Kindle, Nook War Could Kill Google Editions, Others
August 14th, 2010 |
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Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook and the Apple iPad are engaged in a three-way war for the e-reader market. But that conflict’s casualties could end up being smaller e-reader companies, Google Editions and Sony’s e-reader franchise. – With April’s release of the Apple iPad, along with the recent software and
hardware upgrades for both Amazon.com’s Kindle and Barnes amp; Noble’s Nook,
the battle for the e-reader market is well and truly joined. Each of those
three companies seems equally determined to match the others on a num…
Mladić secretly taped conversations
August 11th, 2010 |
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Ratko Mladić secretly taped his phone and direct conversations, and these recordings have been sent to the Hague Tribunal. The UN war crimes court has indicted the former military leader of Bosnia’s Serbs on charges of genocide and war crimes.