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Ana’s Anchor – Summer Camp

Irish emo-indie act’s new single with a video shot on a hi 8 tape camera to deliver “an intentionally amateur effect”.

Marty Ryan writes:

I’ve always personally found it hilarious how the typical band video is like “Look at us, we’re cool, we’re playing in a forest!” Why would a band play in a forest? There is no electricity, or audience, it’s ridiculous…

Ana’s Anchor

Meanwhile, back in 1997…

The United Kingdom should be cut off from Europe.

Ukraine should be annexed by Russia.

The continental Russian-Islamic alliance ”lies “at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy”. The alliance is based on the “traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilization”.

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists”. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements — extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics.”

Translated excerpts from The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia by neo-fascist political scientist Aleksandr Dugin, otherwise known as “Putin’s Brain”.

Probably just coincidence.

Putin’s playbook for discrediting America and destabilizing the West (Kottke)

(Image: Quartz)

‘The Volunteers’ by Joe Caslin

Darragh Doyle writes

You may have seen some tweets or posts about the new artwork being put up this weekend in Dublin’s Trinity College Front Square.

It’s by artist Joe Caslin and when finished – which should be shortly, it will look like this…

The installation, called The Volunteers, is backed by Senator Lynn Ruane and Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin to coincide with their Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017 currently being debated in the Seanad.

Last week: Just Say Yes

Previously: Joe Caslin on Broadsheet.

Kraftwerk 3D – the German electro pioneers doing their thing* at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre this weekend.

(*mainly standing still.)

Here’s some close-up live action from the same show in Amsterdam last year.

(Pix: Oisín Kane)

This afternoon.

Mansion House, Dublin 2

Counting well underway for the Fine Gael Leadership ballot.

More as they tabulate them.

Earlier; Countdown

Leo X

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We now await the elected members’ vote…The Broadsheet Live Tracker will return after a quick cig….

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At the Mansion House.

Fine Gael’s Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (and Leo Varadkar supporter) Heather Humphreys spoke to Bryan Dobson on RTE News Now.

During the interview:

Dobson: “I mean Nora Owen [former Fine Gael justice minister and Simon Coveney supporter] was saying just a few moments ago that the rush of endorsements, by people like yourself, of Leo Varadkar, at an early stage in all of this, was resented by the membership. They felt that they were being denied their chance to have a say in this campaign. Would you accept that that was perhaps a mistake by the Varadkar camp in those early stages?”

Humphreys: “No, I don’t accept it was a mistake but of course this is a new process and this is the first time that Fine Gael has elected a leader in this way. But I was very clear at the early stages and I absolutely supported Leo as leader of Fine Gael and as our new Taoiseach. And I think I did the right thing because people would be wondering, well what is she, what way is she going to vote? And my members deserve to know exactly where I stood on it and I have consulted with many members before I made my final decision.”

From the Mansion House via RTE

Simon Coveney arrives just before the FG membership vote is announced.

Gerry O’Connell, chairman of the Fine Gael National Executive (above) announces the following tally for the Fine Gael membership, the first electoral college.

Simon Coveney: 7,051

Leo Varadkar: 3,772

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FIGHT!

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