Student tantrum revisited

As articles about the student protests/tantrums and the evil changes to their funding abound, I find myself increasingly confused by the whole matter. The Independent reports that only a quarter of the students are expected to actually pay off their loans, which would seem to put the whole change in funding firmly into the “book keeping trick” category, as the bulk of the funding will still come from taxes covering the loans but the government can at least claim it’s all loans. In the meantime apart from keeping the cost off the governments books for a bit it would seem … Continue reading

Where is the world heading?

I apologise that I can’t recall where I found the link to this from, but this brief talk by Dale Kuehne from The Jubilee center is well worth 7 minutes of your time, thought provoking and hopeful it makes an awful lot of sense, both in regards to what’s happening with WikiLeaks and the student protests not to mention everything else that’s going on. +2-1

wikileaks friday links

No commentary here just a few links. May be maimed asks “what has sex to do with the first world infowar against Wikeileaks?” (If you don’t follow any other links on this page read this article) Predictably some involved in the DDOS attacks have been getting arrested Wikileaks forks as people get fed up with Mr Assange’s ego 00