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today i had to fight my way through a train station swarming with swiss miltary guys in green, brown and grey. they were all moaning and complaining. oh come on. get a life.

i have no respect what so ever for anybody doing swiss military service.
none. zilch. zero.

first of all someone still needs to explain to me why switzerland as a neutral country would need an army to begin with. they say its for defensive purposes. but please. how is a small change ground army gonna defend this ridiculous country were it ever to be attacked. pathetic.
the army is actually mostly promoted as a rite of passage in the process of becoming a man. “you’re not a real man unless you done your military service” goes the popular [populist?] saying.
so i am not a real man? wanna go outside and see?

second of all social services are being cut back left and right, but every year this country is spending billions for an army that serves no purpose other than keeping the old chums happy playing with their toy soldiers… explain that to me please…

thirdly even though in switzerland military service is mandatory anybody who wants to can get free. in the old days we used to have to lie about being homosexual psychopathic drug addicts, which incidentally we were… oh the good old days.
but these days you dont even have to lie any longer. you simply state you dont feel like doing it. and they let you go. so what keeps you guys from doing so?

so please, you idiots in green, at least stop moaning.
and get out of my fcuking way!

this afternoon i went to see buongiorno, notte, the italian movie about the brigate rosse and the moro assassination in 1978. a very touching movie. i walked out all vulnerable…

on the way home in the bus i overheard the following conversation:

woman 1: *sighs* ahhh, i know what i want in life…
woman 2: me too, i want to go to heaven
woman 1: of course, that too, but for now i am down here and have to look that things work out here
woman 2: there is nothing more important than going to heaven, or is there?
woman 1: … ??? … errr sure

whoever came up with that heaven-hell spiel sure had a brilliant plan.
that belief-system keeps people in check. like sheep.

after the clash and blur its the prodigy’s turn to get the bootleggers re-rub.
download always outsiders never outdone against donations to these charities…
very cool idea still. the hottest bootleggers found the trick how nobody in there right mind could object to getting their work re-mixed…
edit: this has been out for awhile. i thought this got just released. my bad…

the tension is raising and people are getting really brave in getting the information out there.

mark perzel is hosting fahrenheit 9/11 free downloads, while lisa rein hosts peter o’reilly’s visit on the daily show october 7th. [part 1 part 2]
[via joi ito & boingboing]

georgewbush.org, the spoofwebsite, has published all the emails that were meant to be sent to official georgewbush.com email adresses, but were addressed wrong with a .org instead of a .com … some pretty upsetting stuff in there.
[via 4rthur]

undoer.org: Just Feel It Please enjoy the new hit single. 100% Radio friendly unit shifter Party jam.

i dont know when this came out, but its an excellent bootleggy mash-up of gw bush struggling for words during the presidential debates over bob dylan music in the background.
almost as brilliant as the atmo.se readmylips video mash-ups.
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click the image to watch the qt movie
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its not like i am all teh sad and in tears and stuff that i cant visit dubyah’s website. but somehow: how symbolic…

georgewbush.com denies access to all non-american visitors. i actually almost hear the error message saying: “gawdamn forgnners…”

here are joi ito’s thoughts
and xeni jardin’s

its a fairly old mix already [april 2003] and there have been many great anti-war tracks released since then, but i still quite like this litlle hip hop mix i threw together right when the war in iraq started…
i hope you’ll enjoy!

for more info, tracklist, coverart etc.: click here

i am at one of these moments with my blog where i wish somebody would tell me to stop …