So a friend who works in the City told me the other evening, anyway. Which means I shouldn’t have been quite so astonished at the Financial Times coverage of the referendum, which is both balanced and informative. (The coverage in the Morning Star, we’ve already established, is top-notch (-; ) Evo Morales, Bolivia’s popular leftwing [...]
Archive for January, 2009
‘Only two newspapers tell the truth, the Morning Star and the Financial Times’
Posted in dodgy dealings, UK press on January 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Freedom to Hate, first in a series
Posted in racist f*ckwittage on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long ago in another part of the Internet, a naive young woman wrote a spoof prayer on her personal online journal in which she chummily entreated God to intervene and do away with George Bush, for the good of all humanity. According to her, shortly afterwards an FBI team showed up at her family home [...]
Starry Starry Morning
Posted in UK press on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Awesome! The new constitution has been approved in the referendum – as of the time of writing, the official count by the National Electoral Court gives the Yes vote 59.53%, with 69% of the vote counted. It’s enough to be decisive already, but as votes from remote rural areas are counted and included, the percentage [...]
What the crap, Daily Telegraph?
Posted in UK press on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I wasn’t necessarily expecting approval, Telegraph, I mean, I know you better than that. A bit of distortion, a bit of pro-right wing slant, I thought I could handle it. But when you start out with an article that gets it mostly right, even with a hint of sympathy, it makes it all the more [...]
First we kill Che, then God loses the election
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Those campaigning for the No vote sought to scaremonger by claiming that the new constitution outlawed God. They were wrong, and they lost, but would it be the first time God lost a referendum?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Three years ago this weekend, Evo Morales was sworn in as President of Bolivia, having campaigned hard on a number of issues: nationalisation of natural resources, greater inclusion of indigenous peoples with official support for their languages and legal recognition for their systems of justice and landholding, agrarian reform, social justice and a roots-deep reform [...]
Feelgood Friday Film Night: little children going down mines
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged films, London events, mining on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Alright, so it might not get you in a party mood for the weekend ahead, but if you’re in London you might be interested in tonight’s screening of ‘Child Miners’, followed by a Q&A session with the director, Rodrigo Vazquez. The film focuses on two young boys who are forced by family circumstances to earn [...]
Inauguration Week
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Thousands assembled, tears were shed, beautiful words were spoken, history was made and a new era of hope and challenge arose before us. Yes, people of the Internet, this week the Karaspita blog was brought into the world weighing several megabytes, in rude health. Also, in the USA, a new president was sworn in, which [...]
