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One day Lou, Matty Milner and myself decided that what the world really needed was a compliation album featuring those songs that could be considered a “call to arms”. The tunes that make people want to get together and start a revolt. The music that stirs the blood and brings crew together into some kind of mass rally. The songs that never say die. So, new from KLM-tel comes the power and the passion of A Call to Arms.
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A Call to Arms

Song/Artist

*Something in the Air/Thunderclap Newman
("we gotta get together sooner or later, because the revolution's here" - however, the lack of urgency expressed here is a tad disappointing)

*Won't Get Fooled Again/The Who
(Title, plus the line "Meet the new boss - same as the old boss!" - mmm political)

*We gotta get outta this place/The Animals
("We" - implies more than one person and is an integral part of many CTA songs to generate a rallying fervour.)

*Spice Girls/Spice up your Life
(Every gender and every nationality is encouraged, nay demanded to spice up their lives)

*Jailbreak/ACDC and Thin Lizzy
(Put them back to back on the album so the punters can compare and contrast the Antipodean and the Irish take on escaping from punitive institutions.)

*You're the Voice/John Farnham
(Pompous, full of tired cliched rhetoric, bagpipes - ah yes the ultimate
CTA)

*Power and the Passion Midnight Oil
(See above but minus bagpipes)

*Big Country/Big Country
(The bit after one of those bagpipe-emulating guitar solos where the dearly departed Stuart Adamson goes 'Ha!' - just makes one want to assemble collectively in a public space)

*Run to the Hills/Iron Maiden
(All in the title - those in Lesmurdie need not run as far as others)

*Walls Come Tumbling Down/Style Council
(From the get-go "You don't have to take this crap, you can actually fight back". With some bad ass fringes and pencil thin microphones. Presumably.)

*The Wall/Pink Floyd
(A wonderful yet belated attempt to get the kids to rally {to buy their
records} by a bunch of portly balding, superannuated rock dinosaurs.
Respect)

*Bound for Glory/Angry Anderson
*Holy Grail/Hunters & Collectors
(Both granted automatic inclusion due to the fact that they were mimed unconvincingly by their respective composers before AFL Grand Finals

*It's a Long Way to the Top/AC/DC
(Again with the Bagpipes and guitars emulating Bagpipes)

*It's Because I Love You/Master's Apprentices
("Do you want to do, be what you want to be" - plus a YEAH for
some positive reinforcement. Plus, it was used in a jeans ad and our Eastern Bloc Komrades know all about the revolutionary significance of denim.)

*We're Not Gonna Take It/Twisted Sister
(A shouted chorus, again the use of the word 'we' implying collective
empathy - Dee Snider, how did we overklook thee?)

*We Built this City on Rock n Roll/Starship
(Perhaps, perhaps not. Regardless, concrete may have been a more sensible foundation)

*Eye of the Tiger/Survivor
(Admittedly, one eyed tigers are not as scary as their fully complemented counterparts, however the name of the band is also inspirational.)

We'd like to hear any suggestions that we may have missed. But remember that we have a stringent selection policy.

Oh baby, this stuff sounds like it puts the Famous Fancy/Killer Crunk^tm to shame.

Thanks again to cruel.com for a classic link.

Check out this Funny MTV-type stuff from North Korea. Thanks to Cruel.com for the link.

Mike Moore has a new book coming out called Dude, Where's My Country
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Mike Moore has a new book coming out called Dude, Where's My Country.

You can read some extracts on the Guardian Newspaper site. There's more links down the bottom of the page too.

Love him or hate him, you got to admire his guts to ask the hard questions. Personally I love the big rebellious freak. Go Mikey!

People are going tiger-crazy it seems…
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NEW YORK — Police removed a 180-kilogram tiger from a New York apartment in a commando-style operation Saturday.

Authorities investigated the home, in a public housing complex in New York's Harlem neighborhood, after a man checked into a nearby hospital seeking treatment for bite wounds he said came from a pit bull, officials said.

But doctors determined the bites could not have come from a dog, prompting the man, identified as Antoine Yates, 37, to leave the hospital abruptly, yanking an IV out of his arm, police said.

Meanwhile, police and animal control officers drilled a hole in the door of the apartment and spotted the tiger inside. An animal control officer abseiled down the outside of the building with a tranquilizer gun and shot the tiger through an apartment window.

"I saw him eye to eye, to say the least," said Emergency Service Unit cop Martin Duffy. "He charged twice and I shot him. He charged a last time and broke through the glass."

Police removed the tranquilized animal, bound to a stretcher, about a half hour later. It was transported to a wildlife preserve in Ohio on Sunday after spending the night in an animal shelter.

A one-meter cayman alligator was also removed from the five-bedroom apartment.

A second tiger, some cubs, two Rottweilers, rabbits and a tarantula also lived in the apartment, until some family members, including children, moved to Philadelphia in June, taking the animals with them, neighbors said.

The menagerie had been an open secret in the housing complex but animal control officers had not responded to residents' complaints.

Yates was identified as the owner of the animal and apprehended at a hospital near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police said.

"He just has a love for animals," said his sister, Cynthia Yates. "There's nothing wrong with that."