thanks sweet lips!
In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Genius, I've loved this song for so long... *british and *promote

All of my hick small town friends just despised Annie Lennox for some reason.

I've always loved her.

A lot of soul in that voice.

sadly I must *beg for Annie Lennox

Oh you are too kind sir Thanks lovey!

In reply to this comment by jacobrecker:
*promoteiful

*promote

songs on the "diva" album
songs written by Annie Lennox except where noted.

1. "Why" (Lennox, Peter-John Vettese) – 4:53
2. "Walking on Broken Glass" – 4:12
3. "Precious" – 5:08
4. "Legend in My Living Room" (Lennox, Peter-John Vettese) – 3:45
5. "Cold" – 4:20
6. "Money Can't Buy It" – 4:58
7. "Little Bird" – 4:58
8. "Primitive" – 4:16
9. "Stay by Me" – 6:26
10. "The Gift" (Robert Bell, Paul Buchanan, Lennox, Paul Joseph Moore) – 4:52
11. "Keep Young and Beautiful" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:17

there are few women who can rock a buzzcut and still be sexy. Annie Lennox is one of them

Irishman has been sifting a number of videos about the conflict and its protests in the past week, including these:
http://worldaffairs.videosift.com/video/10-000-troops-tanks-F16s-invade-the-Gaza-Strip
http://worldaffairs.videosift.com/video/War-on-Gaza-HUGE-protest-London-28-Dec
http://worldaffairs.videosift.com/video/War-on-Gaza-In-pictures-words
http://worldaffairs.videosift.com/video/War-on-Gaza-Annie-Lennox-speaks-up

http://worldaffairs.videosift.com/talk/Obama-keeps-silent-on-explosive-Gaza-conflict

I don't think it's a stretch to say that there is some emotional and perhaps personal reasons or an agenda behind these sifts, and this emotional investment might be helping along a perception of racism where there was not meant to be one. I'm new to the Sift community, but I don't see how a ban could be justified, or for that matter, who should even be banned.

To confirm, some comments were in fact deleted from the original thread in question.

"Yes, most of the dead are Hamas militants"

Wow, it's amazing the same thing happens in Iraq. Most of those dead are 'insurgents' and alQ. I'll bet all the school kids and mothers where also militants.

>> ^lantern53:
The Palestinians stated purpose is the destruction of Israel. How do you appease that?


Step 1: occupy a country and put over a million people into the largest open air prison.
Step 2: blockade all sea ports, air space, control all movement in and out of borders and then bomb the power plant. Make sure there is no clean water, sewage pumps, medicine, hospital electricity, or any international aid allowed in.
Step 3: Keep putting up bigger walls, more illegal encroaching settlements
Step 4: When those people throw rocks and fireworks out of their prison camp, bomb the living fuck out of them. Certainly nine dead from randomly fired rockets is equal to dropping bombs on people who can't even escape or become refugees in another country. (At least the US let 5 million Iraqis flee their ancient homelands)
Step 5: dig a big pit for the bodies.

Problem solved.

>> ^hawkinson:
Yes, most of the dead are Hamas militants, and those militants have situated themselves to ensure some level of civilian casualties if they are assaulted, but there are still far more PEOPLE dead today than if Isreal had not started this offensive (like Iraq, but at a far smaller scale).

The thing about this position is that we're too far away from it to really know what it's like.

Most countries don't have the possibility of missiles coming into their cities every day, or have suicide bombers wandering their streets, or feel they require armed guards with machine guns on many street corners. Most countries aren't surrounded by other countries that would very cheerfully completely smear them off the map if they could.

I'm not saying the Israelis are right in this action, and I can't judge its effectiveness either. But I'm not saying they're wrong - they live in a different and threatened environment and think differently because of it. I can't judge their actions because I don't know how I'd react if I lived in their circumstances.

But I can tell you I'd be pretty strongly motivated to do something to minimize or neutralize the threat to my children if I were empowered to, and I don't think I'd care much about the so-called "butcher's bill" if I thought it was an us-or-them scenario.

THAT is why I find these celebrity spokespeople crying into the camera offensive. They're completely biased and this short little clip shows no attempt to think from the other direction, which is what a responsible political entity should do if it's going to raise awareness. Further, they're getting a boatload of attention for doing it. Their hearts might be in the right place, but their minds and their histories aren't best suited to deal with the situation.

>> ^deathcow:
negotiations are useless, these people will never negotiate peace, only death and destruction will come from there, and they will need to bomb and kill themselves into submission


That's a startlingly selective reading of history you have there. Read up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_process_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict

Bianca Jagger:
Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, Chair of the World Future Council, Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, and a member of the Director's Leadership Council of Amnesty International US.

Annie Lennox:
Academy Award-winning songwriter, also a political and social activist, leading such events as a pro-Palestinian rally in London January 3, 2009

Ken Livingstone:
English socialist politician, mayor of London 2000-2008.

Alexei Sayle:
English stand-up comedian, actor and author, notable for his cynicism, intelligence and political awareness.

No, there's not.

If you think my position on this is crazy, how about replying in the sift with your reasons instead of just sending an insulting message.

In reply to this comment by Irishman:
Is there something wrong with your fucking head?

In reply to this comment by Retroboy:
...this batch of celebrities got a NEWS CONFERENCE?

I mean, they can sing and act and stuff (at least, I think), but jeez.

D: I tried to fix it, but all the videos for it say "Embedding disabled by request". I ended up finding a crappy user created video with the song, but who wants to see that crap. Ugh.

In reply to this comment by MrFisk:
Annie Lennox vid is dead. I'm too lazy to

Annie Lennox vid is dead. I'm too lazy to

How is Annie Lennox rock'n'roll?!?!?!