http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending Wow. That’s bad. The UN has only 2% of the budget of global military expenditure. And that’s the WHOLE UN, not just the peacekeeping part. Now wonder it has a hard time doing its job.
@simonprocter that is EPIC work!! http://tinyurl.com/5wwerv Take a bow everybody! #
In addition to a photo of this alarming and somehow still legal poster, there’s a jolly good lecture about capitalism and communism over at Leninology (via Sophie). The lecture is given by Richard Wolff, the Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, so he makes a well reasoned and very self-aware argument. I [...]
@Whatleydude hey hey! @amandita mentioned spinvox and I was ranting about trying to signup but not being able to / customer service…sorry! # @whatleydude though that said the idea is awesome & I’m still dying to use it, and think you’ve created something marvellous! # @abscond online task mgmt app? # Launching a twitter account [...]
Hopefully the billions pumped into those arseholes banks will make spending billions more on the military industrial complex those other arseholes who are going to make lots of money from ID cards can be curtailed. But just in case you thought the whole ID card card debate had gone quiet, read on at the BBC, [...]
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uhoh.. at last.fm has some competition – spotify is looking pretty cool.
Only 4 rabbits, but still that’s 8 meals for standing around in the sun all day looking at the view. And one snared rat when we got home too
If banks can get billions for screwing up, I feel I deserve to be awarded a few hundred thousand for behaving myself.
