Click here for the Gigapan picture of Obama’s 2009 inauguration in which every face in the vast crowd can be made out using the sort of sci-fi technology you see in Google Earth satellite shots. And the police are bleating because we might capture their pretty faces on our cameras? What a total diversionary cheek! […]
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Tony Blair not mugging for the photographers. “I do not practise posing in the mirror.” Virtue as its own reward is all very nice but you can’t beat money and power. Who’s this with the dead eyes and the shark smile cutting through finance and politics like a big eating machine? Thanks to Splinty whose
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Having been invited to participate in a fund-raising event commemorating the 5th anniversary of the Morecambe Bay disaster (5th February), I was going to write something about it here. But seeing how it was derailed from its original purpose by power and money, not to mention the power of money, I’ve thought long and hard
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Two conflicting perspectives at the heart of the wildcat strikes spreading across Britain threaten to turn this conflict into a xenophobic safety valve for corporate business interests as we face global economic meltdown. The Italian company is importing cheap labour from abroad to the exclusion of local workers, pitting worker against worker in a classic
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Obama Reads Bush’s Letter – watch more funny videos Barack Obama shares the letter Bush left for him in the oval office. We need a bit of funny in this Vale of Tears and this video does the job. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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I heart these Jews “Everybody is somebody’s Jew. And today the Palestinians are the Jews of the Israelis.”Primo Levi, A Hard Case: The Life and Death of Primo Levi; The New Yorker, 2002. 47 per cent of Israelis don’t approve of the invasion of Gaza270 of the Gazan dead are children. Israel out of Gaza
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