Category Archives: politics

Muslamic ray guns

By 6000 | 6000 | May 6, 2011

DISCLAIMER: Publishing these videos does not amount to this site’s support for the EDL or any other political party or protest organisation. The English Defence League are a right-wing organisation in the UK (well, specifically England, obviously) whose mission statement may make distressing reading for those without a strong stomach for radical political ideology. It’s [...]

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More election confusion

By 6000 | 6000 | April 21, 2011

After yesterday’s election confusion over whether or not the ANC “can” win Cape Town in next month’s Municipal Elections, that same party have made great inroads in not winning the Tlokwe (Potchefstroom) Municipality by regrettably (or not, possibly) failing to register candidates in seven wards there: A member of the ANC’s provincial executive committee (PEC) [...]

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Election confusion

By 6000 | 6000 | April 20, 2011

With the municipal elections just 4 weeks away, the ANC have launched a new tactic to confuse the local electorate into voting (presumably) for them. A couple of weeks ago, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe admitted that the party had no chance of winning the Cape Town Municipality from the incumbent DA: At first, I thought that this was [...]

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Wait. What?

By 6000 | 6000 | April 18, 2011

After I joked just yesterday about launching a Pirate Party for the upcoming elections, the results of the Finnish general election arrived in my email inbox with a small “ding” earlier this morning: And, as you can see, the vote was fairly evenly split between the top three parties, including the somewhat defeatist National Coalition Party [...]

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Time on Shale Gas

By 6000 | 6000 | April 6, 2011

Another sensible article on shale gas, its value in the energy demands of the modern world and the environmental dangers of its extraction? Surely not. But yes, it is. Bryan Walsh gives us a few thousand words on the natural gas boom (poor choice of word, I guess), the need for alternative energy sources, the [...]

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