A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE…

I have a sort of a scary but true story for Halloween, a little vid and question. Question first… Until fairly recently the ‘trick or treat’ thing didn’t happen here in the same way. People would go door to door but you had to say a little poem or something if you wanted anything.  However, [...]

SORT IT OUT

Monbiot’s latest article… The Road Well Travelled Are we already shutting our minds to the consequences of climate change? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 30th October 2007 A few weeks ago I read what I believe is the most important environmental book ever written. It is not Silent Spring, Small is Beautiful or [...]

FEMA FAKES A PRESS CONFERENCE

There is more and more of this sort of thing going on. There was a staged news briefing broadcast by Fox and others. Here is the Democracy Now report on it. The apology FEMA gives is one of the ‘only sorry we got caught’ kind of apologies. It is not just in the USA. The [...]

24 HOUR JEWELLERY EXHIBITION

I was reminded of this event tonight and just wanted to write up the story. After I finished the time in the village in Nepal where I was volunteering, myself and a couple of friends had a couple of weeks just to hang out before we went home. Some of what we would have got [...]

OUT AND ABOUT

Good video from undercurrents…

BETTER OR WORSE

I changed the look of the thing. Regular readers… better or worse?

SMACK

Britain is to remain one of the few places in Europe where parents are allowed to hit their children. The BBC says… Laws on smacking in England and Wales were tightened in 2004 to stop parents and carers who assaulted children using “reasonable punishment” as a defence…. Under the 2004 Children’s Act, which came into [...]

IT’S COMING

This is a fantastic piece from Chris Hedges. To prove the point of what he says in 5 minutes you could watch the documentary beneath it. This documentary is about Patrick Henry College and is a must see. It is called ‘God’s Next Army’ and doesn’t begin until about 3 or 4 minutes into the [...]

DON’T TAKE PART

[This is in conjunction with the post directly below it] Despite protestations of liberalism from many actors Hollywood is a pretty racist, statist, status quo and sexist kind of place. You only have to look at most of the films. There has been a lot of good work done about racism and sexism in disney films and [...]

‘OPERATION HOLLYWOOD’ AND ‘HOLLYWOOD AND THE PENTAGON’

[I wrote this review a while ago but it is being reposted now to be taken in relation to the next post, which is coming in an hour or two...] If you think of propaganda Lassie is not the first thing that springs to mind. Nevertheless, over the years, Lassie and hundreds of other TV shows [...]