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UPDATED AGAIN! April 16/17: Linkin Park – Burn it Down Download Day & News Roundup

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I've just decided to update this post instead of making a new one. Linkin Park have finally released "Burn it Down" today! You can get the song FOR FREE when you preorder Linkin Park's upcoming album "Living Things on linkinpark.com. The preorder is starting at 1pm PST! You'll also get 8 remixes of songs from the new album FOR FREE and early access to ticket sales for the North American Tour, when you preorder the album! All in all, I think preordering "Living Things" is really the smartest decision you can make!

As soon as you've downloaded the track on iTunes/Amazon or anywhere else OR preordered the album, share the download link on Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr! You can tweet something like "I've just downloaded Linkin Park's new single #BurnItDown on XY" + Link or "I've just preordered Linkin Park's new album #LivingThings" and got #BurnItDown for free!" + Link. Don't forget to include the download link and the hashtag #BurnItDown in your tweets.

You can listen to the song here! Download Links As you can see, when you click on the links, Amazon is releasing the song tomorrow, April 17! Amazon.com Amazon.de iTunes

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Linkin Park fans collected over 246,000$ for Japan!

Update: Linkin Park fans have collected 246,000$ already:

Thanks to your hard work, Music for Relief has raised more than $246,000 for earthquake & tsunami relief in Japan. We're less than $4,000 from our goal and I know you can help us reach and exceed it. The more money we raise for Japan the more aid we can send to kids in need, and that means more of you get to see Linkin Park and B'z up close on August 31. Tickets are in short supply and going fast, so CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO YOUR PAGE and continue raising money for Japan. Now is the time to hit your goal if you want to get tickets. Think about other people you know who may want to help. Have you asked your neighbors? Your friends? Your relatives? What about your co-workers? Lets see how high we can get the total raised for Japan in the next 12 days. - music for relief
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The Kill Team – How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians

This is an older story (March 27) I found on RollingStone.com and quite disturbing:

Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji. Among the men of Bravo Company, the notion of killing an Afghan civilian had been the subject of countless conversations, during lunchtime chats and late-night bull sessions. For weeks, they had weighed the ethics of bagging "savages" and debated the probability of getting caught. Some of them agonized over the idea; others were gung-ho from the start. But not long after the New Year, as winter descended on the arid plains of Kandahar Province, they agreed to stop talking and actually pull the trigger....