Mild Subversion
In the tradition of satirical writers through the ages
Current articles........ |
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Big companies have their cost of capital subsized by middle class taxpayers, the very group of people who they then throw out of work. |
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Years ago Bush reduced taxes on the rich. What followed was the worst financial crash since the 1930's and stubborn, 9 % unemployment. |
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“cemeteries in England concoct ridiculous regulations designed to part vulnerable people from their money. |
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Women have cleverly passed the buck to their menfolk when it comes to computers. |
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“On every issue the Republicans are taxing the patience and tolerance of the ordinary middle class citizen. Reduce Taxation! |
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The guys who caused the economic slump walk off with their loot and then blame the unions. |
“The Republicans and their rich backers will not be content until they have restored 19th century emplyment conditions. |
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“A very sensible New York gun law may be ruled unconstitutional. Another triumph for those with a deficit of common sense. |
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Exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art in New York are becoming particularly silly. |
We review one particular "performance". If the Director of MOMA is such a good salesman that he can raise funds for such an event he deserves every penny of his salary. |
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Glenn Beck Attacks Conservatives who use Medicare and Social Security |
“You cannot be a conservative if you benefit from Big Government programs like Medicare and Social Security,” he claims. |
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The British establishment needs to start contemplating Britain's national interest instead of following the United States all the time, like a forlorn sheep. |
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And in previous months........ |
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The care a husband owes his wife. |
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A Letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to apostate Catholics |
The letter the Archbishop should have sent out, but has failed to do so |
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The Church of England reaches out to distressed Catholics everywhere |
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We, the poor people of the world, forgive the Pope and the Roman Catholic church for their manifest and great sins. |
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At last! The U.S Supreme Court has legally handed over the American political system to an oligopoly of greedy, corrupt pols, CEOs and tycoons. Now we can sit back and be assured that the country is in competent hands. A creeping coup? Nonsense! |
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A Tale of Financial Innovation |
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Top Marketing Executive fired |
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Surcharge for the overweight. |
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Tips for coping with Spring. |
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Changing to digital TV is soooo easy !! |
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What we need are BANK CRITICS - - Fast! |
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Reforming the American political system. |
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The Chinese Central Bank gives the US a message the American media is comfortable about broadcasting. |
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Watch the Bye Bye Dubya video on U Tube. A send-off for the Great Decider. |
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Some Sayings of Diogenes of Oinoanda. |
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The Republicans need to re-think their approach to governing the country. |
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Hey, Democrats! Do something for the country! |
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Is Sarah Palin chosen by God, or will those suggesting it be struck down by a thunderbolt from Heaven? |
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They had it coming, they had it coming..... |
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No way to maintain an informed democracy |
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Valley-girl-speak comes to Britain with a vengeance. |
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Bush, Bernanke, Paulson, and McCain to the rescue? |
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Reducing dependence on foreign oil. |
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Communists laud Nationalization of the Heights of the U.S Economy! |
Is this the final death of Reaganomics? |
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An end to so-called "trickle down" Reaganomics! |
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Irena Klamberova plays the ukelele. |
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A critic comments on one of the seminal poets of our time. |
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A program to right the wrongs and the mischief done to the United States in the last eight years. But we assume that too many enemies will have been made to allow for a second term. |
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For those who await the Rapture and are anxious to know what to expect |
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Are U.S election press conferences testing the candidates? |
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Empires always expand to a point where they are unsustainable. The loss of a single war can start the rot. |
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How Iraq can re-join the Petro-Community. |
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Class warfare against the educated!This is what the Republican Convention seemed to suggest |
Fine, Mr. McCain, but where will you find good, educated administrators who understand the world and are trained to think? |
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Where have they all gone? |
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Proponents of so-called intelligent design are answered from on high |
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Hot topic! Robert Hanrott talks to Patrick Macrory about Post-Ironicism. |
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Transcript of a video interview conducted by Robert Hanrott with Malakbel, the ancient Palmyran Sun God, and Aglibol, brother of Malakbel and God of the Moon. |
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The onerous obligations of a lease on a London flat. |
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Welsh group lays claim to the whole of London! |
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Two innocents go to a British cricket match. |
