Late Night FDL: ‘Revolution’
I love Fiach’s new album, The Revolution…
Contrary to the sentiment of Gil Scott-Heron’s 1970 album, here Fiach Moriarty sings that “The revolution will be televised.” To be sure The Revolution will garner its share of radio airtime as Moriarty offers up here a set of catchy pop tunes like the title cut and modern folk numbers like “The Mother,” a quiet reflection of a mother losing her sons to conscription set to delicately-picked acoustic guitar. Moriarty is back to a pop sound, using ringing guitars, chiming keys and layered vocals on “Don’t Want to Let You Down,” a sunny song that surprises a bit by ending suddenly right when the chorus and groove really hit their stride, a classic technique that leaves the listener wanting more. Moriarty is from Dublin, Ireland but most American listeners will not be able to discern an accent; likely that’ll be the furthest thing from their minds while bopping along to the effervescent, Matchbox 20-like “Raindrops” or chilling to “Oil and Water,” a jazzy and mellow duet with fellow Irish singer Wallis Bird. The collateral damage of war is a recurring theme throughout The Revolution and Moriarty ends the record with “Won’t Lay Down,” a folk tune that is ultimately disrupted with loud, dissonant keyboards, perhaps mirroring how peacetime can turn to deadly chaos without a moment’s notice. Listeners don’t need to hear the message here to enjoy The Revolution though; Moriarty has a wonderful voice and has crafted here an excellent venue to showcase it.
What’s on your mind tonite…?
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Aloha, LN pups…! https://youtu.be/2KmmpD1hJeM
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My topic contribution actually includes a video, this time.
My response to an essay today, entitled: “How Easy would it be to get Americans to agree to Nuke Russia?”:
https://youtu.be/eLG5Hx1eceY
There will not be a revolution, at all. The American people don’t deserve one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhCZMeudDIM
Aloha, Pluto…! Pretty damn depressing, eh…?
Btw, did you see this little tidbit… Israel experiments with ‘dirty’ bomb
A series of experiments have been conducted by Israel to examine the
effects of and damage caused by so-called “dirty” bombs, a combination
of conventional explosive and radioactive materials. The tests were part
of the “Green Field” project over the past four years at the nuclear
reactor in Dimona. The project supervisors insisted that the objectives
were defensive rather than offensive.
According to Haaretz, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the
USA concerns grew about the possibility of terrorist gaining access to
“dirty” bombs, as threatened by Al-Qaeda at the time. Such threats have
not materialised. Israel, however, has been conducting the tests to see
what might happen in the event that such a weapon is used.
In 2006, the Israeli Ministry of Health issued instructions about the
treatment necessary if dirty bombs were deployed against targets in the
country. The experiments started in Dimona in 2010 and ended last year;
their findings were published in scientific circles. Twenty bombs
weighing between a quarter kilogram and 25 kilogram mixed with
“Technetium-99m”, which is used in the pharmaceutical industry, were
built for the programme of tests.
It was discovered that there was a very high rate of radiation in the
centre of the explosion as well as small amounts dispersed by the wind
in the surrounding areas. However, the conclusion from the research
suggests that the fundamental danger associated with such bombs compared
with “regular” munitions is connected more with the psychological
impact on the public.
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Btw, y’all our House Critters are on the verge of passing ‘fast track’ call your critters, ASAP…!
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if you like Moriarty’s revolution song, maybe you remember the danceable version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBVPjMzyDD0
Hmmm…! That didn’t work out quite as planned but click on the ‘What is TTIP?’ link to watch…!
why not do a little editing on that, tuttle?
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Israel wasted its money. There was a longer study right next door, where the US dumped tonnes of its depleted uranium on the Iraqi people. The effects are clear:
http://www.democracynow.org/images/story/82/22782/splash/Iraq-Birth_Defects-2.jpg?201506040950
http://owndoc.com/uploads/2013/02/depleted-uranium-children.jpg
don’t let the absurd abuse of science or the lack of any evidentiary basis dissuade you from talking about depleted uranium
https://youtu.be/zM5gYrgOZwY
Are you truly dismissing the mountains of evidence on DU usage, dubs…? Really…?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKMUz2o0NNw
I am much amused that Obama’s latest strategy to sell the “Fast Track” is his public claims that:
“China is thinking about joining the TPP….”
That was suitably depressing, Pluto, and, sadly, spot on. It does seem that, having recognized – through veils of propaganda – the bloody obvious, what does one do?
Do we flee to, hopefully, safer climes, as did many, many Jews long before Germany’s “final solution” could ensnare them?
Or stay and try to save . . . The Empire, or the country at least. Then the question becomes just how do you intend to pull that off? By voting? Writing screeds that will, at best, only reach an educated few? Picking up a gun from the many in your armory? Claymores? RPGs? Your very own “dirty bomb(s)”?
I think these are questions that only each of us can answer on our own, then act in accordance with our answer.
there is no accepted scientific evidence that DU is mutagenic except if a person contacts it at the time that a DU munition is detonated, AFAIK.
if you can find some aceeptd evidence that says otherwise, please produce it.
