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Harvesting kidneys from abducted civilians in Organ Farms

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 [...]

How To Have A Number One The Easy Way

T H E
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.
KLF 009B
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 [...]

Crazy Love

 
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 [...]

Immigration ’small benefit’ to UK

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 [...]

La Belle Epoque

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 [...]

And now for somewhere completely different

 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 [...]

Open Serb hatred must be answered

Belgrade’s Holocaust Memorial - one of several in a city populated by a people famed for their resistance to the Nazis
I am used to reading lies and vitriol about Serbs and Serbia but an article emailed to me today is one of the most racist, hateful and biased articles I have read in a [...]

UN condemns attacks on Western embassies in Belgrade

Aftermath time here in Belgrade. Serbs are furious with the hooligans who attacked the embassies last night, partly because people generally detest the thug element here and once again they have gifted the media an anti-Serb platform. Instead of reporting that hundreds of thousands of people staged the largest peaceful protest in Serbia’s history, the [...]

Audio tape cassette nostalgia at tapedeck.org

 
analog audio tape cassette nostalgia - tapedeck.org

Solange Karsh

Wife of master portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh, she had a magnificent physique and was his only nude model.