Entries by Tobias Langdon
Verbal Venom: Biological Parallels for Western Pathologies
Stung Out to Die Here’s a short and very old word: Wasp. Here’s a long and very new word: Neuroparasitology. Despite their differences, the two words go together very well. Neuroparasitology is the study of how parasites manipulate the brains of their hosts. Parasitic wasps are experts at this manipulation. For example, some inject paralysing […]
The Price of Paranoia: Snowden, Orwell and the Unspeakable Origins of the Surveillance State
Alan Rusbridger is the editor of The Guardian, Britain’s biggest liberal newspaper. Like many liberals, he’s a good example of the vast difference between intelligence and wisdom. Here is he talking about Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency: Rusbridger said the NSA stories were “clearly” not a story about totalitarianism, but that an infrastructure […]
Hope on a Rope: Another Blackout in the British Media
Like most people, I have a number of quiet ambitions. I’d like to learn the piano, climb the Matterhorn and understand the point of cricket, for example. I’d also like to have Tony Blair hanged. The charge would be high treason, but it would be impossible to name all his victims at his trial. He […]
The United States of Syria: Domestic Lessons in a Distant War
Description and Prediction. It’s a richly vibrant police-state. It’s ruled by a paranoid, self-pitying minority. The minority is trying to crush a rebellion by the dispossessed majority. That is a description of Syria. It’s also a prediction for the United States, the United Kingdom, France and other Western nations. The mainstream media are talking a […]
Bombs for a Better World: Syria, Surveillance and the Neo-Crocs
In a sane world, the former “Chief Speechwriter for Tony Blair” would now be a fugitive from justice or serving a life sentence. But it’s not a sane world, so Philip Collins is receiving his thirty pieces of silver from the hostile elite. He has a well-paid post at the London School of Economics and […]
Bombas por um mundo melhor: Síria, Monitoramento e os Neocrocodilos — por Tobias Langdon para o Occidental Observer
Tobias Langdon: Bombs for a Better World: Syria, Surveillance and the Neo-Crocs, The Occidental Observer, 8 setembro de 2013 Tradução e links: O Retrógrado Lusófono Em um mundo são, o ex-“redator-chefe dos discursos de Tony Blair” seria agora um fugitivo da justiça ou estaria cumprindo pena de prisão perpétua. Mas este não é um mundo são, […]
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