killed boss : being watched

Gelato bar killingThe murderer believed he was under 24-hour video surveillance (by his boss) at a gelato bar and was an "unwilling participant" in a reality television program at the time of the attack. paranoid ... not him.

video truths

United Church of GodNEWS FKASH.. kingdom of god will smash new Roman Empire (Europe).

irrelevent region ipacts on all of us

Booklet > The Middle East in Bible Prophecy > Introductionand the middle eastern bible prophecy booklet tells it how it is....
and the truth is in this video: http://www.gnmagazine.org/booklets/ME/video01.htm
and its brought you by is "United Church of God" .. the preacher is an Australian. Need to check that out. Kind of a CNN look to it..

Camouflage

Hiding, Sneaking and Disguising During Urban ExplorationsBeing able to get a phtos of the urban environment or to do urban cinema - is interesting but not without its own ethical issues...

opsound: free love, free music

opsound: free love, free music, click hereFrom the intro: in 'Frenchglish' : "Opsound is a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists are invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine."

senate preferences

Family First again

boycott the Beijing Olympics

The Junta and Accomplices: "boycotted the Beijing Olympics,"Gary Player that golf star with his hand in the wrong pockets..

Bring on the Recession

the Recession we all need to bring Its the Recession we all need to bring us to our senses and to cut the insatiable desire of econ' growth at the expense of sustainability, culture, etc etc etc... bring it on

Political paranoia and Cinematic Motif

The essay "Political Paranoia as Cinematic Motif: Stone's "JFK"" (Robert S. Robins : Professor of Political Science, Tulane University New Orleans) discusses cinema as a political instrument ----
In film the paranoid message is a means of fulfilling, an 'artistic' (read producers) need. The paranoid message is a dramatic one (adultery or murder). The script completes the story and fulfills the audience's desire for understanding odf a previous event - 911 perhaps. People cling to this belief with remarkable tenacity. For example, Gerald Posner, who wrote the well-reviewed anti-conspiracist Case Closed, was the object of threatening telephone calls and picketing by demonstrators carrying signs saying "Case Not Closed." Some conspiracists even advocated a day of national resistance to the book.

This author argues that the great strength of the paranoid message in 'docudrama' lies in its capacity to add an element that both explains an event and testifies to its importance - adding drama to a film - and more profitable. BUT is not simply entertainment. As it entertains, it persuades - if the audience is not persuaded it will lose interest. ( suspension of disbelief) The social harm that the film commits goes beyond the distortion of history - creating a broader intellectual pollution. Each paranoid film gives weight to a popular mentality of paranoid belief. If event after event is "shown to be" the product of a malign conspiracy, then the public will accept that that is how the world works.

New Nissan GT-R

new new new New Nissan GT-R. groan. another super tanks using more than its fair share of our now precious resources. The US burns and the globe heats up and we still have these auto companies buildig these dinosaurs. pathetic.

Blast Curtains

drapes to secure the homeland mooted as being "a patented drapery system designed to prevent flying glass from (the inevitable) bomb blast. The product protects lives - while safely capturing deadly flying projectiles. And now with "Defender Fabric" in the curtain itself. Security at a cost.

a Tel Aviv beach?

BEACH SAFE No, not a federal gov't intiative - its a project by Gregor Schneider . The Goethe Institute refers to it as : "A freestanding site-specific artwork entitled Bondi Beach will be erected at Bondi Beach. It will comprise 21 identical cells constructed of typical Australian fencing and will be open for viewers to utilise and explore. It will offer its guests amenities such as air mattresses and beach umbrellas."
Schneider’s has worked for the last 5 years with issues of anxieties of the west - and now brought to the heart of narcissistic leisure - Bondi. Bring to mind when Furedi said: "Today's 'global war (on terror)' is in no way similar to an isolated conflict between two nations but rather stays suspended in a permanent possibility of becoming. The threat of 'terrorism' and the concomitant manipulation of fear have penetrated every segment of society."
Links to his site: Schneider

“what is bare life?” empyre

Documenta Magazine Project

project migration

Christian Müeller

Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge: Techno Imperialism and the Effect of Cyberterrorism

Dancho Danchev : Techno Imperialism & Cyberterrorism

my little rants

Danger Room - Wired Blogs It has happened now in the states .. inevitable that Australian security agencies (approved by our gov't - ever ready to slap controls on free speech). Again using security as a smoke screen - as David Marr (SMH) and othe prominant journalists have argued. Sad really.

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