Friday 11 April 2014

Links, Thursday 10th/Friday 11th April

A tour of accents across the British Isles performed in a single, unedited take

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This is speculative with respect to Pistorius specifically, but makes a good general point. Time

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Thoughts on this? I would be inclined to disagree, partly on the grounds that the US has been one of very few industrialised nations to reduce measured CO2 emissions over the last decade, simply by replacement of goal with natural gas (though maybe this would be undercut if methane leaks were accounted for more rigorously). And if gas is going to be a feature of the energy market for any length of time, I'd much rather get my supplies from the US than from Russia. Naomi Klein in the Guardian

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"Senior Nato officials have warned that the buildup is already having a psychological, destabilising effect, helping stoke up the turmoil in eastern Ukraine. “These masked guys would not be taking over government buildings if there were not 40,000 soldiers just across the border,” said one official." Guardian

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"In a controversial bid to reduce the number of people living on Cape Town’s streets, the city council is considering the establishment of “community villages” outside the city centre. Those who refuse to go voluntarily will be picked up, tried for by-law infringements and forcibly removed – a detail that has outraged activists and street people."

Despite the fact of what their plan actual entails, politicians nevertheless try to spin it:

"Smith presented it as an alternative to a “law enforcement” approach, which sees street people being arrested for by-law infringements (sleeping on the street for example) and then “recycled”, via community courts and holding cells, back on to the street." Cape mulls ‘community villages’ for homeless. Also: Reports of CPT homeless 'work camps' alarming







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