Tag: World Cup
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Land Grab
While most of the country seems to be worried that Uragoing Home from the World Cup, I’m more concerned about the Infrastructure Bill and the land grab going on. There are two things: like the horror of what happened to Royal Mail, the Land Registry is being privatised, and this new Bill allows building on…
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John Oliver tackles the FIFA World Cup
I was going to post the ‘You can take the world cup and stick it up your arse’ picture, but I think this video by John Oliver says more eloquently why you can do that. Especially worrying about Qatar, but also the dead kids and displaced people from the Brazilian favelas in the ‘Pacification’ areas…
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I hear there’s some football contest about to start?
Love this response from PWEI to some trophy political game called the World Cup. Which given FIFA’s corruption and dodginess which make the IOC look squeaky would be problematic enough, but it seems the local police forces UPP have been ‘disappearing’ and shooting locals as part of their ‘pacification’ scheme. Apparently bodies are being dumped…
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The theme is there is no theme mashup roundup (Lady Gaga mashed, new Kleptones track)
Can’t think of a clever thematic linking device apart from there is no mention of the World Cup or football in this po….DOH! Have an unrelated yet topical Chris Brown MAD cartoon mashup instead… I should be so getting sick of Lady Gaga mashups by now, but no not yet. I was getting ready to…