- July 25, 2009
- So Farewell then, Harry Patch
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Life
- Tagged with: battle, BBC, book, Farewell, Harry, Human, laugh, Photo, Picture, Slaughter, veteran, war, World, WW1, YouTube
Breaking news is that Harry Patch, the very Last Tommy, is dead. Only a week after Henry Allingham died, he’s gone too. In response to Henry’s passing, I went and ordered a few of their books from Amazon. Because of the time lag, I haven’t even read them yet, so when I do, it will [...]
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- March 22, 2009
- Meet the United Kingdom’s Stasi
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom
- Tagged with: authoritarian, bank, BBC, CCTV, citizen, collapse, communist, conflict, Corruption, creative, Czech, defend, DNA, Echo, expenses, Express, Fantastic, Freedom, Government, graph, Guantanamo, hidden, History, home secretary, house, ID Card, ID Cards, Jacqui Smith, jaqui smith, knowledge, Labour, london, Minister, night, pension, Photo, Police, Politics, power, price, program, property, public, rights, scandal, secret service, Sport, Stasi, state, Success, surveillance, terror, Torture, Transport, trial, United Kingdom, veteran, war on terror, World, WW1, WW2
Public Trained in Anti-terrorism Not content with charging us for our ‘freedom’ to have ID Cards and CCTV on every corner, not content from stopping us take photographs in public, our UK Government in the shape of Home Secretary wacky baccy Jacqui Smith now wants everyone to spy on everyone else ‘in case they’re a [...]
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- December 30, 2008
- Yikes! What’s the DfT Up To?
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- Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: alert, anger, benefit, Bridgwater, Britain, camera, cause and effect, CMS, Construct, Contact, country, crash, Cycle, Cyclist, Death, driving, Environment, evidence, experience, Express, fault, footpath, Fossil, Fossil Fuel, fuck, Fuel, future, Government, Guardian, Health, legal, licence, man, money, motorway, Murder, night, parking, price, Protect, public, race, release, Resource, Rolling, Scotland, setting, society, Sound, speed, speed limit, Sport, state, tank, Times, traffic, traffic flow, Transport, trouble, vehicle, veteran, water
What indeed? Today, we’ve had two (at least these are the ones I’ve spotted) news releases from the Department for Transport (DfT) that presage some changes in the future: Advisers urge fast action on speed limiters – FT Drivers ‘face health tests every decade’ – Guardian Now all we have to work out is, “What [...]
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- November 11, 2008
- Der Spiegel on World War 1
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- Art, Freedom
- Tagged with: atrocity, Buddhism, Buddhist, collapse, computer, Democratic, depression, English, Europe, financial, Fish, game, good, Government, History, hitler, home secretary, ID Card, Information, interconnectedness, Jacqui Smith, Memorial, Mistake, nation, nazi, Photo, Picture, power, prison, Security, sense, veteran, war, World, WW1, WW2, Ypres
Today’s the 90th anniversary of the armistice, the end of the war to end all wars as it was called. All we seem to have had here in the UK is pictures of loads of stark white, neatly arranged tombstones for weeks now. It’s as if en-masse, the people get an obligation to feel sadness, [...]
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