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Avant garde composer becomes Maoist/Hoxhaist, then decides avant garde music is bourgeois and devotes his time to making the world's worst pop songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXEDZy4Z8os

Wow, that is some of the shitest music I've heard.

Khawaga wrote:
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Avant garde composer becomes Maoist/Hoxhaist, then decides avant garde music is bourgeois and devotes his time to making the world's worst pop songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXEDZy4Z8os

Wow, that is some of the shitest music I've heard.

my favourite worst song of Cardew ... strong similarities to Christian pop songs of that period

Between 2007 and 2014, Russian investors gobbled up UK real estate at a staggering rate of knots. Data from JLL estimates that in early 2014 almost 10% of all money spent in property in London was Russian. In the luxury residential market, numbers were even higher. According to Knight Frank, more than 20% of London homes with asking prices in excess of £10m were purchased by Russians.

The pandemic is turning Millennials into socialists. We must make them a better offer. [...] And as I’ve argued, this means reviving classical liberalism — not in the American sense of “left” but in the European sense of “freedom.”

Whether Millennials actually use the word “socialism” properly — as government ownership of the means of production — is moot. More likely, they simply want better public policy that addresses their specific problems. Even then, however, they often fall prey to political snake oil such as rent controls or wealth taxes.

At this critical hour, every appropriate means of non-violent action must be utilized to remove this regime from power. And if, in spite of mass protest demanding the removal of the Trump/Pence regime, this regime remains in power when it is time for voting, then—without placing fundamental reliance on this—using all appropriate means to work for the removal of this regime must include voting against Trump (assuming the election is actually held). To be clear, this means not a “protest vote” for some candidate who has no chance of winning, but actually voting for the Democratic Party candidate, Biden, in order to effectively vote against Trump.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-ayn-rand-idUSKBN248026

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The institute promoting the “laissez-faire capitalism” of writer Ayn Rand, who in the novels “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead” introduced her philosophy of “objectivism” to millions of readers, was approved for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of up to $1 million, according to data released Monday by the Trump administration.

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The institute referred Reuters to a May 15 article, in which board member Harry Binswanger and senior fellow Onkar Ghate wrote that the organization would take any relief money offered from the CARES Act. “We will take it unapologetically, because the principle here is: justice,” they wrote, adding that “the government has no wealth of its own…. It can only redistribute the wealth of others.”

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In a 1962 essay, Rand wrote of seventeenth century French businessmen: “They knew that government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution, and that the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”

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Khawaga wrote:
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Avant garde composer becomes Maoist/Hoxhaist, then decides avant garde music is bourgeois and devotes his time to making the world's worst pop songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXEDZy4Z8os

Wow, that is some of the shitest music I've heard.

my favourite worst song of Cardew ... strong similarities to Christian pop songs of that period

The lyrics and the singing, just what was he thinking? Really funny tho

A German far-right politician suspended by Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is under investigation by authorities after sending a party colleague to hospital with a “friendly” punch to the torso.

Andreas Kalbitz, a former neo-Nazi who is fighting for his party membership in the courts, reportedly ruptured the spleen of his temporary replacement in the Brandenburg state parliament, Dennis Hohloch, in an incident on 10 August.

Apparently supporting the British Raj in India and restoring Euro colonialism in Vietnam and Indonesia were the least worst options and criticising them makes me a nationalist baddie

A smattering of demonstrators gathered on the first floor outside Coles supermarket for a shortened rendition of John Farnham’s “You’re the voice” to object to the ongoing economic and personal disruptions caused by the state’s coronavirus lockdown.

Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate broker who took a private jet to Washington to join the attack on the US Capitol, has pleaded with Donald Trump to pardon her after she was arrested by federal authorities.

After surrendering to the FBI on Friday, Ryan said: “We all deserve a pardon.”

“I’m facing a prison sentence,” she told CBS11 at her home. “I think I do not deserve that.”

Turning to look into the camera, she said: “I would ask the president of the United States to give me a pardon.

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She climbed the steps of the Capitol, then promoted her real estate business to camera: “Y’all know who to hire for your realtor. Jenna Ryan for your realtor.”