Quoted: Ireland announced yesterday that the state would safeguard all deposits, bonds and debts in six banks and building societies for two years following a huge share sell-off on Monday.

The €400bn package covers Allied Irish, Bank of Ireland, Anglo Irish Bank, Irish Life and Permanent, Irish Nationwide Building Society, and the Educational Building Society. British depositors with accounts in their UK branches will be covered, as will savers at the UK's Post Office whose deposits are run by Bank of Ireland.

ahaha
so funny.
I've been wanting to bill the settlers of Chicagoland area for my winter frost trauma too. now i have historical precedent. nice!

"Friedrich Schiller received a notice from Germany's GEZ at an address in the town of Weigsdorf-Köblitz in the eastern state of Saxony, telling him if he did not pay the monthly €17.03 for using his radio and television sets legal proceedings would be launched against him.

A spokeswoman for the GEZ issued an apology, admitting that the poet, who died in 1805 and is best known for his poem Ode to Joy which was set to music by Beethoven in his ninth symphony, was registered with the organisation as "Herr Friedrich Schiller", a household owner in possession of a radio and television set. "

LOLOLOL

Quoted: The arrival of colonial cities in sub-Saharan Africa at the dawn of the 20th Century may have sparked the spread of HIV.

Speaking of the despotic signifier and it's essential "redundancy", this case makes it even easier.

Quoted: Canadian PM Stephen Harper read a 2003 speech on Iraq which had identical sections to one by Australia's ex-PM John Howard.

Johnie Rotten is doing a 'butter' commercial...
dude, what?

Quoted: See the Sex Pistols frontman in his first ever TV advert

I'm downloading this now through Pirate Bay. Arcand's recent films (esp Barbarian Invasions) are great. I really want to see Réjeanne Padovani too, SOOO if anyone has a link to where i can find it, i'd be obliged. the torrent is dead on Karagarga.

thanks.

"Denys Arcand’s extraordinary fatalistic dirge on life in Quebec might well have been subtitled “victimization as the inevitable condition of society.” Less overtly political than Réjeanne Padovani (1973), though equally about powerlessness, Gina draws ironic parallels between the documentary and fiction modes and between various kinds of alienation, defeat and submissiveness. An incisive indictment of class divisions in Quebec society, it speaks of humanity’s shared servitude, and offers no hope of a political solution. Gina has been aptly called “the most underrated of Arcand’s films” by NOW magazine film critic John Harkness, but also marked a turning point in Arcand’s career – he turned away from personal fiction films for the next ten years. The film’s spectacular violent denouement, which might seem reminiscent of the work of Sam Peckinpah, reflects Arcand’s view that violence is inevitable in a senselessly brutal society." [By Peter Morris]

Michael Moore's new movie is downloadable for free here. I still haven't seen Sicko, so I doubt I'll get to this for a while. but anyway, i may download it anyway just so i have it.

edit: hmm, it seems like it's streamed, but i didn't see a d/l button. maybe i didn't look hard enough.

review of Michel Crozier's study, "The Bureaucratic Phenomenon"
dotted to return to later.

Quoted: # Review: [untitled] # Sherman Krupp # The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Jul., 1965), pp. 102-103 # Published by: The University ...

a good comp i found ...