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The French Tradition of Brainy Sabotage Lives On ...
"In fact, sabotage and antisocial behavior are rampant in France. In 2007, an investigation by the French newspaper Le Figaro uncovered that the French rail system had been attacked 27,000 times that year by malicious vandals and sabotage. If you’ve ever flown or taken a train in France, you know that all of the major industries routinely go on strike. Militant union employees also stage wildcat strikes and conduct acts of sabotage or trash the offices of their bosses. It is in this social and political atmosphere that the Tarnac Nine are suspected, with tenuous evidence, of being terrorists."

Inside a first-rate moonshine-drinking, hat-off-and-sweeping-the-floor ...
"I can't say I enjoyed your article, because I did not. Please understand, I'm not disagreeing with your evaluation of what you saw. What I'm disagreeing with is your assumption that what you saw is what Clarksdale really is." - A reader offers another vision of Clarksdale

Colin Pantall's blog: The Rape of Africa: Not on your Nellie
Important background info on LaChapelle's Rape Of Africa

My Life in Oil - WNYC Culture
Looking at the pictures, however, made me realize that my life, in a direct way, has been made possible by the extraction and processing of oil (and nickel and copper). Oil is what put food on our table. Oil is what funded our occasional family vacations. Oil is what sent me to college, allowing me the luxury to sit around and ponder the ways in which I could string words together. We never lived extravagantly. But neither did we want for middle class comforts. And I owe it all to oil.

Heart As Arena: Love That Burns.
He seemed to be doing this out of love, out of the need to tell the truth in a place where it seldom finds its way off the floor. Yep. Dread Scott was burning money in front of the Stock Exchange today. It was beautiful, confusing, and cathartic. He moved right through the green wall and took us with him, like a shepherd. Walking through the fool's fire of unfettered capitalism, he sang and burned his way into a ticket for disorderly conduct.

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