awesome free stuff to read

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"Survival+" by Charles Hugh Smith.

awesome art

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This is what I call 'Art'.

Also, see this for pure, joyful whackery! I was actually laughing out loud with joy at the 'pong' section.

Word.

UK police declare 200 children to be "terrorist suspects"

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WTF? This just isn't funny. Children? Children for fuck's sake!

"What will often manifest itself is what might be regarded as racism and the adoption of bad attitudes towards 'the West'."

Said the senior pig in charge.

Punkscience is completely immune to charges of racism but as far as a "bad attitude towards 'the West'" goes, he's pretty fucking guilty of that. I think Western society is a fucking joke. Subtle imperialism, corruption and corporate globalisation are a threat to everything I hold dear in the Western world and they are products of that same world. But my attitude is very different from rucksack bombs and fundraising for the Taliban. I note that this program is exclusively targeted at Islam. As if other religious fundamentalists aren't any sort of threat to the integrity of our society (think Catholics and stem cell research, abortion and sex education or the Labour Friends of Israel parliamentary group and war crimes, or the various cultural and religious forces fuelling arranged marriages, female genital mutilation, other misogyny etc. etc. etc. etc.). No, it seems other religious and cultural phenomena promoting equally inhuman philosophies are ignored when there are Mooslims to persecute.

I might add that, to many children living amidst such a culture of pernicious persecution, where the people they are meant to respect and trust (teatures, etc.) grass them up to the authorities instead of confronting their beliefs with reason and argument, I am entirely sympathetic with their plight, if not their beliefs. The reason that kids can embrace such philosophies with such conviction is because there is so much damning evidence of UK war crimes and hypocrisy. That's what happens when you throw the moral high ground away and give people ample reason to hate you and want to blow you up. This was perfectly self-evident to me and the millions of people around the world who marched against the wars. Sadly, not to Bush, Blair, Straw, et al. (Or was it?)

piracy rules

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More XKCD. Which also rules.

IDF veterans relate how they murdered two women and two children in Gaza

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From Wikinews.

to the bastard who lives on Wharton Street in Retford, who found my blog from this google:

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You are a disgusting, inhuman monster. If I knew you I would probably have to forego my ostensibly pacifist principles to punch you in the face repeatedly. Tony Blair, Dick Cheney or the guy who charged the batteries in that torture chamber in Morocco wouldn't get any worse from me.

continuing in the recent Neo-Malthusian trend . . .

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We have this little gem from the PhD webcomic:

why we are all fucked

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Because they keep doing shit like this. NeoMalthusianism 101: You can't expand infinitely within a finite space. Earth is a semi-closed system and, as the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment reported, many of the planet's habitats are already degraded, or threatened with degraation by human activity. And the obssession with growth- both in economic and human population terms- means that that degradation will continue. Choice exerts from the Overall Synthesis include:

"approximately 60% (15 out of 24) of the ecosystem services examined during the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment are being degraded or used unsustainably, including fresh water, capture fisheries, air and water purification, and the regulation of regional and local climate, natural hazards, and pests"

"there is established but incomplete evidence that changes being made in ecosystems are increasing the likelihood of nonlinear changes in ecosystems (including accelerating, abrupt, and potentially irreversible changes) that have important consequences for human well-being. Examples of such changes include disease emergence, abrupt alterations in water quality, the creation of “dead zones” in coastal waters, the collapse of fisheries, and shifts in regional climate"

"the harmful effects of the degradation of ecosystem services (the persistent decrease in the capacity of an ecosystem to deliver services) are being borne disproportionately by the poor, are contributing to growing inequities and disparities across groups of people, and are sometimes the principal factor causing poverty and social conflict"

Just read the synthesis.

rinsing soundz ! !

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Yup, its another one. And its a maximum Baptist bassline mash up for the 'ardcore Jesus crew. Wicked!

two minutes of your time, please, to join this campaign

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End violence against women.

weird facts

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Punkscience was born in Holland. Many years ago. Punkmum just shared with him that, in the first three months of his pregnancy, she deposited her morning wee in a designated receptacle and left it outside the door for a health official to collect. Back then (~30 yrs ago) HCG was extracted from the collected urine and used in fertility treatment. This program was still operating six years ago. I felt kinda warm and gooey when she told me. Then a bit disgusted. Then warm and gooey again.

You can't imagine public sensibilities being superceded by the Greater Good in good ole Blighty, can you?

Beau Bo D'Or . . .

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. . . rules.