2008.gif (2954 bytes)Some Headlines & Anniversaries...

January

oil.jpg (1758 bytes)CRUDE AWAKENING

Price of crude OIL hits $100 a barrel, 2nd January 2008. A warning sign that cheap oil will soon be a thing of the past. Could this be the year oil production finally peaks, ushering in the eventual end of the oil empire?

It's running out......

 

 

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Sir Edmund Hillary, first man to climb Mount Everest, died aged 88, 11th January 2008. He, with a lot of help from Sherpa Tensing Norgay, climbed the world's highest peak on 29th May 1953.

February

Across the Universe...

February 4th 2007, NASA beams the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" on a 431 Light Year musical odyssey towards Polaris, the North Star. It marks the 40th anniversary of the song's recording & NASA's 50th.

Hear it here

The Beatles

 

 

 

 

cnd50.jpg (10254 bytes)50th Anniversary of  CND

(16-17th Feb)

Nuclear madness

Ban the ...

March

"Israel has drawn international criticism for its latest series of onslaughts against the 'prison' of Gaza, the crowded home to 1.4 million Palestinians. Since last Wednesday (February 27), 112 Palestinians have died under Israeli air attacks and 'incursions' by Israeli troops. The dead include many women and children, such as four boys who had been out playing football and even babies killed in their homes. Last Saturday alone saw the deaths of 60 Palestinians under Israeli attacks. Three Israelis have died - one a civilian killed during a rocket attack by Hamas last Wednesday and, since then, two Israeli soldiers."

(Source: Media Lens, 3rd March 2008)

Eyeless in Gaza

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crufts.jpg (9414 bytes)Crufts

World's Greatest Dog Show

6-9th March 2008

The NEC, Birmingham, UK

If you like DOGS.....

  my dogs are beauties

  but I wouldn't let them go

  degrading themselves

  at Cruft's Dog Show

 

 

IraqVerseDKsmall.jpg (10558 bytes)5th Anniversary of Illegal Invasion of IRAQ

20th March 2003

LATE NEWS

 

April

tn_4046_0003.jpg (5785 bytes)40th Anniversary, Assassination of Martin Luther King...

(4th April 1968)

He had a dream... (song)

 

cameraman_Gaza.jpg (12434 bytes)Israelis kill 22 people in Gaza. The dead include 5 Palestinian children & a Reuters cameraman.

(16 April 2008)

Gaze again at this sad refrain...

 

Edward Lorenz, mathematician, meteorologist, & early pioneer of Chaosbutterfly.gif (4441 bytes) Theory, dies, 16th April 2008, aged 91. Famous for the phrase "Butterfly Effect" - 'does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado?' - more technically the "sensitive dependence on initial conditions" & the idea of the "Strange Attractor".

CHAOS (review)

 

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Prince Willy & the Whirlybird

(21 April 2008)

 

Hoff4redyellow.JPG (41950 bytes)Dr Albert Hoffman dies, aged 102.

(30th April 2008)

Hoffman, a Swiss Chemist, first synthesised LSD-25 in 1938.

Trippy pix

May

OlympicsFlag.jpg (17905 bytes)Olympic Flame lit on summit of Everest

(8th May 2008)

 

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China wins Gold Medals

for Repression & Torture in Tibet

orang-utanSmall.jpg (6466 bytes)BIODIVERSITY IN SERIOUS DECLINE

"Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London. Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%, it says. Humans are wiping out about 1% of all other species every year, and one of the "great extinction episodes" in the Earth's history is under way, it says. "

"Reduced biodiversity means millions of people face a future where food supplies are more vulnerable to pests and disease and where water is in irregular or short supply"-  James Leape Director general, WWF UK

(Source: BBC, 16th May 2008)

Animals             Eco

 

LooebeachSewagePollutionNo2.jpg (26038 bytes)BRITAIN'S BEACHES GETTING DIRTIER

"Bathing water at beaches across the UK is more polluted as a result of last year's stormy summer, the Marine Conservation Society has warned.

Its annual Good Beach Guide shows the number of beaches with excellent water quality has fallen by 10% since last year, the biggest drop in 21 years.

The society blamed last summer's heavy rain for sweeping raw sewage and animal waste into rivers and the sea. "

(Source: BBC, 23 May 2008)

[Looe in Cornwall is near a place called Flushing!]

Dirty Seaside Postcard

 

NASA spacecraft lands on Mars

"The Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet, after a 680 million-km (423 million-mile) journey from Earth. The probe is equipped with a robotic arm to dig for water-ice thought to be buried beneath the surface. It will begin examining the site for evidence of the building blocks of life in the next few days."

(Source: BBC, 26 May 2008)

Mars?

 

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"The Himalayan nation of Nepal has become the world's newest republic, ending 240 years of monarchy.

A constituent assembly meeting in the capital, Kathmandu, overwhelmingly voted to abolish royal rule.

The Maoists, the largest party after laying down arms and standing in last month's elections, were committed to ousting King Gyanendra.

People celebrated wildly in the streets of the capital after news of the assembly vote. "

(Source: BBC, 28 May 2008)

Isn't it about time we sacked the anachronistic British Royal Family?

(And the world's other remaining monarchs)

June

 

YSLcatwalk.jpg (15818 bytes)French Fashion Designer Yves Saint Laurent dies

"He was a libertarian, an anarchist and he threw bombs at the legs of society"

Pierre Berge
Yves Saint Laurent's former partner

(1st June 2008)

Try latest U.S. fashions instead?!

 

July

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Another World is Possible

G8 2005 - I was there!

