Tag: Olympics
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Orbital – Smiley / 30 Something
30 something years on and Orbital have a new best-of compilation celebrating their ’30 Something’ anniversary – the real anniversary was in lockdown. New track Smiley sums up the feeling of acid house, 303’s,distant raves and the times – especially with the evil Maggie robot and the sheep police and nods to Burning Man and…
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Up Against The Wall – Psych Mix Part 2
“You cannot count on anyone except yourself. It’s sad, but true, and the sooner you learn it, the better.” As I prepare to move from Radio Clash Towers, the second half of this mix is about several things – the current political climate, a zeitgeist via 1968-1974, but also a cri de coeur about a…
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Olympic Bus Apartheid and The Invisible Poor
The Olympics is about to start in Rio, if they get it finished in time, LOL. It’s interesting though that apparently 11 bus lines from the poor North of the city have been cancelled so poor people don’t come into the richer south where the tourists and Olympics are. Also near the airport a wall…
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Flagtowns
I’ve been collecting my photos for various exhibitions and competitions – the latest was this competition by Olympus, which looking at the quality and the type of photographs (in order, bad, and cheesy chocolate box) got me posting over a hundred pictures to Instagram of what I think Britain is, and what I find interesting,…
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John Oliver tackles the FIFA World Cup
I was going to post the ‘You can take the world cup and stick it up your arse’ picture, but I think this video by John Oliver says more eloquently why you can do that. Especially worrying about Qatar, but also the dead kids and displaced people from the Brazilian favelas in the ‘Pacification’ areas…
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I hear there’s some football contest about to start?
Love this response from PWEI to some trophy political game called the World Cup. Which given FIFA’s corruption and dodginess which make the IOC look squeaky would be problematic enough, but it seems the local police forces UPP have been ‘disappearing’ and shooting locals as part of their ‘pacification’ scheme. Apparently bodies are being dumped…