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Politics:  The Guardian speculates on how Iran will react to new sanctions by the United States and the European Union. Who is the group that is terrorizing Christians in Nigerians? Wired on America's shadow war in East Africa.  Just the policy of the State of the Union Address, and the entire State of the Union Address, and the only picture that you will want to see of the State of

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pdfs galore! The final text of the agreement, as signed by the EU and 22 member states today. An essay on the troubles with ACTA by Michael Geist (for SAIS Review in 2010) and the articles published in the current issue of The American University International Law Review.  Pages 53-58 from the Official Journal of the European Union C45 E /53, either as reassurance before the late spring/early

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Newt Gingrich won the Republican primary in South Carolina by 12 percentage points. Mitt Romney was also stripped of his Iowa win after a recount. With a possible new front runner (Gingrich looks to be leading polls in Florida as well) who does not have the support of the party elite now competing against Romney, who also lacks backing - is a late entry candidate a possible scenario? Romney

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real estate | it's real. is tropical | the greeks. dillon | thirteen thirtyfive. battles | my machines. first aid kit | ghost town. fleet foxes | helplessness blues. amor de días | bunhill fields. skream | monsoon (loefah remix). dreamer | dubstep. crim3s | new flesh Since I've already seen the episode, regular live-blogging will commence next week. The review will be up right after the

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Dark Dark Dark - Wild Goose Chase (Elephant Micah Cover) Relevant because of reasons (and yes, I do realize that I've posted this pretty much exactly a year ago - it made things even weirder BECAUSE IT'S NOT EVEN THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF THAT SONG). Politics:  Both the Atlantic and Die Zeit have essays on Guantanamo which, after ten years, still exists.  It is the legacy of a

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Blitzen Trapper - Taking It Easy Too Long I've been taking it easy too long,  sticking around this lonesome town like a bird that just won't fly.  Why can't I just get over you,  what will I do?

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Does this make a third party candidate more likely, because if it does, I'm all for it.

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Trailer for the first episode, and 4oD will stream the premiere A WEEK EARLY aka NEXT MONDAY for those lucky people in the UK. 

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I see now that at any point in a life of any length, when our relentless distractions lapse for a moment and there is that sudden flash of inspired clarity in which we see that all that life is about is nature, breathing in and out and keeping your head high until you drop, Orlando is the book to put under your pillow and rest upon.  The Telegraph: Tilda Swinton on Virginia Woolf's Orlando,

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-Politics edition. The New York Times portrays a group of South Sudanese journalists who publish a daily print newspaper in Juba, under difficult circumstances. Meanwhile, president Obama has dispatched military officers to support the UN mission (UNMISS) A French investigation into the 1994 death of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, the event that is considered to have triggered the

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Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary with a 16 per cent lead - Ron Paul came in second, Jon Huntsman (victim of this hilarious ad) third.  But Romney does not leave New Hampshire unscathed. His Republican rivals have done him damage by focusing on his record as chief executive at the Bain company, which they described as a coven of corporate raiders and vultures, taking over smaller firms

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Fred Armisen, Thao Nguyen, Carrie Brownstein, Mirah - Push It (Salt-n-Pepa Cover) At a loss for words, to be honest.

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On Monday 9 January at 3pm we'll be launching the first of three special online-only mini-episodes - say what? The three mini-episodes will follow the gang getting ready to go off on their holidays. Oooh *excited-face*. Monday's episode is all about Alo, Mini, Liv and a very special mission.

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Politics:  Local officials estimate that 3000 people were killed by rebels in the South Sudanese region of Jonglei.  In the past two weeks, United Nations aircraft had been tracking an unusually large column of 6,000 to 8,000 heavily armed fighters from the Lou Nuer ethnic group as it advanced toward the town of Pibor, cutting a swath of destruction across the savanna. Pibor is the hometown

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... IT BEGINS.  I think it's time for the "sorry, this is will be a single-issue blog until March - even more so than usual" disclaimer.

