Qandeel Baloch - Death of a Social Media Star in Pakistan

Probably the best half hour documentary I've seen in a long time, if not ever. 

I often see the same zealous mind control in Pakistan as I see in Israel. In this case it's the Mufti madness, whereas in Israel it's the IDF.

Qandeel Baloch, real name Fouzia Aseem, managed to run with the ball, arguably further than any Pakistani woman since Benazir Bhutto, but like her forerunner, she paid for it with her life.

26 years old and a most remarkable woman.

Into The Abyss - Werner Herzog

Into The Abyss is a death row documentary. It's about White Trash Americans who never had a chance to really escape the superficiality of a life where stealing a car for a day or so is the most braggable value they can achieve.

Capitalism needs a layer of society like this to recruit for their wars. If they have no interest in dying for rich men abroad then there's little else for them except to use as prison bait, so richer folks can always have something to demand more security and greater victimisation of poor people. It's very profitable to exploit fear.

There are truly touching moments in this documentary. It's a view of America that isn't shown by Hollywood which focuses on programming people to aspire to superficiality.

Love Thy Neighbour

Powerful Message To "Anticapitalist" Vandals

This young lady is why we are going to win. Raw, sincere, fully awake and informed to an exceptional level. 

Long live Youtube. (Update: This still applies)

Operation Philanthropic Billionaire Pigs

I am really enjoying The Activists blog headlines lately as well as the art and posts. The post title is quite true. The Gates Foundation is a huge Monsanto shareholder. He's a pig not a philanthropist.

[แด่กองเซ็นเซ่อ] - Censorsh*t

This is a little stroke of genius in the ongoing war of ideas that says gun imagery is lauded while peace and flowers are trivialised. That selling sex in advertising is OK but prostitutes are frowned upon. That excessive materialism is aspirational but ubiquitous poverty is pushed to the margins. That advertising is culturally representative yet failing schools are unimportant.

Shanghai

Nothing special here but a few clips and pics from The Shanghai. The city has its own light that I don't think I've quite seen anywhere else. It also has that feel during the day when away from the skyscrapers of being on a film set like a few minor details and its straight into the time from way back when. I like the way the laundry is hanging to dry indicating that there is no space inside. Needs must and all that.

Poverty is present in all big cities and this is a scene which can just as easily be seen in London or New York. It was taken in a shop entrance and I felt like I was invading his privacy but also by using a sepia colour it dramatizes the throw back to an earlier time. Yet otherwise the following clip could be anywhere in some senses.