Tag: Libya
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Banksy on the refugee crisis
Hard hitting, but given those images of drowned refugee children (guessing one of the ships that sank near Zuwarah, Libya…a Google image search with those terms is harrowing, and that’s without the children) have been scrubbed off Facebook, I guess a victim of a triggered ‘flagging’, I wonder how long this Banksy image will stay.…
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The original boats that rocked – Pirate ships ahoy!
Preparing for a new show I stumbled across these films of the original pirates satellites – the offshore broadcasting Pirate Radio ships and forts such as Radio Caroline, Radio London, Radio 270, the fort radio stations of Radio 390, Radio Invicta, Radio City, and Radio Essex aka Sealand – and the most dramatic of all…
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This knife of Sheffield steel: British arms in Libya and Bahrain
(Video is not for the squeamish; then again this is real unlike the Tyler video…) Sorry to interrupt the music but unless you’re totally immersed in your XFactor/Gaga/CowellWorld you’d have heard of the successful peaceful protests in Egypt – and the more violent ones still going in Libya and Bahrain. The video above is gruelling;…