Sobering stuff. History proven to repeat itself. Most won’t see this coming.
Naturally, you’re parroting the standard BS TP’s… How the World Health Organisation covered up Iraq’s nuclear nightmare
Ex-UN, WHO officials reveal political interference to suppress scientific evidence of postwar environmental health catastrophe
They refuse to see it coming, jane…! 8-(
Donny is your typical wingnut: “Science? Eewwww…!”
There are papers galore, published by research scientists all over the world. Even the US serial killers are currently being treated for handling it during their deployment.
One of many papers at the NIH:
Just another depraved US war crime. Nothing to see here.
Aloha, TW…! I feel safe and sound here on the most isolated rock in the World…! 😉
Fallujah experienced more DU rounds expended than Mosul did, Pluto…! 8-(
there’s no solid link to DU munitions…. read it
” The focal point of their scientific study was three sites near Mosul: Adayah, a landfill for radioactive waste; Rihanyah, a former research centre for nuclear munitions (disused since 1991); and Damerchy, a small village on the Tigris River (about 10km north of Mosel), which was a scene of fighting in the 2003 conflict. Particularly high levels of uranium were found at Rihanyah where storage ponds of liquid and solid waste from uranium processing are still a source of radioactive pollution. The accumulation of uranium in wild plants (principally the shrub Lagonychium farctum) was noted in Damerchy, where it is thought to have entered the food chain and is linked to the death of numerous head of cattle.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130521105557.htm
From a DoD study…
Depleted Uranium (DU)
Munitions
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Emerging environmental concerns include:
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A significant exposure to DU among
children playing in the impact sites by
ingesting heavily-contaminated soil,
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Slow leaching of DU in local water
supplies over years,
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Consuming DU contaminated food
sources (animals and plants).
http://gulfwarvets.com/du%20briefing%20col%20wakayama.pdf
scientific evidence, tuttle, not political bullshit.
please stop polluting the music thread with twaddle.
let’s have a nice time.
The US can’t be saved, politically. In any case, why throw your life away for the dirt under your feet? Of course, I’m post-national, so I wouldn’t lift a finger for anybody’s “country” or mound-of-dirt. The idea is neurotic.
That being said, there’s nothing wrong with staying in the US. It is completely isolated by vast oceans and it is strategically impossible for any army to attack — which is a known known among military strategists. The Department of Defense is a cynical misnomer. So its relatively safe except for the jack boots and brown shirts of domestic law enforcement, who who consider American civilians to be “enemy combatants.”
Once empire finally dies, there will be plenty of money to spend domestically.
For me, it’s different. I have extraordinary standards.
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for Mandy and Spencer
who today became parents of baby Bette.
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Wtf…? Who the f*ck put you in charge, dubs…?
I’m no more in charge than you are, tut. don’t be so silly.
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Robert Koehler blogs about the DU situation in Falluja:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-koehler/the-suffering-of-fallujah_b_663545.html
Koehler continues:
Although Iraqi civilians have born the brunt of this awful weapon, American soldiers that served in the Gulf and Iraq War are also suffering from the fallout of depleted uranium.
*wow* The epitome of sheer asshattery…! I’m in awe of your supreme sense of Exceptionalism, dubs…! It’s truly magnificient the depths you’ve sunk too…!
a blog ! that proves it!
what neither you nor anyone else has done is produce a rigorous study that links DU munitions to the mutations reported in Iraq.
radioactivity in Iraq is from several sources and DU is not the likely one …… the Iraqis polluted the place by dumping radioactive material
is this the fdl music thread or ain’t it, tuttle?
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How many times do you plan to link the same tube, dubs…? *gah*
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one fewer.
sorry for the duplication
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But I am a lone voice taking on a tsunami.
A much appreciated voice, at least by me.
It’s been my impression that LN FDL is both a music and “open topics” thread. That’s why, after the music intro, whoever’s hosting always asks, “What’s on your mind tonite?” – an invitation to discuss whatever’s on one’s mind.
That’s how I roll, TW…! 😉
In notable MENA I/P news… Abu Mazen seems to have grown a spine suddenly…Abbas calls for reviewing agreements with Israel
Key IS leader killed by Hezbollah in eastern Lebanon
And from the IB Times… Islamic State Timeline Shows How ISIS Expanded In One Year From Two Countries To Ten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hezQb0aVZv8
*heh* Nasrallah is crowing… Nasrallah: We Will Win Against ISIS
Ditto, Hamas… Poll: Hamas popularity up in Gaza, West Bank
Speaking of Hamas… News Analysis: Emerging Salafists not big threat to Hamas
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Nasrallah is planning on leading Syrian Shia into Lebanon to complete his subversion of Lebanese sovereignty,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hDbpF4Mvkw
thanks, S.
I haven’t yet begun to really feel like a grandparent…… that’ll probably happen when I got to hold her.
