Back Towards the Locus

Below are links to posts that are of interest to me and might interest you as well. I didn’t want them to be lost within the mass of notes and scrawls on the ephemeral phenomena of our society or fleeting whims of my consciousness.

Age and Health On means of living better while living longer

• Living better, for longer

• Muscle, bones and strength training

Animal Welfare On our abuse of other species

• On American factory farming

• On European factory farming

• On Canadian factory farming

• The War Horses

Antics Anecdotes and in-jokes

• BenSix tries to join the academia

• Back Towards the Locus holds a fundraiser

• Confessions of an inept cricketer

• On writing a novel

• Bleak inscriptions in second-hand books

Big Pharma Our drug addictions

• On the misuse of antipsychotics

• On the misuse of antibiotics

Care Home Abuse On the miserable state of British social care

• The British betrayal of their elderly and disabled

• The misuse of antipsychotics on the elderly

The Chagos Islands On the British theft of the land of the Ilois

• The Falklands and British hypocrisy

• The imperialistic squatters on the Chagos Islands

“Conspiracy Theory” Defences of and thoughts on parapolitical research

• Debunking “conspiracy theory”

• How supposed sceptics make curiosity uncool

• Bad conspiracy theorising (2, 3, 4)

• Conspiracy theories and anti-semitism

Enthusiasms Things I actually like

• Calvin and Hobbes

• Fedor Emelianenko

• Film Noir

• I, Claudius

• Saki

• The World at War

Gangs On organised crime and its subcultures

• Gangs and child assassins

• Criminals and their music

• The race war of the Mexican Mafia

Gareth Williams On the mystery of the murdered spy

• On the death and the media bullshit that followed it

• On the inquest and its disturbing implications

Heroes People to look up to

• Falcone, Borsellino and the antimafia activists

• Bishop George Bell

• Josephat Torner

History Excursions into the past

• The Cover-Up of Unit 731 (2)

• The strange life of General Charles Willoughby

• America’s role in the creation of the Yakuza

• The British lobby in the United States

• Operation Gladio and the Nazis

• State crime in the Pre-Stalin Soviet Union

Iraq Lamentations of the war and observations on the recovery

• The lies we were told

• The devastation of Iraq

• Human rights abuses after the invasion

Islamic Totalism On the social ambitions of religious supremacists

• An initial change of mind

• In defence of blasphemers and apostates

• The horrors of sectarianism

• On the persecuted church

• Epistemic standards of an Islamic totalist

• …in the Maldives

Lockerbie On the mystery of who bombed Pan Am Flight 103

• The unconvincing case against Al Megrahi

• Lockerbie in war propaganda

Theocracy in the U.K. On the activism of Islamic supremacists in Britain

• Theocracy in the U.K.

• On iERA

• Theocrats in British universities

• Theocrats in British schools

• Theocrats in British Mosques

• Islamic supremacists and their sectarianism