Isn’t it illegal to depict throwing stars in the UK? Is that just an urban legend, or is it sooth? I know that Shadow Master had to be patched to remove them in the UK.
Hmmm – I dunno about shuriken, but nunchaku were definitely censorship fodder from the 70’s. There was also a trimming of scenes involving switchblades, if my copy of Face/Off is anything to go by
I always figured if the Democrats managed to oust Trump, a purge of the “no longer useful” left would take place. But it’s happening a lot quicker than even I thought it would. By Caitlin Johnstone There has been a purge of left-wing accounts from social media, with socialist organizations being targeted on Facebook and multiple […]
By Caitlin Johnstone There’s a news story about a US military convoy entering Syria being shared around social media with captions claiming that President Biden is already “invading” Syria which is getting tons of shares in both right-wing and left anti-imperialist circles. The virality of these shares has inspired clickbait titles like “Joe Biden Invades […]
The government’s response to COVID-19 has been to protect the health of the affluent classes at the expense of the poor and working-class, who still have to either go to work or simply do without an income. By Geoff Colvin, Fortune The economic effects of COVID-19 could prove deadlier than the disease itself. So says just-released research, […]
The Socialist Workers Party (Glad you asked, comrade: apostrophes are a bourgeois affectation!) are a bunch of Trotskyist goblins with admittedly good organisational skills. Back in 2011, I reminisced about how you could turn up at any demonstration for any left wing cause in Britain over the last forty years and find that their lank-haired […]
In answer to: Why can’t the Left let go of Trump? It is the same reason a certain ilk of Remainers can’t let go of Brexit, and why the Left in media & academia can’t let go of GamerGate. These were each a cultural Stalingrad, defeats that indicated the world did not work the way […]
A couple days ago, Russian internet caught on fire, and it is still ablaze. Although Alexei Navalny was already under arrest, instantly judged by the ad-hoc court assembled right in the police department, his team published a 2-hour investigation into Putin’s past, present, connections and all his assets. Here it is with good English subtitles. […]
by John Grauerholz If you, on a rainy, thundering night, ever dare to look in the mirror - then you, my dear reader, will see a complete failure gazing stupidly back at you. That slobbering, slack-jawed creature gawking from the glass is you. Even if your face were not completely hideous, your acquaintances would still […]
by John Grauerholz I need no gods; I worship myself. I need no church; my ego is powerful enough. I need no faith; I am confident in myself. I need no scriptures; my own presence is inspiration enough. I need no savior; I can handle things myself. I need no government; I […]
by John Grauerholz Let me make this simple for you. Maybe I need to make it easy for you. Perhaps I have to reduce it to a parable in order for you to understand. It is like this …. You have timed it perfectly. You have walked the selfsame streets so many times before that you […]
The writer presently known as Delicious Tacos is responsible for, among other things, a series of short confessional narratives that chronicle his agonizing ordeal with an anorectal abscess. That micro-memoir of butthole affliction – the "Ass Variations," as I have...
A few years ago I was interviewed by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents Publishing and I banked off one of his questions to talk about some of the publishers who inspired me to start up Nine-Banded Books way back when. Here's...
The title cracks me up. I mean, it could have been something vaguely academic -- maybe Physiognomy Reconsidered, or Physiognomy: The Abandoned Science; or it could have been something suggesively literary, like Body and Essence or A Book by Its...
