After Throbbing Gristle created the cult of noise, a whole heap of even bleaker groups, intent on making even more depressing, violent music started cropping up everywhere; bands like Whitehouse, Sutcliffe Jugend, Ramleh and, during the early 90s the miserabilists who make up the Cold Spring label.
For just as long, its narrow streets and alleys have produced a different sort of crop -- violent thugs who rose to power in the Mafia.
As a result, many of the conclusions made about radicalisation – the kind you hear in the media and political rhetoric – are based on assumptions and outdated hypotheses that have little relevance to the current younger, fresher and angrier crop of violent extremists.
Disasters and destruction caused by natural phenomena (violent storms, droughts, floods, crop failures, famine, epidemics) were interpreted by the guilt-stricken populous as punishments dealt out by offended, wrathful deities.
By purchasing essential oils distilled from legal crops, they are helping to provide safe, sustainable alternatives to the illegal poppy crop and the violent drug trade it supports.
Cole, who is forty-one, is a lifelong resident of Christian County, Kentucky, an area in the southwest corner of the state that is known for its cattle, its tobacco crop, and a violent close encounter with extraterrestrials.
But the growing dependence of the local community on this remarkable crop has prompted violent confrontations between rival pickers and is now stoking concerns that the mountain hillsides may one day be harvested empty.
The crops are a violent, vigorous green, a shade I associate with the inexorable growth evoked in Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring .Back to top >>MondayFOR all its modernity, Tokyo suffers occasional technological lapses: my business hotel does not have a broadband internet connection.
Violent men die violently.
They began last year when Sunni tribes and former insurgents in western Anbar Province began cooperating with American forces, cropped up later in the violent Diyala Province and even emerged in the sharply contested Ameriya neighborhood in Baghdad.
