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Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners

Foo Fighters- Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners [HD]

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Published on 21 Sep 2014

Track 09

Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace

By: Foo Fighters

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

14:05:32

Category : Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters to put Christchurch on the world map

Christchurch’s AMI Stadium will be transformed from a sporting turf into a giant stage venue for the Foo Fighters’ first Australasian concert on their 20th anniversary Sonic Highways World Tour next year.

Vbase General Manager Darren Burden says the stadium will be ready to welcome over 30,000 Foo fans from around the South Island and the world on Wednesday 18 February.

Source : http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1410/S00569/foo-fighters-to-put-christchurch-on-the-world-map.htm

Beaconsfield Gold Mine

The Beaconsfield Mine collapse occurred on 25 April 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia. Of the seventeen people who were in the mine at the time, fourteen escaped immediately following the collapse, one was killed and the remaining two were found alive using a remote-controlled device. These two miners were rescued on 9 May 2006, two weeks after being trapped nearly a kilometre below the surface.

On Anzac Day, 17 men were working underground at the Beaconsfield Gold Mine, having started their shift just a few hours earlier. Two of this crew – Todd Russell and Brant Webb – were in a tunnel 925 metres below ground. This tunnel was referred to as the ‘925 metre level’ (925mL). These two were working out of a basket. The third man, Larry Knight, operated a forklift cherry picker machine called a telehandler. It was this machine that held them there.

For more go to : http://tasmanianlife.com.au/beaconsfield/

Foo Fighters Sonic Highways

World Tour Downunder

The Foo Fighters’ world tour has added a string of stadium dates across Australia and New Zealand.

Dave Grohl’s rock outfit will play eight concerts in the region early next year, starting Feb. 18 in Christchurch, before visiting Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and wrapping up March 7 in Perth.

The show at Derwent Entertainment Centre in Hobart (the only indoor gig on the slate) will be the band’s first in the Tasmanian capital since 1998, while their opener in Christchurch is their first ever in NZ’s most populous South Island city. The band has a strong connection with both towns. Grohl wrote the instrumental “Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners” (on 2007's Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace) for trapped Tasmanian miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell (2006) and the band has performed a charity concert in support of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake appeal.

Source : http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6297040/foo-fighters-announce-stadium-shows-down-under

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R I P W a y n e G o s s

 

Tribute to former Queensland premier Wayne Goss, gone at 63

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Monday, 10 November 2014

13:39:22

Category : Qld Politics

R I P

Former Queensland premier Wayne Goss has died aged 63

Wayne Goss swept Labour into power in 1989 after 32 years of domination by the National Party under Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen.

Robert Schwarten former Labour Minister spoke with AAP.

Mr Schwarten said Mr Goss was responsible for sweeping social reforms.

Among his reforms were ending the gerrymander, decriminalising homosexuality and introducing a raft of protection measures to safeguard Queensland's natural environment.

'Within a year it was no longer illegal to be a homosexual, he introduced laws to decriminalise prostitution, he brought in the first gun laws in Queensland,' he told AAP.

'It was just an enormous list. But the thing he's least remembered for is that he got Queensland into the 20th century in terms of financial accountability.'

Source: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2014/11/10/former-queensland-premier-goss-dead.html

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T h e F a l l o f T h e B e r l i n W a l l

 

Berlin Song

Ludovico einaudi berlin song

rubia lima

Ralph Essers

This song is maybe the best example to show that music is the universal language of all emotions. This song tells a story. It is a story of melancholy, of hapiness, of sadness ,,, it's all there and we can all understand the words. More clear than Italian or English could do this: music is the true language of the heart. And Einaudi is its poet.

 

Sunday, 09 November 2014

14:44:12

The Fall of The Berlin Wall

On the 9^th of November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down.

For over a quarter of a century the wall had divided

the people of Berlin

the people of Germany

the people of Europe.

It was the point at which Democracy and Communism collided.

The Berliner Mauer as it was known in Germany represented the most brutal symbolism of communist repression. It was a physical barrier that stopped people from living out their lives in freedom.

The Second World War, came to an end in May 1945 - the allies won, led by the USA the Soviet Union and Britain over Nazi Germany.

The decision of what to do with a defeated Germany was a plan to divide Germany into a number of smaller states.

The Soviet Union was given control of the eastern part of Germany. The soviets had already been invaded in two world wars from the west and they wanted to ensure their security by making Poland and Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic & Slovakia) into buffer states.

Berlin was divided into the French sector, the Soviet sector, the British sector and the US Sector.

Gorbachev

the political conditions that would bring the wall down were brought about by Mikhail Gorbachev leader of the Soviet Union who introduced two new ideas glasnost freedom of information free speech free elections and perestroika economic reform within communism.

When asked about the Berlin Wall,Gorbachev said “The wall could disappear once the conditions that created the Wall disappeared.”

By November a million people were marching in the streets of East Germany demanding that the borders were opened.

On Thursday the 9^th of November 1989 East Germans were to be allowed to cross the border.

At the wall itself no one had given the East German guards orders they stayed at their posts until people began to gather at the walls crossing points.

At the Bornholmer Strasse Crossing an elderly couple were allowed through the guard had heard on the radio that visas and passports were being issued.

On the other side West Berliners had carried hot drinks and flowers to the Wall.

By midnight the border guards had received official orders to open the gates. A celebration began on top of the Berlin Wall.

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The Berlin Wall

All Along the Watchtower: "Expelled" Version

jevansturner

A Divided Family

“The main house was in the Soviet Zone while some of the fields were in the British Zone. The border literally divided the property.

Aged seventeen, my father hid a suitcase on a horse drawn cart and drove west across the border on family property, leaving his parents behind.

In the following forty years he was allowed to return only twice-for a maximum of three hours each time –for their funerals.

Author Oliver August in Along the Wall and Watchtowers,remembers how the partition of Germany divided the farmland where his father grew up.”

 

  

Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech

Russel Tarr

An Iron Curtain

Winston Churchill Britain’s Prime Minister made a speech in Fulton Missouri USA

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended over the continent.”

In time this iron curtain would take the physical form in the shape of the Berlin Wall

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