Today there was a protest at the Scottish power shareholding meeting against PacifiCorp, which owns several dams on a river. Anyway made loads of interviews and pictures and met amazing people. Apart from that, I have a horrible stomach bug, which keeps me in close distance of toilets. (More details are censored). Will try to make a feature out of this protest. There was also lots of mainstream media, but am wondering why they are so incredibly unpassionate about this issue – or any other issue. Maybe they are scared of getting sued? Amongst the protesters, there was also an elderly woman, who gave me a press pack, and only when I was at home, I realised, that, in fact, she was protesting against wind farms because of a possible loss of her property price.

Today is more animal day. I am still furious with this pet shop and the grey parrot. It has been feather picking itself horribly, and they do it because they are so intelligent and when they are bored. The University of Hanover is an expert in these behaviour problems of grey parrots, they founded the “grey parrot dating agency” to stop them from feather picking. Anyway, and they don’t remove any feathers, so the parrot can actually fly, and they build big huge rooms for the loving grey parrots couples. Grey parrots are not particularly revolutionary lovers, as they are monogamous.

Today I heard the first Christmas advert for Christmas 2004. And it’s not even July. Funnily enough it was for a restaurant: Book your Christmas party now! I am just wondering why they are broadcast ……

Everything seems okay. Have been away for some days. Nothing exciting seems to happen at the moment here. Am thinking about stopping this blog for the next year till the G8 is over, as getting slowly paranoid. (But not only me, can tell you!) Besides, the server where this blog is hosted might be going down soon. Comments Comment by Danl Lines on 2006-07-20 03:32:50 +0100 Nice idea with this site, its better than most of the rubbish I come across.

The last days have been brainblasting and very exhausting. The Edinburgh Radical Bookfair was on the last days, and it was good. My personal highlight was the event on Saturday afternoon about the media misinformation and propaganda. A new book was presented about Israel, which definitely rocks and certainly is one of the best books ever published about this topic, and I can say that without even having read it. It has just been published and came fresh from the press to the bookfair. Its title is Bad News from Israel. And what makes this book so special is that it had taken 3 years to write it, and is based on intensive research in several countries.