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DEATH & DYING IN HAMLET & MACBETH

Hamlet and Macbeth are about a lot of things. Power and revenge. Madness and the otherworldly. But, when you get right down to it, these are plays about death and dying and murder: so that you know evil when it crosses your path.

See Shakespeare’s dark world illustrated and how each character came to their bloody end.

RICARDO GALVEZ & TOM McNAMARA (PBS)

youmightfindyourself: A 1961 New York Times photo, showing...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:48:27 +0900

youmightfindyourself:

A 1961 New York Times photo, showing Louis Armstrong playing trumpet for his wife, Lucille, in front of the Great Sphinx and pyramids in Giza, Egypt.

purepopfornowpeople: Atomic Power - Uncle Tupelo 福島歌

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:24:31 +0900

purepopfornowpeople:

Atomic Power - Uncle Tupelo

福島歌

Exactly.

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:52:36 +0900

Exactly.

foucaultthehaters: I’m actually totally ignorant of the “continental” and “analytical”...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:55:09 +0900

foucaultthehaters:

I’m actually totally ignorant of the “continental” and “analytical” divide.

It’s just politics.

bullied: i like online shopping and putting everything i want in a cart then checking my subtotal...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:57:51 +0900

bullied:

i like online shopping and putting everything i want in a cart then checking my subtotal and laughing and closing the tab

This is one of my hobbies as well.

Nobody can Crispin Glover like Crispin Glover can Crispin...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:36:27 +0900

Nobody can Crispin Glover like Crispin Glover can Crispin Glover.

willamation: Movie of the Day: The Magnificent Seven...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:12:30 +0900

willamation:

Movie of the Day: The Magnificent Seven (1960)

It’s a good movie. Horst Buchholz is in it.

powerdadgendoikari: education should be free for everyone ethical consumerism is an...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:24:57 +0900

powerdadgendoikari:

education should be free for everyone

ethical consumerism is an oxymoron

skyward sword was the best zelda game

markets are coercive by nature

socialism is the next step in human history

marx was right

What a load of bullshit. Link to the Past is clearly superior.

fuckyeahdementia: some moose just want to watch the world burn

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:48:27 +0900

fuckyeahdementia:

some moose just want to watch the world burn

okapine: Brilliant.

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:24:29 +0900

okapine:

Brilliant.

mydisneyplaylist: Portabello Road | Bedknobs and Broomsticks...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:50 +0900

mydisneyplaylist:

Portabello Road | Bedknobs and Broomsticks OST

I sing this song while cleaning my house. Always have, always will.

noorinder: The Beach Boys - I Should Have Known Better (Beatles...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:36:26 +0900

noorinder:

The Beach Boys - I Should Have Known Better (Beatles Cover)

monetizeyourcat: Joan Cornellà - Civic Mindedness So excited to...

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:12:30 +0900

monetizeyourcat:

Joan Cornellà - Civic Mindedness

So excited to find this guy’s artblog

bluishorange: thepeoplesrecord: Walmart opts out of Bangladesh...

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:48:20 +0900

bluishorange:

thepeoplesrecord:

Walmart opts out of Bangladesh safety agreement
May 15, 2013

Walmart has confirmed it will not sign up to a legally binding agreement on worker safety and building regulations in Bangladesh supported by retailers including H&M, Zara, Primark, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Marks and Spencer, Next, C&A and several others.

However, the US retail giant has created its own agreement, which it claims goes beyond the current accord that was drafted by labour groups and campaigners.

The company, which also owns the UK’s third biggest supermarket, Asda, said the deal signed by its rivals was “unnecessary to achieve fire and safety goals” and questioned the “governance and dispute-resolution mechanisms”.

Instead, Walmart has agreed its own deal to inspect all 279 factories it uses in Bangladesh within six months, and has promised to publish the findings immediately.

Bosses claim this goes beyond the UNI Global Union and IndustriALL deal, pointing out the agreement requires 65% of inspections instead of 100% inspections taking place and argue its own deal means results are published straight away rather than within 45 days.

However, the Walmart deal is not legally binding, does not require the company to offer financial support for fire and safety regulations and blacklist factories unwilling to comply.

The agreement has been criticised by campaigners as a “business as usual” approach, which fails to address the core problems that led to the Rana Plaza factory collapse.

Sam Maher from Labour Behind the Label, said: “Walmart’s so-called new programme is simply more of the same ineffective auditing that failed to prevent the Rana Plaza disaster, or the deaths of 112 workers at Tazreen, who were producing Walmart goods.

“The changes demanded by the IndustriALL accord, include ensuring that factories are provided with the incentives and investment needed to actually make factories safe and are essential for any real change to occur. What Walmart are demanding is business as usual: a business that has cost lives of over 1,300 workers in the last six months alone.”

Walmart has also refused to clarify whether it sourced clothes from the Rana Plaza building, saying only that it had no “authorised” production at the site.

A statement from Walmart said: “The company, like a number of other retailers, is not in a position to sign the IndustriALL accord at this time.

“While we agree with much of the proposal, the IndustriALL plan also introduces requirements, including governance and dispute resolution mechanisms, on supply chain matters that are appropriately left to retailers, suppliers and government, and are unnecessary to achieve fire and safety goals.”

Several major UK retailers have declined to sign the agreement, including Arcadia group, the company behind brands including Topshop, Bhs and Dorothy Perkins; Debenhams; River Island; Matalan and Peacocks.

However, late on Tuesday night Next, the UK’s second biggest clothing retailer, did agree to sign.

Walmart’s decision leaves George at Asda, the supermarket’s clothing brand, at odds with its own position as a founding member of the Ethical Trading Initiative.

The ETI, the UK’s biggest alliance of businesses, trade unions and voluntary organisations, has recommended its members sign up to the accord.

Source

Once more: “What Walmart are demanding is business as usual: a business that has cost lives of over 1,300 workers in the last six months alone.”

This is my surprised face.

I am making the same face, because I am equally surprised.