Tag: government
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Banks Take You For A Ride
This sticker campaign from P K Munroe in 2010 seems even more pertinent now in the face of the Libor interest rate fixing scandal. Sadly I can’t crow too much because shortly after all the other banks – well ones that were functioning *snigger* got fined as well for wrongly selling financial products to small…
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Andrew Lansley greedy, Andrew Lansley
Saw this doing the rounds over the last few days and stupidly didn’t watch – not only do I agree with this rap song by MC NxtGen blasting the government’s cuts (didn’t they miss a n in that? :-P) it’s brilliant and a great song to boot via House of the Rising Sun. I’m against…
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My thoughts exactly….
xkcd exactly said my secret thoughts re: Wikileaks…what happens if they leak *everything?* LOL… Another really appropriate one for you 1,000 dollar cable people out there:
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Kids are angry…and a dubstep revolution
Just wrote this over at Facebook about the protests today…I went down to Whitehall about 6ish before the Treasury occupation to have a look. Not much was happening, kids were standing around outside the kettle, burning placards and changing NWA Fuck the Police slogans. Sirens have been going off all day, and helicopters – surreal,…
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Pay your Taxes Vodafone!
…and while we’re at it, US embassy and others pay your congestion charge bills! One of the reasons I didn’t go with Vodafone with my new mobile phone contract is that they recently avoided 6 BILLION POUNDS in UK taxes – a decision by George Osborne, typical for the Tories to protect their own, big…
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Big Brother wants to see you naked
You know those full body scanners in airports that peek under your clothes? Well they now are in the street too, perving at you and your car/van/truck and indeed passing school bus for those security personnel of a Pedobear persuasion…and the AS&E’s Z Backscatter Van™ (ZBV) are seemingly sold to anyone, not just government, who…