SOME INTERESTING LINKS
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This page has not been updated for ages. Many of the links are now
defunct. The fact is the many interesting sites have been put up by
poor people who cannot afford miniscule payments to keep their domains
and other webhosting facilities.
Open Information As a Right
Open Society Institute (George
Soros)
A capitalist with a conscience has given money to repair
the infrastructure of Sarajevo during its siege. The UNPROFOR was more
interested in protecting itself and the reputations of the NATO
generals, but George Soros was more interested in the quality of life
of the people. Rather than seeing the sort of dystopia (opposite to
utopia) where the end of the Cold War brings in co-operation between
the CIA, FBI and former KGB to oppress anyone who disagrees with the
party line, George Soros is actually spending money to promote freedom
of thought and expression. Nothing threatens freedom of expression
more than the WAR on DRUGS. It is this policy which causes the UK to
jail a writer for nothing more than the material in his book. The War
on Drugs is more dangerous than ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM because it is
waged by the USA, and the USA has nuclear weapons and vast military and
technical resources.
By 2000 the WAR on DRUGS has become a WAR on LIFE. Both the USA and the UK
are sponsoring malicious genetic research. We all know how fast malicious
computer programs spread. Well, the USA government wants to breed a
fungus to kill cocaine plants in Colombia, while the UK has set scientists
to work with former Soviet germ warfare experts in Kazakhstan in order
to eradicate the opium poppy species.
Luckily some of these resources may also be
used to combat the propaganda which infects the print media nowadays.
Some Internet Service Providers are willing to help put over the truth.
Because the World Wide Web is such a large place, some pointers are
helpful.
Many of these links have not been updated for some time. This is
deliberate. The death or redirection of a link reflects changing times.
SLORC stands for State Law and Order Restoration Council. A
nightmare dreamed up by George Orwell, or Philip K Dick ? You are
wrong. This is the ruling coalition in Myanmar in the 1990s.
Myanmar, formerly Burma, was colonised by the British in the 1800s,
following the demonisation of its rulers by the imperialist press of
the era. In fact foreign domination proved a disaster, especially when
the country became a battleground in the war between the Anglo-Saxons
and Japanese between 1941-45.
It has always been fashionable to denounce regimes such as SLORC in
liberal circles. A typical example of this can be found in the film
Beyond Rangoon.
John Pilger has written a text article to
accompany 'Inside Burma'. Its title is
'Inside The
Burmese Gulag'.
There are real reasons to avoid the place. Burma does have a Death
Penalty for 'Fax Crime'.See the
OSI Burma Information
site for details.
Student protests in Serbia have been getting larger during November
and December, 1996. Considering the bitter weather of the Serbian
winter, the stamina of the protesters must be praised.
Although the demonstrations of up to 200000 are not reported by the
official Serbian media, the academic community has made their computers
available. This is perhaps the first time in history that we have the
privilege to see student bulletins circulated world wide outside the
established channels.
Faculties of Mathematics and
Natural Sciences, Belgrade
People
Dr Stuart Young
Edinburgh
Jan Van Steen Amsterdam
David MillsSheffield
Middle East
S Suwellam's A E Mail
Journal
Sudan Home Page
King Faisal Specialist Hospital,
Riyadh A Genuine Saudi Website
Al-Shahr Arab language E-zine.
Arab Peace
Links
Palestine
I believe it became one of the most comprehensive sites on the web for
links on Palestine and/or related to Palestine. You are kindly invited
to visit and review.
Palestine Mirror
Songs to
Hiroshima
Peace Now Need your support.
The PEACE NOW website contains material in English and Hebrew. As it
happens there now some palestinians who understand Hebrew better than
Arabic. Modern Hebrew is a recently invented language and many words
describing science and technology were taken from modern arabic.
Download Hebrew
Fonts
Please look at the README files, and prefer .zip over
.exe files.
CACSA
A Full Service
Bank
The Committee Against Corruption in Saudi Arabia have
updated their website to include vast sections of a book on the Bank of
Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). This book contains important
background material on the methods used in the 'War on Drugs', and
sceptics of the WoD have to thank CACSA for making this material
available over the net.
The Saudi group called Committee to Defend Legitimate Rights have
been able to draw attention to some of the current eveils in Saudi
Society. Already in the 1980s it was quite evident that Allah was
losing predominence to Maradonna the footballer who was idolised there
while he was untainted by the later scandals affecting his life.
CDLR
In London the group
has circulated an intereting document on Zionism.
Conspiracy Facts and Theories
You can subscribe to COVERT
ACTION QUARTERLY, or just browse through some of the articles online.
