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 Watch video I was bruised and battered and I couldn't tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself Saw my reflection in a window I didn't know my own face Oh brother are you gonna leave me wasting away On the streets of Philadelphia I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone At night I could hear the blood in my veins Just as black and whispering as the rain On the streets of Philadelphia Ain't no angel gonna greet me It's just you and I my friend And my clothes don't fit me no more I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin The night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake I can feel myself fading away So receive me brother with your faithless kiss or will we leave each other alone like this On the streets of Philadelphia | ||||||||||
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Guardian 6 Feb 2010  The wreckage of a 1998 car bombing in Newtonhamilton, County Armagh, for which the Irish National Liberation Army claimed responsibility. (Photograph: John Giles/PA) A republican paramilitary group which killed more than 120 people during the Troubles in Northern Ireland is set to announce it has decommissioned its weapons. The move by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) is expected to be confirmed by the body overseeing Northern Ireland's paramilitary weapons decomissioning. The INLA was responsible for some of the worst attacks of the Troubles, including the killing of Conservative MP Airey Neave in 1979. A republican source claimed the decommissioning happened in recent weeks. "The announcement is expected on Monday," he said. Four months ago the INLA said its "armed struggle is over" and vowed to end its 35-year campaign of violence in Northern Ireland. The group was behind one of Northern Ireland's worst atrocities when it killed 17 people in a bomb attack on the Droppin' Well pub in Ballykelly, County Derry, in 1982. | ||||||||||
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Brown and Irish PM to fly to Belfast today as talks offer end to 20-year search Nicholas Watt and Ben Quinn The Guardian Friday, 5 February 2010  DUP leader Peter Robinson said he had won the full backing of his party in the Stormont assembly for the deal. (Photograph: Paul Faith/PA) Gordon Brown and Brian Cowen, his Irish counterpart, were flying to Belfast early this morning to set the seal on an historic deal between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionists to share full power. London last night hailed the agreement, which will see policing and criminal justice powers devolved to Northern Ireland, as the final piece in the jigsaw after a search for peace lasting nearly 20 years. ( Continue reading ) | ||||||||||
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1. An adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts. 2. Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative. 3. An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion. 4. The damage caused by such fear or hatred. (wiktionary.org) As I was looking over all my friends' posts today from everywhere, I see people from various countries thousands of miles away from other countries posting things about each other as if the information contained in the entries were the gospel truth, and it is very irritating and reminds me of people I know who didn't even know when they met me that Northern Ireland is not the Republic of Ireland. It just reinforces my opinion that people will never understand each other. They will never live in peace. They will never have open minds about anything because they are raised all over the world with their own prejudices and because they never see anything else or are exposed to any other kinds of information. And even if they are, they are in no position to judge the veracity of it and their consciousness will never be truly elevated. Yet they take it upon themselves to act as experts about everything when the truth is we (myself included) will never know all the facts, never understand all the circumstances of a situation, either personal, social or global, and never be able to realise our own shortcomings no matter who or where we are because of the natural inclination of one group to feel superior to the other and to perpetrate its own ignorant sphere of influence. | ||||||||||
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**This woman expresses a belief I have long felt. It used to be the news wanted to expose evil, not glorify and revel in it. I think people are sick in the mind these days. By Jane Graham Belfast Telegraph Friday, 29 January 2010 There’s no question that every right-thinking person in the country was left heartsick after reading about the so-called ‘devil boys’ attack on two innocents last week, but equally worrying to me is the relish with which our media has rolled out the details of this sadistic act of violence since.  It was without irony that panting news journalists seized upon every morsel of graphic information about the torture of near infants like the first doughnut after Lent, then repeated each one endlessly to somehow make the point that we, the morally superior citizens of Britain, were disgusted and horrified by them.But since when was the human response to being repulsed by something to gorge on it, to conjure up increasingly colourful adjectives to describe its grotesqueries, to seek new and engaging ways to present its macabre minutiae like a list of culinary curiosities to be salivated over? I first became aware of the nuances of the Doncaster brothers’ attack on two young boys when listening to a BBC radio station covering the trial. “Can you fill us in on the details of the assault?” requested the presenter of her reporter, who proceeded to offer up the kind of stomach-clenching imagery which would ensure a X rating for any film. ( >>Continued ) | ||||||||||
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 J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had lived in seclusion for more than 50 years. He was 91. Continue reading | ||||||||||
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Hashi gave me this. It's so delicate and pretty. It's like an old-fashioned music box: Pandora Hearts - mp3
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