Sunday, 31 March 2013 09:08
'There's a scene in Demolition Man — the goofball 1993 action film starring Sylvester Stalone as a violent police officer and Taco Bell as the only restaurant in America — in which a machine emerges from a grass-covered lawn in front of a Los Angeles government building. The machine sprays "LIFE IS HELL" in colorfully exaggerated graffiti text on a sterile-looking concrete sign labeled "Ethical Plaza." Whatever might the city do to scrub this defacement from its facade?
Well, this is the future, remember — Demolition Man takes place in 2032 — and graffiti is apparently no longer a big deal. The sterile-looking concrete sign knows it's been defaced, somehow, and wipes itself clean — a sort of automated building code enforcer.'
Sunday, 31 March 2013 09:01
'A list of companies and politicians that had loans written off by banks at the heart of Cyprus’ bailout crisis has been published in Greece.
There is already anger on the island that loans with the Bank of Cyprus, Laiki Bank and Hellenic Bank often running into the hundreds of thousands – and, in one case, millions of euros – have allegedly been wiped out.
The list, reported in Friday’s Ethnos newspaper and which has been handed to the Cypriot parliament’s ethics committee, includes the names of politicians from Cyprus’ biggest parties (excluding the socialist EDEK and the Greens).'
Sunday, 31 March 2013 08:54
'Documentary about the military industrial complex and how it lobbies for war to boost its profits. The film exposes the big corporations, that are in bed with the politicians, and push for war at every turn of geopolitical events. The ultimate aim is to inspire peace.'
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