Trevor says:
These two videos from think MTV [1] [2] are presented as a warning of what could happen in the United States of America. But they look to me like nothing so much as a depiction of what has been happening for quite some time as part of the war on drugs.
I agree. See […]
Murketing: The Shirt Project
(tags: fashion politics activism)
Review Launched Into Censored Taser Reports
(tags: police policestate)
Fox News. It’s hard to talk about greatest hits without mentioning their war coverage or their coverage of racial issues. As a political and cultural propaganda machine, there’s little outright funny about Fox News’s persistent distortion of reality. Or, if there is, the jokes on the people of the United States and […]
It’s not just Banksy who is getting Bristol noticed at the moment. This year sees the release of new albums by a number of Bristol bands who first came to prominence in the mid-Nineties - Portishead, Tricky and Tricky’s former collaborator Martina Topley Bird. It also looks like being an unusually busy year for Massive […]
The politics of t-shirts
(tags: media fashion politics policestate activism)
Jeremiah Wright was Clinton White House guest
(tags: politics clinton obama 2008)
This week also marked the 5th anniversary of the murder of Rachel Corrie
(tags: israel global war)
The Myth of the Surge
Hoping to turn enemies into allies, U.S. forces are arming Iraqis who fought with the insurgents. But it’s already starting to backfire. A report from the […]
Sean Hannity has called Obama’s church a “cult,” but that term applies far more aptly to Clinton’s “Family,” which is organized into “cells”–their term–and operates sex-segregated group homes for young people in northern Virginia. In 2002, Sharlet joined The Family’s home for young men, forswearing sex, drugs and alcohol, and participating in endless discussions of […]
Five years on, “liberal hawks” consider their support for the Iraq war.
(tags: politics war iraq)
(via The Agitator).
Update: A little more info.
I don’t know who the artist is. Any ideas?
(Via A Day in the Life)
Records show Hillary Clinton was often away from site of decision-making during husband’s presidency
(tags: clinton 2008 politics)
Adam Greenfield to take on role of Head of Design Direction at Nokia
(tags: design mobile mobiletech everyware)
The next bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow’s big crash
(tags: business economics environment energy)
Investor: Clean Tech Is Collapsing Economy’s Only Hope
(tags: business economics energy environment)
The Clinton civil war
(tags: 2008 hillary politics obama)
Four other Big Brothers:
(I started this back when Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo!, but I’ve only just not gotten a chance to finish up).
We all know about the potential “Big Brother”hood of Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!. Here are four other organizations with massive databases or the potential to collect extensive personal data.
Amazon, the other data […]
Reason: Anti-prostitution activists have been equating sex work with slavery for over a century
(tags: sexcrime sexwork)
Arizona City To Build Medieval Moat To Stave Off Illegals
(tags: politics immigration)
What do tougher detention policies mean for illegal immigrant families?
(tags: prison immigration policestate)
Laugh it up fuckers
(tags: politics)
A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.
Visitors to RateMyCop.com on Tuesday were redirected to a GoDaddy page reading, “Oops!!!”, which urged […]
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
(tags: travel work environment food global)
SurveyUSA: Hillary And Obama Win Electoral College In Distinct Ways
(tags: 2008 politics obama mccain hillary)
My latest column at Alterati:
By the end of David Cronenberg’s 1983 film Videodrome we find that not only is television a literal part of the body, but that this brain part can spread contagious disease: the brain tumor inducing “Videodrome signal.†This metaphor carries into reality. Television does indeed transmit a particularly destructive disease. Symptoms […]
Most stolen books list reads like a list of my favorite books
(tags: books)
Short film about Teller as last survivor of a zombie outbreak
(tags: video film)
Newly discovered Abraham Lincoln letters reveal he proposed buying slaves as alternative to war
(tags: liberty race war)