Month: October 2011
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Occupy Wall Street
As mentioned in my previous post, there’s a lot of ignorance by mainstream media of the Occupy Wall Street protests – reminds me of the Gay Pride protests how it took Live8 and Geldof turning up before Gay Pride EVER made the evening news here…and people have been making out the protests are small and…
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Light Flight for Bert Jansch – RIP
Amongst other news that will probably drown this out, sad to hear Bert Jansch has lost his fight also against cancer. Mega talented, and took me many years and one half of Lemon Jelly to appreciate Pentangle, but for this song alone I salute you – more funky than it ought to be yet also…
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Occupy Wall Street owns Fox News
I’ve been hearing dribs and drabs about the Wall Street (and now other places) protests about the 1% controlling the 99% and corporate interest trumping the people. I say dribs and drabs as there’s very little coverage in the mainstream media, over here anyway. Long may the protests continue – others may be cynical but…