On Thursday the August 14th, a gang of anti-hipster hooligans trashed an Urban Outfitters in Milwaukee. Around eleven in the morning, the group infiltrated the store, one-by-one. Then, when the moment was right, they made their presence known.

the latest in post-Adornoian hate-mail directed, this time, at what is declared to be the ubiquitous, apolitical, "false-rebellion" of the "hipster"

Quoted: "...An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society."

pretty cool. i wanna see this movie.

Quoted: On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York’s twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. James Marsh’s documentary brings Petit’s extraordinary adventure to life through the testimony of Philippe himself, and some of the co-conspirators who helped him create the unique and magnificent spectacle that became known as “the artistic crime of the century.”

whoa. this place is a crazy distributer of bike shit from overseas.
haven't looked too hard into the prices. but they have a TON of shit it seems.

Quoted: Bicycle Technologies International - A bicycle parts distribution company located in Santa Fe, NM.

asshat helmets!

hahaha

Quoted:
In an internet communication of August 13, 2008, a group calling themselves "internationalist insurrectionalist forces" claimed responsibility for bombing an Itau bank branch in la Reina, in Santiago, Chile. Corporate media reported the explosion as causing significant damage. The action was claimed as a response to exploitation, prison, the State and Capital. It was also claimed as an action of solidarity with anarchist prisoner Gabriel Pombo da Silva, imprisoned in Germany.

this is pretty crazy.

talking about "temporary autonomous zones?" well, the police have their own "temporary capture zones": warehouses cordoned off which anticipate an event such as the DNC well in advance.

heh. there's a couple good ones.

Quoted: George Bush paid a visit to Beijing for the Olympics. We took liberties about what his thoughts were during the trip

this was a pretty interesting story. 48 police officers taken hostage by poor miners in protest of the class discrepancies in the resource-rich area in peru.

"Moquegua, Peru - Poor residents of the copper-rich southern state of Moquegua have taken 48 police officers hostage, as well as captured and burned a police station. Police were attempting to disperse a blockade of the country's main highway to Chile, the Ilo smelter, and the American-owned Southern Copper's Cuajone mine - the country's largest copper producer.

Demonstrations began a week ago as an effort to gain control of local natural resources which bring little benefit to the majority of the people in the region, 30 percent of whom live in poverty. Union miners at the Cuajone mine exacerbated the crisis by staging a two-day strike that coincided with the blockades. In the neighboring Arequipa province, workers have been off the job at Peru's third-largest copper pit, Cerro Verde, for more than a week. The miners are demanding increased benefits.

President Alan Garcia's chief of staff, Jorge del Castillo, said that he could not negotiate with the protesters while they possessed any advantage, and urged them to release the hostages. Some feel that the unrest could easily spread to other provinces before the standoff is resolved."