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Know your rights

"kittenINFINITE explains what your rights are if you are a sex worker arrested on the job, and what you should and should not do when dealing with law enforcement. The SWOP-Chicago gang re-enact some commonly used police tactics in interrogation and how you should handle yourself in each situation." (BlipTV, Red Light District Chicago, Sex [...]

No food shortage at G8 summit

 
The Guardian investigates the luxurious eight-course, 19-dish dinner. A highlight no doubt for the spectacle that all in all cost £238m to orchestrate.
The G8 gathering had been seen as a "world food shortages summit" as leaders sought to combat spiralling prices of basic foodstuffs in the developed world, and starvation in the developing world. [...]

If voting changed anything …

Found on the net …
 
Original quote by Emma Goldman of course. Now where did I see those Fawkes masks just now … oh that’s right.

Eroding privacy

A professor at a US university is harassed for using TOR and teaching students how onion routing can be useful. Because obviously, you can’t have people making it near impossible for the government to keep tabs on your online activity. Privacy is unconstitutional, war is peace and up is down.
Meanwhile, neuroscientists warn that new high resolution brain [...]

World’s #1 Terrorist

Must be. Because who else would have the informal pull to force a man to change his t-shirt before boarding a flight.
An Australian was barred from a London-Melbourne flight unless he removed a T-shirt depicting George Bush as the world’s number one terrorist. Allen Jasson was also prevented from catching a connecting flight within Australia [...]

Richest 2 pct own more than half the world

Fairly dispiriting … not that it should come as a surprise to anyone. Now the question is if we’re heading towards more limited ownership of the world and its resources. Chances are that is in fact so given the fast accumulation of wealth and rising gaps in industrialized nations.

Two percent of adults have more than [...]

Weasel Poll 2006

As autumn brings forth cooler weather, glorious foliage, and football season, it’s also the time when Dilbert creator Scott Adams gets ready to reveal the latest cornucopia of Weasels in his unscientific and fifth annual Weasel Poll. There’s never a shortage of this illustrious breed and 2006 proves to be no different with Weasels in [...]

Blood Diamonds

In the spin attempt of the year, De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer worries that Leonardo DiCaprio’s new movie “Blood Diamond” will “taint the industry’s reputation.” That would be about time then. And truth be told, blood is only one of the things that taint the diamond industry. To recapitulate …

You’ve Been Psychologically Conditioned To Want [...]

Brazilian Cartoonist threatened by Israeli right

Carlos Latuff and a poorly concealed death threat on a Likud related web site.

Now guess what! I’m being threatened by Likud, a right wing party in Israel (former party of Sabra and Shatila butcher Ariel Sharon). In a page linked to Likud, my picture and some of my cartoons are shown. Along the same old [...]

Anthropocentrism today

People sure are a pesky bunch that ought to be put in their place. Consider the reaction to the death of Steve Irwin for instance.

Dead stingrays with their tails cut off have been found in Australia, sparking concern that fans of naturalist Steve Irwin may be avenging his death.

This sort of anthropocentric nonsense gets me [...]





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