SINCREA : Glass no Namida

New single release from SINCREA produced by kiyo from Janne Da Arc. To be released 26/08/09 Includes application card (valid only in Japan).

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	Glass no Namida SINCREA CD | Release: 2009/08/26	ships on the release date 1429yen (US$ 14.81)
	Glass no Namida SINCREA CD | Release: 2009/08/26	ships on the release date 952yen (US$ 9.87)

heres the SINCREA : Glass no Namida Sample which was posted a while ago. credits to Rxchaxll

heidi. : Panorama

Third album by heidi.~! titled Panorama and to be released on the 23/09/09. This album features previously released singles "Orange Drama," "Tsubasa" and more for 11 tracks total. Limited edition includes bonus DVD featuring music video for "Tsubasa" and special interview.

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	Panorama [w/ DVD, Limited Edition] heidi. CD | Release: 2009/09/23	ships on the release date 3500yen (US$ 36.28)
	Panorama [Regular Edition] heidi. CD | Release: 2009/09/23	ships on the release date 3000yen (US$ 31.10)

Alice Nine : VANDALIZE Sheet Music Book

An official sheet music which includes guitar and bass tablature. Released yesterday on the 30/07/09.

LIST:
1. the beautiful name
2. ENDLESSBATTLE
3. RAINBOWS
4. Kiss twice, Kiss me deadly
5. CROSS GAME
6. Subaru
7. www.
8. Drella
9. MIRROR BALL [VANDALIZE EDITION]
10. Innocence
11. Waterfall

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VANDALIZE [Sheet Music] alice nine. BOOK | Release: 2009/07/30

within 3-7 days 3150yen (US$ 32.65)

Miyavi: Melody's Blog.

It may not have been worth it, or I was the only one interested. But it's Melody's side of the whole ordeal :]

Taken from Melody's OFFICIAL Myspace blog:

Hello everybody!!

So sorry that I couldn't write anything earlier, and you all already know but...
OUR BABY IS BORN!!!!
IT'S A GIRL!!!!!
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

She was born on July 29th 2009, at 4:40 pm!

Labor was really long, but you know what? it was totally worth it!!
She brought new meaning to my life. She is soooo precious!!!
I am sooooo thankful to have been given the chance to experience such happiness and fulfillment. Although there are so much more to come, i am just trying very hard to enjoy and experience these first few days of becoming a mother.

I will go for now, but I will post up a more detailed blog later when things settle down.
So sorry it's so short!!

Everybody, thank you sooo much for all of your prayers and wishes! I think they all helped me through!
I love you all!!

Luv,
mel

C4: Crocodile Vibration

Release Date: 2009.07.22

Tracklist:

01. -Crocodile Vibration-

02. forgetis sky～ballad ver.～

03. LOVE TRACE～ballad ver.～

04. IGNITER～ Live ver, from [-Launch on Pylebanker-]～

Download: Mediafire

Credits to Champ213 @Tainted-World

【_Vani;lla】: Nise Culture

Release date: 2009.07.22

Tracklist:

01. .....nise karuchaa

02.Rabid birthday

03.warusa

04.usotsuki

05.hacchou me idol chikako
06.kyoenai ningyo, kese nu sogai

07.Dolce

08.yuuyake rensa

09.mei

10.outo deathcussion

11.∞dreamer∞

12.nise karuchaa...

Download: Mediafire

Credits to rock_nyappy @Tainted-World

DELUHI: Two Hurt [PV]

Credits to dieddt

Heisei Ishin: Ruru

NOTE: Combination of both Type A and Type B

Release Date: 2009.07.29

Tracklist:
1.縷々-るる-　
2.Tetra (from A-Type)
2.抜け出せない領域、モノグラフ。(from B-Type)

Download: Mediafire
Credits to Champ213 @Tainted-World

Remembering the White Guard

All this is simple, as blood and sweat are:
A Tsar for a people, a people for a Tsar.
All this is clear as two's secret, shared:
Two together--the Spirit's third.
The Tsar's raised from heaven upon his throne.
This is as pure as sleep and snow.
The Tsar will climb to his throne again,
yet--All this is holy, as blood and sweat.

