Gladiators and shitbags


by Aaron Heath    
May 14, 2008 at 11:16 am

Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments.

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Bel is thinking - Political Journos concentrate too much on the Westminster narrative, rather than what policies actually mean to the voters.
Freakonomics - Why charitable donations to help those in Myanmar Burma will be meagre compared to Katrina and the Asian tsunami.
Mike Power - On the “All round shitbag and Lib Dem MP for Birmingham Yardley, John Hemming”.


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at 12:13 pm on May 14, 2008
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     MatGB

*cough*Burma*cough*

The UK (rightly) doesnt recognise the junta’s name change, and the elected President of Burma doesn’t support it either. What USians do is up to them…

at 3:05 am on May 15, 2008
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     Sunny Hundal

Mmm.. yeah I think its Burma that is the politically correct name… especially since the pro-democracy activists use it :)

at 8:44 am on May 15, 2008
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     Aaron Heath

Ok. But, as regular attendee in pedant’s corner, I’ll point out that the UN recognises the name Myanmar.

BTW. Do we know if Burma was the colonial name, or the indigenous one?

at 10:28 am on May 15, 2008
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     MatGB

From Wiki: In the Burmese language, Burma is known as either Myanma ( ) or Bama ( ). Myanma is the written, literary name of the country, while Bama is the oral, colloquial name of the country

After independence in 1948 Burma was chosen, only renamed Myanmar by the SLORC in 1989. UN recognises it, UK and US doesn’t.

Sunny—nowt t’do with PC, everything to do with the preferences of those that live under the evil bastards.

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