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It is now 3.19pm. On my telly is Star Trek TNG. Outside my window is my mrs., mowing the back garden.
(Bear with me - this post will be slightly rambling)
In around 4 - 5 billion years, our sun [...]
My title is nicked from Noam Chomsky. My anger is my own.
In a totalitarian regime, there is propaganda. But, since these regimes have huge spending on state institutions to control the public, press, labour etc. they basically use The Big Stick. The propaganda is glaring and obvious. And the consequences of ignoring it are well [...]
I just watched a BBC News 24 report by Ben Brown and his use of language flabbergasted me with its bias. Here's a few examples:
Iraqis are part of an "insurgency against coalition forces." Not fighting to defend their country from an invading army - insurgency.
The invading army is fighting "pockets of resistance." Careful with that [...]
Click here for photos of today's demo. Initial police estimates said less than 100,000 but now they've saying it's 200,000. I reckon it was more, from the amount of people streaming through the streets. Bear in mind that the empty looking shots in the gallery are just because I like seeing closed off London streets [...]
Forget about the news, the media is now switching over into its unquestioning propaganda mode, the same as it did in Gulf War I and the Falklands.
Instead of news, we get videos taken direct from arms manufacturer's promo packs. These show gleaming missiles faultlessly tracking and destroying targets. Or shots of our brave boys playing [...]
“My partner loves frigging me off…”
Here’s a pet hate of mine:
partner
As in, “my partner and I have just bought this wonderful barn which we’re going to convert into stinky yuppie flats, yah?”
ARRGGHGHH!
If I ever find myself using the word partner instead of mrs, wife or girlfriend, I’ll know it’s time to kill [...]
Chicken Rhythms or Chicken Shit?
(This rant is a response to a post on an online forum)
I think it’s difficult now to understand how important Factory were back then (and by this, I mean the 80s).
My fave Factory bands:
New Order
Durutti Column
OMD (started there)
The Wake
Cabaret Voltaire
Factory bands I could do without:
Northside
Adventure Babies
So that’s not a bad [...]
I've been severely enjoying:
SOFT PINK TRUTH
An excellent album of rump-shakeable party electronics, about as far from po-faced IDM as the Chuckle Brothers are from Christopher Walken. My fave track is probably 'Big Booty Bitches' just cos you can really shake your thang to this. Comparsions? Kid 606, DAT Politics and, of course, Blectum [...]