And so it starts.....

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/03/undoing-of-ed-miliband-and-how-labour-lost-election

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/22/what-is-global-race-conservatives-ed-miliband

In the obscure and largely forgotten interstices of the British left during the upheavals of the 1970s, when hundreds of actors, artists and musicians took up the cudgels (usually Trotskyist) in support of what they hoped was an imminent revolution, there were few more perverse and irrelevant political groupings than this particular sect. Cardew was to devote the last ten years of his life to promoting its interests.

Their principal task was to set to music texts that Bains had written – texts ‘of an unsurpassable political and literary crassness’, Tilbury writes. One was called ‘Workers of Ontario’:

We are the workers of Ontario,
We work for the rich of the United States,
We work for the rich of Canada,
We work under the yoke of wage slavery
Hauling the riches out of the earth,
Manufacturing commodities for the rich to sell.
We are the workers of Ontario,
A mighty section of the Canadian working class.

The following year We Sing for the Future was published, containing 78 such songs; unkind critics noted that the title music, composed by Cardew, bore some similarity to the ‘Eton Boating Song’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOqaHXPTiTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leU1kbtIZUI

There's a thread somewhere where I point out the similarities between Cardew's "Smash the Social Contract" and "Funky Gibbon" by the Goodies.

Cardew's socialist idealism made for some embarrassing music tbh

Quite fond of some his later piano pieces though tbh.

eton boating song and that cardew piece both top tunage

nakh checks the charts

find it quite funny imagining my poindexterish, bolshy friend who was despatched off there at 13 never to be seen again singing that between punishment beatings from sandhurst aristos

mb not this versh

Common Sense Man 1 month ago
"THE UKIP VOTING SONG"...

I AM VOTING UKIP,
HERE ARE THE REASONS WHY,
I WANT OUT OF BRUSSELS,
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK,
SWING, SWING TOGETHER,
THAT'S WHAT OTHER PARTIES DO,
SWING, SWING TOGETHER,
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK......

I AM VOTING UKIP,
HERE ARE THE REASONS WHY,
DAVE AND ED ARE LIARS,
IN IT BOTH TOGETHER,
SWING, SWING TOGETHER,
THEY DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK,
SWING, SWING TOGETHER,
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqoGcC4S5jk

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Given what is being said about 'cuckold fetishism' in that graphic, the word is being used all wrong. By rights, a cuckold fetish ought to involve antlers, not bulls, and hasn't the slightest connection to big black men schtupping pretty white women. Especially when they are unmarried.

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modern states' complete fealty to global capitalism makes fascism look p quaint and outdated

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 19:06 (1 month ago)

Often minimalist, his clothes are characterized by an almost religious attention to details. The unshakable color palette of shades of black, gray, blue or chocolate seems to evoke the northern light. He offers a softened elegance through essential pieces of clothing that adapt to the multiple lives of those who wear them. He also likes mixing a classical precision with the ruggedness of workwear or the technique of sportswear. Despite this strictness, the style of Kris Van Assche reflects a transversal inspiration. Even though some looks appear similar at first sight, they are feeds by various references such as Amish (Dior Homme Summer 2011) or North Africa silhouettes, workwear wardrobe (KRISVANASSCHE winter 2012-13), menswear clichés (the Sailor for Dior Homme Summer 2013) or even conceptual notions ("lessness" for Dior Homme Summer 2011).

not enough explicit criticism of the male gaze for me tbh - while there's something despairing (and desperate) about the way she sings + the synth drone, it still seems all too besotted with phallocentricity of objectification

woof

In 2009, Tamerlan and his mother ‘began studying the Koran’. Tamerlan also began studying The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, ever popular in Russia and the bible of anti-Semites everywhere. One of Zubeidat’s home care clients, a loose screw called Donald Larking, passed along conspiracist libertarian newspapers and magazines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirhan_Sirhan_%28militant%29

http://furrybasketball.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jonathan_Sirhan

Jonathan Sirhan
(Lion, G/F)

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2015/09/ascent-submarine-george-osborne-talks-jason-cowley

An oft-cited example of his mental insufficiency is his decision to save the dessert from his last meal for after his execution.[7]

Charles Moore has suggested in the Spectator that by buying ConservativeHome you have become "a more politically influential ‘press’ proprietor with the Tories than Lord Rothermere or Rupert Murdoch, at a tiny fraction of the cost." Do you think this is true?

