Last Straw

Johann Hari: Jade Goody showed the bru­tal real­ity of Bri­tain.
In her short life, Jade showed how as Bri­tain has spir­alled into one of the most unequal and immob­ile soci­et­ies on earth, we have begun to openly jeer and sneer at the people trapped at the bottom.

Incred­ible clip from the sixth and last epis­ode of the BBC’s Nature’s Great Events.

Under his and Blair’s lead­er­ship the eco­nomy tanks. What does he do? Blatantly tries to divert atten­tion by scream­ing “War on Ter­ror.” Little more than a pro­pa­ganda tool to take away the freedoms of the people of Britain.

Prince Charles detox ‘quack­ery’, BBC
“Noth­ing would, of course, be easier than to demon­strate that detox products work. All one needed to do is to take a few blood samples from volun­teers and test whether this or that toxin is elim­in­ated from the body faster than nor­mal,” [Pro­fessor Ernst] said.
“But where are the stud­ies that demonstrate […]

2500 sci­ent­ists attend­ing a recent con­fer­ence in Copen­ha­gen have warned we face irre­vers­ible cli­mate change.
Lewis Smith, writ­ing for The Aus­tralarian:
The demands and alerts con­tained in the state­ment were described as a defin­ing moment in sci­ent­ists’ rela­tions with polit­ical lead­ers, rep­res­ent­ing a shift away from their tra­di­tional role of merely offer­ing advice to telling politi­cians to act.

It’s been a long time com­ing but two people, Richard Wilkin­son and Kate Pickett, have finally put the num­bers together and con­clus­ively shown that mod­ern social prob­lems are sub­stan­tially worse in those soci­et­ies with wider gaps between rich and poor.
Any curs­ory look at the world tells you this but these are the first people to show it sci­en­tific­ally. This, […]

George Bush over­sees tor­ture and com­mits the “supreme war crime” of aggres­sion, caus­ing suf­fer­ing and death for mil­lions. Gets to go back to his ranch.
One of the vic­tims of these crimes throws a shoe at the per­pet­rator. Gets 3 years in jail.
The Guard­ian did get one thing wrong in their report. Mun­tazar al-Zaidi is not just […]

It’s part of the NZ National Party’s DNA to make demo­crat­ic­ally fun­ded ser­vices appear inadequate, so that people lose faith in such ser­vices and turn to the private sec­tor.
Once sold to the private sec­tor for a pit­tance such ser­vices can then be used to make profits for their sup­port­ers and donors in the private sec­tor.
It’s for […]

Repub­lican Con­gress­man from Texas, Ron Paul, describe’s America’s prob­lem in a nut­shell:
Ima­gine for a moment that some­where in the middle of Texas there was a large for­eign mil­it­ary base, say Chinese or Rus­sian. Ima­gine that thou­sands of armed for­eign troops were con­stantly patrolling Amer­ican streets in mil­it­ary vehicles. Ima­gine they were here under the auspices […]

I see the National Party are kick­ing their little ideo­lo­gic­ally driven pro­ject of plun­der­ing NZ into a higher gear.
This time it’s the privat­isa­tion of ACC and pris­ons.
Thanks again to those who voted National (out of a “mood for change”).