Notes from the Surf
Funny Unusual Goal Celebration v FC United
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOab7ytI_bE#t=11s
The sports equivalent of creating an account to upvote yourself.
Modern Warfare 3
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ultra_realistic_modern_warfare
"Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks"
Like selling apples in the Great Depression
http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2009/11/selling-apples-in-great-depression.html
"the ranks of day laborers standing on street corners in the morning are no longer restricted to recent immigrants and illegal aliens."
Plutonomics
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2007/01/08/plutonomics/
The nation’s top 1% of households own more than half the nation’s stocks... Kapur estimates that in 2005, the richest 20% may have been responsible for 60% of total spending... The best way... to survive... is to disregard the “mass” consumer and focus on the increasingly rich market of the rich.
Free market flawed, says survey
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8347409.stm
"only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well... Almost a quarter - 23% of those who responded - feel it is fatally flawed. That is the view of 43% in France... there is very strong support around the world for governments to distribute wealth more evenly. That is backed by majorities in 22 of the 27 countries."
Goldman One-Ups Gordon Gekko, Says Jesus Embraced Greed
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/11/04/goldman-one-ups-gordon-gekko-says-jesus-embraced-greed/
"The great banks of the world have gone on a p.r. counteroffensive in Europe, and are sending spokescrooks in shiny suits into churches to persuade the masses that Christ would have approved of the latest round of obscene bonuses."
Bangladesh: Hundreds of women trying to get pay that's 3 months late turns into battleground of thousands
http://libcom.org/news/3-dead-garment-workers-clashes-unions-promised-new-role-04112009
Riot police kill 3, injure 100. 16 riot police injured, one critically.
Nepal Background
http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/gaurav-the-revolution-in-nepal/
"we liberated 80% of the population and we were running parallel governments... they... encircle a village, and kill each and every person they found... They killed the common people... we were not able to capture their big barracks. They were well fortified, especially with the help of US military experts."
France: Thousands of cleaners occupy 30 sites, including company HQ
http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/newswire/display/45464/index.php
"they are doing so with the support of unions and other groups who have joined with them to denounce the exploitation of undocumented workers"
United Steelworkers / Mondragon: "unions will take matters into their own hands"
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/23059
"Too often we have seen Wall Street hollow out companies by draining their cash and assets and hollowing out communities by shedding jobs and shuttering plants. We need a new business model that invests in workers and invests in communities."