For me, one of the starkest messages to contextualise the Iraq War was the juxtaposition of two images in an Adbusters issue last year. They placed, side-by-side, two photos. One was of a couple of bikini-clad girls taking in funnels of beer at Spring Break, surrounded by a tanned, cheering crowd. The other was of a group of American soliders street-side in Iraq, suffering an attack from an unidentified bomber, dwarfed by a fiery explosion.
Politics
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May 07
May 07
War Games and a Flat White Hunt
The attacks came in multiple forms - overloaded web servers, published images of Soviet soldiers on government pages and a hacked fake message on the ruling party’s website seeking forgiveness for the statue fiasco – all of which would seem to suggest there was at least Russian motivation if not government involvement. The Kremlin has denied such dastardliness however, and the Estonian government has since lowered that nervous finger. Inherent in such online crime though is the hiding and faking of tracks and Estonia may never know – or at least be able to prove – who exactly is to blame, despite the contextual inference that may suggest otherwise.
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May 07
May 07
God Hates Fags
Jerry Falwell, founder of the rather unhelpful Moral Majority is dead. His legacy will live on through the twisted prejudice of spittling rednecks and the conservative wedge of the American middle-class whom he seeded and nourished during his years in prominence as a hate-monger.
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May 07
May 07
Unbiased Media – what should we expect?
"Your mum and I don’t watch CNN, it is too biased towards the US perspective, we prefer the BBC" my dad states when I ask him which news channel he likes to watch. I laugh thinking the BBC is somewhat biased too but his statement gets me thinking, is not all media biased in some way?
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Apr 07
Apr 07
Why I hate Starbucks
Nothing would make me happier than waking to the news of a total collapse of Starbucks around the globe, brought to its knees and leaving scarred retail space from which could spring a million different types of coffee-shops each doing things their own way and giving us back our stolen freedom to choose…