Monthly Archives: December 2011

Fuck Ferrari

December 6, 2011 – 10:55 am

2008 started badly for me, when Thai cops raided my house in Pattaya with a warrant citing me with copyright infringement of Ferrari designed clothing. The investigators for the Italian sports car stood on the sidewalk, as the chief inspector from the Cyber-Crimes Unit in Bangkok approached me. His underlings had hands on their guns. […]

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A Long Memory

December 6, 2011 – 6:05 am

Degenerate Art has denounced by the Nazis as un-German ie Jewish or Bolshevist. Josef Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda, organized an exhibition of Entartete Kunst in 1937. The SS acted as curators for the show by confiscating the works of modern artists from museums and private collections. The assembled paintings, books, prints, and statues […]

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LOUIE LOUIE by Richard Berry

December 5, 2011 – 2:08 pm

And they stole all his money. You know who ‘they’ are.

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SHOOTING AT THE MOON Roger Warner

December 5, 2011 – 10:53 am

The airbases of Issan are relatively quiet now. A few arrivals a day from Bangkok, but during the Viet-Nam War these runways were scorched by the fire from US fighters and bombers flying missions over Hanoi and more secretively Laos. This supposed secret war was run out of a small complex on the Udon Thani […]

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Cut And Walk

December 5, 2011 – 10:23 am

Ten years ago the Coalition of the Willing initiated Operation Enduring Freedom against the Taliban in Afghanistan in revenge for harboring Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Quada. The Northern Alliance backed by NATO air strikes easily routed their fundamentalist foes, but the defeat partially came, because the war-ravaged country was on the verge of […]

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