by nabidana | Apr 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am minded to seek an injunction to prevent the count on Wednesday. Your views? # It is heartening to know that the epithet ‘Hoon’ can be amended without much effort to ‘Huhne’. # I would definitely have invited Blair. Wouldn’t have...
by nabidana | Apr 23, 2011 | gadgets, Libya, mediawatch, military
Whilst all media try to portray themselves as neutral, dispassionate and disinterested observers in news stories, sometimes the language they use shows up laziness or bias in reporting. One story catching my eye this afternoon is the wonderful propaganda piece in the...
by nabidana | Apr 22, 2011 | Ireland, Ireland Election 2011, stupidity
Recently, Trinity College Dublin Seanad Office took the interesting step of eliminating a candidate from the election for Seanad on the basis that the candidate discovered she was not a citizen of Ireland. That’s not in itself problematic. Ballot papers had...
by nabidana | Apr 20, 2011 | Fake News
Speaking in a press conference in Miami, Florida, BP CEO Bob Dudley praised the new found super efficiency of the Gulf Coast’s wildlife. One year on from the oil rig disaster which cost eleven lives and spilled crude oil across the sea in an enormous swathe,...
by nabidana | Apr 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Nick Griffin, erstwhile leader of the UK’s leading practitioners of the politics that dare not speak its name (neofascism) has been, not for the first time, outed as a homosexual. Whether he is or is not is utterly immaterial to me, and should be to most...