From The Swan’s Encampment by Marina Tsvetaeva

Having written about the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and prior to that Lenin, I now intend to let my lush romanticism fly over another of my favourite topics-the Russian White Guard. The story of the men and women of the Volunteer Army deserves to be better remembered; their courage deserves to be remembered; their determination to save their country from the likes of Lenin and Trotsky deserves to be remembered; their tragedy deserves to be remembered.

Most people, I suppose, know little about the Russian Civil War, and what little they know tends to be inaccurate. What I should say, first off, is that Bolshevik seizure of power in November 1917 was not a revolution, as commonly described, but a military putsch by a gang of murderous desperados. The real Revolution, the democratic revolution, if you prefer, came in March of that same year. A Provisional Government was formed pending the election of a Constituent Assembly, the first fully democratic body in Russian history. But when it met it was immediately dismissed by the Communists, who had received half of the vote of their nearest rivals. A new dictatorship, based on force and terror, was then put in place.

The Volunteers, a tiny band of officers of the old army, based in the far south seemed from the start to be in a hopeless position. Lavar Kornilov managed to organise a core of resistance in the city of Rostov-on-Don; but, under attack by the Reds, he was forced to abandon his position, as the White Guard retreated into the Kuban in the deep of winter. This was the beginning of the Ice March, one of the true epics of Russian history. Anton Denikin, Kornilov’s second-in-command, said of this, “We went from the dark night of spiritual slavery to unknown wandering in search of the bluebird.” In Russian folklore the bluebird is the symbol of hope.

Kornilov was killed on the march but the White Guard survived under the command of Denikin. Thousands joined, including Sergei Yakovlevich Efron, the poet Marina Tsvetaeva’s husband. The tide washed almost to the walls of Moscow. Unfortunately for Russia, unfortunately for the people of Russia, the Reds had a commanding control of the centre of the country and the rail network. The Putschists survived; the bluebird died.

On that same visit to Moscow, when I went to gawp at Lenin, or what purports to be Lenin, I also visited the grave of Anton Denikin at the Donskoy Monastery, this time in a spirit of quiet reverence.

Servant of the State; Servant of France; Servant of God

I've always found Cardinal Mazarin and intriguing and complex figure in much the same fashion as England's Cardinal Wolsey, servants of the state first and of God second.

Was Mazarin a disciple of Machiavelli? He certainly gives all of the outward signs of being so, an exponent of the arts of political realism, not over-troubled, perhaps, by more general ethical considerations. I'm not sure, though, what the alternative would have been to a policy that ensured the integrity of the French state at a point where it was threatened with political fragmentation. He was, moreover, one of the best statesmen and diplomats France ever had, guiding the country through some difficult times.

As far as religion is concerned, well, Mazarin was always more secular than spiritual, a Cardinal who never became a priest. He was no purist and no crusader, and was even prepared to do business with such noted anti-Catholics as Oliver Cromwell. It was all part of his pragmatic character, in which doctrine, and the imperatives of orthodoxy, played very little part.

Yet on his death he left 600,000 livres to help finance a crusade against the Ottoman Turks. Was this an act of a bad conscience? Perhaps; we will never know for certain. What we do know is that he was revered by Louis XIV and died a well-respected figure, unlike his unfortunate English counterpart. Of Mazarin it was said in 1661 "No one left his presence without being persuaded of his reasoning and struck by his graciousness. His intentions were good; he could never say evil of anyone...and was unable to hate even his own enemies." Not a bad epitaph.

Of Terror and Revolution

There is an interesting parallel between Stalin’s Great Terror and Mao’s Cultural Revolution, seemingly so different, but aimed at the same purpose; namely of elimination of all obstacles on the path of supreme power.

In the Terror the whole tone was set by the trial of Georgy Pyatakov, the former supporter of Trotsky and member of the Left Opposition, and the leading representative of what might be referred to as new forms of Soviet managerialism. It was this class, represented at all levels of the state apparatus, from local Soviets up to the Central Committee, that was the object of Stalin's 'Cultural Revolution', as he, Vyacheslav Molotov and Nikolai Yezhov, head of the NKVD, hinted in speeches from February 1937 onwards. The theme was consistent: there were 'wreckers', unnamed and unspecified, who were to be found everywhere, in every branch of the economy and society, overlooked by complacent Communists. Most worrying of all, for the majority, compliant and conformist, was the suggestion that not all wreckers were to be found among the ranks of the former Opposition.

