Linkdump 27-05-2012

[gominokouhai]

• Laziest Polar Bear Of All Time
  Laziest. Polar bear. Ever.
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• In support of the UK Uncut street party outside Nick Clegg's house
  Not mentioned: I hardly think that "holding a street party" can be considered an "extreme tactic" now that we're forbidden to protest outside the Government building he wasn't elected to.
  (tags: activism protests politics )
• 13 Simple Steps To Get You Through A Rough Day
  Warning: May Contain Pictures Of Dogs
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• So now we know whose fault the recession is. Ours | Comment is free
  "Pressed on whether his was an updated `on-your-bike' idea, Hague replied: `It's more than that. It's "get on the plane, go and sell things overseas, go and study overseas". It's much more than getting on the bike, the bike didn't go that far.' That's the government's new way of dealing with unemployment: persuade people to leave the country. It's original, you have to give it that.
  (tags: bloodytories politics debt recession )
• Those that do not learn from history
  are condemned to repeat Neil Kinnock
  (tags: economy politics bloodytories )
• An idea worth at least 40 nanoKardashians of your attention
  "Conceptually, the Kardashian is the amount of global attention Kim Kardashian commands across all media over the space of a day. In an ideal, frictionless universe, we’d determine a Kardashian by measuring the percentage of all broadcast media, conversations and thoughts dedicated to Kim Kardashian. In practical terms, we can approximate...."
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• Why Take The Flour Back are wrong and I’m leaving the Green Party
  Contains important FACTS.
  (tags: politics GMOs food )

Comments

[spiralsheep]

The Green Party are the only leftie party with any chance of winning in my locality (actually tbh that sentence could end at "The Green Party are the only leftie party"). Tories or Greens?

[gominokouhai]

Ouch. That's a spoiled ballot if ever I saw one.

[spiralsheep]

Not for anyone who's lived under the effects of Tory regimes and can't buy their way out, no.

[brucec]

It's not so difficult to understand why people are scared, especially with articles like http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/29/toxic-pollen-mad-bee-disease which show SCIENCE failing and allowing harmful products into the environment - and you have multinationals like Monsanto gaining a monopoly on seeds due to GM technology. However considering Rothamsted is a government-funded research station it's totally the wrong target for protests.

[spiralsheep]

I'm not sure why you're directing this comment at me? Perhaps you meant it for the OP?

considering Rothamsted is a government-funded research station it's totally the wrong target for protests.

I did, however, get a hearty laugh from the idea that "government-funding" might be any sort of indicator that something is "the wrong target for protests". Workfare? Iraq War? All "government-funded", as is some unscientific and/or ethically appalling "research".

[spiralsheep]

I'm also amused that people are pretending peaceful protest outside politicians' residences is either new or, when they're protected by many layers of policing that we're paying for, intimidating.

IIRC during the last Tory government anti-road protestors unrolled a LARGE fake-road over environment secretary Nicholas Ridley's house. Tragically t'interwebz isn't obliging me with images of this act of terrorism comedy genius.

[spiralsheep]

I correct myself, I think it was John MacGregor's house when he was the Minister for Transport. (Other possible candidates are available. Please read the small print.)