In ten years time Rosehill will be like Notting Hill you mark my words. link
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The Revolution hits another stumbling block
Four members of revolutionary communist group the Revolutionary Communist Group face fines of £450 each after magistrates in Newcastle convicted them of collecting money in public without a permit. The group were nabbed on the technicality that shouting at shoppers—enmiserabled victims of capitalist oppression—through a loudhaler from behind a wallpaper pasting table does not constitute having an open-air meeting, at which a collection would be lawful. The judgement is being seen as a second victory by the local Council in their campaign to rid the city of communists, following the recent banishing of a bongo player.
Revolutionary Tom Vickers (suspected facebook page here—admittedly based mainly on the friends list, which contains some people who use Che Guevara as their profile picture) has labelled the judgement “a fundamental attack on democracy”. He also stated his intent to defy the ruling, saying “without accepting donations from just members of the public, then there’s no money to produce banners”.
The Revolutionary Communist Group actively supports the regime in Cuba, known for locking up pro-democracy campaigners. As good marxists they almost certainly don’t believe in money, so please send solidarity donations straight to The Vapours, where money is held in great esteem, and spent on much better things than banners, Freedom Lager and headlice treatments.
Items I didn’t win
Letterpress printing block: “Save safe with Northern Rock” (link)
“Probably worth more than your shares“
We’ve both given up smoking so whose matches are those?
“Hi, my name’s Martin, I’m 39, and I live in a small town in central England. I’m not a very heavy smoker but I do enjoy my Marlboro Lights (sometimes filterless), and I do get a kick out of smoking. Enjoy the occasional cigar too. There is much more to me than this though - drop me a line if you want to know more! Hello Everyone…”
Aluminium in Iceland: like shooting self in leg
According to Björk, the image of Iceland is being destroyed by an increasing number of aluminium smelters: “If they build an aluminium factory in Helguvík, it will be the first thing tourists see when they arrive in Iceland [at Keflavík airport], then they will drive past [The aluminum factory in] Straumsvík on the way to Reykjavík. That is just like shooting yourself in the leg. This is bad for our future as a green country and for tourism. It is also bad for Icelandic artists who are aiming at international success, because we are trying to promote the image of purity, clean nature and our relation to nature.”
Last weekend Björk, with the aid of Sigur Rós and a bunch of lesser known Icelandic musicians, performed a concert at the Botanical Garden in Laugardalur, Reykjavík to raise awareness of the omnipotent chemical element which handily boasts the atomic number 13.
Source: Iceland Review
Dumkopf! They saved Hitler’s brain again!
Item not won: Adolf Hitler’s head shaped candle.
A man was arrested yesterday for decapitating an wax effigy of Hitler in Berlin’s Madame Tussauds.
Possible motive:
World War II is over, and Nazi officials remove Adolf Hitler’s living head and hide it in the fictional South American country of Mandoras, so that they can resurrect the Third Reich for the future. It fast forwards into the 1960s, and the surviving officials kidnap a scientist in an attempt to keep Hitler alive. Various intelligence agencies, aware of the evil plot, recruit secret agents to bust the Nazi officials.
-They Saved Hitler’s Brain (synopsis), 1963. Dir. David Bradley.
Comment:
This is a rare reactionary attitude to German history in the capital (of all places) as Germany is internationally recognised as a nation which has confronted its past ‘head-on’ and benefited as a result. You only have to walk around Berlin to see that the remenants of the Reich have not been concealed or glossed over.
Consider the term: Trauerarbeit - Ger. meaning: mourning or grieving, literally translates as ‘healing work,’ (which importantly denotes an active process) used by seminal artist Joseph Beuys during postwar period to describe his modus operandi which included didactic lectures, social sculpture and founding the Green Party in Germany. He is said to have been a Luftwaffe pilot, shot down over the Crimea and nursed back to health by Tartar nomads, hence his autobiographical output. Beuys saw himself as shamanic figure who sought to put a plaster on every wound that he found, no matter what the size. More…
Remember: Two (W)Wrongs do not make a (Third)Reich.
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Archbishop charity skydive ends in disaster
Photo: A. Gilhespy (click for larger view)
Happy Tax Freedom Day 2008
Economists at the Adam Smith Institute report that today is the UK’s tax freedom day: the day when as a nation we’ve paid all of our tax contributions for the year, and can start to earn the cash for our wallets. Only took us five months—Adam Smith would be proud.
When she comes on television, I involuntarily cross my legs
Bay Area Photojournalist Zombie, having gained considerable notoriety documenting America’s often ideologically-challenged leftist protest scene, is busy compiling an exhaustive gallery of unflattering Hillary Clinton photos.
Title quote: CNN/MSNBC news pundit Tucker Carlson, in reference to Clinton
Photo montage: danzfamily.com
Tractor Production up 300%
It appears not everyone was quite as overjoyed with the arrival of Cuban socialist activists in Newcastle as the ‘revolutionary communist party’ (who apparently organised their jaunt to the Star and Shadow Cinema) would have liked:
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Photos: A.Gilhespy