Once on his feet Moloch began to feed, and to feed on the apparatus of the state itself; where 'enemies of the people' were discovered at all levels, and in all areas. The whole thing was quite subtle, in that the press campaign was essentially directed against a privileged elite, long a source of resentment among ordinary people, but one beyond criticism. Now they knew who the 'bullies' were, the people who had made their lives intolerable; now they could hate and be free in their expressions of hatred; against the old bosses, whose power had supported a lifestyle of dachas, banquets, cars, expensive clothes and luxury goods.

There was no need for a Chinese-style Red Guard; the people themselves channelled all the hatred that was necessary against targets that were acceptable. The whole atmosphere of the times, known generally as 'the year 1937', even when it gave way to 1938, was anti-elitist, anti-specialist, anti-managerial, the very same things that were later to be features of Mao's Cultural Revolution. In October of the year '37 Stalin proposed a toast to the 'little people'; for "Leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are eternal." But the people were only there as stage extras, to serve a greater purpose; and the purpose was Stalin's; and the purpose was Mao's. Political power comes not from the barrel of a gun; it comes from fear; it comes from hate

Who are the Barbarians?

I have before me the latest issue of Standpoint (July/August). It's the leader I'm looking at, headed Obama and the barbarians. It's not the main topic that I'm thinking about; rather it's the developing argument about the nature of modern barbarism, which Daniel Thomas, the editor, says comes in many forms, including Diana Mosley interrupting one of her dinner parties calling for a moment's silence in memory of Julius Streicher. It's eccentric, certainly, but was such a gesture barbarous?

Streicher was a repellent man; there is no doubt in my mind at all about that. He was the sort of man who would not be invited to sit down with civilized and cultured people at any decent dinner party. Der Stürmer, the paper he edited, is possibly the most repugnant publication ever, with its relentless cadence of hatred. Even some senior Nazis were repelled by it. Göring refused to have it in his offices and Baldur von Schirach refused to allow its distribution among the Hitler Youth.

Yes, Der Stürmer was ugly and Streicher repellent, but did he deserve to hang for being the editor, because that was effectively the chief charge, the only charge, for which he stood trial at Nuremberg? By any reasonable standard Streicher's anti-Jewish obsessions betoken some kind of deep-rooted psychological problem. The way he presented his defence, the things he said and the way he died give further evidence of this. But he was hanged while Albert Speer, in every way more culpable, survived.

Should people, be hanged, then, for expressing repellent views? Who, then, would stand in that wind? Yes, of course, one has to consider the times, the revelations that came after the Nazi state died. Nevertheless, in retrospect, I just wonder who defines the nature of barbarism. Would it have included Andrey Vyshinsky, the chief Soviet prosecutor at Nuremberg, the man behind the Moscow show trials, in every way bloodier than Streicher?

It's never easy to measure moral dilemmas in absolute terms. Perhaps Mr Thomas might remember this when he next passes judgement on the forms of barbarism

GPKISM: Barathrum [PV]

Credits to darkestlabyrinth

These people actually scare the crap out of me. But there you go, it's a release.

0801弐209336: L,S,D

Release Date: 2009.06.16

Tracklist:

01.L,S,D

Download: Mediafire

Credits to Kengo @Tainted-World

This release originally was a DVD single, hence only one song. The tracklist is a DVD rip.

Matenrou Opera: Eternal Symphony.

Release Date: 2009.07.23

Tracklist:

01. Eternal Symphony

Download: Mediafire

Thanks to Kira Zeroshiki in the CBox.

Miyavi: Another note of delivery...

Source: MusicJAPAN+

Miyavi’s Message

16:40pm, July 29th, 2009.

Baby was born safely.

It’s a pretty girl,weighing 3110g.

Because it is the first-time childbirth, we have been gone through a20-hour-long, non-stop delivery from the first labor pain started.Thanks for my family, my friends, and heart-warming people of the hospital,we successfully gave birth to our first child.And all the messages and blessings from仔雅/komiyavi around the worlddid give me a lot of courage.Thank you so much.[In English] ur comments absolutely cheered us up for sure!!

This time, I witnessed the strength and preciousness of life.I am surrounded by the feelings more than the existing words,such as “happiness” or “thankfulness”.

Life is pain,

pleasure is death.

生は苦しみであり

喜びは死である(musicJAPANplus note: Miyavi wrote the first two lines in English and repeated it with the same meaning in Japanese in the following two lines.)

