Unrest in Tibet

Since 1950 Tibet has been under Chinese control, largely against its wishes, and this year marks 49 years since the first major uprising which lead the Dalai Lama (the head of the Tibetan state) to be exiled to India after a long and bloody struggle. This year, the Olympics are being held in Beijing. The Tibetan people, as well as allies across the world, have taken this as a prime oppertunity to re-ignite their struggle, at a time when all the world is watching.

However, since the uprising started in Lhasa about 2 weeks ago, the Chinese authorities have thoroughly censored all footage and news reports of what's going on over there. News websites, blogs, and video streaming databases are among the websites which the authorities have blocked for domestic access. In addition news teams from across the world have had great difficulty in getting into the problem areas to see what's really happening.

Guardian video journal

Despite these difficulties, news has got out of Tibet and China in small chunks. Wikileaks (jah bless the freedom of information act) is hosting over a hundred photographs and over 30 videos of events over the last fortnight.

Please be advised, some of these photographs are of a graphic and disturbing nature. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Photo gallery with Captions

Leading scientist suggests we're fucked, basically.

'Enjoy life while you can. Because if you're lucky it's going to be 20 years before it hits the fan.'

James Lovelock is a bit of a kooky scientist dude. Noone ever takes anything he says seriously, like his Gaia hypothesis: that the entire planet is one big self-regulating organism. And then about 30 years later anything he says is confirmed by all those lab heads. He could be dead smug about it, only he's normally saying terrible things about how we've fucked up and we need to sort it out now. The major problem we have is he's been saying that since the 60's, which means we're now about 50 years too late to do anything about it, by his estimations.

I like Lovelock, he's got outside-the-box ideas, without being one of those nutters that thinks you can heal heart disease with fucking crystals. And he truly, genuinely believes that we're utterly utterly fucked. Which I'm not really sure how to take, to be honest.

Read the full article here, it'll only take a few minutes, and it's very interesting.

Doghead Issue 1

Photobucket Album

Bloghead

I thought it was about time I kept up with the Joneses.

This is going to be an online extension of the Doghead franchise. There’ll be a lot of stuff on here that’s gonna miss going into the next few issues of Doghead, either because it’s too much of-the-moment, or just because it would be superfluous to put it into a 40 page zine that could otherwise be packed full of mind erasing nonsense.

That's about it really, sorry, nothing exciting. So people reading this first post don’t feel like they’ve utterly wasted their time, here’s a picture of Tom Cruise dressed as a Nazi.

Nanu Nanu