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"[...] why Daddy comes home late at night every Friday and beats the crap out of Mummy."
If they have a mummy and daddy to live with. It was not long ago - during the Yeltsin era - that Moscow had a legion of abandoned children living in underground tunnels in the winter. My memory says 80,000 - but that seems too high? Not sure if the problem is still so bad. All the Google hits are for organisations with a vested interest in under or over-stating such numbers - and tend to concentrate on the plight of young disabled children.
It was the shouting "hate sessions" in front of a large screen with a picture of Big Brother that scared me as a 1950s kid. The BBC "Nineteen Eighty Four" was a low budget drama serial - but has stuck in my mind.
Modern day real life often gives me a feeling of deja vu.
Watch this one then.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Interesting story also about the sound track. Branson wanted a soundtrack by the Eurythmics who were very big at the time and the director changed it.
"Julia" is the only song by the Eurythmics that made it onto the movie and only at the credits. It is still my favorite song by them.
So... no more bare-chested pictures of Putin then. Please.
"On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development".
So Putin's TV broadcasts are going to be banned? About time. Seeing that closet homo with his shirt off attempting to look macho while hunting bears / fishing / horseriding / shooting peasants is enough to stunt the mental development of any child. Probably make them turn gay as well.
Congratulations to El Reg for doing the Western propaganda thing for free.
UK bans album cover art showing nude teenagers, no probs. UK/US/EU censor beheading videos and stuff (disgusting and extremely insensitive, but a form of political discourse in the end, although highly extreme), and that's the right thing to do.
Some Russian agency or another complains about some drug info posted online, and it's the horrors.
No hypocrisy or double standards at all, eh?
Anyway, thank you for keeping your readers like mushrooms in the dark (apologies) about the realities of the East. Problems there are, but this is hardly one of them.
To be fair - El Reg, and most who comment here, tend to be vociferously against censorship measures in the UK/US/EU too. Usually the objections are that the government, and/or vested interests, are trying to promote censorship measures that are: ill-conceived; unworkable; draconian; intended to manipulate the public for political support or funding.
Not only is psilocin handy for treating depression without resorting to ineffectiv and highly addictive SSRIs and other potentially dangerous long term drugs such as lithium (google it) and also could one day unlock the secret to duplicating consciousness itself in hardware thus bringing about the Singularity (yay!) but it would also explain how it originated in the first place thus why humans seem to be conscious but other animals are merely self-aware.
Psilocin is one of a class of "connectivity modulators" that changes how neurons communicate on a global level but as the mechanism is very specific it can be clearly seen on an fMRI or PET scan.
This lends it to all sorts of valuable studies on human neural systems and can allow pharmacalogically similar drugs (eg triptans) to be used safely by seeing how the subject reacts within a range of doses.
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