Giddup-a! Geddondown-a!
Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly lock horns again and it’s funny. And you see how FOX News has separated “news” from “opinion”, in all probability because of legalities, I’m quite sure. Anyway, as usual and as expected, quite a lot of funny and horrible quotes are found. Oh, O’Reilly, your knee-jerk-attention-getting words are so subtle.
Rage Against The Machine have snagged the UK #1 christmas spot with “Killing In The Name”. YES. I’m happy-happy-happy.
Portishead have released a new track called “Chase The Tear“, exclusively for Amnesty International in commemoration of the 61th anniversary of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Here’s the video.
The Swedish government is cutting expenses by outsourcing IT (where I work) to Volvo, but it’s the people at the real floor-level who will have to pick up the tab.
Millions of people are slaughtered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, be it through armed conflict, semi-veiled ethnic internal disputes or complete and utter genocide, because rich multi-national companies require parts to construct computers, mobile phones. The organisation Global Witness has just published a report detailing companies are buying from suppliers who trade in minerals from the warring parties. Interesting, mind-blowing stuff.
