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Category Archives: Current Affairs
Nerdcore Rap by Dan Bull re #occupywallstreet
Featuring Radiohead sample. ‘Coincidentally’ JP Morgan have just made the largest (multi-million) donation in history direct to the NYPD. It’s not about Protesters vs Police but for sure the movement can’t pay off the police. This is now the third … Continue reading
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The monstrous fact. From bail-outs to debt peonage.
There is one monstrous fact stalking Europe and no amount of debating will make it go away – there isn’t enough money to make the bank bail-out’s work. There isn’t enough money in Europe’s bail out fund, the EFSF, despite … Continue reading
World Wide Credulity Crunch
Does anyone anywhere believe anything they are told, on any subject, by any government official, financial expert or banker? Beneath all the outright lies, hopeless spin and half truths there is a more fundamental and corrosive problem. WE DON’T BELIEVE … Continue reading
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Texas drought worsens from ‘abysmal’
Nearly 97 percent of Texas is in either exceptional or extreme drought. From June through August, Texas suffered the hottest three months ever recorded in the United States, according to the National Weather Service. And the 12 … Continue reading
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9/11 The Official Story. Or, 9/11 is a joke
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the … Continue reading
Ai Weiwei on Beijing’s Nightmare City
Having just been, I found this piece on Beijing by Ai Weiwei very interesting: Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is … Continue reading
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Why did shares in European Banks and BoA collapse?
The questions we have to ask is why, after so much money in the last three years, [the banks] still need more? Why, if this policy is the correct, the only one, are the banks selling each other’s stocks? What … Continue reading
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Tagged bailout, bank of america, bank of england, european banks, QE
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Russell Brand on the UK Riots
I should here admit that I have been arrested for criminal damage for my part in anti-capitalist protest earlier in this decade. I often attended protests and then, in my early 20s, and on drugs, I enjoyed it when the … Continue reading
The Koch Brothers’ Unhealthy Interests
The Koch Brothers. Just one example of right-wing, big-business funded climate change scepticism.
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We’ve Entered the Age of Mass Extinction: Goodbye Fish and a Whole Lot More
Scott Thill: We’ve got heat domes in the Midwest and the East, and cool marine layers chilling summers in the West. In related news, up is down and down is up. Peter Ward: Well, right now Seattle is 64 degrees. … Continue reading
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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich – By Warren Buffett, a member of the Super-Rich
OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. While the poor and middle class … Continue reading
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Yumm, sushi
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Fish caught at a port about 55 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant contained radioactive cesium at levels exceeding an allowable limit, the environmental group Greenpeace said Tuesday. The samples taken at Onahama port … Continue reading
Lyric of the Day: Panic by The Smiths
Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again? The Leeds side-streets that you slip down I wonder to myself Hopes may rise on the Grasmere But … Continue reading
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Wake Up Call: 9/11 Questions
Architects and engineers talk about how the Twin Towers and Building 7 came down
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1,500 tons of radioactive sludge cannot be buried
Nearly 50,000 tons of sludge at water treatment facilities has been found to contain radioactive cesium as the result of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Over 1,500 tons is so contaminated that it cannot be buried … Continue reading
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Another Inconvenient Truth
Another Inconvenient Truth: The World’s Growing Population Poses a Malthusian Dilemma. Solving climate change, the Sixth Great Extinction and population growth… at the same time. By 2050, the world will host nine billion people—and that’s if population growth slows in … Continue reading
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Living on the ceiling
What is a debt ceiling? As the name suggests, it’s an absolute limit on national debt. The UK doesn’t have one, though Budgets have to be approved by Parliament, but the US has had one since 1940, when it was … Continue reading
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United Nations are not
The persistent inability of the United Nations to forge international consensus on climate change issues was on display Wednesday, as Security Council members disagreed over whether they should address possible instability provoked by problems like rising sea levels or competition … Continue reading
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Mass psychosis in the US
Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs … Continue reading
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14 States Suffering Under Drought
In Texas, where the drought is the worst, virtually no part of the state has been untouched. City dwellers and ranchers have been tormented by excessive heat and high winds. In the Southwest, wildfires are chewing through millions of acres. … Continue reading
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