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just because I repeat it and repeat it don’t make it not true

I wish you weren’t using fb as a medium. It seems hypocritical to do so. This forum is a private enterprise profiting from unpaid public labour – in the guise of being a public good. Of course, Ggle and the browserscape similarly exploit – some predict its extinction – the middle class to benefit the rich corpocrats. But the web despite the spin put on it by these interested parties retains greater end-to-end neutrality – disinterestedness – than any of the social racketeers and initiatives of corpocracy. I am suggesting therefore that this material and its intentions and the causes here promoted would be better served by being on a website – clearly placarded as independent.

to where Bryan Bruce posted the ‘extras’ to his documentary – which it is important to see – Mind the Gap, dealing with the neoliberal legacy of 1984, once lightly, a little too moralisingly and with some questionable zombie action.

in the library, in the hood, in the mall, in the park

disembarking the blue line at the station designated and dedicated to the National Library I circumnavigated the building looking for an opening, a revolving door, a be-thobed figure approached, and, on the strength of Jo's experience of being asked for academic credentials to become a library member, I

outside the palace inside the museum cats & chairs

we begin with DOOR and door, views from a walk to the shops blue-line metro to the National Museum and Murabba Palace, residence of King Abdulaziz 1939 – 1953, now a centre for historical culture, and home in Riyadh of the Turquoise Mountain initiative founded by King Charles III in 2006:

just because I repeat it and repeat it don’t make it not true

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in the library, in the hood, in the mall, in the park

outside the palace inside the museum cats & chairs

in the hood, as sahafa.