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Fiction:  Mariko & Jillian Tamaki: Skim. Alison Bechdel: Fun Home. Harlan Ellison: I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream. Films:  Sleeping Beauty (2011, Julia Leigh). Three Veils (2011, Rolla Selbak). Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder). The Ides of March (2011, George Clooney). Restless (2011, Gus Van Sant). Albert Nobbs (2011, Rodrigo García). Beginners (2010, Mike Mills).

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Nearly everyone in Brownstein’s life counseled her against starting a TV show and a band in the same year. But Brownstein now describes the decision to pursue both as “the most sane thing I’ve done in a long time.” “Portlandia” and Wild Flag are complementary, in a yin-yang way: rigid and rowdy; scripted and free. When performing music onstage, Brownstein says, the rules don’t exist. “All the

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...based on the trailer + behind a cut in case you are completely avoiding any kind of spoilers, even if they're just imaginary. Grace Grace Grace: Grace standing in front of the aquarium, recalling the scene between Jal and Michelle when Michelle told the story of how she met Chris... Rich watching a recording of Grace's dancing... Jessica Sula explaining in an interview that her character

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James Blake - A Case of You Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a Northern Star" And I said,  "constant in the darkness Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar"

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Cat Power - King Rides By (featuring Manny Pacquiao) If time had a place,  And space for your past.  Like a little novel,  I wanted to read again and again,  Would I be in your novel,  Would I begin and end in it.  you can donate to purchase the song at http://www.catpowermusic.com.

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I need someone to physically prevent me from including a section on Effy Stonem in my already fairly doomed attempt to write about Bergman's Persona. Like, there are cookies and stuff. This is a harbinger of things to come after January 23rd.

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"North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong-il" aka the spookiest thing I've seen in months They howled and whimpered and scrubbed raw eyes with fists. They flailed their arms in grief and marched in their thousands to the capital's landmarks. But no one, outside of North Korea, really knows what North Koreans felt at news of Kim Jong-il's death. The Guardian: After Kim

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Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) These days my life, I feel it has no purpose But late at night the feelings swim to the surface.

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The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 was passed by both houses and is now going to be signed into law despite previous announcements that it would be vetoed by President Obama.  The bill requires military treatment for foreign terrorism suspects. Defenders of the bill have pointed to one part of the provisions that say U.S. citizens are "exempted" from the

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Music:  Where's WILD FLAG?  Films:  I see, you thought The Help was a more valuable contribution to the history of film than Martha Marcy May Marlene?  Shows:  No, really. If you choose to nominate the cast of Big Bang Theory over Parks and Recreation... well that's just sad. It's the equivalent of a TV dinner for one, where the light of the television illuminates a scene of

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Those pictures capture the early celebration-by-defacement — the ebullient tearing down of the murals, statues and mosaics of Saddam Hussein, at times aided by U.S. troops pleased that the initial thunder run to Baghdad had ended swiftly. But the joy passed quickly, subsumed by the wholesale looting of the capital and the beheadings of those captured during a nascent insurgency, by the Shiite

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The Black Keys - Lonely Boy  I got a love that keeps me waiting.

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Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal's Chamber Music is one of my favourite records this year.  Politics:  I am secretly always waiting for chances to use this song and the climate conference in Durban (for the record: this won't get any results except a mildly worded letter of intent that has no consequences whatsoever) seems like an obvious choice. The best case scenario already sounds

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President Obama issued a memorandum directing American agencies to look for ways to combat efforts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality. The new initiative holds the potential to irritate relations with some close American allies that ban homosexuality, including Saudi Arabia. [...] Specifically, Mr. Obama said in the memorandum that the State Department would lead other

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Politics:  The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for Sudan's defence minister Abdel Rahim Muhammad Hussein in connection with war crimes in the Darfur region.  Reporter Ed Vulliamy, a witness in the trail against Radovan Karadzic in The Hague, recounts a private encounter with him before being interrogated by Karadzic in front of the judges. The Atlantic Cities on the

