We are not - usually - big fans of the genre of "compilations." Too many disks assembled in haste, without a strong central theme or idea that justifies the combination of songs. Not all discs are "Nuggets" (compiled by Lenny Kaye) or "The Golden Apples Of The Sun" (compiled by Devendra Banhart), so to speak. But , enunciated the principle, are more 'than welcome exceptions especially from those who are' master of the genre. Last year we had one of the most listened to CD / appreciated had been "Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966-1970", published by Ace worthy sub-tab on his Big Beat International. Really a perfect example of how to record a collection. The label repeating the stroke in 2010, " C'est Chic! French girl singers of the 1960s " which, for fans of girls ye'-ye 'and girl-groups in general - as we are - and 'pure manna from heaven. are 24 tracks by 20 different artists, whose names belong to the elite of the pop song of France: Brigitte Bardot, France Gall, Charlotte Leslie, the divine Francoise Hardy (one of the best artists of all time, and not French) and so forth . The booklet 24 pages and 'a real wealth of data and stunning photos of an era that continues to live without solution of continuity' in our hearts. Ladies and gentlemen, now and forever, Vive la France, les filles lives! ( www.acerecords.co.uk )
Dear friends, rieccomiiiii! How are you? How you're gone this summer? I hope well. Some of you were worrying about the silence on my blog (four months without result, Wow!), But the commitments and projects I have in me dance a little overwhelmed (besides the fact that I took some well deserved rest! ). How could return to your beloved Blue Soul? I'm sure you expect to return with a nice article on the final break between Berlusconi and Fini (which I have not yet understood, but they broke 'These two or not? Certainly broke the balls to us, indeed we have the sfracassate with the history of the house in Monaco! entire summer talking about a fucking house, with all the problems that Italy! By God! I just say one thing: if they ALL go home, or in Monaco where he likes them ... Just that it is far enough away from Palazzo Chigi!), Or did you expect me to join the chorus of infinite worms in recent weeks are doing daily profiteering on poor Sarah Scazzi? What a shame and disgust. No, I come with my personal reply to certain statements that Andrea Bocelli has done on TV ... Specifically I am referring to the September 29 episode of the Matrix, in which the artist was a guest. There is nothing in advance, everything is clearly described in a letter that I wrote and that I report in its entirety. This letter I sent to the editors of The Matrix, Mediaset and being a program I have also circulated to the transmission of Barbara D'Urso and "Reservoir Dogs". Although he made reference to my artistic work and the fact that he belongs to television (I wanted him to understand that there are a fool, a man who wakes up one morning with the urge to tell her!), I have not received even half line response (maybe I'm too busy, as I said before, to make looting!). Personally, however, there was the idea of \u200b\u200bholding this sealed letter in a drawer ... So I thought I'd publish it here, share it with you, and somehow make it public. Let me know what you think, comment below the article or by email at animablu@associazionelaquilone.org. Hugs and happy reading! Blue Soul
PS: It will not be so much more time between an article and the other! Promised!
