Posted on Monday, 1 February, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Tony Blair takes a photo of himself in front of the human rights travesty he helped create.
Tony sends George a text from Iraq: “LO George. jst writiN U frm Iraq whr wer dstroiN evrtng n cite 4 oil, cash & contRL. thx putting me n yor posse.”
A while ago a mobile phone video emerged showing some Kurdish village where this horde was stoning a girl to death because she married the wrong guy. It sparked international outrage as it should have. This photo reminds of of that for some reason.
Posted on Saturday, 16 January, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Why I hate the luxury cruise industry: Overfed white people from a nearby Royal Caribbean Cruise Liner lounge like beached whales at a fenced and guarded coastal retreat in Haiti within easy view of survivors of a humanitarian crisis in which tens of thousands have died and many more are starving. Photograph: Daniel Morel/AP
So, perhaps this post is a little derivative to the main argument at hand: That Haiti needs donations for earthquake relief. But it seems that Haiti’s financial situation, which keeps it in dire straits, basically stems from the fact that they freed themselves from western slavery a few hundred years ago and the world is still sore about it.
The record of debt certainly can certainly be followed to the Slave Revolt and resulting battles in the early 1800s, and you could look at the ancestry of western concepts about Haiti as originally stemming from French and America’s tantrums at not being able to bring the island nation back under direct control.
Posted on Wednesday, 2 December, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
Lily Allen used to pretend to be an independent pop star, made a bunch of cash and is now working with Peter Mandelson to stop others from pulling themselves up by their bootstraps by siding with stronger controls to limit what artists can do with their content and how you can use it.
Posted on Tuesday, 3 March, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS:Talk or Share
A note to Gordon Brown…
if i have to hear a BBC reporter refer to the “special relationship” between the U.S. and UK one more time I’m going to extend my TV license boycott. Seriously, no one talks about this in the U.S. Talk about a one-way romance.
“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”