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an non-ironic oddity
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In some notable EU news… Poll: Many in NATO Nations Reluctant to Give Military Aid to Ukraine
Government and Oligarch Lock Horns in Ukraine
And the EU is getting mighty anxious with Tsripas… Greek debt talks ‘must intensify’
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The Flatbush Waltz
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High time for the Guillotine all around, eh Andy…?
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she left a mark. got herself a song
Some people ain’t no damn good
You can’t trust ’em, you can’t love em
No good deed goes unpunished
And I don’t mind being their whipping boy
I’ve had that pleasure for years and years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G68ziTDKGn8
It’s never really a good time for that. But no one’s listening…
Florida traffic crash kills shark
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2015/06/shark_killed_in_florida_traffi.html
Hmmm…! 😉
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Ahram Online looks at President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s economic policies during his first year in office
GROWTH
Egypt’s GDP is projected to grow roughly four percent at the end of the current fiscal year compared to 2.2 percent in FY 2013/14, the year that saw the ouster of Mohamed Morsi and the ongoing violence that followed, according to Minister of Planning Ashraf El-Arabi.
The government is aiming for a six percent growth rate by FY 2018/19 through a medium-term economic plan that includes cutting the budget deficit from 12.6 percent of GDP in 2013/14 to 8-9 by FY 2018/19.
DEBT
Egypt’s external debt dropped to $39.58 billion, or 12.5 percent of GDP, in the three months ending 31 March, from $45.1 billion, or 15.8 percent of GDP, in the same period a year earlier, according to the Central Bank of Egypt’s (CBE) May statistical bulletin.
The central bank attributed the decline in external debt partly to the repayment of $3.5 billion of loans and credit facilitations, according to state-run news agency MENA.
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al ahram is no less trustworthy than the govt-owned RT
https://youtu.be/JeHtuwsUeRw
*heh* Looks like ya did it poifectly, TW…! 😉
So I discovered. 😉
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Speaking of al-Sisi and Egypt, dubs…! Obama: Sisi is taking Egypt away from democracy
What a traitor, eh…? Egypt Mends Fences with Hamas
here’s one that she wrote………
We were so close, there was no room
We bled inside each other’s wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KHEsqAZVA
C’mon, starry, I’ve taught ya better than that…! 😉
Time for me to say g’night, folks.
Mahalo, CT, for posting and hosting still another night! 🙂
Always a pleasure, TW, despite the trollish dickheads interceding from time-to-time…! 😉
forgive me?
can’t much take Egypt away from democracy ’cause there never was any or anyone in power there who was interested in it.
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yeah, use Breitbart as a source.
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I’ll always forgive ya ,starry, as long as I have some inkling what you’re trying to link to… FaceDL Download Best Videos Doesn’t quite cut it…! 😉
Never forget: Don’t feed trolls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KP9PNSUME4
Oh snap, I’m so insulted, dubs…! 😉
I ain’t insulting you, tut.
…unless you seriously believe in Breitbart.
and if you do, I can’t insult you.
Robbie Robertson is a hell of a musician.
nice one.
Sorry, I’ve been slipping lately, TW…! It is mighty hard when they’re in your face day-after-day…! 8-(
Do you have any glimmer of what media I scrutinize daily, dub…? I challenge ya to count all the different sources I’ve utilized on this thread alone, muchless, what I’ve cited in the last 24 hrs…! Get a f*cking grip on reality…! 8-(
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A Lullabye for the pups… https://youtu.be/KD65CjW_P5A
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don’t care what you scrutinize, you’re still posting crap from crap sites…… some people pick diamonds out of the shit, you ain’t picking too many diamonds.
and still I really can’t believe that you would be serious about quoting something in Breitbart……
you really are cheating yourself and anyone who takes your crap seriously when you quote a distortion in Breitbart of a Haaretz story.
no one trained you as an historian if you are as sloppy as that in your methodology. you take the ten minutes and check the original …or you make a fool of yourself.
” Top Egyptian intelligence officers met recently with senior Hamas officials from outside the Gaza Strip to discuss the poor relations between Egypt and the Strip’s Hamas regime, senior officials of the Islamist organization confirmed on Tuesday.”
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/.premium-1.660452
they met…nothing was mended. the borders aren’t opening and Hamas remains listed as a terrorist group….and Hamas will still kill Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai if they can.
One last toob for the nite… https://youtu.be/_nS-QeM2ne8
sweeet dreams all
i’m not a troll, i,m not a troll, i’m not a troll
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g’night tut
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come on dub, pick up your game
well if you can prove that those body parts belong to one person. i’ will resend my past comment
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good god, please don’t,don’t,don’t
tuttle you have done good
well, a thought crossed my mind, i’ve never seen a bauld indian, we’re talking native, american. what’s with that
heh, like a little angst with my thread
more sane
oh, one more thing. if you want to start a revolution i’m in
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long time no see
And of course the USA deserves all the benefit of the doubt. No one else does, just you. Because you never lied!
guessing and hoping to blame either the uS or other party is witless…..
either someone will investigate and use fact and science to determine the causes ..or not