Gleneagles 2005

Genoa 2001

 

tour_de_france.jpg (23568 bytes)95th Tour de France

5 - 27th July, 2008

Cycling is Prohibited video NEW!

on yer bike

 

 

mandela_release.jpg (13068 bytes)Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday

Many Happy Returns!

18th July 2008

Anti-Apartheid Song

 

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100 workers suffer radioactive contamination in latest of 4 nuclear leaks at French nuclear power stations

(23 July 08)

More nuclear madness here

August

50thlogo.jpg (33456 bytes)50th Anniversary of death of English Composer Vaughan Williams, 26th August 1958

Hear "Lark Ascending"

 

rice-kaczynski-cp-536363.jpg (19377 bytes)COLD WAR REVISITED

Russia understandably alarmed as US does missile deal with Poland...... plus US troops in Georgia on border with Russia...... NATO extending its area of influence....

(20th Aug 08)

N.A.T.O.

(Cold War Song)

 

Wily smiles....a pleasure to do business

 

denvermilehighbarack.jpg (47801 bytes)Keeping the DREAM alive...

Obama accepts presidential nomination on 45th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's DREAM speech.

(28th August 08)

Remembering the dream

 

911animnewsmall3.gif (38745 bytes)September 11th - fewer people died in Twin Tower Tragedy (2001) than killed by US foreign policy - tho 2 wrongs don't make a right. Also, 18000 children a day die of starvation. Must we not question a worldview that deems deaths in America more important than mortality elsewhere?

September 11th is also the date (in 1973) when the fascist Pinochet backed by the CIA overthrew the democratically-elected government of Chile in a coup d'état, subsequently killing or 'disappearing' many thousands of people.

Empyre on fire!

Newsreal

September

 

WallStreet2.jpg (18427 bytes)WALL STREET FALL

GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS MELTDOWN

"Losses on major stock markets have continued following the collapse of top US investment bank Lehman Brothers." (Source: BBC, 16 September 08)


Corporation?                   Capitalist           

October

FARTING IN THE NEWS

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Small amounts of hydrogen sulphide - a toxic gas generated by bacteria living in the human gut - are responsible for the foul odour of flatulence.

But it seems the gas is also produced by an enzyme in blood vessels where it relaxes them and lowers blood pressure. "

(Source: BBC 24th October 2008)

All you need to know about farts!

(Actually MORE than you need to know...)

November

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(4th November 2008)

Bye bye Bush

- good riddance to bad rubbish Bush

Good news for America

poppy200.jpg (8381 bytes)REMEMBRANCE

Remembrance Day

War & Peace

End All Wars!

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What breed of dog should the next president get for his kids?

Describing himself as a 'mutt', he says he'd prefer a 'shelter dog' but it needs to be 'hypoallergenic' as one of his daughter's is allergic to dog hair.....

(7th November 08)

There are plenty to choose from here

photos

Scotty dog?

performing dog

But definitely NOT Bush's poodle!

And what COLOUR will it be: black or white.......or even brown?!

 

 

Prince Charles at 60prince-charles2.jpg (21416 bytes)

"If you want a quieter life, lock me up."

OK, right. Good idea!

Right Charley

Anti-Monarchy

He might be well-meaning but that's no justification for Monarchy....

(14th Novemeber 2008)

 

 

40th Anniversary

 

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'White Album'

Released 22nd November 1968

Beatles Mix

JL.jpg (10637 bytes)Also, 42 years on, the Vatican belatedly 'forgives' John Lennon for opining that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Actually, he had a point: when did Jesus last have a hit record?

Religion

 

December

 

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3rd December 08

 

 

 

 

milton400.jpg (36166 bytes)400th Anniversary

of birth of Milton

 

9th December 1608

 

PARADISE

Lost/ Regained?

 

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

50th Anniversary

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10th December 1948

 

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General Strike!

(10th Dec 08)

Riots!

got nothing left

but the right to fight

so there's gonna be a riot

on the streets tonight

R.I.P. Alexandros Grigoropoulos, aged 15,

shot by police (6th December)

 

SHOO BUSH!

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CHICKENHAWK DUCKS...

(14th December 08)

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Bush gets an xmas present/ farewell gift from a grateful world.

He got the boot (or at least the shoe!)

America

Reply to George W.

George W. is good at ducking. He ducks responsibility for the mess he's made. Ducks blame for war crimes.

But, of course, this is unfair on innocent ducks!

More shoes here.

 

 

 

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Visitors to this site, who don't live in Britain, may be surprised to learn that anyone who owns a TV in this benighted country must hand over an annual licence fee (currently £139.50) to the BBC (Bloated Bourgeois Corporation) - whether they watch BBC channels or not! Those who refuse/ fail to pay are fined or imprisoned.

Fair or what? It's a quaintly eccentric British idiosyncrasy like the parasitic Royal Family (who should be abolished too).

What the BBC pays over-rated presenter Jonathan Ross for one day's 'work' would buy my TV Licence for life!

A recent example of their profligacy at our expense:

"A £45,572 licence fee-funded party at a top London venue was "the most cost-effective way possible" to launch a television drama series, the BBC has insisted.
BBC bosses came under fire for spending so much money on entertaining 300-plus people at London's Oxo Tower to promote Merlin at a time of staff cutbacks." (Source: The Guardian, 16 Dec 08)

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100th Anniversary

of Birth of Quentin Crisp

born 25th December 1908

Author of 'Naked Civil Servant' & 'How to Become a Virgin'

"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."

died 21st November  1999

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