Desmond Dekker played at my local university (Leeds) earlier this month. We saw the posters and planned to go but messed up the dates and missed it.
15 days later the man is DEAD. Last gig he did too.
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Desmond Dekker Dead
May 26th, 2006Tags: death, desmond dekker, gig, leeds, reggae, ska -
Chávez is a threat
May 15th, 2006Tags: Chávez, democracy, hugo Chávez, latin america, propaganda, tony blair, venezuelaChávez is a threat because he offers the alternative of a decent society.
Fact-deprived attacks on Chávez in the Times and the Financial Times this week, each with that peculiar malice reserved for true dissenters from Thatcher’s and Blair’s one true way, follow a travesty of journalism on Channel 4 News last month, which effectively accused the Venezuelan president of plotting to make nuclear weapons with Iran, an absurd fantasy.
In contrast, Tony Blair, a patrician with no equivalent democratic record, having been elected by a fifth of those eligible to vote and having caused the violent death of tens of thousands of Iraqis, is allowed to continue spinning his truly absurd political survival tale.
John Pilger - http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13026.htm
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Stolen scooter in Canal
May 13th, 2006Tags: armley, canal, leeds, rust, rusty, scooter, stolen
John Leach is a human being living in Leeds, UK.