Wednesday, June 13, 2007

A MIXED BAG OF MID WEEK NEWS

Jon Regen's “Let It Go” Available Now - Featuring Andy Summers of the Police, Martha Wainwright, & Other Special Guests!
All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=14158
Jon Regen's long-awaited new album LET IT GO is available online now.

Police Aren't Copping to Rumors of Discord
San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_6128568?source=rss
Stewart Copeland says that for 20 years, he resisted approaching Sting about getting their band back together.

Sean Bean’s Commons Fight
The Sun – UK
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007270240,00.html

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British actor Sean Bean stands with Sheffield United supporters before leading a delegation to Parliament to protest the way Sheffield United football team were relegated from the Premiership, in central London, Wednesday June 13, 2007. Sheffield supporters said rivals West Ham United should have lost points and been relegated instead for using a player who was not properly registered. (AP Photo/Str)

Sean Bean Leads Football Protest
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/6747441.stm

Democratic Dinosaurs in DC Are Holding Us Back
Arianna Huffington
http://www.alternet.org/stories/53951/
While the rest of the country is dealing with the here and now -- exemplified by Bush's puny approval ratings and a new poll showing rural voters turning against the GOP's handling of Iraq -- the Beltway's Democratic dinosaurs are acting like it's 2002.

US Congress Urged to Support Permanent UN Forcehttp://www.democracyinaction.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tUgL1zpfIYKPNblzDqMnH75%2BRxHvISTe

The Rich Are Making the Poor Poorer
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/53962/
A bloated overclass can drag down a society as surely as a swelling underclass. A great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor.

Good Riddance Attention Whore
Cindy Sheehan Commentary
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/29/1495/

[Duchess Note – Bravo Cindy! Tell it like it is and bring forth the truth. Apparently there are folk on the “left” can’t handle the truth and whine like many Republicans. Why can’t some people handle the truth, deal with it, and rise above it all to be better individuals?!?]

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