They are everywhere, these powers of darkness

“I’ve been thinking some more about CNN hiring Tony Snow as a commentator. Coming in the wake of Newsweek’s hiring of Karl Rove, and the New York Times’ hiring of Bill Kristol, the mainstream media’s embrace of these unabashed propagandists has revealed a self-loathing streak a mile wide. Have they been so cowed by the …

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I’m green with envy! Down with plastic, tasteless food!

In the U.K local Councils have been urged to address a “chronic shortage” in the number of allotments being allocated by urban developers as demand for the plots of land reaches unprecedented highs. Allotments are small plots that were originally made available at small cost during the First World War to help people grow their …

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A new definition

corporotic, cor-por-o-tic n. Rule by unaccountable international corporations that promote sex, pornography, nationalist posturing and the antics of public “personalities” in order to the divert public attention away from real social and political issues and safeguard and promote their own political and commercial interests. Thus, corporatocracy, the political system that under the current Republican regime …

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