Dear Editor, Channel my name is Francis and I am an artist of 21 years Disabled ( http://www.ilsensodellavita.tv/ospiti.php?id=18&k=2 ). I write to you concerning an interview with Andrea Bocelli on September 29 last transmission Matrix. I was quite shocked of the statements of Mr. Williams, an artist who I admire a lot, however, about his being in favor of some form of special schools for disabled pupils. Beyond the fact that everyone can have opinions they want, what I find worrying is the deleterious effect that such a message can have on public opinion ... Especially if it is to launch a personality like Andrea Bocelli, with all its background of personal experience. I mean this: if to argue that special schools can be a good solution is a fully skilled assessor unknown (except perhaps in the brain ...) has some impact, but whether to support the same theory comes a disabled Andrea Bocelli ... Well, the same effect is at least a hundredfold. Even more so if there is no contradictory, equally authoritative, to support other ideas. The content supports he found himself well inside one of those institutions and the disabled that there WOULD BE definitely better. But I maintain that, despite the many difficulties that I have met, what I got and sent to the school is priceless. I am 21 years old, happily married, I have a job that I love and amazing people around me ... I love life more than anything in the world, despite being totally devoid of limbs from birth ... I can say with firm conviction, that if what I am today I owe in large part to the school and the friendships that I've grown in it and even now I carry on. I never heard a different, and even a victim of discrimination. I think that even in the classroom without teacher support, thanks to the strong feeling that was created each time with his teammates. My hands were their hands, and I gave them other things that maybe were lacking. We helped each other well, as it should always be among good friends! I just finished school studies, and the classroom environment I miss very much. I often go to speak at schools, telling my story, to converse without pretending to teach anything, and every time that I send the boys and the harmony that is born (maybe in one hour meeting) is moving . I can assure you that in my phone book Friends "disabled" are significantly higher than in the so-called friends "otherwise able "... This is because the beauty of life and human relations lies in "diversity." There is no normality, none of us is totally the same as another. Any good psychologist or educator would tell you that the proper development of a person passes through a comparison with those who are different, and even a lot, and not with those who live in similar situations. I can not even imagine how my life would have been if I had spent my school years in a facility full of sad, "people like me" rather than live them with joy and lightheartedness. Desolation find that in 2010 still have to hear about certain things, and scream strategic ideas that should be granted. I really wonder that sense it makes all the progress that man has achieved, and if progress is then really so real. E 'progress to meet in 2010 to talk about special schools which were in force in the '50s? Mah .. Do not get me to justify this nonsense is the fact that schools are not efficient enough and that the disabled are not followed as they deserve. The solution is certainly not eliminate the problem, locking the Disabled in separate structures (where I do not think, however, it would implement a better education). The solution is, if anything, reinforce the public with adequate funding (which instead today is not the case), proper training teachers ("using" the same Handicapped people), place the human being at the center of education (because if the center is not before all this, any other course is totally useless). In conclusion, let me note the hypocrisy of Andrea Bocelli (and many others like him) that are deployed across the abortion of so-called "vulnerable" (rightly so), but then that would cause the death of the Soul the same subjects by turning in a certain type of structures, which resemble both the camps. At this point I say defiantly that Hitler was more honest to apply un'eugenetica apparent, remove the "problem" at the root, rather than the hypocrites and eugenics "Psychological" put in place all day in a subtle way and infamous. Returning to the beginning of my speech, however, what matters to me is not so much the opinion of this or that. Everyone is perfectly free to have what he wants. What worries me, as I said, is the impact that media has on people. Knowing the sensitivity and attention they put into creating your transmission, I hope you can make room for stories and opinions different from those expressed by Mr. Williams, so that people can freely (as it should be) form an opinion. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely. Francesco Channel
On September 21, 2010 Member of the Italia dei Valori Antonio Borghesi has proposed the abolition of the annuity that it is only after the parliamentary term of five years as stated cha such treatment was unfair compared to that provided by the workers to be paid 40 years of contributions for entitlement to a pension. Guess what 'as it turned out! Present
Here's an excerpt of the speech presented to the House:
I think that no citizen and no worker outside of here will accept the idea that you ask, in order to perceive an annuity or a pension, to pay contributions for forty years, when there are sufficient within five years to receive an annuity. It is a distance between the real country and this institution should be reduced and avoided. It will never be acceptable to anyone that there are people who have done the lawmaker for a day - there are three - and receives more than 3.000 € / month for life. Can never accept that there are other people who were here for sixty days, dimessisi for incompatibility, who receive a living allowance of more than 3,000 € per month. There is the widow of an MP who has never physically set foot in Parliament, and yet receives a check for survivors. I think this is an issue that need to be remedied, and our proposal, which was at that bill and is in this agenda, is that you are responsible for the removal of life-annuities, both for the sitting MPs who for those left office, but asked to make contributions that we were held to the pension institution, if the member previously held a job or to the INPS fund management has created a separate taxation. This would allow everyone to aggregate those payments with others throughout his life and, according to the normal standards of every citizen and every worker would receive a pension and then subsequent to the payments made. Just the Court constitutional, with the sentence cited by colleagues Quaestors allowed instead of saying that it is not a pension, so that there are no vested rights and that, with a simple resolution of the Bureau, one could proceed in the way we proposed , which would save you the budget of the Chamber and also to all Italian citizens and taxpayers about 150 million euro per year. not have nor uitable news radio, or newspapers, or TV course.
