theft, vigilantism and the fetishisation of public humiliation

On Thursday, a group of five people attempted to make off with a load of watches from a posh London jewellery shop after smashing the window with a sledgehammer. They were foiled not by police, or shop security – but by a mob of more than 50 passers by and shoppers who jumped in and [...]

Obama is everything

Apart from the SSY blog, the internet has very few useful functions. One of them however, is the autocomplete function when you type stuff into Google. If you type “is obama”, the top results are: a muslim anti british a freemason the antichrist a good president american a christian related to bush jewish a socialist [...]

The free market is insane: Firefighters watch house burn to ground

As if you needed it, more news that will make you glad you don’t live in the land of the crazy, the USA. In Obion county, rural Tennessee, you have to pay an annual $75 fee to be allowed to use local firefighting services. A family which had not paid the fee were horrified to [...]

Donald Duck meets Glenn Beck – Glenn Beck's not happy!

“It is some of the best well made propaganda I have ever seen…We are looking into this gentleman and this incredible propaganda against me.” – Glenn Beck Check out the very funny cartoon above. The maker, Jonathan McIntosh, says: “This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed using dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons [...]

Mexico: where the war on drugs really is a war

Check out the short film above, by Mexico based filmaker and activist Greg Berger, aka Gringoyo, who’s been travelling around Latin America for over 10 years making insightful and funny films about the exploitation of the continent by capitalism and US imperial interests. He’s now asking viewers to contribute directly, so he can make 100% [...]

Anti-masturbation witch wants women to be more like hobbits.

Christine O’Donnell is the Republican candidate for the US Senate in a special election to be held in Delaware in November. She defeated the Republican insider candidate, a guy who’s been in Congress for ages and used to be the state’s governor, with the support of the mass movement for paranoia and fantasy known as [...]

Spot the difference

Glenn Beck is someone we’ve written about here before. For those that haven’t been lucky enough to check him out on youtube, he is one of the most prominent figures of the American right media, with 3 hours of radio and 1 hour of telly EVERY DAY to push his extreme agenda on to the [...]

America to the Rescue!

Why is the Lockerbie bomber still alive? This week Senator Robert Menendez, Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into why someone (or indeed everyone) isn’t dead yet announced plans to send a team of yankee investigators to Scotland.   This we can understand as it clear that protocol has been breached on this matter.  When someone in [...]

Prohibition has always failed

Every human society since we first evolved has experimented with drugs, pyschoactive substances, and altered states of consciousness. Many leading psychologists and anthropologists believe that this is a normal part of human life, and experimenting with substances like cannabis or magic mushrooms has actually played a role in the evolution of modern, intelligent humans. But [...]

Homophobes who are actually gay

Have you ever wondered what motivates people who are rampant homophobes? What lies behind the desperate attempts of some people to prove their heterosexuality by denying freedom to others based on their sexual orientation? It’s actually supported by scientific evidence that a major cause of homophobia is the desire to repress unacknowledged or unwanted homosexual [...]

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