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whims | ramblings from the edge

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Ramblings from the edge. Urban mythtopia in the jdverse. Word of the week:. Frenemy (keep friends close and enemies closer). Book/Flick of the week:. 8211; esp the Visual Commentary, deeply valuable as a writer. 8211; brilliant, multi-genre, reverse romance thriller mystery. 8211; another masterpiece from Seth Godin. Love The Big Moo. Find of the week:. It’ll send you one lesson of the course each day until you’ve completed the whole course. Enjoy! Jdventure of the week:. This is sooooo much fun! The Cre...

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The True Cost Of War « Throw Away Your Telescreen!

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Throw Away Your Telescreen! The truth is always subversive. Frame your own picture. All too often, the phrase "corporate free press" is something of an oxymoron. Whether to maximise sales, to attract advertisers, or simply to promote the interests of their wealthy owners, the mass media open strange, self-serving and grossly distorted windows onto the world. This website is another window. Here you'll find documentaries, lectures and interviews following a different editorial line. We Feed the World.

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Zapatista! « Throw Away Your Telescreen!

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Throw Away Your Telescreen! The truth is always subversive. Frame your own picture. All too often, the phrase "corporate free press" is something of an oxymoron. Whether to maximise sales, to attract advertisers, or simply to promote the interests of their wealthy owners, the mass media open strange, self-serving and grossly distorted windows onto the world. This website is another window. Here you'll find documentaries, lectures and interviews following a different editorial line. We Feed the World.

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ORB Iraq poll criticised | Dissident 93

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ORB Iraq poll criticised. May 3, 2010. Posted by dissident93 in Iraq mortality. Opinion Research Business (ORB) is a “ corporate and issues-led market research. 8221; firm which received much publicity in 2007 when it estimated. That over a million Iraqis had been murdered as a result of the Iraq war. Nevertheless, their figure of over 1,000,000 deaths was widely quoted. As a serious estimate. A new peer-reviewed paper (published by Survey Research Methods [2010] Vol.4, No.1. Than, in an earlier ORB poll...

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Violetta Crisis: On Nate Phelps and "Leaving Hate Behind"

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Me but in no sensible order. Things constantly remind me of other things. Monday, 14 April 2014. On Nate Phelps and "Leaving Hate Behind". The purpose of this post is mainly catharsis on my part, and I'm writing it in the full knowledge that describing my emotional reactions to some else's suffering is a self-indulgent frippery.]. As the final item on the schedule of this year's QED convention. My feeling on finishing the internship was gratitude that I had been given this opportunity, but also a sense t...

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linkshund: Why Is There a Fat Man at a Food Bank?

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Why Is There a Fat Man at a Food Bank? Categories alternatives to lying. Saw this in this week's Spectator. Thousand words and everything, cartoons like this give you an amazing insight into the Speccie. S mentality. The message of the joke itself is a fairly simple one:. Food bank' contains the word 'bank', which normally refers to the money, or occasionally blood, variety. There is a potentially humorous incongruence between these two senses of the word 'bank'. To 'cash' (i.e. money). It is absurd and ...

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Translation for the Monolingual: Famous Example 2: Holocausting Palestine

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Translation for the Monolingual. A good translation is like a good landlord: you never notice it's there. This is how bad translations announce themselves. Sunday, May 31, 2009. Famous Example 2: Holocausting Palestine. What exactly did Matan Vilnai threaten the Palestinians with a bigger one of? Says a “ Holocaust. 8221;, the BBC. Is more cautious: it gives the Hebrew word and explains it. But what is a “ Shoah. This turns out to be the case – the BBC tells us that the Hebrew. Means “ catastrophe. Treat...

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Violetta Crisis: Q: When is a door not a door?

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Me but in no sensible order. Things constantly remind me of other things. Sunday, 5 May 2013. Q: When is a door not a door? A When it's a jar of angry worms. That long-running men opening doors for women thing. Or offering them their seat on the bus. Very few people get worked up about this but rather more people seem to assume that they do. I think both areas are yawning pits of social awkwardness but that's because I'm all kinds of socially awkward. 1 That the man sees her as in some way incapacitated.

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Violetta Crisis: April 2013

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Me but in no sensible order. Things constantly remind me of other things. Monday, 15 April 2013. Eight Signs of a Bogus Historical Narrative. On Saturday afternoon, as an attendee of the QED convention. In Manchester, I sat through a panel discussion entitled "Is Science the New Religion? And the comedian and critical-thinking promoter Robin Ince (who has blogged about the exchange here. 1 A "look how far we've come" introduction. 2 Assumption of novelty. Without recourse to actual facts. The argumen...