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  1. Shorter New Statesman Zizek: "Big capital favours freer movement of labour, therefore we shouldn't be so tolerant of immigrants."
  2. Cops beating up and arresting anti-fascist protesters; BBC promoting fascist. Good work all round.
  3. OMFG - just did some photocopying for Gustav Metzger. !!!
  4. BBC Charter: "4. The Public Purposes of the BBC are as follows— (a) sustaining citizenship and civil society..."
  5. More reasons why #superfreakonomics = detestable & politically harmful bullshit: http://tinyurl.com/yzy9trj #climatechange
  6. (And that, children, is why God gave us peer review.)
  7. Not generally a fan of Brad DeLong, but he's doing first rate work here: http://tinyurl.com/ykwporn #superfreakonomics #climate #bullshit
  8. oh and on that topic: http://climatecamp.org.uk/ http://tinyurl.com/yk3a9gt http://tinyurl.com/yfprddq
  9. pdf of superfreak climate chapter available via DeLong: http://tinyurl.com/ykbdq5c Unbelievably, it's even worse than blog reports suggest.
  10. Further reading-comprehension issues: "Based on their writings... Levitt and Dubner strike me as open-minded political pragmatists"
  11. Brad DeLong is doing it right: http://tinyurl.com/ykgum5q #superfreakonomics
  12. dsquared: "I will... never be able to look at Freakonomics again without thinking of the authors, affectionately, as "Dumb and Dubner"."
  13. Wow those freakonomics guys are stupid, ignorant and unpleasant fuckers.
  14. Also: http://tinyurl.com/m4nexg "Strathclyde... was asked for assistance in dealing with the controversy, and recommended Fraser" #trafigura
  15. RT @flashboy RT @mikebutcher: No.10 petition on Press Freedom, please sign and RT: http://bit.ly/w0agc #trafigura
  16. Is it the Nobel Smile Prize, and they just mispoke? #goodchristareyouserious #surelythereisactuallyawarinafghanistan
  17. Time to quote Tom Lehrer maybe? "Political satire died the day they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger." #fuckyounobelcommittee
  18. um... WHAT THE SWEET FUCKING FUCK, Nobel committee? #whatthesweetfuckingfucknobelcommittee
  19. Impressed by the comedy professionalism of Letterman's blackmail monologue.
  20. I infer that Spotify does not target its ads from the fact that it just interrupted Manic Street Preachers to promote Reagan's birthday.