stayed in bed all day. very cold. the DEMONS are coming for me. so is the tax man.
Message 162: The Notional Profits
“Think about it: The notional profits of a single corporate project would be enough to provide a hundred days of employment a year at minimum wages (calculated at a weighted average across different states) for 25 million people. That’s five million more than the population of Australia. That is the scale of the horror of neo-liberalism.”
—from Arundhati Roy’s acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize by (from Znet via MeFi).
Message 161: Soil and Soul
As reported on At Ease, Thom Yorke is currently reading Alastair McIntosh’s book Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power. McIntosh is a Fellow of the Edinburgh-based Centre for Human Ecology (CHE).
Message 160: Shopping Cart
As At Ease reports, Radiohead’s music is now available for download at Tescodownloads.com (go direct to Radiohead). The irony of purchasing Radiohead songs via a grocery store chain is too obvious to warrant comment. Tesco was founded in the UK in 1924, as this page explains.
Message 159: Pretty
“They’re getting ready to come in and tell me what for and they walk in and get overwhelmed by the atmosphere, and they say, ‘Man, you’re looking pretty,'” he said. “And therefore you need people to walk in on those days when you’re not looking so good and say, ‘You’re not looking so good, Mr. President.'”
NYTimes.com, November 4, 2004
Message 158: Th’election
Ham. Does it not, thinkst thee, stand me now vpon
He that hath kil’d my King and whor’d my Mother,
Popt in betweene th’election and my hopes,
Throwne out his Angle for my proper life,
And with such coozenage; is’t not perfect conscience,
To quit him with this arme? and is’t not to be damn’d,
To let this Canker of our nature come
In further euill?
Now when Squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it. At any rate, they remembered that at the critical moment of the battle Snowball had turned to flee.
Message 156: Little Piggy, Little
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Message 155: November Third
Move along. There’s nothing left to see. Just a body:
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Message 154: Comments
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