There are some dark corners of the internet that should not be visited. You are only one click away from madness, depravity, and material that even the sickest of minds could not have imagined a mere ten years ago.
DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK.
“In his piece, “What I got wrong about the war”, last week for Time, Andrew Sullivan blamed the US for narcissism about the “inevitability of democratic change and its ease”, criticising the naivety of the government’s approach to complex, tribal, sectarian cultures.”
Madeleine Bunting, Monday March 13, 2006
“Why is the word “tribal” only used to refer to Africa? Why don’t we talk of Belgian tribes or Middle Eastern tribes? No, only in Africa is inter-ethnic violence cast as “ancient”, immutable tribalism, associated in the European mindset with barbarism and irrationality. It’s a language of self-congratulation - we are civilised, Africans are not.”
Madeleine Bunting, Monday January 14, 2008
Research link for Bunting.
“Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident, it’s not like anyone else. As you drive past you know you have to do something about it, because you know you’re the only one who can really help.”
Tom Cruise, paramedic; paramedic, Tom Cruise. It’s a tough ’un.
“People ask me about turnout, we want republicans, democrats, libertarians, vegetarians, Trotskyites, whoever will come out and vote for us. And obviously we are trying to motivate our Republican base, but we want everybody,” McCain said.
Fourth Internationalists for John McCain!
(via negative potential)
Feel free to add your own to the list of names. Nominations may have a blog themselves or not. Fuck it — just call them out for being fucking pricks and cunts of the highest order. Virtually castrate the fuckers (if they’re female do the linguistic equivalent).
Wankers, scumbags and shitheads — the sort of people you’d walk a million miles to avoid their smiles… that sort of fucker.
The ways to deal with fuckpig commenters — ignore (delete, edit give signals to), go head to head with, play with… let’s fucking get to it regardless.
I’ll help you out and start you off.
Taboo words are much more effective insults than sanctioned and approved ones — and vitriolic, but not completely disconnected from reality wordism is the best - so get to it you fucking pricks and morons.
Josh Scholar — what a boring dozy twat. A bit of an oxymoron to say the least.
Modernity — thick and moralising, makes skill and competence increasingly irrelevant to material success - what a cunt.
‘Venichka’ and his immeasurably stupid dick that passes for a friend gRaYhaM– laughable - Gray Ham of Kotlovan Villas, Platonov Estate, Brixton. London metrosexuals incorporated (wardymoron doesn’t post much these days does he)?
Nick (South Africa) — nazi - wanker - shithead. Regular HP commenter. Feels at home there. Every other pisstain that bothers their arse commenting at The Sauce has a mental problem. Quite evident. In fact — all Sauce commenters. Fuck them all.
Report there – chinahk.pdf – was published by the China Labor Bulletin. It documents the worker protests that flared in recent years because of mass layoffs, lost pensions and medical insurance, excessive overtime, wages in arrears and unsafe working conditions.
According to the report, the protests were a direct consequence of two factors – the privatization of state-owned enterprises, and the ongoing exploitation of migrant workers in the private sector.
The reports were released just as China’s new labor contract law goes into effect.
“The key to real change where labor contracts are concerned will lie at the enforcement level,” Han said. “But for that, workers need the right to select their own union leaders and representatives. And you need real collective bargaining too. It is the lack of genuinely representative trade unions and the inability of workers to engage in real collective bargaining that is the root of the problem.”
Han said that the new law
“does not really deal with trade union rights.”
“Time will tell if the Chinese authorities have a genuine interest in hearing from workers more constructively, through union representation,” Han said. “Otherwise, their voices will still be heard, but most likely in the streets.”
“While the drive to keep wages down in China is fueling an international race to the bottom in terms of international labor standards, the foreign direct investment sector has played that same role inside China. It has placed competitive pressure on Chinese state-owned business enterprises to allow for more managerial autonomy and ‘flexibility’ in labour policies. It has also given rise to an ideological transformation that has reduced dramatically the importance of public ownership in the Chinese economy.”
[Han was involved with the Tiananman Square protests in 1989 and was a leader of the Beijing Autonomous Workers Federation. He was then jailed for almost two years in his capacity as a presenter for Radio Free Asia.]
