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August 25th, 2008 @ 11:00 am - by NMC · 3 Comments

Scott Barretta, host of the Mississippi public radio show Highway 61, former editor of Living Blues magazine, occasional commenter on this site, and local menace, has blog.  The blog (most recent post about last weekend’s picnic at Othar Turner’s) is here.  He’ll likely be one of the best sources for what’s going on in the Mississippi blues, soul, and r&b scene, and he’ll keep us posted on his work on the Mississippi blues trail markers.  Here’s one about the Piney Woods School, a subject of an earlier post on this site,

We’ll be adding that to our blogroll, I’m sure.

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3 Responses so far ↓

  1. Ben Cole says:
    August 25, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    Blues??? You want blues??? Here … this’ll give you the blues (and the reds** as well):

    The New York Times

    August 25, 2008
    In Nuclear Net’s Undoing, a Web of Shadowy Deals
    By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER

    The president of Switzerland stepped to a podium in Bern last May and read a statement confirming rumors that had swirled through the capital for months. The government, he acknowledged, had indeed destroyed a huge trove of computer files and other material documenting the business dealings of a family of Swiss engineers suspected of helping smuggle nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.

    The files were of particular interest not only to Swiss prosecutors but to international atomic inspectors working to unwind the activities of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani bomb pioneer-turned-nuclear black marketeer. The Swiss engineers, Friedrich Tinner and his two sons, were accused of having deep associations with Dr. Khan, acting as middlemen in his dealings with rogue nations seeking nuclear equipment and expertise.

    The Swiss president, Pascal Couchepin, took no questions. But he asserted that the files — which included an array of plans for nuclear arms and technologies, among them a highly sophisticated Pakistani bomb design — had been destroyed so that they would never fall into terrorist hands.

    Behind that official explanation, though, is a far more intriguing tale of spies, moles and the compromises that governments make in the name of national security. …

    Whole story here.

    [Ben, I know this info is mighty important, but so's our not getting sued for violating fair use! See the About page for more on that. Thanks, lotus]

  2. MSPolitical says:
    August 25, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    Oh no! I missed it this year. It was wonderful last year. Thanks for letting us know that Scot has a blog now (’bout time, Baretta). ;-)

  3. kay says:
    September 9, 2008 at 7:51 am

    hello out there!!
    my husband and myself are coming to mississippi from wisconsin to the delta blues fest, just would like to hook up with some fellow blues lovers and party!! Looking forward to all appropriate emails.