One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →
The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →
I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →
Two things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →
Ideas are neither benign, nor malignant, out of the context of a specific mentality. They depend entirely on our subjective mental context to affect us. As we respond to ideas in one way or another, as we adopt one idea … Continue reading →
This post is a follow up to my previous post, Knowledge Matters, Too: Tell the Twin Stories of Violence and Race, which introduced the dispositive role that power plays, specifically the overlapping institutions of the police state and militarism. I … Continue reading →
Taking a break from catching up with Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe to read Accounts of China and India. It’s a short […]
This is a common question/assertion in the comments pretty much every other week: why couldn’t the documented incursions of nomadic people in the first millennium A.D. be responsible for the steppe ancestry? There is actually a good explanation in The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia, so I’ll quote it: By the […]
One of the few things I blogged about last year was the demise of a blog… specifically, Scott Alexander’s. He had noted in (what was) his last post that he planned on returning via Substack once he sorted out his real-life job so it couldn’t be threatened by doxing, and now his actual last post […]
My second post ever on this blog was titled with the internet-age utopian phrase Information Wants To Be Free. Even at that time one of my blog-inspirations (which I cited there) had been shuttered, I think after the professor behind it was found and “cancelled” (before that was a common term, and before the same […]
I have at various times expressed my complete contempt for the police and military branches of the United States government (as well as foreign governments, though they don't pose as much of a direct threat to me). The bourgeoisie nerds in the libertarian movement (much less the boot-licking 2nd Amendment queers) are often at pains […]
It is a good idea to both own and be proficient with at least one firearm. The most important factor is that you are comfortable shooting it, and that you practice a lot. Do not buy into bullshit like 'stopping power', 'hydrostatic shock' or cults of particular weapons. It is important that your weapon and […]
Death Wish was generally panned by film critics - who are almost all a bunch of weak faggots that are scared of guns. That, and not its content, is the main reason it suffered in the reviews. While Death Wish is nowhere near as cool as the original, it's certainly not bad as far as […]
We live in interesting times. The internet was supposed to usher in an era of increased knowledge, understanding, and maybe even human harmony. Instead it has turned us all into conspiracy theorists. Don’t get hoity-toity and claim that it’s only those Bad Guys over on the other side of the aisle who believe in conspiracies. […]
My husband made a good point yesterday, that an historian a hundred years from now could reasonably argue that Trump was never truly president because he was never allowed by the rest of the system to assume full power. For these four years America has been essentially sans-president. The system has chosen Biden; never mind […]
I think one of the problems with the teaching of history/our understanding of morality is that we look back on he past and think, “Oh it’s so OBVIOUS that X was evil, only evil people could have supported X. If I lived back then, I’d have been a good person who opposed X.” For example, […]
“Blacks have lower income than Whites in the USA. That proves ‘systemic racism’”. Scientific honesty requires to inform about all weaknesses in this statement. Reprinted with permission from SINCERITY.net Scientific honesty* requires full and total disclosure of all relevant issues regarding the theory in discussion. Dishonesty must be shunned, deception be taboo. Scientific honesty should […]
Cluelessness about suicides, bankruptcies, economic disasters, and co-morbidities related to Covid-19 lockdowns is chastised by Germany’s former secret service chief Hans Georg Massen. Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net 1) why we don’t differentiate between deaths BY Coronavirus and death WITH Coronavirus (and other causes of death) Why is Covid-19 so dangerous if there were no […]
Movie producers lose money, producing movies that people don’t want to see. Producers sacrifice profits to brainwash the “narrative” into people’s brains. Where is the OUTRAGE? Is there any research that the spectators want to watch female fighters and black heroes? Reprinted with permission from TruthRevolution.net NBC Preps ‘Zorro’ With Female Lead Who Fights for […]
One of the few things I blogged about last year was the demise of a blog… specifically, Scott Alexander’s. He had noted in (what was) his last post that he planned on returning via Substack once he sorted out his real-life job so it couldn’t be threatened by doxing, and now his actual last post […]
My second post ever on this blog was titled with the internet-age utopian phrase Information Wants To Be Free. Even at that time one of my blog-inspirations (which I cited there) had been shuttered, I think after the professor behind it was found and “cancelled” (before that was a common term, and before the same […]
Hyde Park Orator Illustrated Bonar Thompson Afterword by Trevor Blake 6 x 9″, 354 pages, perfect bound STAND ALONE SA1175 Available from: Underworld Amusements | Amazon | Bookshop.org “A cynic’s book that annoyed me.” – Leeds Mercury. Bonar Thompson, the famous Hyde Park Orator, delighted millions of listeners at the well-known meeting-ground for many years with his […]
I GO I go slowlyIn a slow way,My means being lowly.I go unbidden,Yea even forbidden.I go to discover—I know not.But I go,For only can I knowBy going. —Jack Jones.
Daily Herald (28 March 1914) SIMPOLEONS! Listen! Don’t be a blister on the Bosom of Time, but look like Napoleons of Labour by wearing “Sericine” Silk Ties. Something new. Seklew’s Sample Shilling Set: 3 Ties, 1 Tie-maker, 1 silver-cased Collar-fastener. 1s the Lot. Agents wanted. Particulars 1d. – Seklew and Co., 11, Chester Street, C.-on-M., […]
Isn’t it illegal to depict throwing stars in the UK? Is that just an urban legend, or is it sooth? I know that Shadow Master had to be patched to remove them in the UK.
Hmmm – I dunno about shuriken, but nunchaku were definitely censorship fodder from the 70’s. There was also a trimming of scenes involving switchblades, if my copy of Face/Off is anything to go by