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Tom Vater: Bangkok Dangerous
Bangkok resident and SAJ1 contributor Tom Vater dispatches from a city under siege. It´s not easy to write about war. Harder still to write about war at home. Bangkok is my home and tonight, parts of the city were on …
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A black death, from horizon to horizon
The full, awful extent of the BP oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is caught in this laconically-narrated fly-over. Via IO9
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Turkish UFOs were IMOs?
[NB 1 May 2010, a good explanation for these objects can be found here] One of my favourite UFO videos of recent years – the sinister looking objects filmed off the coast of Kumburgaz, just west of Istanbul in 2008 …
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Ali Hussain Sibat: A Saudi witch hunt
For more than two years, Ali Hussain Sibat of Lebanon has been held in a prison in Saudi Arabia, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. His head is to be chopped off by an executioner wielding a long, curved …
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Robot Epiphany: The Wire 315
I’ve written an Epiphanies column for the current issue of music magazine The Wire. Taking the slot’s title literally I recall a synaesthetic experience while listening to Kraftwerk as a teenager, and a more recent reality-processing glitch while watching Charles …
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On yer bike!
Today is bicycle day and, after some time in limbo, Hofmann’s Elixir: LSD and the Road to Eleusis is finally back from the printers. This beautifully produced book – a tribute to Dr Hofmann and his problem child – is …
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America's Tea Party and the OK Bomb
Next Monday, 19 April, the US Tea Party movement will hold a national day of protest against Obama’s health care reforms. The date marks the 17th anniversary of the disastrous climax to the siege of David Koresh’s compound at Waco, …
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Rebuilding Haiti from the pig up
During the 1960s US agricultural imports began to undermine the traditional agricultural economy of Haiti… Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier took over in 1971. In 1972 he was exposed for selling Haitian blood to private American hospitals for $3 a litre. …
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Haiti: help on the ground
Artist and SA Pal John Cussans was in Haiti last December as part of the first Haitian Art Bienniale, an event that seemed to offer a great deal of hope and help to people in the troubled Cité Soleil district of …
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Military Myths
A short piece by myself on myth-making in the military has been published over at Guardian Online. There are of course several other stories I’d like to have told, but space was tight! The site is running a series of articles …
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Slow postings: blame the Mirage Men
A few kind souls have asked after me having noticed the somewhat reduced posting rate on Further, for which I apologise. It’s all for a good reason, however. After many months of giddy peaks and lightless troughs I’m finally approaching …
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John Keel RIP
Legendary fortean author John Keel died in New York City last Friday, 3 July, aged 79. As a journalist Keel wrote on a wide range of subjects, but he will be best remembered for his non-fiction travel memoirs, Jadoo 1957, …
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