Finally uploaded the lovely portraits taken by Sukey Parnell of the cast of The Steampunk Opium Wars debut at the National Maritime Museum in London earlier this year. As well as Sukey’s pix, the poems written by cast-members are also on these pages. There’s a serious intention in writing and performing the show. After we […]
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The bankers staged a coup while out attention was elsewhere and now everything is run for them. This item from December— found by Niall Spooner-Harvey — sums up the situation: Unchecked by toothless regulators and set free by poorly drawn capital requirements, the banks rampaged across the continent, chucking cheap money at Greece and Italy,
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Hilarious, in a grim way, watching Tory cutters trying to argue with the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on BBC Newsnight. Ooh, morality, yet! A nation of shopkeeper but without the customers and, increasingly, without the shops. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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Hopefully we’ve all seen the BBC Newsnight clip (above) and signed the petition demanding an apology for serious misrepresentation of Shanene Thorpe, portraying her as a benefit scrounger. What started off innocently enough as an investigation into “what it’s like being a working mum struggling to pay rent and housing costs” turned into an interrogation
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Greg Palast’s Lady Baba-Land: The Islamic Republic of BP (BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches) If you ever suspected how filthy big business is at the top but never knew the details, investigative journalist Greg Palast‘s latest book, Vultures’ Picnic, will have your jaw hitting the floor every few pages. Greg gives
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The Opium War by Julia Lovell Review by Anna Chen – 17 May 2012 The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.George Orwell With renewed calls for the West to assert its imperial might in the interest
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