Notes from the Surf
"Whichever of you is my real husband"
http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2009/08/which-one-do-i-shoot/
This never happens in the scifi movies I watch.
The Lives of Elevators
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all
"In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works."
Schoolgirls rumble Ribena vitamin claims
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/27/schoolsworldwide.foodanddrink
"Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the blackcurrant cordial against rival brands to test their hypothesis that cheaper brands were less healthy..."
Young Workers: A Lost Decade
http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/09/01/young-workers-a-lost-decade/
"we’re seeing 10 years of opportunity lost as young workers across the board are struggling to keep their heads above water and often not succeeding. They’ve put off adulthood — put off having kids, put off education — and a full 34 percent of workers under 35 live with their parents for financial reasons."
The Communist Threat
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Little_Rock_integration_protest.jpg
Why are those dirty Communists always trying to ruin this country?
U.N. repression in Haiti
http://www.workers.org/2009/world/haiti_0827/
"After I was shot in the arm, I couldn’t keep on marching. I was leaning against a car, when some Minustah soldiers came up and shot me in the other arm."
Former economist at Chase Manhattan: Financial Parasites Have Killed the American Economy
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14922
"The problem with parasites is not merely that they siphon off the food and nourishment of their host, crippling its reproductive power, but that they take over the host's brain as well. The parasite tricks the host into thinking that it is feeding itself."
Death Squads in Colombia
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2091/1/
"Colombia has long been the US’ most important ally in Latin America. Simultaneously, Colombia has also become the hemisphere’s worst human rights violator... In exchange for a cut of the action, local military police-states brutally repress their population when it attempts to assert basic human rights."
Nepal Army General: Army integration will not happen
http://comradealastair.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/nepal-army-general-army-integration-will-not-happen/
"If the army, probably the key component of the state, is politicised or at least neutralised, this deals a serious blow to the security of the ruling class."
Workers Creating Hope: Factory Occupations and Self-Management
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/hattingh150609.html
"hopefully the factory occupations that we are beginning to see are an embryo of a different world - a world where there are no bosses, where workers manage themselves"