April 2009
Watchsnuh:
The Simpsons: Disrespect dirt with Mr Sparkle! This never gets old - can’t you see I am serious! Accept the challenge of Mr Sparkle or forever be banished to the Land Of Wind & Ghosts!
British "Withdrawal" From Iraq is a Microcosm of...
m-izzo:
jeremyscahill:
Britain says it’s ending “combat operations” in Iraq. But, taking a cue from Washington, London is escalating its neoliberal economic efforts and military training. Old wine, new bottle.
By Jeremy Scahill
The British “withdrawal” from Basra, Iraq is, in a way, a microcosm of Obama’s overall Iraq approach of downsizing and rebranding the occupation. While the British...
gnomechomsky:
Black Lips (feat. GZA) - The Drop...
Higher death rates linked to keeping food diaries,... →
(via azspot)
“Market liberalism and advocacy of free trade are not new. What makes...”
– John Gledhill, “Neoliberialism,” in A Companion to the Athropology of Politics, ed. David Nugent and Joan Vincent (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004):340. (via chuffedlittlemuffin)
Red Flag! Muffins gone wild.
(via igather)
snuh:
Gang of Four: Capital (It Fails Us Now)
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Mexico’s Swine Flu and the Globalization of... →
buttersandwiches:
retropolitics:
Laura Carlsen | Americas MexicoBlog
Mexico has long been considered the laboratory of globalization. Now a potentially deadly virus has germinated in that laboratory, finding ideal conditions to move quickly along a path toward global pandemic. Those conditions include: a rapid transition from small livestock production to industrial meat farms after NAFTA...
Fuck Tweetie Mac and the way it randomly decides...
“The mythology of bold, preemptive (and cheap) intervention against avian flu has...”
– m-x: mike davis: capitalism and the flu
britticisms:
New Datarock!
“Give It Up” by...
This week's top 6 bands...
spuriousbile:
1. Daterape Apostate 2. Dead Henderson Leakage 3. Sutcliffe and the Sauciers 4. Chechechechecheche Vychase 5. The Mawkish Meerkat Twins 6. Albert Speer
Delusional misidentification syndromes →
tristanjay7:
The Capgras delusion is the belief that (usually) a close relative or spouse has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
The Fregoli delusion is the belief that various people the believer meets are actually the same person in disguise.
Intermetamorphosis is the belief that people in the environment swap identities with each other whilst maintaining the same appearance.
...
On body image, or things that are currently...
britticisms:
Dudes saying they’re “into real women” and then dating girls who weigh 90 pounds. And I know, blah blah blah, not all women have curves, blah blah blah, you can’t just say that a woman who is skinny is not “a real woman,” blah blah blah. Here’s the thing: I don’t give a fuck. You know what sucks? Being a size 8 and having men tell you you’re big.
You what else sucks? Being a size 8...
“The Save Darfur lobby demands, above all else, justice, the right of the...”
– Mahmood Mamdani: Saviours and Survivors (via m-x)
Is starvation contagious? And if not, why not?
Mabel stopped me in my tracks with this question about an hour ago. Ordinarily, I would start from the other end of the equation, and note how starvation is the deliberate outcome of the processes of colonialism and capitalist expansion. Like poverty and unemployment, starvation is a necessary function of global capitalism.
Capital needs markets and it needs compliant workers, and if those...
“The other day I was thinking about how I’m going to turn forty soon, how scary...”
– Matt Taibbi returns to what he does best
Concerts Held To Wish World's Poor Good Luck →
ROME—More than 40 artists, including U2, Death Cab for Cutie, Rihanna, and Rage Against the Machine, performed at six simultaneous concerts across the globe Saturday as part of a new benefit show to wish the world’s desperately impoverished the best of luck. The $200-a-ticket event raised more than $80 million, which will be put toward thousands of good-luck cards and balloons for developing...
We don’t have to worry about them. They are most unlikely to get on a plane. Although…Imagine if starvation was contagious or airborne? Those kids will be nourished before the week is out. (I think I’m having a ranty day) Originally posted as a comment by mabel on jhn brssndn using Disqus.
redecorating
thepillcomic:
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
Beastie Boys (16)
Tom Waits (11)
Black Lips (8)
The Wire (8)
James Brown (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
@spuriousbile
Bung me an email address so I can invite you to join Mud Island. We could do with someone like you.
"Giggling streak of piss"*
My favourite line from a weekend spent with The Thick of It: The Specials DVD.
*Malcolm Tucker’s description of - no, form of address to - Ollie Reader.
UK budget summary | LeftBanker →
Budget is to pay for bail out of banks
Unable to raise money on financial markets because our IOUs (Gilts) are worth nothing – in line with Portugal and Greece
Deficit for 2009 at over 12% biggest of the G20 countries
Big cut in public spending and over the near term and medium and long term
Tax rises after next election for the poor and middle incomes
Darling’s growth expectations...
mogadonia:
Ela Tho From Waking Up Scherezade...
“The day that senior Bush officials, like Bush and Cheney themselves, take the...”
– Dennis Perrin: President Fix
UK super-rich 'hit in downturn' →
The UK’s super-rich have seen their wealth fall in the past year during the economic downturn, according to this year’s Sunday Times Rich List.
The top 1,000 richest people in the country now have £258bn between them, it estimates - down from last year’s record of £413bn.
Over the past 12 months the number of billionaires has fallen from 75 to 43.
Canada tourist video shot in Northumbria →
terryblakey:
The sea was blue, the beach was gold and the children skipping through the sand dunes seemed a testament to the healthy joys of holidays in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Tourist officials and the national government in Ottawa were delighted with the promotional clip, part of a £14m attempt to offset controversy over oil extraction in Alberta’s beautiful wildlands.
But hours of...
The American Hologram - Joe Bageant →
retropolitics:
via buffleheadcabin:
No matter how smart we may think we are, the larger world cannot and does not exist for most of us in this room, except through media and maybe through the shallow experience of tourism, or in the minority instance, we may know of it through higher education. The world however, is not a cultural history course, a National Geographic special or recreational...
The People Versus The Rich
feastingonroadkill:
Surprise, surprise. via here:
“Has middle Fleet Street ever been further away from middle England? The new 50p top rate of tax announced this week was damned by the Sun as “an assault on wealth creators”, by the Express as a “70s-style raid”, and by the Mail as a return to “the politics of envy”.
But a poll in yesterday’s Times - a paper that predicted a brain drain,...
What Kind Of Anarchist Are You? →
feastingonroadkill:
“You Scored as Anarcho-Communist
Anarcho-communists seek to build a society based upon a decentralised federation of autonomous communes and a moneyless ‘gift economy’. The movement first emerged in the late 19th century and has had a large influence particularly in Spain, Italy and Russia. Key thikers include Peter Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta.”
yup. Sounds about...