- June 4, 2009
- America Then and Now
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom
- Tagged with: America, BBC, Brother, Buddhist, Capture, Comrade, Daisaku, Economic, France, fuck, Hardware, HOPE, Ikeda, Japan, Liberty, mentality, morning, Obama, Picture, president, prison, SGI, surprise, Times, Torture, Video, World, WW2
I’ve been thinking about the perilous mentality of the 52% of Americans who think torture is all fine and dandy. And then I saw a neat little video piece on the BBC this morning which casts a few French people in the exact same spots in June 1944 and now. It’s here: D-Day in France: [...]
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- April 13, 2009
- Compulsory Voluntary Work in the UK?
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- Freedom
- Tagged with: 1984, big brother, Brother, camera, Colon, Comrade, creative, crowd, election, Excel, George, Gordon Brown, governance, Labour, mind, Minister, nation, outrage, Police, public, responsibility, school, sense, service, Stalin, state, Teach, Website, World
I kid ye not! Prime Minister Gordon Brown plans to make it part of the next Labour manifesto, he said yesterday. But what’s really going on? Brown chose to make his announcement in the gaudily extreme and populist Murdoch title, The News of the World. (see Kids’ charity call-up: Brown planning to force 50 hours work [...]
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- March 10, 2009
- Ireland, Somerset and the Legion d’Honneur
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- Buddhism, Freedom
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Nichiren …if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds. – Nichiren Daishonin, from his writings, page 4. Written [...]
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- November 5, 2007
- Streaming Waqqaz
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- Crawling Chaos, Technology
- Tagged with: Audio, Backup, Comrade, Crawling, Crawling Chaos, data, Discography, graph, Hardware, HOPE, mind, Music, partition, program, Sound, speed, Waqqaz
I’ve got a few tunes from Waqqaz streamed today since Mr Compy is up and running. .. I’ve done: Bosumptwi Comrade Dolhpin, the reprise version Curling Sandwiches So in a way these are all reprises. It’s some time since these were done and it’s nice to twiddle the sound(s). Why? – because I can! The [...]
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