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Submitted 24-06-14 21:23
“People think it's crazy backstage, and it's girls and drugs, but it's not. It's people working and having a cup of tea.” Guardian: http://bit.ly/1lsEn6R )
Charlatans roadie Chris McDonnell. 23, lifts the lid of life as a rock & roll roadie today.
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“People are dreaming to get (in VIP), but it super sucks in there, so don’t worry about it.” http://on.mktw.net/1l8bQoz )
Arcade Fire singer Win Butler talking about the uber-expensive ‘VIP’ enclosure at Coachella (as quoted in Business Week’s recent article Rock Festivals for the 1%)
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“Costly, elite boarding consistently turns out people who appear much more competent than they actually are. They are particularly deficient in non-rational skills, such as those needed to sustain relationships, and are not, in fact, well-equipped to be leaders in today's world.” (Guardian: http://bit.ly/1qaL1BR )
Psychotherapist Nick Dufell, author of new book Wounded Leaders explains why so many of Britain’s top politicians and business leaders perpetuate highly dysfunctional cultures based on ‘elitism, bullying and misogyny’.
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"They arrested me, took off the gold chain I was wearing, they tied it around their fist and started hitting me with it. They would repeatedly just randomly come in the cell and beat me." (BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27746487 )
Jailed in Dubai for nine years Brit Ahmad Zeidan, 20, tells the BBC he was tortured into confessing to possessing a tiny amount of cocaine, despite being innocent.
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"There was like a bang noise, like a gun, and then I looked over, right in the VIP area, everybody started getting down and started running. Everybody just dropped down and started running like there was like a stampede." (NBC: http://bit.ly/1lsF5Rx )
Miami reveller Nefreteri Tomalo describing the moment top local chef Antaun Teasley, 42, was shot to death this week, inside the VIP section of Maimi EDM superclub Mansion, reportedly following a fight.
Miami Links:
HALLOWEEN @ Mansion Miami (2012):
The Two Faces Of Miami- documentary:
Gianni Versace killer Andrew Cunanan ; The Gay Slasher (Documentary):
Scarface - Chainsaw Scene Shootout: http://youtu.be/RxvrY2zh_gM
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‘The time has come to provide an opportunity for Jamaicans to benefit from the marijuana industry.” (Daily Mail: http://dailym.ai/1v9b4cA )
Angel Brown Burke, the mayor of Kingston, Jamaica, lends his support to campaigners seeking to legalise cannabis to boost tourism.
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“When all the factors were taken into account simultaneously, the two that were most reliable were a preference for dancehall music, and gender.”
As Keon West reveals that results of a survey examining why so many Jamaicans are virulently homophobic which discovered that being male and liking ‘dancehall’ (reggae) were the strongest two predictors for hating gay people.
Dancehall links:
NOT IN MY CABINET: Homophobia in Jamaica:
Being Gay in Jamaica:
Gay haven demolished in Kingston:
2013 JAMAICA DANCEHALL QUEEN:
Trench Town: Violent Crime In Bob Marley's Home Town (Documentary):
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