No longer a slave to those who believe falsely of being free (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832).
Some 'years ago, the Central Bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has prepared a document entitled "Modern monetary mechanisms. This publication sets out in detail the creation of institutionalized practices of money as proposed by the Federal Reserve and the banking network commercial claims. the Welcome page, discusses the subject of the publication: "The purpose of this publication is to describe the basics of the process of money creation in a fractional reserve banking system." We proceed in the description of this system of "fractional reserve" banking through various terminologies whose translation in plain jargon may be more or less this: The U.S. government decides who needs the money. So call the Federal Reserve asking, for example, 10 billion dollars. The Fed (Federal Reserve) answered: "Okay, you buy $ 10 billion in bonds." So the government takes a few pieces of paper, We print on some official marks and calls them "Treasury bills". Then, enter a value in these securities until the preset value of 10 billion dollars and sends them to the Fed. In return, those of the Fed also print a lot of cards, only this time are called Federal Reserve notes "even giving them a value of 10 billion dollars. At this point, the Fed takes these notes and the exchange with the bonds. Once the exchange is completed, the government takes the $ 10 billion of notes from the Fed, and stores them in a bank account. With this filing, the paper notes officially become legal tender by adding $ 10 billion to the monetary base in the United States. Here guys. Ten billion of new money was created. course, this example is a simplification, because, in reality, this transaction will take place electronically, without using any paper. In fact, only 3% of the U.S. monetary base consists of currency "physical" reality. The remaining 97% exists only within the archives. Now, Treasury securities are, by their nature, debt instruments and when the Fed buys these securities, money creation, in fact, out of nowhere, the government is actually promising to return that money to the FED. In other words, that money is created through debt. This paradox that stuns the mind, of how the money or its value can be created through the mechanism of debt, it will become clearer still continuing with again an example: The exchange took place and 10 billion dollars are deposited into the account of a normal Commercial Bank. At this point the process starts to get interesting. Based on the practice of fractional reserve, that deposit of $ 10 billion of the money instantly becomes part of that bank, just like all its deposits. With regard to the requirements of this reserve, as stated in "Modern Money Market Mechanisms", "a bank must maintain reserves required by law equal to a fixed percentage of its deposits. " This percentage, then, is quantified by saying: "Based on current rules, the requirements of the reserve for most of the current accounts of 10%." This means that the deposit of $ 10 billion, 10%, amounting to a billion dollars, is retained and described as "compulsory reserve, while the remaining $ 9 billion are considered" excess reserve "that can be used as a basis for new loans. Now, it is logical to assume that these 9 billion will come from existing deposit of 10 billion dollars. However, in reality, this does not happen. What happens in reality is that 9 billion dollars are simply created from scratch based on the existing deposit of 10 billion dollars. This is the way in which the monetary base expands. As can be seen from "Modern monetary mechanisms," they (banks) do not actually make loans using the money they receive in deposit. If they did this, would not create new money. What they do, when granting a loan, is to accept promissory notes (loan agreements) in exchange for granting credit (money) on the current accounts of the borrowers. In other words, the $ 9 billion can be created out of nothing simply because there demand for that type of loan, and because there is a deposit of $ 10 billion that meets the mandatory requirements of the reserve. Now, let's say somebody comes to this bank and borrows these "new" $ 9 billion. He most likely will take the money and deposit in your bank account. The process is then repeated. That deposit will become part of the reserves of that bank, 10% will be set aside and in turn 90% of those 9 billion, or $ 8.1 billion, is now available to create new money for new loans and, of course, 8.1 billion of those dollars can be lent again and redeposited creating additional $ 29 billion and then again, $ 6.5 billion, then 5.9 billion ... etc ... This cycle of creation of money through debt, it can technically go on forever. From a rough calculation shows that you can get about $ 90 billion on the basis of the