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- Keepin’ it real and intelligent
FP Passport spotlights the hiphop track The Economist by Psikotic, an ode to my favourite magazine suggestive of the nerdcore genre. The track features some choice cuts from The Economist podcast and samples Perpetuum Mobile the iconic composition by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, one of my favourite modern classical groups (see a performance of [...]
- The occupation and your job
Grendel sent in this interesting film strip by the famous war-time propagandist Frank Capra. The film was shown to American soldiers assigned to the occupying force in Germany after the second world war.
The opening statement of the film is apropos of the situation in Iraq:
“By your conduct and attitude while on guard inside Germany you [...]
- Anon analysis
On the 15th of March, Anonymous took to the streets again in its War on Scientology. See the call to arms here. This is the second real life protest for Project Chanology. The date was symbolic: the 15th is known as the Ides of March, when Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. The next [...]
- Free Tibet! Free the media!
Stuart Brand is credited with saying Information wants to be free. Today we are seeing the internet work its magic in Tibet. Despite the fact that China is blocking YouTube, CNN and the BBC images and videos from the riots in Tibet are still seeping out to the web.
This is all breaking so I don’t [...]
- Like Blind Moles…
Sake-Drenched Postcards has a great account on clashes between far left and far right protestors at Yasukuni Shrine. With photos! Check it out here.
- Welcome to Russia
This being Russia, I can’t tell if this is another stage of the prank, or a real tragic accident. I fear it’s the later.
- Caught “red” handed!
China Eats Crow Over Faked Photo Of Rare Antelope
Earlier this week, Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency, issued an unusual public apology for publishing a doctored photograph of Tibetan wildlife frolicking near a high-speed train.The deception—uncovered by Chinese Internet users who sniffed out a Photoshop scam in the award-winning picture—has brought on a big debate about [...]
- Solidarity in free speech
For one full week Denmark has been plagued by vandalism including torched schools, cars and garbage containers. Although still unclear it seems the unrest is in reaction to the reprinting of controversial Muhammad cartoons originally printed (and originally rioted over) in 2005. The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten reprinted the cartoons in a gesture of solidarity after [...]
- Police Officer Dumps Quadriplegic From Wheelchair
Through experience with criminal elements and based on my political philisophy, I am generally a red-blooded pro-law enforcement citizen. But I also fully understand and appreciate the fact that American police culture is dispicable in the way it regularly interacts with ordinary citizens engaged in no criminal act, with reckless abandon of safety and [...]
- Present ARMS! The military and Powerpoint
Having a great interest in FutureWarTM I had to download the latest Rethinking Future Elements of National and International Power presentation by Joe Purser. Mr Purser is from the Deep Futures cell at US Joint Forces Command. He works on all the FutureWarTM stuff from a “joint” perspective, which has resulted in the doctrinal document [...]
