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Saturday 26 June 2010
Where Are The Hooligans In South Africa?
Once upon a time, not so long ago, it would be hard to imagine a World Cup including England that did not include reports of actual incidents of hooliganism, blown up hysteria about hooligans running wild, and a general frenzy surrounding England fans.
In 1990, ahead of the World Cup in Italy, the Guardian wrote that “Britain is the only country which sends a government minister around telling other countries how dreadful his fellow citizens are.”
England fans — even if always a minority — were trouble, and reports of hooliganism sold newspapers in England. Lots of them. That’s why British tabloid newspaper journalists went around trying to foment trouble, as Pete Davies tells it in his brilliant account of Italia ‘90, All Played Out: “There was a story going round in Monterrey, there was a man from The Sun going round with a brick tied up in a note that said the brick was from England. And he’d go into bars offering fans a couple of hundred quids’ worth of pesos to put it through a shop window.”
True or not, I doubt Sun journalists are bothering to try anything like that in South Africa. Hooliganism is off the front pages. South Africa has so far not had a single reported incident involving an English football hooligan as far as I can tell. As the Guardian reported yesterday:
Kevin Miles, head of international relations at the Football Supporters’ Federation and organiser of the fan embassies in every city hosting England, said there had been no reports of any problems at any of England’s games so far.
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Das Kraftfuttermischwerk & Rudi Stöher @ VisualberlinFestival, 12.06.2010, Tresor Berlin
Tracklist:
Quantec – Greenfield Mill
Cornell Cambpell – King in my Empire
Dubjack – Trebol 4
Dubjack – Trebol 2
Havantepe – Soft and Tender
Basic Channel – Phylyps Track II/II
Radio Slave – Neverending
Seidemann – End of Truth
Rhauder Feat. Paul St. Hilaire – No News – (Rauders Dub Mix)
Rhythm & Sound – Mango Drive
Jark Prongo – Spadet
Pleasurekraft – Tarantula (Original Mix)
Silicone Soul – Dogs of les ilhes (Kollektiv Turmstrasse Remix)
Vitalis Popoff – Peri Tes Narkolepseo
Laura Palmer – Evolve (Marko Fürstenberg Remix)
Petar Dundov – Rain (Echospace Reduction)
Round Four – Find à Way
Infiniti – Game One (Quantec Remix)
Daniel Stefanik – Silent Whisper ( Marko Fürstenberg Remix)
Wax – 3003B
Kollektiv Turmstrasse – Enviromental Influences
Jeff Bennett – Day Dreamer
Daniel Stefanik – Just One Moment
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme – Draw Halycon Days
Timewriter – Going Back
Marko Fürstenberg – Gegenstrom
Quantec – Obstacles
Marko Fürstenberg – Espenhain
Jeff Bennett – Creatings
Luke Hess – Self Control
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Cowboy Jack Clement & Johnny Cash
"Yeah, I know all about this country actually. Here we go. There's a tree—your own personal guided tour—there's another tree, flowers—wildflowers—corn, marijuana..."
We miss ya' Johnny...
Global Trade Unions Demand Sustainability From G8 Leaders
Gathering ahead of today's G8 summit in Canada, labor leaders sent a message to leaders of the world's leading economies: It's about sustainablity, stupid!
The health of the world's economy depends on the health of the world's workers, and the time is long overdue for the world's policymakers to listen to them.
This is the message trade unionists and environmentalists from around the globe wanted to send to world leaders when the former two groups met in Toronto this past weekend to demand environmental, social, and economic sustainability in advance of the G8/G20 summit. The World Conference on Sustainability was organized by two Geneva-based global trade union federations, ICEM, and IMF, and was well attended by Canadian labor activists and leaders.........
Michelle Langlois @'Alternet'
As the article goes on to firmly state, the rest of the world has been savagely exploited by Big Corporations and their Overpaid Henchmen. Workers wages have fallen over the past 20years, dramatically reducing their capacity to meet everyday costs, the Fatcats at the top have been falling over themselves for ever more obscene bonus payouts to their Chosen Few. The environmental costs are an ongoing nightmare in many communities' lives as proper enforcement of regulations falls by the wayside and into the freshly created toxic quagmires. Attacks on the social mainstays of society in health, education, fresh water, sanitation, public transport, libraries and other vital social issues remain unabated through the parasitic funding of corporations, with sweetheart government deals and insignificant accountability. Sustainable, humane, and environmentally responsible action is needed by governments at all levels, if this insidious quicksand of pollution and exploitation that is extrapolating across the globe is to be ended. For the future of all generations to be anything other than some toxic wasteland from polluted sea to polluted sea, and barren rock to barren rock, politicians must hold corporations responsible and financially accountable for any and all of their deadly mistakes, human and environmental. - beeden
Friday 25 June 2010
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