h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Nine year old banned from taking photos of her school dinners for her blog. And then un-banned following media storm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18454800


Geggs

lady love your **** is never going to get through, if you can't even say vagina

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/15/vaginas-arent-dirty-even-in-michigan

China launches woman into space.
The rocket is aimed to meet up with the Chinese Space Station
which was sent up last year.

http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120616/china-sends-first-woman-into-space-120616/20120616/?hub=EdmontonHome


~jwf~

America's 'other' space shuttle:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/16/secretive-us-military-space-shuttle


~jwf~

Russell Brand and the Dalai Lama, quite an unusual double-act.
http://tinyurl.com/7xtdvdh

I find a bit incoherent that he is hosted in a whole floor, presidential suit included, of a five start hotel.

I would expect from someone so detached of mundane issues a less flashy place.

and 25 pounds the ticket to listen to him???

Jwf <>

They'll probably put another one up in half an hour

Dalai Lama's video + obligatory advert + obligatory 'celebrities'.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jun/15/dalai-lama-video?intcmp=239

Sometimes the world sucks beyond the telling of it. But sometimes stuff like this happens:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18472795

The girl who was banned from posting pictures of her school meals to her blog has seen donations for the charity she was writing the blog for jump from £2,000 to £73,000 in 3 days.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

http://www.680news.com/news/world/article/374170--rodney-king-found-dead-at-age-47


~jwf~

Hope Michael Barrymore's got his alibi sorted out.

Not sure how much coverage the stage collapse in Toronto
has been getting outside Canada, but they have now ID'd
the fatality as Radiohead's drum-tech - whatever that is.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1212697--radiohead-stage-collapse-man-killed-in-downsview-park-accident-is-radiohead-drum-tech


~jwf~

UPDATE
On that mixed gender Chinese space mission:

They're about to play dockers and nurses.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303379204577472570396973792.html?mod=googlenews_wsj


~jwf~

Yet I haven't heard the word "taikonaut" used once.

An interview with one of a dying breed of politicians in today's Guardian, the Beast himself.
http://tinyurl.com/c63u9qo

S'about time we had some rational Marxist dialectic round here:

1. Go out to space (thesis)
2. Come back a bit (antithesis)
3. Neither go out nor come back - synthesis - a gloriously inclusive dialectic conclusion!

[Internet - passim]



Our simple universe won't be able to resist the irresistabilty of Marxist Dialectic for long!

~jwf, i don't know if some will appreciate a continuation, but your post does bring up scientific question about need for contraception in zero gravity.

Love the interview you unearthed with Dennis Skinner, Eveneye. Thanks for posting it!

Er...Mistadrong...

Finally the warnings that the neoliberals media and other groups have been doing in order to scare the Greeks has succeed.

The "extremist" left, whose victory would bring the collapse to Europe, has not win.

However the gambling party is going on today and the ECB do nothing.

If Zyriza is extremist, so are the nobel Prize Krugman, Stiglitz or lots of economists like Weisbrot, Baker... or that man considered an authority , Simon Wren-Lewis, at the university of Oxford.

Zyriza and all those who aren´t blind following a failed dogma claim just the same:

A Financial reform, which in the case of the GIPSI countries, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Ireland, can fix the huge social inequalities.

The goverments could stimulate the economy. Growth means more jobs, more jobs more richness...
All that is backed empirically by economical research, or if you can´t read it , look at Scandinavian countries.

On the other hand, is Greece completly responsible of its huge debt? Is current Greece responsible of the debt made by the dictatorship and that it benefited Germans banks?

The spanish housing bubble wouldn´t have happened without the money of German banks. Aren´t they also responsible for all this debt?

The conservative forces in the Gipsi countries are facilitating all this sacking, looting of these contries. The IMF, the ECB could put a stop, but wont´ do it. They are having their share from all this.

A last thing,
Lagarde is protagonist of a paradox:

She, who doesn´t pay taxes, critisizes the fraud made by the rich Greeks, but at the same time, she, her organization, the IMF support them and criminalize Zyriza, who want to put a stop to that fraud.