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[....] All these seemingly disconnected events are the symptoms, you could say, of a global epidemic of sameness. It has no precise parameters, but wherever its shadow falls, it leaves the landscape monochromatic, monocultural, and homogeneous. Even before we’ve been able to take stock of the enormous diversity that today exists — from undescribed microbes to undocumented tongues — this epidemic

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Fiction: A.L. Kennedy: Looking for the Possible Dance. Harry Mulisch: Das Attentat. Harry Mulisch: Siegfried. Non-Fiction:  Susan Sontag: Zur gleichen Zeit.  Eric Hobsbawm: Das imperiale Zeitalter: 1875-1914. Films:  Hiroshima, mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais). L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais). Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011, Andrew Rossi). Jin-Rô (1999,

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Mr. Maliki insisted that Iraq could provide for its internal security. And he made much of Iraq’s desire to build a relationship with the United States as a sovereign country, dealing with Washington on the basis of national interest and “mutual respect.” But his comments suggested that for all the solemn pageantry of a long war ending, there is likely to be considerable continuity in the

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Fleet Foxes - The Shrine / An Argument directed by Sean Pecknold When you talk you hardly even look in my eyes in the morning, in the morning.

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"die Revolution ist wie Saturn, sie frißt ihre eignen Kinder" Georg Büchner: Dantons Tod

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Rachel Maddow Show, November 16th, 2011 One of the things that I find absolutely stunning in the Republican Presidential race so far is the fact that not only being a supposedly "untainted" outsider who has never held office or worked in politics is considered a good thing, but appearing uninformed and disinterested in policy (especially foreign policy) is regarded as the best way to prove

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WILD FLAG - Winter Pair (live at the Troubadour, November 2nd, 2011) I don’t see any way around this,  So let’s go through it.  Right through the center. 

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With his formal resignation, which was confirmed by the presidential palace on Saturday night, the 75-year-old billionaire brought down the curtain on a government that has played a significant role in taking the European single currency and the global economy to the brink of catastrophe. The dramatic end of Berlusconi's 17-year domination of Italian politics came as the lower house of

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America: You’ve met our drones, now meet our people! Jon Stewart, The Daily Show on November 3rd, 2011

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Politics:  Center for American Progress on the cost of the Iraq War: the most relevant and shocking number "Between 96,037 and 104,7542" Iraqi civilian deaths. Oh. "The Ministry of Defence believes the US may decide to fast-forward plans for targeted missile strikes at some key Iranian facilities. British officials say that if Washington presses ahead it will seek, and receive, UK military

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Heretofore, the countries that joined the euro zone did so with the understanding that they could have the best of all worlds — the convenience of a common currency without the economic and political integration that would inevitably be needed if the countries did not pursue similar economic policies. That understanding was wrong. For Greece, no alternatives look good. The latest European

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The big fear is that a decisive turn against the bailout package in Greece could undermine European efforts to enforce deep budget cuts in other heavily indebted European countries, especially Italy, which is mired in its own political crisis and has a far larger economy and much more debt than Greece. Political analysts and several advisers to Mr. Papandreou said the prime minister had

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Fiction:  A.L. Kennedy: So I Am Glad. A.L. Kennedy: The Blue Book.  A.L. Kennedy: Paradise. Sarah Waters: Fingersmith. Baby Remember My Name. An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing (edited by Michelle Tea). Film:  Dreileben (2011, Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf, Christoph Hochhäusler). Red State (2011, Kevin Smith). Melancholia (2011, Lars von Trier). Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn).

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Modeselektor feat. Thom Yorke - Shipwreck [via NPR] Talking about NPR, WILD FLAG live in Chicago on Thursday last week (and a couple of months ago in Philadelphia, performing Racehorse).

