Belgrade 2.0 celebrates New Belgrade’s 60th birthday:
It’s hard to imagine that sight: on April 11th, 1948, thousands of young men and women gathered in front of a swamp ground where New Belgrade lies today, obserbing nothing but piles of sand and a complete wasteland. For the next two years they will be working as volonteers [...]
You would have been 116 today.
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From the BBC:
Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into claims that ethnic Albanians in Kosovo abducted and killed Serbs and may have sold their organs.
The claims, relating to 1999, had been set out in a book by former UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.
Human Rights Watch said it had new evidence [...]
e’Lollipop [IMDB], one of South Africa’s most famous and successful films, has been re-released on DVD in advance of a sequel, e’Lollipop 2: Tsepo’s Story .
From the film website:
“First released in 1976, this extraordinary motion picture story of two South African children and their dog, Sugarball, touched the hearts of audiences around the world.
Despite the [...]
The headline sounds like one of those pitchs movie makers have to give to studio executives where they summarise their proposed film in one line.
This one sounds like an episode from one of those cheesy sci-fi shows in the 70s featuring with an unbelievable plot that even the keenest fans deride.
The real horror here is [...]
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M A N U A L
(HOW TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE THE EASY WAY)
THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU
REVEAL THEIR ZENARCHISTIC METHOD USED
IN MAKING THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPEN.
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1988 (YOU KNOW WHAT’S GONE)
TEXT BY:
LORD ROCK AND TIME BOY
A.K.A. THE TIMELORDS
A.K.A. ROCKMAN ROCK AND KINGBOY D.
A.K.A. THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU
A.K.A. THE JAMS
A.K.A. THE [...]
From the ever superb Kevin Kelly, come this introduction to the documentary film Crazy Love:
Love is weird. This is a riveting story about a mutual love/hate relationship so obsessive, so disturbing, so insane, and yet in the end so conventional, that it challenges your own concept of love — and sanity. The guy [...]
The central tenet of those who support unrestricted mass immigration has long been its putative economic benefits.
When the social costs of mass immigration were pointed out, the Homo Economicus argument would be deployed.
I have long seen through the sham of this argument and I am on record slamming it regularly.
See or example:
Immigration sophistry debunked…again
The [...]
Abelard.org has a lovely short introduction to the fascinating era of peace, prosperity and scientific now known as La Belle Époque:
La Belle Époque, the Beautiful Era, is an expression born after the First World War to evoke the period after in the Napoleonic campaigns and before the watershed in Europe of the Great [...]
The Financial Times has great story about that profoundly strange and beautiful country, Japan:
In Japan, the trees are blue. So are the traffic lights, even though they look decidedly green to uninitiated outsiders. The Japanese do have a word for green, but when it comes to foliage and traffic signals, blue is the preferred term.
Blue [...]