Above, from the Calkin Family website, Harry Roy and his Band on the Alcantara, April 1938, with bass player Arthur Calkin on the right. Hear them play Mama Don’t Want No Rice an’ Peas or Coconut Oil.
Below the fold, tweets on phone hacking, Wikileaks, Libya, Syria, film, music, comics, and ships.
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Gush Shalom challenges the Israeli law which bans settlement boycott: “Gush Shalom petitions the Supreme Court: ... http://bit.ly/q12VP2
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#UN Sec Council finally condemns #Syria violence -- but protestor attacks against embassies, not govt attacks against civilians
Pyrotechnics at itchfilm.com today, re-enacting Ralph Steadman adventures with Hunter S Thompson at the America's Cup. Not many hurt.
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@neillcameron Never used MS. Do you have to keep letters on black plate to make foreign editions easier to produce? Is InDesign an option?
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"When you were a boy, did you want to grow up to become this?" #NOTW - MT @hurryupharry A Comment By Paul Gambaccini bit.ly/nxkPa4
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Belle de Jour author suspects Sunday Times of hacking her computer in 2005 sexonomics-uk.blogspot.com/2011/07/and-no… via @eamonnmcdonagh
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@punkyscudmonkey Key legal difference between #NOTW and Guardian Wikileaks stories is The Guardian didn't commission crime / pay hacker.
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@punkyscudmonkey Think both @arusbridger & @Bynickdavies public on Wikileaks problems. Shouldn't avoid issues just because approve targets.
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@punkyscudmonkey And testing power was #NOTW justification for intruding on acceptable victims, until caught hacking unacceptable victims.
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@punkyscudmonkey Wikileaks testing power? Not in Belarus: indexoncensorship.org/2011/02/wikile… to its credit also covered by Guardian guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan…
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.@punkyscudmonkey @chrisalbon Yes, @GuidoFawkes spins it as question, but Hitchens gives answer approving @ARusbridger - slate.me/pVaPMT
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@punkyscudmonkey ...as with issue of exposing Zimbabwe opposition to peril - highlighted previously by @chrisalbon
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@punkyscudmonkey @chrisalbon Hacking US Govt not viscerally objectionable as hacking murder victim phone, but moral/legal issues present...
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@punkyscudmonkey @chrisalbon Think it's notable that #NOTW got easier ride when it was about hacking royals, celebs, but crime was the same.
chrisalbon Christopher R. Albon
by kelliestrom
RT @GuidoFawkes: Chris Hitchens asks if @ARusbridger disapproves of hacking why did he publish thousands of emails stolen via Wikileaks?
by kelliestrom
On this day in 1995: Srebrenica, a "Safe Area" http://wp.me/pgCTE-yD
Nix the coconut oil youtu.be/CFiWZJvEzlA Harry Roy & His Band
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@BSyria The bbc.co.uk/news/ site is oddly constrained - doesn't reflect full scale of BBC newsgathering across radio & TV.
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@Krizanovich Bowers was (that much debased word) a visionary. My daughter loves this one http://bit.ly/goyCP8 (via @kelliestrom)
Krizanovich Karen Krizanovich
by kelliestrom
Charley Bowers - the unknown silent #film genius http://awe.sm/5OWcR
Mick Hartley post Lusitania 1908 mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2011/07/l… and Winsor McCay's 1918 animated short The Sinking of the Lusitania archive.org/details/Sinkin…
by kelliestrom
'UKBA don't understand writers and artists, or the value of art and literature to the UK economy and society' bit.ly/ql69gx
Trashy Sunday - Cristina cover of Blue Money youtu.be/fu2ze54PcTA by Van Morrison youtu.be/S4EWtcwaVdQ
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"I became one 12 months later" MT @punkyscudmonkey "I asked about ethics, Murdoch called me a wanker" bit.ly/o1ga0i #NotW #SundayTimes
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US contractor accused of 100s of 1,000 $ unpaid debts to #Afghanistan locals moves on to #Tunisia tiny.cc/nu79k Via @erinmcunningham
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From #NOTW to @WSJ - RT @PatrickOsgood Interesting report on how liar Les Hinton could be for the chop reut.rs/oyA9ln via @reuters
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@normblog Beyond (3/3) on evolutionary origin aversion, see evolution as engine of new potentials not limits. Origin is start point not end.
