Tag: Turkey
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R for Revolution
(photo from Cape Town Million Mask March – can’t find the photographer) Amazed how off the ball the mainstream media was about the Million Mask March – I wasn’t in the loop (not a surprise, I’ve weaned myself off fast-news cycles and aren’t following as many Occupy/Anon feeds as I was a few years back),…
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Maigret Jnr – Stand By Me, PRISM & OccupyGezi
Maigret Jnr just sent this through, a great Nick Cave or Big Black Delta dark cover of Stand By Me. Love it, and the message…from OccupyGezi in Turkey to PRISM and the NSA, deep and dark(web) things are going down. I’m not really sure where to start, I’ve talked a lot here about CCTV, Police…
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Hipsters Ruin Everything Pt 2: Thanksgiving
Very funny. “Chase the Turkey…With an arrow. Be kind young Turkey…for you’re tonight’s dinner…” (via Jay-R)
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Little of this world do I understand…
OK take one so-so Turkish(?) trance track called Outro Lex by Flowshakerz. So far so so… Then add loads of people doing silly dancing in a Turkish meme from last year (APAÇ? DANSI > Apache Dancing?) Then add Thom Yorke for the hipsters, obv: Then add a grandfather doing it (top). YOU HAVE WON TEH…
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Happy Buy Nothing Day!
After stuffing your faces during T-Day (glad we don’t have that here, hate Turkey) and in the run up to the Xmas Economic Meltdown, we have Buy Nothing Day – today in the US and tomorrow internationally. Happy Buy Nothing Day – may your wallet stay heavy and your purchases be nil!
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Shame in the East
Well for the next couple of months it’s Pride season, traditionally June because of Stonewall but London Pride is in July and Brighton is in August. Prides in this country are fun mostly apolitical affairs (I’ve commented on that in the podcast before now). But spare a thought for those in countries where it’s still…