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Dealing with email spam

Admin | Thursday 11 January 2007

It surprises me the number of friends who tell me that they get 200 spam emails a day or something similar. I get very few.

Questions that Manchester Pride, Marketing Manchester & the Manchester Evening News don’t want to answer

Admin | Wednesday 25 October 2006

On 18 August 2006 I wrote to Manchester Pride with the following questions. I received a reply from Marketing Manchester, saying that I would get a ‘prompt reply’ just as soon as Pride was over. More than two months later I am still waiting… NOTE: Since I wrote, the page has been edited to remove … Questions that Manchester Pride, Marketing Manchester & the Manchester Evening News don’t want to answer

Greg Palast on ‘The Fear Factory’

Admin | Thursday 24 August 2006

I’m going to tell you something which is straight-up heresy: America is not under attack by terrorists. There is no WAR on terror… Greg Palast on why fear sells better than sex and how The War on Terror is the Weapon of Mass Distraction. Read it here. Greg Palast’s investigative reports appear on the BBC, … Greg Palast on ‘The Fear Factory’

There’s a £50 fee to be in the Manchester Pride parade this year

Admin | Wednesday 19 July 2006

Quicktime version here

If you want to take part in Manchester’s annual gay pride parade this year you will have to pay £50 + VAT. No, this isn’t a fee for businesses — they already pay more than £1000 to be in the parade.

So far Iraq has cost $1000 for every person in the USA

Admin | Friday 28 April 2006

“The Iraq war has already cost the United States $320bn (£180bn), according to an authoritative new report, and even if a troop withdrawal begins this year, the conflict is set to be more expensive in real terms than the Vietnam War, a generation ago… Iraq will have consumed $101bn in fiscal 2006 alone, almost double … So far Iraq has cost $1000 for every person in the USA

Manchester Pride 2004 – just 34.5% of Operation Fundraiser ticket money went to good causes

Admin | Wednesday 1 March 2006

Today I received some official figures for Manchester Pride 2004 via my Member of Parliament. They appear to show that only about 34.5% of Operation Fundraiser ticket money from the event went to good causes. The rest was spent on costs.

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