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Weekly link roundup for Friday, May 12th
Posted by D-Rock on 05/12/06 (Shite)
The telecommunications giants are lobbying hard to to privatize the internet and grant favourable access to those who can afford pay, essentially attempting to turn the internet into an equivalent of the cable system. Everyone knows that everyday Joe can’t just up and put a TV show on the airwaves. Imagine a time when everyday Jane can’t even just up and launch a website.
Join the Fight for Internet Freedom and ‘Net Neutrality
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The Yes Men have struck again, this time posing as representatives of Halliburton, launching the SurivaBall, “designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way.”
Hallibuton Solves Global Warming
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The Ottawa Citizen has published a refreshing look at the Six Nations reclamation, and Canada’s relationship to the First Nations in general. So odd to see a journalist referring to historical facts in a corporate newspaper! Too bad it’s the exception to the rule.
Canada is a colonial country by Andrew Orkin
Also see the Friends of Grassy Narrows site for updates on the Six Nations and other struggles.
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Although we grew very tired very quickly of people going on about how terrible GWB’s grasp of the English language is, this one is too shocking and unbeliveable to pass up.
The President Says Immigrants “Must Learn To Misinterpreate English” by Greg Palast
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Our favourite independent news source The NewStandard has launched a weekly radio program. Get that podcast shiznatt happening.
.. and of course, we can’t recommend the Democracy Now! podcast enough, but you already knew that.
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Comment by Danarcho on May 12th, 2006 at 7:26 pm:
Thanks for finding shit for me thus proving my ass lazier then ever. Oh plus I work a bajillion hours a day. Those jobs really get in the way of my reading/general enjoyment of living.
Comment by drew on May 12th, 2006 at 7:55 pm:
“those jobs really get in the way of my reading/general enjoyment of living.”
ah, no doubt. i think you may really like this article danarcho:
http://www.crimethin...nglish/vacation.html
its incredible. anybody interested in “alternative survival” in the capitalist system may want to give it a read.
thanks for the links G7, i will slowly make my way through them. i have heard a little about the net neutrality issue. i think ani got it right when she said, “and the mighty multi-nationals have monopolized the oxygen, so its as easy as breathing for us all to participate.” well, the internet is obviously not oxygen, but ya’ll get the idea…
Comment by drew on May 12th, 2006 at 8:04 pm:
hahaha…that survivaball thing is hilarious. i’ve never heard of the yes men before. what they do seems really interesting. so that website was created by the yes men?
Comment by drew on May 12th, 2006 at 8:05 pm:
nevermind about them creating the website. i was a little confused about that at first.
Comment by soyuz on May 12th, 2006 at 11:20 pm:
Democracy Now! podcast is my daily diet too. Great show. Been watching it for couple of years now either on Free Speech TV and now on PBS. Truly an “execption to the rulers.” Rulers = Corporate news facists!! Fascists.
I heard about save the internet and the yes men recently on Democracy Now too. Yep, everyone should sign the petition on save the internet and send emails. Yes Men are hilarious and I don’t know how the pull it off. Cheers to them!
And good lord, Bush certainly deservers an award for “Best Comedic Performance.” English is not my mother toungue but I feel great relief that I didn’t go to Yale.
Here’s a joke my Chinese friend told me. “What do you call a person who speaks three languages? Tri-lingual? Correct! What do you call a person who speaks two languagues? Bi-lingual. Correct! What do you call a person who speaks one language? Uh…I don’t know! AMERICAN!!”
Comment by Danarcho on May 13th, 2006 at 5:50 pm:
Thanks drew fer that link eh! I’ll read that article when I get the chance.
If you like the idea of the Yes Men, you should check out their little documentary thing. It’s friggen hilarious. They make some penis suit tv for CEO’s to watch their offshore employees and make sure they do their job. Then they announce the closure of the WTO. The film is actually pretty widely available, so look out for it.
Comment by your mum on May 15th, 2006 at 9:36 am:
the yes men – http://www.mininova.org/tor/44901 – go download it
Comment by blackmetal666 on May 15th, 2006 at 4:54 pm:
Anybody see this? It’s quite fucked up, considering I know first-hand about autistic kids (I teach them).
Comment by blackmetal666 on May 15th, 2006 at 4:54 pm:
Sorry, forgot the link
http://www.oregonliv...07730.xml&coll=7
Comment by stepford tom on May 16th, 2006 at 6:30 pm:
i was wondering if anyone out there had links to where i can get vegan shoes in canada?
Comment by caítlin on May 17th, 2006 at 2:39 am:
No sweat are stocked in a shop in Montreal! http://www.nosweatap...ocations.html#CANADA
:) Also, I have a feeling these guys ship to Canada, but they look expensiiiive.
http://www.mooshoes.com/
Comment by freedom on May 17th, 2006 at 3:17 pm:
http://video.google....-8260059923762628848
what really happened on 9/11?
check this video !!
id like to hear any comments
Comment by Danarcho on May 18th, 2006 at 4:46 pm:
Drew, I finally got a chance to read that article….ahhh the life.
I finished highschool in February and took a couple weeks off. It was great. (Granted, I lived off my mom’s pay…)
But, I’ve been planning to go to university next September, and it costs huge coin. So, although I wanted to lounge around all the time, spend time on my artistic and musical abilities, I need the money if I want to go to school. And I do (I love to learn about everything…especially history…)
There is the argument presented in Goodwill Hunting that you can learn all you can at university for a fraction of the cost at a library…still I like school. I like discussion, the clubs, the writing, the atmosphere, so on.
I don’t know. Maybe after school I wont work. And skip out to Brazil to avoid paying my loan.
Comment by Matt on May 22nd, 2006 at 11:39 am:
I saw that Yes Men documentary/movie/whatever on TV yesterday, it was damn funny. Definitely worth seeing…that’s the only relevant thing I’ve got to say.
Comment by Hairhole on May 23rd, 2006 at 1:05 am:
‘Stepford Tom’: I bought me some shoes off http://www.vegetariansite.com I got the ecolution sport shoe, and they’re pretty neat. Came to about 90 bills when she was all said and done (yikes! Don’t remind me. I guess one only buys a pair of shoes once and a while eh?). They’re pretty practical and sure generate a lot of convo (they’re a sure ticket into vegan ladiesville). Just kidding. I’m one of those cabbage farting vegans, not even these kicks can save my sex life. Cheers.
Comment by stepford tom on May 24th, 2006 at 7:35 pm:
I love cabbage farting vegans! I love all farting vegans, in fact. Do bass lines make you think of farting ass crack sometimes?
haha, i got No Sweat shoes for like 69$! thanks for the help, though. you’re right, ive had sex three times since i bought those shoes, fuck my hands are sore!
farting…