Cathy Leaves

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• On Paris

  These attacks, in their cruelty and awfulness, targeted the everyday, people going about the rituals of Friday night (eating out, going to a sports event,... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - Only Together Do We Make the Rules.

  

  Greg Ponthus [via tumblr]sleater-kinney | surface envy. roseau | new glass. little may | oh my my. the notwist | object 2. THEEsatisfaction feat. shabazz palace... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 6/11/15

  Politics: The Atlantic on how ISIS spread in the Middle East. A portrait of a Hungarian city: There are many reasons for Hungary’s embrace of right-wing... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: October.

  Non-Fiction: Alvin Toffler: Future Shock. David Rushkoff: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now.William Gibson: Distrust That Particular Flavor. Martin... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 29/10/15

  Politics: What it means to live in a country where only very few workers are organised in unions: Unions reduce inequality by bringing up the wages of... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  Saveges - The Answer[via The Wild Honey Pie]Boycrush feat. Yumi Zouma and Madeira - Flirt [via Gorilla vs. Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 23/10/15

  Politics: The Intercept with a collection of leaked documents about the drone wars. A trail of evidence regarding the NSA's partnership with AT T, which itself... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 08/10/15

  Politics: "994 mass shootings in 1,004 days: this is what America's gun crisis looks like".Earlier this year, the President recalled, he made this point in an... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: September

  Non-Fiction: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragile. Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 24/9/15

  Politics: On the refugee crisis: Throughout the crisis, a debate has been on whether it is a “migrant” or a “refugee” crisis. It has been important for the... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtapes - i Unravel Your Mistakes.

  

  Petros Koublistei shi | see me. laura marling | strange. julia holter | feel you. roísín murphy | evil eyes. wishyunu | photoplay. ghostpoet feat. nadine shah... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 17/9/15

  Politics: On Hannah Arendt: A short graphic novel about The Banality of Evil, and a long, enlightening investigation into Eichmann in Jerusalem, and the debate... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Spill

  Bishop was Abbott’s close advisor and foreign minister. She strongly supported her boss until she didn’t. Bishop is a highly capable leader with a very strong... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Freedom of Movement

  So, the first paradox is that those countries, which, after half-a-century of confinement, consider the greatest achievement of the 1989 revolutions to be... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 11/9/15

  Politics: These conflicts have already displaced close to 60 million people, the highest number ever recorded. Half are children. Some events that drive people... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 2/9/15 Compact Version

  Speechless: Discrimination on the basis of religion is specifically prohibited under European law—which is one of the reasons people fleeing sectarian... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: August.

  Non-Fiction: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me.Brian Tracy: Eat That Frog!David Allen: Making it All Work.Daniel H. Pink: A Whole New Mind.Daniel H.... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 14/8/15 China and the Future

  Politics: On China: Brookings with a detailed explanation of why China is rebalancing: In recent decades, China’s rapidly growing middle class lacked... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• I’m a Machine, and I Can Know Much More

  It's like I'm reading a book... and it's a book I deeply love. But I'm reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart and the spaces between the... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links:5/8/15

  Politics: This is haunting: climate scientists, hounded by right-wing media, know how dire the situation is, but decide to talk about it less and less. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO