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I couldn't believe BBC Newsnight video report. It's amazing how every atrocity committed in Iran is highlighted and perhaps should be denounced, and yet America's allies are carrying out similarly, if not worse, human rights crimes that go completely ignored by the mainstream US news media...

The main piece Jim Rutenberg, Mike McIntire and Ethan Bronner with contributions by Isabel Kershner and Myra Noveck: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/world/middleeast/06settle.html Great slide show of photos with fair commentary by Rina Castelnuovo. Nicely done, Rina. You're a credit to the...

Holy cow! Achtung Baby is the album that turned me onto pop music -- that made me actively play albums that weren't story records about Rumpelstilskin or Sesame Street. I've loved "Ultraviolet" for almost as long. Yet, for years, I couldn't tell what was being sung by The Edge and whomever...

I wanted to check a venue on ticketmaster.ca and now it looks like one of those cheap sites whose address was bought. I don't know if it's safe to use. Same with ticketmaster.com. What happened? How do I get to the real ticketmaster?

I live along the green line of the Toronto subway system, and I've noticed in the last 3 weeks, a substantial increase in trembling caused by the trains every time they pass underneath my condo. I've lived in this building for nearly 7 years and had barely ever noticed it before. Now, I hear the...

This is the Fox Network pilot written by Michael Taylor and Ronald D. Moore and directed by Peter Berg. I didn't like the reality TV parts when I first watched it, but I "got" it when I rewatched it. I actually felt that, no matter how good the "Caprica" pilot was, this was superior in many...

As in Vietnam with the use of Agent Orange, the US is yet again causing birth defects with its military action -- this time in Fallujah, Iraq. Watch for yourselves. BBC News - Birth defects rise reported by Fallujah doctors

And this is our foreign policy … - The Globe and Mail And this is our foreign policy … By Rick Salutin There's something enigmatic in Stephen Harper's foreign policy. Since he decided to cut and run from Afghanistan, it seems to have only one pillar: total support for whatever Israel's...

I don't know what the show is, but they're answering fan requests to discuss how certain songs came about. It's fascinating. I wish I knew the show's name, but it's not listed, as the schedule on the MuchMore.ca | Visit MuchMore.ca for music videos and full show episodes website has been...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19crash.html?ref=us Plane Hits I.R.S. Building in Texas By SEWELL CHAN Published: February 18, 2010 In what federal and local officials called a criminal act, a man crashed a small plane Thursday morning into a seven-story office building in Austin, Tex...

on Tuesdays on the CBC. Check it out. It's hilarious!

Let's stop this fascistic thug, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his party of rednecks. How you can get involved: No Prorogue!

I really think this is most of the basis of America's problems because the corrupting influence of campaign contributions is only possible because the public hasn't exerted its rights over the air waves. Since the air waves are publicly owned, media has no right to charge for ads. This is a...

U2.com > News > 'Winter' for Brothers I miss the mid-/90s sound of Bono's voice in the "Linear" version (I don't like the new vocal), but this sounds overall better, though I fear that it might sound a bit like adult contemporary formula.

Very, very sad. I called cineplex.com and they said that the cinema had steadily been losing money and the company made the decision to close it. The good news is that all the employees (who are among the very best and kindest of any cinemas out there) are getting jobs at other cinemas...

This one ("The Warning") is about how Treasury Secy Robert Rubin, Fed Chairman Greenspan and others sidelined this woman who warned against derivatives as destabilizing. Fascinating! FRONTLINE: the warning: watch the full program online | PBS This one ("The Cards Game") is about how credit...

U2 Interview Archive ? (1991-1994) Achtung-Zooropa Have a listen to the 2nd interview for a startling set of differences. -Edge is interested in pushing things to extremes or doing something simply (He says "One" is an example of a simple song, but it's so complex, given the band's present-day...

Montreal is a major city and U2 has visited it every tour in the past until this one. Why? It's much more culturally integrated and organic than Toronto, which has bad areas all of a sudden next to safe areas and is very artificially structured (Yorkeville, for example). Okay, snob appeal...

First, I owe a huge thanks to a fan last night who, when I randomly asked a security person next to him about how to get a good spot in the GA, told me that he was only in the 5th row behind the railing and arrived around 4:30 pm or 5 pm. I followed his advice, arriving at 4:50 pm or so and was...

So, unlike Joe the Plumber, this Israeli plumber Ezra Nawi is an actual hero. He stood in front of Israeli bulldozers that threatened to destroy Palestinian homes and was arrested. He's about to be sentenced this weekend, but the judge has, in the past, taken signatures from around the world in...

http://www.biglight.com/blog/uploaded_images/101346.HURWITZ.09M217.V1R1-775394.jpg Lucky Californians get all the great stuff. I wish I could go!

This is absolutely shameful. It just shows how money corrupts. Why destroy people's enjoyment of nature and their sense of community for the sake of making more money? Why is The Edge doing this? This really puts me off him. These guys are still wonderful people in many ways, but they HAVE LOST...

The last couple of U2 albums have been quite short -- around the 50-minute mark instead of Achtung Baby's 55 minutes or Pop's 60 minutes, I think. Anyway, here is the running time for the new album based on this: Walmart MP3 Music Downloads: U2 - Top Songs from $0.74, Free Music Tracks, Albums...

He did some of my very favorite episodes; I dare say, I tended to prefer his parts of the mythology to Rob Bowman's most of the time, though that may have had more to do with the writers. He directed Season 5's "Redux II", which was easily my favorite episode of the series. SCI FI Wire: Kim...

I know that U2 have tended to sound like themselves during this decade, but the defining quality of U2 in the '80s and when I got into it in the early '90s was the indefinable -- that you never knew what the next album would bring. When Achtung Baby came out, The Fly could not have been...