Attack the System- Modernity, metal and infernal inversion 7th October 2026Paul Cudenec 6 hours ago [Plus audio version] One of the great wonders of life, for me, is the way in which certain books find their way into my hands without me having actually looked for them – indeed, it feels as if it were they who were […] The post Modernity, metal and infernal […]Keith Preston
- No One Gives A Fuck About October 7 7th October 2026Caitlin Johnstone 8 hours ago Video reading by Tim Foley: No one gives a fuck about October 7. No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of […] The post No One Gives A […]Keith Preston
- Why Bagram Air Base Remains a Target Five Years After U.S. Exited Afghanistan 7th October 2026Viral videos and online commentary have alleged that U.S. forces quietly reclaimed Afghanistan’s most notorious military base. Emran Feroz 5 hours ago As a reader-funded independent news outlet, we operate free from the influence of governments, advertisers, and corporate backers. This is essential to our mission: to report […] The post Why Bagram Air Base […]Keith Preston
- Modernity, metal and infernal inversion 7th October 2026
- Samizdata
- “Date of arrest: October 7th 2023” 7th October 2026Three years ago today, Gazan civilians – not themselves Hamas, just Palestinians taking advantage of an opportunity – abducted Shiri Bibas and her children Ariel aged four and Kfir aged nine months. They were held in captivity for an unknown amount of time before being murdered. The children were probably strangled. Hamas, wishing to be […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- A room full of tragic distractions: Eric Barrett’s “Experienced: On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond” 7th October 2026Especially for Jimi Hendrix Experience fans, Eric Barrett’s Experienced: On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond is an engrossing and entertaining read featuring new, first-hand information about rock music’s most acclaimed guitarist. With help from Lawrence Robinson, Mr. Barrett provides a well-written memoir of his years as Hendrix’s equipment roadie and rare friend who […]Douglas Young (Georgia, USA)
- Samizdata quote of the day – Capital Flight & Financial Repression 6th October 2026Once investors begin to doubt the real return available on sovereign liabilities, the speed with which they can respond becomes important. Modern financial wealth can be reallocated almost instantaneously. An investor dissatisfied with cash or government bonds can move into foreign equities, commodities, gold, property funds or another currency without waiting for wages, consumer prices […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- “Date of arrest: October 7th 2023” 7th October 2026
- Wisdom Dancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them(An extension of a few points I mentioned in this video concerning education.) So-called educational systems teach young students what to believe, how to behave, and perhaps skills deemed necessary—not to question. (To a considerable degree, teaching what to believe … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoesA brief excerpt taken from Book III of Volume I of The Constellation of Man. These metaphors, like others I use in the book, introduce realism concerning the novelty of our personal appearance on preconstructed stages of history and human culture, atop mind … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo 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 →Wisdomdancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 2021by John Grauerholz Your medical record is something that will always be used against you. Your medical history only exists to record your physical humiliations. A doctor is not there to cure you, but to cause you as much consternation as possible. A physician’s role is not to heal a patient of your ilk, but […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One 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 →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The 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 →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I 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 →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- Brian Chau: noticing with technology + investigative journalism 7th October 2026On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Brian Chau. A graduate of the University of Waterloo and former software engineer with a background in pure mathematics, today Chau is CEO of Effort.News. He was previously with The Alliance for t...Razib Khan, Brian Chau
- Brian Chau: noticing with technology + investigative journalism 7th October 2026On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Brian Chau. A graduate of the University of Waterloo and former software engineer with a background in pure mathematics, today Chau is CEO of Effort.News. He was previously with The Alliance for t...Razib Khan, Brian Chau
- Ramez Naam: a solar future against AI-doomerism 1st October 2026One of America’s premier futurists speaksRazib Khan
- Brian Chau: noticing with technology + investigative journalism 7th October 2026
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Winesburg, Ohio 25th September 2026Sherwood Anderson’s 1922 book is quite far from the scifi I more often review here, but I got interested after watching Tales from the Loop (which I’m going to repeatedly reference throughout this post) and hearing that the showrunner, Nathaniel Halpern, was inspired by this short-story cycle in making his adaptation of an entirely different […]teageegeepea
- American Gods 31st August 2026The first time I heard of Neil Gaiman was when I read Good Omens because I was a fan of that novel’s other author, Terry Pratchett. I recall hearing that it was supposed to be obvious who wrote what because their styles were so different, but I never read any other works by Gaiman until […]teageegeepea
- Band of Brothers 18th July 2026More than a decade prior to reading Stephen Ambrose’s book about Easy Company, I had seen the miniseries. That was so good that when I subsequently binged the 21st century reboot of Battlestar Galactica, I enjoyed it far less than most and repeatedly thought that, by comparison, those fictional characters in an existential struggle were […]teageegeepea
- Winesburg, Ohio 25th September 2026
- Evolutionist X
