Archive for 2010
Friday, December 31st, 2010
It's the first time that Malaysia, with a homegrown side, has emerged winners in the AFF Championships since it started in 1996 and the PM declares Friday (Dec 31) a national holiday.
Unlike $ingapore, Malaysia's football team is made up entirely of Malaysian-born Malaysians. Ditto Indonesia's team. Both qualified for the ...
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
To Critic After Dark Noel Vera, Adam Elliot's Mary And Max is one of the best animated features in years. It's visually distinctive, more texturally fascinating, more laugh-out-loud funny, more emotionally complex, more - and this above all else - honest than anything Pixar has ever done.
Adam Elliot's Mary And ...
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
To our prehistoric human ancestors, Winter Holiday Sex was an ecstatic communal coming together, celebrating the erotic fecundity of life in the dead of winter; red hot hope, desire and joy to the world in a season of cold blue despair. While the world shakes and trembles, Dr Suzy Block ...
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Yohei Fukuda's Death Tube may feature a live online killer site but to have classroom-style obstacle races passing off as cutting-edge reality games and where killings involve poison and shootings - that's really old school. Stephen Tan reviews.
Spoilers alert! The Saw series has so much to answer for. Death Tube ...
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Never has an issue been clearer. In 2008, the bankers at Wall Street created a financial tsunami. Instead of reining them in, the world has been told these banksters were "too big to fail". Now the U.S. dollar as reserve currency has been sacrificed. Mike Whitney explains.
Paul Volcker is worried ...
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
As Hollywood remakes go, Matt Reeves' Let Me In, his adaptation of Tomas Alfredson's vampire movie - Let The Right One In, is one made with care and skill and talent. But as Critic After Dark Noel Vera points out, be aware that Alfredson's is the superior version, and you're ...
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Sunday, December 12th, 2010
The standard operating procedure of all authoritarian governments to "close" a society is to pass laws that make criticism "treason" and whistleblowing "espionage". If you live in such a country, you live in a climate of fear. Naomi Wolf writes.
This week, Senators Joe Lieberman and Dianne Feinstein engaged in acts ...
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Fake detonator with fake bomb = fake terrorist. But the young man set up by the FBI has now been arrested as a teen terrorist in Portland, Oregon, USA. If you allow your society to be controlled and manipulated, says Paul Craig Roberts, then it can hardly be a free ...
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
From A Tale Of Two Sisters to The Good, The Bad, The Weird, director Kim Ji-woon now tackles serial killers in I Saw The Devil (2010) but finds the Korean censors much more than he bargained for. Stephen Tan reviews.
A woman, Joo-yeon, is stranded on a lonely road one night ...
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
How to turn loyal citizens into potential protestors? Paul Craig Roberts explains that the American government is preparing to cut social security, raise the retirement age to 69, impose a 6.5 per cent sales tax, while cutting taxes for the rich. All to save money to continue trillion-dollar wars in ...
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