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16 October 2011  |  | category: empires flux, film, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, Global Guerillas, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the law, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, tribal  | comments are closed  The United Kingdom Explained from C. G. P. Grey on Vimeo. Have some problems with this – not least being Northern Ireland coloured orange 8 March 2011 | | category: empires flux, location+, maps & mapping, one world, the state we're in, tribal | comments are closed Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courageous talk from TEDxDU. THE BLACK HILLS ARE NOT FOR SALE. “The best things in life aren’t things” [ continue reading The Lakota Sioux; still prisoners of war. Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee and ‘what happens next?’ ] 11 November 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, empires flux, nothing new under the sun, one world, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the state we're in, tribal | comments are closed Hipster-hate blogs are multiplying online. But who are these much-maligned trendies – and why do people find them so irritating? Perhaps we should learn to love our skinny-jeaned friends instead There was a party going on in London E5; a house party in one of the Victorian terraces that line the streets in this modest area of east London. There had been parties on the street before, only on this particular Friday evening two months ago, guests wore Ray-Bans, deep-cut v-neck T-shirts and skinny jeans. They were also, according to one partisan report, in possession of “a sound system [ continue reading Hipsters? they are getting on some people’s nerves, or so it seems ] 15 October 2010 | | category: clothes, daren't parent, the state we're in, tribal, waffle | comments are closed I am opposed to the building of the “mosque” two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on Ground Zero. Why? Because I believe in an America that protects those who are the victims of hate and prejudice. I believe in an America that says you have the right to worship whatever God you have, wherever you want to worship. And I believe in an America that says to the world that we are a loving and generous people and if a bunch of murderers steal your religion from you and use it as their excuse to [ continue reading If the ‘Mosque’ Isn’t Built, This Is No Longer America | MichaelMoore.com ] 14 September 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, nothing new under the sun, one world, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, thinkers, tribal | comments are closed In the modern context, what I don’t understand is this: that with the music of the entire planet now available in abundance, so few people seem interested in the creative cross-pollination it might inspire. So it is that you end up with the grim spectacle of good old Noel Gallagher, making the case against the rap titan Jay-Z appearing at the UK’s most fondly loved festival: “I’m not having hip hop at Glastonbury. It’s wrong.” The latter artist had a much better reception than some people expected. Then again, think back to events at this year’s revels, and the [ continue reading Morrissey’s parochialism echoes the whole indie tribe ] ‘a new symbol for europe’ installation in Den Haag, the Netherlands image © designboom the current european flag with its twelve identical golden stars placed in a circle on a blue background, was designed in 1955. since then society in europe has changed. Nowadays various cultures live and work together in a relative small area. in the last 50 years europe has become a complex maze of identities. what is the impact of this new society with its diversity in culture, language and traditions on europe’s identity and how can that identity take shape? what is [ continue reading foundation design den haag: a new symbol for europe ] Nice manners, big kitchen, government by Boden. It’s all for the good of everyone. If only poorer people could be as nice to each other as this in their little ‘communities’, things would be so much lovelier! It’s like a dream. When old class warriors like Dennis Skinner pop up to randomly abuse the overlords, it feels like cheering a sad old bloke on Britain’s Got Talent, not because he can win, but because he has the gumption. The new poshness is the real break with Thatcherism and its loads-of-money showiness. [ continue reading Me, a pureblood prole, one of the new posh? ] No matter how long you know them, what you do for them or how close you are to them Scottish people you know will one day call you an ‘English Bastard’. It doesn’t matter what nationality you actually are and even being Scottish will not render anyone immune from this. They cannot help themselves. I was taught this all my life and have never had cause to doubt its veracity. If you think I am talking about you, I am probably doing exactly that. More than £400million a year is being raised by police and town halls targeting minor ‘middle-class’ crimes. They are hitting millions of people with tickets for speeding, parking, litter and even putting out bins on the wrong day. The ‘offenders’ are being caught using a range of increasingly advanced surveillance techniques, including spy cameras. The amount raked in from ‘soft crimes’ includes £330million in parking fines, £100million from speeding tickets and £12million from spot fines for offences such as over-filling a dustbin so its lid will not close. Speed cameras alone snare more than 1.4million people a year. In [ continue reading Don’t nick us it’s only ‘middle-class’ crime ] 19 January 2010 | | category: Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the state we're in, tribal | comments are closed It’s hard to be humble when you come from Stoke Newington – as many of the residents prove. Not affluent: mean, mode or median? Obviously not all (or even many) of them grew up there, but house prices now and the deceit of short-term rentals around the parish of St Mary’s each time a scion hits Year-6 will embed the burgeoning ‘new priest-class’ there. Also, Hackney improvements today coincide with opening of 3 academies – ie. schools not run by the local authority, an authority that hosted the first school in Britain closed under special measures. With the loss of [ continue reading another reason to be SMUG-16 ] 14 January 2010 | tagged as: humans, life, London | | category: Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, Hackney, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, tribal | comments are closed Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbusting 3D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It’s profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European engagement with the native peoples of the Americas. It’s profoundly silly because engineering a happy ending demands a plot so stupid and predictable that it rips the heart out of the film. The fate of the native Americans is much closer to the story told in another new film, The Road, in which a [ continue reading Monbiot: “Avatar is a profound, insightful, important film” ] 12 January 2010 | tagged as: film, humans | | category: film, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, tribal | comments are closed I went to a cash-machine recently and, as I find as I get older I take more time over it, had to lean bike against wall, struggle for stuff in panniers and so on blah blah, I was getting in a bit of a faff. They exhibit pretty bad feng shui by necessity these gadgets forcing you to stand with your back to a busy street, usually on an uneven pavement, cars and buses in the road, sunlight on the scratched screen, people on foot, buggies, bicycles and sholleys on the pavement and a host of horror stories in [ continue reading favours go round the world, you can’t pay ‘em back only repay forward ] Off to Egypt “And the criteria for engagement with Buddhist, Hindu, Parsee, Christian and atheist groups? No, rather treat the Muslims groups like all the others don’t engage with any of them, don’t treat folks as sectarian blocks, rather treat them all the same under the law” [LINK] …. is a comment from this article …. “Fear is the only reason that Muslim groups receive special treatment. Why else would the representatives of around two million people have money and time lavished on them in such an obscenely disproportionate way, while no one much bothers about the peaceable Hindus? [ continue reading Stop pandering to enemies of our way of life – Telegraph ] “The row is the latest in the South West to involve second home owners. The sports presenter Steve Rider has been involved in a planning dispute after he objected to proposals for affordable housing in a picturesque village in Devon. Mr Rider, the anchor of ITV’s football coverage, lodged a formal objection to plans by a charitable trust for six cottages in the riverside village of East Portlemouth, saying the development threatened the community’s ‘peace and solitude’. The plans were later approved. Residents of Helford, Cornwall, many of them reported to be second home owners, have successfully challenged plans [ continue reading Rural revolt gathers pace as upmarket new homes vandalised – Telegraph ] “The peace process, instituted by the British and Irish governments in the early 1990s, has transformed Northern Ireland into possibly the only state on Earth which is built around managing attitudes to the past rather than engaging people in debates about the future.” (Via IRA splinter groups: ghosts from history? | spiked: .) |  
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