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Iain Banks Speaking in Brussels

Posted January 29th, 2008 by quarsan
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I've just been to hear Iain Banks give an interesting and humorous talk at the Scottish Office in Brussels. He covered many areas including:

  • The path of death for a writer
  • Grandad's flight from the cops
  • What Iain W Banks would write
  • Why one of his books will never be filmed
  • How he names his characters
  • How he got his passport back

We've got the whole event available as mp3's and photos. Right click and save to download the files.

Part One (mp3, 4 mins 44 secs, 12MB): On writing and introducing the excerpt from The Steep Approach to Garbadale

Part Two (mp3, 14 mins 6 secs, 12.9MB): Reading an excerpt from The Steep Approach to Garbadale

Part Three (mp3, 23 mins 46 secs, 21.7MB): Questions and answer session

Photos of the meeting

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On February 1st, 2008 shirin jindal (not verified) says:

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Cuts in Mid. East internet

On February 1st, 2008 George Dutton (not verified) says:

Cuts in Mid. East internet cables a prelude to Iran bombing?

http://www.spiderednews.com/Internet.htm

4th Cable cut...
 

http://tinyurl.com/2ypwfx

 

"Cheney pushing for an

On February 2nd, 2008 George Dutton (not verified) says:
"Cheney pushing for an attack on Iran and not interested in diplomacy The Young Turks on Air America Radio, M-F 6-9am ET, and on theyoungturks.com"

"Cheney Regaining Power and Pushing for an Attack On Iran"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se5ClwnyCzw

 

All this will have a hugh

On February 2nd, 2008 George Dutton (not verified) says:

All this will have a hugh impact on the financial markets. Who will gain from that ?

Iran is still down at the

On February 3rd, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:

Iran is still down at the time of posting. you can click the link for realtime status. other countries have been up for some time on limited capacity. only Iran remains  down. 

 

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

 

report about pentagon using internet during warfare.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=JES20080202&articleId=7980


 

The count is now five cable

On February 4th, 2008 George Dutton (not verified) says:

The count is now five cable cuts not three or four as reported. Will post link to it when it comes back up?.

 

GulfNews.com

http://tinyurl.com/2dwqcm

 

Feb 4, 2008

"US anti-missile ship to dock in Haifa"

 

"An American missile ship set to dock at Haifa Port on Monday is equipped with an anti-missile defense system that could be deployed in the region in the event of an Iranian missile attack against Israel"...

 

http://tinyurl.com/25bf37

 

 

January 14, 2008  "In Abu

On February 4th, 2008 George Dutton (not verified) says:

January 14, 2008 

"In Abu Dhabi yesterday, US President George W Bush said Iran “defies the UN and destabilises the region by refusing to be open and transparent about its nuclear programmes and ambitions”. He also said Iran funds terrorist extremists, undermines stability in Lebanon, sends arms to the Taliban regime and intimidates its neighbours with alarming rhetoric"

“The US is strengthening our security commitments with our friends in the Gulf, and rallying friends around the world to confront this danger before it is too late,” he said"...
 

http://tinyurl.com/2c6axd

 

"Added: 07 January 2008"

"Taken from an interview to the israeli channel 2"

 

"Bush Admits He Plans to Attack Iran"...
 

 

"A total of five cables

On February 4th, 2008 George Dutton (not verified) says:

"A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria"...

http://tinyurl.com/2sz9sm