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Weekend Reading #7
IM-1776‘s Mark Granza talks to Steve Bannon about the populist uprising in Italy, Trump, the GAE and more. Darren Beattie at Revolver News dives deeper into the FBI’s Jan 6 pipe bomb hoax. Big Serge looks at recent events in the Russo-Ukrainian War from a Clausewitzian lens. What is behind the uprising in Iran and…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #39
Hell will hold no surprises for them . . . 1971 was quite a year for controversial films – from Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian A Clockwork Orange to Sam Peckinpah’s blood drenched Straw Dogs to Luchino Visconti’s adaption of Death In Venice, but none had the impact of Ken Russell’s historical drama The Devils which graphically…
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Guest Post: Dr. Faustus – Abide with Me
The Energy Security Board (ESB) is a member of the alphabet constellation of Australian electricity regulators and managers with their hands on the National Electricity Market (NEM). The ESB is tasked to report annually to government on the health of the NEM and ‘progress’ against the objectives of the Strategic Energy Plan. The Strategic Energy…
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Open Thread – Tues 4 Oct 2022
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Mater’s Musings #59: And they still can’t drink ‘til 18
No. Sadly, it’s not a meme. It was bad enough when some of the twisted ideologues that I’ve seen fulfilling the roles of either Principal and/or Teacher, were merely ‘influencing’ my children. That they now have the ability to ‘bypass’ my authority (and responsibility) to determine what is best for my children, is horrifying. Just…
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Rabz’ Radio Show Rocktober 2022: Psychedelia
This is my favourite musical genre. As various R&B purveyors in the sixties got a bit older, they started experimenting with illicit substances other than amphetamines, such as THC, LSD, mescaline and psilocybin. Consequently, the music became far more complex (and occasionally extremely self-indulgent) and was meant to reflect an alternate consciousness, if getting totally…
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Open Thread – Weekend 1 Oct 2022