It is definitely not negative but with a variety of meanings.It makes me to think about the “natural law” of living in a different way.

Woman is great.

We should respect all women,

and say “thank you” to our companion.Komiyavi, please welcome our new babyto the warm family!

Give her big big love.

[In English] Even though life is pain,

It’s wonderful.

雅-miyavi-

Rxchaxl: WOAH! Can't every man think like that.... Woman is great *cheesy grin* 8D

Vistlip: BARKS ID July 2009 Comment

Credits to Blu3S3a

I wanna play with chairs like that *sulks* >.<

D=OUT: Aoi Tori [PV] Preview

Credits to speeddiskoffice

Kouki with a guitar?! WOAH! O.o

Miyavi: Finally A Daddy.

Taken from Miyavi's OFFICIAL Myspace blog:

dear co-miyavi all over the world,thanks for ur kind messages and comments !!

my lovely baby was born finally yesterday 07/29 at 4:40 PM after 20 hours of labor at the hospital.

and lemme say sorry that i ended up putting this blog up latecuz i passed up last night right away when i came back home...

anyway now its morning here,i still totally cant believe that im a dad now.
but im sure that she is my girl !!

please welcome my daughter to co-miyavi familyand much love for u guys too !!

M

I think we all owe his a congrats, no? I just wanna know what this little girl is gonna be named now.

The Divine Sappho

Sappho of Lesbos is one of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets and one of the few female artists whose voice has been carried from the ancient world.

I have not had one word from her

Frankly I wish I were dead
When she left, she wept
a great deal; she said to me, "This parting must be
endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly."
I said, "Go, and be happy
but remember (you know
well) whom you leave shackled by love
"If you forget me, think
of our gifts to Aphrodite
and all the loveliness that we shared
"all the violet tiaras,
braided rosebuds, dill and
crocus twined around your young neck
"myrrh poured on your head
and on soft mats girls with
all that they most wished for beside them
"while no voices chanted
choruses without ours,
no woodlot bloomed in spring without song...


Please

Come back to me, Gongyla, here tonight,
You, my rose, with your Lydian lyre.
There hovers forever around you delight:
A beauty desired.
Even your garment plunders my eyes.
I am enchanted: I who once
Complained to the Cyprus-born goddess,
Whom I now beseech
Never to let this lose me grace
But rather bring you back to me:
Amongst all mortal women the one
I most wish to see.

Fragment 52

The silver moon is set;
The Pleiades are gone;
Half the long night is spent, and yet
I lie alone.

Fragment 96

She honoured you like a goddess
And delighted in your choral dance.
Now she is pre-eminent among the ladies of Lydia
As the rose-rayed moon after the sinking of the Sun
Surpasses all the stars and spreads it's light upon the sea
And the flowers of the fields
To beautify the spreading dew, freshen roses
Soft chervil and the flowering melilot .....

Restless, she remembers gentle Atthis -
Perhaps her subtle judgement is burdened
By your [ fate ] .....

For us, it is not easy to approach
Goddesses in the beauty of their form
But you ....

Take a Measure of Corpse, or a Cup of Blood

Corpse medicine was widely practiced in Europe until well into the eighteenth century; yes, it was!. Doctors were in the habit of using all sorts of substances from recently-dead bodies, anything from blood to fat, treated and dried before use, as well as powders from ground-up Egyptian mummies. It was a tradition inherited from Classical and Arab texts, and recommended by such enlightened figures as Francis Bacon, the philosopher, and John Donne, the poet.

But the usage did not stop with the dried and the desiccated, oh no. Renaissance thinkers believed that corpse medicine was the best way if imbibing the spiritual life-force of another; and there was no better way of doing this than drinking fresh blood. In the late seventeenth century Edward Taylor, a puritan minister, wrote that “…human blood, drunk warm and new is held good for the falling sickness.” Drinking hot blood was still being recommended as a treatment for epilepsy by English physicians in the mid-eighteenth century. They were all vampires then. :))

Crimes against the Germans

This is a tragic story, one that deserves to be better known; and, yes, it was a crime against humanity, which involved, sad to say, the western powers as well as the Soviets. Anyway, you will find all of the details in Giles MacDonogh's After the Reich: from the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift (London, 2007), specifically in Chapter 15, headed Where are our Men? Briefly, of the eleven million soldiers taken prisoner on or before May 1945 a million and a half never returned; most from captivity in the east, but also well over 100,000 in the west.

