Tag Archives: WWII

Consequences: What Wikileaks Forgot

Outside of Australia, ‘Larrikinism‘ is a hard thing to culturally interpret. A ‘Larrikin’ is any person, group, or collective that challenges, or engage in concocted mockery against any form of social/structural authority. It allows Australians to view criminals like Ned Kelly, and Mark ‘Chopper’ Reid as revered folk heroes. It rewards self-deprecation, it honors stupid [...]

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The White Shirts as Brown Shirts as Green Shirts?

Remember back on the 2008 campaign trail when Candidate Obama made this comment: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” For those that are thinking we made [...]

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The Big Tree of Impatience

Last evening, I was listening to a compilation from Trojan Records. For the uninformed, Trojan Records was a classic Jamaican record label releasing Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, Dub and every which way the genre twisted. If you could imagine the might of Stax, Motown and Blue Note Records as one entity, it would give you an [...]

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