acitus – the Roman historian – recorded that the British Celtic dead were piled in heaps across the battlefield (probably somewhere in the West Midlands) – and that the Romans stopped counting the bodies when the number of 80,000 was reached.
Category: Human Interest
Anything that does not fit into to any of the other specific categories and is of general interest!
Film: Arrival (2016) Racism Disguised as ‘Sci-Fi’
This insular ‘naval gazing’ by the West is typical of its imperial and colonial past, and its a priori assumption that it – and it alone – possesses any culture worth having.
RIP Chinese Victims of Elliot Rodger (2014)
Whereas Barbara Walters spent hours on CBS quizzing Peter Rodger – the families of the Chinese victims were treated as second class citizens, being given a short-time to express their grief and generally treated with disrespect.
Elliot Rodger (Re-Visited) Misogyny
Why did he not simply embrace his gayness? He did not embrace his gayness because his middle class upbringing taught him to despise homosexuality in general. When I review the following interview with Peter Rodger, I see a an eerily ‘detached’ privileged White man playing to the cameras and simply defending his own reputation through spin and sound-bites – after-all – he is a film director.
Free Ross Ulbricht (18.3.2017)
Ross Ulbricht created a computer programme outside of governmental control – how did the Obama administration respond? Ross was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Land of the free indeed!
The Last Bookstore – Unusual ‘Elisa Lam’ Email (Thursday, March 16, 2017 09:28)
Although referring to themselves as ‘L.L.’ (probably mistaking ‘Elisa Lam’ for ‘Lisa Lam’), they sent this email to me through ‘https://emkei.cz’, a site that offers ‘Free online fake mailer with attachments, encryption, HTML editor and advanced settings…’, apparently based in the Czech Republic.