When Germany surrendered the Allies decided that the state had ceased to exist, so newly captured soldiers were defined as 'Surrendered Enemy Persons' or 'Disarmed Enemy Persons', which meant in practice that they had no protection as POWs under the Geneva and the Hague Conventions. Therefore almost half the soldiers taken by the British and Americans, both of whom had signed the Geneva Convention (the Russians had not), had no right to the same levels of subsistence and shelter. They were used, quite freely, as slave labour; and many died as such, while the likes of Fritz Sauckel and Albert Speer stood indicted at Nuremberg for this very crime. While the Americans were seeking to prosecute the perpetrators of the Malmedy massacre, where some hundreds of POWs had been killed by advancing SS units, anything up to 40,000, yes, 40,000, Germans were allowed to die of starvation, exposure and neglect in muddy, open-air camps scattered along the banks of the Rhine. A tragic story indeed.

Kiyoharu: Madrigal Of Decadence

Release Date: 2009.07.29

Tracklist:
1. experience
2. petty
3. my first pleasure
4. Kubiwa
5. madrigal of decadence(Secret Track)
6. Tattahitori
7. madrigal of decadence
8. Koukitsu
9. Kurutta Kaijitsu
10. innocent
11. I know
12. loved
13. Samidare
14. darlene
15. Daraku
16. ilyd
17. devil

Download: Megaupload
Thanks to Kira Zeroshiki in the CBox.

Introduction: ALSDEAD

Thanks to Miuki for sharing these guy with us.

Alsdead are a relatively unknown visual kei band that started out in the December of last year (maybe November, im not sure). They released their first single shorlty after in January entitled "Violent of Reason" which for a first impression was brilliant as it managed to show in its two tracks an ability to pull off powerful vocals or heavy sreaming with skill.

I couldnt collect much information on them but i did find an excellent review which will give you more information and a good idea of the band in general. You can read it Here (I reccomend you do). It also contains link to their websites & downloads.

Heres two song you can listen to, credits to Miuki: Link | Link

SKULL: SKIN

Brilliant band, the first song Vermilion sounded a bit o near the beginning but gets better. ALOT. And Blood is just amazing.

Release Date: 09.07.24
Tracklist:
1. Vermillion
2. Blood

Download: Mediafire

Credits to Kira Zeroshiki

Xover: Mezame [PV]

I didn't think id like this song as its a bit simple for someone other than Gackt to pull off (that's meant as a compliment to Gackt), but for some reason i love it. Maybe because Shaura/Juka has such a nice voice, which might i add reminded me of Shou from Alice Nine at quite a lot in this song. Enjoy~



Oh also, i just found out im an idiot as I've been pronouncing their name as "X" over but apparently its meant as a cross, so their name is said Crossover to those who didnt know, but i think it was just me ¬_¬

Girugamesh: So-net Music「BORDER」Comment

*coughs*, does include MUCC aswell 8D

Credits to Blu3S3a

DaizyStripper: Fashion Check

Credits to musicJAPANplus

Merry: BURST EP

Finally! I've been waiting for this 8D

Release date: 2009.7.4

Tracklist:
1.Identity
2.stupid×cupid
3.Aikoku～BURST～

Download: Megaupload
Credits to Nida @Tainted-World

ACIDMAN: A Beautiful Greed

Easily one of my favorite indie Jrock bands, i haven't listened to it yet but Carve with the Sense & Under the Rain were outstanding so im hoping it'll be good.

Release Date: 09.07.29
Tracklist:
1. A beautiful greed (introduction)
2. ±0
3. CARVE WITH THE SENSE
4. Who are you?
5. Under the rain
6. FANTASIA
7. Hoshi no Hitohira
8. HUM
9. ucess (inst.)
10. Bright & Right
11. I stand free
12. OVER

Download: Mediafire

Credits to Wind @ Nigihana

Yoshiki's Emergency Surgery

Okay im a bit late with this as it happened on Monday 27th, but heres the info anyway.

Taken from Listen the World

“Drummer, pianist and X JAPAN band leader, Yoshiki, will undergo neck surgery on Monday, July 27, 2009 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA. Dr. Neel Anand, Director of the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center, will perform a cervical foraminotomy.

