Tag: Economy
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Sowndhaus needs your help!
Please help Sowndhaus! I am on a total expenditure freeze atm but it’s an important site for finding mashups for the podcast, and is very much a centre of the modern mashup community. Bummed at the timing. As PomDeter says: We’re trying to fund a much needed move to bigger faster servers, and finally rebrand…
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The Longest Con – NHS and US Healthcare after brexit
We are being sold these lies about the NHS and US healthcare by disaster capitalists and vultures wanting to cash in here in the UK, and Americans are being sold down the river. They are trying to privatise our NHS, via Mini-Trump and pretend that the NHS is terrible. It isn’t, it’s underfunded and struggling,…
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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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It costs me £38,000 for being queer
It’s well known that if you’re a woman, not white, queer/LGBTQ that you have to work harder and longer than cis white straight men. This glass ceiling is there, I’ve seen it in corporates, usually hedged in bullshit like ‘corporate fit’ or the like, and it’s well acknowledged that privilege and entitlement means a less…
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Scary adverts
Came across the above advert via 4chan then had a little Google for more. Turns out 1940’s and 1950’s adverts and earlier, while being archaic are also really odd. I mean scary. And really bad for your health…especially DuPont and their frankly psychotic Cellophane ads – were they high on the plastic smell? I could…
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RadioClashBlog & MutantPop support Wikileaks
(artwork donated by the wonderful people at DeviantArt ~daihaa-wyrd) Whatever you think about Julian Assange and what’s happening to him, it’s just as important to keep Wikileaks online and free from attack as part of the fallout of the Cablegate saga. I’ve setup two subdomain redirects – wikileaks.mutantpop.net and wikileaks.radioclash.com – or use the IP…