Topics include the Ruwandan Genocide, AIDS, and Privatised Jails.
Mediafilter.org
Cultural Issues
Other countries have different attitudes to
life. Thailand is special, because prostitution was long established as
part of the culture, and during the 1970s and 80s the government and
tourism industry were very liberal about commercial sex.
Thailand
Prostitution pages
More thai
prostitution
Written Thai: Getting
started
And if things go wrong, then this page will set you
right.
Some WWW technical links
The UK always had prostitution. Boswell and Defoe have documented
this in past times. Attitudes and prices in contemporary UK vary very
much between regions. In London there are adverts for the services of
whores stuck onto telephone boxes. Prices vary, although the high cost
of rents tends to make prices high. A flat in Park West above Edgware
Road could cost a group of girls in excess of one thousand punds a
day. Northern cities are generally cheaper. There is far less money
there. A good listing can be found at Harmless Games.
Harmless
Games provides a very slick and easy to use directory of the UK with no
annoying commercials or distracting gimmicks. It is a content rich
site.
REDUNDANT ARRAY
Redundant Technology
See a
video wall of old computers in
Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter.
CAFE NUMBER NINE
Nether Edge Cafe
ART TO
RAISE POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS. BANGKOK 1974-78
In Germany and France the street demonstrators of the 1960s are now
close to the center of power. This is also true in current day Thailand
where some of the current leaders were once forced to take up arms to
oppose state power, and US Imperialism.
The Bangkok Post shows a retrospective of Maoist inspired street art
from the turbulent years of 1973-76. During this time the Thai people
were determined not to let their alliance with the Americans drag them
into defeat. Artists were very influential in these events: more so
than they have been in recent European Culture.
ART TO RAISE POLITICAL
CONSCIOUSNESS UK 1998
The National Heritage / Mongrel Project is geared up to show the
idiocy behind the 'FORTRESS EUROPE' project so beloved by our modern
leaders. Since the frontiers crumbled in 1989 it has been a
preoccupation of EU leaders to make sure they do not remain too
open.
Unfortunately these great leaders are still spending time praising
capitalism even while the seventy year old Communist experiment finally
ended with the overthrow of Enver Hoxha in Albania. They do not yet
seem aware that Capitalism has got used up in just four years or so in
Albania.
Modern capitalism and social democracy owe more to Ron Hubbard and
Billy Graham than Adam Smith or Malthus.
The Mongrel website contains excellent material to put right the
lies sold by spin doctors.
Numbers
Numbers interest some people.
What is the next
term in the sequence 1 2 4 8 16 ?
31 maybe ? That's surely the
case with a 6-degree polynomial fit of the data points. Now it's
not necessary to tax your brain with looking for rules. There is a
world database of such sequences
N.J.A.
SLOANE'S INTEGER SEQUENCE DATABASE
These links are to a construction area on this site. There are many
ASCII files and a few self extracting archives. Attribution to authors
is embedded in many files. The political stuff on this site is
contentious, but the site contains a verification engine which can
check out the contents of certain other sites for truth. These sites
will mostly be other maths sites, and in particular you could try the
first kara number sequence on Sloane's site.
The integer sequences act as confidence or trust indicators, and their
generation is often used to benchmark computers.
If someone else is able to make use the materials on this site honestly,
then they are welcome, while those who act dishonestly will fall
victims to their own bad karma.
Highway cafe in Sheffield
THE HIGHWAY, SHEFFIELD
A public house with computers
Rustbelt UK community magazine
BURNGREAVE MESSENGER
ABANDONED FLATS IN SHEFFIELD
It's amazing how many empty council flats there are in Sheffield. And also
the way they demolish good buildings so often.
Interesting views of old Sheffield cinemas can be found at
http://www.rocknroll.force9.co.uk
Sheffield artist at
http://www.stevewithington.co.uk
This site contains some excellent pictures of local scenary around Sheffield.
FREEDEVELOPERS.NET
Here is cohesive attack on current day capitalism and corporate
mystification. The utopian ideas include open source code for computer
software, and equal pay for software developers worldwide regardless of
country of origin, or place of work. The time has come.
The time has come
Anarchist Reading List at:
http://www.zpub.com/notes/aan-read.html
Mainly Political
stuff.
Software archive.
GLEE: An Array Processing Language
Todd Marshall's page. withGLEE.com
Hui Huang's WinIGC client for the GO SERVER.
Use telnet
igs.nuri.net to connect.
WINIGC from SEOUL
STYLE SHEETS EXPLAINED
The mysteries of style sheets are fully explained here
CHRIS.CROOME.NET
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