Thursday, July 31, 2008

Promoting New Music Thor's Day 31st July

I Believe
by EddieFranklin

A song thats been in the works awhile.

Me, vocals
Me, guitars
Me, drums
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Beautiful Sunset
Zombies
by Revive

Uh oh... I'm afraid that this is a political song. Because I normally can't stand political songs and online debates that usually end up with both sides in a bad mood, I have chosen to not disclose my personal views (though there are hints in the lyrics...)

So when I was thinking up this one, I imagined it to be a hard rock track, but since that would absolutely not work for me (I can't play guitar or bass or drums, and the ones in GB sound kinda... crappy), I just said, "Screw it, I'll make it drum and bass!" So yeah, this is my first venture into D&B. I never really appreciated it until I heard some Pendulum at a dance party, and I think I gave myself whiplash from dancing so hard.

Anyway, enjoy, and keep political debates to yourself (Note that I made the title of this song plural to avoid any Cranberries confusions)
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Beautiful Sunset
Don't Mind Me
by Revive

Another track. I'm thinking of recording a track of me just playing this on the piano, because it's simple enough that I can do that (it's hard for me to play and sing at the same time unless the piano part is simple). It was hard to figure out how to alter the vocals to fit the song (by way of equalizer, etc.), and I'm still not sure if I got it nailed, so any feedback regarding that would be fine by me. And once again, enjoy.
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Takeaway
by Revive

This one took me a very long time to finish (especially when GarageBand unexpectedly quits on you MULTIPLE TIMES when you haven't saved in a while). Mainly what took me a while was finding a good time to record because... all the sounds in this song are from my voice. Don't believe me? Check this screenshot:

So that was a pain (in addition to trying to figure out a good title for this track), but I really enjoy this song and I hope you do too.
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Feel Better
by Revive

Hello, everyone! I'm still alive and competent. So basically, I have been enjoying my summer and still creating music. I actually finished this one a while ago, but I prefer to release new music in chunks rather than one every few weeks. So sorry for withholding music, but it's just how I do. I'm uploading four songs today and I have six or so more cooking, so in addition to "The Strangest Thing", I hope to have about twelve songs for my next album*. So enjoy this song and the others I will get up soon.

* (I like to play pretend that I actually have albums)

Headlines Thursday 31st July

Icy reality cools the climate cultists
Piers Akerman
DAILY, new evidence emerges to demonstrate that Climate Minister Penny Wong is wrong.

The latest blow to the Government’s apocalyptic prophet is news from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute that there is more ice than normal in the Arctic waters north of the Svalbard archipelago.

According to the Barents Observer there are open areas in this area in most years during July - but this year the area is covered by ice.

A fortnight ago a Norwegian research ship, Lance, and a Swedish ship, MV Stockholm, got stuck in the ice in the area and needed to be freed by the Norwegian Coast Guard.

While one ice floe does not amount to a mini-ice age, the dramatic evidence runs counter to the mantra of the climate warming cult which has claimed the Arctic is becoming progressively free of ice.

The mantra of less ice has long been coupled with the warning that rising sea levels will soon swamp coastal areas and both claims have been used to heighten fears about climate change and add a greater sense of urgency to calls for action now.

It follows last week’s revelation from leading US hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that even in a dramatically warming world hurricane frequency and intensity may not rise during the next two centuries.

Once again real time events and science have defeated Senator Wong and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, despite their constant refrain that human-induced climate change is already occurring and we must act now to protect our prosperity and way of life.

Not only do eminent and vastly more knowledgeable scientists say otherwise, they point out that if the Earth is to warm (naturally) by even one degree and if carbon dioxide levels increase, we will be better off, not worse off.
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Rearranging the colonial furniture
Andrew Bolt
BBC improves the Adelaide weather remarkably, but I always did love the tropics:
Beautiful Sunset
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Voight blasts Obama
Andrew Bolt
Jon Voight must have retired from Hollywood to dare write this:

If Mr. Obama had his way, he would have pulled our troops from Iraq years ago and initiated an unprecedented bloodbath, turning over that country to the barbarianism of our enemies. With what he has openly stated about his plans for our military, and his lack of understanding about the true nature of our enemies, there’s not a cell in my body that can accept the idea that Mr. Obama can keep us safe from the terrorists around the world, and from Iran, which is making great strides toward getting the atomic bomb. And while a misleading portrait of Mr. Obama is being perpetrated by a media controlled by the Democrats, the Obama camp has sent out people to attack the greatness of Sen. John McCain, whose suffering and courage in a Hanoi prison camp is an American legend…

This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.

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No water. No power. No cars
Andrew Bolt
Strange, but I don’t see world peace and a cure for all cancer on the list:

The Future Melbourne plan was developed by a reference group for the City of Melbourne municipality… hopes to increase the proportion of workers commuting to the CBD without cars from 72 per cent to 90 per cent… It proposes reducing residential greenhouse gas emissions by 35 per cent per capita by 2020 from 2000 levels… This would include slowing down traffic to 30km/h to make streets safer for cyclists… One of the 152 targets in the plan is to have a 24-hour stimulating and safe city...
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Gas on about that clean coal
Andrew Bolt
When our politicians swear we can have “clean coal” technology that will slash our emissions without pain, they are thinking of a dream that just died in New York.
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SYMBOL BECOMES
Tim Blair
Humble candidate Barack Obama—He bows to nobody in his understanding of this world!—piles on the modesty:
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.
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NAMES REPULSIVE
Tim Blair
Stu H., a leading figure in the Australian Media Reform Movement, writes:
Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt...Even their names repulse me. “No, they’re not not Journos!” I scream, to anybody that cares. In fact they’re far worse. They’re right wing columnists at Murdoch’s Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and Melbourne’s Herald Sun respectively. Nothing seems sacred for these two men ...
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NOBODY WANTS TO MARRY A POTTYMOUTH
Tim Blair
Feminist bloggers get some coveted New York Times ink—but then discover, to their horror, they’ve been buried in the girly Fashion & Style section. Outrage follows, much of it extremely unladylike. Further from Rachel Lucas.
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OBAMA’S ENEMIES
Tim Blair
Uganda’s Charles Onyango Obbo:
According to opinion polls and word on the streets, if the November US presidential elections were to be decided by non-Americans, Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama would beat the Republican’s John McCain with about 90 per cent of the vote.
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SCOOP
Tim Blair
Apparently children need love. Who knew?
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Petrol on Rudd’s FuelWatch fire
Andrew Bolt
I hope the personal reasons aren’t serious - not as serious as the resignation is for a Government that doesn’t need more attention on its spinning on petrol prices:

AUSTRALIA’S first petrol commissioner has resigned less than three months after taking on the job of holding retailers to account.
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Bangladesh growing, warming hype receding
Andrew Bolt
Al Gore wept for the people of Bangladesh, millions of whom would be made homeless - he claimed - as global warming caused rising seas that would drown their low-lying country.

Small problem. Bangladesh is not sinking, but growing:

New research shows Bangladesh may not be as vulnerable to rising sea levels caused by climate change as previously feared, scientists in Dhaka say.

