The Great Kat – Worship Me Or Die! – Beethoven On Speed – Katherine Thomas:

upsetting the apple cart … and killing all it’s bearers – The Great Kat!

So once upon a time, there was this crazy bitch. Who took all the boys to task, on their own terrain, using their own instruments, style & terms, & quite literally; extirpated – them – all – entirely.

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Butler to the World – How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals (Oliver Bullough):

Accomplice. Enabler. Gang member.

Stolen goods & the proceeds of crime.

Worse than the original offenders by far, are the bastards that would lend their “legitimacy” to the initial criminals & provide “safe harbour” for the thieves spoils & ill-gotten gains.

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Who Owns England? – How We Lost Our Land and How to Take it Back (Guy Shrubsole):

The Land Registry, despite being a public body funded by taxpayers’ money, continues to protect the interests of private landowners by concealing what they possess. A social taboo continues to stymie questions about land and private property ownership, and makes talk of land reform politically sensitive.

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North Korean Women in Power – Daughters of the Sun (Chun Su-jin):

A curious & compelling short book by South Korean journalist & writer Su-jin Chun. It could easily have been double-speak drivel about how North Korean women are the ultimate divas or outriders of modern feminism, but it is actually a mixed-bag on the isolated regime’s complex politics, sometimes yielding troves of esoteric details on the inner-workings & origins of Pyongyang’s ruling elite & the Kim saga.

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Confessions of a Stratcom Hitman (Paul Erasmus):

Confessions of a Stratcom Hitman (Paul Erasmus):

In 1981, the bloodthirsty madness was was an exercise costing about R1 million a day. Even ‘psych ops’ – the propaganda effort at the time – could not offset the exigencies of that. The reality is that the three decades ago, the regime spent a million bucks a day on promoting death and torture to prop up an Afrikaner elite, although at the time we didn’t see it like that at all.

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機関銃爆発合奏団 Machine Gun Explosion Ensemble – debut live gig in Tokyo – with マグマトロン, Government Alpha, Final Exit & special guests + second Tokyo gig with 今井 和雄 Kazuo Imai & Kikanju Baku, ヒグチケイコKeiko Higuchi with ルイス稲毛 Louis Inage.

UPDATE -7/9/23: The pinnacle of peremptory piss-take! Japan gigs are now cancelled due to the coward, cheapskate, bullshitter, dishonourable degenerate, & career amateur Hiromi Kudo/Takeshi Goda/剛田武 – in the worst, lowliest, most ignoble & despicable conduct I have seen in my entire career. Thanks to those that quit/cancelled in solidarity in the face of this incorrigible fuck-up & fraudster.A sucker free alternative attack may explode Japan-side next year.

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A Stranger In Your Own City-Travels in the Middle East’s Long War (Ghaith Abdul-Ahad):

And so, six years after the toppling of the dictator, a few hundred thousand Iraqis killed, a brutal insurgency, trillions of dollars wasted and five thousand dead US soldiers, the country was being rebuilt on the same model of a concentration of unaccountable power, shadowy intelligence services and corruption.

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An Inconvenient Apocalypse – Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity (Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen):

The lessons learned from unanticipated accidents at three different nuclear power plants should reassure us of what? That future unanticipated problems with other nuclear power plants won’t be serious? That engineers have acquired clearer foresight and the potentially catastrophic risks of nuclear power generation have been eliminated? That once the utility companies see that the goal of maximizing profit has led to unacceptable levels of risk they will stop maximizing profits? That complex systems that create risk can be made safe with more complexity? That there will never be another “normal accident”, the term coined for failure that can be understood in hindsight but cannot be predicted because of the complexity of the system? And don’t forget that the problem of the safety of nuclear waste storage has never been solved. We’ve made our point.”

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