Due to his intense drumming style, Yoshiki developed a worsening of his neck pain and left hand numbness over the past month, affecting his music performance. His condition has been evaluated by doctors in the U.S. and Japan. Yoshiki underwent a spinal x-ray series, an MRI of the spine, and an EMG. After seeking second and third opinions on the diagnosis and treatment, he concluded that the foraminotomy was necessary for the cervical foraminal stenosis.

Yoshiki’s primary physician at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Tommy H. Tomizawa (UCLA Assistant Professor), states that he will need a few weeks to recover from the surgery and a month or more of rehabilitation. If his condition does not improve over the next several months, laminectomy, discectomy and spinal fusion would be considered. Artificial disc placement would be another treatment of choice.”

Shugo: Boy that sounds incredibly painful! get well soon Yoshiki!

Freedom for Scotland; Independence for England

I should say, to begin with, that I love Scotland as a country: I even love some of the people! My family has a cottage in Easter Ross in the north of the country, and we went there just about every August when I was growing up. There was so much that I absorbed, so much of the history, the culture and the folklore of the place; tales of seers, and of witches; of heroes and of villains: people like Alexander Stewart, the wonderfully named Wolf of Badenoch.

I imagine that most English people really don’t know all that much about our closest neighbour and oldest partner. Well, let me begin by saying that if it wasn’t for England Scotland would not exist. Yes, I can hear those Caledonian roars! What exactly do I mean? Just this: it was medieval English aggression, most forcefully expressed during the reign of Edward I, the anti-hero of that awful Braveheart movie, which began the process of forging a specific Scottish identity, something that hardly existed before the thirteenth century.

Ever since that time the Scots have continued to define themselves less by what they are than what they are not: and what they most assuredly are not is English. But they need us, oh my goodness how they need us, and not just as a source of subsidy. For, you see, the aforesaid Scottish identity also contains a deep mood of inferiority, almost of helplessness. I simply don’t believe that the Scots will ever take that final step and break with the Union. They need us to do it for them. Let me explain.

Scotland now has its own parliament; it has for some years now. It even has an administration headed by the Scottish National Party (SNP), dedicated to something called ‘Independence in Europe’. Independence in Europe-is that not a wonderful contradiction, casting off London to embrace Brussels?! This administration is also committed to holding a referendum on the question of independence, though it seems doubtful that it will be able to press the point for the present, given that it does not hold a majority of seats and given the opposition of the other parties.

But even if there was a referendum I do not believe that the majority of Scots would vote in favour because they would then be left to face themselves; and, as I have already said, Scotland has depended too long on England for its sense of what it is and where it stands. Scotland will remain in the house, almost like an unruly and surly teenager. So, there is no other way: England has to declare independence; England has to throw the cuckoo from the nest.

Personally I would be sorry to see the end of Britain because I believe the whole has been so much greater than the sum of its parts. But think of the benefit for both nations. The Scots would at last be able to find a true identity, not one that is simply anti-English. They would, one hopes, bit by bit loose that deeply ingrained sense of national inferiority. They would have to live on their own resources-and subsidies from Brussels. They can do this, at least the SNP believes so; and who am I to argue with that?

For England it would mean that our tax subsidies would no longer flow north. Our resources would be just that-our resources. There would no longer be a danger of a Labour administration propped up in the south by votes from the north. We would no longer have the invidious situation whereby Scottish MPs can vote on English domestic policy, whereas English MPs have no say whatsoever on that of Scotland. The situation as it stands is quite intolerable. Oh, yes, we could also send Joker Brown and Eyebrows Alistair back home, where I feel sure they will make a welcome contribution to the affairs of their native land. Indeed, is there any better argument than that for English independence?

Yes, lets part as friends: freedom for Scotland and independence for England.

J’accuse

I accuse the present Labour government in England of being the most criminally incompetent we have ever had.

I accuse Tony Blair of involving my country in one of the most unjustifiable and unnecessary military adventures in our history, worse, even, than Suez. We went to war in Iraq in pursuit of non-existent terrorists and illusory weapons of mass destruction. We found a bad situation and we made it infinitely worse. We removed a secular dictator, only to allow the worst forms of fratricidal and religious conflict to emerge. Blair's administration, in its embarrassment over the lies and deceptions that took us to war in the Middle East, tried to hide the true facts, and may very well have hounded an innocent man, Dr. David Kelly, to his death. Going to war in Iraq also meant losing focus in Afghanistan, allowing the Taliban to make a major comeback, the source of our present troubles.

