January 2011
12 posts
Bored. Links.
I’ll give y’all two links to Al Jazeera right off the bat. This week they have had excellent coverage of the uprising in Egypt, which has overshadowed their release of The Palestine Papers which detail the cooperation of The US, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority in undermining the rights of the Palestinian people. A very interesting week in Middle East politics for...
“Reports are widespread that many of the looters in Cairo are, in fact, remnants...”
– Sharif Abdel Kouddous
So the Flood Levy Debate goes a bit like this
Homer: “Hey, how come my pay is so low? Bear patrol tax! This is an outrage! This is the biggest tax hike in history”.
Lisa: “Actually, Dad, it’s the smallest tax hike in history”
Homer: “Let the bears pay the bear tax. I pay the Homer tax”.
Lisa: “That’s the home-owner tax”.
After 23 years of rule, Ben Ali fled after 29 days... →
And whilst I would like it to be romantic, the fact is dozens have died at the hands of the Tunisian police state during this period, as well as countless others over the years.
I can’t even pretend to understand the conditions and the bravery of the Tunisian people, I mean, I’m scared enough of getting my photo taken at a demonstration, let alone whether or not I’ll be shot!
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A friend once assured me that “Ministry of Sound” CD’s were good background music that you could casually listen to while concentrating on doing things you like. Today, I can confidently say that is bullshit. You try and read The ‘bin-Laden’ of Marginalisation whilst Tom Piper is pumping through your ear canals. Can’t be done. I’m going back to Gil...
In my own backyard...... →
In typical Indymedia fashion the article is written in a over-the-top hyper-leftist tone, yet in saying that video and photo’s speak for themselves. Fucking disgrace.
Lovin' Glenn Greenwald at the moment →
I’m bored. Here’s some fuckin’ links, oh yeah!
A carbon price is not enough
Illnesses linked to BP oil disaster
BP cost-cutting blamed for “avoidable” Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Capital’s war against Wikileaks
‘US doesn’t protect its female soliders’
What really lies behind refugee policy.
Attacking public employees: will New York...
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