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021Like the uncollapsed quantum state holding Schrodinger’s cat in a state of simultaneous life and death, whether a school is “teaching critical race theory” or not seems to depend entirely on whether the inquiring person wants them to. Are you anti-CRT? Then, you may rest assured, American schools most certainly aren’t teaching CRT. (If you […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence 26th June 2021Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. — Proverbs 9:1 T. E. Lawrence is the Lawrence, of Arabia, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom is his autobiographical account of his time spent serving in the British and Arab armies during World War One. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ve got the […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Lawrence in Arabia 10th June 2021Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is, quite obviously, about the famous T. E. Lawrence “of” Arabia. The book ranges significantly wider than Lawrence’s personal account, however, shifting between the perspectives of Ottoman officials, German spies, American spies, Zionist spies, and of course British spies. I read this book concurrently with The Berlin-Baghdad Express, so my […]evolutiontheorist
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021
- Human Stupidity
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023We boldly claim to change the world, with one simple dogmatic rule! TOTAL HONESTY, and intolerance for deception, can change the world for the better. One simple rule! Honesty is the #1 necessity for a modern scientific society PC deception and lies are the CAUSE for the downfall of Western civilization. Total honesty and full disclosure are […]Programmer
- HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate 23rd March 2022HIgh school teen faces 10 years in prison for sexting female classmate Teen sexting case highlights severity of N.C. sex offender laws A North Carolina teenager faces felony sex crime charges after police discovered sexually explicit photographs of a sixteen-year-old girl on his cell phone. Cormega Copening is a seventeen-year-old high school student at Jack […]Human-Stupidy (Admin)
- Vote counting corrupted in USA, infiltrated by dishonest leftist activists 15th October 2021Formerly honest and unbiased vote counting is another institution infiltrated with and taken over by leftist activists. Leftists think deception is virtuous[note]It’s virtuous to lie, omit, deceive (about “minority” crime & flaws … Scientific Honesty & integrity compromised by PC Antiracist dogma [/note] to reach higher goals. Dishonest partisan election officials “cured” problem ballots. This […]Programmer
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- The Real Meaning of Sabotage: A 1913 IWW Classic by Gerald O. Desmond 10th February 2026This essay, “The Significance of Sabotage,” is reprinted from Industrial Worker, Volume 5, Issue 12, June 12, 1913. The Industrial Worker was the official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). The author, Gerald O. Desmond, is believed to be one of the many pseudonyms used by Arthur Desmond, who is best known […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- The Freewoman by Rebecca West 9th October 2025From Time and Tide for July 16, 1926 pp. 648-649 I have been asked to write an account of the Freewoman, and those who asked me were wise, for that paper, unimportant as it was in content, – and amateurish in form, had an immense effect on its time. But unfortunately, I have forgotten nearly […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- Little Black Cart/Ardent Press (R.I.P.) + Union of Egoists + Underworld Amusements 27th June 2024On December 31, 2023 the Berkeley anarchist publisher and distributor Little Black Cart / Ardent Press closed shop after many years of the project producing fascinating and challenging work, often finding it brought them at odds with many in the anarchist milieu they operated in. After the Underworld Amusements edition of The Unique and Its […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- The Real Meaning of Sabotage: A 1913 IWW Classic by Gerald O. Desmond 10th February 2026
Tag Archives: movies
England Prevails? V For Verdict
From my second view of V For Vendetta on Sunday comes the following verdict vindicated via verbosity….
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After the Apocalypse, Only Irony Remains….
I find it somewhat amusing that a significant chunk of ‘80s post-nuclear based visual entertainment (American straight-to-video flicks, Hokuto no Ken et al) derived its setting and most of the other aesthetic touches from the Mad Max movies, when the … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, aesthetics, anime, appreciation, art, humour, movies, musings
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On “Hollywoodization” & Hypocrisy
Jeez Louise! It seems that a flick based on 9/11 will soon see release State-side. And judging by the noise and furore on The Wright Stuff American distributors dither over allowing their cinemas to screen it. Panellist Martin Lewis expresses … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetic freedom, art, double standards, movies, musings, news, slave morality, stupidity, thoughts
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More Bloody Reviews….
It’s amazing the difference a gap of almost two decades makes to a concept! Over the course of twenty-four hours, I’ve given both the Vampire Hunter D movies a viewing, taking in the leaps and bounds made in animation and … Continue reading
One of the many great things I love about Sin City
There is no settling down! This is blood for blood and by the gallons! It’s the old days. The bad days. The all-or-nothing days. They’re back! -Marv, Sin City With characters and dialogue like some fevered dream of Mickey Spillane’s, … Continue reading
The slave morality of the “American Taliban” laid bare! (Cheers for this one,!)
My Un-Christian mind wonders…. …wouldn’t it be hilarious…. …and a beautiful instance of poetic justice…. ….if this coven of cocksuckers and cunts…. ….contracted the same AIDS they so virulently wish on those…. ….who would deviate from their mandates? Lucifer knows … Continue reading
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SIN FUCKING CITY!!!
Before, I thought Rob Rodriguez was one of my favourite directors… …. but now, after watching me Sin City….. ….. I KNOW he is! ~MRDA~
On Street Fighters, spin-offs & standalones…
Revisiting a film or show after a helluva long time sure throws its pros ‘n’ cons into sharp relief. Whereas upon first viewing, one generally views things with a receptive eye, taking in all the stimuli of a new situation, … Continue reading