I accuse him of dismantling of the United Kingdom while passing ever more powers to the European super-state, a threat to English liberty in every way as great as Napoleon or Hitler. I accuse him of allowing unprecedented levels of immigration, including the arrival of thousands of bogus ‘asylum seekers’, into an already overcrowded Isle. I accuse him of losing control of the criminal justice system, presiding over the steady disintegration of social order, which continues to this day. I accuse him of introducing levels of cynicism and manipulation into British politics far in excess of any previous prime minister; he turned principle into spin, manipulating the whole system of government into his own self-serving ends. His greatest achievement-arguably his only achievement-was to give way to the utterly charmless Gordon Brown, a brilliant exercise in self-promotion, which has served to make him look good in retrospect, casting a fog over his deep moral turpitude.

I accuse Gordon ‘the Joker’ Brown, of being the worst Prime Minister of the worst government we have ever had, worse, even, than Frederick, Lord North, and that really is some achievement. I accuse him of mismanaging the economy, both as Chancellor and Prime Minister, to the point of taking this country to the threshold of bankruptcy. I accuse him of losing control of the whole banking sector, which descended into the deepest levels of fiscal irresponsibility. I accuse him of lying to the people of England about the precise causes of the present economic downturn.

I accuse him of perpetuating the Blairite culture of lies and spin, adding malice to the venomous mixture, numbering on his staff the utterly vile Damian McBride, a man with all of the poison but none of the intelligence of Josef Goebbels. I accuse him of starving the British Army of the men and equipment necessary to complete the task it has been given in Afghanistan. The fact that the army is underfunded, underequipped and understrength is contributing to the growing level of casualties.

I accuse him of surrendering even more of our sovereignty to Europe in the Lisbon Treaty, the Constitution by any other name rejected by democratic votes in both France and the Netherlands. Beyond all else, I accuse him of being absorbed by double-speak and spin, of not having the wit or the intelligence to see how meaningless his own words have become.

Oh, how I wish the Joker could be called to account for all of the cowardice, the lies and the incompetence that have been such a feature of his administration; how I wish he could be called to account in the same fashion as, say, Lord North!

To this government I would simply repeat once again the words Oliver Cromwell used in dismissing the Long Parliament in 1653;

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Kiryu: Tsuki no Hime - Moon Princess

Shattered-Tranquility.net:

Five months after their previous release (朱ク散ル僕ノ蒼 - Akaku Chiru Boku no Ao), the band’s new single will be called 「月ノ姫」 (Tsuki no Hime - Moon Princess) and will go on sale on October 21st.

The single will be available in three different versions as follows :

Type A (2100 yen) :1. 月ノ姫 (Tsuki no Hime)2. B track (Title yet to be revealed)+ a DVD containing the PV and its making-of for the title-song.

Type B (2100 yen) :1. 月ノ姫 (Tsuki no Hime)2. C track (Title yet to be revealed)+ a DVD containing 4 songs recorded during their one-man on May 15th

Type C (1575 yen) :1. 月ノ姫 (Tsuki no Hime)2. B track (Title yet to be revealed)3. C track (Title yet to be revealed)

Pre-order @Brand-X:

Type A, Type B or Type C

Off topic : Anime Autumn 2009

Anime list of autumn 2009. credits to AlfyMasamune @ cbox

I have no idea what any of the anime is about 'cept for Queens blade. which is not really my kinda anime.

LOL tamagotchi anime?

SuG: HARDなYAON 2009

Credits to mimat68




Takeru talks/shouts too much =/

SuG: Utage People [PV]?

Credits to 100SAYAKA

I'm kinda confused. I'm not too sure whether SuG are classing this as an actual PV, or it was just a joke O.o

Masato looks adorable as a vocalist, but lost without a guitar in his hand and Yuji, well...we'll just carry on laughing at him for now.

Acid Black Cherry: Yasashii Uso.

Release Date: 2009.07.29

Tracklist:

1. Yasashii Uso

2. Julia ni heartbreak【Recreation Track】

Download: Mediafire

Credits to xkimix @Tainted-World