…One Less Scene

Le Voyeur, Olympia
Lil Wayne taken into custody; The U.S. news media celebrates an election in a U.S. occupied country, and there was an earthquake in Turkey today.

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Almost thirty years have passed since the Falklands War, (or Guerra de las Malvinas if you’re from Buenos Aires), and Britain and Argentina are still beefing over this tiny island chain off of Argentina’s coast. Tensions have been escalating all week in the news, and it’s apparently about oil this time.
…Bring them to [...]

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Sounds like Greece is in turmoil again; nothing like the riots in December 2008, but there is an “insolvency crisis” which could affect the entire European Union, and a bomb exploded in a J.P. Morgan office in Athens today. No one was hurt. To the delight of my international ebay purchasing, the tottering Greek economy is [...]

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Everybody hates unions these days, and nothing is more despicable to people than the British Airways strike, which threatens to upset the Christmas travel plans of a million travelers. No one should be striking during an economic recession, because there are plenty of unemployed people who would totally take those jobs! It’s a potent theme.
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There’s beef in the streets of Istanbul between Kurds and Turks today. Knives, hammers, paving stones, and Molotov cocktails.
This “COP15″  climate summit in Denmark may be the last environmental meeting of its kind in which no one gets killed while protesting. Yet.
I’ve been pretty cynical about the idea that these first-world “leaders” will actually commit [...]

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Imagine it:
An ultra-conservative, republican-led faction of the U.S. military storms into the white house and holds the Obama family at gunpoint. The Obamas are marched outside and loaded into vehicles that drive them into Canada, where they are dumped in Toronto.  Declaring the end of the Obama presidency, the coup leaders take over the entire [...]

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Part-time poets. And coaches.

Anybody that reads the newspapers knows that “peak oil” is a silly conspiracy theory, something that only black helicopter-obsessed wing-nuts would entertain. After all, the International Energy Agency, an “intergovernmental organisation which acts as energy policy advisor to 28 member countries in their effort to ensure reliable, affordable and clean energy for their [...]

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It’s neat that some U.S. officials have criticized the military overthrow of the democratically elected Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya. It would also be really neat if anyone mentioned that the general in charge of the coup is a graduate of the School of the Americas, (now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation!), in Fort [...]

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Tiedeman in the New York Times, June, 1989
Twenty years ago this month, my mom witnessed a horrific massacre in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. No one really knows how many students and protesters were murdered by government soldiers during those few days in May, because the Chinese government claims it never happened. It’s also illegal to [...]

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