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- Just the facts, Moore
Well, I finally saw Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight. I was actually surprised, I expected a lot more animated finger-pointing and wild accusations. Instead I simply found endless circular arguments and nebulous facts edited in a leading way. It wasn’t as if Michael Moore was showing numerous newclips/soundsbites and connecting the conspiratorial dots for [...]
- This is getting embarrassing
Castro fell and broke his knee and arm while speaking at a graduation ceremony in Cube. It’s painful to watch. This guy is like Monty Python’s black knight: he loses limb after limb but keeps taunting us. This is his second fall in three years. At age 78 he’s [...]
- Comrade, a business proposition
First we saw how strife went beyond the borders of Sudan, and now email scams go beyond Nigeria. From an email received earlier today:
I am MR. KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA,the personal accountant to
Mikhail Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and owner of the
following companies: Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Largest Oil
Company) Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank [...]
- Was “Team America: World Police” correct?
The (hilarious) movie Team America: World Police suggests the Kim Jong Il is allied with terrorists and plans to detonate WMDs across the globe. A fantastic idea?
Consider this: an Islamic web site, using language remarkably similar to the DPRK, has threatened to “burn Seoul and make it crumble.” The source of the threat [...]
- The Vicious Cycle
Human Rights Watch have exposed the appalling abuse of Russian officers towards new recruits, including beating, mutilation, sleep deprivation, and other extreme bullying that has driven hundreds to suicide and tens of thousands to desertion. Senior soldiers “are in many cases given free rein to treat the juniors as little more than slaves,” [...]
- Iran and the US election
Here are two interesting opposing views about where Iran stands in regards to the US Presidential Election:
From JapanToday.com
The head of Iran’s security council said Tuesday that the re-election of U.S. President George Bush was in Tehran’s best interests, despite the administration’s axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions [...]
- News? Gov’t rejects Hitler, Moses as names for pachinko machines
From Japan Today
The Japan Patent Office has rejected a request by a maker of pachinko pinball machines to register the names of 35 famous people, ranging from Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler to Hebrew prophet Moses, as a trademark for a machine, the company and a patent lawyers’ group said Tuesday. The government office rejected the [...]
- Sudan: What goes on in, must come out
From Stratfor.com
1130 GMT - SUDAN—Eritrea and Sudan exchanged a war of words Oct. 19 following accusations that Khartoum is trying to assassinate Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki. Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu Ahmed said Khartoum is trying to destabilize his country through state-sponsored terrorism. Sudanese security chief Saleh Gosh countered that the Eritrean regime wants to [...]
- Those Poor Armenians
I was reading this story about how Russia has closed the border with Georgia and Azerbaijan, pissing off the Armenians, when I saw this picture of the skyline outside of the Armenian capital of Yerevan.
That picture just reminds me of failed Soviet communism. I know that Armenia is poor and closed off from the [...]
- Azeri-Georgian Section of the BTC Pipeline Linked
The Azeri and Georgian portions of the Baku-Tbilisi Ceyhan (BTC) crude oil pipeline were linked yesterday during a “golden welding” ceremony at the border of the two states, attended by the presidents of both countries. The event took place Saturday in the village of Boyuk Kasik in Azerbaijan’s Agstafa district bording the Gardabani district [...]