They say satellite images show the country’s landmass is actually growing because of sediment dumped by rivers.
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It’s not just the cooling that contradicts the IPCC
Andrew Bolt
Christopher Monckton, in between tearing Gavin Schmidt of RealClimate to bits, lists all the climate changes the IPCC’s alarmist global warming models failed to predict:

The models had not projected the current multidecadal stasis in “global warming”: no rise in temperatures since 1998; falling temperatures since late 2001; temperatures not expected to set a new record until 2015 (Keenlyside et al., 2008). Nor (until trained ex post facto) did they predict the fall in TS from 1940-1975; nor 50 years’ cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the behavior of the great ocean oscillations (Lindzen, 2007), nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the decline since 2000 in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solanki et al., 2005); nor the consequent surface “global warming” on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune’s largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily-continuing 2006 solar minimum; or the consequent, precipitate decline of ~0.8 °C in surface temperature from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.
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Labor’s judge makes usual suspect happy
Andrew Bolt
Attorney General Robert McClelland yesterday assured us that his pick as Chief Justice for the High Court was “a black letter lawyer” who stuck by the letter of the law. In other words, he wouldn’t be reinterpreting the law wildly in favor of the Left. So why is Richard Ackland today gloating?

But this is not what Justice (Robert) French thinks he is. If you travel to a little talk he gave at this year’s constitutional law conference in Sydney you’ll see he has other ideas.

The title of his paper was “Judicial Activists - Mythical Monsters?” and he was speaking in reply to Janet Albrechtsen, a newspaper columnist who ... frequently sounds the alarm about the evils of judicial activism. Justice French declared it to be “a meaningless rubric”.
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China censors, IOC already buckling
Andrew Bolt
If you give the Olympics to a totalitarian giant, it’s no good later claiming you’re surprised when it acts like ... a totalitarian:

COMMUNIST officials have outraged the International Olympic Committee and the world’s media by barring unfettered access to the internet - reneging on a key pre-Games promise to open China’s doors to the world…

International media were yesterday unable to access websites connected to the Falun Gong, Amnesty International or the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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Dam Flannery wrong again
Andrew Bolt
Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery seized on Perth’s falling dam levels to flog his global warming scare:

Perth will become a ghost city within decades as rising global temperatures turn the wheatbelt into a desert and drive species to the brink of extinction, a leading Australian scientist warns.
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The Age misreads ice sheets and Turnbull
Andrew Bolt
The Age wants the Liberals to get a new leader who is more in line with its global warming hysteria, after Brendan Nelson’s attempt to harden his line against Labor’s emissions trading scheme was defeated by his shadow cabinet :

This week’s defeat for Dr Nelson is unarguably a win for leadership contender Malcolm Turnbull.
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So was Bob Hawke
Andrew Bolt
Arrogance is an overrated vice in a politician, so there’s little comfort for the Liberals in an article headlined ”Likeable Rudd growing arrogant”:

Before the election, Mr Rudd was seen as only half as arrogant as Mr Howard. In March, he was seen as much less arrogant than Dr Nelson, only 33 per cent considering him arrogant against Dr Nelson’s 48per cent. Last weekend, Mr Rudd’s arrogance rating rose 10 points to 43 per cent, while Dr Nelson’s fell six points to 42 per cent.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Promoting New Music Woden's Day 30th July

Happy Birthday RMMB. I made the video for Hallelujah as a gift ;)
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Beautiful Sunset
Theme for the Unknown Man
by ShadowofNine

Originally I was developing a theme for spoken word, however this piece did not seem appropriate for that purpose. Recently near where I live body parts have been washing up on shore, to this date no identification has taken place, they only know they are parts from several different males, Unknown persons...
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Beautiful Sunset
Spanish Romance
by EddieFranklin

A Classical Guitar Piece.
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Beautiful Sunset
Stop War - Have Mercy (Dirigent/Heightened)
by Heightened and dirigent

As always, Andreas keeps making music that is exceptional, unique, innovative but most of all - outstanding. It is always an honor for me to do something with Andreas and I hope everyone likes this version of Stop War - Have Mercy.

Music/Mix - Dirigent
Synths - Heightened

Original song can be found here
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Beautiful Sunset
One For My Baby (cover)
by becwil

Original by Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercier, 1943.

Last year, etgilles sent a vocal recording to me of his cover on this old classic. Inspired by his creative singing, I composed some music around it. et wasn't happy with his vocal and wanted to record it again. Recently he told me to go ahead and post the music, as he just couldn't get the vocal the way he wanted it. That's probably because my music is so out in left field. Anyway, I thought his vocal stylings made the tune and so, I decided to try to represent his voice with some synth sounds carrying the melody, et style.

(For a better sense of et's incredible covers check out his Sessions collection.)

art by: Brent Lynch (detail, treated & used without permission)
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Our Games
by signorina_oscurata

As it happens, my finished product really DOES benefit from a few days' solid effort. This is synth-ier than most recent stuff, but I'm really glad I went that way again. I think it's a solid tune.

Only loop used was drums. I am not a drummer, as evidenced in past (and forthcoming) efforts to percussify tracks that sound floppy without a solid beat. So hooray for free drum packs, huh?
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Beautiful Sunset
Song from a Secret Garden (1996)
by georgeptingley

I discovered this beautiful tune a few years back and have always wanted to orchestrate it. It was written by Norwegian composer Rolf Lovland. Listen closely and you will hear echoes of Faure's famous Pavane. I love this piece so much I may go ahead and orchestrate it a second time. Suggestions always welcome.

George Peter Tingley presents Rolf Lovland's beautiful SONG FROM A SECRET GARDEN (1996).
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[NEW] Vixen
by retrolust

from the upcoming 2008 album...

(all our new songs are tagged [NEW], please check them out)

Headlines Wednesday 30th July

Still waiting for Vietnam
Andrew Bolt
What you no doubt missed in the latest TV news report on Iraq:

July marked the lowest US soldier death toll since the start of the war, according to a USA Today tally.
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Far from model predictions. As for the CSIRO’s…
Andrew Bolt
Steve McIntyre notes a new paper which tests 18 years of predictions by global warming models against real-world rainfall and temperature. Result? The models are hopeless at predicting anything. From the abstract (Koutsoyiannis et al):

Geographically distributed predictions of future climate, obtained through climate models, are widely used in hydrology and many other disciplines, typically without assessing their reliability. Here we compare the output of various models to temperature and precipitation observations from eight stations with long (over 100 years) records from around the globe. The results show that models perform poorly, even at a climatic (30-year) scale. Thus local model projections cannot be credible, whereas a common argument that models can perform better at larger spatial scales is unsupported.
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The Jeremiah Wright of the SMH
Andrew Bolt
In the US, Barack Obama’s preacher, Jeremiah Wright, says white authorities deliberately introduced AIDS to blacks:

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
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No new constitution would have helped stop this
Andrew Bolt
What Kevin Rudd saw in Yirrkala last week gave him a dream involving more pieces of paper:

KEVIN Rudd today declared it was time to recognise the rights of indigenous people in Australia’s Constitution. In Arnhem Land for a historic cabinet meeting, Mr Rudd said the Government would “give attention to detailed, sensitive consultation with indigenous communities about the most appropriate form and timing of constitutional recognition”.
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Coffee is too social a drink for Starbucks
Andrew Bolt
Victims of a cultural illiteracy:

ALMOST 700 employees of the coffee chain Starbucks will lose their jobs on Sunday after the company yesterday announced the closure of 61 of its 84 Australian stores… The president of Starbucks Asia Pacific, John Culver, admitted: “I think what we’ve seen is that Australia has a very sophisticated coffee culture.”
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If Coates can’t get through, pity the spectators
Andrew Bolt
Not a promising start:

AUSTRALIAN Olympic Committee members John Coates ... had to spend his first night in Beijing at an IOC-assigned hotel instead of the athletes’ village, where he is the Australian chef de mission, because he could not get his accreditation validated at Beijing airport.
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Blame not Nelson but his colleagues
Andrew Bolt
Lenore Taylor is largely right - this is a mess:

BRENDAN Nelson has stepped back from a confrontation with leadership rival Malcolm Turnbull, failing to make good his promise to toughen the Coalition’s position on climate change and leaving open the chance of Senate negotiations over the Government’s emissions trading legislation…
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It’s George W. Batman
Andrew Bolt
FINALLY Hollywood makes a film that says President George W Bush was right.

