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Declare Independence!

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I have not hidden the fact that I LOVE Scotland: http://actoker.blogspot.com.tr/search/label/scotland Reading Ulysses, which is set just before Irish home rule, all the independence process feels very familiar. I hope Scotland's story ends similar to Ireland.  Just like Björk says for Grönland: Declare independence! Don't let them do that to you! Declare independence! Don't let them do that to you! Damn colonists Ignore their patronizing Tear off their blindfolds Open their eyes DECLARE INDEPENDENCE!

Teenage dreams, so hard to beat

For those who are not familiar with him, John Peel was a legendary British radio broadcaster, who with his Peel Sessions which he ran unstopped between 1967 until his death 2004, helped so many bands from all sorts of genres. I I came across Peel Sessions site on BBC Radio 1, which reminded me his favorite song Teenage Kicks by the Undertones. It is the only song that he played two times in a row in a show. On a time when most of us asking serious questions about the meaning of dreams and the realities in life, it is a good song to sing to... "I can't listen to it now without getting all dewy-eyed. And if I play it on the radio, I have to segue it into the front of another record because I can't speak after I've heard it." John Peel on Teenage Kicks

Price of Justice

"Mister X's wife got a £170,000 Rolls-Royce as a birthday present. " " She and her entourage had a chartered Boeing 747 cargo plane laid on to fly home their shopping. " "Mister X's son enjoyed a £99,000 skiing trip in Colorado for himself and his friends while the Mister X's daughter got a video of her wedding costing almost £200,000." "All paid for by Company Y." Mister X is a Saudi Prince, and Company Y is the British Defense Giant BAE Systems . And the money was paid under the counter to guarantee the most lucrative defense deal in UK History. These allegations were covered in BBC . So British legal authorities stepped into the case to investigate these claims. Something that is expected from a country promoting Democracy and openness in the world. Then... Then the money won. Saudi's got angry and threatened to cancel contracts. The defense industry told the government that thousands of UK jobs were under threat (everyone kno...