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  • Revolutionary Music

    by technomist @ 2008-12-14 – 21:56:34

    DominicGee posted some revolutionary music the other day. This set me off to look for something I have been looking for for ages, though the quality is very poor.

    With all due respect to the many many musicians who have written stirring words over the years, this is what I call real revolutionary music. Tekle Hiwket Adhanom, is one of the world's greatest little-known guitar heroes, seeing as he seems to have worked out how to play like this entirely on his own. He was the sound that the Eritreans fought and died to during their revolutionary war of independence. A tape of his music was practically the only thing an Eritrean girl called Liteski owned in the world, when I met her in 1985 after she had fled to Khartoum.

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  • Jack Straw 2

    by technomist @ 2008-12-14 – 02:54:02

    As I mentioned in my previous post, more people than usual seem to have knives out for Jack Straw. The 3000 pound payment revelations have been followed up with a story in the Telegraph about a 130million pounds expenditure on a building, which seems rather expensive and for which he is being blamed.

    This all follows a week in which Lord Lester abandoned his role as Constitutional adviser, because the Brown government's attitude to Human Rights was so 'dismal'. Lord Lestor is particularly angry with Straw.

    An interview Straw gave in the Mail has also been fed into the Guardian, where his back-peddling on Human Rights might not go down too well with their readership. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, is quoted as having said: "The public will have to judge this latest headline and decide if Britain's freedoms are safe in Mr Straw's hands."

    Another person who may be angry with Jack Straw is Jacqui Smith, who was rumoured to have been unimpressed with his slightly slow support and more fleet-footed personal denial of any knowledge of what was going on when she was under fire in the press in the last few days over the Damian Green affair.

    In the Telegraph he is described as the 'Great Triangulator', playing off all sides, but the article warns that "unless the great triangulator is careful, he may disappear up his own hypotenuse".

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