But director Christopher Nolan had to disguise it a little, so journalists wouldn’t freak and the film’s more fashionable stars wouldn’t walk.

So he hides Bush in a cape. He even sticks a mask on him, with pointy ears for some reason.

Sure, when the terrified citizens of Gotham City scream for Bush to come save them, Nolan has them shine a great W in the night sky, but he blurs it so it looks more like a bird.

Or a bat, perhaps.

And he has them call their hero not Mr Bush, of course, or even “Mr President”, but . . . Batman.

And what do you know? Bush may be one of the most despised presidents in American history, but this movie of his struggle is now smashing all box-office records.

Critics weep, audiences swoon - and suddenly the world sees Bush’s agonising dilemma and sympathises with what it had been taught so long to despise.
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Earth cools, but professor overheats
Andrew Bolt
THERE was one bizarre flaw in Professor Barry Brook’s column on this page on Monday.

He sent us his salvo to prove I was wrong last week when I showed you seven graphs and said they proved the world wasn’t warming as global warming preachers had promised.

I was wrong, that is, to say that the world hadn’t warmed since 1998 and had slowly cooled since 2002, or maybe wrong to say it might matter.

And I was wrong to say the seas had fallen for two years, sea ice had grown, and the weather had not got wilder.

So the flaw in Brook’s response?

He didn’t dispute a single one of my graphs except for one - and even that he got completely wrong.

He didn’t address once the central argument - that the world simply isn’t heating as climate change theory says it should when man’s gases are increasing every day.
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No Anglo barristers instead
Andrew Bolt
Heard it all? Then hear this:

A BARRISTER has tried to exclude Greeks from being jurors in a Victorian rape trial because of a “common misunderstanding” they like anal sex.
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Pearman’s warm herring
Andrew Bolt
Graeme Pearman, global warming alarmist and academic, was asked last night on Lateline about my claims that the world hasn’t warmed over the past decade, and in fact has cooled in recent years.

His answer? Watch for the dodge and cherry-pick:

Reporter: Graeme Pearman says that the data from Britain’s Hadley Centre provides no evidence that the world is getting cooler.
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Exaggerators: IPCC accused by its own
Andrew Bolt
IPCC external reviewer Dr Madhav Khandekar says the UN body has exaggerated the costs of global warming:

Using unpublished work to bolster claims of escalating economic costs while ignoring peer reviewed studies which document otherwise is an unacceptable and unscientific practice…
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BEST STORY YOU’LL NEVER READ
Tim Blair
Back in February, the New York Times ran an article suggesting romantic involvement between Presidential candidate John McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman. Considering how slight was the evidence, it’s surprising even the Times gave the story space.

Yet the same newspaper – and many other newspapers across the US – won’t mention a far juicier current sex scandal involving former Democrat vice-presidential candidate John Edwards and alleged “filmmaker” Rielle Hunter (birth name: Lisa Druck).
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WORKERS CLUMSY
Tim Blair
Reuters reports:
An explosion in a Hamas training camp in the Gaza Strip injured four militants on Tuesday, Palestinian security sources said.

The Islamist group did not blame anyone for causing the blast at a base near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, and local residents said it may have been related to a work accident.
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INEXPERIENCE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN
Tim Blair
An ideal VP for Barack Obama:
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has told close associates that he has had “very serious” conversations with Sen. Barack Obama about joining the Democratic presidential ticket ...

Kaine remains popular in Virginia, but he has had trouble dealing with Republicans and has no single defining achievement to point to on the campaign trail.
Popular but non-achieving; Kaine almost out-qualifies alleged prayer-leaker Obama himself. Why, the only better running mate would be media-proof John Edwards.
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ONE THOUSAND STORES ERASED
Tim Blair
According to the SMH, Starbucks operates ...
... more than 16,000 stores around the world ...

But times are tough for the once-omnipresent coffee chain. Only eight paragraphs later:
Starbucks operates more than 15,000 coffee shops around the world.
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PROBLEM FIXED
Tim Blair
Warmenist czar Ross Garnaut predicts:
“South Australia will be hit harder than other parts of Australia if we don’t fix the problem,” Prof Garnaut told reporters in Adelaide ...
Cue the coldening:
The city’s coldest July night since 1982 saw three flights delayed at Adelaide Airport this morning due to ice on the planes’ wings.
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BAGMAN
Tim Blair
“I’ve told a lot of people that I’m trying to save the plastic bag,” says Stephen L. Joseph. “They look at me with horror.”
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UNSELLABLE CARS SOLD SOMEHOW
Tim Blair
The Washington Post reports from Songjiang:
Nodding his head to the disco music blaring out of his car’s nine speakers, Zhang Linsen swings the shiny, black Hummer H2 out of his company’s gates and on to the spacious four-lane road ...

“In China, size matters,” says Zhang, the 44-year-old founder of a media and graphic design company. “People want to have a car that shows off their status in society. No one wants to buy small.”

There are now more Buicks—the venerable, boat-like American luxury car of years past—sold in China than in the United States.
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BABY STASI
Tim Blair
Hey, kids! Are climate crimes being committed in your house? Perhaps your uncles, aunts or friends from school are climate criminals.

It’s time to fight back, children. It’s time for ... the Climate Cops! Hit that link to join Skye, Will, Oscar, K’eyush and Poochie in their hunt for bad boys.

Hallelujuah (Cohen by Ball 2008)


Music at Icomps
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The myspace video is higher definition
Check out this video: Hallelujah (Cohen by Ball)


Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah x 4

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, x 4

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, x 4

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, x 15

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

In Focus, The Myanmar Disaster

Beautiful Sunset
Mission work reaffirms our faith in god. It is a privilege to serve god. As we obey him, we also see his faithfulness in provision of money through many believers, connections all over the world, and not only that, but also the joy of seeing ‘fruit’ of the labor in terms of people coming into the Kingdom and being established in newly planted churches.

Recently we were privileged to respond to a unique situation whereby thousands of people were driven into a catastrophic-outbreak that has created displacement, starvation, disease, sorrow and hopelessness. The generosity of the believers in Jesus family Centre as well as New Life Churches in New Zealand towards the Cyclone-victims of Myanmar is outstanding. As one local pastor put it,

“I’m really astounded by the heart of the people of JFC and NLCNZ, it is unbelievable! Thank you so much!”

Our ‘highlight’ for this month’s ‘FOCUS – Missions Newsletter’ is on the nation of Myanmar also known as Burma.

Myanmar
Beautiful Sunset
Myanmar or Burma, republic in South East Asia, is bordered on the north by China on the east by China, Laos, and Thailand, on the south by the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal and on the west by the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, and India. The country was known as Burma until June 19, 1989, when the military government changed its official name to the Union of Myanmar. The UN recognizes the name change, but many nations do not, including the UK and the US.

