Attack the System- Sign the petition: Final Senate war powers resolution vote happening tomorrow 15th January 2026TELL THE U.S. SENATE: After the Senate voted 52 – 47 to advance a bipartisan resolution to stop Trump’s illegal war on Venezuela, Trump claimed that he canceled a second wave of airstrikes. The final vote in the Senate is tomorrow and we must ensure that the slim […] The post Sign the petition: Final […]Keith Preston
- Sign the petition: Hold Pam Bondi accountable for Epstein files failure! 15th January 2026TELL CONGRESS: Pam Bondi’s DOJ broke the law and failed to release the Epstein files. The Trump administration says it’s made less than 1% of the files publicly available, many with heavy redactions. Trump and Bondi must release the full files now!! Sign the petition: Hold Pam Bondi […] The post Sign the petition: Hold […]Keith Preston
- Congressional disputes over ICE shooting could lead to shutdown 15th January 2026View in browser TUESDAY, JANUARY 13 ICE SHOOTING DISPUTES COULD SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENT Some lawmakers are escalating widespread calls for disciplinary action against the ICE agent who shot Renee Good and increased oversight of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Others are rejecting the effort. The disagreements in Congress […] The post Congressional disputes over ICE […]Keith Preston
- Sign the petition: Final Senate war powers resolution vote happening tomorrow 15th January 2026
- Samizdata
- Without their monopoly on force, the police are just the second biggest gang 14th January 2026Nick Timothy writes in the Telegraph: It was last summer when Aston Villa drew Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Europa League. Immediately, the local, “Gaza Independent” MP Ayoub Khan launched a campaign to cancel the match. His petition demanded the match be cancelled because Aston is, in his words, a “predominantly Muslim community”. After police […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Thoughts on the fatal shooting by an ICE operative of the motorist in Minnesota 11th January 2026Minnesota is not a happy place at the moment, what with the multi-billion-dollar welfare fraud story and now this: After an immigration agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump portrayed that use of lethal force as clearly justified. Noem averred that […]Johnathan Pearce (London)
- Samizdata quote of the day – Let’s not have a second world war 11th January 2026Dr. Mackail, in one of his recent essays, has laid fresh stress on this point when he says there were not enough Romans left to carry on the work of Rome. There are fears among those who are responsible for Government to-day, fears not yet gripping us by the throat, but taking grisly shape in […]Patrick Crozier (Twickenham)
- Without their monopoly on force, the police are just the second biggest gang 14th January 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
- Francis Young: Baltic paganism in modern times 12th January 2026On this episode, Razib talks to returning guest, Francis Young, a historian who teaches at Oxford. Young specialises in the history of religion and belief from ancient times to the present day, and provides expert indexes for academic books and translates medieval and early modern Latin. He holds a PhD from Cambridge University and is the author, […]Razib Khan, Francis Young
- Eric Cline: Love, War and Diplomacy, international relations in the Bronze Age 9th January 2026On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib again talks to George Washington University archaeologist Eric Cline. The author of 1177 B.C. - The Year Civilization Collapsed and After 1177 B.C. - The Survival of Civilizations, Cline has a new book out, Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed. While 1177 B.C. closed with the end of the […]Razib Khan, Eric Cline
- Aneil Mallavarapu: why machine intelligence will never be conscious 9th January 2026A systems biologist explains how intelligence and consciousness differRazib Khan
- Francis Young: Baltic paganism in modern times 12th January 2026
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Catch-22 23rd November 2025This might be one of the most well-known books I’ve reviewed here (despite ending my last review of a novel by claiming I didn’t expect to do more literary rather than genre fiction), to the extent that the very title is now a well-known phrase for a phenomena. It’s also one whose film adaptation I […]teageegeepea
- Applying a gendered disparity in ranking films to the “Double Feature” podcast corpus of films 23rd September 2025Yesterday, Marginal Revolution linked to this tweet on the films with the largest “delta” in men vs women’s rankings on IMDB. I don’t know anybody else who still talks about the Double Feature podcast, since it went completely defunct a while back and had been mostly defunct for some time even prior to that, but […]teageegeepea
