February 2012
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Yes Yes, Here We Go
We can’t ignore Somalia, warns David Cameron
“These problems in Somalia don’t just affect Somalia. They affect us all,” he said.
“In a country where there is no hope, chaos, violence and terrorism thrive. Pirates are disrupting vital trade routes and kidnapping tourists.
“Young minds are being poisoned by radicalism, breeding terrorism that is threatening...
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Atrophy Productions: A potentially long overdue... →
atrophyproductions:
It’s been a busy few weeks for us and as a result we’ve fallen a bit behind on keeping this thing updated. So we make no apologies for that.
Anyway, our entry for the 2 Days Laughter competition is coming on leaps and bounds. With just one week to go until the deadline, we only have the music…
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WatchA new short, this time a documentary, is on the horizon. Check out this first trailer.
January 2012
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If you live in the UK, how are your taxes spent? →
Compiling data available from official sources such as the ONS, DirectGov and local councils, this Open Knowledge Foundation website allows people living in the UK to see a breakdown of how taxes are spent daily.
Given how much people like to use tax as a justification for prejudice, particularly against the unemployed, the statistic here should come as something of a surprise. At my current...
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I'll just leave this here.
The general public has been insane to play its part in the phenomenal growth of the supermarkets, we have effectively backed the development of something that though depicted to us as being a competitive, is in actual fact a cartel of the top four supermarkets and in nature operates on price fixing. They make their profits in their buying departments, the buyers are gods in the operation and in...
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December 2011
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Banned from a flight because he might distribute... →
What a poor, poor excuse. Also…
He said he went to airport security an hour before his flight was due to depart, where staff found posters in his bag linked to the anarchist group Crimethinc and refused to allow him through until they had contacted the airline.
I love the idea that Crimethinc is too hot for airports to handle.
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“Casomorphins are peptides, i.e., protein fragments, derived from the digestion...”
– This is why you are addicted to cheese.
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Oil Wars Ad Nauseum
Britain’s new year resolution: intervene in Somalia
Yep, here we go again. Just as Libya and Iraq are winding up, the Government has suddenly discovered that another country needs “intervention”.
Mr Cameron is concerned about tourists and aid workers from the UK being attacked and kidnapped, the rise of piracy and the potential for the East African country to become a place of...
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Fifteen Minutes Later: How I Understand Things... →
rooftopsedge:
Learning is a process. Anarchism is a philosophy I am exploring as a newcomer, something I am toying with because to me, it seems the only viable political philosophy I have come across. I would love to hear anybody’s thoughts, but this is part of what I understand at this point..
“Anarchism,…
It would be dangerous, I think, to say liberatianism and anarchism are...
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WE'RE ALL GOING TO FUCKING DIE. →
One year from now - 21st December 2012 - this airbourne contagion will be released either accidentally or with purpose and it will be the end of the world. The Mayans and their apocalyptic fanboys were right all along. Who would have guessed?
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Happily Ever After
I have posted about this twice (first and second) before so I thought I’d make it a trilogy to complete the saga. Over the last eight months the number of ‘gritty’ fairy tale film adaptations announced has exploded, thus confirming my suspicions of a new trend in Hollywood. I’ve yet to see any of them so I cannot comment on quality but some upcoming productions - like Jack...
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Please reblog if you are a vegetarian/ vegan blog!
somethingroyal:
You don’t have to be entirely one, but I want to find you guys! Thanks!!
WatchI posted up the first trailer a while back but never followed it up with The Voyeur itself, so here it is. A second trailer as well as an older, pre-AP film made by the group’s key members, can be found at our Vimeo site.
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November 2011
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Zine Distro →
Lots and lots and lots of zines to read, download and print freely.
October 2011
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Blackboards in Porn →
Brilliant.
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WatchI was involved in the making of a short horror film called The Voyeur. This is the first trailer for it.
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Church and State
OK I’m Church of England in a Christian country. ANYONE out there doing ANYTHING for my religious group???? Nah …thought not…..
That was typed by Neil, from Westcliffe on Sea, as a response to the shocking news that traffic lights on a busy north London road are going to turn red on a regular basis - as traffic lights are wont to - NEAR A SYNAGOGUE. Obviously it’s on...
September 2011
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Fifteen Dead →
Cool songs bro.
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WatchEsben and the Witch - Marching Song, Lovely.