People
Beautiful Sunset
Myanmar is very diverse ethnically. Three fifths of the fifty five million people are Burmese (Bama) and another fifth are of related tribes. Most populous of these are the five million Karen, who (as Karen’s father knows) were named by their enemies for their fierce fighting, and now keep the name out of pride. Other tribes are the Chin, Arakanese, Kachin, Taungyo, Intha, Kado, Chaungtha, Lisu, Akha and the Rawang. There are also Tai, Chinese and Mon Khmer.

The government rules through suppression. Some of the ethnic tribes are resistant to the authorities and it is alleged that the government is willing for them to suffer from lack of aid.

Religion
Beautiful Sunset
More than eighty percent of Myanmar is Buddhist. Less than nine percent is Christian. Less than four percent is Muslim. There is a vast need for Burma to have the word and many are willing to listen.

Emergency Needs
Beautiful Sunset
There are many infants and need of milk powder, milk bottles and medicine. Tinned food, energy biscuits and drinking water bottles are in need. Water purification tablets are also in need.

Houses still need to be rebuilt, tools are needed urgently. It is really an emergency need as the rain comes very soon. Portable toilets, Detergents, soaps, hand winder torch-lights are needed. Bicycles and motorcycles, Surgical facemasks are needed. People continue dying because of snakebite, diarrhoea and cholera. Many of those are dying because they get very late treatment.

JFC’s involvement in Myanmar: Response to Cyclone Victims

Our Mission on behalf of JFC/NLC NZ have involved villages of Daung Gyi, Ka Tha Baung, Set Su, Ka Tha Min, Ti Tant, Kaw Hmu, & Kyi Su

We have, on the ground in Burma, Jimmy, Kenny & his Wife, Andrew and Saw Auvie (Jimmy and Saw Auvie were interrogated by the local authorities for more than three hours while they were on their way to one of the villages)

Due to the limited amount of support, the team has focussed on basic urgent needs of the people such as a shelter (approx. A$150.00 per family). Because the water was contaminated, water purifiers are in demand. In order to operate them, generators were much in demand and we were able to provide some generators to the people.

When Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, one of our church members ‘Elizabeth Philipsz’ was there. As she shared her eye-witnessed account of testimony on the phone, JFC had taken up a collection for Myanmar. Elizabeth came back to Australia a few days after with fresh reports as well as many photos that have touched the congregation deeply. Elizabeth decided to go back for a short trip to help administer the contribution that has been made by JFC and NLC NZ.

‘Focus’ had an interview with Elizabeth and the following is the extract of the interview.

E: God has given me some words from the book of Esther,

“Do you think you’ll be safe living in the palace while your people are dying?”. (Esther 4:13)

I was challenged deep inside my heart and in spite of the visa uncertainty and the Australian Government’s warning regarding potential out-breaks of disease, I decided to obey God. Over there, I was able to eat only biscuits and coffee for much of the time because of diarrhoea.

I met a Christian farmer by the name of ‘Saw Auvie’ whose village was devastated. Auvie is a leader among some other Christian Villagers. The most important thing for people like Auvie is diesel to run generators and seeds to sow immediately in the field, as the rainy monsoon has just started. The admin team has decided to help Auvie. In June, he and the villagers have ploughed and sowed over 1000 acres of rice. Auvie has further suggested that with the help of JFC, there could be a church plant through which non-Christian villagers can be reached.

Testimony
Beautiful Sunset
Saw Auvie was in a tree for three days because the ground was covered with water. Many have died because of injury and snakes bit some. An elderly couple that we met were caught underneath the piles from a house that had collapsed during the storm.

As we arrived in a small town a lady came out and shouted, “Christians are here to show God’s love. They never leave us. They love us”

Promoting New Music Tyr's Day 29th July

Beautiful Sunset
A Little Lapse of Memory - Take 2
by Sloparts

I posted a Remastered version of this the other day, and just pull it off because of some horrendous mixing errors in it. So here we go again, with the remastered, remaster, only this time it's a very much different mix where less is more and more is great. (I Hope)

So lets try this again shall we. All suggestions and comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated.

Thanks for you patience with the old codger on this side of the screen.

Be well and be Cool,

Ed
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Beautiful Sunset
Alien Proof....They are here for the Pizza...
by woodguy32

yes they are here.. somewhere on Planet NY

eating pizza...

wood
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Beautiful Sunset
Stop War - Have Mercy
by dirigent

I continue my serial "Stop War" with a track in which I use an old medieval prayer with the mantra-liturgical-word "eleison" which is old greece and means "Have Mercy".

Music, Vocals and Production by Dirigent

The melody is taken from a Bicinium of an unknown composer (11th or 12 th century)

The picture is taken from a press-report about German soldiers in Afghanistan ...
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Beautiful Sunset
Run
by Heightened and ShadowofNine

I had the fortune to catch Dave between songs for this collaboration so I sent him 3 tracks: using only two he came up with this bloody brilliant song. And he did it under 48 hours: unbelievable! What can I say, Dave has more talent in his pinky than I have in my whole, fat, over-bloated body on thanksgiving day!

Headlines Tuesday 29th July

Mad man can do stupid things
Piers Akerman
STATE Treasurer Michael Costa is entitled to challenge his critics but using his medical condition as a weapon in his battle to privatise NSW’s power generators is not on.

Costa, who never made a secret of his struggle with depression, declared that, while he may be mad his enemies are stupid - and there’s no cure for that.

There’s no doubting that the Treasurer has made a contribution to public life in NSW.

He is one of the few in State Cabinet to have ever exhibited any independence of thought, but some of his decisions have been little short of lunatic, and now that he’s raised the issue of his mental health, it is fair to ask whether his condition has been responsible for some of his more egregious decisions.

Take his spur-of-the-moment decision to fire former TransGrid chairman Philip Higginson in November 2006.

Higginson had served the company extremely well for 12½ years. He enjoyed a rolled-gold reputation in the business community (and still does) for good governance which he had built over 40 years in senior management positions in manufacturing and mining.

He had paid his dues as a good citizen, using his talents effectively working for such public institutions as the Botanic Gardens, the Conservatorium of Music, the Salvation Army and the University of NSW. Indeed there is no one in the current Government with a record to match his service to the public and private sector.

Unlike so many heads of quasi-government institutions, he was no toady. He fought an attempt by the Treasury, among the most politicised of government departments, along with health, education and transport, when it attempted to hide a $1 billion debt incurred by another state utility in TransGrid’s books.

He was shafted, however, when he refused to buckle to Costa and appoint a nominee favourable to the NSW ALP and the trade union movement to the board of the Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme (EISS).

In hindsight, his dismissal seems even crazier now than it did two years ago, because Costa was pushing the interests of his current opponent on electricity privatisation, Bernie O’Riordan, the state ALP and ETU boss.
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BABY STASI
Tim Blair
Hey, kids! Are climate crimes being committed in your house? Perhaps your uncles, aunts or friends from school are climate criminals.