I see it as human morality = evolutionary experiment. Our role: "to own self be true," live & test it (3/3) RT @normblog bit.ly/pfj5x2
& competing drives to benefit individual or group or species, varying in each us, is good for species (2/3) RT @normblog bit.ly/pfj5x2
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Not convinced by conclusion! Why should rationales be true causes of action? (1/3) RT @normblog The sources of altruism. bit.ly/pfj5x2
by kelliestrom
RT @katehorgan: Working for #NOTW, I used to wonder why the UK 'IT dept' kept 'losing' masses of archived emails over last year. Now I know.
Glinner Graham Linehan
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RT: @wanjipene: this dispels some of the 'blameless innocents' myth surrounding notw journalists bit.ly/nRIQK6
Many tweeting Peter Oborne in Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ph… with good reason: "Cameron is still unable to extract himself from the sewer.."
by kelliestrom
"Tony Blair rang Gordon Brown to try to persuade the PM to stop Labour MP Tom Watson raising the issue of phone hacking" tgr.ph/n9xa4Q
by kelliestrom
The websites thesunonsunday.co.uk & sunonsunday.co.uk are both now registered to News International #NOTW
@markweston71 Been getting spam DMs from your account - think you need to change your password.
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And @AeronAlfrey said #FF @jlmacnair @TokyoScum @wurzeltod @NathanSpoor @jackteagle @snailbooty @samharkham @JimKazanjian ... so I did.
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Cameron decision to hire #notw Coulson "looks at best spectacularly naive and at worst venal" globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/07/08/fal… via @catherine_mayer
As Cameron repeated "second chance" soundbite, didn't say what he knew of second chance #notw Coulson gave Jonathan Rees guardian.co.uk/media/blog/201…
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Eyewitness: 15 wounded in Damascus enduringamerica.com/home/2011/7/8/… RT @nadimhoury OMG...close range shooting in Meedan #Damascus. youtube.com/watch?v=aFM9no…
Reciprocal #ff to fine & friendly @bobfrombrockley @citizen_sane & @normblog with a gentle melody raymondscott.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-fr… from @_Raymond_Scott_
Tripoli Libya, regular night-time attacks by rebels, more journalists (Guardian, Telegraph) expelled for reporting them: guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011…
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Flowers for US Ambassador Ford in Hama, Syria youtu.be/FNIk_bRweH4 via @Brian_Whit More here guardian.co.uk/world/middle-e… and here enduringamerica.com/home/2011/7/8/…
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Nick Cohen on Johann Hari and the anonymous attacks against his critics on Wikipedia spectator.co.uk/politics/all/7… via @MaxDunbar1
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Cameron's robot answer on Coulson MT @clemencybh @fieldproducer he's got to stop repeating 'the second chance didn't work out' - weak #NOTW
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@neillcameron Also the Science Museum Kensington has a really great collection of ship models from all eras.
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@neillcameron If you've time to visit goldenhinde.com London might be useful, ships got bigger over next 2 Cs, but principle the same.
Did Cameron personally save Rebekah Brooks' job? heresycorner.blogspot.com/2011/07/did-da…
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@neillcameron I think these are the essentials for each sail sadiethepilot.com/aaweb/blogpix1… but I missed a couple here all the same sadiethepilot.com/samples/abc_6_…
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@neillcameron What kind of ship is it?
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@ianarchiebeck Very odd timing that the BBC are now filming a version of The Borrowers for Christmas broadcast. Ghibli trailer is wonderful.
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@neillcameron The years I've spent drawing rigging...
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"begged.. Cameron to intercede on her behalf"?! MT @Johndogsongs #notw Private Eye: Rupe asked Brooks to resign in Jan. private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?s…
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@tomgauld Nice thing about Milly Molly Mandy stories is they always seem to follow map precisely, part of their neat circle-closing pattern.
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@tomgauld My friend @pietschreuders has long interest in Dell mapbacks, see ISBNs 9064503044 & 0907080189 His own maps: pietschreuders.com
by kelliestrom
Nick Cohen once argued that Peter Oborne was unduly soft on Cameron, having ripped into Blair. Not any more. tgr.ph/qlUX2W
by kelliestrom
Looks like it might be time to stop getting the Sunday Times, which will cut our newspaper buying down to.... none. Bah.
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His Miss Egypt fantasy on page 2 is priceless. RT @bungdan new post: Julian Assange, the man who saved egypt. bit.ly/iDDRtG
by kelliestrom
“@bungdan: new post: Julian Assange, the man who saved egypt. bit.ly/iDDRtG” CSM's Dan takes Assange's #Egypt credentials to task.
@abumuqawama Try it this way, If you can NOT be held responsible in a court of law, what incentive then to uphold law? Shame alone failed.
