Tag: Rome
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RC 317: Europa Mon Amour / Royal Flush
There Aint No Party Like A Brexit Party! Friday 31st of January, in the next day or so the UK will be exiting the European Union which it has been a member of since 1973. Europa No More! Longer than I’ve been alive. So this podcast isn’t a fusty dusty talk about the Ins and…
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The Piggybank Papers
Great video about Mossack Fonseca and the tax EVASION* (no, not ‘avoidance’) scandal from Panama. Interesting thing though is that NO – read ZERO – North American people have been mentioned in the leaks so far. (video via Jez Biggs) Could this be something to do with where International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (who revealed…
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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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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…
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All Hail the Emperor’s New Limbs
Finally listened to the new Radiohead album ‘The King of Limbs’ and can hear what Radiohead fans have been kvetching about recently. I understand that each era of fans tend to change every few albums when a band experiments; the age old problem of locking an artist into their most successful era. But I think…
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Protest the pope in London
This is the protest against the pope I went on yesterday – I turned up thinking I might be the only one, or maybe 80-100 people would be there. When I arrived there was maybe 1,000-1,500 there, by the time the march went forward, delayed by over an hour it was more like 10-12,000. Heartening…