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WILD FLAG - Electric Band all we are is dust and air play the part of the dragon slayer dance all night or turn to sand

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Politics:  Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed yesterday. Al Jazeera has an obituary highlighting his early political ideology. His death will probably put an end to NATO's engagement. Still remaining "under siege" from widespread protests in their countries are Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen. Michael Hastings wrote a detail report about the decision-making that lead to

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[via tumblr] janelle monáe | come alive (war of the roses). sleepy vikings | calm. manu chao | denia. gotye | somebody that i used to know. heartless bastards | all this time. santogold | shove it. eugene mcguinness | lion. sleater-kinney | everything. emika | professional loving. massive attack vs. burial | paradise circus. murray gold | onwards! sleepy vikings | nude as the news. bonus:

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Sleater-Kinney's Last Show (August 12th, 2006; Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon) The Fox The End of You | Wilderness | Jumpers | One Beat | Step Aside | The Hot Rock | Rollercoaster | All Hands on the Bad One | Night Light | What's Mine Is Yours | Stay Where You Are | Modern Girl | Let's Call it Love Pt 1 | Let's Call it Love Pt 2 | Entertain | Sympathy | Words and Guitar |

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The Fades are coming; it's inevitable. Lately I've been feeling slightly frustrated by the numerous shows I follow on a regular basis: nothing really moved me, nothing had that emotional impact that reverberates even after the episode ends (with the exception of Parks & Rec, which never fails to leave me in a state of happiness), that makes you want to share how amazing something was (

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We didn't know enough and we still don't know enough," he said. "Most of us - me included - had a very superficial understanding of the situation and history, and we had a frighteningly simplistic view of recent history, the last 50 years," he said.  Retired Army General McChrystal on the war in Afghanistan The major attacks in Kabul and regular assassinations in 2011 show the Taliban's

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Deerhoof - Secret Mobilization This is not based on a true story.

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Fiction:  A.L. Kennedy: Everything You Need. Douglas Coupland: Microserfs. Film:  Kyss Mig (2011, Alexandra-Therese Keining) ***. Too Big To Fail (2011, Curtis Hanson) ***. Show:  Sailor Moon, Season One, Two and Three. Life, Season Two. Pushing Daisies, Season One, Season Two. Parenthood, Season Two.

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Politics:  Germany's Bundestag voted for the enlargement of the European Financial Stability Facility yesterday, the Austrian Nationalrat is currently debating the issue (a positive outcome is very likely, both ruling parties will vote for it, so will the Greens). The enlargement needs to be approved by all 17 euro zone countries. NY Times: In European Crisis, Experts See

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More than any of the earlier debates, this encounter highlighted the ferocious centrifugal pull on the 2012 GOP presidential field. The tone of the questions -- both from the grassroots activists and the panel of Fox reporters -- captured the demand among much of the Republican electorate for an uncompromising and unqualified conservative agenda. In the debate's first hour alone, Rick Santorum

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But when do I ever pass on a chance to talk about my favourite shows? (also, I haven't actually seen the whole thing so maybe I'll comment on Jane Lynch's performance etc. when I have) Winner Should've been, could've been Outstanding Drama Series: Boardwalk Empire The Good Wife Mad Men Friday Night Lights Dexter Game of Thrones I'm not upset about Mad Men winning, and it's

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Instead of watching shows I actually need to watch for the reviews: basking in the glorious sunshiny happiness (which is, of course, perfectly balanced with a melancholic sadness occasionally) of Pushing Daisies. What a perfect way to prepare for rainbows!unicorns!waffles! before Parks and Recreation starts again.  [also: a trailer for The Fades, a clip from the appearance of the producers

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In a way, that might seem strange, because we've all been in bands for many, many years, but I think reconvening in a new dynamic, a lot of it just felt new. Some of the lyrics are about testing one's own relationship not just to music, but to art, the notion of still trying to maintain a creative, vibrant self as you get older. I think that for people that continue to be engaged with music and

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SBTRKT - Pharaohs Head. Raised. Un-caged.

