Tag: Bread and circuses
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RC 349: England’s Screaming
It’s coming home, coming home, Delta’s coming home…. As England are in the Euro final (something that was days away from when I recorded this last Saturday), I break my rule about always releasing a podcast at 9am on a weekday and release it on a Saturday as I think this needs to be out…
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John Oliver tackles the FIFA World Cup
I was going to post the ‘You can take the world cup and stick it up your arse’ picture, but I think this video by John Oliver says more eloquently why you can do that. Especially worrying about Qatar, but also the dead kids and displaced people from the Brazilian favelas in the ‘Pacification’ areas…
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The hijacking of gay equality as the new crusade and ‘War on Terror’
You need to read this article about HRC and vulture funds– Paul Singer, Daniel Loeb and HRC trying to pinkwash their evil and use the fight for LGBTQ equality to push US interests ‘in our name’. This is why some of the Russia stuff didn’t ring right to me. I hate what Russia is doing, but…
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Best comment so far on the Royal Sprog-in-waiting drop
Yup…I was amazed on all channels it was 24/7 Katewatch outside of the hospital…even odder is watching it on the news inside that very hospital waiting for a check up (it’s my local), of people on Sky News filming the other part of it, and later stumbling out into papps with big lenses on the…
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When In Rome
The bread and the circuses came to be nearing The Saviour or somebody must be appearing Pagans and pageants were all disappearing Inside my head. The stones on the statues were staring and stalling Caesar and Cassius were cursing and calling The empire had risen and now it was falling Or so it seemed.
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Bernie and the Billionaire, Bread and Circuses
Love this speech from Bernie Sanders, amazingly the first self-described ‘socialist’ in the Senate if Wikipedia is correct. I wish there were more politicians brave enough to say this – sadly the currently corporate funding and lobbying system here and abroad means they’re very unlikely to do so – that system breeds corruption, kickbacks and…