FRIDAY

It’s Friday and we have to recommend our favourite cheeky Friday chappies at the Friday Thing.

“Dresden - The Other German-Themed Non-Apology Of The Week: "This week the old question of whether we should apologise for the bombing of Dresden cropped up yet again, as though saying 'Sorry' would somehow be of comfort to the thousands of people blown up, burned and suffocated. Maybe we could send them some chocolates - or a big nylon teddy bear in a T-shirt saying 'SORRY ABOUT THE FIRESTORM'. That should do the trick..."

GREENPEACE may have formally conjured images of 70s hipsters and folky-types in Save the Whale t-shirts, or media rich but politics poor activist types, but cast such cynicism from your weary head. Yesterday Greenpeace in London mounted a direct action on the International Petroleum Exchange in London , disrupting trade at one of the world's most important energy markets. Business types refused to say how much lolly had been lost due to the action, but given the sums involved you can assume it was A LOT.

“It’s to mark the adoption of the Kyoto treaty. About 35 Greenpeace volunteers have gone on to the trading floor at 2pm when trade switched over from electronic to day trade,” a Greenpeace spokesperson said.

Reports are of frenzied fighting by angry and desperate stockbrokers. The exchange, which trades oil worth up to $1,000bn a year and sets the price for as much as 60% of the world's crude supply, was thrown into chaos as green volunteers attached distress alarms to helium balloons

The IPE trades contracts for North Sea Brent crude oil, which has rocketed in value over the past year as world demand has increased.

Apparently their was a total collapse of security, mass assaults by greedy oil staff, yet only Greenpeace activists were arrested. Congratulations to Greenpeace for a genuinely political action.

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