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With only months left until the caucuses and primaries to choose a Republican to take on Barack Obama for the White House next year, the polite skirmishing that marked the Republican debates before the summer disappeared in the first five minutes as Perry and Romney tore into each other.The debate confirmed it is now a two-horse race, with Michele Bachmann, who is in third place in the polls, the

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-Up to 3x22 (Sailor S, Episode 111) This is one of the first television shows I ever watched and discussed with someone else - I still have letters from when my cousin and I talked about the mysterious role the Moonlight Knight (we called him "jam jar", for obvious reasons) played in the second season (Sailor Moon R). I was nine or ten at the time. I've wanted to do a re-watch for a while now

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Politics:  A new civil war in the Sudans is slowly approaching.  openDemocracy on the new political landscape and the shift in the public debate in Norway after the massacre.  Are Republicans profiting from not only arguing that the Democratic Party is failing, but from portraying government itself as failing? ("nihilistic effort") And also in The Atlantic, some thoughts on the

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WILD FLAG - Romance Wild Flag - Romance from Merge Records on Vimeo. you make my feet move you turn my head that's why i love you the best The record is streaming in its entirety here, the official release date is September 13. Also I might be willing to make a deal with the devil to see them live in Vienna. It's like my personal last chance flower after making the stupid mistake of not seeing

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Fiction:  John Ajvide Lindqvist: Handling the Undead. William Gibson: Pattern Recognition. William Gibson: Spook Country. William Gibson: Zero History. Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett: Good Omens. Films:  Super 8 (2011, J.J. Abrams) ***/****. Sister My Sister (1994, Nancy Meckler) ****. Les blessures assassines (2000, Jean-Pierre Denis) ***. Portrait of a Marriage (1990, Stephen Whittaker) ****

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the rosebuds | second bird of paradise. dawn landes | picture show. dr manhattan | baton rouge (daytrotter). blood red shoes | take the weight. snake rattle rattle snake | kafka and the milk (daytrotter). the mynabirds | let the record go. a weather | third of life. radical face | welcome home. lissie | wedding bells.

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Pollyn - Mysterons (Portishead Cover) Inside you're pretending Crimes have been swept aside Somewhere where they can forget Divine upper reaches Still holding on This ocean will not be grasped All for nothing

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Female 18th century cross-dressing pirates; or the stuff my childhood was made of. You might complain about a slight increase in price; elsewhere, the geopolitics of food are a question of survival.  One of the most insightful pieces I've read about the London riots so far. The new condition of the working class - Chavs by Owen Jones and The Precariat by Guy Standing. An ingenious way of

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If so, Londoners of all stripes will have to learn again to live together in a way Parisians and their banlieusards haven't even attempted to for generations. The divide is that complete, due mostly to the reinforced-ghetto nature of many French projects. Indeed, one of the biggest complaints that France's banlieue residents continue airing is how their geographical remoteness from the centers of

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Statistical numbing plays a huge role in what the news media covers, and what it doesn’t, since the media are in the business of bringing us information we are likely to pay attention to, and our attention is less drawn to numbers than stories about individual people (which explains the success of the narrative device of weaving stories about big issues around a personal example). Less coverage

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First and foremost, the humanitarian catastrophe in Somalia isn't over simply because it has disappeared from the front pages of the newspapers. The Guardian reports that more than 12 million people need immediate help, while efforts to distribute food are hindered by rebel and Somali government troops (and logistics are also a problem). Please consider donating to a relief organisation, Doctors

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Best Coast - Our Deal Get More: MTV Supervideo, Music, Best Coast I wish you would tell me  how you really feel but you''ll never tell me 'coz that's not our deal

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Fiction: Jonathan Lethem: Chronic City. Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey. Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book. George R. R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire Book Five: A Dance With Dragons. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice.  Film:  Heavenly Creatures (1994, Peter Jackson) ***. All Over Me (1997, Alex Sichel) ****. Je Te Mangerais (2009, Sophie Laloy) **/***. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970, Don Siegel) **/**

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I don’t know if we’ve shied away from political satire. I think we still do political and social commentary and satire. It’s not the point of our show at all, but when the opportunity arises to do it, I think we do do it. And I think we enjoy doing it. I mean, I’m very proud of the episode “Sweetums” from season two, which was an entire network comedy show episode based on the absurdity of the

