The Corner Blog Archives: January 2007
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30 January 2007
Palestinian Poet
This is a performance by a friend of a Palestinian friend of mine. She sent me this clip earlier today. I like this woman, she has spirit and she writes so well! Thought you guys might enjoy it too.
What I Will
…and,
First Writing Since
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10 January 2007
Pressure works, but not well enough
Yesterday Blair said, with regards to the need for people to fly less and the idea that he as Prime Minister should act as an role model, that “I personally think these things are a bit impractical, actually to expect people to do that. It’s like telling people you shouldn’t drive anywhere.” I mentioned it […]
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9 January 2007
And what did we say about the Russians?
Well, in an earlier post (ta-ta!) I referred to a news story at the BBC about their conflict with Belarus, and now that’s taken another step towards greater energy instability. Check it out.
And Blair keeps on living in a bubble of denial paired with political expedience. How I hate that man.
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9 January 2007
Sweden’s Blairite fascism
The conservative government in Sweden has started to ring the changes after their election victory last year. And, surprise surprise, one of the things that they’re now keen on introducing is the expansion or eavesdropping rights for FRA (Försvarets Radioanstalt - our little version of NSA). The idea was voiced in a suggestion sent out […]
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1 January 2007
Top-10 Orwellian moments of 2006 in US
WFMU-blog listed top-10 Orwellian moments of 2006
Fox News airs an infomercial for torture
Federal semantics eliminates the hunger problem also seen elsewhere in the Corner Blog
Defending the First Amendment by proposing that we scrap it.
Halliburton contracts to build large detention camps in the US
The Inexorable Worldwide Rollout of RFID Chips
Stay What? Apparently US has never “stayed […]
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1 January 2007
Hunger problem solved
The hunger problem has finally been solved in US! The government has vowed the no American will be hungry ever again.
The amount of people suffering from hunger came down from 38 million to Zero when the US department of agriculture’s came up with a perfect solution; renaming hungry people, as in people without food, to […]