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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw | The Guardian

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:40:56 +0000

I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men, deserving or not, would burn it all down. What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be. I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice – but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.

Tags: #elon #meta #politics #tesla #world #zuckerberg

Neil Fraser: News: CS in VN

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:11:16 +0000

Holy crap. My self-education in comp sci looked a lot like this, but I was a weirdo. America is screwed.

Tags: #compsci #computerscience #education #google #imported:pinboard #to:twitter #vietnam #world

Neil Fraser: News: CS in VN

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:11:16 +0000

Holy crap. My self-education in comp sci looked a lot like this, but I was a weirdo. America is screwed.

Tags: #compsci #computerscience #education #google #to:twitter #vietnam #world

Horseplay « meandering wildly

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:20:28 +0000

So last week we bought them their own horse head. And yesterday mconley delivered it to their office. They invited him in. They brought the box over to the window where we could see. They gathered around their window and we gathered around ours. And when they opened it and realised what it was they actually jumped up and down, and applauded, and mouthed “thank you” through the window at us.

Tags: #canada #horseheads #imported:pinboard #mozilla #world

Horseplay « meandering wildly

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:20:28 +0000

Tags: #canada #horseheads #mozilla #world

North Korea bans citizens working in Libya from returning home (Julian Ryall/Telegraph)

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:15:04 +0000

Tags: #northkorea #politics #world

Jonathan Freedland: The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for | Comment is free | The Guardian

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:35:29 +0000

"Of course I know that even to mention Obama's support around the world is to hurt him. Incredibly, that large Berlin crowd damaged Obama at home, branding him the "candidate of Europe" and making him seem less of a patriotic American. But what does that say about today's America, that the world's esteem is now unwanted? If Americans reject Obama, they will be sending the clearest possible message to the rest of us - and, make no mistake, we shall hear it. "

Tags: #elections #mccain #obama #palin #politics #president #world

Priests to purify site after Bush visit - Yahoo! News

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:47:58 +0000

Tags: #bush #guatemala #politics #religion #world

Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered - Los Angeles Times

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:35:14 +0000

"By criticizing itself, apologizing and offering concessions — all things the Islamic world has yet to do — the West reaffirms that Islam has a privileged status in the world. "

Tags: #islam #religion #turkey #world

Al Jazeera English - Kim to lose iPod privileges

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:37:11 +0000

"Kim Jong-il is to have his access to iPods and other desirable gadgets cut off as part of US efforts to target sanctions directly at the North Korean leader and his power base."

Tags: #apple #ipod #korea #north #odd #world

US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran - Yahoo! News

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 20:57:53 +0000

I cannot come close to coherently expressing the rage and anger this produces in me. Impeach this fucking President.

Tags: #bush #iran #politics #war #world

ABC News: Peres: Iran Should Be Expelled From U.N.

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:15:36 +0000

Too bad we're all tied up in Iraq and have wasted all our credibility

Tags: #iran #politics #world

Invasion of the Isolationists - New York Times

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 10:49:11 +0000

"We do not know what outcome we will face in Iraq. We do know that four years after 9/11, our whole foreign policy seems destined to rise or fall on the outcome of a war only marginally related to the source of what befell us on that day. There was nothin

Tags: #bush #iraq #politics #war #world

Blogcritics.org: We need leaders who prevent terrorism, not cause it

Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:41:53 +0000

"There is a massive failure of leadership in the U.S. and U.K. When our people die, what we get from blowhards Bush and Blair is nothing but therapy..."

Tags: #terrorism #world

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means

Sat, 09 Jul 2005 17:31:33 +0000

"The G8 must seize the opportunity to address the wider issues at the root of such atrocities"

Tags: #terrorism #world