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bankers + gangsters = banksters

 

Wall St. Banksters

 

 

 

 

Jeff Parker

political cartoon

Florida Today

Cagle

22 April 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tim Eagan

Deep Cover

Cagle

13 January 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Guardian        27 May 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Bell

political cartoon

The Guardian        p. 31

22 December 2006

https://www.theguardian.com/cartoons/stevebell/0,,1977599,00.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/22/iraq.usa1 

 

U.S. president George W. Bush

as George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 5        21 April 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        Weekend        p. 25        16 September 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan Wasserman

political cartoon

The Boston Globe

Cagle

27.4.2006

http://cagle.msnbc.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/wasserman.asp

 

R: U.S. president George W. Bush

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Thompson

Detroit, Michigan

The Detroit Free Press

Cagle

22.11.2005

http://cagle.msnbc.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/thompson.asp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Economist - North America Edition

Aug 27th 2005

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2005/08/25/the-oiloholics 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 8        10 August 2005
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        G2        p. 15        18 May 2005

http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2005/05/18/pages/two14.shtml

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Guardian        p. 1        26.7.2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Guardian        p. 7        14 July 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        Weekend        p. 82        8 July 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 27        20 October 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Bell

political cartoon

The Guardian

14 October 2004

 

L: Tony Blair, British Prime Minister.

R: Jack Straw

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/oct/14/uk.iraq

https://www.theguardian.com/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1327217,00.html 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 4        21 March 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Poppins baffled

 

Thursday 1st February 2007

07:54

Ananova

 

Julie Andrews failed to spell

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

correctly in front of dozens giggling children.

 

Julie, who made the word famous in Mary Poppins,

held her head in her hands

after a child asked her to spell

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

during a competition in New York.

According to the Sun, an onlooker said:

"She looked so ashamed

after admitting she didn't know how to spell it

in front of the schoolchildren."

Julie admitted she was totally baffled

by the 34-letter word.

Mary Poppins baffled, A, 07:54 Thursday 1st February 2007,
    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2182598.html?menu=news.quirkies

 

 

 

 

 

Fly on the wall

The lunchification of Charles

 

Scenes from a marriage, or two

- our reporter gains exclusive access

to a certain drawing room on Pennsylvania Avenue

Headline and sub, G, 2.11.2005,
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/nov/02/
usa.monarchy

 

 

 

 

 

The 'strawmato':

equally good in a salad

- or with a little chocolate


FIt is a fruit, looks like a strawberry, tastes sweet and you can, apparently, dip it into melted chocolate. But it is, actually, a tomato.

Inevitably dubbed the "strawmato", this new hybrid is expected to be on the shelf at a Marks & Spencer near you sometime next year as part of a new wave of "designer tomatoes" designed to tempt the palates of jaded consumers.

Also due to be sold by Marks & Spencer later this year will be green and red striped, "zebra" tomatoes and the misshapen, green, so-called "ugly" tomato from southern Spain - which its growers claim are the sweetest of all.

These days, less than half of the tomatoes grown in this country are the traditional, round, medium-sized varieties that have adorned the salad bowl since time immemorial. New types and varieties such as plum, cherry or yellow tomatoes now dominate both the growers and supermarket shelves.

Peter Ireland, M&S's fruit buyer, said: "People are getting more adventurous and want to try different varieties of tomato. They want tomatoes which look unusual and exciting to put in the salad bowl. The strawberry tomato looks fantastic and it also has a great taste - it can be eaten on its own or in salad."

It remains to be seen whether consumers will take to the small, sweet tomatoes: visitors to a gathering of the tomato trade in Sicily last week were offered them dipped in melted chocolate.

Headline and first §§, I, 1.6.2005,
    http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=643090

 

 

 

 

 

The end user:

Wannabe wanado?

 

What's a wannadon't? Maybe it's related to a wannabe? In any event, Wanadoo, the name of the European Internet service provider, is Exhibit A in the category of dorky names for technology companies.

Perhaps you are so used to the name that it no longer sounds silly. But it still rings a discordant note in my ear. The bigger problem, though, is that Wanadoo, owned by the aptly named France Télécom, is not alone. Why do companies, especially those doing business on the Internet, come up with the clunkiest, most moronic proper nouns in the English language?

This week, a search engine announced it was taking on Google - Exhibit B - with its service, Clusty.

Clusty? If that doesn't bring the word "crusty" to your mind, I'd be surprised. Of course, this name is brought to you by a company that calls itself Vivisimo, so there should be no surprise here. Clusty does have some connection to the real world, as it "clusters" search results into different categories on a Web page. The name is still a bit of a dud.

This bad naming habit may all have started with Yahoo, a service I love but a name I have never been comfortable with. Before a couple of Stanford University students used it for the name of an Internet database in 1994, the word was mostly used in phrases like "fanatics, rednecks and yahoos."

That the company was able to stay in business, succeed, sell stock and make money is a credit to people who subscribe to the adage "Don't judge a book by its cover."

But I, for one, still can't bring myself to sign up for a vshannon@yahoo.com e-mail address. In the dictionary, a yahoo is still "a crude or brutish person."

Worse are the companies with names that punc/tuate or capiTalize them in ways that break the rules of the English language. KaZaA and mmo2 take the cake here.

Whatever happened to descriptive, personal or clever names? In these categories I would put Microsoft Network, even though its abbreviation, MSN, breaks other rules; Softbank, Surf Control and General Magic, which, alas, is long gone.

I will give ground in one area: Tech company names are ever so slightly more sane than names of rock bands. But I suspect the goofiness is spawned by the same reason for both: They are trying to attract a group of 15- to 30-year-olds who see wacky names that bend conventions as cool.

The Cambridge-MIT Institute has started a Web site that tries to put a value on future innovation.

The U.K. Innovation Futures site (innovationfutures.com/bk/ index.html) is an extension of the broader Massachusetts Institute of Technology futures market. Through this partnership with the University of Cambridge, you can actually gamble on a predictive marketplace for British innovation.

Its progenitors call it an informative tool for scientists, policy makers, industry leaders and product researchers to track where innovation is going.

But it's essentially a game, a free and fun way to forecast, gamble with play money and satisfy your curiosity about what other people think. There are even prizes to win.

Because you are betting on a outcome, it works essentially like a stock market, or more precisely, a futures market. As of Friday, the odds on some statements about British innovation were as follows:

"The U.K. will generate more than two times the amount of venture capital of any other European country in 2004": 58 percent probability.

"The Cambridge-area biotechnology sector is a bigger employer than application software": 75 percent probability.

Betting games like these, the site contends, "reward the better-informed traders while penalizing the worst." It adds: "The result is a sort of permanent poll of experts who predict what will happen next in the world."

The British-centric area is a little thin after its first two weeks, and the game takes more intellect than an idle hand of computer solitaire. Still, the site is a novel intersection of technology and community.com.

    IHT, 2.10.2004,
    http://www.iht.com/articles/541559.html

 

 

 

 

 

Western society has denounced racism, sexism and anti-Semitism, mobilized against ageism and genderism, anguished over postcolonialism and nihilism, taken arms against Marxism, totalitarianism and absolutism, and trashed, at various times, liberalism and conservatism.

Is it possible there is yet another "ism" to mobilize against?

Robert Fuller, a boyishly earnest 67-year-old who has spent most of his life in academia, thinks so, and he calls it "rankism" - the bullying behavior of people who think they are superior.

The manifesto? Nobodies of the world unite! - against mean bosses, disdainful doctors, power-hungry politicians, belittling soccer coaches and arrogant professors.

"I wanted a nasty word for the crime, an unpleasant word, a stinky word," he said, referring to his choice of the word rankism. "Language is incredibly important in making political change. I always go back to that word sexism and how it became the catalyst for a movement."

Fuller wants nothing less than moral as well as behavioral accountability from the people in charge, whether of governments, companies, patients, employees or students. And he pitches his quixotic notion in a book, a Web site, in radio interviews and lectures at universities and business gatherings that could be considered breeding farms for somebodies.

"The theory has the potential to explain many things we just ignore as a given," said Camilo Azcarate, ombud officer of Princeton University, who recently attended one of Fuller's lectures and bought copies of his book to give to friends.

    'Nobodies' rebel with an 'ism' of their own, IHT, 10.7.2004,
    http://www.iht.com/articles/528813.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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