Saturday, April 21, 2012

Bahrain Grand Prix

Robert Fisk: This is politics not sport. If drivers can’t see that, they are the pits

Supposing it was Assad shelling out £40m for a race. Would Ecclestone be happy to give him a soft sporting cover for his repression?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-this-is-politics-not-sport-if-drivers-cant-see-that-they-are-the-pits-7665994.html

Friday, April 13, 2012
moving-ideas:

Welcome to Bahrain. Blood, Threat & Fear. Boycott the Bahrain Formula 1. PLEASESHARE.THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN HAVE BRUTALLY SUPPRESSED PEACEFUL AND UNARMED PROTESTERS FOR MORE THAN A YEAR WHILST THE WORLD STAYS SILENT AND SAYS NOTHING!!!FORMULA 1 ARE HOSTING A GRAND PRIX IN BAHRAIN DESPITE THE ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN BAHRAIN. BOYCOTT F1.

moving-ideas:

Welcome to Bahrain. Blood, Threat & Fear. Boycott the Bahrain Formula 1. PLEASESHARE.

THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN HAVE BRUTALLY SUPPRESSED PEACEFUL AND UNARMED PROTESTERS FOR MORE THAN A YEAR WHILST THE WORLD STAYS SILENT AND SAYS NOTHING!!!

FORMULA 1 ARE HOSTING A GRAND PRIX IN BAHRAIN DESPITE THE ABUSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN BAHRAIN. BOYCOTT F1.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Because Freedom Can't Protect Itself


After a surge of voter interest and participation in 2008, a wave of anti-democratic voter suppression laws — designed to disenfranchise huge numbers of voters who are African-American, elderly, students or have disabilities — threatens to keep up to 5 million eligible voters from casting a ballot in 2012.

Sunday, January 8, 2012 Monday, January 2, 2012
While the U.S. Government can trick Americans into believing that the U.S. is on the side of Freedom and Democracy even as it works against it, it cannot fool the citizens in those nations it seeks to suppress. Glenn Greenwald

(Source: salon.com)

Glenn Greenwald Monday, Jan 2, 2012 4:34 AM PST

End of the pro-democracy pretense

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/02/end_of_the_pro_democracy_pretense/singleton/

buenos,

the above piece simply confirms Mr. Greenwald’s current place as one of the best on the planet :)

Sunday, December 11, 2011