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for Norma Cole

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Retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner’s Century Foundation‘s report The End of the “Summer of Diplomacy”: Assessing U.S. Military Options on Iran is worth a read (download pdf file here. This is the third paragraph of the introduction:

Unfortunately, the military option does not make sense. When I discuss the possibility of an American military strike on Iran with my European friends, they invariably point out that an armed confrontation does not make sense— that it would be unlikely to yield any of the results that American policymakers do want, and that it would be highly likely to yield results that they do not. I tell them they cannot understand U.S. policy if they insist on passing options through that filter. The “making sense” filter was not applied over the past four years for Iraq, and it is unlikely to be applied in evaluating whether to attack Iran.

52800 0432PM Keith Fullerton Whitman Birdsightings
Political Mysticism Make Believe Of Course (thanks, Justin)
Tune Three AMM Tunes Without Measure or End
Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde Outtakes
Track 3 Scrambled Eggs Nevermind Where, Just Drive
Dick in Dixie Hank Williams III Straight to Hell
7 inch EP B side Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Cornelius Cardew
Goodbye Suicide Nicky Wire I Killed The Zeitgeist
Say It Isn’t So Benny Goodman Quartet Together Again!
Voice of the Turtle

Direct download: rodbir.mp3

Unsourced news from Lebanon.

(1) Getting a fragment of brazil nut out from between my teeth.
(2) Sean Bonney’s pieces in Issue 6 of onedit.
(3) Reading that Bush started a sentence with “It is unacceptable to think…..”
(4) A copy of Jean Day’s ENTHUSIAM Odes & Otium in the post.

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The Princeton report on the Diebold electronic voting machine is worth a read, particularly as the intention is to introduce some forms of electronic voting in the UK possibly by 2008 and certainly by 2011. We know the Goverment’s technical expertise…..

from Stratfor today:

It is little wonder, then, that the Bush administration last week proposed draft legislation that would exempt CIA officers and other civilian government employees from prosecution and lawsuits related to the treatment of terrorist suspects in U.S. custody. Meanwhile, a number of former and current CIA employees have purchased private liability insurance to cover potential legal expenses and to protect against any civil judgments that could bankrupt them personally.

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God Only Knows The Beach Boys Rehearsal 1967
Jump Up Howard Riley, John Tilbury, Keith Tippett Another Part Of The Story
African Dream Young Tiger London is the Place for Me 4
Modulana We The Square Root of Negative One
Love Will Tear Us Apart Susanna and the Magical Orchestra Melody Mountain
Another Wave More Waves Wadada Leo Smith Tao-Njia
The Pilgrim Ch.33 (with Kris Kristofferson) Jerry Lee Lewis Last Man Standing
Direct Download: trous.mp3

possibly the first smart move by a sports star
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I’ve uploaded an mp3 of piero heliczer reading as no-one seemed to have anything. It’s from a cassette tape made from a reel-to-reel recorded probably in Anselm Hollo’s flat in London (the baby in the background doesn’t sound like one of ours) in the early 1960s. The poems read are:

00.00 minutes
You Coul Hear the Snow Dripping and Falling into the Deer’s Mouth
06.00 minutes
England
14.00 minutes
English Girls
18.00 minutes
Paris – a Scenario for a Silent Movie (first 60 seconds distorted, even after work)
26.00 minutes
America
29.00 minutes
a few fragments

The mp3 should play through, or you can download it for personal use.

piero heliczer webpage

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Earth Angel Rosie and the Originals
Passion Flower Elvin Jones Very R.A.R.E.
Living in a Dangerous Time Little Axe Champagne & Grits
Sacred Song Roswell Rudd NYC Live 5/76
Zip A Dee Doo Da Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans Back To Mono (1958-1969)

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from Armando Iannucci’s Time Trumpet