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We need an international settlement in the Middle East. |
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How one family can lay claim to all the territory around Jerusalem. |
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The thoughts of a migrant from the third world. |
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How it takes half an hour to fill in an email form to get some help from a computer software company that communicates in Dutch. |
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May 2007 marked the 300th Anniversary of the Union of England and Scotland. It?s time for independence for both countries! |
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by Ellery Schempp, a member of the American Humanist Association and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. |
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A cautionary tale about the on-going efforts to downsize, "reform", and even eliminate all United Nations agencies. |
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* FREE! Win a free, heavily edited copy of the latest US national intelligence estimate if you can identify which country this fairy tale refers to. |
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Make the "service" economy work!< |
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A startling discovery has recently been made in an undisclosed location on the Dead Sea. A set of ancient scrolls has been unearthed, so sensitive that the Israeli Government has tried to suppress it. A careless rabbi fortunately left copies on a bus to Haifa. |
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You have to know the right questions to ask. Businesses will not tell you. |
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A genuine and hilarious leaflet from Help the Aged, in conjunction with Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London. In the spirit of what we thought at first was a joke, we offer a further collection of tips for the over 70s. |
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An email exchange between Rush Limbaugh and Elmer G. Ganz of Ohio, June 11th, 2006 |
And they vote for these clowns! |
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A fairy tale for our time. The hazel nut in Celtic lore was equated with wisdom and poetic inspiration. A legend tells the tale of a nut tree that grew by a sacred pool. The tree shed its nuts into the pool. They were eaten by a family of salmon. The number of bright spots on the salmon, it is said, indicated the number of nuts it had eaten and the depth of the wisdom it had thereby absorbed. |
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What many corporations have quietly effected is a massive transfer of time, effort, stress and frustration onto the final customer. Intentional or not, this transfer is not captured in the persistent drumbeat about the productivity of the American economy. |
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Shock Top Secret letter rocks US Intelligence. Iranians involvement suspected. |
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Released under the Freedom of Information Act. |
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Science used to be seen as a rational and definitive activity, the great outcome of the Enlightenment, a passport to a better life for all the world's inhabitants. More recently it has been used as a malleable weapon in the war to protect commercial interests and to buttress the claims of the religious right. |
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Long hours. Few benefits. Inadequate holidays. Small pensions. Little worker protection. A degrading environment. A widening gap between rich and poor. Declining health care. Increasing self-absorption and less community spirit. Is this what we want from globalization, free trade, privatization and the untrammeled power of the corporation? |
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A fairy tale about reduction of customer service and the onus put upon the consumer in terms of time and frustration. |
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If President Clinton is caught with his trousers down it triggers impeachment. However, if Vice-President Cheney arranges for his old company to get the best contracts in Iraq that's just fine. Or is it? |
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A fairy tale about naivete and religious violence. |
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The British Minister for Schools is busy dreaming up fancy titles for himself, but is doing the country's education little good. |
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Mr. Greenspan, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is supposed to be independent of party politics, holding the ring for the nation. He has betrayed our trust. |
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We all depend on each other. But tell that to the government-haters. |
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A religious conservative discusses his moral philosophy. |
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The Arabian Nights, with Dubya Baba and the Forty Thieves: A Musical in 4 Acts |
The true, never-previously-revealed story of Bush's War Against Iraq, and how The-Greatest-Country-Ever-in-the-History-of-the- Universe fought back against the imperialist neo-cons and their deeply ignorant hangers-on. |
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Unknown to the general public, Saddam Hussein has had access to a computer and email and likes to send occasional messages to some of the people who have done so much to support him over the years. Here are some samples, sent to Donald Rumsfeld and others, with copies to me. |
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The number of times people have asked "What was Tony Blair thinking about when he supported Bush?" has now risen to 58,781,000. |
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Did you know that American journalists brag about the thoroughness of their training and their research? Apparently, it is so much better than in other countries. |
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Heard of hexavalent chromium? It was dumped by manufacturers in New Jersey, poisoning the environment. No one was brought to task. A small illustration of the effects of unrestrained, unaccountable capitalism. |
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Congress is rapidly coming under the influence of Bible literalists and believers in The Rapture. As never before we are in desperate need of a rational, intelligent God.7 |
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Americans like to think of themselves as individualists, plowing their own furrows, seldom following the herd. But this doesn't appear to be the case in the theatre. Another illusion demolished. |
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You always know when a class of people have a crisis of confidence when there are competitions to find out who is the most prominent. |
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They invest large sums in hotel ambience and next to nothing in their beds. |
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