August 2011
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Jacob Michael kicked and killed by 11 police... →
Truly shocking.
They seemed to be kneeing him in the back of the head. I counted 11 cops. They were all sat on him, giving him a kicking and giving him side digs. There was one woman officer, the rest were men, and she was getting her kicks in as well.
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Poobala's Crossover LIst →
A ridiculously extensive list of crossovers between TV shows.
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In Defence of Anarchy
Boff Whalley, from one of my all time favourite bands Chumbawamba, has written an article for The Independent titled “In Defence of Anarchy” that helps to define the words anarchism and anarchy against the recent outbreak of riots.
The political and philosophical idea that is “anarchism” has become, headline by headline, dislocated from the current use of the word...
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The most important news story you've never heard. →
Hollie Greig ( a little Downs Syndrome Girl) and 7 other known victims were systematically raped and tortured by a known paedophile ring.
The paedophile ring included a judge, care workers, a policeman, an accountant and other leading men and women of Scotland.
Robert Green was jailed in Aberdeen for reporting the story to the public.
The Uncle of Hollie Greig was brutally murdered with what...
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Heavy Metal Art
Perhaps one of my favourite discoveries in recent times.
Marseille are a British heavy metal band from Liverpool, England.
[…]
Band Members
Neil Buchanan - Lead Guitar & Backing vocals
Yes, that is Neil Buchanan FROM ART ATTACK. How good is that?
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Death Fennel Tea?
There’s been a sudden call for reinstating the death penalty, specifically in the form of a petition to bring back hanging. Fuck knows why this has suddenly happened. Maybe it has something to do with English people’s passive aggressiveness reaching boiling point; legal murder experienced vicariously is the passive aggressive’s ultimate wet dream. Unsurprisingly it was presented...
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A celebration of idiots. →
Personally, I would lump all riddles, questions, gags, puns, quotations, allusions and foreign-language elements together under the heading of ‘things that make the reader think’. And that’s rarely a good idea.
Oh right.
Yeah I only just realised after seeing the ad on the side of a bus on the 5th time that it was advertising Milk.
Despite the fact it says “MAKE MINE MILK” on...
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July 2011
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“Even if Earth is not the only planet with intelligent life, we appear destined...”
– Valerie Jamieson, ‘Existence: Are we alone in the universe?’
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Pirates on Film
The film industry is at it again, making lovers of media feel crap about themselves. Something in the article really stood out to me though:
The general economic impact of piracy on the film and TV industry was, he said, “nothing short of staggering”.
That justification doesn’t make much sense to me. How is it possible to put a definite number the amount of people NOT paying...
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Teenager who drove 122mph on A11 told court he... →
Dunham, who represented himself in court, said: “I’m very sorry about it and I should not have been travelling at that speed. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and it’s shameful for me to be here.”
What a strange defence. It didn’t work.
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Margin Notes: A Dance With Dragons
Another excellent post from DJD.
dustjacketdispatch:
George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons
The Quote: “Words are wind.”
Margin Notes:
Perhaps one of my favorite parts of George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series is the way he has all of these little bits of folk wisdom/cliches that his characters like to use. It’s one of many touches that makes his fictional world feel more...
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The Rise of the Power Vegans →
An article on veganism in a very unlikely news outlet: Business Week. It is about the rising number of CEO and other senior corporate executives that are adopting vegan and other meat-free diets. My favourite line is this:
And herein lies veganism’s appeal to moguls: It affords them the opportunity to control their own health with the same manic id with which they control everything...
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The X Files
It took more than four months but I finally rewatched all 9 series and 2 feature films of the The X Files, as well as spin-off series The Lone Gunmen.
Mulder and Scully rule. Reyes and Dogget too, but less so. The Lone Gunmen are better as bit characters. Tooms, Donnie Pfaster and Flukey are definitely the most memorable monsters whilst the ghostalien from the episode “Space” shit me...
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Julian Assange is prosecuted whilst Rupert Murdoch... →
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Wage Slavery
Whilst the phone hacking scandals rage on, several important bills are going unreported. Of particular import is the Minimum Wages (Amendment) Bill which seeks to abolish a national minimum wage and make it regional instead.
The Low Pay Commission must consider and take evidence on the availability of employment opportunities and the impact of the national minimum wage on job creation and...