Egypt

Pyramid Selling

February 13, 2011

Earlier in the week I posted a short article which touched briefly on the protests in Egypt and the way in which the internet had facilitated them: http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-real-big-society/ The will of the people, I observed was clear; they wanted Mubarak out. It was only an aside, but it produced some interesting responses from readers, including [...]

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The REAL big society

February 11, 2011

I am indebted to the acerbic genius that is Old Holborn (hobbies: “provocation, mischief” – his words not mine) for drawing my attention to the youtube video that I refer to below. I do not always agree with Mr OH, but I am always better informed, challenged and amused by his extraordinarily incisive mind. His [...]

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PeterPan in porn shocker

February 4, 2011

I notice from my perusing of various left wing blogs that Liberal Conspiracy is making a big thing out of the fact that Vodafone shut down it’s mobile phone operation in Egypt on the orders of the Egyptian government and that this is a crime against humanity. Vodafone is the current pet hate object of [...]

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The Eurabian Sea.

January 4, 2010

Whilst you were sleeping, Herman Sörgel’s nightmare vision of artificially solving all the major problems of European civilization by constructing an embankment at the Gibraltar Strait to  create a new continent, ‘Atlantropa‘, consisting of Europe and Africa, came a significant step closer. Sörgel was run down by an unknown car in 1952, but his Atlantropa [...]

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