Lark to Africa descends into Somali nightmare
The News Review:
- Lark to Africa descends into Somali nightmare
- Blackout threat for music thieves
- Two bombers attack US targets in Morocco
- From Hello Darlin’ to Up 2 Di Time …
- Doyle crafts another perfect period piece
- CNN: SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
Lark to Africa descends into Somali nightmare
International Herald Tribune – Apr 15, 2007
They grilled her, to name any extremists she knew in Sweden. In general, European countries are worried about home-grown terrorist cells, akin to those that carried out the attacks in Madrid and London. The interrogators said her boyfriend had recruited jihadists in Denmark in 2004. “I told them they were stupid,” she said. Her boyfriend wasn't a Muslim in 2004, and had never been to Denmark, she told them. Her manner of standing up to the Ethiopians and interrogators earned her the nickname “crazy Inge” by other prisoners, she said.
Blackout threat for music thieves
NEWS.com.au – Apr 15, 2007
The remarkable plunge mirrors the US experience. Last week, however, recording industry body ARIA put out a press release attempting to put a positive spin on the state of the industry. Overall, CD sales revenue in 2006 fell by more than five per cent, yet ARIA focused on the growth in legitimate digital downloads, and the strong showing last year by home-grown acts. The industry is now targeting those who repeatedly download music without paying. Sabiene Heindl, general manager of the music industry’s piracy unit MIPI, said record labels could trace people who illegally downloaded music via so-called peer-to-peer websites such as LimeWire. They could also identify which songs were being illegally swapped. "We can tell the ISPs the time and date people were engaging in this conduct, and what song was being downloaded," she said.
Two bombers attack US targets in Morocco
The Age – Apr 15, 2007
Witnesses said the first blast happened about six metres fromthe cultural centre and the second went off about 20 seconds later60 metres away from the consulate. The government has said it was on alert for a gang who plannedto blow up foreign ships docking at Casablanca’s port and hotels inMorocco’s main tourist cities. The Rabat government says the bombers were “home-grown”militants with no links to international terror networks. However, analyst Miloud Belkadi said the targets of yesterday’sbombings set them apart from those of Tuesday which were clearlydetonated as a tactic to deny pursuing police. “The bombing today underscores links with al Qaeda strategyfocusing on US targets. They are different from the suicide bomberskilling themselves in slums,” he said. The killings of the suicide bombers followed bombings inneighbouring Algeria this week where 33 people were killed inattacks claimed by an Islamist armed group known as the al QaedaOrganisation on the Islamic Maghreb.
From Hello Darlin’ to Up 2 Di Time …
Jamaica Observer – Apr 15, 2007
Among best-remembered highlights of the era are several albums from Eek-A-Mouse (including the classic Wa Do Dem), 10 albums from Yellowman (including his most famous, Zungguzungguguzungguzeng), Josey Wales’ The Outlaw Josey Wales, Johnny Osbourne’s Water Pumping, Junior Reid’s debut, Boom Shack A Lack, and Frankie Paul’s early success Pass The Tu-Sheng-Peng. At the same time, the company continued to provide for the more traditional end of the reggae market with classic roots material like Hugh Mundell’s Africa Must Be Free By 1983, Jacob Miller’s Who Say Jah No Dread, Ras Michael’s Rastafari and albums from Burning Spear, Ini Kamoze, Augustus Pablo and Israel Vibration. An eight-year period of home-grown productions reached its peak with Tippa Irie’s UK Top 30 hit Hello Darlin’ in 1986. Other Greensleeves UK acts to score heavily were Pato Banton, whose Secret Thunderbird Drinker remains a cult classic, and reggae-rapping duo Clint Eastwood & General Saint who were highly successful with Another One Bites The Dust (nine weeks at Number one in the UK reggae charts) and Stop That Train (Number three in the national charts in Holland). Greensleeves was quick to embrace the new digital music from 1986 onwards, issuing Wayne Smith’s Under Me Sleng Teng, the record that started it all. In 1988 Gregory Isaacs’ Rumours single (a Gussie Clarke production) was the best-selling reggae record of 1988 and created a new hi-tech raggamuffin genre all on its own. For the next two years, Clarke’s productions on records by Isaacs, JC Lodge, Dennis Brown, Home T, Cocoa Tea, Shabba Ranks, and Greensleeves’ own signing, Deborahe Glasgow, dominated both the label and the reggae world… Greensleeves was quick to embrace the new digital music from 1986 onwards, issuing Wayne Smith’s Under Me Sleng Teng, the record that started it all. In 1988 Gregory Isaacs’ Rumours single (a Gussie Clarke production) was the best-selling reggae record of 1988 and created a new hi-tech raggamuffin genre all on its own. For the next two years, Clarke’s productions on records by Isaacs, JC Lodge, Dennis Brown, Home T, Cocoa Tea, Shabba Ranks, and Greensleeves’ own signing, Deborahe Glasgow, dominated both the label and the reggae world. For several years, Greensleeves licensed the leading American reggae label RAS, with releases from Black Uhuru (including a UK Top 50 entry for Great Train Robbery), Freddie McGregor and Israel Vibration. A world music series, including three albums from Zouk masters Kassav, came out in the late ’80s. In the early ’90s, the NYC connection deepened and productions like Shaggy’s career-launching cover of the Folkes Brothers’ Oh Carolina reached the UK Number one slot in March 1993.