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Musikuntermalung:  Politics:  The Nation writes about the CIA's counterterorrism programme in Somalia.  continent on the afterlives of queer theory.  Does anybody wanna bet at a last-second solution to that little debt-ceiling issue? If I'm wrong, we're in for some interesting developments. #electionsmakegrownupsactlikechildren Pop Culture:  Racialicious with some

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The Mountain Goats - Estate Sale Sign Set up like unloved icons gathering dust up on the wall From films no one remembers

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I only found out yesterday that everybody I know in Oslo is okay, and I'm still trying to gather my thoughts. The Daily Beast: Norway Killer’s Hatred of Women, July 24, 2011 TIME: Norway Attacks: How a Once Moderate Region Became a Haven for the Far Right, July 25, 2011 The Atlantic: Anti-Muslim Radicalism in Norway and Beyond, July 26, 2011 NY Times: Norway Gunman Used Drugs, Thought He Was ‘

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According to the UN, more than six out of every 10,000 people are dying of hunger every day in some parts of the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, with more than half the children there suffering from acute malnutrition. This is far above the normal famine threshold of two deaths per 10,000 people a day, and 30% malnutrition levels, UN agencies say.While there have been numerous

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 Dawn Landes - Private Little Hell (Daytrotter Session 1 + 2) You're driving down the road When something had to blow The car is filled with smoke It calls on you to grow But it makes you want to throw up To have to feel this bad Now you know what you want You want what you had Make it break in Make it break in... But you can't have that You can't go back... [on Fireproof, 2006]

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Listening to A Dance With Dragons instead of writing reviews or... talking to people, or leaving the house. Only about 40 hours to go, yay!

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Politics:  Greece isn't doing well, Italy isn't doing well, Portugal isn't doing well, Spain isn't doing well, a couple of months ago it was pointed out that Belgium also might not be doing well, but they're not the only ones.  Pop Culture:  The Atlantic has impressive pictures of socialist monuments in the former Yugoslav states that look like something aliens might have built.  Also in The

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Many, many years ago I bought a book for one of my friends, as a birthday present, and it was only later that I realized that it was the second part of Harry Potter. At that point, I had no idea what Harry Potter was, but then, because my best friend and I have never had the same taste in movies, we decided to try Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban one Summer day and in the weeks that

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Within this context, South Sudan’s secession is a mixed blessing. While it gives Southerners their long overdue right to self-determination, in the north it leaves the centre-periphery dichotomy intact. This is indicated in the wars that have erupted or are threatening to erupt in that region. The unresolved conflict in Darfur gives the lie to the notion that the north constitutes a homogeneous,

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One... Neil Gaiman (also, just as a sidenote: I never realized before why he's called Mr Nancy, because in my head, Anansi was pronounced radically differently from how it is actually pronounced. Oh, the hardships of having the wrong mother tongue...)I feel much safer with my fans than Steve does...He actually plays this thing like being nine hundred years old and eleven at the same time....not

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Campaigners warned that doubts about the credibility of the New York hotel worker who accused Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault on 14 May may make victims fear that only "perfect victims" could report rape and receive justice, and may lead to fewer women reporting sexual attacks."The message that this case gives is that, as a society, we still carry notions of a what a perfect rape victim should

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Fiction: Caitlín R. Kiernan: Alabaster. Caitlín R. Kiernan: Silk. Caitlín R. Kiernan: Threshold. Caitlín R. Kiernan: Low Red Moon. Caitlín R. Kiernan: Murder of Angels. Caitlín R. Kiernan: Daughter of Hounds. Caitlín R. Kiernan: The Red Tree. Films: Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis) *****. Trouble Every Day (2001, Claire Denis) ****. Nenette et Boni (1996, Claire Denis) ***/****. El niño pez (

