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21 August 2005 MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD SUBJECT: Jagger, Richards, et al. Revival of dead Career 1. Career as rock musician dead in the water, largely irrelevant, somewhat embarrassing to grand children. 2. Criticize Bush, War in Iraq, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Halliburton, Stolen 2000 Election, Stolen 2004 Election, Rove, (but remember you “support the troops.” 3. Do this on stage, better yet, cut a single. 4. Renewed attention from the press will land you a spot on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and the Today Show!(remember to tip make-up person) 5. Enjoy extra 15 minutes of fame. 6. Play Vegas, (trust me, skip the...

``George Bush doesn't listen to us,'' Keith Richards said. But that's not the only reason the Rolling Stones, who open their world tour at Fenway Park today, won't be getting an invitation to the White House anytime soon. The Brit rockers' new CD, ``A Bigger Bang,'' comes out Sept. 6, but Matt Drudge and other right-wing media types are already foaming at the mouth after discovering the lyrics to one of its songs, ``Sweet Neo Con,'' a scarcely disguised savaging of the commander in chief.

[SNIP] “With music that appeals to a wide spectrum of the American public, the Rolling Stones offer Ameriquest a broad platform to strategically communicate our brand, our services and our positioning as, ’Proud Sponsor of the American Dream’" said Brian Woods, Chief Marketing Officer, Ameriquest Mortgage Company. “In today’s saturated marketplace, the Rolling Stones break through the clutter to reach fans in a way that few iconic brands can. Being the presenting sponsor of this tour allows Ameriquest the opportunity to reach those fans by fulfilling their Dream to see the Stones on stage live."

The Rolling Stones’ music has been downright awful since Tattoo You (1981) – but Mick Jagger’s big lips keep on yammering. Mick, the great arrogant hypocrite, with a net worth of $500,000,000.00, and 7 children he couldn’t give a damn about, is now lecturing American conservatives about morality: The Rolling Stones, not exactly a band at the forefront of rock 'n' roll activism, are taking aim at the American right with a new song on their upcoming album, according to Newsweek magazine. The track, "Sweet Neo Con," boasts the line, "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/You...

Finally I have a vanity post worthy of Freepers... A friend of mine here in Germany is a music editor for a magazine. He is a true blue lifelong Rolling Stones fan (as well as a leftie) and has been to a Pre-Listening Session of the new Rolling Stones album today. Now this is exactly what he told me about it: "It sucks."

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Hundreds of protesters chanting "Die America!" and throwing stones tried to batter down a gate at the U.S. military's main Afghan base Tuesday, adding to anxieties in a country worried that fighting with insurgents could disrupt elections.

Islamist zealots attack Ahmadiyya Mosque in Bangladesh Unruly Islamist zealots attacked an Ahmadiyya mosque and the homes of a number of leaders of the minority Muslim sect in south-western Satkhira district of Bangladesh on Sunday. Witnesses said several hundred bigots brought out a procession in Joginagar village of Samnagar Upazial of the district, demanding that members of the Ahmadiyya community be officially declared 'non-Muslim'. They marched towards the mosque and replaced a signboard inscribed with "It's not a mosque and no Muslim will enter here for namaj (prayer)" instead of the "Ahmadiyya mosque". "The Islamist bigots captured the mosque complex...

When Kern's Democrat Assemblywoman Nicole Parra said "no stone would be left unturned" in her committee's investigation of scandal-plagued Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, she must have meant only the light stones. Next week's hearing by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee seems destined to fall short of Parra's pledge to hold Democrat Shelley accountable for his management of millions of federal Help America Vote Act dollars. A review by the state auditor concluded Shelley's management of federal voter outreach and election reform funds was inept and much of the money was used to promote Democrat election efforts. Shelley also is...

Woman pleads no contest to selling stones to rioters ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) -- A woman who police say sold stones to rioters in a southwest Michigan city last year and used the money to pay her cable television bill has pleaded no contest to inciting a riot. Yuolanda Taylor, 32, entered the plea Monday. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing purposes. She is free on bail, but faces up to 10 years in prison at her sentencing Nov. 15. The city of Benton Harbor was devastated by two...

LONDON -- Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has won a battle with throat cancer, lead singer Mick Jagger was quoted as telling a newspaper Saturday.

Thohoyandou - The owners of a low-cost house in Limpopo say they've been troubled each night by stones "falling from the sky" for the past month. Joyce Lambani, 55, of Lambani village east of Thohoyandou this week called on police for help. Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi of Vhembe police said: "We've been watching the house every night since Monday and have also seen the stones from falling from the sky above the house. He said somebody might be throwing stones at the house, but he personally believed evil spirits were to blame because police couldn't find any culprits. "In my personal...