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.@abumuqawama So, you're not saying military should not be held accountable, but it's unhelpful when they are? Grief. cnas.org/blogs/abumuqaw…
pdanahar Paul Danahar
by kelliestrom
#feb17 rebels in #Misrata #Libya say have 11 dead and dozens injured fighting #Gaddafi troops. Say pushed forward 7km & aim to hold gains
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No, trouble is NOT that we're missing a scaled up model horse RT @SluggerOToole Latest: "The trouble with public art..." bit.ly/mf7cNV
Open mic tonight at Carnivale, 2 White Church Lane London E1, @Johndogsongs tells me he'll be there: carnivale.co.uk/Carnivale/EVEN…
by kelliestrom
February 21st - Tripoli's Long Night http://bit.ly/koMvHb
The Cleric, a tale of a taxi ride in Khuzestan sidewalklyrics.com/?p=7618 from Pedestrian.
This song, written a while back by @Johndogsongs , fits today's headlines on newspaper phone hacking all too well: raymondbutler.bandcamp.com/track/leave-my…
from previous tweet.. '81 Pro-Tesco Shantalla/Newcastle Shopping Centre Committee chair was SFWP candidate archive.advertiser.ie/pages/view.php… @JohnRentoul
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When Sinn Fein the Workers Party campaigned for Tesco archive.advertiser.ie/pages/view.php… Re. @JohnRentoul on Tesco and the Left ind.pn/mEa9Vz
4th July blogpost from '09, Gumby crosses the Delaware airforceamazons.blogspot.com/2009/07/gumby-… Related @dangerroom Gumby in Iraq wired.com/dangerroom/201… (7th image)
Meaning is for wimps.. monday morning nihilism from 1980: youtu.be/AybvLztacFM Christina sings "Is that all there is?" Via @Johndogsongs
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@JuliesThinkTank Having met @michaelezra I'm more convinced of his existence than I am of my own.
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Slow learner: Chávez loses Chomsky's support over jailing of Judge María Lourdes Afiuni j.mp/l2mHKO via @SaloumehZ @pettybooshwah
Agog. I'd missed this guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/… on Ed Milliband interview by @damongreenITV - via The @bobfrombrockley Daily bit.ly/eSvqH7
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Fury. RT @OpheliaBenson Terry Glavin on post-pullout Afghanistan dlvr.it/YjRV7
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What self-publishers miss out on, poor saps. RT @missdaisyfrost Best post of the month about marketing a book. Classic. nyr.kr/jZqm0K
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@MirabilisDave Nice post, and I spotted a neighbour in the ad - in grey, not red!
The Blades, Ghost of a Chance: "..this situation doesn't need interpretation..." love, heartache and #UN debates youtu.be/htRJdw-7j4c
"It's very difficult for the artist himself to admit that it's not going to happen." Paul Cleary of The Blades: youtu.be/Tl7Ku7AW9RA
Saturday pyromania from The Ink Spots youtu.be/k7AZIvDD5Lw Spike Jones youtu.be/Is8ZtFGTHmo and Carl Barks coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+…
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Mokhtar Milad Fernana talks to Deutsche Welle MT @Kathphlox Interview with main rebel commander of #Libya western front goo.gl/mbxqY
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Short version, ABC News MidEast Memo MT @Lara a week in the Middle East - summary on #Syria #Iran #Libya #Bahrain #Egypt blogs.abcnews.com/mideastmemo/20…
Glenn Carle, ex-CIA @dangerroom : Almost no conceivable circumstance in which enhanced interrogation acceptable or works wired.com/dangerroom/201…
krmaher katherine maher
by kelliestrom
And lasting commitment to the African continent. RT @columlynch: On road to Nairobi airport, a sign of China's presence bit.ly/9QX1eW
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Tiny squirrel monkey strapped into capsule for space travel, and more: RT @kraftgenie Weimar Art - Mad Science weimarart.blogspot.com/2011/07/mad-sc…
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@InkSptsGulliver Typo in your most recent post, "June 22, 2001" should be 2011?
by kelliestrom
Tripoli pipeline attack signals 'endgame' for Gaddafi - #libya #feb17 - libyafeb17.com/2011/07/tripol…
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@citizen_sane What, Christmas '09 already? Good gravy, the decade's nearly over.
Amnesty, Gita Sahgal, Cageprisoners & why good campaigning lawyers make bad judges MT @MaxDunbar1 Amnesty's moral crisis tinyurl.com/6ak7wou
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