initial $ 10 billion. In other words, for every deposit that is created in the banking system, a sum of money about 9 times higher than can be generated from nothing. "You have an urgent need for money? Ask thoughtful Bank of America a can full of money in the form of a convenient personal loan. " Now, as we understand how the fractional reserve is created, should come to mind a logical question, albeit illusory: Actually, what gives value to this coin? The answer is money that already exists. The new money, in effect, stealing value to the existing currency in circulation. For each increment of the total money in circulation is an increase in demand for goods and services and, by the law of supply and demand, you get the balance, prices rise, diminishing the purchasing power of every dollar in circulation. This is generally called "inflation". L '"inflation" is nothing more than a HIDDEN TAX GROUP. What is the advice you get usually? Increase inflation, increasing the money supply. They do not say debase the currency. They do not say, diminish the value of money. Do not tell people that they are deceived. They say instead: lower the interest rate. The real trick is to distort the value of money. We create money literally out of nowhere, we have no savings. However, there is the so-called capital. So how can we, in the world, solve the problem of inflation, continuing to increase the money supply that leads to new inflation? Of course, you can not. Monetary expansion of fractional reserve banking system is inherently inflationary. The expansion of monetary base, without which there is a proportional increase in the supply of goods and services in the economy, will always decrease the real value of money in circulation. Giving a quick glance upon the historical value of the dollar compared with that of the USA, this fact is reflected in a definitive way. The inverse correlation is obvious. A dollar in 1913 corresponded to 21.6 dollars in 2007. This is a devaluation of 96%, began with the introduction of the Central Bank (96% devaluation in 94 years). Now, understand this reality because inflation is absurd and uneconomical as well as the functioning of the financial system. For our system Financial money is debt, and debt is money. ... More money circulates more and more debt is no debt, there is more money. To put it another way, every single dollar or euro you have in your portfolio, it is a debt that someone has contracted with someone else. Please note that the only way you can make money is through a loan. So, if everyone in the country were able to pay off debts, including government, no money would remain in circulation. "If there were no debts in our money system there could be no money" (Marriner Eccles - Governor of the Federal Reserve, 30/09/1941). In fact, the last time in American history the national debt was fully paid was in 1835, when President Andrew Jackson when he closed the Central Bank that existed before the Fed. In fact, the entire political program of Jackson was essentially focused on this commitment to shut down the central bank comes to declare at some point: "The tenacious efforts of the current Bank has made in order to control the government ... are not nothing more than warning signs of what awaits the American people could be fooled with the perpetuation of this type of institution or the creation of another similar institution. " Unfortunately this message was short-lived because the international bankers succeeded in setting up another central bank in 1913. And as long as this institution exists, a perpetual debt will be secured.
" Nathan Phillips Could Be a huge star ... But I guess he Would not Want That."
E 'was a recent' tweet 'by Douglas (owner of Yoga Records) that transcribe above to alert the existence of "Postcard ," published in May 2009.
Self-produced by the author, The album, available in DL, and 'was also published in an art-edition vinyl limited to 200 copies (we copy here the articulate and passionate description of the same Phillips) "... Each record includes a postcard on cover with a hand carved linoleum stamps used for the text just above. It contains lyrics, and flipped Sanded cardboard covers, a poster and a lot of family time and energy ".
There are 9 songs in total, nine postcards sent from places of nature ("Thunder Bay, Ontario", "Ohio River") and mind ("Thoughts Overheard in a diner") that goes straight to our hearts in search of peace.
Perfect for a night listening, when all silent and time seems to stand to leave enough space so that 'our thoughts' may appear on the surface deep.
We are not - usually - big fans of the genre of "compilations." Too many disks assembled in haste, without a strong central theme or idea that justifies the combination of songs. Not all discs are "Nuggets" (compiled by Lenny Kaye) or "The Golden Apples Of The Sun" (compiled by Devendra Banhart), so to speak. But 