<p>A team of archaeological scientists in the United States and Germany say they have developed a technique to accurately determine the age of stone tools and artifacts between 50,000 and 100,000 years old, a period that has proved particularly tricky to map with other methods.</p>

Stones may hold key to why we are here ISABEL COCKAYNE January 28, 2004 10:06 They may not look like the greatest talkers, but these stones have a story to tell. Hundreds of thousands of years ago they were washed down to East Anglia with a vast river that cut through the middle of England. But what the experts are puzzling over today is where this river ran its course. If they can plot its course and date it accurately, they could prove there were humans living in Britain 500,000 years ago and fill a gap in our pre-historic knowledge....

Impatient Iraqis Throw Stones at British Monday January 12, 2004 12:01 AM By NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD Associated Press Writer AMARAH, Iraq (AP) - Impatience with Iraq's occupying forces boiled over Sunday as unemployed Iraqis pelted British troops with stones and a top Shiite Muslim cleric demanded the country's next parliament be elected - a position at odds with American plans. Also Sunday, a U.S.-backed Iraqi politician said an ongoing purge of members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party had pushed 28,000 Iraqis from their jobs, with a similar number expected to follow. In the southern city of Amarah, waves of protesters...

COMMUNIQUE: 7 January 2004 Throwing StonesTwo news agencies omit the IDF's explanation for a deadly clash in Nablus. Media outlets regularly charge the IDF with brute over-reaction to Palestinian stone-throwers, described as mere "protestors" who pose no serious danger. The latest episode took place on Saturday (Jan. 3), when three Palestinians were killed during a clash in Nablus. Among them was 15-year-old Amjad al-Masri, who had engaged soldiers from a rooftop. Reuters reported a discrepancy between Palestinian witnesses who claimed al-Masri was merely "throwing stones" from above, and the IDF spokesman, who said he was "dropping large bricks on soldiers." ...

COMMUNIQUE: 7 January 2004 Throwing StonesTwo news agencies omit the IDF's explanation for a deadly clash in Nablus. Media outlets regularly charge the IDF with brute over-reaction to Palestinian stone-throwers, described as mere "protestors" who pose no serious danger. The latest episode took place on Saturday (Jan. 3), when three Palestinians were killed during a clash in Nablus. Among them was 15-year-old Amjad al-Masri, who had engaged soldiers from a rooftop. Reuters reported a discrepancy between Palestinian witnesses who claimed al-Masri was merely "throwing stones" from above, and the IDF spokesman, who said he was "dropping large bricks on soldiers." ...

'If a Jew goes into an Arab Muslim neighborhood (in France,)' says (Marc Aflalo,) 'you have to carry an umbrella to protect yourself from the stones that fly.' - “Attacks by Arabs on Jews in France,” Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, Dec. 3, 2003. David, the young shepherd-boy, killed the mighty warrior Goliath with a simple stone thrown from a sling. Hundreds of years later, in an heroic echo of this great story, young Palestinian boys pick up stones and fling them at the mighty soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces or at the American Army in Iraq in a...

On June 17, 1953, East German workers took to the streets to protest against hardships instigated by the communist regime. The uprising was crushed by Soviet tanks, but it set the stage for peaceful protests of 1989. Germany on Tuesday will commemorate the 50th anniversary of street protests that nearly toppled the communist government of East Germany. Stemming from the unrest caused by the government's announcement it would increase working hours for factory employees by 10 percent while simultaneously drastically raising the price of groceries, the demonstrations were bloodily put down with the might of the Soviet Red Army. In...

SILOPI, Turkey: Turkish villagers showered US soldiers with eggs and stones yesterday when they arrived to recover pieces of a Tomahawk cruise missile which came down in eastern Turkey on Friday. Scores of people in Urfa province set upon four jeeps carrying some 10 American soldiers, breaking windows and shouting slogans against the US-led war in Iraq, Anatolian news agency reported. Turkish gendarmes later intervened to break up the demonstration. There were no initial reports of injuries. Sukru Kocatepe, governor of Urfa province, said on Friday a Tomahawk cruise missile, launched from US navy ships in the Mediterranean, had fallen...

Clinton kicks off free Stones gig The Rolling Stones will make donations towards building windmill farms Former US President Bill Clinton has urged a packed audience at a Rolling Stones concert to help stop the destruction caused by global warming. Mr Clinton said it was up to average citizens to "stop the planet from burning up", at the free anti-global warming event in Los Angeles on Thursday. The former president was invited to introduce the legendary rock group to the thousands of Stones fans in the Staples Center. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a non-profit environmental activist group, organised the...