Archive for May, 2008
Hmmmm
A thousand words and all that.
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Tags: Big Brother, CCTV
Earlier this evening I sat down to read a wee bit of Cory Doctorow’s new novel Little Brother. Little Brother is a novel for young adults that involves a bunch of young hacker kids going toe to toe with the department of homeland security(DHS) in the US, you’ll forgive me for not linking to their [...]
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Tags: Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction, subversion
Rest In Peace Utah Phillips
U. Utah Phillips the American anarchist folk singer has died at the age of 73.
Utah was a union organizer within the radical syndicalist union the Industrial Workers of the World. He was famous for his folk singing and storytelling rather than his political activities however.He left behind a wealth of material that acts as a [...]
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Anarchist Communism
Being as my previous entry was commented upon by Roy Jones of the BNP I feel it necessary to c+p a wee description of Anarchist-Communism for the wee man as he obviously has little grasp of the plethora of political ideas in this world.
From Libcom, edited by the Anarchist Federation (UK)
A short introduction to anarchist-communism.
Anarchist [...]
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Tags: anarchist communism, anarchist federation
Whilst I unfortunately missed the proceedings of last Saturday on Buchanan Street I was quite amused by the latest post on the BNP-Scotlands blog (i’m not going to link to them just google bnp-scotland)
Now since they reared their ugly heads this time round I have been keeping an eye on the wee bawbags and have [...]
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Benefit “Fraud”
The government and the media love to scapegoat people. Single mothers, miners, new age travelers, migrants, refugees and benefit claimants have all been accused of being a burden to the country. The last year or so has seen another round of adverts from the DHSS/DSS/DWP/whatever encouraging people to grass on ‘benefit cheats’ and for those [...]
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Tags: Benefits, DWP
Moving On
Having been using Google’s Blogger since the end of last year I have decided to move my randomness and general bile across to wordpress. There are a couple of reasons for this. The first one being that google are rapidly approaching the status of IT Anti-Christ, a title that has long been held by Microsoft [...]
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Tags: Blogging, Google, Moving, Wordpress
Heh
Whilst perusing the various racist far right sites and blogs I came across this wonderful video of last years Red, White and Blue festival. The RWB festival for those who don’t know is a mock festival of traditional ‘britishness’ held by the BNP who have a very limited understanding of the history of these islands. [...]
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At 5p per text most people don’t think twice about sending a quick text message to a friend or even firing back and forth rapid messages in a text conversation. However when you add up the cost per byte of information, as a scientist at the University of Leicester has done, you see quite how [...]
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May Reshuffle
This Saturday will be a good one with the May Reshuffle community activists gathering at the Pearce Institute in Govan. Between twelve and eight there will be workshops and talks on a variety of subjects and there should be something for everyone.There will be workshops on car culture and public transport in Glasgow, climate change [...]
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