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I've been re-reading all of Caitlín R. Kiernan's novels, now that the series is complete (Murder of Angels arrived a couple of weeks ago), as will become apparent in this month's Reading List, and... this weird thing has started to happen where everything seems to be connected. Watched Ink (a beautiful movie), and thought about worlds coexisting and creatures crossing thresholds etc., sat in the

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But the withdrawal of the entire surge force by the end of next summer will significantly change the way that the United States wages war in Afghanistan, analysts said, suggesting that the administration may have concluded it can no longer achieve its loftiest ambitions there.Mr. Obama acknowledged as much in his remarks. “We will not try to make Afghanistan a perfect place,” he said. “We will

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WILD FLAG - Ask the Angels (Patti Smith cover) [via] And I know it's hard sometimes, You've got to piece the needle across the sky And I know it's hard sometimes And world war is the battle cry And it's wild wild wild wild Merge Records offers a free download of WILD FLAG's Romance here.

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Plans to bombard the city are also in the archive, say investigators, who also claim they have a message from Gaddafi relayed to the troops ordering that Misrata be obliterated and the "blue sea turned red" with the blood of the inhabitants. The documents are expected to form a crucial element of any trial against Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam and his intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi if, as

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Autolux - Subzero Fun Before it gets too medical, get yourself together. [album version]

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Die Aussage, dass Gaga die wirkliche Person hinter ihrem Spektakel nicht offenbart hat, ist falsch und zeugt von einem weitverbreiteten Missverständnis. Schon in ihren ersten Interviews bestand Stefani Germanotta darauf, dass Lady Gaga ihre reale Identität ist und dass sie kein wahreres Selbst versteckt hält. Die Fassade, das Spektakel, das Künstliche, die Performance – all das ist Gagas Essenz.

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Set out to buy clothes. Ended up with an unseemly amount of socks, a vinyl copy of The Corin Tucker Band's 1,000 Years and Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City. And no shirts. Naturally.

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Black metal music, often associated with satanism and church-burning, is set to burst onto the highbrow stage of global diplomacy following a move by Norway to teach the genre to its future envoys. Some 20 diplomats in training received a black metal crash course this year, the Norwegian diplomatic academy said Friday."The objective is to show Norwegian culture in all its diversity. In the

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News from Syria, Yemen, leaving US defence secretary Gates' opinion on NATO's effectiveness, especially in Libya.  Watched two fairly awful movies in the past week, both of them I wouldn't recommend and they won't show up on my Reading List for this month because I skipped through some scenes. I had higher expectations of both, mostly because of their casts: Super was just not a very good movie,

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Après, on rêve d'avant Basically I've been listening to the soundtrack to Les chansons d'amour over and over again for about two weeks now and I can't even pick a favourite song - Je n'aime que toi and Les yeux aux ciel would make just as much sense as this one. 

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Fiction: Neil Gaiman: Anansi Boys George R. R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire Book Three: A Storm of Swords. George R. R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire Book Four: A Feast for Crows. Sarah Diemer: The Dark Wife. Non-Fiction: Arjun Appadurai: Die Geographie des Zorns. Films: TRON: Legacy (2010, Joseph Kosinski) **/***. Machete (2010, Robert Rodriguez) **. Hanna (2011, Joe Wright) ***.

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Titus Andronicus - No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future But now I'm asleep on top of a mountain, I've been covered in snow Yes, I have surrendered what made me human and all that I thought was true So now there's a robot that lives in my brain and he tells me what to do And I can do nothing without his permission.

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There is a phenomenon on tour wherein you decide you're going to adopt what is commonly known as a "tour look." Basically, you're in a strange city, you walk into a store and you purchase an item of clothing you would never wear in your hometown. Examples of tour looks include but are not limited to: a faux fur vest, sunglasses in the shape of anything other than sunglasses, cowboy boots.

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Politics:  The New York Times, on the divisions within societies that seem to undermine the revolutions currently taking place in Arab countries: In an arc of revolts and revolution, that idea of a broader citizenship is being tested as the enforced silence of repression gives way to the cacophony of diversity. Security and stability were the justification that strongmen in the Arab world offered

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