It’s time to fight back, children. It’s time for ... the Climate Cops! Hit that link to join Skye, Will, Oscar, K’eyush and Poochie in their hunt for bad boys.
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PREACHY BORES BORING
Tim Blair
Peter Huber writes:
To judge by actions, not words, the carbon-warming view hasn’t come close to persuading a political majority even in nations considered far more environmentally enlightened than China and India. Europe’s coal consumption is rising, not falling, and the Continent won’t come close to meeting the Kyoto targets for carbon reduction. Australia is selling coal to all comers.
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UNPOPULAR FOR NOTHING
Tim Blair
The SMH’s Paola Totaro wastes twelve paragraphs telling readers that British PM Gordon Brown is unpopular—without offering a reason why this might be so.
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FIRST THEY KILL YOU, THEN THEY COMPOST YOU
Tim Blair
Glenn Garvin’s excellent review of a recent Penn & Teller warmy takedown ends with the spooky line: “I’m pretty sure I hear the Climate Police at my door.”
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BARACK W. OBAMA
Tim Blair
Change he couldn’t believe in:
Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged today that he had failed to understand how much violence would decrease this year in Iraq ...
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DAMIAN SIGNS OFF
Tim Blair
South Australian academic and conspiracy crackpot Damian Lataan rails against censorship:
It seems that only the rightwing are now allowed to comment on Tim Blair’s Blog at Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney Daily Telegraph.
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HOSPITAL BLOCKED
Tim Blair
An unusual definition of a hospital’s role, from Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins:
The Oscar-winning liberals recently attended a Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing to oppose St. Vincent’s plea to build a new, larger hospital on West 12th Street, three blocks from their home ... Sarandon said in a statement: “Improving the hospital is a great idea. However, this can be accomplished without compromising the neighborhood.”
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JEEPS WORTH SEEING
Tim Blair
The Age‘s Tim Colebatch urges readers to look right:
As the Liberal Party turns into a battleground between those who believe Australia should do its share to tackle global warming and those who deny that global warming exists, the graph at right is worth seeing.
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HAIL THE HAILMEN
Tim Blair
Faux snow in Sydney:
For the first time since 1836 it has snowed in Sydney - at least that’s what the locals are saying.

Meteorologists say technically it was soft hail, but that didn’t stop the locals making snowmen.
Technically they’re softhailmen.
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BIG BELIEVER BELIEVES
Tim Blair
Barack Obama ain’t so speechalicious without his teleprompter. Change of super-speecher into speech-mangler you can believe in! The blundering Berlin bedazzler lately finds himself grilled by a determined Modo:
I asked how his “Citizen of the World” tour will go down in Steubenville, Ohio.

“There will probably be some backlash,” he said. “I’m a big believer that if something’s good then there’s a bad to it, and vice versa.”
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JOKES MADE
Tim Blair
“I don’t see anybody else doing John Edwards/Rielle Hunter jokes,” emails Jim Treacher. “And for good reason, probably.”
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DOGS ARE GOOD
Tim Blair
DeusExMacintosh notes a refusal to acknowledge that there are genuine points of cultural incompatibility between British secular law and Islamic cultural practice:
Abuse and vilification of Muslims is a fact, but so is abuse and vilification by Muslims. Hostility seems to be part of the accommodation process for any large group of immigrants; in this case, however, a goodly part of the hostility is coming from the immigrants themselves, apparently in the expectation that the host culture will make all the changes and do all the accommodating.
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If Wong was in Brisbane, she’d spruik global cooling
Andrew Bolt
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong told me that the proof of global warming - in a decade of no rise in the globe’s temperature - was a drought in the Murray-Darling basin. But if the Rudd Government thinks regional changes in the weather are now proof of global temperature, what does it think this proves:

BRISBANE could be frozen by record low temperatures this week - with the mercury expected to fall to around zero degrees Celsius on Wednesday… Last July the mercury dropped to minus 0.1 degrees at Brisbane Airport - a record low for the Brisbane area.
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Hansen is the odd one
Andrew Bolt
Beautiful Sunset
James Hansen, Al Gore’s global warming guru, is coming under increasing pressure, as Christopher Booker reports:

There are four internationally recognised sources of data on world temperatures, but the one most often cited by supporters of global warming is that run by James Hansen of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

Hansen has been for 20 years the world’s leading scientific advocate of global warming (and Al Gore’s closest ally). But in the past year a number of expert US scientists have been conducting a public investigation, through scientific blogs, which raises large question marks over the methods used to arrive at his figures.
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Jane's last words for her 'champion' Glenn
IN a book to be released this week, the late Jane McGrath tells of her love for husband Glenn, their children, and her dream to grow old.
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Brave, bold … UPDATE Not quite
Andrew Bolt
Brendan Nelson should win respect, but many media commentators will be furious:

BRENDAN Nelson has secured the support of shadow cabinet for a tougher line on emissions trading that makes support for a scheme conditional on action by big polluters including China and India.
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McCain ahead, or Gallup behind
Andrew Bolt
It doesn’t sound quite right, but maybe voters are saner than I thought:

Newest Gallup Poll shows McCain insignificantly ahead.-- Yesterday the Gallup Tracking Poll showed Obama ahead by 9 points (49-40). Earlier today (Monday) that dropped to Obama ahead by 8 points (48-40). Both were of registered voters.
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The media gates less guarded
Andrew Bolt
Nine’s undermining of the legendary Laurie Oakes isn’t the only sign of the traditional gatekeepers of the Canberra press gallery losing their clout:

ALAN Ramsey, Fairfax Media’s long-serving Canberra political pundit, took a dramatic downgrade in The Sydney Moaning Herald on Saturday with his usual two-thirds of a page cut to just two half columns as Michael Duffy got the prime spot. Scuttlebutt in Canberra suggests Ramsey is the latest staffer to run foul of editor Alan Oakley.
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The rise of the Heating Youth
Andrew Bolt
Beware the eco-fascists, warns Dr Richard North:

Can I be the only one more than a little disturbed by the latest campaign to be fronted by energy company npower?
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Barbarians bred
Andrew Bolt
At some stage we will be finally scared enough to realise there is something profoundly wrong in the way we are socialising children - or failing to:

VIOLENT crime is at an all-time high in Victoria with assaults, robbery and aggravated burglaries soaring in the past year.
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Water wasted on humans
Andrew Bolt
Environment Victoria gives Premier John Brumby an excellent solution to the shortage of irrigation water that is driving farmers broke, and food prices up:

The Premier appears fixated on water infrastructure projects as the remedy to over-allocation, climate change and drought. He ignores the fact that buying back water for the rivers is the only demonstrated way to boost their flows.
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The Liberals are news because they are witches
Andrew Bolt
Gerard Henderson smells a witch-hunt:

The media’s focus on the Coalition with respect to climate change can be readily explained. First, the apparent difference between the Opposition Leader, Brendan Nelson, on the one hand, and Malcolm Turnbull and Greg Hunt on the other, gets noticed because it is viewed in the light of the current leadership tension within the Liberal Party. Second, the overwhelming majority of journalists who report politics and the environment are true believers in the humans-cause-climate-change thesis and maintain that Australia should take a lead in reducing carbon emissions. They hold to this belief irrespective of the position taken by the developed world (including the United States and Canada) and the developing nations (including China and India).

The level of intensity among those reporting and/or commenting on the debate is surprisingly high from members of a profession who traditionally pride themselves on scepticism, if not outright cynicism.
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Start arguing, boys
Andrew Bolt
The Liberals have a lot of arguing to do to back their new position on an emissions trading scheme:

But the latest Newspoll survey has confirmed widespread public support for an ETS, with 60 per cent of voters backing the adoption of a scheme “regardless of what other countries do”.
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Costello now the Liberals’ Messiah
Andrew Bolt
Lots of silver in ther lining for the Liberals. Brendan Nelson is making the hard policy decisions, and in the wings sits a Messiah ready to inherit all his hard work and none of his bruises:

PETER Costello is overwhelmingly the first choice among voters to lead the Liberal Party, as Brendan Nelson stakes his leadership on trying to delay the Rudd Government’s carbon emissions trading scheme....

