January 2011
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The Palestine Papers
Whatever they’re called. The leaks from the Israeli-Palestinian talks, I can’t say I’ve learnt anything new.
I mean all told the papers say
Palestine was weak, desperate and accepted just about every condition imposed.
Israel asked for every Palestinian first born child, all the land and for all the Palestinians to kindly fuck off.
America (still) backs Israel to the hilt...
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“The United States of America is, in reality, a one-party corporatist state whose...”
– Larry Pinkney (via whaat)
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Why keeping EMA makes economic sense
Because it supports growth:
When the government gives a tax cut to the rich it’s well documented that they simply stick the saving in a bank account and leave it there, doing very little for the economy. When the government gives poorer people a tax cut or a benefit, they’re more likely to spend it, therefore stimulating demand and giving us growth.
So. What do we suppose happens...
Endings
So I still don’t really know what to do at the end of a relationship. Sometimes I find myself purging my life of someone; deleting their number, all the texts, all the photos, their Facebook and all of their friends who I half know. And then other times I’ve just left all of that in tact.
And I don’t know if it really makes any difference overall, sure deleting everyone and...
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Mark Kennedy
In an interview with the Mail on Sunday he revealed he now fears for his life. He should have thought of that before agreeing to spy for the Stasi, it’s not like he didn’t volunteer for it. Silly bastard.
Frankly my heart bleeds for him.
Coincidently I wonder how many more police spies we’re going to find…
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So apparently the Metropolitan Police might have a protest over job cuts.
Will students be given batons, shields and immunity from prosecution to police the protest?
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Pardon me for a moment of seriousness?
It’s not often that I’m moved to defend New Labour, nor its chancellor who once declared that he had ‘abolished boom and bust.’ But today I think I just might. Over the next few weeks the banks will pay out the same absurdly large bonuses that they do every year. Whatever we hear, it truly is business as usual in the City, we are not ‘all in this together’, that...
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
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“The most rebellious thing you can do is fall in love, but you can also fall in...”
– Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights 