Admin | June 26, 2011
Former Stone Roses star John Squire has created a new artwork inspired by Harold Shipman. The guitarist-turned-artist chose the Hyde mass murderer as one of the case studies for ‘Celebrity’, a new exhibition of abstract paintings depicting the famous and infamous. Other pictures depict Lindsey Lohan, David Beckham and Josef Fritzl. Squire uses shapes including [...]
Admin | June 26, 2011
This week-long serialisation forms the vast part of my undergraduate dissertation: An empirical analysis of Wikileaks, pre- and post- the 2010 diplomatic cables release. Media organisation or terrorist group; revolutionaries or journalistic evolutionists? This post will examine how Wikileaks not only operates but crucially how it functions amid the vast press preoccupation with its values [...]
Admin | June 25, 2011
One of the greatest books written about the evolution of modern capitalism and therefore the modern culture that is now taking over the world.
Admin | June 25, 2011
BY JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA MEXICO CITY&—A federal judge dropped weapons charges against a controversial opposition politician and gambling mogul Tuesday and then a state judge refused to hold him on a murder investigation, dealing an embarrassing one-two punch to Mexico’s government. “Jorge Hank is free and at home,” the politician’s lawyer, Fernando Benítez, said. Mr. [...]
Admin | June 25, 2011
By Jeffrey Sparshott and Alan Zibel Two top US regulators are set to clash over whether setting bank-capital requirements too high will restrict lending and hurt American companies trying to compete internationally. In remarks prepared for a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair and Acting [...]
Admin | June 24, 2011
It is total meltdown mode. This week was complete Murphy’s Law. For those that aren’t familiar, in short it means that everything that can go wrong, will. #13; And, for me, it seems I can never get out of town on vacation without the week prior going to hell in a hand basket. Someone is [...]
Admin | June 24, 2011
Marriage is a fundamental human right, reads the Marriage Equality Act, a bill introduced by Governor Andrew Cuomo today for consideration by the State Assembly and State Senate. Same-sex couples should have the same access as others to the protections, responsibilities, rights, obligations, and benefits of civil marriage. Stable family relationships build a stronger society. [...]
Admin | June 23, 2011
Members of New York City’s powerful municipal labor coalition met on Wednesday to discuss a financial rescue package that could prevent thousands of teachers from losing their jobs. But after hours of heated debate, they ended the meeting the same way they had started it: deeply divided over whether they should offer Mayor Michael R. [...]
Admin | June 23, 2011
Dear Debt Adviser, My wife and I loaned her family about $16,000 nearly four years ago. They havent paid anything back, and I dont know what to do. We electronically transferred the money directly to her parents bank account. The money was used to keep her parents in their house and her brother and sister [...]
Admin | June 23, 2011
In River Rapids, another scene from any time, everyone seems to be hugging to hold their moments: a lone adult woman hugs herself as she peers at her own reflection, the preteens strap arms and bend heads together secretively, the mothers arm wraps around her child as they work their way upstream to the father. [...]