Doyle crafts another perfect period piece
Toronto Star – Apr 15, 2007
Deirdre Baker
What could be more promising at this time of year than a novel entitled Pure Spring?And Brian Doyle’s Pure Spring (Groundwood, 159 pages, $18. 95, ages 11 to 15) amply fulfils its promise of seasonal exuberance, the best of drinks and the kind of energetic leap in the writing that makes Doyle one of the best kids’ writers in Canada. Martin O’Boy, who first appeared in Doyle’s 2004 novel Boy O’Boy, is 15 now and starting a new job: He helps deliver cases of soft drinks made and bottled by Ottawa’s home-grown soft drink company, Pure Spring. The first day on the job, his workmate and superior, Randy, gets Martin involved in stealing and blackmails him into secrecy. But Martin isn’t about to succumb to the tricks of the aptly named Randy, "whose brainpan needs to be hosed out with industrial-strength disinfectant" and whose vile mind is as creepy as any Doyle has imagined. Martin has his great love, beautiful Gerty McDowell, on his side and also the wise, eccentric guardian Grampa Rip. Together, the three of them are more than a match for the morally depraved… " A description of the water cycle and how all life depends upon it is only the beginning for Strauss. The point here is how much – how much of the Earth’s water is in oceans, in ice caps and glaciers, in groundwater, the atmosphere, lakes and so on. How much is salt (97 per cent); how much is fresh (3 per cent). How much garbage goes into Earth’s water each day (1. 8 million tons); how much water it takes to produce one fast food lunch (5,200 litres). How much is used at home (10 per cent); how much by industry (21 per cent); how much by agriculture (69 per cent). And always, the reminder that although the population is growing, the amount of earth’s water is fixed.
CNN: SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT
CNN International – Apr 15, 2007
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can hear and see the choppers. ANNONCER: Now, Amanpour reports. AMANPOUR: It’s been dubbed Londonistan, the hidden world of London’s home-grown Islamic extremists. They are a tiny minority of Britain’s 1. 6 million Muslims, but they have no trouble getting their voices heard. ANJEM CHOUDARY, MUSLIM RADICAL: One day, you will conquer Rome! One day, one day you will conquer the White House! AMANPOUR: Anjem Choudary is the public face of Islamic extremism in Britain. His group, Amwar Jaroun (ph) disbanded before the British government could outlaw it under its new anti-terrorism rules, but that hasn’t shut Choudary up… If the British-born Muslims really want to do something to stop people damaging Islam, then start reading up on your book, explain it to your children, come out of your denial phase. They only conspirers against Islam, at the moment, right? And the biggest threat to Islam at the moment is our enemies within. (END VIDEOTAPE) MUSIC VIDEO: Gonna build a dirty bomb, use the spirit of religion and education. AMANPOUR: Bombs and in the backlash, seeping even into song, how far will it go? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MUSIC VIDEO: I reject your truth because it’s all a lie, reject your proof, like American pie. AMANPOUR (voice over): Rejection has been Aki Nawaz’s thing since the days of punk rock. His latest blast against the system and his angry new album, sum up what many young British Muslims reject today, the war in Iraq, the war against terror, and all its infamous abuses. SINGER: Reject war and terror AMANPOUR (on camera): Why is the cover of your album so provocative? AKI NAWAZ, DIRECTOR, NATION RECORDS: It’s provocative because I find, now it represents American foreign policy, which is far more provocative than any other piece of artwork has ever been.