- Can you judge how people would handle power by how they handle the comments sections of their blogs? 5th September 2025I recently had to dig through pages of Hopefully Anonymous’ blog in the Internet Archive in order to find this post. As noted recently, TypePad’s disappearance means that will be the only way to access it. As I’d rather not have to repeat that, I have decided to copy his post below, which I acknowledge […]teageegeepea
- Catch-22 23rd November 2025
- 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 to reach higher goals. Dishonest partisan election officials “cured” problem ballots. This must be exposed, opposed, reversed. Continue at Sincerity.netWait, there is more! This article continues! Continue reading »Vote counting corrupted in USA, […]Programmer
- Make Western Civilization great again! Dishonesty was its downfall! Honesty can fix it. 13th April 2023
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- 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 […]Trevor Blake
- 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
- Trevor Blake & The Atkinson: Dora Marsden and the Gospel of Power 27th May 2024Dora Marsden was born in the village of Marsden in 1882. In 1900 began teaching at Owens College, where she met Christabel Pankhurst and other suffragists. Dora joined them and became a leader in the Women’s Social and Political Union (WPSU) by 1908. The following year she resigned as a teacher and became a full […]Trevor Blake
- The Freewoman by Rebecca West 9th October 2025
Tag Archives: synthpop
Men Without Hats (25/8/25, The Garage, London, England, UK)
August Bank Holiday Monday saw me make a long-awaited return to the Garage in Islington to finally see an act that has long been a staple of my gargantuan ’80s playlist, Men Without Hats. Known primarily for their infectious 1982 … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Entertainment, Gigs, Music, Personal, Retinal Reprobation, Reviews, The UK
Tagged #ThatsWhatDaddyLikes, Men Without Hats, rock, synthpop, The Garage, The Rude Awakening
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The Human League (23/7/25, Brighton Beach, Brighton, England, UK)
July’s penultimate Wednesday saw me return to Brighton for another date on the Human League’s summer outdoor tour. Initially, I was gonna forgo this, having purchased a ticket for their return to Kew Gardens a fortnight prior. However, a combo … Continue reading
Posted in 80s, Culture, Entertainment, Gigs, Music, Personal, Retinal Reprobation, Reviews, The UK
Tagged 80s, A Thousand Mad Things, Brighton, Brighton Beach, Marc Almond, new wave, On the Beach, synthpop, The Human League, Toyah
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The Human League (9/7/25, Kew Gardens, London, England, UK)
The second Wednesday of July saw me make another visit to Kew for the same reason I did the time before: The Human League. Having last seen them from an elevated distance at Wembley’s OVO Arena, it was good to … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, Blancmange, Kew Gardens, synthpop, The Human League
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Gary Numan (25/6/25, Concorde 2, Brighton, England, UK)
It took Gary Numan announcing a series of warm-up shows for his Glastonbury debut to get me back down to Brighton for the first time in fucking decades. Granted, I already had several other visits marked on the calendar prior … Continue reading
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Tagged Agency-V, Brighton, Concorde 2, darkwave, electronica, Gary Numan, synthpop
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Forever Now Festival (22/6/25, The National Bowl, Milton Keynes, England, UK)
Named for the Psychedelic Furs song of the same name, Midsummer Sunday’s Forever Now festival had been billed as the UK’s answer to Stateside’s Cruel World, that is, a showcase of post-punk, and post-punk—adjacent, bands past and present. Having been … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s, Berlin, Billy Idol, Cruel World, Death Cult, Forever Now, Johnny Marr, Kraftwerk, Milton Keynes, new wave, PiL, post-punk, synthpop, The Chameleons, The Psychedelic Furs, The The, UK Decay
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Lene Lovich (17/5/25, Downstairs at the Dome, London, England, UK)
Downstairs at the Dome was hit by a quirky new wave last Saturday thanks to Lene Lovich and her plucky band. They were heralded, once again, by Anglo–Argentinian electropoppers SHH and by an act hitherto unknown to me, percussion-heavy goth-hymnalists … Continue reading
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Tagged Downstairs at the Dome, electro, goth, Lene Lovich, new wave, SHH, synthpop, The Gospel
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