Gunmen in an area plagued by separatist violence used machine guns to open fire Friday on a bus carrying Togo's national team to a tournament in Angola, wounding at least nine people, including two players.
It was 48 years later when the Luddites started their campaign of violence against machines (to be fair, they'd already killed about 50 humans).
He's a Futurist who splits off from that milieu and movement to use a fascination with speed, machines, and violence to build actual machines and make a profit from war.
But questions about recent violence — an asphalt machine belonging to a Chinese construction company was burned, and a bomb set on the road wounded eight Afghan soldiers — drew blank looks.
The deadly stabbing at the Rolling Stones' Altamont festival four months later, while shocking and disturbing at the time, was, in retrospect, caused by a cascade of bad decisions on the part of the Stones' machine; violence was predictable.
For a year, they attacked stocking frames with hammers in waves of violence, destroying the machines in an attempt to tear down the industry and return to the living they made by handicraft.
Before long the Decepticons, led by the devious Megatron (Hugo Weaving -- whose voice I could actually make out this time) get involved, and things comes to a boil in an hourlong onslaught of man-on-machine, machine-on-machine, and machine-on-building violence that reached such a cacophonous level of white noise that it actually lulled me to sleep for a few minutes near the end there.
Even though I know that you and your wife had some bad days because you dared to voice a different view, opposing violence and the war machine, I'm still writing to you, maybe because I want you to give me a little hope.
One can see the influence of Occupy in the Ferguson demonstrations now, in the sense that they recognise that it's not only about demanding that this one individual cop be convicted but it's also about recognising the connection between racist violence and the profit machine.
The idea is this is basically punking punks like Family Man but with enough retention of musical value that you could actually put it on at a party and not have people react with immediate and eerily silent violence directed at whatever machine it was playing on.
"Nine out of ten Israeli girls had a picture of Amitabh Bachchan [one of Bollywood's biggest stars] in their lockets," he claims.Even more popular than the stars, he argues, is an emphasis on families and traditional values that increasingly chimes with audiences tired of western machine-gun violence and sexual mores.