I think Charles was being playful. Certainly ConHome has become the place to go for news and opinion about the Conservative Party, and I’m proud of that. But that doesn’t quite make me a Rothermere, in the sense of being able to push the government around on the great questions of the day with the threat of bad headlines. The only agenda we have on ConHome is that we all want to see a Conservative majority at the next election, and different contributors have different ideas about how to achieve it. There isn’t a monolithic line, which I think is one of ConHome’s strengths.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2013/02/i-am-private-not-secretive-man

Corbyn’s success was met with dismay in the other camps, who knew immediately that his entry would shift the contest to the left. This would leave Andy Burnham, for one, dangerously exposed. Months later, one leading figure in a rival campaign could barely control their rage: “To have [the close of nominations] at 12 o’clock on a Monday – we must have been on fucking crack cocaine. You can’t get to anyone, so people were wandering in after a weekend of spending time with their bloody constituency secretary or their leftwing wife, they just fucking wander off the train and hadn’t even had a cup of tea in the tea room by 12 o’clock on a Monday. They go straight down to the PLP office and do something stupid. The people that are around on a Monday morning are the London lot – and for fuck’s sake, it’s the home of the left, it’s all the fucking mayoral candidates and deputy leader candidates.”

»Empty Airport«, Chra’s first LP on Editions Mego may be read as a reference to Brian Eno’s ambient classic, though this time we find ourselves in a territory of transit that sounds like a dystopian swan song on civilizatoric debris - a heteropia in which the listener restores himself in a surrounding that is emptied of human remains, having left just some ghostly echoes behind.

Chra aka Comfortzone-Labelfoundress Christina Nemec has traced out a post-anthropocene area in which acoustic entries of field recordings are stratified in layers of deconstructed noisescapes. Partly interspersed with clunky technoid bass-lines, an introspective space is opened, which excavates in a discreet and subtle manner, layers of abandoned wasteland. Nemec, who is a member of various band projects like Shampoo Boy (together with Peter Rehberg and Christian Schachinger) or the female berzerker formation SV Damenkraft, has succeeded in producing a significant LP, that merges dark techno and industrial with found sounds and ambient scapes, resulting in a compositoric minimalism that is ushering us in a state of existential trance.

http://i.imgur.com/M0h5mao.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU4W0ef2654

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/sem_7.shtml

which is the basic bi— rd
not the wittiest ancient greek misogynist

Mihir Bose, BBC Sports Editor, is a complete moron and I hate him.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfa_FmcXO2I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Jenkyns

put a donk on it

http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Andrea+Jenkyns/Prime+Minister+Introduces+New+Members+Parliament/k1DOt-6oR66

“It was not our intention to kill him,” said Vichitra Kumar Tomar, a leader of Save the Cow who was not among those charged. “Our intention was to punish him, to slap him or beat him. Just a few slaps. But not to leave him dead.”

Members of Save the Cow said they were motivated to raise the alarm on Sept. 28 because of their religious devotion. “We are more attached to the cow than our own children,” Inder Nagar said.

She believed in these "space people..." It was some kind of religion or something. She didn't feed us and so we left and hitchhiked back to San Francisco.

What about Kissinger’s views on human rights?

He didn’t have a policy on human rights. He didn’t like the notion of human rights. He left Europe in 1938 and came here—he is five years older than I am. I was in France during the occupation of France by Germany and some of my best friends were deported because they were Jews. I managed not to be deported because of, as the French would say, le hasard des circonstances. It could have happened. My best friend who was French but of Romanian origin was deported because he managed to get home from the high school where we both went just at the moment when a Gestapo truck was stopping in front of his house. And since he looked very Jewish, he was arrested and killed. I was lucky. One realizes that one really is not the master of one’s fate in those circumstances.

On the question of going into Libya [to support the 2011 uprising], I reacted as somebody who lived in occupied France, and it seemed to me that if one could save lives of people who were totally innocent and could be arrested at any minute, one has a moral duty to do so. I understand perfectly that if you are good realpolitiker, you do not care. And Henry is a good realpolitiker. Which means that the average guy will never find much sympathy with him because he doesn’t operate at that level. He operates at the level of Bismarck. I’ve never been at the level of Bismarck or even of Nixon, and I think that if one can do something to save lives one should. So [Henry and I] were never made for 100 percent agreement. Zbig’s position? I do not know.

It seems difficult to reconcile your concerns about human rights with the reality of politics.

