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Man versus T-Mobile shop

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This happened in Manchester over the weekend, and reminds me of Michael Douglas in Falling Down. I would REALLY like to know what T-Mobile did to provoke this guy’s rage? Maybe it was their legendarily shitty customer service? From the Manchester Evening News:

It is not known if the man was a customer or was staging a protest.

The footage was shot by a member of the public who was one of a number of people who witnessed the rampage through the windows. The film ends with a shot which shows a large crowd of people standing motionless on Market Street, transfixed by the dramatic scenes.

The 3 min 44 second-long footage – which was uploaded on YouTube by user Niall42 [not me!] on Sunday evening – had been viewed hundreds of times by lunchtime. It is thought the incident happened on Saturday.

A spokesman for T-Mobile said the firm was aware of the video footage but was unable to comment further at this stage.

Is this guy a hero? Or deranged?
 

Posted by Niall O'Conghaile
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07.02.2012
08:21 am
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Raw video footage of massive protest in Cairo
01.28.2011
04:45 pm
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Egypt can turn off the Internet but it can’t stop satellite TV, Twitter or ham radio operators.

Al Jazeera is reporting that state security is trying to enter the building where their Cairo bureau is located. NPR’s Andy Carvin tweeted, “Al Jazeera streaming live video from their office window; police are banging on the door trying to get them to stop.” Followed by a quote from Al Jazeera, “We’ve been streaming live for 5 hrs and the police are clearly not happy about it.” The Raw Story reports that the station may be shut down, but the live feed from Al Jazeera English is still streaming, with reporters breaking the news from Egyptian state media that Mubarak has ordered police reinforcement for the curfew set from 6 p.m. local time, now in place, through to 7 a.m. on Saturday. “It’s not having any effect.”

Here’s raw video that was posted on Youtube five hours ago. It gives you a sense of just how massive the protests in Cairo are. It was shot by Mohamed Ibrahim Elmasry, “a professor emeritus of computer science at a Canadian university who is in Cairo.”

Riot police are firing off tear gas canisters but it’s not stopping the protesters. The will of the people is awe inspiring.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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01.28.2011
04:45 pm
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Bloody Slabs Of Human Flesh On Display In Times Square
07.30.2010
06:20 pm
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PETA’s ‘Meat Tray Demonstration’ yesterday in Times Square featured bloodied human beings wrapped in meat trays like slabs of beef. The point is a good one. Flesh is flesh, no matter the source. And seeing humans depicted as steaks and pork chops puts the whole concept of eating creatures with faces into grisly perspective. Meat is murder.
 
Read about the demonstration at the Peta Files.

Posted by Marc Campbell
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07.30.2010
06:20 pm
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42 Arrested Protesting Guantanamo
01.22.2010
04:11 pm
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AlterNet reports on a group of protesters who have been incarcerated for protesting the continued operation of Guantanamo Bay. The protest comes in the wake of Obama missing his stated deadline for closing the prison facility. (Something, one may remember, that formed part of his campaign platform.)

Washington, DC: In a dramatic protest, 42 activists with Witness Against Torture were arrested this afternoon at the U.S. Capitol. The protest comes on the eve of the since-voided deadline President Obama had set for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo.

Those arrested on the Capitol steps held banners reading “Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives.” Inside the Capitol, 14 activists performed a “memorial service” for the three men whose deaths at Guantanamo in 2006 were initially reported as suicides and callously described as “acts of asymmetrical warfare” by military officials. New reports provide strong evidence that the men may have been tortured to death at a CIA secret prison in Guantanamo.

The ceremony brought the names of the men—Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi and Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani—into the Capitol Rotunda, where deceased presidents have lay in state. “We perform this ceremony to recognize the humanity of those whose lives have been broken by our government’s policies of torture and indefinite detention,” says Jerica Arents of Chicago, Illinois, one of those arrested in the Capitol.

Witness Against Torture has called for an immediate, independent investigation of the deaths, as it has called for the criminal investigation of all those who allegedly designed, executed, and carried out torture policies.

(AlterNet: 42 Arrested)

(Bonus Fun: Jello Biafra: The Audacity Of Hype)

Posted by Jason Louv
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01.22.2010
04:11 pm
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