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Monsanto’s World Wide Web of deceit
The Big Issue, No 484, 15-21 April 2002 SEEDS OF DISSENT Anti-GM scientists are facing widespread assualts on their credibility. Andy Rowell investigates who is behind the attacks Anti-...
What to think?
I’ve had a fairly uneventfull week. To go with the uneventfull week I had last week :¬P Last night I went to a roller hockey team fundraiser. Despite not having many people there it was good ...
The Warning Signs Of Insanity
1.Your friends tell you that you have been acting strange lately, and then you hit them several times with a sledgehammer. 2.Everyone you meet appears to have tentacles growing out of places t...
The World According to Student Bloopers
By: Richard Lederer (St. Paul’s School) One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted toget...
Continued from before
The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horri...
Politics… in a nutshell
Son: Dad, I have to do a special report for school. Can I ask you a question?Father: Sure, son. What’s the question?Son: What is politics?Father: Well, let’s take our home for example. I am the ...
If you want a free vote, ask nicely
The American President has a singular view of democracy. After all, look what happened in Florida Terry Jones After last weekend’s shocking events in Venezuela, in which President Chavez was o...
THE CLOSEST TITLE RACE FOR YEARS
(Welcome to life after Old Firm) Kevin Mcallion THREE o’clock on a warm May afternoon and fans across the country are glued to their trannies as a nail-biting day of title drama starts to unfo...
GATS what’s it all about
Although it doesn’t really make the press, the biggest issue facing the education sector and indeed all public service sectors at the moment is the World Trade Organisations’ GATS (General Agree...
GATS what it’s all about 2
“However, since his report in 1997, we have seen the steady rise of the for-profit university sector, particularly in the United States. This sector has a clear purpose: to make money by selling...
And I thought last week was mad.
Sunday night. I’m going into the Union at about 9 for the quiz. I bump into Kay, the Union President (lovely person). She asked if I got the message. What message? Someone had pulled out of...
Conference (continued)
Wednesday. Went to conference. Was asked by a friend to sit in a count for him as he was going for a NEC position. My God that was mind-numbingly boring. More boring that a Titney interview....
This was written on Sunday.
For more about why it was not posted then, see my next few entries. Cheers. How are you? I’m fine. Just finished the most bizarre week. Took my place as part-time exec. I have an office. ...
A take on religion
This is taken from The West Wing. I could not put it better myself. Josiah Bartlet: I like how you call homosexuality an abombination. Jenna Jacobs: I don’t say homosexuality is an abominatio...
The ground war in Afghanistan
The ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday when the Allies revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist philosophers into the country to destroy the morale of Taliba...
Does Globalisation help the poor? pt2
Most poor countries, however, have not enjoyed much benefit from globalization. Even among the so-called “poster children” of free trade, the “Asian Tigers” like Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore a...
Does Globalization Help the Poor?
Jerry Mander, Debi Barker, David Korten, January 15, 2002 As Buenos Aires burns, three leading experts on the effects of globalization ask the basic question: Are the interests of global corp...
My first name
This is something I’ve had for a while. I re-read it last night. It tells me what my first name says about me. Tell me if you think it is accurate. WILLIAM, BILL From the old high German me...
Noties as quoties.
I’m supposed to be writing an essay. Hence, this. Wow… I get the feeling I was drunk when I wrote that note. [Rodge] Don’t be fooled, Norah wants to have sex with all of us. She’s gonna thro...
Quoties as noties
Ah, Buffy. *happy sigh* Scottish accent, loves Buffy, likes Nick Cave… I think I’ve said all this before, but SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG. [Karma Girl] The problem is so big, but if we each make...
Noties as quoties as noties
OH! You drive a hard bargain – BUT! My music teacher had singing classes with the one and only Annie Lennox. tsss – touche! ha ha or…I pissed off Scot Booth – he came to our restaurant and some ...
Film comp – film 1
Right you lot. This is inspired by Polter-Cows note in this entry (cheers mate). What I am going to do is give you the basic idea for a film. This may be inspired from real life or it may com...
Right. Now I’m scared.
“Far be it for the president of America to decide who should lead another country.”Take three fucking guesses whom. Yup. It’s my best mate Dumbya. I watched an interview with him on TV last n...
Yoinkeded
Nicked from Man in the Rain. Cheers. What is your diary and author name?Bungo Loamsdown, Shpedoinkle What do they mean?Author name is my Hobbit name. Shpedoinkle I heard while watching Buffy...
Bush and Blair
How dare George Bush preach peace to Israel when he’s meeting Blair to plan war on Iraq .. and the deaths of thousands more innocent people? : John Pilger :05 Apr 2002 PRESIDENT George W Bush ...
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