Jonathan Harris: The art of collecting stories


At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and stories collected from the Internet, including his amazing "We Feel Fine."

Ravi Zacharias' talk, "Postures of the Mind, Affections of the Heart"


Here are two excerpts from Ravi Zacharias' talk, "Postures of the Mind, Affections of the Heart". For more Ravi Zacharias please visit, www.rzim.org
Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias (born 1946) is an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian apologist, and evangelist. Zacharias is the author of numerous Christian books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner Can Man Live Without God? and bestsellers Light in the Shadow of Jihad and The Grand Weaver. He is also president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, host of a weekly radio program, and visiting professor at Wycliffe Hall of Oxford, where he teaches apologetics and evangelism. Previously, Zacharias studied as a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and held the chair in Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at Alliance Theological Seminary from 1981 to 1984.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Haitian Occupation Of The Dominican Republic


A short Documentary I (PuntaCanatv) put together about the Haitian Occupation Of The Dominican Republic. Haitian troops
invaded 1822 - 1842 followed by two years of instability and the Haitian Civil War. The Dominican Republic gained it's independence from Haiti February 27,1844.

Music: Les Negresses Vertes,
Face a la Mer

Headlines Monday 28th July

Not a hero but more: a guardian
Andrew Bolt

There are many reasons to go see the new Batman movie - and Heath Ledger’s sensational performance at the the Joker is one of them.

The intelligent script, perhaps surprisingly, is another. The philosophical background - and, yes, it has one - is the distinction between seeming good and achieving it
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John Della Bosca, Belinda Neal rest easy
DUMPED minister John Della Bosca and his federal MP wife Belinda Neal have told close friends and colleagues they do not expect to be charged over the Iguanas nightclub scandal.

The Daily Telegraph understands the couple have reassured their staffers they should not fear for their jobs.

It is believed their legal team has advised them they are unlikely to be charged with perverting the course of justice or any other offence.
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Beautiful Sunset
Sunbathers ignore bodies of drowned girls on beach
Annika Burgess
There has been worldwide shock towards photographs published yesterday, showing sunbathers at a beach in Italy completely ignoring the bodies of two drowned girls beside them.

The photographs were taken on Saturday at a beach near Naples in Southern Italy – they show the bodies of two deceased young girls, covered by beach towels.

Sitting just metres away are sunbathers, enjoying the day at the beach.

It is reported that the bodies are of cousins, Violetta, 12 and Cristina, 13, who drowned when they went to the beach to beg and sell trinkets.

The photographer who took the photos told CNN the mood among sunbathers had been one of indifference.
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Actually, the Nazis would have approved
Andrew Bolt
Media With Conscience claims it’s all about speaking out against authorities, and quotes an heroic example of the perils of staying silent in the face of persecution:

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—...
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The less educated would surely be more moderate
Andrew Bolt
They’ll grow out of it, I’m sure - and let’s just hope they let the rest of us grow out of stuff, too:

A third of Muslim students in Britain believe killing someone in the name of religion is justified, a new poll claims…
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Seven graphs to embarrass a warming professor
Andrew Bolt
Professor Barry Brook heads Adelaide University’s research institute for climate change and sustainability. So when he sets about proving me wrong about man-made global warming
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America readies for its Rudd
Andrew Bolt
John McCain is looking very old - and seems to symbolise old, too, without managing to exploit many of the virtues that come with age. Like wisdom and experience. So I’m not altogether surprised to now read this:

Alan Abramowitz, a professor of political science at Emory University, Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution, and Larry Sabato, professor of politics at University of Virginia, accused the media of flogging a dead horse in trying to portray the presidential race as a cliffhanger.
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Is soft hail warmer?
Andrew Bolt
Typical. The Bureau of Meteorology quashes the lastest evidence of global cooling:

The Bureau of Meteorology says reports of snow falling in Sydney today are misleading… Peter Zemerski from the bureau says it was not snow, it was soft hail.
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You wouldn’t be bored if the end really was nigh
Andrew Bolt
Even The Age’s environment reporter is starting to sweat:

(L)ast week brought one of the more obvious indications yet of an affliction we will see plenty of over coming years: climate-change fatigue… Widely agreed to be the most important transformation of the economy in a generation, the fine detail of emissions trading bores people so much that it failed to entice a single talkback caller when Climate Change Minister Penny Wong was on ABC Melbourne local radio just five days after her blueprint was launched.
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When Hamas is a peacemaker, you’re in strife
Andrew Bolt
Now there’s a verb you don’t often see in a paragraph that also contains the nouns “Hamas” and “violence”:

THE Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is moving to suppress an outbreak of violence in the Gaza Strip that began at the start of the weekend and left seven people dead.
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Why weren’t you told this was coming?
Andrew Bolt
Now AP agrees about Iraq, too:

The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost.
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An affair of bias
Andrew Bolt
The media has different rules for politicians of the Left:

SCRATCH John Edwards off the list of potential vice-presidential candidates… Every supermarket shopper knows that the preternaturally youthful former senator for North Carolina may have fathered a love child with a film-maker while Elizabeth, his saintly wife, is dying of cancer. There are sensational new details on the National Enquirer website, although most of the media have done their best to ignore them…
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BingeWatch failed, too
Andrew Bolt
The Rudd Government gave just one reason for its huge tax rise on alcopops - that it wanted to stop teens bingeing on these satanically sweet drinks. Said Health Minister Nicola Roxon:

We think that this measure will have a health impact. That’s why we’ve introduced it.

Louise Leakey: Digging for humanity's origins


http://www.ted.com Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind -- and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing ancestors.

Prophecy: Islam and Satan - Walid Shoebat (Part 2)


Biography of Walid Shoebat

Born in Bethlehem of Judea, Walid's grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd's Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler.

Liberal Messages Monday 28th July

Leadership appointments for women should be based on merit
Ms Ley said the only way to promote true equality is to encourage merit based appointments, as having a quota system suggests that women cannot attain these positions based on their own credentials.

Rudd Government should reject CFMEU 457 visa proposal
The Coalition today called on the Rudd Government to reject the calls of the CFMEU for unions to vet 457 visa sponsors.

Solar inquiry starts today
More evidence of the harm being caused to the solar industry by the Rudd Government's solar panel rebate means test will be revealed today with the start of a Senate inquiry in Canberra.

Nelson interview with Charles Wooley (Macquarie Regional Radio)
Peter Costello, emissions trading scheme, trucking industry...

Turnbull Doorstop - Perth - CPI figures and ETS
We've seen in the inflation figures today the proof that the Budget, Mr Swan's Budget, far from putting downward pressure on inflation has in fact added to inflationary pressures.

Government tax binge pushes up inflation
Official inflation figures released today confirm that the Rudd Government and its inflationary new taxes are contributing significantly to the cost of living.

Inflation genie out of the spirit bottle
The Rudd Government's alcopop tax has had a direct impact on inflation with a 6.1 per cent price increase in spirits.

RTD tax fuels pressure on CPI
Today's inflation figures show the Government's $3 billion tax binge on RTDs in the Budget is adding to inflationary pressures in the Consumer Price Index.

