Posts by Steve Barnes
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So. The Herald wants John Banks for Mayor. The more shit they spread against Brown, the less I will believe what they say (and that ain't a lot already) They have their votes and I have mine and John Banks, no thanks.
As Hunter S. wrote "The scum also rises". That little Glob of rancid, oily wealth, that is Howick, floating on a sea of poverty, wanting to retain it's Rich white middle class name, that is just soooo wong. -
I will convey the strong feeling of our patch.
Our Patch... How quaint.
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Or more to the point...
"Why don't poor people just use Credit Cards?" -
a National Party fun debate at the Mount Golf Club
I wonder what the title of the debate was...
"Poverty, is it making us richer?" -
So how come the emphasis on Labour? surely those members of the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers would consider Taxes to be their money and that is was their duty to Consume as much as possible?. As for National, who knows who pays their expenses.
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The only question I have over all this is "What don't they want us to know about, Why this big smokescreen?""
I don't have a clue but I have a very bad feeling... -
Well, at least it's not the end of the world...
The End of The World
The World is empty. It has been abandoned, its continents unfinished. Through binoculars, I think I can glimpse Britain; this sceptred isle barren in the salt-breeze.Here, off the coast of Dubai, developers have been rebuilding the world. They have constructed artificial islands in the shape of all planet Earth's land masses, and they plan to sell each continent off to be built on. There were rumours that the Beckhams would bid for Britain. But the people who work at the nearby coast say they haven't seen anybody there for months now. "The World is over," a South African suggests.
All over Dubai, crazy projects that were Under Construction are now Under Collapse. They were building an air-conditioned beach here, with cooling pipes running below the sand, so the super-rich didn't singe their toes on their way from towel to sea.
Part of an in-depth look at Dubai
The dark side of Dubai By Johann Hari -
“The reason sport became a worldwide phenomenon can be summed up in three words,” says Professor Joe Maguire. “The British Empire.”
Or Was it?.
Andrew Jennings, scourge of FIFA, has a theory about this. “When we’re enjoying sport, we’re all open, we’re vulnerable, we’re small children again. And that’s how big capitalism likes us to be. Antonio Gramsci said: ‘How can you have a revolution when the enemy has an outpost in your head?’ Well, sport gives the corporations that outpost in our heads.”
Interesting article.
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I have a sneaky feeling that this oil spill will continuing for a while yet.
There are a few ways to stop the flow but the quickest way Blow it up with the mother of all bombs or MOAB ( Pretty Pix Here).
Trouble is that if they do that I don't think they will be granted a licence to drill a new well, which means they must try to recover and bring it on-line.
See, when these fuckers look at all that oil in the water, they don't think "Look at all the damage we're doing" they think "Look at all that oil were losing".
So, I guess they"ll just carry on trying to save that well and "Socialise" the losses. -
Given an earlier theme, it would be remiss not to link to the Informations Is Beautiful Gulf Oil Spill Infographic.
And it's not as if they didn't know it could happen...
FEDS Knew of Gulf Oil Spill Risks in 2000, Document Shows