A retired architect and four other pensioners took their financial adviser hostage and held him in a purpose-built prison in Bavaria after their stock market investments failed, a court has heard.
The 74-year-old architect, identified only as Roland K, told a court in Traunstein, southern Germany, that he and his accomplices thought their financial adviser had “cheated and taken the piss” out of them after their investments in the US property market evaporated. As a result, he told the court, they had “decided to invite him for a few days’ holiday in Upper Bavaria”.
Can they run for office when they get out of prison? I’d be tempted to vote for them. I think I’d like their policies on financial regulation.
vruz:
if he can trivialise and choreograph the images of Dr King and Gandhi in a fucking commercial to sell computers, I can détour and hijack his fake zen too.
take that, steve.
vruz:
OILIGARCHY
Now you can be the protagonist of the petroleum era: explore and drill around the world, corrupt politicians, stop alternative energies and increase the oil addiction. Be sure to have fun before the resources begin to deplete.
This item is one of the more disturbing objects in Henry Wellcome’s collection. A ‘Scold’s bridle’ is a fearsome looking mask which fits tightly on to the head. A scold was defined as a “rude, clamorous woman”. The bridle was used as a punishment for women considered to be spending too much time gossiping or quarrelling. Time spent in the bridle was normally allocated as a punishment by a local magistrate. The custom developed in Britain in the 1500s, and spread to some other European countries, including Germany. When wearing the mask it was impossible to speak. This example has a bell on top to draw even more attention to the wearer, increasing their humiliation. It was used until the early 1800s as a punishment in workhouses.
I’ve been a supporter of stopclustermunitions.org over the years, both philosophically and financially, and I’m doing something special with DMZ #50. ”Little Plastic Toys” is a four-page silent story, expertly illustrated by Fabio Moon, and I’m donating my page rates from that story to stopclustermunitions.org.
I urge everyone to check out DMZ #50 as well as the website. See what your home country is doing and sign the petition. Follow them on twitter.
DMZ #50 has an in-store date of this Wednesday, Feb 10th, for the USA/Canada, and later in the week for Europe. Forty pages for $3.99
-brian wood
youwillbeassimilated: via thedailywhat:
Buy This: “Every Drop Counts” by Ayda Anlagan for Hidden Art.
Tilted bowls with stories and graphics that reveal themselves as you eat.
Their whimsical nature aside, Anlagan designed these bowls with a purposes in mind: To draw attention to “the issue of food wastage in the domestic environment.”
Goth ukulele cover version time.
Sisters Of More Ukulele: ‘More’
Eldritch and co as a ukulele band. For a variety of reasons - heh.
For Bossarocker - who makes Mr Feastingonroadkill curse the gods for his less than zero musical talent on an almost daily basis.
This is brilliant! Mr Feastingonroadkill is being far too kind & peddles all kinds of musical goodies himself. Incidently, I hope he isn’t expecting my ukulele covers to be as high quality as this, eek. After a somewhat delayed start, I’m pleased to announce that the first one will be going up this week.
There’s still time to vote - voting ends Tue 9th Feb at midnight (Hawaii time, of course). There’s some amazing stuff in the shortlist:
Ukulollo – Ravel’s Bolero
Ukulelezo – Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
uke3453 – ma-i-na-ku-ma-na
U900 – Diamond Head
tUnE-YaRdS – Hatari
Dent May – Love Song 2009
Sophie Madeleine – Take Your Love With Me
John King and James Hill – Larry O’Gaff
Todd Baio (doogey9) – I’m a Uke-aholic
Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer – Chap Hop History