Rudd must reverse anti-greenhouse gas reduction decision on India
Last night's vote of confidence in the Indian Parliament supporting an international agreement on the use of uranium for clean energy production means that Mr Rudd must now correct the snub to India by reversing his earlier decision.

Basics Card already obsolete
Following yesterday's unveiling of Labor's new income management card design to be implemented in the Northern Territory, Shadow Human Services Minister Helen Coonan has criticised the newly titled BasicsCard as ''already obsolete''.

Government admits concern over pressures on hospitals
The Rudd Government has admitted today they are concerned about future pressures on public hospitals.

Schools lose water funding under Garrett plan
Australian schools will effectively lose $20,000 from water-saving projects under a Rudd government scheme promoted today by Peter Garrett.

Nelson Doorstop - Sydney
Peter Costello, emissions trading scheme, federalism...

Julie Bishop Fairfax blog
The famous tribute to 18th century philosopher Voltaire - ''I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it'' - is as apt today as ever before.

Real policy initiatives must come from report on gender equality
Shadow Minister for Women, Sussan Ley, is urging the Rudd Labor Government to use the findings from a new report on gender equality to generate some real policy initiatives for women in Australia.

No case for increasing size of High Court
The Shadow Attorney-General, Senator George Brandis, today called on the Attorney-General Robert McClelland to put an immediate end to rumours that the Government planned to legislate to increase the size of the High Court from seven Justices to nine.

Landcare groups get another funding cut
In another blow to those working to restore and protect natural resources, the Rudd Labor Government has announced a mere $28 million in funding for Landcare projects across the country, well down on that planned to be spent by the Coalition.

Luxury Car Tax "a dog's breakfast"
The Rudd Labor Government's insistence that the proposed increase in the luxury car tax apply from 1st July despite there being no legislative basis has created "a dog's breakfast".

Clouds darken over Bracks' Review
Fears that this inquiry is stacked to tell the Government what it wants to hear.
Read more...

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Promoting New Music Sun's Day 27th July

Beautiful Sunset
RAMSEL - Vista #2
by RAMZAR and SELES

Archives always archives, Anto first take on board the sofa, before leaving the trash studio .....
I hope you like
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Beautiful Sunset
Vision
by dirigent and schubertiad

I've always admired, that Scott (Schubertiad) didn't shy at composing non-mainstream music in a kind of Hindemith-style. So I gladly agreed, when he asked me to sing a contemporary classical song he had composed: "Vision"
You find the score here:

Words, music and piano: Scott Villard (Schubertiad)
Vocals: Andreas Herrmann (Dirigent)
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Beautiful Sunset
A Little Lapse of Memory
by Sloparts

I forgot I first posted this song in August of last year as the recording I did in 1993. I thought maybe now that my memory about it has come back, and I have the capabilities to update it, I would go back in and redo the song.

So for your listening pleasure, (I Hope), here is "A Little Lapse of Memory",

Hope you do enjoy the new mix

Ed
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Beautiful Sunset
In My World
by mfwmiles

Take good Care of the one's you love
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Beautiful Sunset
What happened to my brain
by Sloparts

I've been playing in my little sandbox again, and this time I think the Zombies took over.

This is an experimental rhythm track I out together just to see what it would sound like. I liked it enough to post it for comments and a possible collaboration if anyone is interested.

What ever, enjoy the weirdness, it all I have left of my brain now.

Ed

Ryan speak out --- "Girls Suck"


From the VBlog of comedy genius Ryan of Rumble Pictures

Headlines Sunday 27th July

Rudderless euphoria
Piers Akerman
VETERAN social researcher, Howard-hater and Fairfax columnist Hugh Mackay was one of those euphoric about the election of the Rudd Labor government last November.

But Mackay acknowledged in a recent interview with the ABC’s Kerry O’Brien that such euphoria is unsustainable - a view Prime Minister Kevin Rudd seems to unable to entertain.

According to Mackay, voters “thought this was a government that was going to, if not perform miracles, then at least do something dramatic to the spirit of the nation.

“And things like Kyoto and the apology and the 2020 Summit - those big symbols early on - really stood as reinforcement of that rather euphoric expectation.’’

Euphoria, Mackay says, “by its very nature is ephemeral, and we’re already seeing it evaporate just a few months after the Government has come to office.

“Already, there’s some cynicism - certainly scepticism - in the community about whether the symbols are more significant than the substance, whether all this big-picture, statesmanlike stuff that fed the euphoria is gonna happen or not.’’

But it’s not a “few months’’ since the Rudd government came to office

It’s a week short of eight months, and all the public has seen is symbolic gestures: several bold statements that have then been whittled of almost all meaning by reference to committees and inquiries, or the announcements of initiatives that will not be taken until after another election, if then.
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CSIRO heavy: don’t trust CSIRO’s scares
Andrew Bolt
Art Raiche, former Chief Research Scientist of the CSIRO, says the organisation’s fear-mongering over climate change can’t be trusted:

Sadly, over the last decade, CSIRO has transformed itself from a once-respected research institute into a highly centralised, government enterprise (oxymoron?), replete with intersecting layers of expensive management, focused on continual reorganisation. Scientific independence has been lost…

For this reason CSIRO no longer attracts top young scientists except as an employer of last resort… It employs a much higher percentage of second and third rate people than was the case two decades ago. In short, much of CSIRO can now be regarded as a sheltered workshop.

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Oxygen for extremists
Andrew Bolt
The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, visits New Zealand at the first time to talk about trade and the fight to keep Afghanistan free.

Can someone explain to me why the ABC’s The World Today decided that the best way to mark this significant visit was to devote a long report to the juvenile rants of two members of the local rent-a-mob - spokesmen of the Auckland University’s Student Association and Global Peace and Justice?

These people represent exactly which fringe? And itsn’t this simply rewarding the usual campus airheads not just for their extremism, but their stunt-threats to “arrest” Rice for “war crimes”?
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GLOBAL PURRING
Tim Blair
It’s not enough that 1276 Queenslanders will be warmed to death. Now we must face this:
Global warming may boost kitten population
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SICK CULTURES CONDEMNED
Tim Blair
An ethical leftist is annoyed by my …
… dog-whistle chant about Western values.
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Drugs, weapons smuggling rife in NSW prisons
Hundreds of visitors to New South Wales prisons are being caught trying to smuggle drugs and weapons to inmates.
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Anna Wood's father enters politics
The father of Anna Wood, who died from an ecstacy overdose in 1995, is set to join politics as a candidate in Sydney’s local government elections.
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Minister takes mate on terrorism junket
DEFENCE Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has taken a close friend with no security expertise on an official visit to Turkey and Afghanistan.
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Jeff Kennett in gay football storm
By James Campbell
FORMER state premier Jeff Kennett has provoked a gay rights storm by backing a football club that sacked a trainer for being gay.

The Hawthorn president and potential Melbourne lord mayor sparked calls for his sacking after saying Bonnie Doon Football Club was within its rights to sack veteran trainer Ken Campagnolo after it found out he was gay.

"The club felt that once this had been pointed out and you had this gentleman there who was obviously close to young men - massaging young men - it ran an unnecessary risk and that's why it decided it was best that he not perform those duties again. So the club was trying to do the right thing," Mr Kennett said.
Beautiful Sunset
Bag snatch break-through
By Ellen Connolly
THIS is the woman wanted for questioning over a crime spree targeting patients at Sydney hospitals.