This is one of the reasons why I never went into politics. I am not made for it. I would not be very good at it. It was fascinating working with people like Zbig. Although for me, my most impressive co-graduate student was not Zbig, was not Henry, was not [Samuel] Huntington. It was somebody who was not known at all because she was never in politics; she was a thinker. She was a woman from Riga called Judith Shklar and she was by far the biggest star of the department. She was unbelievably great.

interesting interview thx

yeah, good stuff

this is the kind of shit my ex liked

― twunty fifteen (imago), Monday, 12 October 2015 14:12 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and that you pretended to like.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 October 2015 14:57 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ex-wife that is, very much with current avian

https://twitter.com/Dempster2000/status/338384900245835777

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a very passionate audience of millennial males = new board description

― tylerw, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 16:39 (3 hours ago)

Marshall's childhood was divided between his working-class, tolerant mother in East Dulwich and his strict father in Peckham.

going to believe that this^ is exdee, whether this is true or not

Lately, as I’ve followed the contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, I’ve found myself thinking of The Red and the Black, and its play with antiquated notions of authenticity. The passionate support for Sanders has, one hopes, much to do with excitement about his insistent expression of a platform of economic populism. But it would be naïve to think it doesn’t also have to do with his appearance, his way of speaking. There is authenticity, and there is appearing authentic. These two things may mostly align—as they largely but not entirely do with Sanders. (Most anti-establishment figures avoid 35 years in government.) Or they may almost perfectly not align—as in the case of Donald Trump. (A liar celebrated for speaking the truth.) Either way, it’s worth investigating authenticity in our political thinking, both to understand its power and to consider how it helps or hurts the kind of effective, forward-looking agenda that we hope will emerge from a fractured Democratic Party.

One problem with authenticity as a campaign tactic is its unsettling, subconscious alliance with those who benefit from the status quo. If you’re not who you say you are—if you’re moving on the social ladder, or are not in “your place”—you’re inauthentic. Keeping it real subtly advocates for keeping it just like it is.

The semiotics of Sanders’s political authenticity—dishevelment, raised voice, being unyielding—are available to male politicians in a way they are not to women (and to whites in a way they are not to blacks or Hispanics or Asians). Black women in politics don’t have the option to wear their hair “natural”; nearly all white women appear to have blowouts, even Elizabeth Warren. It’s nonsense, and yet the only politically viable option, and therefore not nonsense.

It’s not just that research has shown that women are perceived to talk too much even when they talk less, or that men who display anger are influential while women who do so are not. It’s that there is no such thing as “masculine wiles.” The phrase just doesn’t exist. This doesn’t mean that calling into question Clinton’s authenticity and trustworthiness—the fault line along which the Democratic Party has riven—is pure misogyny. It just means that it’s not purely not misogyny.

Clinton is often described as the institutional candidate, the establishment. There’s a lot of truth to that. But she’s also the woman who initially kept her name (and her job) as the wife of the governor of Arkansas, who used the role of First Lady as cover to push for socialized health care, and who was instrumental in getting health insurance for eight million children past the Republican gorgons when a full reform failed. Someone who has survived being attacked for nearly 40 years must possess a highly developed sense of what the critic Walter Benjamin calls “cunning and high spirits”—the means by which figures in fairy tales evade the oppressive forces of myth, and mortals evade gods. Somehow she achieved one of the more liberal voting records in the Senate, despite rarely being described as a liberal by either the left or the right.

Perhaps one reason that Clinton’s “firewall” of black support has remained standing is that “authenticity” has less rhetorical force with a historically oppressed people, for whom that strategy—being recognizably who people in power think you ought to be—was never viable. There are, of course, important and substantial criticisms of Clinton. But perhaps when we say that Hillary is inauthentic, we’re simply saying that she is a woman working in the public eye.

Democrats on both sides of the party should consider which tactic best suits the underdogs they feel they are defending, and want to defend. Whoever receives the nomination, perhaps the worry should shift from whether the candidate is cunning to whether the candidate—and the Democratic Party—can be cunning enough.

Rivka Galchen

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If anyone needed reminding that the repercussions of 9/11 were still being felt, the very location of Lollapalooza Berlin was testimony to that

do you like the cat, do you like the idea of the cat, do you like the idea of sharing the idea of the cat, is the liking genuinely yours or is it liking what others would like and by extension liking you?

http://www.bustle.com/articles/181411-why-some-people-dont-like-babies-or-even-think-theyre-cute