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solarbirdGiven that she was right about this, and that the current pope is massively involved in the attempt to both cover-up massive, systematic child molestation in the Catholic church, and protecting the perpetrators, isn't Sinead O'Connor overdue a massive grovelling apology from absolutely everybody?
The US government and Pentagon are involved in trying to get WikiLeaks shut down, in part due to its "documents which embarrass the U.S. Government: information which, as they put it, 'could be manipulated to provide biased news reports or be used for conducting propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, perception management, or influence operations against the U.S. Army by a variety of domestic and foreign actors.'" Read about it here.
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nihilistic_kid pointed at this post about Steve Perry, whose name you won't know but whose work many of you have read or watched, particularly if you ever saw an episode of Thundercats. He's ill with cancer, no insurance, the usual clusterfuck. This Orlando Sentinel article paints a somewhat rosier picture, but while he's better off than he was - he's no longer sleeping in his car - he's still in a spot.
A few people on my friendslist were talking about the first recognition of a genderless person in Australia; the government changed their minds and invalidated the already-issued documents.
Please enjoy this Canadian foreign policy blog I just discovered. I haven't had a chance to read much of it yet, but skimming it seemed interesting.
My arms are continuing to improve, but I'm heading into spring and my heavy playing season! Despite this, after Norwescon, I'm hoping to start following economics more closely again.
The US government and Pentagon are involved in trying to get WikiLeaks shut down, in part due to its "documents which embarrass the U.S. Government: information which, as they put it, 'could be manipulated to provide biased news reports or be used for conducting propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, perception management, or influence operations against the U.S. Army by a variety of domestic and foreign actors.'" Read about it here.
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nihilistic_kid pointed at this post about Steve Perry, whose name you won't know but whose work many of you have read or watched, particularly if you ever saw an episode of Thundercats. He's ill with cancer, no insurance, the usual clusterfuck. This Orlando Sentinel article paints a somewhat rosier picture, but while he's better off than he was - he's no longer sleeping in his car - he's still in a spot.A few people on my friendslist were talking about the first recognition of a genderless person in Australia; the government changed their minds and invalidated the already-issued documents.
Please enjoy this Canadian foreign policy blog I just discovered. I haven't had a chance to read much of it yet, but skimming it seemed interesting.
My arms are continuing to improve, but I'm heading into spring and my heavy playing season! Despite this, after Norwescon, I'm hoping to start following economics more closely again.
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Date: 2010-03-30 07:39 pm (UTC)I hope your arms get better soon, and that "playing season" doesn't make them worse.
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Date: 2010-03-30 11:23 pm (UTC)Always been a Sinead fan
Date: 2010-03-31 12:13 am (UTC)Was totally, and I mean *TOTALLY* shocked by the blowback. KROQ, the LA alternative rock station of note back then (and I guess still?), even nthinkingly bashed her and quit playing her music for a while. And that this would kill her career right as it was peaking? Honestly, I'm *still* shocked.
Lotsa rockers do and say genuinely bad things, much worse things than this was even if you think PJP II was some sort of saintly wonderdude and Sinead was wrongl-headed in tearing up his picture (w/out even specifying why, which really makes it hard to see why people got so upset). This should have been pretty marginal on the controversy meter. I still don't get it.
to pick on a band I like most of the music of and absolutely love and think all time greatest ever w/regard to some of their songs, ummmm, Axl went way off the rails in GnR and even talked the rest of his band and David Geffen into including a truly atrocious song they all knew was atrocious (as opposed to some other awful bits of lyricism where apparently no one thought they went beyond the pale, even if they weren't totally on board w/the misogyny) and they took a media and commercial hit, but not *that* big of one.
Really, don't get it. I do hope she does get lots of apologies now, though.
Re: Economics, you noticed Yves Smith has a new book out?
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Date: 2010-03-31 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-31 01:12 pm (UTC)I remember watching that concert, but I don't remember anything except her performance. I think I turned it off after she got off stage and Kris Kristofferson hugged her. I thought, wow, now the people who denounced Bob Dylan when he was young and controversial have been reincarnated as his fans. What a wonderful 30-year tribute: to have it demonstrated that your long career has changed absolutely nothing.