Police have appealed for information on the whereabouts of Alyaa Elali, who has allegedly robbed hundreds of people - many of them new mothers in maternity wards - of more than $1 million.

Elali's crime wave, preying on the sick and vulnerable, has been unrelenting for more than a year.

After stealing wallets, Elali, 33, uses her victim's credit cards and licenses to reap thousands of dollars due to lax security at Australia's biggest banks.

In one incident, she allegedly stole $22,500 from a woman's bank account in less than 45 minutes.

Elali was freed from jail last year after serving four years for remarkably similar offences, and it seems she picked up where she left off.
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Rudd’s cyclonic hype
Andrew Bolt
More evidence that Kevin Rudd’s hyping of the ”super cyclones” scare is not just irresponsible but pure beat up. Here’s the claim his government leaked to the Courier Mail:

QUEENSLAND will become hotter and super-cyclones will batter the coast as far south as Brisbane by 2070, the nation’s top scientists have warned.
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Breeding barbarians
Andrew Bolt
And what would they do to complete strangers?

VIOLENT attacks by teenagers against parents and other relatives have soared by 23% in the past five years, a study focusing on assaults on single mothers by their sons has revealed.

We’ve lost our skill at socialising children. Some taboos and traditions urgently need restoring.
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Diary of a planet-saver
Andrew Bolt
Julia Hollander describes in the Spectator the life-cycle of a global-warming devotee. But first, some background on Hollander, an English opera director and writer
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So why not just double the price?
Andrew Bolt
Victoria’s Premier wants you to hurt:

JOHN Brumby says he is “comfortable” with the looming rise in energy costs because he wants Victorians to rethink their use of electricity.

This would make Brumby the first Premier in Victoria’s history to think of higher power bills as a sign of success. But this is also the man who thinks making Victorians use less water, and pay the highest price possible for more are also indicators of brilliant management.

With benchmarks like there, which numbskull could fail?
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CSIRO heavy: don’t trust CSIRO’s scares
Andrew Bolt
Art Raiche, former Chief Research Scientist of the CSIRO, says the organisation’s fear-mongering over climate change can’t be trusted:

Sadly, over the last decade, CSIRO has transformed itself from a once-respected research institute into a highly centralised, government enterprise (oxymoron?), replete with intersecting layers of expensive management, focused on continual reorganisation. Scientific independence has been lost…
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Minister takes mate on terrorism junket
CALLS for an investigation into defence minister taking friend with no related expertise to Afghanistan.- there is nothing wrong with the minister taking his gay lover on long trips. It probably gets very lonely for him, being away from his family for such long stretches. It saves the cost of putting prostitutes on the ministerial expense account. -ed

Chris Abani: Telling stories of our shared humanity


http://www.ted.com Chris Abani tells stories of people: People standing up to soldiers. People being compassionate. People being human and reclaiming their humanity. It's "ubuntu," he says: the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

Prophecy: Islam and Satan - Walid Shoebat (Part 1)


Biography of Walid Shoebat

Born in Bethlehem of Judea, Walid's grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd's Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler. (see comments for more detail).

NSW Lib Updates

Iemma’s Spin Not The Problem; It’s His Arrogant, Weak And Dithering Leadership
Written by Barry O'Farrell MP
NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell said today it’s not Morris Iemma’s spin and media management that is his problem; it’s his arrogant, weak and dithering leadership.

“How is it that Morris Iemma can find the budget to hire two expensive spin doctors, but frontline services continue to decay?” Mr O’Farrell asked.

Noreen Hay’s Wollongong Involvement Widens: Iemma Must Stand Aside Hay
Written by Barry O'Farrell MP
Morris Iemma must stand aside Parliamentary Secretary Noreen Hay as explosive new details emerge about her involvement in the Wollongong Council scandal, NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell said today.

The Illawarra Mercury reports a sworn statement from former Labor Wollongong City Councillor Frank Gigliotti claiming the Wollongong MP Noreen Hay summoned him to a meeting with developer Frank Vellar.

Birthing Unit Closure: Blue Mountains Is Not Alone, Thanks To Labor
Written by Jillian Skinner MP
The closure of the Blue Mountains birthing unit will come as little surprise to rural and regional communities, with the closure of more than 30 birthing units in rural and regional hospitals in the 13 years of Labor, Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner said today.

Mrs Skinner said the Iemma Labor Government had picked up the baton with its commitment to shutting down more birthing units across NSW, the latest being at the Blue Mountains hospital.

Iemma And Watkins Rail Ticket Plan A Sham
Written by Barry O'Farrell MP
NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell said today Morris Iemma and John Watkins’ flawed early bird rail plan was unravelling even before it begins.

“The more detail that emerges on this plan, the more it looks like a dog’s breakfast dreamt up without any serious consideration,” Mr O’Farrell said.

Iemma Govt Spin Out Of Control: Hospital Attempts To Downplay ICU And ED Blackout
Written by Jillian Skinner MP
Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner today expressed amazement at the Iemma Labor Government’s pathetic attempts to downplay the catastrophic failure at Concord Hospital, which plunged the emergency department and intensive care unit into darkness over the weekend.

Concord Hospital suffered a major blackout on Saturday and the emergency generator system in the intensive care unit and the emergency department both failed, forcing doctors and nurses to ventilate patients by hand for close to two hours.

Labor Government Fails To Deliver Sydney’s Transport Needs Again
Written by Gladys Berejiklian MP
Shadow Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian said today’s concerns about capacity issues at Wynyard Train Station demonstrates the Iemma Labor Government’s inability to plan for the city’s public transport needs.

“Wynyard is already stretched to the limit in peak periods and new commercial and residential developments will force the station into meltdown,” Ms Berejiklian said.

Petty Sentences Won’t Deter Laser Criminals
Written by Greg Smith SC MP
Shadow Attorney General Greg Smith SC said today that the release of a man convicted of shining a laser into the eyes of the pilot of a Police helicopter is far too lenient and will do nothing to deter other copycat criminals.

“This sentence will do nothing to deter other criminals flashing lasers into the eyes of helpless pilots and drivers,” Mr Smith said.

Ticket Scheme Couldn’t Be More Complicated Or Help Fewer People
Written by Barry O'Farrell MP
NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell and Shadow Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian said today the Iemma Government’s early bird ticket trial is far too complicated and will help too few people to be of real benefit.

“Long-suffering commuters will have to queue everyday to use this ticket, which is a major disincentive,” Mr O’Farrell said.

Iemma Government Fails To Deal With Juvenile Justice Overcrowding
Written by Anthony Roberts MP
Overcrowding in NSW’s Juvenile Justice Centres is a direct result of the Iemma Government’s failure to properly resource these facilities, Shadow Minister for Juvenile Justice Anthony Roberts said today.

“This year’s budget only provided for a paltry total of 42 additional beds for Acmena Juvenile Correction Facility and Riverina Juvenile Correction Facility,” Mr Roberts said.

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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Promoting New Music Saturn's Day 26th July

Beautiful Sunset
Gotta Move
by ShadowofNine

The title actually refers to what happens in the tune, starts out with beatz and a dance groove then moves over to a drum kit, and starts to rock (I hope) just playing around with loops for fun and games and to show those new loop members what you can do just using snippets of sampled music...

Hope you like it, and I hope you get to hoppin with this one...

© Shadow Productions
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Beautiful Sunset
Elixir
by Lafayette

My therapy to be free from worry is to listen music (on IC of course), and also to play music like that ...

Hope you like it !

- LaFayette