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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Prison for profiteers as prices plummet
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 20 November 2013 Exemplary news from Bolivarian socialist Venezuela. The government has just jailed 100 businessmen … Continue reading
Posted in USA, Venezuela
Tagged bolivar, Hugo Chávez, kulak, Lenin, Nicolás Maduro, oil prices, profiteering, Romanov, Venezuela
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Off message
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 November 2013 If there is a message, I want to be off it. Characteristically dissident … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, UK
Tagged Alastair Campbell, Daily Telegraph, Jeremy Paxman, Labour Government 1997-2007, spin doctor, Tony Blair
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Art and Aid
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 18 November 2013 The art market has shot off the radar. Stratospheric prices are being paid … Continue reading
Posted in Art, China, Japan, Politics, UN, USA
Tagged Andy Warhol, Art Newspaper, Balloon Dog, Christie's, Cy Twombly, Francis Bacon, Haiyan, Jeff Koons, Lucio Fonatana, Melanie Gervis, Philippines, Sotheby's, Willem de Kooning
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Land of opportunity
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 17 November 2013 If you are black or Asian or belong to an ethnic minority in … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, UK, USA, Wales
Tagged 9/11, Blacks and Asians in prison, ethnic minorities in prison, immigration, Muslim prisoners, War on Terror, World Trade Center
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Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Paris, Saturday 16 November 2013 “Travailler plus pour gagner plus” Work more to earn more This … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, France, Hungary, Literature, UK, Uncategorized, USA, Wales
Tagged Bushmen, Dr James Suzman, Harry Eyres, International Association of Working Men, Jared Diamond, John Maynard Keynes, Madeleine Bunting, Nicolas Sarkozy, Travailler plus pour gagner plus, William Henry Davies
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Lost
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 15 November 2013 I AM IN MARKET HARBOROUGH. WHERE OUGHT I TO BE? This is the … Continue reading
The Patriot Game
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 14 November 2013 Why Patriots are a Bit Nuts in the Head Patriots are … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Military, Politics, UK
Tagged Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Henry Newbolt, Liverpool Poets, patriotism, Roger McGough, Rupert Brooke, The Mersey
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Uncle Sam and the heffalumps
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 12 November 2013 Nearly 100 African elephants are killed for their tusks every day [by poachers] … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Economics, USA
Tagged elephants, heffalumps, ivory trafficking, poachers, species extinction, status symbols, tusks
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The Times They Are a-Changin’
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 November 2013 THE BOOT IS ON THE OTHER FOOT In the 1930s victims of Nazi … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Politics, Russia, UK, USA
Tagged Edward Snowden, espionage, Nazi persecution, O Tempora! O Mores!, Prism, Sarah Harrison, The Times They Are a-Changin'
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