Fancy getting your kit off in public tomorrow?

Then get naked and ride your bike round London to protest against car culture and oil dependency.

..

A peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture. A celebration of the bicycle and also a celebration of the power and individuality of the human body.

...

http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/

i think i´d better go for the fish pedicure... ok ok nice cause but... again... ouch!

English are screaming out of joy. I can hear them in my house.

That´s because we´re so unused to winning anything even a draw has us ecstatic!

Grup yorum is 25 years old..

Wow..I still remember the first time I heard their songs years ago in an Istanbul cinema-cafe..It was in Beyoglu Emek. 

I remember hearing this song  and asking the guy immediately who they were and then buying their cassette..

Then their tireless and fearless string of concerts..(I am not exaggerating, once we were around 750 people in their concert in Besiktas and at least 100 of them were policemen...)

And after all those years, they celebrated their 25th anniversary with 55.000 people..And this time with no police and with no incident!!

Wow!! A great indication about how far Turkey has managed to advance with democracy!!

http://www.beyazgazete.com/video/2010/06/13/grup-yorum-25-yasinda.html

A song from them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ade158TzKUI&feature=related

Saw a documentary about Shell and the oil leakages in the Niger delta. The constant leakages have spread WAY more oil in the surrounding waters then the BP leak did. So the question pops into my head... is the media attention for this WAY lower because this is a long-term problem, slowly leaking oil everywhere (instead of starting with a big bang like the BP leak), or (way more likely) is this a matter of geography?

 Just my thoughts.....because the oil is leaking into the Niger delta (and not the Mississippi or the Danube for example) and is not hurting anyone from a Western country, people do not notice.  Africa has long since been suffering for the rest of the planet´s greed (oil, minerals, gem stones, diamonds).  Sad, shameful...but true. 

Julian Assange

Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports. Plus, Daniel Ellsberg tells The Daily Beast: "Assange is in Some Danger."

(This story has been updated to reflect new developments on Assange´s whereabouts, including the cancelation of a scheduled appearance in Las Vegas.)

Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast.

Quoted from: here

People from Wikileaks have been arrested and interrigated by American secret agents before. It was about the killing of innocent civilians and two war-photographers then, which Wikileaks was about to publish a video about. I think the people for this organization do great work. Knowledge is power, so I happily donated to this organization.

This:

 I don´t think there has been a day since these statistics were first available when  less than half a dozen new members were registered....and now look, not a single new registration in7 days.  

I hope this a mistake or otherwise something is putting people off joining TC these days..........   

Are you implying that it is me?