Tag: Fascism
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Ballet Zoom – Rescate Espacial (Space Rescue)
OK fallen down another internet rabbit hole, this time a Spanish Pan’s People dance troupe called Ballet Zoom. To say they are odd is an understatement, but the cosmic funk/disco of Space Rescue is also a really good song! Love it…the dancing is rather frenetic though. Seems they released a few records, like Pan’s People.…
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Paul Nuttall and alt-right ‘patriots’
Paul Nutall? Of the UKIPS? Well let Stewart Lee say it best (NSFW). And I think the best response to the ‘alt-right’ (sorry, like New Labour you can’t rebrand Nazis – yes not all ‘alt-right’ people are fascists but some are) and the far-right is Maajid Nawaz’s response on LBC – you aren’t patriots. You…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Future
I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams at the BBC which has clips from various series he was involved with, and it pointed out how much of a futurist and technologist he was (although one that realised the down side of technology – as he quotes Bran Ferren “”Technology is a word that describes something that…
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Conscientious Objectors: Hitch and Rushdie discuss religion and censorship
A timely and prophetic discussion from 5 years ago between Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie. Again as now it was just before the UK election, discussions about cartoons in newspapers – then Jyllands Posten, now Charlie Hebdo, the whole #NotAllMuslims No True Scotsman fallacy, rise of China, Hitch predicts the mess in an Orthodox-powered Russia,…