Leaving the world at 58 still in the prime of his strength after a successful election cycle, Jurg Haider will remain an icon of Austrian independence.
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“Every day I am inundated with email forwards, usually from church members, extolling the virtues of our nation’s leaders and the current war….They’re the ones that are always sending me these emails about how wonderful it is to bomb cities full of women and children because of a lie.
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Found a great weblog today. Infrequent posts (fortunately more frequent than the ones at La Vie Viennoise since I got lost in my business in Slovakia in the last six months) but good ones.
Items you may wish to read:
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The implosion of the music business beginning strangely with F.D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and Peter Drucker’s management analyss. The article concludes with case studies of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Peter Gabriel discussing in a serious way what might replace it.
Despite any claims about deceased actors who snoozed through their Alzheimer’s dementia in the White House, the Soviet Union failed because their economy tanked. They went bankrupt in a foolish glut of military spending trying to convince the U.S. that it was a equal or superior military force. Now the U.S. faces a similar situation, in a world without cold war arms racing, the U.S. outspends all the nations of the world combined on it’s military. This is completely unnecessary, a loss of treasure that could be used for the good of all, and directs the nation into needless conflicts that are not “defensive”in nature. Ironically the same mindset that bankrupted the U.S.S.R. is now bankrupting the U.S.A.
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album cover art through a case study of the Hipgnosis set who created many Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and 10CC covers. The desmise of the LP has lost us an art form.
Hipgnosis Album Art
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a review of current and past war propaganda. “Terror” verus “Shock and Awe”.
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When the colonists opposed the British, and dumped tea, it was called a “party”. Sounds like fun. They, who combine to fight back, we call the “axis of evil”. But when we are lucky enough to pull together 3 or 4 countries that still agree with us, we call them “an alliance of the willing.”…
It is war. People are killed in order to allow one group of rich men to prevail over another less rich group. We don’t fight for honor, though the men who fight have the best intentions because they don’t know any better. They follow the bouncing ball and sing the song, ooh rah, and people die while my finances, peace of mind and safety quickly fade.
While working on some WordPress plugins, I found some unbelievable news about abuse of copyright over on YouTube. From the world’s biggest pirate, YouTube has become an unbearable censor of personal expression and free communication. Chris Pederson’s private videos of motor racing were taken down – and he got some nasty legal notifications. However, in the last year I have had three videos removed by YouTube for copyright infringement under the DMCA. Videos The three videos are all of outdoor sporting events filmed as a spectator: two of motor racing at Brands Hatch in England and one of the Red…
2 CommentsWith my girlfriend the other night we were just talking about the raw deal modern women have.Pre-feminism, a woman would have to bear and raise the children, take care of the house.Post-feminism, what has changed?A woman has to bear and raise the children, take care of the house and”Snatched from the Jaws of Victory: Feminism Then and Now” by Paula Rothenberg Once upon a time the personal really was political…. How convenient for capitalist patriarchy that young women today think that dressing like every man’s sex fantasy is a sign of their liberation and that the women’s movement was all about getting the right to choose and had nothing to do with making hard decisions about what values and what social vision should be reflected in our choices.I remember well the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
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Not that I want to get into the politics, but GR’s point is idiotic – there are SO many reasons you wouldn’t want the students to be carrying guns.
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It doesn’t hurt that Hungarian cuisine is the best food Caboodle.hu – Study shows Hungarian gender equality worst in region: According to an annual study published by the Central Statistics Office (KSH) and the ministry of social affairs and labor entitled “Women and Men in Hungary” (“Nők és férfiak Magyarországon”), while 54% of people participating in higher education are women, only 8% of university teachers are female…. In addition, although women are better educated and speak more languages than their male counterparts, they find it more difficult to climb the career ladder, and only 35% of managers are women.
16 CommentsRock Ballet – Political Ballet: <br />New Direction in Dance from Joni MItchell and William Forsythe
It turns out that Joni Mitchell is back at work on an amazing antiwar production, of all things a ballet.She is still highly motivated by politics:“Humbly I hope we can make a difference with this ballet,” she told him, speaking of her outrage about the foreign and environmental policies of the United States…. We’re wasting our time on this fairy tale war, when the real war is with God’s creation.
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