Snoop Dogg is a Rasta now!

You know Snoop Doggy Dogg?  He's only gone all Rasta and that!  He's not a Dogg anymore, he's a Lion!   You should know about Rastafarianism because it's a good example for Ethnic Subculture/Identity etc etc.  Marcus Garvey, Haille Sellassie, Slavery, Jamaica, Lion of Judah, all that good stuff!

Has Snoop Dogg seen the Rastafari light, or is this just a midlife crisis? by Benjamin Zephaniah

Snoop Lion 'La La La'

Snoop Dogg/Lion/Whatever.

Censorship in Burma - It's not happening anymore, apparently.

BBC News - Burma abolishes media censorship‏

Syria's video activists give revolution the upper hand in media war

Interesting story, will help you to debate the issues on media control, particularly regarding whether the internet is loosening media companies/owners grip on information:

Here!

One Day In September

General journalism this, a good documentary on the 1972 Olympics, Israel v Palestine:

Watch it here!

UK School kids and the crushing hammer blows of inequality!

Yeah, so basically you're all doomed to a life of grinding poverty, unless you've got rich parents in which case you're laughing!

Read it here, then print it out to use as a blanket to protect you from the icy winds of poverty and despair.

Media Effects

Teenager relationship violence link to internet pornography admits Keir-Starmer

The Olympics and Class

Did you see the Olympics?  Great, wasn't it?  Obviously, the ability to jump higher/run faster is not that much of an achievement anymore, in fact it's pretty useless since we're not cave dwellers fighting each other for the scraps from a revently deceased Woolly Mammoth or running away from one of those old tigers with the massive teeth but it would be churlish to bring this up after our runners/jumpers/make-a-horse-do-a-dance-ers did so well. 

Anyway, from a sociological point of view the Olympics matter because in the last Olympics, which were somewhere abroad I assume (I didn't watch that one) most of the British Olympic Team (NOT 'Team GB'!  NEVER 'Team GB'!  'Team GB' is a nauseating Americanism and if you say it you are a traitor. FACT!) had attended Private School, so there was a debate about CLASS and INEQUALITY and people saying 'Blimey, these rich people seem to have unfair advantages due to their enormous wealth, yadda yadda yadda, say something less blindingly obvious whydontcha?  Anyway, this time round, there was a slight change to the debate as it seems a few more peasants/state school kids won medals.  Here are some articles discussing it:

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Get a proper job you posh pillock.