Posts Tagged ‘US’

I saw the Swiftboat Veterans Anti - Kerry ad on the net today. Quite an impressive piece of communication. It says just one thing, and keeps hammering that one thing over and over again.
The one line communication of the campaign is that John Kerry is not fit to be the President of the United States.Wonderful [...]

There was a story of a boy called Ramu who herded sheep deep into the forest. Now Ramu was a lazy boy and didn’t like long walks into the forest. He would rather sit by the edge of the forest and play with his friends. One day he chanced upon someone screaming “wolf attack” and [...]

You wouldn’t know that it was election year in the US by a comment made by a GWB campaign worker.. She said:
American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones — or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better.
I wonder how many votes did that comment cost?
The full story is here.

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The best way, if you are a Government, to divert attention from your fuck ups is to ensure that your armed forces is engaged outside its borders. So anyone who cribs and complains about your government can promptly be accused of being anti national. If your are a “Democracy” then you simply label the person/persons [...]

……. is somewhere between US$500 and US$ 2500 in occupied Iraq. Yes, I know that power was “handed” over, but as long as the US Armed forces remain on Iraqi soil, with the kind of mandate that they have - Iraq will remain occupied.
In one of the most numbing articles I have read in a [...]

US Vice President Dick Chenney told someone to f*** off on the floor of the US senate. And that has made headline news across the world. Senior Representatives of the Government are not supposed to use such language.
I wish someone will communicate this to our politicians -especially those from the RJD and SP.
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There was no link, afterall, between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. And this is not from the anti war movement or Michael Moore, but the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States - a bipartisan commission set up to investigate why 9/11 happened. Its staff papers make for good reading. The commission [...]

Had Ronald Reagan not died, he would have enjoyed reading his obituaries. Much of it has been at two extremes. Those on the left who villify him and those on the right who deify him. But, to be fair, compared to the current crop of international leaders, Reagan was definitely a giant. Blair plus Bush [...]

From the : The Guardian
While we can’t speak ill of the dead, surely we can wish a better hereafter for the living.
A great analysis on Reagan’s contribution over here. Christopher Hitchens at his biting best.

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Mobile phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Britain’s The Business newspaper reported yeterday.
Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison near [...]