Archive for 2014
Sunday, November 30th, 2014
The Swiss Gold Referendum is clearly a vote about income shares between the rich and the poor; and a vote in favor of a gold backed franc is not in the interest of the elite. By Paul Craig Roberts.
In a few days [November 30, 2014] the Swiss people will go ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
The copyright monopoly war wasn't the war, it was the tutorial mission. The internet generation is using technology to assert its values and its place in society, and the old industrial generation is pushing back hard against irrelevance. Things are about to get much worse. By Rick Falvinge.
People sometimes ask ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
Finally, one of Critic After Dark Noel Vera's favorite Filipino horrors - Mario O'Hara's Halimaw sa Banga (Monster In A Jar, 1986). It's one of Noel's most indefensible picks: a classic, though some will wonder why...
For the record: Mario O'Hara's Halimaw sa Banga (Monster In A Jar, 1986), second half ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2014
News came on November 10 that Tomas Young, an Iraq war vet turned anti-war activist, had passed away in Seattle at the age of 34. Tomas enlisted in the Army just two days after the 9/11 attacks. Following his training at Ft Hood, Texas he was deployed to Iraq and ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
Looks like both sides in the East-West standoff are playing "reindeer games" just in time for the holidays. The downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 is in the news once again with both the Russians and the anti-Russians offering "new" evidence blaming the other. Then there's the resurgence of interest in ...
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
This article was first published by Voltairenet in other languages in September 2014.
The State Department acknowledged that the crew of the destroyer USS Donald Cook has been gravely demoralized ever since their vessel was flown over in the Black Sea by a Russian Sukhoi-24 (Su-24) fighter jet which carried neither ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
A husband who appears to have more girlfriends than friends; his mother finds a new boyfriend when his father dies; and a wife who has the hots for the next door, teenage peeping tom. That's life in Im Sang-Soo's A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003). Stephen Tan reviews.
Eun Ho-jeong seems to ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2014
Here we go again. More advertising agency gimmicks to stir a storm against perceived enemies. Repeat the mantra 'what weapons of mass destruction? what weapons of mass destruction?' Paul Craig Roberts gives a step-by-step explanation of the latest fake story that's aimed to put you in a war-like mood.
RT, one ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
CHARLES MINGUS' REVENGE
In 2011, BigO shared a Mingus concert from his 1964 tour of Europe (click here). At the time, we were unaware that his wife, Sue, had released a concert from this tour - Paris 1964 - on her label, Revenge Records. This is what Sue Mingus said:
From the ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
Reviewing Charles R Cross’s mesmerizing biography of Jimi Hendrix, Room Full Of Mirrors (2005), artist, poet and writer Kim Nicolini draws many parallels from the book with her life and finds that self-reinvention and running away doesn’t work and that the past and the present are inextricably connected.
I used to ...
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