Attack the System- 11/5/26: Trump Bends The Knee To Dems, Mississippi Goes Blue, JD Abandons Ship, Dems Warn Republicans To Lawyer Up, Laura Loomer Questions God’s Existence, Ro Khanna Pressed On Hakeem Jeffries 5th November 2026Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump bends the knee to Dems, Mississippi goes blue, JD abandons ship, Dems tell Trump admin to lawyer up Laura Loomer questions god’s existence after massive losses, Ro Khanna pressed on Hakeem Jeffries. Isaac Saul: https://www.readtangle.com/ Ro Khanna: https://x.com/RoKhanna Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (2:24)Trump OBSESSES OVER […] The post 11/5/26: Trump Bends The […]Keith Preston
- The Annihilation of Captive Dreams 5th November 2026Neema Parvini 40 minutes ago Slop social media hates that which is not ephemeral. It has no memory, it has no history, it lives only in the exact moment of today’s current thing, driven chiefly by fleeting emotions. I work in the opposite way. The purpose of writing […] The post The Annihilation of Captive […]Keith Preston
- Defying the zio-global dictatorship! 5th November 2026Paul Cudenec 6 hours ago [Plus audio version] I am sure you don’t need me to tell you that we are heading into a crucial period of history. Not only is the shadow of a possible world war looming over us, but our freedom is coming under rapidly […] The post Defying the zio-global dictatorship! […]Keith Preston
- 11/5/26: Trump Bends The Knee To Dems, Mississippi Goes Blue, JD Abandons Ship, Dems Warn Republicans To Lawyer Up, Laura Loomer Questions God’s Existence, Ro Khanna Pressed On Hakeem Jeffries 5th November 2026
- Samizdata
- Samizdata quote of the day – Selling England by the Pound 5th November 2026This is not a change of heart. A change of heart is permitted to an honest man, and he announces it, and he takes the consequences. This is something else. It is a man who held one view in the pub in Ashton and holds the opposite in the Berlaymont, and who will not say […]Thomas Fairfax (Yorkshire)
- 2016 – 2026: The worst decade of entertainment 4th November 2026Yeah, this pretty much sums up why I will welcome our robot overlordsSamizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- If paying compensation to slaveowners to free the slaves was bad, what should they have done instead? 3rd November 2026This is today’s cartoon by Ben Jennings in the Guardian: If you can’t see the cartoon, it shows a man and a woman in what looks like a TV studio set up for a Sunday morning political interview. The man, a toffee-nosed member of the upper classes, is saying, “Britain has already paid reparations for […]Natalie Solent (Essex)
- Samizdata quote of the day – Selling England by the Pound 5th November 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
- Gregory Clark and Garett Jones: To Have and Have Not, genetic determinants of social status 5th November 2026The heritability of social status across societiesRazib Khan
- Election 2026 review: Razib, Josiah and Tushar 5th November 2026Review of the resultsRazib Khan
- Tim Carney: A Tea Party conservative in the Age of Trump 31st October 2026Reviewing 25 years of conservative journalismRazib Khan
- Gregory Clark and Garett Jones: To Have and Have Not, genetic determinants of social status 5th November 2026
- Entitled to an Opinion
- The Serpent and the Rainbow 20th October 2026I ended my last book review by writing that I “have a book selected next which will both let me alternate back to non-fiction and fit in with an October dedicated to horror (which I normally leave for just what I watch rather than read) since it was nominally adapted as a horror movie I […]teageegeepea
- 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
- The Serpent and the Rainbow 20th October 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: Vision Video
Horror Vacui (19/8/25, Helgi’s, London, England, UK)
The catacombs of Helgi’s proved a fitting spot for Italian goth rockers Horror Vacui to stop off for the London date of their Sleepless Nights tour. It was something of a pleasant surprise to encounter them via YouTube and Bandcamp, … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchism, Atheism, Culture, Entertainment, Gigs, Music, Personal, Politics, Religion, Reviews, The UK
Tagged bomberventionism, deathrock, Dusty Gannon, Gaza, goth rock, Helgi's, Horror Vacui, immigration, Islamophobia, Palestine, post-punk, Solus, Vision Video
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The Chameleons (7/12/24, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, England, UK)
A post-punk triple bill last Saturday night, with me revisiting a couple of familiar acts plus one never seen live before. First came a familiar band, Statesiders Vision Video, with a new keyboardist (complete with fishnets and teddy bear mascots) … Continue reading
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Tagged gigs, post-punk, The Chameleons, The Membranes, Vision Video
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